From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 09:52:44 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:52:44 +0200 Subject: Appel: FCA4AI Workshop at ECAI 2014 (extended deadline and last call) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 23:26:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Amedeo Napoli Message-ID: <260141211.15594545.1401657994780.JavaMail.zimbra at loria.fr> X-url: http://www.fca4ai.hse.ru ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FCA4AI (Third Edition) -- ``What can FCA do for Artificial Intelligence?'' co-located with ECAI 2014, Prague, Czech Republic August 19 2014 http://www.fca4ai.hse.ru ------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Information. The first and the second editions of the FCA4AI Workshop (ECAI 2012, Montpellier and IJCAI 2013, Beijing) showed that many researchers working in Artificial Intelligence are indeed interested by a powerful method for classification and mining such as Formal Concept Analysis (see http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-939/ and http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1058/). We have the chance to organize a new edition of the workshop in Prague at the ECAI 2014 Conference. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematically well-founded theory aimed at data analysis and classification. FCA allows one to build a concept lattice and a system of dependencies (implications) which can be used for many AI needs, e.g. knowledge processing involving learning, knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and reasoning, ontology engineering, and as well as information retrieval and text processing. Thus, there exist many ``natural links'' between FCA and AI. Recent years have been witnessing increased scientific activity around FCA, in particular a strand of work emerged that is aimed at extending the possibilities of FCA w.r.t. knowledge processing, such as work on pattern structures and relational context analysis. These extensions are aimed at allowing FCA to deal with more complex than just binary data, both from the data analysis and knowledge discovery point of view and from the knowledge representation point of view, including, e.g., ontology engineering. All these works extend the capabilities of FCA and offer new possibilities for AI activities in the framework of FCA. Accordingly, in this workshop, we will be interested in two main issues: - How can FCA support AI activities such as knowledge processing (knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and reasoning), learning (clustering, pattern and data mining), natural language processing, information retrieval. - How can FCA be extended in order to help AI researchers to solve new and complex problems in their domain. The workshop is dedicated to discuss such issues. TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: - Concept lattices and related structures: description logics, pattern structures, relational structures. - Knowledge discovery and data mining with FCA: association rules, itemsets and data dependencies, attribute implications, data pre-processing, redundancy and dimensionality reduction, classification and clustering. - Knowledge engineering and ontology engineering: knowledge representation and reasoning. - Scalable algorithms for concept lattices and artificial intelligence ``in the large'' (distributed aspects, big data). - Applications of concept lattices: semantic web, information retrieval, visualization and navigation, pattern recognition. The workshop will include time for audience discussion for having a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: June 15, 2014 Notification to authors: July 10, 2014 Final version: July 21, 2014 Workshop: August 19, 2014 SUBMISSION DETAILS: The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format in Springer's LNCS style. Submissions can be: - technical papers not exceeding 8 pages, - system descriptions or position papers on work in progress not exceeding 4 pages Submissions are via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fca4ai2014 (opening soon) The workshop proceedings will be published as CEUR proceedings. A selection of the best papers presented at the workshop will be considered for a special issue of a high-level journal. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Sergei O. Kuznetsov Higher Schools of Economics, Moscow, Russia Amedeo Napoli LORIA-INRIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France Sebastian Rudolph Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE (in constitution) Mathieu D'Aquin, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Franz Baader, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany Radim Belohlavek, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Karell Bertet, Université de La Rochelle, France Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma, Italy Felix Distel, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany Sébastien Ferré, IRISA Rennes, France Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA Marianne Huchard, LIRMM Montpellier, France Dmitry I. Ignatov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Mehdi Kaytoue, LIRIS-INSA, University of Lyon, France Markus Krötzsch, University of Oxford, UK Sergei A. Obiedkov, Higher Schools of Economics, Moscow, Russia Jan Outrata, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany Baris Sertkaya, SAP Dresden, Germany, Henry Soldano, Université de Paris-Nord, France Gerd Stumme, Universitaet Kassel, Germany Petko Valtchev, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 10:08:23 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:08:23 +0200 Subject: Ressource: FRMG Wiki, un wiki linguistique du francais Message-ID: Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 14:38:08 +0200 From: Eric De la clergerie Message-ID: <538F1330.4040804 at inria.fr> X-url: http://alpage.inria.fr/frmgwiki/ L'équipe ALPAGE a le plaisir d'annoncer l'arrivée de FRMG Wiki, un wiki linguistique aux fonctionnalités étendues: http://alpage.inria.fr/frmgwiki/ Ce wiki permet de découvrir FRMG, une grammaire à large couverture du français, librement disponible. Il est possible sur le wiki de discuter de phénomènes syntaxiques du français, de parcourir la (méta)grammaire FRMG, de tester des phrases d'exemples (avec sortie graphique), et d'éditer si nécessaire les sorties de ces dernières. Par ailleurs, FRMG wiki offre également un service de traitement de petit corpus (jusqu'à 1 millions de mots), avec possibilité de récupération des résultats sous divers formats (CONLL, Passage, FRMG DepXML) et/ou de visualisation des résultats. FRMG wiki se veut un espace de discussion autour des phénomènes syntaxiques du français et est encore un prototype. Les contributions en terme de contenu, de remarques, de demandes de fonctionnalités sont donc les bienvenues. N'hésitez donc pas à nous contacter: Paul Bui-Quang (paul.bui-quang at inria.fr) développeur principal Eric de la Clergerie (eric.de_la_clergerie at inria.fr) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 09:59:36 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:59:36 +0200 Subject: Appel: Revue TAL, Numero special sur le traitement automatique du langage parle Message-ID: Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 10:12:26 +0200 From: Laurent Besacier Message-Id: <2B175808-5405-40B6-85F1-F05EB5B936AC at imag.fr> X-url: http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/ Troisieme appel à communications: numéro spécial sur le traitement automatique du langage parlé pour la revue TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) - ENGLISH VERSION OF THIS CFP CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THIS MESSAGE - Direction : Laurent Besacier, Wolfang Minker Date limite : 30 juin 2014 La communication orale reste le moyen le plus naturel pour dialoguer et interagir (avec la machine ou avec une autre personne). Le traitement automatique du langage parlé (TALP) et le dialogue trouvent désormais de nombreuses applications directes dans des domaines divers tels que (liste non exhaustive) la recherche d'information, l'interaction en langue naturelle avec des dispositifs mobiles, la robotique sociale, les technologies d'assistance à la personne, l'apprentissage des langues, etc. Cependant, le TALP pose des problèmes spécifiques liés à la nature même du matériau traité. En effet, on est amené à traiter des énoncés de parole plus ou moins spontanée et contenant de nombreux traits paralinguistiques. Par exemple, la présence de disfluences orales (répétitions, reprises, incises...) réduit la régularité syntaxique des énoncés ; les énoncés oraux sont également riches d'informations liés aux affects, etc. Par ailleurs, l'étape de transcription automatique, souvent nécessaire avant l'application de traitements de plus haut niveau (compréhension, traduction, analyse, etc.) rend des sorties bruitées (contenant des erreurs) qui nécessitent des analyses robustes et un couplage étroit entre étapes de traitement. Nous invitons donc les contributions portant sur tout aspect (théorique, méthodologique et pratique) relatif au traitement automatique du langage parlé et à la communication orale, et en particulier (liste non exclusive) : - Reconnaissance automatique de la parole - Compréhension automatique de la parole - Traduction de parole - Synthèse de la parole - Dialogue oral homme - machine - Analyse robuste de la langue parlée - Analyse des affects sociaux ou des émotions dans des énoncés oraux - Fouille de documents à composante orale - Applications à composantes orales (recherche d'information, interaction, robotique, etc) - Outils d'aide à l'apprentissage d’une langue seconde - Aspects multilingues du traitement automatique du langage parlé - Evaluation de systèmes de traitement du langage parlé - Corpus et ressources pour l'oral - Analyse du discours oral - Dialogue adaptatif au contexte et au profil de l'utilisateur - Analyse des traits paralinguistiques dans des énoncés oraux ÉDITEURS INVITÉS Laurent Besacier Wolfang Minker COMITE SCIENTIFIQUE ADDA Gilles LIMSI, Paris ANTOINE Jean-Yves U. F. Rabelais, Tours AUBERGE Véronique LIG, Grenoble BELLEGARDA Jérôme APPLE, USA BONNEAU-MEYNARD Hélène, LIMSI, Orsay CERISARA Christophe LORIA, Nancy CERNOCKY Jan Univ. Brno, Tcheque Republic DAMNATI Géraldine Orangs Labs, Lannion DEVILLERS Laurence LIMSI, Orsay DUTOIT Thierry TCTS, Mons ESTEVE Yannick LIUM, Le Mans ESKENAZI Maxine CMU, Pittsburgh FAVRE Benoit LIF, Marseille FERRANE Isabelle IRIT, Toulouse GRAVIER Guillaume IRISA, Rennes JOUVET Denis LORIA, Nancy KAHN Juliette LNE, Paris LECOUTEUX Benjamin LIG, Grenoble LEFEVRE Fabrice LIA, Avignon LINARES Georges LIA, Avignon MEIGNIER Sylvain LIUM, Le Mans PIETQUIN Olivier Univ. Lille 1 POPESCU-BELIS Andrei IDIAP, Martigny ROSSET Sophie LIMSI, Orsay LANGUE Les articles sont écrits en français ou en anglais. Les soumissions en anglais ne sont acceptées que pour les auteurs non francophones. FORMAT DE LA SOUMISSION Les articles doivent être déposés sur la plateforme http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/ La revue ne publie que des contributions originales, en français ou en anglais. Les papiers acceptés feront au maximum 25 pages en PDF. Le style est disponible pour téléchargement sur le site du journal TAL CONTACT Laurent Besacier (Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr) Wolfgang Minker (Wolfgang.Minker at uni-ulm.de) ==========CFP IN ENGLISH============ Special issue on spoken language processing Guest editors: Laurent Besacier, Wolfgang Minker Speech is the most natural way to communicate and interact (with the machine or with another person) . Spoken language processing and dialogue have now many direct applications in various areas such as (but not limited to) information retrieval, natural language interaction with mobile devices, social robotics, assistive technologies, technologies for language learning, etc. . However, spoken language processing poses specific problems related to the nature of the speech material itself. Indeed, spontaneous speech utterances have to be processed and they contain many paralinguistic features. For instance, disfluencies (repetitions , false starts, etc.) reduces the syntactic regularity of utterances. Moreover, spontaneous utterances convey rich information related to emotions , etc. Furthermore, automatic speech recognition (ASR) step, often required before the application of higher level processing (understanding , translation, analysis, etc.), produces noisy outputs (with errors ) which require robust and tight coupling between modules. We invite contributions on any aspect (theoretical, methodological and practical) of spoken language processing and oral communication ; in particular (non-exclusive list): - Automatic speech recognition - Spoken language understanding - Speech translation - Text-to-Speech synthesis - Man-machine dialogue - Robust analysis of spoken language - Analysis of social affects or emotions in spontaneous speech - Mining spoken language documents - Spoken language applications (mobile interaction, robotics, etc. ) - Technologies for language learning - Multilingual aspects of spoken language processing - Evaluation for spoken language processing - Corpora and resources for spoken language - (Spoken) discourse analysis - Adaptive dialogue (context, user profile) - Analysis of paralinguistic features in spoken language IMPORTANT DATES - call : march 2014 - submission of contributions : 30 june 2014 - first authors notification : 15 september 2014 - publication : end 2014 / begin 2015 Submission format LANGUAGE Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking authors are requested to submit their contributions in French. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must describe original, completed, and unpublished work. Each submission will be reviewed by two programme committee members. Papers must be submitted on Sciencesconf platform http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/ Accepted papers will be maximum 25 pages long in PDF. 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Le master TILDE est une mention du parcours TAL de l'offre de formation en Sciences du langage de Sorbonne Paris Cité. Le Master 2 TILDE a été créé en 2005. Il prépare les étudiants au métier d'ingénieur en industrie des langues. Les enseignants de la formation donnent principalement des cours d'informatique, de linguistique et d'ingénierie linguistique et documentaire. Un stage en entreprise complète la formation. L'inscription au Master 2 TILDE est ouverte à tous les étudiants détenteurs d'un Master 1 ou d'une équivalence. La formation peut être suivie en présentiel ou à distance. Elle peut faire l'objet d'une formation continue. Le Master TILDE est adossée au laboratoire LDI (Lexiques, Dictionnaires, Informatique : UMR 7187 CNRS Université Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cité). Le Master TILDE peut aussi faire l'objet d'une co-diplomation avec l'Université de Cracovie et l'Université de Cergy (à partir de 2015 pour l'Université de Cergy). *Responsable :*Monsieur Salah Mejri (Professeur des Universités, Université Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cité) *Contact :*Madame Arabelle BAUDETTE-AL ELLEWI (tél. 01.49.49.38.58, mail abaudette_AT_ldi.univ-paris13.fr) *Secrétariat :*Monsieur Arnaud Limmois (mail : master-slatel.lshs_AT_univ-paris13.fr) Plus d'informations sont disponibles sur le site de la formation http://www-ldi.univ-paris13.fr/MasterPro/website/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 10:11:07 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:11:07 +0200 Subject: Conf: NLDB'2014, 18-20 June 2014, Montpellier, France Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:12:01 +0200 From: Mathieu Roche Message-Id: <00D17AD7-AD8D-4D09-A84A-1D974BD79C5B at lirmm.fr> X-url: http://www.nldb.org/ ============== Last CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - NLDB'2014 19th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems 18-20 June 2014 - Montpellier, France http://www.nldb.org/ Registration: http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/NLDB2014/Web/conf_registration.html ============== Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher, industrials and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an established field thanks to developments in Natural Language and technologies that made the storage and manipulation of large electronic dictionaries possible. As Information Systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems. The use of Natural Language in Software Engineering has contributed to both improving the development process from the viewpoints of developers (improve the process of conceptual modeling, validation, etc) and the usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces, semantic webs, etc). NLDB'2014 will take place in Montpellier (France). The conference invites researchers from academia and industry to submit papers for oral or poster presentations on recent, unpublished research that addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as review and discussion papers. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Applications of NLP in Information Systems: Multilingual Information Systems, NLP in Requirement Engineering, NLP in Knowledge Management, Semantic Data Integration and Data Cleaning - Social Media and Web Data: Corpus analysis, Language identification, Text normalization, Robust NLP for social media, Text classification, Information Extraction and Sentiment Analysis for social media - Big Data and Natural Language - Semantic Web Open Linked Data: Ontology Learning and Alignment, Populating ontologies, Querying Ontologies and linked data, Semantic tagging and classification, Ontology-driven NLP - Question Answering (QA): NL interfaces to databases, QA using web data, multi-lingual QA, Non-factoid QA (how/why/opinion questions, lists), geographical QA, QA corpora and training sets - Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive Computing, Embedded, Robotic and Mobile Applications. - Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling: Analysis of Natural Language Descriptions, Terminological Ontologies, Consistency Checking, Metadata Creation and Harvesting, Ontology-driven Systems Integration, Ontology Management - NLP Applications: Business Intelligence, Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, QA systems, Event Detection, Named Entity and Event Detection, Information Extraction, Summarization, NLP for Data Mining, NLP for Data Warehouses, Plagiarism detection, Identity detection ================= INVITED SPEAKERS ================= Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK Title: Applications of Biomedical Text Mining Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Title: Personal Ontologies ========================= PROGRAM ========================= http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/NLDB2014/Web/conf_programme.html# ========================= REGISTRATION ========================= http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/NLDB2014/Web/conf_registration.html ========================= HOTELS ========================= http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/NLDB2014/Web/hotels.html ========================= SPONSORS ========================= Local Organizer: TETIS Local Support: LIRMM, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Région Languedoc-Roussillon, IUT Béziers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 09:46:56 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:46:56 +0200 Subject: Journee: Premiere edition des Doctoriales de Linguistique (DOCTILING) du laboratoire STL, Lille, 12 juin 2014 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 23:33:30 +0200 From: Aurélie Merlo Message-Id: ChèrEs collègues, Nous vous rappelons que la première édition des DOCTorIales de LINGuistique organisée par le laboratoire Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) (UMR 8163, CNRS, Lille 3 & Lille 1) aura lieu jeudi 12 juin 2014 à l’université Lille 3 (3 Rue du Barreau, 59650 Villeneuve-d’Ascq) en salle B1.619. Vous trouverez ci-dessous le programme de ces doctoriales. En espérant vous y voir nombreux. Bien à vous, Le comité d'organisation : Edwige Dugas (edwige.dugas at univ-lille3.fr), Aurélie Merlo (aurelie at ergonotics.com) et Ornella Wandji (ornwandji at yahoo.fr) * * * 9h15-9h30 Ouverture (animatrice : Edwige Dugas) 9h30-10h00 Analyse automatique des verbes dans des corpus médicaux : enjeux théoriques et appliqués Ornella Wandji Tchami 10h00-10h30 La traduction de discours juridiques à vocation internationale : le cas des textes des Nations Unies Hanaa Beldjerd 10h30-11h00 Beat-like gestures use in different types of speech in American English Mathilde Peyré 11h00-11h15 Pause 11h15-11h45 Contrastive psycholinguistic study of the cognitive impact of posture verbs Cécile Douet 11h45-12h15 Texture of second language English discourse: analysing learners’ vocabulary use Amjed Bamatraf 12h15-12h45 Temporalité dans les discours d’apprenants japonais du français L3 : tendances acquisitionnelles communes, traits individuels et influence d’un enseignement traditionnel Najima Kerrou 12h45-14h00 Déjeuner libre 14h00-14h30 Temps, espace et entités en italien et français L2 Simona Anastasio 14h30-15h00 La connaissance de la segmentation de la chaîne parlée peut-elle favoriser le développement de la compréhension orale chez des apprenants débutants de français langue étrangère ? Laetitia Batjom 15h00-15h30 La réduplication en màníŋgàxáŋ du Dantila Salouma Doucouré 15h30-15h45 Pause 15h45-16h15 Sémantique des constructions [non-Adj] et [in-Adj] en français Edwige Dugas 16h15-16h45 Humorous implications and meanings: a multi-modal study of sarcasm in interactional humor Sabina Tabacaru 16h45-17h15 Production et perception de la prosodie de l'anglais par des apprenants francophones : présentation d'une étude expérimentale en cours Marc Capliez 17h15-17h30 Clôture (animatrice : Ornella Wandji Tchami) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 09:51:29 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:51:29 +0200 Subject: Sujet de these: Alignement multimodal de ressources educatives / Multimodal alignment of educational resources Message-ID: Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 22:39:11 +0200 From: Solen Quiniou Message-Id: X-url: http://www.lina.univ-nantes.fr/spip.php?page=fiche_emploi&id_emploi=90 Sujet de thèse : Alignement multimodal de ressources éducatives. http://www.lina.univ-nantes.fr/spip.php?page=fiche_emploi&id_emploi=90 Laboratoire : LINA, Nantes (équipe TALN) Financement : MESR Dates : octobre 2014 - octobre 2017 De nombreuses ressources éducatives libres sont produites aujourd’ hui. Cependant, l’accès à ces ressources reste complexe : la navigation entre les ressources est difficile et l’utilisation de ces ressources en-dehors de leur cadre est pratiquement impossible. Afin de rendre plus accessibles les ressources existantes, il est nécessaire de créer un alignement entre ces documents de diverses natures. Ces alignements peuvent alors permettre de proposer de nouveaux paradigmes de navigation intermodale, du texte à la vidéo, de la vidéo au texte, où le texte peut correspondre à de l’écrit bien formé, du manuscrit ou aux transparents d’une présentation. L’objectif de cette thèse de doctorat est de développer des techniques pour aligner automatiquement des fragments de documents issus de différentes modalités. Cette thèse porte à la fois sur les domaines du traitement automatique des langues, de l'extraction d’information mais également de l’apprentissage automatique. Le candidat devra être issu d’un master informatique ou de toute autre formation équivalente et être classé dans le premier tiers de sa promotion. Des compétences en traitement automatique du langage et/ou en apprentissage automatique seront appréciées. Les candidatures sont à envoyer par email à Colin de La Higuera (cdlh at univ-nantes.fr) et à Solen Quiniou (solen.quiniou at univ-nantes.fr) pour le *5 juin 2014*. Elles devront contenir un CV, un relevé de notes du master (ou équivalent) avec une indication du classement du candidat, une lettre de motivation ainsi qu’une lettre de recommandation ou le nom d’un professeur pouvant recommander le candidat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 10:09:08 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:09:08 +0200 Subject: Job: Two Postdoctoral positions in Machine Learning for Machine translation Message-ID: Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 17:07:40 +0200 From: Alexandre Allauzen Message-ID: <538F363C.5060107 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Scientifique/tlp/mt/ Two postdoctoral positions are available at the LIMSI-CNRS lab. The positions are all one year, with possibilities of extension. We are seeking researchers with interests in machine learning applied to statistical machine translation, automatic speech recognition or computational linguistics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Speech translation - Bayesian models for natural language processing - Multilingual topic models - Word Sense Disambiguation - Statistical Language Modeling Candidates must possess a Ph.D. in machine learning or natural language/speech processing. Please send your CV and/or questions to Alexandre Allauzen (allauzen at limsi.fr) and François Yvon (yvon at limsi.fr). We can meet interested applicants in person at ACL. Duration: 12 months, starting Fall or Winter 2014, with a possibility to extend for an additional 12 months. Application deadline: Open until filled The successful candidates will join a dynamic research team working on various aspects of Statistical Machine Translation and Speech Processing. For information regarding our activities, see http://www.limsi.fr/Scientifique/tlp/mt/ About the LIMSI-CNRS: The LIMSI-CNRS lab is situated at Orsay, a green area 25 km south of Paris. A suburban train connects Orsay to Paris city center. Detailed information about the LIMSI lab can be found at http://www.limsi.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 09:55:18 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:55:18 +0200 Subject: Job: Post Doc en TAL, Laboratoire MoDyCo Message-ID: Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:01:12 +0200 From: jean-luc minel Message-ID: <538C1328.4080004 at u-paris10.fr> X-url: http://www.modyco.fr/ *Post Doc en TAL au laboratoire MoDyCo* Dans le cadre d'un partenariat entre l'AERES et le laboratoire MoDyCo, un appel à candidature est ouvert pour un post-doctorat type CNRSd'une durée d'un an.** *Sujet :* Un des objectifs actuels de l'AERES est de produire des documents qui restituent le travail d'évaluation réalisé par les comités de visite dans le cadre des campagnes d'évaluation annuelles (vagues d'évaluation). De soixante à quatre-vingt établissements sont évalués chaque année. Chaque établissement produit d'abord un rapport d'autoévaluation qui permet de caractériser les établissements. Chaque comité de visite produit ensuite un rapport, relativement normé quant à son organisation en rubriques, en s'appuyant sur un référentiel qui structure l'évaluation et le rapport. A titre d'information, le rapport d'activité de 2012 (accessible sur le site de l'AERES) contient une série de représentations visuelles (histogrammes et radars) qui synthétisent les points forts et points faibles des établissements évalués. Ces histogrammes ont été construits à partir d'une analyse manuelle d'unités d'information extraites des rapports d'experts. L'objectif du post doctorat est d'utiliser des outils de TAL -- Traitement Automatique des Langues - (lexicométriques, logométriques, textométriques, etc.), et des ressources ontologiques pour analyser ou annoter les textes etpermettre de construire automatiquement ou semi automatiquement ce type de représentations visuelles. Ces outils s'appuieront surdes ressources lexicales, et/ou des patrons linguistiques, construits à partir de ressources généralistes et de ressources élaborées à partir des rapports existants. Deux approches sont possibles. Une approche qualifiée de symbolique qui vise à construire manuellement, ou à découvrir automatiquement par des méthodes de fouille de données, des grammaires locales, et une approche qualifiée de probabiliste (supervisée) qui s'appuie sur des algorithmes de classification automatique et un corpus annoté manuellement. Dans les deux cas, on cherchera à utiliser des logiciels existants en /open source/. Les deux approches pourront être combinées. Une chaîne logicielle avec interface devra être développée à destination d'utilisateurs non informaticiens.** *Compétences attendues :* Nous recherchons un docteuren informatique et/ou en TAL ayant, des compétences approfondies en TAL, en ontologies, en utilisation de technologies sémantiques pour l'indexation et la recherche d'information, en fouille de textes ou apprentissage automatique. Il est en outre important que le candidat fasse preuve de bonnes connaissances du français écrit, des techniques d'extractions à base de patrons structurels, lexicaux ou grammaticaux, et des algorithmes de classification supervisée ou semi-supervisée.** *Environnement de travail* Le post-doc sera accueilli dans le laboratoire MoDyCo (www.modyco.fr)avec un statut post-doc CNRS. Il sera placé sous la responsabilité scientifique de Delphine Battistelli (MoDyCo), Thierry Charnois (LIPN) et Jean-Luc Minel (MoDyCo) La durée du contrat est de 12 mois (démarrage prévu en septembre 2014). Salaire : environ 2038 euros nets Contacts : Delphine Battistelli, Thierry Charnois, Jean-Luc Minel (MoDyCo) *Comment candidater :* Les candidatures sont à envoyer dès que possible et seront étudiéesjusqu'à ce que le poste soit pourvu. Il convient de rappeler que la réglementation du CNRS exige que le post doc n'ait pas soutenu sa thèse dans le laboratoire d'accueil. Envoyer un CV et une lettre de motivation, ainsi que des lettres derecommandation (ou deux noms de personnes susceptibles de recommander lecandidat), par courrier électronique : Myriam Djedi (myriam.djedi at u-paris10.fr) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 10:13:02 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:13:02 +0200 Subject: Livre: La comparaison et son expression en francais Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:09:06 +0000 From: Annick DENIEL Message-ID: LA COMPARAISON ET SON EXPRESSION EN FRANCAIS Par Catherine Fuchs directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS, spécialiste de linguistique française, est l’auteur d’une dizaine d’ouvrages, parmi lesquels Les ambiguïtés du français, Paraphrase et énonciation et le Dictionnaire des verbes du français actuel (en collaboration avec L. Florea) parus chez Ophrys. Êtes-vous de ceux qui pensent que la comparaison en français se limite à Pierre est plus grand que Paul ou à Luc est bête comme ses pieds ? Si oui, ouvrez ce livre. Vous y trouverez les mille et une façons d’exprimer autrement ces comparaisons ; vous y découvrirez aussi l’existence de bien d’autres types de comparaisons. Si non, ce livre est pour vous. Il vous guidera dans l’infinie variété du champ de la comparaison : de l’inégalité (Les femmes travaillent plus que les hommes ; Il dort moins qu’autrefois) à l’égalité (Son livre est aussi drôle que le précédent ; Il a autant de talent que d’esprit), de la prévalence (Il vaut mieux prévenir que guérir) à la préférence (J’aime mieux le thé que le café ; Il a préféré la mort au déshonneur) et à l’alternative résolue (Un bon croquis, plutôt qu’un long discours !), de la similarité (Il ment comme il respire) à l’analogie (Elle a filé, telle une flèche), de l’identité (Il a le même pull que toi) à l’altérité (J’ai d’autres modèles que celui-ci). Ce tour d’horizon des constructions comparatives du français – le premier à ce jour – est illustré par de très nombreux exemples relevant de registres différents : exemples de la langue courante, exemples littéraires, exemples journalistiques ou tirés de la Toile, slogans publicitaires. Rédigé de façon simple, en évitant toute technicité inutile, cet ouvrage s’adresse aux enseignants et apprenants de français (langue maternelle ou seconde) ainsi qu’aux étudiants et aux universitaires des cursus de lettres et de linguistique. Caractéristiques : 208 pages, 18 € - ISBN 978-2-7080-1409-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 10:03:15 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:03:15 +0200 Subject: Conf: INTERSPEECH 2014 Tutorials, Singapore, September 14-18, 2014 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:55:53 +0800 From: "Organization @ Interspeech 2014" Message-ID: <538C4A29.3050301 at interspeech2014.org> X-url: http://www.INTERSPEECH2014.org X-url: http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=tutorial.html --- INTERSPEECH 2014 - SINGAPORE --- September 14-18, 2014 --- http://www.INTERSPEECH2014.org The INTERSPEECH 2014 Organising Committee is pleased to announce the following 8 tutorials presented by distinguished speakers at the conference and will be offered on Sunday, 14 September 2014. All Tutorials will be of three (3) hours duration and require an additional registration fee (separate from the conference registration fee). - Non-speech acoustic event detection and classification - Contribution of MRI to Exploring and Modeling Speech Production - Computational Models for Audiovisual Emotion Perception - The Art and Science of Speech Feature Engineering - Recent Advances in Speaker Diarization - Multimodal Speech Recognition with the AusTalk 3D Audio-Visual Corpus - Semantic Web and Linked Big Data Resources for Spoken Language Processing - Speech and Audio for Multimedia Semantics ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISCSLP Tutorials @ INTERSPEECH 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Additionally, the ISCSLP 2014 Organising Committee welcomes the INTERSPEECH 2014 delegates to join the 4 ISCSLP tutorials which will be offered on Saturday, 13 September 2014. - Adaptation Techniques for Statistical Speech Recognition - Emotion and Mental State Recognition: Features, Models, System Applications and Beyond - Unsupervised Speech and Language Processing via Topic Models - Deep Learning for Speech Generation and Synthesis More information available at: http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=tutorial.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tutorials Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ T1: Non-speech acoustic event detection and classification The research in audio signal processing has been dominated by speech research, but most of the sounds in our real-life environments are actually non-speech events such as cars passing by, wind, warning beeps, and animal sounds. These acoustic events contain much information about the environment and physical events that take place in it, enabling novel application areas such as safety, health monitoring and investigation of biodiversity. But while recent years have seen wide-spread adoption of applications such as speech recognition and song recognition, generic computer audition is still in its infancy. Non-speech acoustic events have several fundamental differences to speech, but many of the core algorithms used by speech researchers can be leveraged for generic audio analysis. The tutorial is a comprehensive review of the field of acoustic event detection as it currently stands. The goal of the tutorial is foster interest in the community, highlight the challenges and opportunities and provide a starting point for new researchers. We will discuss what acoustic event detection entails, the commonalities differences with speech processing, such as the large variation in sounds and the possible overlap with other sounds. We will then discuss basic experimental and algorithm design, including descriptions of available databases and machine learning methods. We will then discuss more advanced topics such as methods to deal with temporally overlapping sounds and modelling the relations between sounds. We will finish with a discussion of avenues for future research. Organizers: Tuomas Virtanen and Jort F. Gemmeke T2: Contribution of MRI to Exploring and Modeling Speech Production Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides us a magic vision to look into the human body in various ways not only with static imaging but also with motion imaging. MRI has been a powerful technique for speech research to study finer anatomy of the speech organs or to visualize true vocal tracts in three dimensions. Inherent problems of slow image acquisition for speech tasks or insufficient signal- to-noise ratio for microscopic observation have been the cost for researchers to search for task-specific imaging techniques. The recent advances of the 3-Tesla technology suggest more practical solutions to broader applications of MRI by overcoming previous technical limitations. In this joint tutorial in two parts, we summarize our previous effort to accumulate scientific knowledge with MRI and to advance speech modeling studies for future development. Part I, given by Kiyoshi Honda, introduces how to visualize the speech organs and vocal tracts by presenting techniques and data for finer static imaging, synchronized motion imaging, surface marker tracking, real-time imaging, and vocal-tract mechanical modeling. Part 2, presented by Jianwu Dang, focuses on applications of MRI for phonetics of Mandarin vowels, acoustics of the vocal tracts with side branches, analysis and simulation in search of talker characteristics, physiological modeling of the articulatory system, and motor control paradigm for speech articulation. Organizers: Kiyoshi HONDA and Jianwu DANG T3: Computational Models for Audiovisual Emotion Perception In this tutorial we will explore engineering approaches to understanding human emotion perception, focusing both on modeling and application. We will highlight both current and historical trends in emotion perception modeling, focusing on both psychological and engineering-driven theories of perception (statistical analyses, data-driven computational modeling, and implicit sensing). The importance of this topic can be appreciated from both an engineering viewpoint, any system that either models human behavior or interacts with human partners must understand emotion perception as it fundamentally underlies and modulates our communication, or from a psychological perspective, emotion perception is also used in the diagnosis of many mental health conditions and is tracked in therapeutic interventions. Research in emotion perception seeks to identify models that describe the felt sense of ‘typical’ emotion expression – i.e., an observer/evaluator’s attribution of the emotional state of the speaker. This felt sense is a function of the methods through which individuals integrate the presented multimodal emotional information. We will cover psychological theories of emotion, engineering models of emotion, and experimental approaches to measure emotion. We will demonstrate how these modeling strategies can be used as a component of emotion classification frameworks and how they can be used to inform the design of emotional behaviors. Organizers: Emily Mower Provost and Carlos Busso T4: The Art and Science of Speech Feature Engineering With significant advances in mobile technology and audio sensing devices, there is a fundamental need to describe vast amounts of audio data in terms of well representative lower dimensional descriptors for efficient automatic processing. The extraction of these signal representations, also called features, constitutes the first step in processing a speech signal. The art and science of feature engineering relates to addressing the two inherent challenges - extracting sufficient information from the speech signal for the task at hand and suppressing the unwanted redundancies for computational efficiency and robustness. The area of speech feature extraction combines a wide variety of disciplines like signal processing, machine learning, psychophysics, information theory, linguistics and physiology. It has a rich history spanning more than five decades and has seen tremendous advances in the last few years. This has propelled the transition of the speech technology from controlled environments to millions of end user applications. In this tutorial, we review the evolution of speech feature processing methods, summarize the recent advances of the last two decades and provide insights into the future of feature engineering. This will include the discussions on the spectral representation methods developed in the past, human auditory motivated techniques for robust speech processing, data driven unsupervised features like ivectors and recent advances in deep neural network based techniques. With experimental results, we will also illustrate the impact of these features for various state-of-the-art speech processing systems. The future of speech signal processing will need to address various robustness issues in complex acoustic environments while being able to derive useful information from big data. Organizers: Sriram Ganapathy and Samuel Thomas T5: Recent Advances in Speaker Diarization The tutorial will start with an introduction to speaker diarization giving a general overview of the subject. Afterwards, we will cover the basic background including feature extraction, and common modeling techniques such as GMMs and HMMs. Then, we will discuss the first processing step usually done in speaker diarization which is voice activity detection. We will consequently describe the classic approaches for speaker diarization which are widely used today. We will then introduce state-of-the-art techniques in speaker recognition required to understand modern speaker diarization techniques. Following, we will describe approaches for speaker diarization using advanced representation methods (supervectors, speaker factors, i-vectors) and we will describe supervised and unsupervised learning techniques used for speaker diarization. We will also discuss issues such as coping with unknown number of speakers, detecting and dealing with overlapping speech, diarization confidence estimation, and online speaker diarization. Finally we will discuss two recent works: exploiting a-prioiri acoustic information (such as processing a meeting when some of the participants are known in advanced to the system, and training data is available for them), The second recent work is modeling speaker-turn dynamics. If time permits, we will also discuss concepts such as multi-modal diarization and using TDOA (time difference of arrival) for diarization of meetings. Organizers: Hagai Aronowitz T6: Multimodal Speech Recognition with the AusTalk 3D Audio-Visual Corpus This tutorial will provide attendees a brief overview of 3D based AVSR research. In this tutorial, attendees will learn how to use the newly developed 3D based audio visual data corpus we derived from the AusTalk corpus (https://austalk.edu.au/) for audio-visual speech/speaker recognition. In addition, we also plan to introduce some results using this newly developed 3D audio- visual data corpus, which show that there is a significant speech accuracy increase by integrating both depth-level and grey-level visual features. In the first part of the tutorial, we will review some recent works published in the last decade, so that attendees can obtain an overview of the fundamental concepts and challenges in this field. In the second part of the tutorial, we will briefly describe the recording protocol and contents of the 3D data corpus, and show attendees how to use this corpus for their own research. In the third part of this tutorial, we will present our results using the 3D data corpus. The experimental results show that, compared with the conventional AVSR based on the audio and grey-level visual features, the integration of grey and depth visual information can boost the AVSR accuracy significantly. Moreover, we will also experimentally explain why adding depth information can benefit the standard AVSR systems. Eventually, through our tutorial, we hope we can inspire more researchers in the community to contribute to this exciting research. Organizers: Roberto Togneri, Mohammed Bennamoun and Chao (Luke) Sui T7: Semantic Web and Linked Big Data Resources for Spoken Language Processing State-of-the-art statistical spoken language processing typically requires significant manual effort to construct domain-specific schemas (ontologies) as well as manual effort to annotate training data against these schemas. At the same time, a recent surge of activity and progress on semantic web-related concepts from the large search-engine companies represents a potential alternative to the manually intensive design of spoken language processing systems. Standards such as schema.org have been established for schemas (ontologies) that webmasters can use to semantically and uniformly markup their web pages. Search engines like Bing, Google, and Yandex have adopted these standards and are leveraging them to create semantic search engines at the scale of the web. As a result, the open linked data resources and semantic graphs covering various domains (such as Freebase [3]) have grown massively every year and contains far more information than any single resource anywhere on the Web. Furthermore, these resources contain links to text data (such as Wikipedia pages) related to the knowledge in the graph. Recently, several studies on speech language processing started exploiting these massive linked data resources for language modeling and spoken language understanding. This tutorial will include a brief introduction to the semantic web and the linked data structure, available resources, and querying languages. An overview of related work on information extraction and language processing will be presented, where the main focus will be on methods for learning spoken language understanding models from these resources. Organizers: Dilek Hakkani-Tür and Larry Heck T8: Speech and Audio for Multimedia Semantics Internet media sharing sites and the one-click upload capability of smartphones are producing a deluge of multimedia content. While visual features are often dominant in such material, acoustic and speech information in particular often complements it. By facilitating access to large amounts of data, the text-based Internet gave a huge boost to the field of natural language processing. The vast amount of consumer-produced video becoming available now will do the same for video processing, eventually enabling semantic understanding of multimedia material, with implications for human computer interaction, robotics, etc. Large-scale multi-modal analysis of audio-visual material is now central to a number of multi-site research projects around the world. While each of these have slightly different targets, they are facing largely the same challenges: how to robustly and efficiently process large amounts of data, how to represent and then fuse information across modalities, how to train classifiers and segmenters on unlabeled data, how to include human feedback, etc. In this tutorial, we will present the state of the art in large-scale video, speech, and non-speech audio processing, and show how these approaches are being applied to tasks such as content based video retrieval (CBVR) and multimedia event detection (MED). We will introduce the most important tools and techniques, and show how the combination of information across modalities can be used to induce semantics on multimedia material through ranking of information and fusion. Finally, we will discuss opportunities for research that the INTERSPEECH community specifically will find interesting and fertile. Organizers: Florian Metze and Koichi Shinoda ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISCSLP Tutorials @ INTERSPEECH 2014 Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISCSLP-T1: Adaptation Techniques for Statistical Speech Recognition Adaptation is a technique to make better use of existing models for test data from new acoustic or linguistic conditions. It is an important and challenging research area of statistical speech recognition. This tutorial gives a systematic review of fundamental theories as well as introduction of state- of-the-art adaptation techniques. It includes both acoustic and language model adaptation. Following a simple example of acoustic model adaptation, basic concepts, procedures and categories of adaptation will be introduced. Then, a number of advanced adaptation techniques will be discussed, such as discriminative adaptation, Deep Neural Network adaptation, adaptive training, relationship to noise robustness etc. After the detailed review of acoustic model adaptation, an introduction of language model adaptation, such as topic adaptation will also be given. The whole tutorial is then summarised and future research direction will be discussed. Organizers: Kai Yu ISCSLP-T2: Emotion and Mental State Recognition: Features, Models, System Applications and Beyond Emotion recognition is the ability to identify what you are feeling from moment to moment and to understand the connection between your feelings and your expressions. In today’s world, human-computer interaction (HCI) interface undoubtedly plays an important role in our daily life. Toward harmonious HCI interfaces, automated analysis and recognition of human emotion has attracted increasing attention from researchers in multidisciplinary research fields. A specific area of current interest that also has key implications for HCI is the estimation of cognitive load (mental workload), research into which is still at an early stage. Technologies for processing daily activities including speech, text and music have expanded the interaction modalities between humans and computer- supported communicational artifacts. In this tutorial, we will present theoretical and practical work offering new and broad views of the latest research in emotional awareness from audio and speech. We discuss several parts spanning a variety of theoretical background and applications ranging from salient emotional features, emotional-cognitive models, compensation methods for variability due to speaker and linguistic content, to machine learning approaches applicable to emotion recognition. In each topic, we will review the state of the art by introducing current methods and presenting several applications. In particular, the application to cognitive load estimation will be discussed, from its psychophysiological origins to system design considerations. Eventually, technologies developed in different areas will be combined for future applications, so in addition to a survey of future research challenges, we will envision a few scenarios in which affective computing can make a difference. Organizers: Chung-Hsien Wu, Hsin-Min Wang, Julien Epps and Vidhyasaharan Sethu ISCSLP-T3: Unsupervised Speech and Language Processing via Topic Models In this tutorial, we will present state-of-art machine learning approaches for speech and language processing with highlight on the unsupervised methods for structural learning from the unlabeled sequential patterns. In general, speech and language processing involves extensive knowledge of statistical models. We require designing a flexible, scalable and robust system to meet heterogeneous and non-stationary environments in the era of big data. This tutorial starts from an introduction of unsupervised speech and language processing based on factor analysis and independent component analysis. The unsupervised learning is generalized to a latent variable model which is known as the topic model. The evolution of topic models from latent semantic analysis to hierarchical Dirichlet process, from non-Bayesian parametric models to Bayesian nonparametric models, and from single-layer model to hierarchical tree model shall be surveyed in an organized fashion. The inference approaches based on variational Bayesian and Gibbs sampling are introduced. We will also present several case studies on topic modeling for speech and language applications including language model, document model, retrieval model, segmentation model and summarization model. At last, we will point out new trends of topic models for speech and language processing. Organizers: Jen-Tzung Chien ISCSLP-T4: Deep Learning for Speech Generation and Synthesis Deep learning, which can represent high-level abstractions in data with an architecture of multiple non-linear transformation, has made a huge impact on automatic speech recognition (ASR) research, products and services. However, deep learning for speech generation and synthesis (i.e., text-to-speech), which is an inverse process of speech recognition (i.e., speech-to-text), has not generated the similar momentum as it is for ASR yet. Recently, motivated by the success of Deep Neural Networks in speech recognition, some neural network based research attempts have been tried successfully on improving the performance of statistical parametric based speech generation/synthesis. In this tutorial, we focus on deep learning approaches to the problems in speech generation and synthesis, especially on Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis and voice conversion. First, we give a review for the current main stream of statistical parametric based speech generation and synthesis, or the GMM-HMM based speech synthesis and GMM-based voice conversion with emphasis on analyzing the major factors responsible for the quality problems in the GMM-based voice synthesis/conversion and the intrinsic limitations of a decision-tree based, contextual state clustering and state-based statistical distribution modeling. We then present the latest deep learning algorithms for feature parameter trajectory generation, in contrast to deep learning for recognition or classification. We cover common technologies in Deep Neural Network (DNN) and improved DNN: Mixture Density Networks (MDN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) with Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory (BLSTM) and Conditional RBM (CRBM). Finally, we share our research insights and hand-on experience on building speech generation and synthesis systems based upon deep learning algorithms. Organizers: Yao Qian and Frank K. Soong ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 10:07:38 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:07:38 +0200 Subject: Conf: TALN 2014, 1-4 Juillet 2014, Marseille Message-ID: Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 11:25:38 +0200 From: Philippe Blache Message-Id: <2D750647-7326-42A6-A4E5-DE380F7A1F58 at lpl-aix.fr> X-url: http://www.taln2014.org APPEL À PARTICIPATION TALN-2014 21e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles 1-4 Juillet 2014 Marseille http://www.taln2014.org Vous êtes conviés à participer à la conférence TALN, qui aura lieu à Marseille du 1er au 4 Juillet 2014. Vous pouvez consulter le programme sur le site de la conférence (http://www.taln2014.org). Les inscriptions sont ouvertes, vous bénéficiez d'un tarif réduit si vous vous inscrivez avant le 6 Juin. Les inscriptions couvrent les repas de midi et le repas de gala. AIDES et SUBVENTIONS -------------------- L'ATALA offre des bourses aux étudiants membres de l'ATALA, permettant de prendre en charge les droits d'inscription. Ces bourses sont accordées en priorité aux étudiants ayant une communication acceptée. Les demandes doivent parvenir avant le 20 Juin à l'adresse contact at taln2014.org. Par ailleurs, nous accordons un tarif préférentiel pour : - les laboratoires inscrivant plus de 3 participants - les participants (notamment étrangers) venant de laboratoires ne disposant pas de moyens suffisants Faites parvenir votre demande argumentée à contact at taln2014.org avant le 15 Juin. EVENEMENTS ---------- - Une session particulière, à la mémoire de Jean Véronis, sera organisée le Mercredi 2 Juillet, à l'issue de la première journée. - Le vendredi sera consacré au "Salon de l'innovation en TAL". Cette journée permettra de présenter différents projets publics et privés, avec une vingtaine d'exposants, en même temps que les posters et les démonstrations. Une table ronde sur le bilan de ces 20 dernières années en TAL accueillera 4 conférenciers invités : Annie Zaenen, Dominique Laurent, Christian Boitet et François Yvon. - Le jeudi soir, le repas de la conférence sera organisé sur un bateau, il y aura un concert (d'un groupe marseillais célèbre). Nous partirons vers 19h, retour vers 23h30. Quelques places supplémentaires pour des accompagnants seront disponibles, réservez-les sur le site. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 07:04:19 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 09:04:19 +0200 Subject: These: Driss Sadoun, Des specifications en langage naturel aux specifications formelles Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:45:17 +0200 From: sadoun Message-ID: <5391D3FD.2070307 at limsi.fr> Bonjour, J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à ma soutenance de thèse intitulée /"Des spécifications en langage naturel aux spécifications formelles via une ontologie comme modèle pivot" /ainsi qu'au pot qui suivra. *Date et heure* : Mercredi 17 juin 2014, à 14h *Lieu* : LIMSI-CNRS, Bâtiments /S/ Rue John von Neumann Université Paris-Sud 91403 ORSAY (France) en salle de conférence. *Le jury est constitué de :* *Co-directeurs* : Mme Brigitte Grau Professeur (LIMSI-CNRS - ENSIIE) Mme Catherine Dubois Professeur (CEDRIC-CNAM - ENSIIE) M. Yacine Ghamri-Doudane Professeur (Université de La Rochelle) *Rapporteurs* : M. François Lévy Professeur (LIPN - Université Paris 13) M. Yamine Ait-Ameur Professeur (IRIT-ENSEEIHT) *Examinateurs* : Mme Chantal Reynaud Professeur (LRI - Université Paris-Sud) M. Yannick Toussaint CR HDR (LORIA-INRIA) *Résumé *: Le développement d'un système a pour objectif de répondre à des exigences. Aussi, le succès de sa réalisation repose en grande partie sur la phase de spécification des exigences qui a pour vocation de décrire de manière précise et non ambiguë toutes les caractéristiques du système à développer. Les spécifications d'exigences sont le résultat d'une analyse des besoins faisant intervenir différentes parties. Elles sont généralement rédigées en langage naturel (LN) pour une plus large compréhension, ce qui peut mener à diverses interprétations, car les textes en LN peuvent contenir des ambiguïtés sémantiques ou des informations implicites. Il n'est donc pas aisé de spécifier un ensemble complet et cohérent d'exigences. D'où la nécessité d'une vérification formelle des spécifications résultats. Les spécifications LN ne sont pas considérées comme formelles et ne permettent pas l'application directe de méthodes vérification formelles. Ce constat mène à la nécessité de transformer les spécifications LN en spécifications formelles. C'est dans ce contexte que s'inscrit cette thèse. La difficulté principale d'une telle transformation réside dans l'ampleur du fossé entre spécifications LN et spécifications formelles. L'objectif de mon travail de thèse est de proposer une approche permettant de vérifier automatiquement des spécifications d'exigences utilisateur, écrites en langage naturel et décrivant le comportement d'un système. Pour cela, nous avons exploré les possibilités offertes par un modèle de représentation fondé sur un formalisme logique. Nos contributions portent essentiellement sur trois propositions : 1) une ontologie en /OWL-DL/ fondée sur les logiques de description, comme modèle de représentation pivot permettant de faire le lien entre spécifications en langage naturel et spécifications formelles; 2) une approche d'instanciation du modèle de représentation pivot, fondée sur une analyse dirigée par la sémantique de l'ontologie, permettant de passer automatiquement des spécifications en langage naturel à leur représentation conceptuelle; et 3) une approche exploitant le formalisme logique de l'ontologie, pour permettre un passage automatique du modèle de représentation pivot vers un langage de spécifications formelles nommé /Maude/. *Abstract:* The main objective of system development is to address requirements. As such, success in its realisation is highly dependent on a requirement specification phase which aims to describe precisely and unambiguously all the characteristics of the system that should be developed. In order to arrive at a set of requirements, a user needs analysis is carried out which involves different parties (stakeholders). The system requirements are generally written in natural language to garantuee a wider understanding. However, since NL texts can contain semantic ambiguities, implicit information, or other inconsistenties, this can lead to diverse interpretations. Hence, it is not easy to specify a set of complete and consistent requirements, and therefore, the specified requirements must be formally checked. Specifications written in NL are not considered to be formal and do not allow for a direct application of formal methods. We must therefore transform NL requirements into formal specifications. The work presented in this thesis was carried out in this framework. The main difficulty of such transformation is the gap between NL requirements and formal specifications. The objective of this work is to propose an approach for an automatic verification of user requirements which are written in natural language and describe a system's expected behaviour. Our approach uses the potential offered by a representation model based on a logical formalism. Our contribution has three main aspects: 1) an /OWL-DL/ontology based on description logic, used as a pivot representation model that serves as a link between NL requirements to formal specifications; 2) an approach for the instantiation of the pivot ontology, which allows an automatic transformation of NL requirements to their conceptual representations; and 3) an approach exploiting the logical formalism of the ontology in order to automatically translate the ontology into a formal specification language called /Maude/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 06:58:27 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 08:58:27 +0200 Subject: Info: INTERSPEECH 2014, Grants and Awards Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:10:59 +0800 From: "Organization @ Interspeech 2014" Message-ID: <53917793.6070504 at interspeech2014.org> X-url: http://www.interspeech2014.org X-url: http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/images/files/grants/grant_form.txt X-url: http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/grants. --- INTERSPEECH 2014 - SINGAPORE --- September 14-18, 2014 --- http://www.interspeech2014.org INTERSPEECH 2014 Organizing Committee is glad to announce that 5 travel grants will be offered by INTESPEECH 2014 sponsors and that ISCA will offer 55 grants for students and young scientists and give 3 ISCA Best Student Paper Awards. Modalities and details about the grants and Best Paper Awards are given below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ISCA Grants ------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Information ISCA will offer grants to students and young scientists (age<35) in order to help them attend the conference. Each grant, equivalent to 650 Euros, will be disbursed in cash at the registration desk during the conference. All grant recipients are strongly encouraged to participate in the Student Volunteer Program with a workload of one day or 3 sessions for the entire conference. For details - please refer to the Student Volunteer Program page. Conditions The grants for participation in INTERSPEECH 2014 will be administered by the ISCA Board and awarded, according to the available budget, to applicants who provide the information listed below: * Letter of acceptance of a paper to be presented. * Mentioning of other funding being requested, awarded or rejected by other sources * Sworn statement that the applicant never received any previous grants from ISCA. Note that preference is given to applicants from areas needing greater support. The purpose of these grants is to guarantee a representation of the diverse scientific topics of the conference and a cross- section of the international speech community as wide as possible. Exceptionally, researchers in special situations like unemployment or coming from low income-level countries could also apply. Applicants from all countries are eligible. Application Process Applicants should complete the application form with additional documents: 1) Curriculum Vitae with academic records 2) Complete list of previous publications (title, year, co-authors journal/book/proceedings, pages). 3) List of the conferences and workshops previously attended. 4) Letter of acceptance of the paper(s) from the conference organizers 5) Copy of the original manuscript(s) accepted to the conference 6) Recommendation letter (email is acceptable) from the Director of your Laboratory Application form can be downloaded from http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/images/files/grants/grant_form.txt Please submit the application package by sending an email with subject heading “ISCA Grants for INTERSPEECH 2014” to the grants coordinator Prof. Alan Black: grants at isca-speech.org before 17 June 2014. Prof. Alan Black will send notification letter to all applicants.For more information of grant application, please refer to http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/grants. As there is a limited period for application, interested applicants are encouraged to start preparing the required documents if s/he would like to consider this source of support to attend INTERSPEECH 2014. ************************************************************************ * Important Dates * ************************************************************************ Grant application start after acceptance notification: June 10, 2014 Grant application deadline: June 17, 2014 Notification of grant acceptance: June 24, 2014 Early Registration: July 10, 2014 ************************************************************************ Registration Procedure All grant recipients must be ISCA members to receive the grants. All grant recipients will be given free registration to the INTERSPEECH main conference that includes the technical program, reception, and banquet, but excludes other options (such as tutorials). Grant recipients please inform the organizer your Registration ID, which you can obtain from the online registration system, before you make payment (if any) so that the organizer can waive your registration fee by changing your account setting. All grants will be disbursed onsite, during the conference. Please see Dr Tong Rong with the notification letter and paper ID at the registration desk, to collect your money. All grant recipients are required to register online to the system to confirm the attendance, to make purchases beyond the free package. As all accounts have to be settled immediately, the organizers will not entertain any request to transfer, ship or send money after the conference ends. ISCA Board will make the selection and provide the list of grant recipients to INTERSPEECH 2014 organizing committee. The committee will inform you the registration procedure. Please contact registration at interspeech2014.org, if you have any inquiry. Please note that grant recipients need to complete the registration by 10 Jul 2014. Late registration fees apply if this early registration deadline is not met. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- INTERSPEECH 2014 Student Travel Grants ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERSPEECH 2014 would like to express sincere gratitude to Google, Samsung and IFLYTEK CO., LTD. for their combined support of 5 student travel grants, 3 will be selected as the Google grantees, 1 will be selected as the Samsung grantee, and 1 will be selected as the IFLYTEK CO., LTD. grantee. The grantees are selected based on the technical quality of their paper(s). The grantees will be notified and announced on the INTERSPEECH 2014 website by July 3, 2014. Grantees will be announced by the INTERSPEECH General Chair during the closing ceremony. For any inquiry, please contact awards at interspeech2014.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISCA Best Student Paper Awards ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Each year, ISCA awards 3 best student paper awards at INTERSPEECH based on the technical merit of the paper and the presentation at the conference. Note that the first author student needs to present the paper in person to be considered for the award. The ISCA Best Student Paper Award is sponsored by IBM Research. In addition, Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Larry Heck from Microsoft Research are donating their honorarium from their tutorial “Semantic Web and Linked Big Data Resources for Spoken Language Processing” to financially sponsor the ISCA Best Student Paper Award. The shortlist of Best Student Paper Awards will be announced on the INTERSPEECH 2014 website by July 3, 2014 and the final awardees will be announced by the president of ISCA during the closing ceremony. For any inquiry, please contact awards at interspeech2014.org. The INTERSPEECH 2014 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 06:59:43 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 08:59:43 +0200 Subject: Sujet de these: Appel a candidatures financement de these, Vertus et faiblesses du crowd-sourcing Message-ID: Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 10:02:51 +0200 From: Thomas Lebarbé Message-Id: <0A6B7A63-8C7B-4AE9-858A-3EA1F10746EB at u-grenoble3.fr> Bonjour, Le LIDILEM lance un appel à candidatures pour des contrats doctoraux régionaux dans le cadre de l’ARC 5. Ce contrat doctoral régional est ouvert dans le cadre de l’ARC 5, au sein de l’équipe LIDILEM en Sciences du langages, sous réserve de confirmation par le vote final de la région Rhône Alpes. Vertus et faiblesses du crowd-sourcing : Evaluation qualitative et quantitative de la transcription de fonds patrimoniaux Mots clés : transcription, fonds patrimoniaux, crowd-sourcing, chaînes éditoriales, corpus, évaluation, qualité Résumé : La question du crowd-sourcing est souvent soumise aux porteurs des projets d’édition de fonds de manuscrits, notamment ceux soutenus depuis quelques années par la région Rhône-Alpes. L’émergence d’outils collaboratifs pour la transcription, tels ceux du Bentham Project (www.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/), incite à penser que recourir au grand public pour transcrire de grands volumes de manuscrits pourrait être une solution économiquement viable. Dans la lignée de différents projets que la Région a soutenus (« Bouvard et Pécuchet », « Stendhal », « Chaînes éditoriales patrimoniales »), nous souhaitons encadrer un projet de recherche qui permette de définir et de caractériser des mesures de qualité afin de comparer objectivement les méthodes collaboratives aux méthodes plus traditionnelles d’édition de corpus patrimoniaux dans le but de confirmer ou d’infirmer l’hypothèse de la pertinence et de l’efficacité des méthodes contributives. Compétences requises : Le(la) candidat(e) devra être titulaire d’un master recherche dans une des disciplines suivantes : lettres, sciences du langage, informatique. Il(elle) devra justifier des compétences suivantes : - développement informatique en ligne - encodage xml de données textuelles - normes et standards d’inter-opérabilité et de moissonnabilité - méthodes d’évaluation qualitative et quantitave - une expérience des méthodes et outils propres aux humanités numériques des textes est souhaitable pour une adaptation rapide à l’environnement du projet de recherche. Date limite de dépôt des candidatures : 10 juin 2014 Pour plus d'informations, contacter : Thomas Lebarbé thomas.lebarbe at u-grenoble3.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 07:06:42 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 09:06:42 +0200 Subject: Job: Open Positions in ASR, SyNTHEMA, Italy Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:11:47 +0200 From: Carlo Aliprandi Message-ID: <53920463.2040103 at synthema.it> X-url: http://www.synthema.it/index.php/Tecnologia/speechtechnology/ SyNTHEMA, a leading provider of Language and Semantic technologies located in Pisa (Italy), is looking for: - Researchers in Automatic Speech Recognition SyNTHEMA's expertise spans over 20 years of building state-of-the art solutions for Enterprise Search, Customer Relationship Intelligence, Sentiment Analysis, Speech Recognition, Respeaking, Audio Mining and Speech Analytics. JUNIOR ASR RESEARCHER (REF JASR_2014) ------------------------------------- We are looking for a Software Engineer with some education background in Computational Linguist to join our Research & Development Team. In this position, under the direction of the International R&D Manager, you will be responsible for advancing research and development in our ASR systems Minimum Requirements: - a Master's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics, - programming skills - self-motivated, goal-oriented and likes working in a team, - Fluency in English, speaking and writing. The ideal candidate: - programming skills (c and c++) - has an education background in ASR, - has experience working with ASR toolkits, like HTK, Sphinx, Julius. ASR RESEARCHER (REF. ASR_2014) ------------------------------- We are looking for a Software Engineer with some experience in Computational Linguist to join our Research & Development Team. In this position, under the direction of the International R&D Manager, you will be responsible for advancing research and development in our ASR systems, managing responsibilities in EU projects. Minimum Requirements: - a Master's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics, - good programming skills, (c, c++, java) - self-motivated, goal-oriented and likes working in a team, - good Fluency in English, speaking and writing. The ideal candidate: - has a background of the technology and techniques used in ASR engines, - has experience in development and deployment of an ASR engine, with emphasis on language modelling, dictionary tuning, acoustic modelling and domain adaptation, - has experience working with ASR toolkits, like HTK, Sphinx, Julius. The positions are open until filled. To apply, please submit your CV, a publication list and a cover letter describing your experience and interests to: Dr. Carlo Aliprandi Email: carlo.aliprandi AT synthema .it Language and Speech Solutions Manager Synthema S.r.l. Via Malasoma 24 I-56121 Ospedaletto (PI) - ITALY Tel: +39.050.96564.11, Fax: +39.050.96564.21 http://www.synthema.it/index.php/Tecnologia/speechtechnology/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/carlo-aliprandi/4/874/180 From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 07:18:39 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 09:18:39 +0200 Subject: Sujet de these: Modelisation des systemes ethiques, LIP6-Institut Mines Telecom Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 22:09:46 +0200 From: Jean-Gabriel Ganascia Message-ID: <5392200A.1010905 at Ganascia.name> Thèse financée dans le cadre du projet ANR Ethicaa - Éthique des Agents Autonomes Sujet : modélisation des systèmes éthiques 1- Institutions d’accueil et direction de thèse Le candidat sera accueilli au sein de l’équipe ACASA du LIP6 à l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Il travaillera en collaboration étroite avec des enseignants-chercheurs des écoles de l’institut Mines Télécom, en particulier avec Pierre-Antoine Chardel et Thibault de Swarte, sous la direction conjointe de Jean-Gabriel Ganascia et de Robert Voyer. Contact: Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (Jean-Gabriel.Ganascia at lip6.fr) 2- Sujet de thèse Introduction Cette thèse s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet ANR Ethicaa (Ethique des Agents Autonomes) qui se propose d’étudier les spécifications d’agents artificiels autonomes interagissant avec des humains et capables de les aider à résoudre des conflits éthiques. Ces conflits apparaissent à la fois au sein d’un agent, soumis à des principes éthiques antagoniques, entre les agents eux-mêmes, voire entre les agents et les opérateurs humains. Ce sujet de thèse porte sur les différentes façons de surmonter les conflits entre principes éthiques /au sein d’un seul agent/. Pour cela, il faudra faire référence à différentes théories éthiques décrites par divers courants philosophiques (conséquentialisme, déontisme, etc.)en vue de les modéliser en ayant recours à différentes formalisations issues des travaux d’intelligence artificielle inspirés des logiques modales, des logiques non-monotones (comme les ASP (Gelfond 2007)) de, l'argumentation formelle (Dung 1995)) ou de la programmation d’agents intelligents, comme le formalisme BDI (Rao & Georgeff, 1995).Il s’agira enfin de valider les différents modèles sur des études de cas déjà inventoriées dans le cadre du projet Ethicaa. Ce sujet s’inscrivant à la frontière de la philosophie et de l’intelligence artificielle, il sera encadré à la fois par des philosophes et par des spécialistes d’intelligence artificielle. Travail à effectuer Le travail s’effectuera en trois temps. Dans le premier, on reprendra les différentes modélisations informatiques des raisonnements éthiques effectuées au cours de ces dernières années (Ganascia, 2007 ; 2014 ; Bringsjord & al., 2006 ; Power, 2005). On les mettra alors en regard des différents systèmes éthiques identifiés par les philosophes. On comparera ces différentes formalisations et on déterminera les propriétés sémantiques et algorithmiques de chacune d’entre elles. Dans un second temps, on concevra un ou éventuellement deux formalismes de représentation des connaissances, voire plus si cela se révèle nécessaire puis on les déploiera sur des architectures d’agents intelligents. Sur la base de ces représentations l’agent devra être en mesure soit de réguler son comportement, soit d’évaluer et/ou de « juger » le comportement d’autres agents (autonomes ou humains) selon des critères éthiques. On s’intéressera tout particulièrement à la capacité de ces agents à surmonter les dilemmes éthiques, ou, le cas échéant, à expliciter clairement les différentes alternatives, et à argumenter leurs positions avec des agents, qu’ils soient humains ou artificiels. On s'appuiera en particulier sur des modélisations symboliques du raisonnement, telles que l'argumentation formelle, l'abduction et les formes de programmation logique non monotones. Dans un troisième temps, on procèdera à un implémentation informatique de chacun des formalismes de représentation des connaissances mentionnés plus haut, afin de les tester sur les cas d’étude identifiés dans le cadre du projet Ethicaa. On s’intéressera plus particulièrement au /partage d’autorité/ entre hommes et machines dans l’aéronautique, aux /transactions à haute fréquence/ dans la bourse et à /l'investissement responsable/. Prérequis Pour effectuer ce sujet de thèse, il faudrait avoir reçu une formation préalable en intelligence artificielle symbolique, avec une connaissance des différents formalismes de modélisation du raisonnement et de déduction automatique. Il faudrait aussi être en mesure d’implémenter ces différents modèles et de les tester. Enfin, il serait souhaitable demanifester un goût pour les questions philosophiques, et éventuellement avoir une formation dans ce domaine. Références Bringsjord, S., Arkoudas, K., Bello, P.: Toward a General Logicist Methodology for Engineering Ethically Correct Robots. Technical report, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy NY 12180 USA (2006) Dung., P. M. : On the acceptability of arguments and its fundamental role in nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming and /n/-person games. /Artificial Intelligence/, 77:321–357, 1995. Ganascia, J.G.: Modelling ethical rules of lying with answer set programming. Ethics and Information Technology 9(1) (2007) 39–47 Ganascia, J.G.: An agent-based formalization for resolving ethical conflicts. In Konieczny, S., Meyer, T., eds.: Workshop on Belief change, Non-monotonic rea- soning and Conflict Resolution, Montpellier, France, ECAI (August 2012) 34–40 Ganascia, J.G.: Non-Monotonic Resolution of Conflicts for Ethical Reasoning. To appear MIT Press (2014) Gelfond, M.: Answer sets, chapter 7. In: Handbook of Knowledge Representation. Elsevier (2007) Gensler, H.: Formal Ethics. Routledge (1996) Powers, T.: Deontological machine ethics. Technical report, American Association of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium 2005, Washington, D.C. (2005) Rao, A., Georgeff, M.: Bdi agents: From theory to practice. Proceedings of the first international conference on multiagent systems ICMAS95 95(Technical Note 56) (1995) 312–319 Tufis, M., Ganascia, J.G.: Grafting norms onto the BDI agent model. In: A Construction Manual for Robot’s Ethical Systems: Requirements, Methods, Implementations. To appear MIT Press (2014) vonWright, G.H.: Deontic logics. Mind (60) (1951) 1–15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 07:19:18 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 09:19:18 +0200 Subject: Info: Actes JADT'2014 (Paris) en ligne sur Lexicometrica Message-ID: Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 18:59:54 +0200 From: Serge Fleury Message-ID: X-url: http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2014/ Actes JADT'2014 (Paris) en ligne sur Lexicometrica : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2014/ Textes au format PDF préparés par le comité d'organisation des JADT'2014 (3-6 juin 2014) http://jadt.org Les Journées internationales d¹Analyse statistique des Données Textuelles (JADT) réunissent tous les deux ans, depuis 1990, des chercheurs travaillant dans les différents domaines concernés par les traitements automatiques et statistiques de données textuelles : statisticiens, linguistes, sociologues, spécialistes d¹analyse du discours, informaticiens, spécialistes de lexicographie et de fouille de textes. Elles permettent aux participants de présenter leurs résultats, de confronter leurs outils et leurs expériences. Rappel : ------------ Actes JADT'2012 (Liège) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2012/tocJADT2012.htm Actes JADT'2010 (Rome) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2010/tocJADT2010.htm Actes JADT'2008 (Lyon) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2008/tocJADT2008.htm Actes JADT'2006 (Besançon) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2006/tocJADT2006.htm Actes JADT'2004 (Louvain) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2004/tocJADT2004.htm Actes JADT'2002 (St Malo) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2002/tocJADT2002.htm Actes JADT'2000 (Lausanne) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2000/tocJADT2000.htm Actes JADT'1998 (Nice) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt1998/JADT1998.htm __________________________________________________ L'équipe Lexicometrica Coordinateurs de la rédaction : André Salem, Serge Fleury Contacts: lexicometrica at univ-paris3.fr LEXICOMETRICA (ISSN 1773-0570) ILPGA, 19 rue des Bernardins, 75005 Paris France __________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 07:21:37 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 09:21:37 +0200 Subject: Ateliers: Ina DLweb, Saison 5, seance #5, Web archive et archives scientifiques, 13 juin 2014, Paris Message-ID: Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 03:10:54 +0200 From: David Rapin - INA Message-ID: X-url: http://medihal.archives-ouvertes.fr X-url: http://rechercheisidore.fr/ X-url: http://www.huma-num.fr Bonjour, Vous trouverez ci-après l'argumentaire et présentation de notre prochaine séance d'atelier du Dépôt Légal du Web organisée *vendredi 13 juin de 14h30 à 18 heures *dans la *salle Cognacq-Jay du *Centre Pierre Sabbagh de l'Ina , 83-85, rue de Patay à Paris 13e autour des enjeux et défis *de l'archivage des corpus issus du web pour la recherche en SHS* De plus en plus structurées, formatées et interopérables, les données de la recherche contribuent elles-mêmes au développement du web des données. Mais qu'en est-il de leur préservation sur le long terme ? Comment conserver les archives scientifiques quand elles intègrent des corpus multimédias ou issus du Web ? Comment garantir les conditions d'un retour à la source dans le cadre de corpus issus du web constitués spécifiquement pour des projets de recherche ? Quel sont les outils, les plateformes, les projets qui concourent à partager et diffuser les fonds d'archives scientifiques et, inversement, à archiver les contenus en ligne quand ils sont constitués en objets d'étude ? Dans quelle mesure les techniques et les politiques d'archivage du web peuvent-elles compléter ou interférer avec celles de l'archivage scientifique ? Y a-t-il une concurrence entre les acteurs, ou les plateformes sont-elles au contraire appelées à s'articuler en exploitant les nouvelles possibilités de partage et les nouvelles manières de construire des corpus ? Pour en débattre nous recevrons : - *Stéphane Pouyllau, *Ingénieur de recherche au CNRS, spécialisé en humanités numériques, en information scientifique et technique et en informatisation des données de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales. Co-concepteur de MédiHAL (http://medihal.archives-ouvertes.fr)et ancien co-directeur d'ISIDORE (http://rechercheisidore.fr/), il est actuellement directeur-adjoint technique de la TGIR Huma-Num (http://www.huma-num.fr) - *Paul Girard, *responsable du médialab de Sciences Po (http://www.medialab.sciences-po.fr/fr) , direction technique des projets de recherche, collaboration entre SHS, ingénierie des connaissances et design de l'information, entre artistes et ingénieurs des technologies de l'interactivité, de l'image numérique et de la réalité augmentée. - *Benjamin Ooghe Tabanou*, ingénieur au médialab de Sciences Po (http://www.medialab.sciences-po.fr/fr), a rejoint l’équipe DIME-SHS en juin 2012 pour se consacrer au développement de l’outil Hypertext Corpus Initiative. Également cofondateur de l’association *Regards Citoyens* (http://www.regardscitoyens.org/qui-sommes-nous/) qui cherche à mieux faire comprendre le fonctionnement des institutions politiques en redistribuant de larges corpus de données notamment liés à l’activité du Parlement. *Le séminaire est ouvert à tous sans inscription préalable, sous réserve des places disponibles* David Rapin Dépôt Légal du Web Institut National de l'Audiovisuel david.rapin at ina.fr +33 1 49 83 29 85 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 20:52:59 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:52:59 +0200 Subject: Appel: Envororisk'2014 (informatique et risque) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:28:01 +0200 From: Jean Yves ANTOINE Message-ID: <53956201.5020802 at univ-tours.fr> X-url: http://www.polynome-even.fr/envirorisk-bourges/?page=0 X-url: http://www.envirorisk-bourges.fr/ Appel à communication Risques informatiques - Envirorisk 2014* Dans le cadre de la conférence Envirorisk 2014, le thème risques informatiques concerne l'apport de l'informatique et les risques introduits dans cinq domaines (assistance à la personne handicapée, transports, santé, systèmes de production et collectivités). On peut citer les logiciels qui aident les autistes, la conduite des métros, l'automatisation des procédés de fabrication ou la gestion territoriale des dossiers de handicap. L'informatique limite certains risques mais peut à l'inverse en introduire de nouveaux. Pour de meilleures pratiques, des travaux inter-disciplinaires sont nécessaires pour ces questions frontières entre disciplines opérationnelles et systémiques. Ainsi, nous encourageons les regards croisés des usagers avec les experts des sciences humaines et sociales et des sciences et techniques. Plus de renseignement sur la conférences : http://www.polynome-even.fr/envirorisk-bourges/?page=0 Pour soumettre votre candidature, vous devez : - compléter le formulaire d'intention disponible sur la page d'appel à communication http://www.envirorisk-bourges.fr/ - retourner votre résumé de proposition de communication (Word ou PDF, 2 pages maximum figures incluses), d'ici le 27 juin à candidature at envirorisk-bourges.org Les auteurs retenus seront contactés le 4 juillet 2014 et les textes complets seront demandés pour le 31 juillet en respectant une charte graphique qui leur sera transmise. Les papiers longs acceptés ne doivent pas dépasser 8 pages. Les actes des communications seront imprimés par un éditeur scientifique et distribués lors du Forum Envirorisk 2014. Les meilleurs papiers pourront faire l'objet d'une version étendue pour un numéro spécial dans une revue scientifique. Comité de programme du thème risques informatiques : - Jean-Yves ANTOINE, Université François Rabelais - Yoachim BADR, INSA Lyon - Pascal BERTHOME, INSA Centre Val de Loire - Yannick FOURASTIER, Airbus Group Innovation - Jean Christophe MATHIEU, Siemens - Stéphane MOINARD, Qualnet - Benjamin NGUYEN, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - INRIA - Christian TOINARD, INSA Centre Val de Loire ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 20:53:35 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:53:35 +0200 Subject: Info: TALN 2014 - Activite sociale Message-ID: Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:10:20 +0200 From: Nuria Gala Message-ID: <5395880C.9070005 at lif.univ-mrs.fr> X-url: http://www.taln2014.org/site/activite-sociale/ X-url: http://goo.gl/9n5MxG Bonjour, il ne reste plus que quelques places disponibles pour la sortie plongée le 30/06 : http://www.taln2014.org/site/activite-sociale/ Inscrivez-vous sans tarder : http://goo.gl/9n5MxG Bonnes bulles en perspective ! Nuria ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 20:54:26 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:54:26 +0200 Subject: Cursus: Formation master TAL, Besancon Message-ID: Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:55:23 +0200 From: Sylviane CARDEY Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20140609145250.05b7f330 at pop.univ-fcomte.fr> X-url: http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr/master.html#master MASTER en Traitement Automatique des Langues, Centre Lucien Tesnière, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France Le Master en Traitement Automatique des Langues est une formation de l’UFR SLHS de l’université de Franche-Comté. La formation est adossée au Centre de recherche Lucien Tesnière. Elle répond aux besoins incontournables de la société moderne, besoin de communication en différentes langues et besoin de traiter l'information rapidement. Cette formation est pluridisciplinaire, elle comprend des cours de linguistique, de langues et d’informatique pour le traitement automatique des langues. Les étudiants acquièrent des compétences théoriques en langue, linguistique fondamentale, en techniques de modélisation, toutes dans un contexte de détermination, de représentation et d’exploitation des phénomènes linguistiques. Le côté pratique des cours comprend la recherche et l’organisation de données linguistiques, leur formalisation et également leur représentation sous une forme implémentable. Les travaux pratiques informatiques couvrent les techniques de modélisation et spécification, la résolution de problèmes, les techniques d’implémentation de langues spécialisées de formalisation, le génie logiciel pour le TAL, le tout dans un contexte d’informatisation de données linguistiques formalisées en vue de besoins variés et divers. La formation TAL est complétée par un stage en entreprise. Une mobilité de 6 mois à un an est possible la deuxième année. L'inscription au Master TAL à l’université de Franche-Comté est ouverte à tous les étudiants détenteurs d'un diplôme de licence, d’un Master 1 ou d'une équivalence. Responsable du master : Madame Sylviane Cardey-Greenfield (Professeur des Universités, Université de Franche-Comté) Contact : Tél: +33 (0)3 81 66 53 94, mail : mohand.beddar at univ-fcomte.fr et sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr Pour plus d'informations : http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr/master.html#master Professeur Sylviane CARDEY-GREENFIELD Institut universitaire de France Directrice du Centre de recherche en linguistique et traitement automatique des langues, Lucien Tesnière Centre Tesnière, UFR SLHS 30, rue Mégevand 25030 Besançon cedex France Tél : 33 (0) 3 81665394 Fax : 33 (0) 3 81665300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 20:56:14 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:56:14 +0200 Subject: Seminaire: Traces digitales, Serge Heiden et Milan Bouchet-Valat, 19 juin 2014, Universite de Paris Est Marne la Vallee Message-ID: Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 19:40:52 +0200 From: Nicolas Turenne Message-ID: <5395F1A4.9010600 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 [désolé pour les réceptions multiples] Cher(e)s collègues, Dans le cadre de la 20ième séance du séminaire 'traces digitales' du groupe CorText, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Serge Heiden (ENS Lyon) et Milan Bouchet-Valat (Sciences Po Paris) , qui nous parleront de plateformes d'extraction de connaissances à partir données textuelles. Cette matinée aura lieu le jeudi 19 juin de 10h00 à 13h00, dans la grande salle de réunion de l'Institut des Systemes Complexes ISC PIF (Institut des Systemes Complexes - Paris Ile de France) 113 rue Nationale 75013, Paris. Voir http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html 10h-11h30 {Serge Heiden} ( IR CNRS - HDR, ENS Lyon) Philologie numérique et analyse textométrique : analyse de corpus textuels XML structurés et lemmatisés avec le logiciel open-source TXM. 11h30-13h00 {Milan Bouchet-Valat} ( PhD Student, Sciences Po Paris ) Le paquet R "R.temis". Cas d'etude sur un corpus de l'affaire Assange . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 20:58:21 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:58:21 +0200 Subject: Habilitation: Xavier Tannier, Evenements dans les textes et ciblage d'information, 18 juin 2014, Orsay Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:43:56 +0200 From: Xavier Tannier Message-ID: <5396A92C.7070302 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/~xtannier/ Bonjour à tous, J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à ma soutenance d'Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches intitulée "Événements dans les textes, événements dans le monde et ciblage d'information", ainsi qu'au pot qui suivra. La soutenance aura lieu le mercredi 18 juin 2014 à 13h30 dans la salle de conférence du LIMSI-CNRS. Le jury est constitué de : - Marie-Francine Moens, Professeure à l'Université Catholique de Louvain, directrice du laboratoire LIIR (rapporteure) - Béatrice Daille, Professeur à l'Université de Nantes, responsable de l'équipe TALN du LINA (rapporteure) - Pascale Sébillot, Professeur à l'INSA de Rennes, IRISA/TEXMEX (rapporteure) - Patrice Bellot, Professeur à Aix-Marseille Université, école Polytech, LSIS/DiMag et OASIS-WICSI (examinateur) - Catherine Berrut, Professeure d'informatique à l'Université Joseph Fourier de Grenoblen Polytech'Grenoble, LIG/MRIM (examinatrice) - Sophie Rosset, Directrice de recherches au CNRS, LIMSI-TLP (examinatrice) - Pierre Zweigenbaum, Directeur de recherches au CNRS, LIMSI-ILES Xavier Tannier. Résumé : Dans ce mémoire, nous organisons nos travaux principaux autour de quatre axes de traitement des informations textuelles : le ciblage, l'agrégation, la hiérarchisation et la contextualisation d'information. La majeure partie du document est dédiée à l'analyse des événements. Nous introduisons d'abord la notion d'événement à travers les diverses spécialités du traitement automatique des langues qui s'en sont préoccupées. Nous proposons ainsi un survol des différents modes de représentation des événements, tout en instaurant un fil rouge pour l'ensemble de la première partie. Nous distinguons ensuite deux grandes classes de travaux autour des événements, deux grandes visions que nous avons nommées, pour la première, l'"événement dans le texte", et pour la seconde, l'"événement dans le monde". Dans la première, nous considérons l'événement comme la désignation linguistique de quelque chose qui se passe, et nous tentons d'une part d'identifier ces désignations dans les textes, et d'autre part d'induire les relations temporelles existant entre ces événements, que ce soit dans des textes journalistiques ou médicaux. Nous réfléchissons enfin à une métrique d'évaluation adaptée à ce type d'informations. Pour ce qui est de l'"événement dans le monde", nous envisageons plus l'événement tel qu'il est perçu par le citoyen, et nous proposons plusieurs approches originales pour aider celui-ci à mieux appréhender la quantité écrasante d'événements dont il prend connaissance chaque jour : les chronologies thématiques, les fils temporels, et une approche automatisée du journalisme de données. La deuxième partie revient sur des travaux en lien avec le ciblage d'information. Nous décrivons tout d'abord nos travaux sur les systèmes de questions-réponses, dans lesquels nous avons eu recours à l'analyse syntaxique pour aider à justifier les réponses trouvées à une question en langage naturel. Enfin, nous abordons le sujet de la collecte thématique de documents sur le Web, dans le but de créer automatiquement des corpus et des lexiques spécialisés. Enfin, nous concluons et revenons sur les perspectives associées aux travaux présentés sur les événements, avec pour but d'abolir partiellement la frontière qui séparent les différents axes présentés. Xavier Tannier Maître de conférence LIMSI-CNRS (bât. 508, bureau 12, RdC) Université Paris-Sud B.P. 133 91403 ORSAY CEDEX FRANCE http://www.limsi.fr/~xtannier/ tel: 0033 (0)1 69 85 80 12 fax: 0033 (0)1 69 85 80 88 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 21:02:55 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:02:55 +0200 Subject: Sujet de these: Ethiques individuelles et collectives d'agents autonomes (reponse avant le 30/06) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:54:56 +0200 From: Olivier Boissier Message-Id: X-url: http://www.emse.fr/~boissier/sujet-these-ethicaa.pdf Veuillez trouver ci-joint une proposition de thèse de l'Institut Henri Fayol/ENS Mines Saint-Etienne et du GREYC, financée dans le cadre du projet ANR ETHICAA (Ethique et Agents Autonomes) sur 3 ans. Titre du projet : Ethiques individuelles et collectives d’agents autonomes au sein de systèmes multi-agents Laboratoire de rattachement de la thèse : Institut Henri Fayol / ENS Mines Saint-Etienne Autre laboratoire impliqué : Normandie Univ, UNICAEN GREYC, CNRS Responsables scientifiques de la thèse : - Pr. Olivier Boissier (olivier.boissier at emse.fr) - Dr. Grégory Bonnet (gregory.bonnet at unicaen.fr) Description synthétique du sujet (description détaillée disponible à http://www.emse.fr/~boissier/sujet-these-ethicaa.pdf) : Les récents développements des technologies de l’information et de la communication conduisent les utilisateurs humains à utiliser de plus en plus d’agents artificiels (robots ou logiciels) ayant des capacités de décision autonomes embarquées. Cela concerne des domaines divers comme, par exemple, le commerce électronique et les logiciels de transaction à haute fréquence, le transports et les véhicules sans pilotes, la domotique et les robots compagnons. Au vu des questions éthiques soulevées dans l'utilisation de ces technologies, notre approche est de proposer des modèles et des outils visant à mettre en place au sein des agents des mécanismes de décision permettant de choisir tel ou tel comportement éthique selon la situation. Cette approche est considérée dans un contexte multi-agent, i.e. un collectif d’agents artificiels ou humains. Cette dimension collective est un des fondements du comportement éthique et soulève de nombreux défis tels que celui des conflits entre des principes éthiques d’agents différents, de collectifs, etc. Cette thèse a pour objectif de travailler sur l’articulation entre comportements éthiques individuels dans un collectif d’agents autonomes. En effet, afin de constituer un collectif, les agents doivent non seulement s’accorder sur des notions d’éthique collective mais aussi gérer les conflits entre éthiques individuelles et collectives. Mots clé: éthique, autonomie, système multi-agent, conflit, collectif Modalités de candidatures : Les candidats doivent faire parvenir leurs candidatures (lettre de motivation, CV, justificatifs des diplômes, relevé des notes obtenues à ces diplômes, lettres de référence) par mail aux responsables scientifiques de l'allocataire avant le 30 juin 2014. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 20:59:47 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:59:47 +0200 Subject: Seminaire: Alpage / Google Tech Talk, Rich Washington, 13 juin 2014 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:23:39 +0200 From: Marie Candito Message-ID: ************** Séminaire de l'équipe Alpage ********* Rich Washington (Google) donnera un Google Tech Talk à Alpage, sur les problématiques d'analyse de textes et apprentissage machine, Vendredi 13 juin, à 14h en salle 255 Attention à l'horaire, ce sera à 14h (contrairement aux habituels séminaires Alpage) Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, 2eme étage 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. ************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 21:01:19 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:01:19 +0200 Subject: Conf: 37th Annual ACM SIGIR 2014 conference, Gold Coast Australia, July 6-11 2014 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:24:25 +0000 From: Richi Nayak Message-ID: <032189CFEE6B094A8CB9DB0838786ADF235EFA05 at ex10mb1.qut.edu.au> X-url: http://sigir.org/sigir2014/index.php Come and join us for the exciting SIGIR 2014 program of six days papers, posters, demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and social events, focused on research and development in the area of information retrieval. http://sigir.org/sigir2014/index.php It includes three SIGIR 2014 Plenaries: ACM-W Athena Award Lecture: Putting Searchers into Search By Susan Dumais Seeking Simplicity in Search User Interfaces By Marti Hearst The data revolution: how companies are transforming with big data By Hugh E. Williams The SIGIR 2014 registration is open (link below). https://ei.eventinfotech.com.au/ei/rs.esp?id=1187&scriptid=HOME Accommodation can also be reserved through the registration process, but of course the number of reserved rooms in the conference hotel/s is limited. The weekend sees the Gold Coast Marathon being run on 5/6 July and so accommodation should be arranged sooner rather than later. Follow us on Social Media via Facebook and Twitter for latest updates and discussion: https://www.facebook.com/SIGIR2014 https://twitter.com/intent/follow?original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsigir.org%2Fsigir2014%2Findex.php&screen_name=SIGIR2014&tw_p=followbutton&variant=2.0&xd_token=8d755076c852a8 From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 21:04:10 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:04:10 +0200 Subject: Appel: Appel a candidature, Organisation de JEP-TALN 2016 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:21:44 +0200 From: Guillaume Gravier Message-ID: <5396F858.4000604 at irisa.fr> L'ATALA et l'AFCP sollicitent des candidatures pour l'organisation conjointe des Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP) et de la conférence Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN) en 2016. Cet événement s'inscrit dans la continuité des éditions précédentes (Nancy en 2002, Fès en 2004, Avignon en 2008, Grenoble en 2012). Chacune de ces éditions a regroupé sur une semaine aux alentours de 250 participants pour environ 200 communications. Le dossier de candidature (3 pages maximum) devra comporter les éléments suivants : 1. description générale du projet et des thèmes mis en avant 2. calendrier prévu 3. organisateurs (noms et affiliations) : merci de bien préciser les rôles clés, d'identifier les correspondants JEP et TALN et l'organisateur RECITAL. 4. logistique, lieu, locaux, hébergement : merci de préciser où se tiendra la conférence, les facilités qu'offre ce lieu, quels sont les hébergements possibles (y compris pour les étudiants), les accès (train, avion), etc. 5. financement, sponsor : merci de préciser les soutiens financiers sur lesquels vous comptez (organismes et éventuellement montants que vous pensez solliciter, ...) 6. points forts de votre candidature, motivations Les dossiers de candidatures sont à envoyer conjointement au Président du Comité permanent TALN (philippe.blache at lpl.univ-aix.fr) et au Président du Conseil d'administration de l'AFCP (guig at irisa.fr). N'hésitez pas à nous contacter lors du montage de votre dossier. Date limite de dépot des candidatures : 30 septembre 2014 Réponse avant la fin octobre 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 21:07:22 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:07:22 +0200 Subject: Appel: Colloque 40 ans de Pratiques Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:22:07 +0200 From: michelle lecolle Message-ID: <539730AF.90703 at univ-lorraine.fr> X-url: http://colloque40anspratiques.event.univ-lorraine.fr/ Dans le cadre du quarantième anniversaire de la revue /Pratiques/ et de la collection « Recherches linguistiques », le Centre de recherche sur les médiations (CREM) organise en 2015 une manifestation scientifique sous la forme de trois colloques, intitulés respectivement « /Pratiques/ et l’enseignement du français : bilan et perspectives » (8-9-10 avril 2015), « Apprentissage du langage oral à l’école maternelle. Regards croisés sur un corpus homogène » (11-12 juin 2015), et « Texte et discours en confrontation dans l’espace européen. Pour un renouvellement épistémologique et heuristique » (15-18 septembre 2015). Consultez le site des colloques (à partir du 1er juillet) : crempraxitexte2015.event.univ-lorraine.fr. En effet, les sciences du langage sur le site de Metz ont, depuis leur création, consisté à traiter des théories textuelles et discursives, d’une part, et de la didactique du français, d’autre part. Les recherches ont été menées au sein du CELTED (Centre d’études linguistiques des textes et des discours) et se poursuivent aujourd’hui dans le cadre du CREM au sein de l’équipe Praxitexte. Grâce à ses supports éditoriaux (/Pratiques/ et « Recherches Linguistiques ») et aux nombreux stages, universités d’été et colloques organisés depuis la naissance de Pratiques, s’est instaurée une solide tradition de dialogues et de confrontations internationales, que ces trois prochains colloques entendent poursuivre, enrichir et élargir. _Appel à communication_ Colloque international */Pratiques/**et l'enseignement du français : bilan et perspectives* 8, 9, 10 avril 2015 Université de Lorraine, Metz L’objectif majeur du colloque « Pratiques et l’enseignement du français : bilan et perspectives » est de dresser un état des lieux de la didactique du français et des pratiques actuelles de son enseignement, de mesurer les changements intervenus depuis quarante ans, d’y apprécier le rôle joué par Pratiques, et surtout de réfléchir aux orientations à venir de la discipline français. Créée en mars 1974, sur des bases militantes de rénovation théorique des contenus d’enseignement et d’innovation pédagogique, la revue Pratiques a pour originalité d’être devenue progressivement un lieu de confrontation pluridisciplinaire et de débats théoriques focalisés sur la didactique du français, la linguistique, et la littérature. En témoignent, et pour ne prendre que quelques exemples, les titres suivants : « La didactique du français » (2008), « Didactique du français (1) » (2010), « Didactique du français (2) » (2011), « L’écriture d’invention » (2005), « Polyphonie » (2004), « Textes – contextes » (2006), « Linguistique populaire ? » (2008), « La synonymie » (2009), « Interactions et corpus oraux » (2010), « Le figement en débat » (2013), « Les écritures théâtrales » (2003), « Anthropologies de la littérature » (2011). La revue est à la fois le reflet du contexte culturel et théorique des années 70 qui l’a vue naître, mais aussi l’instrument d’un collectif organique agissant dans les différents contextes qui ont suivi. L’audience de Pratiques est nationale et internationale. Au niveau national, les membres du collectif ont régulièrement participé, sur tout le territoire, à la formation initiale et continue des enseignants de français, ainsi qu’à la rédaction des Instructions Officielles de l’école primaire, du collège et du lycée. Au niveau international, l’audience de la revue s’est concrétisée par des activités de formation continue (Belgique, Suisse romande, pays du Maghreb) et la rédaction ou l’expertise de plans d’études (Belgique, Suisse romande, Québec). Cette dimension internationale se mesure aussi au nombre des abonnements dans les différents continents, à la présence de la revue dans les départements de langue et de littérature française à l’étranger, et au nombre de missions (conférences et séminaires) assurées par les membres de la revue. Le colloque portera sur les différents ordres d’enseignement (premier degré, collège, lycée, université) et traitera des objets et thèmes suivants : * Les transformations qu’a connues l’enseignement du français depuis 40 ans ; * Les théories susceptibles de transformer – ou d’être interrogées par – l’enseignement du français ; * L’état actuel des recherches en didactique du français ; * Les perspectives et propositions de recherche sur l’enseignement du français. Pour ce faire, 4 axes de réflexion sont proposés, alliant archive, actualité et avenir : * École, culture, politique, société ; * Enseignement de la langue, des textes et des discours ; * Enseignement de la littérature ; * Du didactique et des didactiques. 1. École, culture, politique, société Pour mesurer combien le contexte des années 70 était différent, on peut prendre quelques analyseurs. Les sciences humaines, par exemple, sont alors en pleine expansion, portées par le paradigme structuraliste et les théories marxistes ; leur fonction critique associe « naturellement » les compétences scientifiques des acteurs sociaux et leur engagement politique. Autre exemple, les comportements et les pratiques culturelles d’alors ne sont pas encore transformés par les multiples usages (gratuits) de l’internet et du numérique qui modifieront les manières de lire et d’écrire. L’objectif de ce premier axe est de rendre compte du contexte de la création de Pratiques, mais aussi d’analyser les conjonctures externes (politiques et sociales) et internes à l’institution scolaire et à la discipline, et de montrer les changements intervenus. Qu’en est-il, aujourd’hui, du lien entre les différents paradigmes théoriques et de leur usage dans l’enseignement du français ? Quelles mutations se sont opérées concernant les modes de développement des compétences culturelles et langagières des scolarisés ? Quel est le rôle des revues dans la production et la diffusion des connaissances en matière de didactique du français ? Quels effets ont eu différentes réformes qui ont touché à la langue et à la culture (réformes des programmes, de l’orthographe, féminisation des noms de métiers, etc.) ? 2. Enseignement de la langue, des textes et des discours L’enseignement de la langue, et de la grammaire, connaît une situation difficile, il est soumis à des tensions politiques et épistémologiques qui ont accentué son retard et son inadéquation. Les contenus et les finalités de l’enseignement de la langue sont en effet le théâtre de contradictions difficiles à surmonter, parmi lesquelles on citera celle qui oppose la phrase et le texte (quelle unité d’analyse ?), ou bien la langue « scolaire » et les usages sociaux de la variation linguistique (quelle langue ?), enfin la contradiction, majeure, ancienne, qui détermine les précédentes et oppose « l’écrit » à « l’oral » (quelle-s norme-s ?). Les modèles d’analyse des phénomènes langagiers, transposés des sciences du langage, sont d’autant plus hétérogènes qu’ils poursuivent des buts eux-mêmes peu compatibles (inculquer des règles d’orthographe ou sensibiliser les élèves à la variété des genres de discours). Par quelles voies pourrait-on dépasser les contradictions « langue-discours » et reconfigurer le champ de la didactique du français, de manière à y revitaliser l’enseignement de la langue ? Il s’agira de traiter de ces différentes tensions en les articulant aux trois « pôles didactiques » ou institutionnels impliqués par l’enseignement de la langue : i) les pratiques scolaires en matière d’enseignement grammatical (les manuels, les instructions et les savoirs des maîtres) ; ii) les usages et les besoins langagiers des élèves ; iii) les contenus de savoirs en sciences du langage et les modèles d’analyse qu’elles construisent et diffusent. 3. Enseignement de la littérature L’enjeu principal de ce troisième axe est d’analyser les reconfigurations de la discipline français, c’est-à-dire les contenus de l’enseignement littéraire, les exercices pratiqués et les démarches d’enseignement. Il s’agira, en particulier, de réfléchir aux fonctions, aux enjeux et aux formes de la scolarisation de la littérature et du champ littéraire en général dans l’enseignement du français. Seront examinés les modes d’élaboration et de transposition didactique qui permettent de problématiser les objets textuels (corpus, genres, littérature de jeunesse) et les pratiques de médiations littéraires. Concernant les pratiques de lecture, on cherchera à problématiser les concepts de compréhension, d’interprétation et la place accordée au sujet lecteur. Quant aux pratiques d’écriture, on se demandera quels sont les équilibres respectifs du commentaire et des écritures littéraires (ateliers d’écriture, écriture d’invention, etc.). Par ailleurs, l’enjeu de cet axe réside également, sur le plan de la recherche, dans l’évaluation de l’autonomisation croissante de la didactique de la littérature par rapport à celle de la langue. Dans tous les cas, un regard historique sera porté sur les textes officiels, les manuels scolaires et les pratiques de classe (y compris en coopération avec les bibliothèques et autres partenaires du livre). Par rapport à l’avenir de l’enseignement de la littérature, certaines questions pourront particulièrement faire l’objet de réflexion, selon qu’elles portent sur les élèves (place de la littérature dans les pratiques sociales des élèves et leurs rapports avec les pratiques scolaires) ou sur les enseignements : comment traiter des valeurs sans revenir à l’instrumentalisation moralisante des textes littéraires ? Quelles sont les modalités de mise en œuvre d’activités trans- ou pluridisciplinaires que présuppose l’acquisition d’une « culture humaniste » ? Enfin, quels liens critiques peut-on faire entre une culture « humaniste » et les humanités numériques présentes et à venir ? 4. Du didactique et des didactiques Le quatrième axe interroge les voies par lesquelles la didactique du français s’est progressivement instituée en un champ « autonome ». Les recherches en didactique du français (auparavant, on parlait plutôt de « pédagogie du français ») ont commencé à émerger, d’abord dans un rapport d’application des théories linguistiques ou des nouvelles critiques (narratologie, poétique etc.), avant de s’ouvrir à d’autres champs théoriques de référence et de s’autonomiser progressivement. Quels ont été, sur le plan institutionnel, les lieux et les acteurs œuvrant à la constitution et à la reconnaissance de la didactique du français et, inversement, quels ont été et sont encore les facteurs de résistance ? On analysera les modes de « disciplinarisation » (formes et contenus) du français et on s’interrogera sur l’orientation des recherches contemporaines en didactique du français (domaines, objets d’études, types de recherche, rapports avec le français langue étrangère). Il sera aussi intéressant d’analyser les modes de théorisation différents des didactiques, par exemple leurs innovations conceptuelles respectives. On cherchera enfin à évaluer si les recherches en didactique du français ont eu des effets sur les pratiques d’enseignement du français et lesquels. Modalités de soumission des communications Les propositions de communication devront être envoyées sous la forme d’un résumé de 500 mots en format word et/ou pdf. Il sera assorti de 5 mots clés et d’une courte bibliographie de 4 références jugées importantes. Le fichier de la proposition (anonymisé) sera accompagné d’un second fichier comportant les coordonnées de l’auteur de la communication (statut professionnel, établissement, adresses postale et électronique personnelles). Chaque proposition de communication fera l’objet d’une double expertise. L’auteur aura précisé l’axe du colloque dans lequel il envisage d’intervenir. La durée de communication est de 30 minutes, elle sera suivie d’une discussion. Calendrier - Les résumés des contributions pourront être envoyés à partir du 1er juillet 2014, à l’adresse suivante : http://colloque40anspratiques.event.univ-lorraine.fr/. - La date limite d’envoi des propositions est fixée au 30 août 2014. - Les auteurs seront avisés des résultats de l’expertise en double aveugle le 15 septembre 2014. - Les communications, dans leur version définitive, seront à nouveau expertisées, après le colloque, pour donner lieu à une publication des actes. Pour toute question relative au colloque, contacter : petitjean.andre2 at gmail.com Voir aussi la page suivante sur le site du CREM : http://crem.univ-lorraine.fr/seminaires/Appelacom.html Responsables du colloque Caroline Masseron (Université de Lorraine) Raymond Michel (Université de Lorraine) André Petitjean (Université de Lorraine) Comité scientifique Ruth Amossy (Université de Tel Aviv, Israël) Elisabeth Bautier (Université de Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France) Anouar Ben Msila (Université Moulay Ismaïl, Meknes, Maroc) Jean-Paul Bronckart (Université de Genève, FAPSE, Suisse) Jean-Louis Chiss (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France) Jacques Crinon (Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne, ESPE, France) Sylvia Disegni (Université de Naples, Italie) Jean-Louis Dufays (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique) Jean-Paul Dufiet (Université de Trento, Italie) Kjersti Fløttum (Université de Bergen, Norvège) Enrica Galazzi (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italie) Bertrand Gervais (Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec) Martine Jey (Université Paris-Sorbonne, ESPE, France) Mervi Helkkula (Université d’Helsinki, Finlande) Ayse Kiran (Université d’Hacettepe, Turquie) Maria Litsardaki (Université Aristote, Thessalonique, Grèce) Lita Lundquist (Copenhagen Business School, Danemark) Dominique Maingueneau (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, France) Jérôme Meizoz (Université de Lausanne, Suisse) Sophie Moirand (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France) Franck Neveu (Université Paris-Sorbonne, France) Henning Nølke (Université d’Aarhus, Danemark) Elisabeth Nonnon (Université Lille 3, France) Dorothy Noyes (The Ohio State University, États-Unis) Sylvie Plane (Université Paris-Sorbonne, ESPE, France) Alain Rabatel (Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, ESPE, France) Maria das Graças Soares Rodrigues (Université Fédérale de Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil) Bernard Schneuwly (Université de Genève, FAPSE, Suisse) Alain Viala (Université d’Oxford, Angleterre) Maria Dolores Vivero Garcia, (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Espagne) Comité d’organisation Danielle Coltier, Christine Deronne, Marceline Laparra, Sophie Lawson, Anne Leclaire-Halté, Michelle Lecolle, Julie Lefebvre, Josette Linder, Caroline Masseron, Raymond Michel, Alain Muller, Laurent Perrin, André Petitjean, Jean-Marie Privat, Yves Reuter, Marie Scarpa, Marie-Christine Vinson. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 21:11:05 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:11:05 +0200 Subject: Job: Ingenieur de recherche en TAL, Synapse, Toulouse Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:54:52 +0200 From: Patrick Séguéla Message-ID: <001f01cf84cc$b35d6170$1a182450$@synapse-fr.com> X-url: http://www.synapse-developpement.fr Synapse Développement Edition de Logiciels Proposition d’emploi Ingénieur de recherche en TAL Synapse Développement repousse depuis 20 ans les limites de la compréhension de l’écrit par les machines pour offrir à ses clients des services toujours plus innovants tout en restant simple d’utilisation. VOS MISSIONS : - Vous participez aux projets de recherche et développement de notre équipe. Ces projets peuvent être en collaboration avec des laboratoires académiques et entreprises européennes innovantes. Ils peuvent aussi être amenés par des clients désireux de créer un nouveau service. - Veille technologique sur les domaines du TAL comme le Machine Reading, le Machine Learning, les systèmes de Question/Réponse ou l’extraction d’entités nommées. - Possibilité de publication dans des conférences internationales - Prise en main et développement de la technologie d’analyse de texte et des applications commercialisées par Synapse Développement. PROFIL : Titulaire d’un doctorat ou diplôme équivalent. Vous êtes curieux, dynamique et passionné par la compréhension de textes par les ordinateurs. Vous aimez les défis technologiques et vous aimez résoudre de manière pragmatique des problèmes complexes. Vous avez envie de vous impliquer dans une équipe pluridisciplinaire. Vous avez envie de participer à l’aventure d’une petite société où l’activité de recherche et développement est très importante. Vous êtes un développeur doté de bonnes compétences en analyse et modélisation. Compétences techniques : - Connaissance des standards du TAL - Connaissance des bases de données textuelles (Cassandra, Mongo DB, Neo4J, etc.). - Connaissance des moteurs de recherche tels que Lucene, SOLR, Elastic Search serait un plus. - Bonne connaissance des langages objets et du développement en général Contact : direction at synapse-fr.com Contrat : CDI Société : Synapse Développement, http://www.synapse-developpement.fr/ Lieu : Toulouse centre Tel : 06.63.38.69.06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 18:53:53 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 20:53:53 +0200 Subject: Appel: SSST-8: 8th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (EMNLP 2014) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:28:22 -0400 From: "Carpuat, Marine" Message-ID: X-url: http://www.cse.ust.hk/~dekai/ssst/ *** Special theme: Compositional Distributional Semantics and Machine Translation *** The Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-8) seeks to bring together a large number of researchers working on diverse aspects of structure, semantics and representation in relation to statistical machine translation. Since its first edition in 2006, its program each year has comprised high-quality papers discussing current work spanning topics including: new grammatical models of translation; new learning methods for syntax- and semantics-based models; formal properties of synchronous/transduction grammars (hereafter S/TGs); discriminative training of models incorporating linguistic features; using S/TGs for semantics and generation; and syntax- and semantics-based evaluation of machine translation. We invite two types of submissions this year: 1. Extended abstracts for poster or hands-on presentations on the special theme 2. Full papers spanning all areas of interest for SSST =========================== Special Theme Extended Abstracts =========================== This year, the special theme of semantics of the past three editions of SSST takes a new step with a "working workshop" bringing together researchers interested in compositional distributional semantics, distributed representations, and continuous vector space models in MT, with tutorials bridging both directions, as well as discussions and hands-on work on relevant tasks with real data. Such models have proven beneficial for a number of NLP tasks, for example phrasal similarity, lexical entailment, modeling semantic deviance, detecting order restrictions in recursive structures, or improving NP bracketing in parsing. However, they have not received as much attention in MT. Extended abstracts of at most two (2) pages should describe poster or hands-on presentations that will stimulate discussions on the special theme of compositional distributional semantics and machine translation, including position papers, recent work, pilot studies, negative results. We encourage the presentation of relevant work that has been published or submitted elsewhere, as well as new work in progress. ========= Full Papers ========= The need for structural mappings between languages is widely recognized in the fields of statistical machine translation and spoken language translation, and there is now wide consensus that these mappings are appropriately represented using a family of formalisms that includes synchronous/transduction grammars and similar notational equivalents. To date, flat-structured models, such as the word-based IBM models of the early 1990s or the more recent phrase-based models, remain widely used. But tree-structured mappings arguably offer a much greater potential for learning valid generalizations about relationships between languages. Within this area of research there is a rich diversity of approaches. There is active research ranging from formal properties of S/TGs to large-scale end-to-end systems. There are approaches that make heavy use of linguistic theory, and approaches that use little or none. There is theoretical work characterizing the expressiveness and complexity of particular formalisms, as well as empirical work assessing their modeling accuracy and descriptive adequacy across various language pairs. There is work being done to invent better translation models, and work to design better algorithms. Recent years have seen significant progress on all these fronts. In particular, systems based on these formalisms are now top contenders in MT evaluations. At the same time, SMT has seen a movement toward semantics over the past few years, which has been reflected at recent SSST workshops, including the last three editions which had semantics for SMT as a special theme. The issues of deep syntax and shallow semantics are closely linked and SSST-8 continues to encourage submissions on semantics for MT in a number of directions, including semantic role labeling, sense disambiguation, and compositional distributional semantics for translation and evaluation. We invite papers on: - syntax-based / semantics-based / tree-structured SMT - machine learning techniques for inducing structured translation models - algorithms for training, decoding, and scoring with semantic representation structure - empirical studies on adequacy and efficiency of formalisms - creation and usefulness of syntactic/semantic resources for MT - formal properties of synchronous/transduction grammars - learning semantic information from monolingual, parallel or comparable corpora - unsupervised and semi-supervised word sense induction and disambiguation methods for MT - lexical substitution, word sense induction and disambiguation, semantic role labeling, textual entailment, paraphrase and other semantic tasks for MT - semantic features for MT models (word alignment, translation lexicons, language models, etc.) - evaluation of syntactic/semantic components within MT (task-based evaluation) - scalability of structured translation methods to small or large data - applications of S/TGs to related areas including: - speech translation - formal semantics and semantic parsing - paraphrases and textual entailment - information retrieval and extraction - syntactically- and semantically-motivated evaluation of MT - compositional distributional semantics in MT - distributed representations and continuous vector space models in MT ========= Organizers ========= Dekai WU, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Marine CARPUAT, National Research Council (NRC) Canada Xavier CARRERAS, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Eva Maria VECCHI, Cambridge University ============= Important Dates ============= Submission deadline for papers and extended abstracts: 26 Jul 2014 Notification to authors: 26 Aug 2014 Camera copy deadline: 15 Sep 2014 For more information http://www.cse.ust.hk/~dekai/ssst/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:53:19 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:53:19 +0200 Subject: Postdoc: Natural Language Processing at Aix-Marseille University Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:33:57 +0200 From: Benoit Favre Message-ID: X-url: http://www.sensei-conversation.eu/ Postdoc position on conversation summarization (Full time, one year - Closing date for applications 2014-07-01) We are looking for an outstanding research scientist to join the "SENSEI" european project (http://www.sensei-conversation.eu/). You will contribute to conversation analysis summarization research to allow the exploitation of large quantity of comments in social media and spoken conversations. Job description: You will contribute to the design and development of speech and text summarization technologies for conversational data such as social media comments and tweets. There will be three components to the system: linguistic analysis of the conversations, content selection and aggregation, and generation of the summaries (text or other media). The approach is expected to make use of recent machine learning advances such as deep learning, and focus on limiting the quantity of supervision needed. The prototype will be evaluated by end-user professionals in ecological conditions. Profile: The applicant must hold a PhD degree, preferably in the field of natural language processing or machine learning. He/she should: - Be proficient in one of Java / C++ programming and python or php scripting - Have experience with developing efficient NLP / machine learning systems. - Be keen on researching the literature and writing papers - Enjoy team work and be autonomous Location: You will work at the LIF computer science lab at Aix-Marseille University in France, at the Luminy campus next to the calanques. Dates: Interviews will be held in July 2014, the Postdoc will start in september / october 2014 and last one year. Contact: Enquiries and applications should be sent to Benoit Favre: benoit.favre at lif.univ-mrs.fr SENSEI project page: http://www.sensei-conversation.eu/ From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:13:41 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:13:41 +0200 Subject: Appel: Deadline extension, LD4KD, ECMK/PKDD Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:18:35 +0100 From: Mathieu.Daquin Message-ID: <5398491B.8010904 at open.ac.uk> X-url: http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2014/ ** apologies for cross-posting ** ================================ LD4KD 2014 1st Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2014/ co-located with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery 2014 (ECML/PKDD 2014) 15-19 September 2014, Nancy, France (http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/ ) Deadline extended to 27th June 2014. ================================ Linked Data have attracted a lot of attention in recent years in many research areas, as their technologies and principles provide new ways to overcome typical data management and consumption issues such as reliability, heterogeneity, provenance or completeness. However, the way in which Linked Data can be applicable and beneficial to the Knowledge Discovery (KDD) pocess is still not completely understood. Many aspects of KDD could benefit from Linked Data, e.g. mining Linked Data sources, using Linked Data to enrich, represent or integrate local data for data preparation, interpretation or visualisation. LD4KD will be an interactive hub to explore the benefits of Linked Data principles and technologies for Knowledge Discovery, together with addressing the new challenges that will emerge from joining the two fields. It will be an opportunity for practitioners of both fields to create communication and collaboration channels,and bridge the gap between their overlapping, but mostly isolated communities. The workshop encourages the participation of researchers from the Knowledge Discovery field to discuss and get informed about the use, benefits and challenges of Linked Data, while th Linked Data researchers can take advantage of and adapt Knowledge Discovery methods in their domain. *SCOPE* We welcome high quality position and research papers in which (1) Linked Data are used as support of Knowledge Discovery processes to extract useful knowledge, or (2) Knowledge Discovery techniques are adapted to work and possibly extend Linked Data. Topics of either theoretical and applied interest include, but are not limited to: - Linked Data for data pre-processing: cleaning, sorting, filtering or enrichment - Linked Data applied to Machine Learning - Linked Data for pattern extraction and behaviour detection - Linked Data for pattern interpretation, visualization or optimisation - Reasoning with patterns and Linked Data - Reasoning on and extracting knowledge from Linked Data - Linked Data mining - Links prediction or links discovery using KDD - Graph mining in Linked Data - Interacting with Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission deadline: June 20th - Extended to June 27th Notification Of Acceptance: July 20th Camera ready copies due: August 5th, 2014 Workshop date: September 15th/19th, 2014 *SUBMISSIONS* Articles should be written following the Springer LNCS template (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and can be up to 10 pages in lenght for research papers or 5 pages for position papers, including figures and references. Submissions are exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format, through the EasyChair system. The submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ld4kd * ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Ilaria Tiddi, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Mathieu d'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Nicolas Jay, Orpailleur, Loria, France *CONTACTS* mathieu.daquin at open.ac.uk ilaria.tiddi at open.ac.uk nicolas.jay at loria.fr *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE* Claudia D’Amato, University of Bari Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari Johannes Fürnkranz, TU Darmstadt Nathalie Hernandez, IRIT Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, University of Poznan Francesca Lisi, University of Bari Vanessa Lopez, IBM Dublin Amedeo Napoli, LORIA Andriy Nikolov, Fluid Operations, Germany Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden Harald Sack, University of Potsdam Vojtěch Svátek, University Prague Isabelle Tellier, University of Paris Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Tommaso di Noia, Politecnico of Bari Jürgen Umbrich, WU Vienna Gerhard Wohlgenannt, WU Vienna -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:16:26 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:16:26 +0200 Subject: Sujet de these: Resume automatique multi-documents dynamique, CEA LIST / LVIC Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:21:51 +0200 From: Gaël de Chalendar Message-ID: <40075295.DBcD3kYvjI at brezhoneg> Urgent: date limite de candidature 25/06/2014 Choral [1] est un système de résumé automatique mono-document par extraction développé au LVIC, industrialisé et mis à la disposition des 3000 utilisateurs de l'IRSN. Choral repose largement sur l'analyseur linguistique multilingue du laboratoire, LIMA [2]. Actuellement, Choral se contente d'extraire verbatim les phrases d'un unique document source qu'il juge les plus pertinentes selon plusieurs critères (sens des mots les plus représentés dans le document, expressions exprimant le point de vue de l'auteur, présence de syntagmes nominaux complexes, ...). Les tendances de fond de ces dernières années dans le domaine sont le résumé multi-documents [3,4] et le résumé dynamique (ou évolutif) [5]. Une approche complémentaire, le résumé orienté par un profil, a déjà été explorée au laboratoire [6]. Le but de cette thèse sera de proposer des améliorations des techniques existantes et d'en intégrer une implémentation à Choral en vue de son expérimentation. La thèse se déroulera de la manière suivante: - exploration de la bibliographie ; - prise en main des outils et du code existants; - proposition d'améliorations possibles des approches existantes exploitant les spécificités des outils et ressources du laboratoire; - conception et développement d'une implémentation dans Choral ; - évaluation des résultats sur des données de référence ; - si possible, participation à une campagne d'évaluation. La thèse se déroulera dans les locaux du LVIC situés à Nano Innov à Palaiseau (près de Polytechnique, Sup'Optique, Thales et Danone). Elle est financée par le CEA. Requis : - date limite de réception des candidatures : 25 juin 2014 - Master 2 en informatique avec une composante TAL - Mentions en licence, master 1 et 2 (joindre relevés de notes) Envoyer les candidatures à: gael.de-chalendar at cea.fr Références: [1] Flores, J. G., Ferret, O., & de Chalendar, G. Summarizing through sense concentration and Contextual Exploration rules: the CHORAL system at TAC 2009. [2] Besançon, R. et al. (2010). “LIMA: A Multilingual Framework for Linguistic Analysis and Linguistic Resources Development and Evaluation”. In LREC 2010. [3] Ji, H., Favre, B., Lin, W. P., Gillick, D., Hakkani-Tur, D., & Grishman, R. (2013). Open-Domain multi-document summarization via information extraction: Challenges and prospects. In Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization (pp. 177-201). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [4] Munoz, R., & Atkinson, J. (2013). Rhetorics-based multi-document summarization. Expert Systems with Applications. [5] Gohr, A., Spiliopoulou, M., & Hinneburg, A. (2013). Visually Summarizing Semantic Evolution in Document Streams with Topic Table. In Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (pp. 136-150). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [6] Ferret, O., Châar, S. L., & Fluhr, C. (2004). Filtrage pour la construction de résumés multi-documents guidée par un profil. Traitement automatique des langues, 45(1), 65-93. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:44:16 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:44:16 +0200 Subject: Appel: ToRPorEsp, Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish (Propor 2014) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:51:50 -0300 From: Muntsa Padró Message-ID: X-url: https://sites.google.com/site/torporesp X-url: http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/ ======================================================== Call For Papers ToRPorEsp: Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish (Propor 2014) ======================================================== October, 5th, 2014 São Carlos (SP), Brazil https://sites.google.com/site/torporesp Deadline for Abstract Submissions: July, 15th, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12) --------------------------------------------------------------- Much of the research and development of NLP tools has been done for English, leading to best state of the art systems for this language, while other languages lack of the coverage of English resources. Although there are several interesting initiatives to develop state of the art tools for other languages, there may not be enough awareness in the community about them and the same work may be repeated in several institutions and projects. This is a limitation for new projects or research that would benefit from having such tools available to develop higher level systems. Similarly, work done for one language may be beneficial to other closely related languages. Within this context, we present the first Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish in PROPOR 2014 (International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/). This workshop aims to be a forum for the presentation and discussion of language-specific developments for Portuguese and Spanish, two closely related languages. We expect to join together researchers and developers with a focus on the creation of tools and linguistic resources for these two languages. These are two thriving communities that can join efforts to maximize the impact of the developments in the area for each of these languages, and promote resource reuse and sharing. This workshop offers a venue for researchers and developers to show work in NLP tools and resources, covering a wide spectrum of tasks (from PoS taggers and parsers to text simplification or sentiment analysis tools), and linguistic resources (WordNet initiatives, grammars, etc). Furthermore, given the proximity of these two languages, this workshop aims to promote discussion of crosslinguistic approaches and possible tuning of existing tools for one language as basis for developing similar tools for the other. A special interest of the workshop is to facilitate access to technologies and resources that are specific to Portuguese and Spanish. We intend that the workshop will contribute to make tools and resources easily available to the local community. To that aim, we encourage submissions that are oriented towards simplifying the integration of a given tool or resource to address specific needs in these regions. Detailed descriptions, motivation of utility with specific scenarios, even tutorial-like approaches will be highly appreciated. All workshop-related materials will be readily available from the workshop webpage, to promote adoption. The workshop is targeted at anyone interested on developing and using tools and resources for Portuguese and Spanish. Presentations and demonstrations are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics: * NLP tools: PoS taggers, parsers, etc * NLP applications: text simplification, summarization, sentiment analysis, information retrieval, etc * Linguistic Resources: WordNet, grammars, etc * Techniques to Automatically create such resources * Techniques to Automatically adapt such resources to local variants of the languages. * Cross-lingual approches, between Portuguese and Spanish or other languages. --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS The main goal of this workshop is to offer a venue for sharing tools and resources . Thus we encourage submissions of presentations and demonstrations of both consolidated and under-development resources. Authors are invited to submit their presentations/demonstrations in the form of abstracts that will be published online. We accept submissions in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Abstracts should contain authors names, afiliations, a set of keywords and should be up to four pages including references. Papers must be submitted in PDF, following the Springer LNAI format guidelines. --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES July, 15th, 2014 - Abstract submission deadline September, 1st, 2014 - Notification of acceptance October, 5th, 2014 - Workshop --------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Laura Alonso Alemany (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) * Núria Bel (UPF, Spain) * Maria José Finatto (UFRGS, Brazil) * Montserrat Marimon (UPF, Spain) * Lluís Padró (UPC, Spain) * Muntsa Padró (UFRGS, Brazil) * Thiago Pardo (ICMC-USP, Brazil) * Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research Brazil and FGv/EMAp, Brazil) * Carlos Ramisch (LIF-TALEP, France) * Aline Villavicencio (UFRGS, Brazil) * Rodrigo Wilkens (UFRGS, Brazil) --------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Laura Alonso Alemany (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) * Muntsa Padró (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) * Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research Brazil and FGv/EMAp, Brazil) * Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Contact: torporesp2014 at gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:07:35 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:07:35 +0200 Subject: Appel: Translating and the Computer Conference 2014 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:56:14 +0000 From: "Stajner, Sanja" Message-ID: <8D7E2A326D0D3549A39B4B714C54FFAA9A8D25F5 at EXCHMBX10X05.unv.wlv.ac.uk> ----------------------------------------- Translating and the Computer Conference 2014 A unique meeting point for experts in language research and technology 27 – 28 November 2014, London, UK Call for abstracts First the Computer, then Internet and more recently the Cloud, are changing and modelling expectations and processes in the Language and Localization industry. These are accompanied by new requirements for Standards and Intercompatibility. The digital age is modifying the concept of text and quality. Content is a key item together with strings, chunks, segments and words. - How does this affect demand and supply of language services? - What are the tools available to meet the new demands? - What are the resources and how can they be managed in this evolving context? - How do these changes affect translators and other language professionals? - What is the training necessary to deal with these new requirements? The Translating and the Computer Conference seeks submissions including, but not limited to: - Terminology - Translation technology (on and off-line) - Memories - Corpora (use of, data collection and structuring) - Workflow (preprocessing, postprocessing and feedback loops, progress tracking) - Quality Assurance (revision aids, standards, processes and metrics) - Fit for purpose translation (professional, human, automatic, gisting / self-service) - Machine Translation and Post Editing (technological advances, user interfaces, real-world case studies) - Collaborative and Crowd-sourced Translations - Translation of real-time, user-generated content - Translation of the spoken word (video, audio, interpreting) - Standards (interoperability, return on investment, impact on quality) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The conference committee seeks original unpublished papers on all aspects of using computer hardware and software to assist in translation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to those listed above. Papers may report on research, on commercial translation products as well as users and actual implementations. Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of a maximum of 750 words of the paper they would like to present, together with a short 200 word abstract and short biography. While the extended abstract is limited to 750 words (longer papers will NOT be considered), it should provide sufficient information to allow evaluation of the submission by the committee. The short abstracts of accepted papers will be used for online programme and event advertising. Abstracts must be submitted via the START conference submission system: https://www.softconf.com/e/tc2014 Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their submissions by 28 July 2014. Authors whose submissions are accepted for oral presentation will subsequently have the option to submit a full paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings, which will be produced on CD for conference delegates. Speakers' final presentations must be submitted by 3 November 2014, in order to be included in the conference proceedings. Speakers will be required to register for the conference and pay a reduced registration fee. SCHEDULE 20 June 2014 - deadline for abstracts 28 July 2014 - all authors notified of decisions 3 November 2014 - speakers' full papers to be submitted 14 November 2014 - speakers’ presentations to be submitted 27-28 November 2014 – conference takes place in London Programme Chairs - Juliet Macan, Arancho Doc srl. - Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton - Olaf-Michael Stefanov, United Nations (ret), JIAMCATT - João Esteves-Ferreira, Tradulex, International Association for Quality Translation Programme Committee - Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada (NRC) - David Chambers, World Intellectual Property Organisation (ret) - Gloria Corpas Pastor, University of Malaga - David Filip, LRC, CNGL, LT-Web, University of Limerick - Pamela Mayorca, Institute of Translating and Interpreting - Paola Valli, University of Trieste For more information, please go to the website www.translatingandthecomputer.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:49:15 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:49:15 +0200 Subject: Job: Postdoc Labex EFL, Apprentissage et fouille de relations entre concepts pour l'enrichissement d'ontologies Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:45:14 +0200 From: haifa.zargayouna at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Message-ID: X-url: http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~zargayouna/PostDocLabEX_fr.pdf Apologies for multiple postings (English version below) ============ Offre post-doc ============ Titre : Apprentissage et fouille de relations entre concepts pour l'enrichissement d'ontologies Contexte : Le travail de postdoc se déroulera au sein du PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité entre le LIPN (http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/), dans l'équipe «Représentation des Connaissances et Langage Naturel» (RCLN) et le LATTICE (http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/). Ce poste est rémunéré grâce au soutien du laboratoire d'excellence "Empirical Foundations of Linguistics" (labex EFL, http://www.labex-efl.org/). Il fait partie d'un projet plus large sur l’extraction d’information, visant à intégrer des approches à base d’apprentissage automatique, de fouille de données séquentielles et de ressources, mené en commun entre le LIPN et le LATTICE dans le cadre du labex EFL. Description : http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~zargayouna/PostDocLabEX_fr.pdf Contact : Isabelle Tellier (isabelle.tellier at univ-paris3.fr) et Haïfa Zargayouna (haifa.zargayouna at lipn.univ-paris13.fr) ============ Post-doctoral position ============ Title: Learning relations between concepts for automatic ontology enrichment. Context: The candidate will work at the PRES Sorbonne Paris Cité, alternating between the LIPN (http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/en/laboratory), RCLN team “Représentation des Connaissances et Langage Naturel” and the LATTICE (http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/). The post will be supported by the “laboratoire d’excellence” Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (LabEx EFL, http://www.labex-efl.org/ ). The work will be part of a broader project on information extraction, which aims to integrate approaches based on machine learning, pattern and resource mining, a project led commonly by LIPN and LATTICE within the LabEx EFL. Description: http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~zargayouna/PostDocLabEX_en.pdf Contact : Isabelle Tellier (isabelle.tellier at univ-paris3.fr) and Haïfa Zargayouna (haifa.zargayouna at lipn.univ-paris13.fr) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:59:58 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:59:58 +0200 Subject: Conf: SEPLN 2014, Girona, Spain, 16th-19th September 2014 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:26:26 +0200 From: Horacio Saggion Message-ID: X-url: http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/index.html *** SEPLN 2014: REGISTRATION *** http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/index.html The 30th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language processing will be held in Girona, Spain on 16th-19th September 2014. The 16th September 2014 will feature two workshops and a tutorial (see SEPLN Web page for details) The 17th to 19th September 2014 will feature the full SEPLN technical program; see detailed program at the end of this message or check the SEPLN Web site. To register to SEPLN 2014 you will need to fill in a form (see below). After submitting your data, you will receive by e-mail instructions on how to pay the registration fees. SEPLN fees are as follows: *** Until 30th June 2014 *** SEPLN Member : 210 euro Not SEPLN Member + Membership : 235 euro Not SEPLN Member : 260 euro STUDENT : 170 euro *** From 1st July 2014 *** SEPLN Member : 270 euro Not SEPLN Member + Membership : 295 euro Not SEPLN Member : 320 euro STUDENT : 230 euro Use the following link to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12EW4CcykZn4IJNBC_VyNuXO5vM1jisinUeUKpQHs0c/viewform?usp=send_form Or consult the SEPLN 2014 Web site at: http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/ The full SEPLN technical program is as follows: *30th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN)* **** Workshops and Tutorial : 16th September 2014 **** *(Program to be announced)* **** Main Conference; 17th-18th September 2014 **** *(Full program below)* *Scientific Program* *Main Conference – 17th, 18th, and 19th September 2014* *17th September 2014* 09:00-09:30 Registration 09:30-10:00 Opening 10:00-11:00 Invited Talk: *Enrique Alfonseca* (Google) *News understanding through event pattern clustering* 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 Full Papers: Information Extraction 11:30-12:00 *Análisis morfosintáctico y clasificación de entidades nombradas en un entorno Big Data.* Pablo Gamallo; Juan Carlos Pichel; Marcos Garcia; José Manuel Abuín;Tomás Fernández Pena 12:00-12:30 *Entity-Centric Coreference Solving of Person Entities for Open Information Extraction.* Marcos Garcia; Pablo Gamallo 12:30-15:00 Lunch Break 15:00-16:30 Full Papers: Word Sense Disambiguation / Corpus Analysis 15:00-15:30 *Etiquetado de metáforas lingüísticas en un conjunto de documentos en español*. Fernando Martínez Santiago, Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras, Arturo Montejo Ráez, Manuel Carlos Díaz Galiano 15:30-16:00 *Methodology and evaluation of the Galician WordNet expansion with the WN-Toolkit*. Xavier Gómez Guinovart & Antoni Oliver 16:00-16:30 *An unsupervised Approach for Person Name Disambiguation in Web People Search*. Agustín D. Delgado, Raquel Martínez, Soto Montalvo, Víctor Fresno 16:30-17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-18:30 Project’s Presentations (Round Table, 10 mins each) *Tratamiento inteligente de la información para ayuda a la toma de decisiones.* Sonia Vázquez, Elena Lloret, Fernando Peregrino, Yoan Gutiérrez, Javier Fernández, José Manuel Gómez *Proyecto FIRST (Flexible Interactive Reading Support Tool): Desarrollo de una herramienta para ayudar a personas con autismo mediante la simplificación de textos.* María-Teresa Martín Valdivia, Eugenio Martínez Cámara, Eduard Barbu, L. Alfonso Ureña-López, Paloma Moreda, Elena Lloret *Open Idea: Plataforma inteligente para gestión de ideas innovadoras.* Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-García, Rafael Valencia-García, Gema Alcaraz-Mármol, César Carralero *ATTOS: Trend Analysis and Thematic through Opinions and Sentiments.* L. Alfonso Ureña, Rafael Muñoz, José A. Troyano y Mª Teresa Martíon *NewsReader project. *Rodrigo Agerri, Eneko Agirre, Itziar Aldabe, Begoña Altuna, Zuhaitz Beloki, Egoitz Laparra, Maddalen López de Lacalle, German Rigau, Aitor Soroa, Rubén Urizar *Análisis Semántico de la Opinión de los Ciudadanos en Redes Sociales en la Ciudad del Futuro.* Julio Villena-Román, Adrián Luna-Cobos, José Carlos González Cristóbal *TrendMiner: Large-scale Cross-lingual Trend Mining Summarization of Real-time Media Streams.* Paloma Martínez, Isabel Segura, Thierry Declerck, José L. Martínez *Utilización de las Tecnologías del Habla y de los Mundos Virtuales para el Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Educativas*. David Griol, Araceli Sanchis, José Manuel Molina, Zoraida Callejas *Establishing a Linguistic Olympiad in Spain, Year 1.* Antonio Toral, Guillermo Latour, Stanislav Gurevich, Mikel Forcada, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez 18:30-20:00 Break 20:00-22:00 Reception *18th September 2014* 09:00-09:30 Registration 09:30-11:00 Full Papers: Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing 09:30-10:00 *Translating sentences from 'original' to 'simplified' Spanish*. Sanja Stajner 10:00-10:30 *Descripción y Evaluación de un Sistema de Extracción de Definiciones para el Catalán.* Luis Espinosa-Anke, Horacio Saggion 10:30-11:00 *The aid of machine learning to overcome the classification of real health discharge reports written in Spanish.* Alicia Pérez, Arantza Casillas, Koldo Gojenola, Maite Oronoz, Nerea Aguirre, Estibaliz Amillano 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 Invited Talk: *Roberto Navigli* (La Sapienza) *(Digital) goodies from the ERC Wishing Well: BabelNet, Babelfy, video games with a purpose and the Wikipedia bitaxonomy* 12:30-15:00 Lunch Break 15:00-16:30 Demonstrations and Industry Papers *ADRSpanishTool: a tool for extracting adverse drug reactions and indications.* Santiago de la Peña, Isabel Segura-Bedmar, Paloma Martínez, José Luis Martínez *ViZPar: A GUI for ZPar with Manual Feature Selection*. Isabel Ortiz, Miguel Ballesteros, Yue Zhang *Desarrollo de portales de voz municipales interactivos y adaptados al usuario.* David Griol, María García-Jiménez, José Manuel Molina, Araceli Sanchis *imaxin|software: PLN aplicada a la mejora de la comunicación multilingüe de empresas e instituciones.* José Ramom Pichel Campos, Diego Vázquez Rey, Luz Castro Pena, Antonio Fernández Cabezas *Integration of a Machine Translation System into the Editorial Process Flow of a Daily Newspaper.* Juan Alberto Alonso Martín, Anna Civil Serra *track-It! Sistema de Análisis de Reputación en Tiempo Real.* Julio Villena-Román, Janine García-Morera, José Carlos González Cristóbal *Aplicación de tecnologías de Procesamiento de lenguaje natural y tecnología semántica en Brand Rain y Anpro21. *Oscar Trabazos, Silvia Suárez, Remei Bori, Oriol Flo 16:30-17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-18:30 SEPLN General Assembly 18:30-20:00 Break 21:00-24:00 Conference Dinner *19th September 2014* 09:00-09:30 Registration 09:30-11:00 Full Papers: Natural Language Processing Tools 09:30-10:00 *ParTes. Test Suite for Parsing Evaluation*. Marina Lloberes, Irene Castellón, Lluís Padró, Edgar Gonzàlez 10:00-10:30 *PoS-tagging the Web in Portuguese. National varieties, text typologies and spelling systems*. Marcos Garcia; Pablo Gamallo; Iria Gayo; Miguel A. Pousada Cruz 10:30-11:00 *Document-Level Machine Translation as a Re-translation Process.* Eva Martínez Garcia, Cristina España-Bonet, Lluís Màrquez Villodre 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-13:00 Full Papers: Terminology Extraction and Opinion Lexicons 11:30-12:00 *ML-SentiCon: Un lexicón multilíngüe de polaridades semánticas a nivel de lemas.* Fermín L. Cruz, José A. Troyano, Beatriz Pontes, F. Javier Ortega 12:00-12:30 *Unsupervised acquisition of domain aspect terms for Aspect Based Opinion Mining.* Aitor García Pablos, Montse Cuadros, German Rigau 12:30-13:00 *Boosting Terminology Extraction through Crosslingual Resources.* Sergio Cajal, Horacio Rodríguez 13:00-13:30 Closure Looking forward to see you in Girona in September! Kind regards, Horacio Saggion SEPLN 2014 Chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 18:56:38 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 20:56:38 +0200 Subject: Appel: AusDM 2014, The 12th Australasian Data Mining Conference, Brisbane Australia, Nov 27-28 2014 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 05:38:30 +0000 From: Richi Nayak Message-ID: <032189CFEE6B094A8CB9DB0838786ADF235F244F at ex10mb1.qut.edu.au> X-url: http://ausdm14.ausdm.org/ ********************************************************* 12th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2014) Brisbane, Australia 27-28 November 2014 http://ausdm14.ausdm.org/ ********************************************************* Data Mining is the art and science of intelligent analysis of (usually big) data sets for meaningful insights. Data mining is actively applied across all industries including defence, medicine, science, finance, customer relationship management, government, insurance, telecommunications, retail and distribution, transportation, and utilities. The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and researchers in data mining. Since AusDM'02 the conference has showcased research in data mining, providing a forum for presenting and discussing the latest research and developments. Since 2006, all proceedings have been printed as volumes in the CRPIT series. This year's conference, AusDM'14 builds on this tradition of facilitating the cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, experience and potential research directions. Specifically, the conference seeks to showcase: Industry Case Studies; Research Prototypes; Practical Analytics Technology; and Research Student Projects. AusDM'14 will be a meeting place for pushing forward the frontiers of data mining in industry and academia. We have lined up an excellent Keynote Speaker program. Publication and topics ====================== We are calling for papers, both research and applications, and from both academia and industry, for publication and presentation at the conference. All papers will go through peer-review by a panel of international experts. Accepted papers will be published in an upcoming volume (Data Mining and Analytics 2014) of the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series by the Australian Computer Society which is also held in full-text on the ACM Digital Library. The proceeding in electronic version will be distributed at the conference. For more details on CRPIT please see http://www.crpit.com. This year we are introducing a new track "Industry Showcase" for industry participants to present the state-of-the-art analytics projects. These submissions can be of non-academic-publication style and will be for presentation only. These case studies and data mining experiences will not be included in the conference proceeding. Please note that we require that at least one author for each accepted paper will register for the conference and present their work. AusDM invites contributions addressing current research in data mining and knowledge discovery as well as experiences, novel applications and future challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Applications and Case Studies | Lessons and Experiences - Big Data Analytics - Biomedical and Health Data Mining - Business Analytics - Computational Aspects of Data Mining - Data Integration, Matching and Linkage - Data Mining Education - Data Mining in Security and Surveillance - Data Preparation, Cleaning and Preprocessing - Data Stream Mining - Evaluation of Results and their Communication - Implementations of Data Mining in Industry - Integrating Domain Knowledge - Link, Tree, Graph, Network and Process Mining - Multimedia Data Mining - New Data Mining Algorithms - Professional Challenges in Data Mining - Privacy-preserving Data Mining - Social Network and Social Media Mining - Spatial and Temporal Data Mining - Text Mining - Visual Analytics - Web Mining and Personalization Submission of papers ==================== We invite three types of submissions for AusDM 2014: - Research Track: Normal academic submissions reporting on research progress, with a paper length of between 8 and 12 pages in CRPIT style, as detailed below. For academic submissions we will use a double-blinded review process, i.e. paper submissions must NOT include authors names or affiliations or acknowledgments referring to funding bodies. Self-citing references should also be removed from the submitted papers for the double blind reviewing purpose. These information can be added on after the review. - Application Track: Submissions on specific data mining implementations and experiences in government and industry settings. Submissions in this category can be between 4 and 8 pages in CRPIT style, as detailed below. A committee made of mix of academic and industry representatives will review these submissions. - Industry Showcase: Submissions in this track are presentation only. In this track, government and industry participants can present the case studies and their experiences without getting worried about publication. We call for an extended abstract up to two pages to assess these submissions. A special committee made of industry representatives will review these submissions. Paper submissions in Research and Application tracks are required to follow the general format specified for papers in the CRPIT series by the Australian Computer Society. Submission details are available from http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. LaTeX styles and Word templates may be found on this site. LaTeX is the recommended typesetting package. The electronic submissions must be in PDF only, and made through the AusDM'14 Submission Page at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ausdm2014/. Important Dates =============== Submission of abstracts: 28 July 2014 Submission of full papers: 4 August 2014 (midnight PST) Notification of authors: 22 September 2014 Final version and author registration: 14 October 2014 Conference 27-28 November 2014 Organising Committee ==================== Program Chairs (Research) Lin Liu, University of South Australia, Adelaide Xue Li, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Program Chairs (Application) Yanchang Zhao, Department of Immigration & Border Protection, Australia; and RDataMining.com Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Melbourne Conference Chairs Richi Nayak, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Paul Kennedy, University of Technology, Sydney Sponsorship Chair Andrew Stranieri, University of Ballarat, Ballarat Local Chair Yue Xu, Brisbane, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Simeon Simoff, University of Western Sydney Graham Williams, Australian Taxation Office Other Steering Committee Members Peter Christen, The Australian National University, Canberra Paul Kennedy, University of Technology, Sydney Jiuyong Li, University of South Australia, Adelaide Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Melbourne John Roddick, Flinders University, Adelaide Andrew Stranieri, University of Ballarat, Ballarat Geoff Webb, Monash University, Melbourne Join us on LinkedIn =================== http://www.linkedin.com/groups/AusDM-4907891 From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:19:12 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:19:12 +0200 Subject: Job: Postdoctoral position, IMMI-CNRS Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:02:15 +0200 From: Gilles ADDA Message-ID: <53988B97.9090700 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.immi-labs.org/ Post-doc position at IMMI-CNRS A post-doctoral position is proposed at IMMI-CNRS (Orsay, France - http://www.immi-labs.org/). IMMI is an International Joint Research CNRS Unit (UMI) in the field of Multimedia and Multilingual Document Processing. It gathers three contributing partners: LIMSI-CNRS, RWTH Aachen and KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). Context of the project The project relies on an experimental platform for online monitoring of social media and information streams, with self-adaptive properties, in order to detect, collect, process, categorize, and analyze multilingual streams. The platform includes advanced linguistic analysis, discourse analysis, extraction of entities and terminology, topic detection, translation and the project includes studies on unsupervised and cross-lingual adaptation. Requirements and objectives A PhD in a field related to the project (translation, natural language processing or machine learning) is required. The candidate will perform research in the framework mentioned above, and will supervize collection and annotation of the data. Salary will follow CNRS standard rules for contractual researchers, according to the experience of the candidate. Contacts * Gilles Adda (adda [at] immi-labs.org) Agenda * Opening date: August 2014 * Application deadline: Open until filled * Duration: 24 months From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:35:37 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:35:37 +0200 Subject: Appel: 5th Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP2014) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:38:55 +0200 From: Aldo Gangemi Message-Id: <9CCAA2F7-7A48-48AF-998C-408B00BF6B70 at lipn.univ-paris13.fr> X-url: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014 X-url: http://iswc2014.semanticweb.org === Apologies for multiple postings === ***************************************************************** Call for Patterns 5th Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP2014) http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014 WOP will be held on October 19 or 20, 2014, in conjunction with ISWC 2014 (http://iswc2014.semanticweb.org) ***************************************************************** Submission deadline : 7 July, 2014 ***************************************************************** This is the fifth edition in a series of workshops addressing the topic of ontology and semantic web patterns as best practices, related to the ontologydesignpatterns.org initiative. This edition of WOP will be the very first in Europe, in which traditionally the design pattern community for semantic web and linked data has been very strong. As interest in the Semantic Web increases and technologies for realizing the Semantic Web become more mature, the need for high-quality and reusable Semantic Web ontologies increases as well. To address the quality and reusability issues, different types of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) have emerged, and methods for devising or discovering new ones from heterogeneous knowledge sources are needed. Patterns need to be shared by a community in order to provide a common language, and to stimulate pattern usage and development. Hence, the aim of this workshop is twofold * providing an arena for proposing and discussing good practices, patterns, pattern-based ontologies, systems etc., and * broadening the pattern community that is developing its own “language” for discussing and describing relevant problems and their solutions. WOP2014 will be a half-day workshop consisting of two parts: paper presentations and posters. The poster session will feature pattern posters, i.e. presentations of patterns submitted according the call for patterns. ---- Paper Topics For Research Papers and Short Papers ----- The main aim of the workshop is to discuss and collect solutions to recurrent problems that matter to researchers and practitioners of the Semantic Web field, and that impact on design and engineering of ontologies, linked data, knowledge extraction, and other semantic web applications. We invite the submission of original research results related to the focus areas of the workshop. Research papers (maximum 12 pages LNCS style) should present mature work and document established results, or be short papers presenting proposed research directions and novel ideas (maximum 4 pages LNCS style). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Ontology design patterns (ODPs) and pattern-based ontology design * Anti-patterns and their relations to ODPs * Pattern-based ontologies * Ontology patterns and their relation with standards * Ontology pattern extraction * Analysis of ontology pattern usage * Pattern-based ontology evaluation and selection * Correspondence patterns for ontology matching and integration * Best practices and examples for using existing ontologies/datasets to instantiate ODPs * Discussion of use cases of particular ODPs across ontologies * Evaluation of ODPs (methods, benchmarks) * Patterns and Linked data (usage, emerging patterns, etc.) * Linked Data patterns, patterns for using different vocabularies together * Web semantics from a pattern perspective * ODPs used for interaction with data * Data mining patterns * Automatic ontology construction (ontology learning) based on patterns * Reasoning pipelines * Usage of patterns in business intelligence * Relation between NLP patterns (either for learning, or procedural) and ontologies/linked data design * Frame semantics in text and knowledge representation * Knowledge patterns and knowledge reengineering based on patterns * Pattern-based information extraction * Nary-fact extraction and representation * Patterns in semantic social networks, semantic wikis, semantic blogs * Reengineering patterns for conceptual models, folksonomies, lexicons, thesauri * Usage of patterns in conceptual modeling * Processes and services process patterns * Problem solving methods and patterns * Contextual reasoning and patterns as context * Pattern-based methods and methodologies for development of semantic applications * Usage of patterns in Semantic Web design * Collaborative ontology design and collaboration patterns * Tools and applications for pattern-based knowledge engineering * Ontology Patterns for specific domains (cultural heritage, digital humanities, multimedia, etc). For submission details visit: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014/Submission ----- Patterns ----- We invite the submission of research results in the form of ontology design patterns (ODPs). Patterns submitted should have a general relevance to the ontology engineering field, or specific interest within a knowledge domain. Patterns should solve some particular modeling problem, and be of significant interest for discussion at the workshop. Patterns should be original, in the sense that they are the intellectual product of the author(s), however they may still be based on the collective experience of a community. Pattern submissions for the pattern session will be collected: * through the ODP portal and * by submitting a description of the pattern (pattern description) via EasyChair Detailed instructions for patterns submission, including how to submit via the ontologydesignpatterns.org portal, are found at the submission page at: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014/Submission . Note that an account in the ODP portal is needed for submitting patterns; thus, authors should take care to request an account at least one week before their intended submission. Pattern submissions can be made in any type of ODPs. Currently, portal templates for submission are provided for the following types of patterns (see general typology for explanation of the types): * Content patterns * Structural patterns: logical and architecture patterns. * Correspondence patterns: re-engineering and alignment patterns. For other types of patterns, the author is welcome to submit only a pattern description. ---- Important dates (2014, 11:59 Hawaii time) ---- * Submission date (research papers and patterns): 7 July, 2014 * Author notifications: July 30, 2014 * Camera-ready proceedings: August 20, 2014 * Workshops will be held on October 19-20, 2014 (tba) ----- WOP2014 Chairs ----- * Victor de Boer, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Aldo Gangemi, LIPN Paris Sorbonne Citè/Paris 13 (FR) * Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara * Agnieszka Ławrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland ----- Steering Committee ----- The workshop series is arranged by a fixed steering committee, appointing the chairs and adjusting the focus of the workshop on a yearly basis. The WOP Steering committee consists of: * Eva Blomqvist, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Natasha Noy, Stanford University (US) * Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Alan Rector, University of Manchester (UK) * Francois Scharffe, INRIA (FR) * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz (DE) * Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center (US) ----- Program Committee ----- * Benjamin Adams, University of Auckland, NZ * Alessandro Adamou, KMI Open University (UK) * Lora Aroyo, VU (NL) * Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University (SE) * Victor de Boer, VU University Amsterdam (NL) * Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) * Enrico Daga, ISTC-CNR, Rome (IT) * Aldo Gangemi, LIPN Paris Sorbonne Citè/Paris 13 (FR) * Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO) (ES) * Gerd Gröner, University of Koblenz (DE) * Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (BR) * Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University (US) * Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit/Universiteit van Amsterdam, (NL) * Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara (US) * Adila Alfa Krisnadhi, Wright State University (US) * Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, University of Oviedo, (SP) * Agnieszka Ławrynowicz, Poznań University of Technology (PL) * Steffen Lohmann, University of Stuttgart (DE) * Timothy Lebo, RPI, USA * Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, University of Bologna/STLab ISTC-CNR (IT) * Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh (US) * Raul Palma, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PL) * María Poveda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (SP) * Catherine Roussey, Irstea - Centre de Clermont-Ferrand, France * Alan Ruttenberg, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, (US) * Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock (SE) * Mari Carmen Suarez-Figueroa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, (SP) * Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague (CZ) * Boris Villazón-Terrazas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From CurrentResearch at MEGAPHONEMOTILITY.NET Sat Jun 14 07:12:49 2014 From: CurrentResearch at MEGAPHONEMOTILITY.NET (CurrentResearch) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 15:12:49 +0800 Subject: Dear ln@listserv.linguistlist.org, Welcome to Submit Your Papers and Books to Us Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We would be grateful if you could forward this information through your networks ! Frederic Benhamou and Milad Doueihi #di2014 Conference Co-chairs ------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- • Regular registration: June 13 - September 1st, 2014 • Late registration: September 2 - September 15, 2014 • On-site registration: September 17-19, 2014 • #di2014 Conference: September 17-19, 2014 ------------------------ DI2014 CONFERENCE ------------------- #di2014 is a new international scientific and interdisciplinary forum dedicated to digital society and cultures. The challenge is to bring together researchers from various disciplines in order to discuss and contribute to shaping a new scientific and cultural paradigm. Main areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Digital Art & Culturally-Aware Information Technology, Data, Digital Organisations, Social Web, Digital Identity, e-Learning, Green Digital Economy, Digital Trends and Emerging Practices, Human-Robot Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Humanities, etc. Interdisciplinary interactions are a key component of this conference. #di2014 is at the heart of a Digital Week (Sept. 13-21, 2014) bringing together conferences, workshops, demonstrations, performances and concerts related to Art, Science and Economy. More info : www.di2014.org / @DIConf14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:07:14 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:07:14 +0200 Subject: Appel: Call for System Participation, Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction (Registration Deadline: July 1st) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 06:34:07 -0700 From: Wajdi Zaghouani Message-ID: <1402925647.95132.YahooMailNeo at web121705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> X-url: http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/shared_task.html X-url: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/qalb-shared-task ======================================================= Last Call for System Participation Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction In conjunction with EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing Apologies for multiple postings Please distribute to colleagues ======================================================= Last Call for System Participation Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar Registration deadline: July 1, 2014 System test period: July 7-18, 2014 Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014 Shared Task Website: http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/shared_task.html ======================================================= Shared Task Description As part of the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014, we will conduct a shared task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction. We designed this task in the traditions of high profile shared tasks in natural language processing such as CONLL's grammar/error detection and correction shared tasks in 2011-2013 and numerous machine translation campaigns by NIST/WMT/MEDAR, among others. The task relies on resources created under the Qatar Arabic Language Bank (QALB) project (currently over 1M words of manually corrected Arabic text). A participating system in this shared task will be given Modern Standard Arabic texts, which are to be automatically corrected. The input will be provided in Arabic script, and will be annotated for part-of-speech (in different granularities), inflectional features, clitics (which appear in 20% of Arabic words), lemmas, and English glosses. All of the input text will be preprocessed in a common way to make sure all participants have access to all of these features at no additional overhead novelty cost. We follow the file format and evaluation framework used by the CONLL shared tasks on error correction. The task is focused on correction as opposed to identification. There will not be an error identification task per se. Participants need to register. Once registered, all participating teams will be provided with a common training data set (about 1 million words), which includes common preprocessed input and corrected output. Registration link is on the Shared Task Website (see above). A common development set will also be provided. A blind test data set will be used to evaluate the output of the participating teams. An evaluation script will be provided to all the teams. Each participating team can submit up to three systems. Participants are welcome to use additional resourcesand tools that are not part of the released data set. However, allsuch additions must be fully disclosed. All those who registered to participate in the Shared Task will receive an email message onJuly 7, 2014with specific instructions on how to download the test set and how to send the automatic correction of it. The information will also be available at the shared task group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/qalb-shared-task). Participants are expected to author a short paper (4 pages + 2 for references) describing their approach, resources and experiments. The paper needs to follow the standard format of EMNLP conference. DISCUSSION GROUP The following discussion group has been created and is used for all announcements and discussions related to the shared task. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/qalb-shared-task Participants are encouraged to subscribe and follow the discussion group. IMPORTANT DATES Shared task registration period: April 8, 2014 through July 1, 2014 Shared task test release: July 7, 2014 Shared task system output collection: July 18, 2014 Submission deadline for system description papers: July 26, 2014 Author notification: August 26, 2014 Camera Ready: September 15, 2014 Arabic NLP Workshop: October 25, 2014 ORGANIZERS Behrang Mohit (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Nizar Habash (advisor), Columbia University From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:10:24 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:10:24 +0200 Subject: Seminaire: FIT Post Congress Seminars "Terminology Management" , 7-9 August 2014, Berlin Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:12:26 +0200 From: excellence Message-ID: X-url: http://www.fit2014.org Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to the Terminology Management - Intensive Training Course based on the ECQA Certified Terminology Manager that will take place on August 7th - 9th 2014 in Berlin. On the three days following the FIT XXth World Congress, the CPD unit of the BDÜ (BDÜ Weiterbildungs- und Fachverlagsgesellschaft) together with the consultancy and training unit of the International Network for Terminology TermNet (TermNet Business GmbH) will host this 3-day seminar on Terminology Management. The seminar is also open to colleagues who do not wish to attend the FIT XXth World Congress (Aug. 4th - 6th 2014 - www.fit2014.org) in Berlin. Target audience: The seminar is designed as a theoretical and practical introductory training course on terminology management to help professional translators, interpreters and terminologists to develop their terminology management skills and set up or improve their terminology management system. For detailed contents and learning objectives, please refer to the attached programme. The seminar will be held in English. Trainers: * Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dirk Schmitz, Cologne University of Applied Sciences * Prof. Dr. Frieda Steurs, KU Leuven - University of Leuven * Prof. Dr. Hendrik Kockaert, KU Leuven - University of Leuven * Dr. Gabriele Sauberer, Director, TermNet Business GmbH * Blanca Nájera, Deputy Director, TermNet Business GmbH Optional certification: The seminar programme has been developed within the framework of ECQA - the European Certification and Qualification Association (www.ecqa.org ). After the seminar, participants will be given the opportunity to sit an exam to obtain the ECQA Certificate for Terminology Managers (basic level). The exam is taken online some weeks after the workshop to ensure that participants have enough time to work through the training material. If you have any questions concerning the seminar programme and certification, please contact Blanca Nájera by e-mail at: events at termnet.org Registration: please register online at http://www.seminare.bdue.de or send an e-mail to: service at bdue.de Registration closes on July 1st 2014. There are only few places available. Please disseminate this information also among colleagues and friends who might be interested! Kind regards, Your TermNet Events Team ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:12:56 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:12:56 +0200 Subject: Conf: WACAI 2014, Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel et Interaction, 30 juin-1er juillet 2014, Rouen Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:02:27 +0200 From: Magalie Ochs Message-ID: <53A163B3.20104 at telecom-paristech.fr> X-url: http://wacai14.litislab.fr/?page_id=135 X-url: http://wacai14.litislab.fr/?page_id=23 Le prochain Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel et Interaction se déroule très prochainement ! Nous avons le plaisir d’accueillir de nombreux chercheurs et étudiants travaillant sur les agents conversationnels animés et les robots sociaux. Le programme est en ligne : http://wacai14.litislab.fr/?page_id=135 Les inscriptions sont ouvertes ! Le tarif pour ces deux jours de conférence est de 65€ pour les permanents et 35€ pour les étudiants : http://wacai14.litislab.fr/?page_id=23 Au plaisir de vous y rencontrer, Gérard Bailly, Magalie Ochs et Alexandre Pauchet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:15:05 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:15:05 +0200 Subject: Conf: Problems in Terminological Work Workshop, Sept-Oct 2014, Spanish edition, Barcelone Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:05:11 +0000 From: Tutoria Terminologia Message-ID: <931D3873A66FA442AA1531898AF37EC50B06880E at srv-exch-mbx.IDEC-UPF.LOCAL> X-url: http://www.idec.upf.edu/problems-in-terminological-work-workshop Problems in Terminological Work Workshop (Sept-Oct 2014, Spanish edition) The objective of this workshop is to establish and develop skills for detecting those problems which arise when preparing a terminological project and for applying the most effective solutions. Attending to the different habitual phenomena and activities in the various phases of the terminological project process, this objective is laid out in the following skills: - Accurately defining the terms found and discerning the terminological units of categories other than nouns. - Detecting those terminological units that are equivalent to each other and treating them in a manner that is suitable to the type of project. - Preparing suitable definitions with the requirements established and distinguishing inaccurate or inadequate definitions. - Tackling the different instances of possible terminological novelties, including the creation of neologisms, based on solid criteria. Further information: http://www.idec.upf.edu/problems-in-terminological-work-workshop Contact us: tutoria.terminologia at idec.upf.edu Yours sincerely, Alba Coll Tutora. Máster en Terminología tutoria.terminologia at idec.upf.edu www.idec.upf.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:05:27 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:05:27 +0200 Subject: These: Maxime Lefrancois, Representation des connaissances semantiques lexicales de la Theorie Sens-Texte Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:47:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Maxime Lefrançois Message-ID: <1513674925.1986849.1402919243313.JavaMail.zimbra at inria.fr> X-url: http://maxime-lefrancois.info ENGLISH VERSION BELOW ====================== Bonjour à tous, J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à ma soutenance de thèse, " Représentation des connaissances sémantiques lexicales de la Théorie Sens-Texte: Conceptualisation, représentation, et opérationnalisation des définitions lexicographiques ", ainsi qu'au pot qui suivra. La soutenance aura lieu mardi 24 juin à 14:00 , en salle Euler Violet , à l’Inria Sophia Antipolis. Bien cordialement, Maxime Lefrançois Attaché de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche, IUT Nice côte d'azur Doctorant équipe Wimmics, Inria/I3S http://maxime-lefrancois.info --- Jury : DR. Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Université de Toulouse, IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse , relectrice extérieure Pr. Igor Boguslavsky, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid & Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow , relecteur extérieur Pr. Marie-Laure Mugnier, Université Montpellier 2, LIRMM/Inria , relectrice extérieure Pr. Andrea Tettamanzi, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis , examinateur Directeur : DR. Fabien Gandon, Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée Co-directeur : Pr. Christian Boitet, Université Joseph Fourier, LIG, Grenoble Résumé: Nous présentons notre recherche en ingénierie des connaissances appliquée à la linguistique. Plus particulièrement, aux prédicats linguistiques, aux représentations linguistiques, et aux définitions lexicographiques de la théorie linguistique Sens-Texte (TST). Nous adoptons une méthodologie en trois étapes. Nous étudions dans un premier temps la conceptualisation de la TST, et montrons en quoi elle devrait être étendue pour faciliter une formalisation ultérieure. Nous justifions en particulier la nécessité de définir un nouveau niveau de représentation sémantique profond, basé sur des graphes. Nous y définissons la notion de type d'unité sémantique profonde et sa structure actancielle: un ensemble de positions actancielles signées, qui peuvent être obligatoires, optionnelles, ou interdites, et étiquetées par des rôles sémantiques lexicalisés. Nous montrons que l'organisation hiérarchique des types d'unités sémantiques profondes peut correspondre à une hiérarchie de sens au sein de laquelle les structures actancielles sont héritées et spécialisées. Nous reconceptualisons les définitions lexicographiques au niveau sémantique profond, et au niveau du dictionnaire. Finalement, nous présentons un prototype d'éditeur de définitions basé sur la manipulation directe de graphes, qui permettera une intégration future de nos travaux dans des projets de lexicographie explicative et combinatoire. Ensuite, nous proposons un formalisme de représentation des connaissances adapté à cette conceptualisation. Nous démontrons que les logiques de description et le formalisme des Graphes Conceptuels ne sont pas adaptés pour représenter les connaissances de la TST. Nous construisons alors un nouveau formalisme de représentation des connaissances adapté, dit des Graphes d'Unités. Enfin nous étudions l'opérationnalisation du formalisme des Graphes d'Unités. Nous lui associons une sémantique formelle basée sur la théorie des modèles et l'algèbre relationnelle, et montrons que les conditions de décidabilité du raisonnement logique correspondent aux intuitions des lexicographes. Nous proposons également une implémentation du formalisme avec les standards du web sémantique, ce qui permet de profiter des architectures existantes pour le partage, l'interopérationnalisation, et l'interrogation des connaissances sur le web des données lexicales liées. =============== ENGLISH VERSION =============== Hello, I am pleased to invite you to the defence of my PhD thesis, “ Meaning-Text Theory Lexical Semantic Knowledge Representation: Conceptualization, Representation, and Operationalization of Lexicographic Definitions ”, and the drinks afterwards. The defence will take place on Tuesday June 24th, at 2pm in room Euler Violet at Inria Sophia Antipolis. Best regards, Maxime Lefrançois Attaché de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche, IUT Nice côte d'azur PhD Student Wimmics Team, Inria/I3S http://maxime-lefrancois.info --- Jury : DR. Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Université de Toulouse, IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse , reviewer Pr. Igor Boguslavsky, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid & Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow , reviewer Pr. Marie-Laure Mugnier, Université Montpellier 2, LIRMM/Inria , reviewer Pr. Andrea Tettamanzi, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis , examiner Advisor : DR. Fabien Gandon, Inria Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée Co-Advisor : Pr. Christian Boitet, Université Joseph Fourier, LIG, Grenoble Abstract: We present our research in applying knowledge engineering to linguistics. In particular, to linguistic predicates, linguistic representations, and lexicographic definitions of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT). We adopt a three-step methodology. We first study the MTT conceptualization, and show how it should be extended to ease its formalization. We therefore justify the need of defining a new deep semantic, graph-based, representation level for the Meaning-Text model. We define the notion of deep semantic unit types and its actantial structure: a set of signed obligatory, optional or forbidden actant slots with lexicalized semantic roles as labels. We show that their hierarchical organization may correspond to a hierarchy of meanings, inside which actantial structures are inherited and specialized. We re-conceptualize lexicographic definitions at the deep semantic level, and at the level of dictionaries. Finally, we present a definition editor prototype based on graph direct manipulation, which will allow us, in future work, to integrate our formal model into explanatory combinatorial lexicographic projects. We then propose a knowledge representation formalism adapted for this conceptualization. We demonstrate that Description Logics and the Conceptual Graphs formalism do not fit our needs. This leads us to construct a new knowledge representation formalism: the Unit Graphs formalism. Finally, we operationalize the Unit Graphs formalism. We assign it a formal semantic model, which we create based on model theory and relational algebra. We then show that the reasoning decidability conditions match the intuitions that lexicographers have. We also provide an implementation using semantic web standards, which enable us to use existing architectures for sharing, interoperability, and knowledge querying over the web of lexical linked data. Maxime Lefrançois ATER IUT Info Nice Fabron Doctorant équipe Wimmics, UNS/I3S/CNRS/INRIA http://maxime-lefrancois.info @Max_Lefrancois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 18:54:24 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:54:24 +0200 Subject: Appel: IEEE CIM Special Issue on New Trends of Learning in Computational Intelligence Message-ID: Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 09:43:55 -0500 (EST) From: SenticNet Message-ID: <63146292.1489152.1402843435062.open-xchange at bosoxweb03.eigbox.net> Apologies for cross-posting, A special issue of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine will be dedicated to New Trends of Learning in Computational Intelligence. Prospective authors are invited to submit their original unpublished research and application contributions. Comprehensive tutorial and survey papers can also be considered for this special issue. RATIONALE Over the past few decades, conventional computational intelligence techniques faced severe bottlenecks in terms of algorithmic learning. Particularly, in areas of big data computation, brain science, cognition and reasoning, it is almost inevitable that intensive human intervention and time consuming trial and error efforts need to be employed before any meaningful observations can be obtained. The recent development of emerging computational intelligence techniques such as extreme learning machines (ELM) and fast solutions shed some light upon how to effectively deal with these computational bottlenecks. Based on the observations that increasing correlation can be found among apparently different theories from different fields, as well as the increasing evidence of convergence between computational intelligence techniques and biological learning mechanisms, this special issue seeks to promote novel research investigations in computational intelligence bridging among related areas. TOPICS Topics of interest for this special issue include but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations and algorithms: - Extreme learning machines (ELM), No-Prop algorithms and random kitchen sinks - Real-time learning, reasoning and cognition - Sequential / incremental learning - Clustering and feature extraction / selection - Closed form and non-closed form solutions - Multiple hidden layers solutions and random networks - Parallel and distributed computing / cloud computing - Fast implementation of deep learning - Applications: - Biologically-inspired natural language processing - Big data analytics - Cognitive science / computation - Autonomous systems - Situation / Intention Awareness TIMEFRAME - 15th August, 2014: Submission of Manuscripts - 15th October, 2014: Notification of Review Results - 15th November, 2014: Submission of Revised Manuscripts - 15th December, 2014: Submission of Final Manuscripts - May, 2015: Publication PAPER SUBMISSION The maximum length for the manuscript is typically 25 pages in single column format with double-spacing, including figures and references. Authors should specify in the first page of their manuscripts the corresponding author’s contact and up to 5 keywords. Submission should be made via email to any of the guest editors listed below. GUEST EDITORS - Guang-Bin Huang, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) - Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) - Kar-Ann Toh, Yonsei University (South Korea) - Bernard Widrow, Stanford University (USA) - Zongben Xu, Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:18:40 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:18:40 +0200 Subject: Q: Recherche corpus / jeu de donnees en francais, Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:23:06 -0400 From: Claude Coulombe Message-ID: Bonjour, Je m'intéresse aux logiciels capables de corriger des réponses à des questions ouvertes ou de courts essais. À votre connaissance, existe-t-il un corpus ou jeu de données (ou banc d'essai) pour la langue française équivalent par exemple au corpus (en anglais) qui a été utilisé lors de la compétition ASAP (Automated Student Assessment Prize) tenu en 2012 et supporté par la Hewlett Foundation ( https://www.kaggle.com/c/asap-aes). Merci Claude Coulombe architecte logiciel candidat au doctorat Téluq - l'université à distance de l'Université du Québec. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:12:14 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:12:14 +0200 Subject: Job: Post-doc ou ingenieur en TAL, Universite de Tours Message-ID: Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:43:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Denis Maurel Message-ID: <1488656700.11990972.1402998213411.JavaMail.zimbra at univ-tours.fr> X-url: http://li.univ-tours.fr/ X-url: http://www.istex.fr/ X-url: http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/Tln_CasEN.html Le laboratoire d’informatique de l’université François-Rabelais de Tours recrute un post-doc ou un ingénieur en TAL pour un CDD de un an dans le cadre du projet Istex . Le LI travaille depuis plusieurs années sur un système de reconnaissance d’entités nommées en français, CasEn , qui consiste en des cascades de graphes Unitex. L'avant-dernière version de CasEn a été classée première sur la tâche REN de l’évaluation ETAPE sur le français oral. Le travail consiste en une nouvelle version de CasEN spécifique pour traiter des textes scientifiques (articles ou chapitres) qui sont et vont être déposés sur la plateforme Istex. Il s’agira donc de créer une nouvelle cascade, en particulier pour l'anglais, inspirée de CasEn, de la lancer sur ces textes, de vérifier les résultats et d’améliorer la couverture du système. Cela pourra être aussi l'occasion d'améliorer les programmes Unitex utilisés, en lien avec un ingénieur de l'INIST. Pour un post-doc, la recherche pourrait porter sur les liens entre les entités citées dans les articles ("entity linking"). Compétences attendues : - Thèse ou, éventuellement, Master en TAL. - Très bonne connaissance de l'anglais. - Connaissance de la notion d’entités nommées et de systèmes à base de règles. Compétences supplémentaires appréciées : - Connaissance de la plateforme Unitex. - Quelques notions de programmation, même rudimentaires. Prise de fonction idéale entre le 1er septembre et le 1er octobre 2014. Rémunération suivant le niveau de recrutement (bac+8 ou bac+5) et l'ancienneté, en conformité avec les échelles de rémunération des universités. Contact : envoyer un courriel avec motivation et CV à Denis MAUREL et Nathalie FRIBURGER. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:17:46 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:17:46 +0200 Subject: Appel: Deadline extension, DMNLP ECML/PKDD, Workshop on Interactions between Data Mining and Natural Language Processing Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 10:28:29 +0200 From: Peggy Cellier Message-ID: <53A29F2D.1080204 at irisa.fr> X-url: http://dmnlp.loria.fr [Apologies for multiple postings] ******************************************************** ******************************************************** Submission deadline: 27 June 2014 (extended!) Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmnlp2014 ******************************************************** ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Interactions between Data Mining and Natural Language Processing (DMNLP'2014) ECML/PKDD 2014 Workshop September 15, 2014 Nancy, France http://dmnlp.loria.fr ******************************************************** ------ SCOPE ------ On the one hand, in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), numerical Machine Learning methods (e.g., SVM, CRF) have been intensively explored and applied. Despite the good results obtained by the numerical methods, one major drawback is that they do not provide a human readable model. A promising direction is the integration of symbolic knowledge. On the other hand, research in Data Mining has progressed significantly in the last decades, through the development of advanced algorithms and techniques to extract knowledge from data in different forms. In particular, for two decades Pattern Mining has been one of the most active field in Knowledge Discovery. Recently, a new field has emerged taking benefit of both domains: Data Mining and NLP. The objective of DMNLP is thus to provide a forum to discuss how Data Mining can be interesting for NLP tasks, providing symbolic knowledge, but also how NLP can enhance data mining approaches by providing richer and/or more complex information to mine and by integrating linguistics knowledge directly in the mining process. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from both communities in order to stimulate discussions about the cross-fertilization of those two research fields. The idea of this workshop is to discuss future directions and new challenges emerging from the cross-fertilization of Data Mining and NLP and in the same time initiate collaborations between researchers of both communities. --------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- The workshop promotes works where the two following dimensions are combined in one as symbiosis. The first dimension is Data Mining, for instance Pattern Mining (itemsets, sequences, trees, graphs, association rules), classification (decision trees, FCA,...), inductive logic programming. The second dimension is NLP, for example question/answering systems, translation, information extraction, linguistic analysis (lexical analysis, terminology, syntax, semantics, discourse, stylistics), classification, knowledge extraction/ontology building from texts, information retrieval, corpus annotation, social/opinion mining. A list of non-exhaustive topics that fit the scope of the workshop is thus: - Pattern discovery for NLP - Constraint-based pattern mining in text - Data mining query languages for expressing NLP tasks - Data representation (sequence, tree, graphs) for NLP - Modelization of text for data mining - Relationships between data mining and NLP - Modeling and visualizing data mining results on text - Integrating NLP characteristics in data mining - Data mining approaches for linguistic knowledge building - Knowledge discovery for linguistic analysis (e.g. stylistic, socio-linguistics,…) - Linguistically-informed text representations for Data Mining ------------------ SUBMISSION FORMAT ------------------ Our main goal is to stimulate discussions, collaborations and the sharing of experiences. In that respect, we would have three submission types: * unpublished works (max 16 pages, double submissions allowed) * short papers and vision statements (max 8 pages) * recently published works (special oral-only track, no page limits) For more details on submission, see the DMNLP webpage at http://dmnlp.loria.fr ----------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------- * Deadline for submissions: Friday, June 20, 2014 * Author notification: Friday, July 11, 2014 * Final version: Tuesday July 22, 2014 * Workshop date: Monday September 15, 2014 -------------- ORGANIZATION -------------- * Peggy Cellier, INSA Rennes, IRISA, Rennes, France * Thierry Charnois, Université de Paris 13, LIPN, France * Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany * Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada * Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium * Yannick Toussaint, INRIA, LORIA, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France ------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------- * Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany * Delphine Battistelli, MoDyCo-Université Paris Ouest, France * Yves Bestgen, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium * Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, Germany * Bruno Cremilleux, Université de Caen, France * Beatrice, Daille, LINA, France * Yves Lepage, Waseda University, Japan * Francois Jacquenet, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Saint-Etienne, France * Jiri Klema, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic * Amedeo Napoli, LORIA Nancy, France * Adeline Nazarenko, Université de Paris 13, LIPN, France * Claire Nédellec, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, France * Pascal Poncelet, LIRMM Montpellier, France * Maria Teresa Pazienza, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy * Stephen Poteet, Boeing, USA * Solen Quiniou, LINA-Université de Nantes, France * Mathieu Roche, TETIS, Montpellier, France * Arnaud Soulet, Université François Rabelais, Tours, France * Steffen, Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Koichi Takeuchi, Okayama University, Japan * Isabelle Tellier, Lattice, Paris, France * Johanna Völker, University of Mannheim, Germany * Xifeng Yan, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA * Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:16:50 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:16:50 +0200 Subject: Appel: DO 2014 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:52:22 -0400 From: Selja Seppälä Message-ID: X-url: https://sites.google.com/site/definitionsinontologies/ Call for papers - Second International Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies (DO 2014) Apologies for cross-posting Please forward this message to colleagues in the areas of interest CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies (DO 2014) at the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2014) October 6-7, 2014 Houston, USA Website: https://sites.google.com/site/definitionsinontologies/ This workshop is a follow-up to the workshop on Definitions in Ontologies (DO 2013) held last year in Montreal in conjunction with ICBO 2013. The focus of this second workshop is on definition practices in either human or machine-assisted ontology development. PRESENTATION A current problem in ontology development is constructing the needed definitions of terms either logical or in natural language. For example, ontologies built using OBO Foundry principles are advised to include both logical and natural language definitions, but ontology developers too often focus on only one of these, or they pay insufficient attention to whether they are equivalent. Explicit definitions of terms in ontologies serve a number of purposes. Logical definitions allow reasoners to create inferred hierarchies, lessening the burden of asserting and checking the validity of subsumptions. Natural language definitions help to ameliorate the pervasive problem of low inter-annotator agreement. In specialized domains, experts will know their own field well, but may only have limited knowledge of adjacent disciplines. Good definitions make it possible for non-experts to understand unfamiliar terms and thereby make it possible for more confident reuse of terms by external ontologies, which in turn facilitates data integration. The goal of this workshop is to bring together interested researchers and developers to explore these issues by presenting case studies in a biomedical domain discussing the difficulties that arise when constructing definitions with a view to sharing strategies in the future. Even in the seemingly narrow domain of definition construction, cross-fertilization from related disciplines should yield benefits in quality and help to identify novel approaches. Papers submitted should include one or more case studies and raise specific questions related to definitions with a link to a biomedical domain. Reports on successful or unsuccessful methods are both appropriate. TOPICS - experiences in formulating definitions - tools that assist in definition editing, including collaborative systems - coordination of logical and textual definitions - validation and quality control of definitions, e.g., checking that definitions comply with the all/some form - methods for constructing definitions from multiple sources - use of controlled languages such as Rabbit or ACE for more user-friendly logical definition creation - use of templates to systematize definition creation FORMAT AND OUTCOMES This will be a half-day workshop with a selected mix of presentations based on accepted papers. In order to promote discussion, each presentation will be followed by a short response by a participant of the workshop to be arranged in advance of the workshop. This workshop will document findings on the workshop's website (https://sites.google.com/site/definitionsinontologies/). We expect accepted papers to be published in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBS). INTENDED AUDIENCE - ontologists, tool developers, and domain experts whose work encounters issues regarding definitions - tool developers building definition- or ontology-authoring tools - philosophers and logicians - biomedical researchers working on definitions in nomenclatures such as SNOMED - computer scientists addressing these issues in languages like OWL - NLP researchers working on definition extraction, generation, or checking - NLP/IR researchers reusing definitions produced for ontologies SUBMISSIONS All papers should include one or more case studies and raise specific questions related to definitions with a link to a biomedical domain. Papers should be between 5 and 10 pages long, excluding references, formatted using the JBS templates at http://www.jbiomedsem.com/authors/instructions/research#preparing-main-manuscript, and submitted via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=do2014). IMPORTANT DATES Workshop paper submission: July 15, 2014 Notification of paper acceptance: August 15, 2014 Camera-ready copies for the proceedings: September 15, 2014 Workshops: October 6-7, 2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Selja Seppälä (University at Buffalo, USA) Patrick Ray (University at Buffalo, USA) Alan Ruttenberg (University at Buffalo, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France) Mélanie Courtot (MBB Department Simon Fraser University and BC Public Health Microbiology & Reference Laboratory, Canada) Natalia Grabar (Université de Lille 3, France) Janna Hastings (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK) James Malone (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK) Alexis Nasr (Aix Marseille Université, France) Richard Power (The Open University, UK) Allan Third (The Open University, UK) SUPPORTED BY The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) The State University of New York at Buffalo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 22 19:25:27 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:25:27 +0200 Subject: Job: 3 offres de post-doc, Traitement automatique des langues, LIMSI Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:52:05 +0200 From: Pierre Zweigenbaum Message-ID: <53A458A5.8070200 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.patient-genesys.com/ Veuillez nous excuser pour l'envoi multiple. Le LIMSI propose trois offres de post-doctorat en traitement automatique des langues dans le cadre de deux projets collaboratifs. 1. Gestion de dialogue dans un système de dialogue personne-machine où le système joue le rôle du patient pendant une consultation médicale avec un médecin. 2. Acquisition de connaissances sur les correspondances entre des ontologies/terminologies professionnelles et la terminologie du grand public. 3. Extraction d'informations à partir de forums de santé pour aider la pharmacovigilance. Plus de détails ci-dessous. Post-doctoral positions at LIMSI-CNRS, Paris Saclay (Paris Sud) University LIMSI is a multi-disciplinary research unit that addresses the automatic processing of human language for a range of tasks. LIMSI invites applications for three one-year Postdoctoral positions in Natural Language Processing. The topics involve: 1. Dialogue management in a human-machine dialogue system where the system plays the role of a patient during a medical consultation with a doctor. 2. Acquisition of knowledge about the mappings between professional ontology / terminology and lay people terminology. 3. Information extraction from social media for improve pharmacovigilance. CONTEXT The postdoctoral fellow will contribute to one of the two following projects: Patient Genesys (1, 2: http://www.patient-genesys.com/): in the framework of continuous medical education, the goal of the project is to design and develop a framework for virtual patient-doctor consultation. This is a collaborative project including a hospital and small and medium enterprises. Vigi4MED (3): the aim of the project is to discover unknown effects of drugs by exploring the contents of posts in patient forums. This is a collaborative project with academic partners among which two pharmacovigilance centers. JOB REQUIREMENTS - Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics - Solid programming skills - Strong publication record - A good command of French is a plus - Knowledge of medical terminologies and ontologies is a plus ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Net salary: between 2000 and 2400 € per month according to experience Benefits: LIMSI offers a generous benefit package including health insurance and 44 days vacation pa. Duration: 12 months, renewable depending on performance and funding availability Start date: 1st October 2014 Location: Orsay, greater Paris area, France TO APPLY Please send: * a cover letter * a curriculum vitae, including a list of publications * the names and contact information of at least two referees to both: Cyril Grouin (grouin at limsi.fr) Sophie Rosset (rosset at limsi.fr) Pierre Zweigenbaum (pz at limsi.fr) Application deadline: July 15th, 2014 Applications will be examined in the following week. ABOUT LIMSI-CNRS LIMSI is a laboratory of the French National Center for Research (CNRS), a leading research institution in Europe. LIMSI is a multi-disciplinary research unit that covers a number of fields from thermodynamics to cognition, encompassing fluid mechanics, energetics, acoustic and voice synthesis, spoken language and text processing, vision, visualisation and perception, virtual and augmented reality. LIMSI hosts about 200 researchers, professors, research support staff and graduate students. It is located in a green area about 30 minutes south of Paris. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 22 19:21:24 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:21:24 +0200 Subject: Appel: Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:30:33 +0200 From: "Reinhard Rapp" Message-ID: <45AAADB6E08D4114A33C67C5B869DAD2 at ASUSPC> X-url: http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/bucc-introduction.html ***** Journal of Natural Language Engineering - Special Issue on “Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora” ***** CALL FOR PAPERS Statistical machine translation based on parallel corpora has been very successful. The major search engines' translation systems, which are used by millions of people, are primarily using this approach, and it has been possible to come up with new language pairs in a fraction of the time that would be required when using more traditional rule-based methods. In contrast, research on comparable corpora is still at an earlier stage. Comparable corpora can be defined as monolingual corpora covering roughly the same subject area in different languages but without being exact translations of each other. However, despite its tremendous success, the use of parallel corpora in MT has a number of drawbacks: 1) It has been shown that translated language is somewhat different from original language, for example Klebanov & Flor showed that "associative texture" is lost in translation. 2) As they require translation, parallel corpora will always be a far scarcer resource than comparable corpora. This is a severe drawback for a number of reasons: a) Among the about 7000 world languages, of which 600 have a written form, the vast majority are of the "low resource" type. b) The number of possible language pairs increases with the square of the number of languages. When using parallel corpora, one bitext is needed for each language pair. When using comparable corpora, one monolingual corpus per language suffices. c) For improved translation quality, translation systems specialized on particular genres and domains are desirable. But it is far more difficult to acquire appropriate parallel rather than comparable training corpora. d) As language evolves over time, the training corpora should be updated on a regular basis. Again, this is more difficult in the parallel case. For such reasons it would be a big step forward if it were possible to base statistical machine translation on comparable rather than on parallel corpora: The acquisition of training data would be far easier, and the unnatural "translation bias" (source language shining through) within the training data could be avoided. But is there any evidence that this is possible? Motivation for using comparable corpora in MT research comes from a cognitive perspective: Experience tells that persons who have learned a second language completely independently from their mother tongue can nevertheless translate between the languages. That is, human performance shows that there must be a way to bridge the gap between languages which does not rely on parallel data. Using parallel data for MT is of course a nice shortcut. But avoiding this shortcut by doing MT based on comparable corpora may well be a key to a better understanding of human translation, and to better MT quality. Work on comparable corpora in the context of MT has been ongoing for almost 20 years. It has turned out that this is a very hard problem to solve, but as it is among the grand challenges in multilingual NLP, interest has steadily increased. Apart from the increase in publications this can be seen from the considerable number of research projects (such as ACCURAT and TTC) which are fully or partially devoted to MT using comparable corpora. Given also the success of the workshop series on “Building and Using Comparable Corpora“ (BUCC), which is now in its seventh year, and following the publication of a related book (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-20127-1), we think that it is now time to devote a journal special issue to this field. It is meant to bundle the latest top class research, make it available to everybody working in the field, and at the same time give an overview on the state of the art to all interested researchers. TOPICS OF INTEREST We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following topics: - Comparable corpora based MT systems (CCMTs) - Architectures for CCMTs - CCMTs for less-resourced languages - CCMTs for less-resourced domains - CCMTs dealing with morphologically rich languages - CCMTs for spoken translation - Applications of CCMTs - CCMT evaluation - Open source CCMT systems - Hybrid systems combining SMT and CCMT - Hybrid systems combining rule-based MT and CCMT - Enhancing phrase-based SMT using comparable corpora - Expanding phrase tables using comparable corpora - Comparable corpora based processing tools/kits for MT - Methods for mining comparable corpora from the Web - Applying Harris' distributional hypothesis to comparable corpora - Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora - Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora - Parallel corpora vs. pairs of non-parallel monolingual 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, and named entities from comparable corpora IMPORTANT DATES December 1, 2014: Paper submission deadline February 1, 2015: Notification May 1, 2015: Deadline for revised papers July 1, 2015: Final notification September 1, 2015: Final paper due GUEST EDITORS Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Aix Marseille (France) and Mainz (Germany) Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK) Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS (France) FURTHER INFORMATION Please use the following e-mail address to contact the guest editors: jnle.bucc (at) limsi (dot) fr Further details on paper submission will be made available in due course at the BUCC website: http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/bucc-introduction.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 22 19:22:38 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:22:38 +0200 Subject: Appel: ECMK/PKDD Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:14:44 +0100 From: Mathieu.Daquin Message-ID: <53A44FE4.1020706 at open.ac.uk> X-url: http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2014/ ** apologies for cross-posting ** ================================ LD4KD 2014 1st Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2014/ co-located with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery 2014 (ECML/PKDD 2014) 15-19 September 2014, Nancy, France (http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/ ) Deadline extended to 27th June 2014. ================================ Linked Data have attracted a lot of attention in recent years in many research areas, as their technologies and principles provide new ways to overcome typical data management and consumption issues such as reliability, heterogeneity, provenance or completeness. However, the way in which Linked Data can be applicable and beneficial to the Knowledge Discovery (KDD) pocess is still not completely understood. Many aspects of KDD could benefit from Linked Data, e.g. mining Linked Data sources, using Linked Data to enrich, represent or integrate local data for data preparation, interpretation or visualisation. LD4KD will be an interactive hub to explore the benefits of Linked Data principles and technologies for Knowledge Discovery, together with addressing the new challenges that will emerge from joining the two fields. It will be an opportunity for practitioners of both fields to create communication and collaboration channels,and bridge the gap between their overlapping, but mostly isolated communities. The workshop encourages the participation of researchers from the Knowledge Discovery field to discuss and get informed about the use, benefits and challenges of Linked Data, while th Linked Data researchers can take advantage of and adapt Knowledge Discovery methods in their domain. *SCOPE* We welcome high quality position and research papers in which (1) Linked Data are used as support of Knowledge Discovery processes to extract useful knowledge, or (2) Knowledge Discovery techniques are adapted to work and possibly extend Linked Data. Topics of either theoretical and applied interest include, but are not limited to: - Linked Data for data pre-processing: cleaning, sorting, filtering or enrichment - Linked Data applied to Machine Learning - Linked Data for pattern extraction and behaviour detection - Linked Data for pattern interpretation, visualization or optimisation - Reasoning with patterns and Linked Data - Reasoning on and extracting knowledge from Linked Data - Linked Data mining - Links prediction or links discovery using KDD - Graph mining in Linked Data - Interacting with Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission deadline: June 20th - Extended to June 27th Notification Of Acceptance: July 20th Camera ready copies due: August 5th, 2014 Workshop date: September 15th/19th, 2014 *SUBMISSIONS* Articles should be written following the Springer LNCS template (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and can be up to 10 pages in lenght for research papers or 5 pages for position papers, including figures and references. Submissions are exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format, through the EasyChair system. The submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ld4kd * ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Ilaria Tiddi, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Mathieu d'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Nicolas Jay, Orpailleur, Loria, France *CONTACTS* mathieu.daquin at open.ac.uk ilaria.tiddi at open.ac.uk nicolas.jay at loria.fr *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE* Claudia D’Amato, University of Bari Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari Johannes Fürnkranz, TU Darmstadt Nathalie Hernandez, IRIT Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, University of Poznan Francesca Lisi, University of Bari Vanessa Lopez, IBM Dublin Amedeo Napoli, LORIA Andriy Nikolov, Fluid Operations, Germany Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden Harald Sack, University of Potsdam Vojtěch Svátek, University Prague Isabelle Tellier, University of Paris Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Tommaso di Noia, Politecnico of Bari Jürgen Umbrich, WU Vienna Gerhard Wohlgenannt, WU Vienna -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 22 19:26:10 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:26:10 +0200 Subject: Job: Postdoc in IR at Idiap, Switzerland Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:06:13 +0200 From: Andrei Popescu-Belis Message-ID: <53A46A05.8030302 at idiap.ch> X-url: http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs Postdoctoral position in Information Retrieval (OP-20140616-125432) Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland *Description* We invite applications for a postdoctoral position at Idiap in information retrieval and natural language processing, for a technology transfer project funded by the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI / KTI, www.kti.admin.ch). The postdoc will perform applied research on content-based document recommendation, term extraction, and named entity recognition, within Idiap’s NLP group, aiming for integration within the operational document retrieval system developed by our industrial partner for a large number of corporate customers. The project also involves researchers working on interface design. Candidates should hold a PhD degree in information retrieval, natural language processing, or a related field. Strong skills in programming and software development and an interest for technology transfer are expected. While English is the main working language, knowledge of French would be an advantage. The position is offered for 18 months. Review of the applications will start immediately and will continue until the position is filled. The appointment should start on October 1st, 2014. *How to apply* Please fill in and submit your application through the Idiap online recruitment system, by clicking on the position’s title at http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs or directly via http://bit.ly/1psgptZ. *Contact information* Further information about this position can be requested via the Idiap online recruitment system or by contacting Dr. Andrei Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis at idiap.ch), head of Idiap’s NLP group (www.idiap.ch/nlp). *About the host institution* Idiap is an independent, non-profit research institute recognized and supported by the Swiss Government, and affiliated with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Geneva. Idiap is located in the town of Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in the south of Switzerland, surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, and offering exciting recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Geneva and Lausanne. Although Idiap is located in the French part of Switzerland, English is the working language. Free French lessons are provided. Idiap offers competitive salaries and conditions at all levels in a young, dynamic, and multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal opportunity employer and is actively involved in the "Advancement of Women in Science" European initiative. The Institute maintains a principle of open competition (on the basis of merit) to appoint the best candidate, provides equal opportunity for all candidates, and equally encourage both genders to apply. *Keywords* information retrieval, natural language processing, document recommendation, named entity recognition, term extraction Andrei Popescu-Belis Idiap Research Institute | tel: (41 27) 721 7729 Centre du Parc, CP 592 | fax: (41 27) 721 7712 CH-1920 Martigny | name.surname at idiap.ch Switzerland | www.idiap.ch/~apbelis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 22 19:31:14 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:31:14 +0200 Subject: These: Marilyne Latour, Du besoin d'informations a la formulation des requetes Message-ID: Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 20:37:07 +0200 From: Marilyne Latour Message-ID: Bonjour, J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à ma soutenance de thèse intitulée, « Du besoin d'informations à la formulation des requêtes : étude des usages de différents types d'utilisateurs visant l'amélioration d'un système de recherche d'informations ». La soutenance aura lieu mardi 24 juin à11h00 dans l'amphithéâtre Montergnole à l’ Université Stendhal Grenoble 3 / Institut de la communication et des médias-Echirolles. Vous êtes également conviés au pot de thèse qui suivra la soutenance. Bien cordialement ; Marilyne LATOUR ------------------------------------- Le jury de soutenance sera composé de : Laurence Balicco, Université Stendhal Grenoble 3, Directrice de thèse Sylvie Lainé-Cruzel, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Rapporteur Josiane Mothe, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3, Rapporteur Céline Paganelli, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Examinateur Résumé de la thèse : Devant des collections massives et hétérogènes de données, les systèmes de RI doivent désormais pouvoir appréhender des comportements d’utilisateurs aussi variés qu’imprévisibles. L’objectif de notre travail est d’évaluer la façon dont un même utilisateur verbalise un besoin informationnel à travers un énoncé de type « expression libre » (appelé langage naturel) et un énoncé de type mots-clés (appelé langage de requêtes). Pour cela, nous nous situons dans un contexte applicatif, à savoir des demandes de remboursement des utilisateurs d’un moteur de recherche dédié à des études économiques en français. Nous avons recueilli via ce moteur, les deux types d’énoncés sur 5 années consécutives totalisant un corpus de 1398 demandes en langage naturel et de 3427 requêtes. Nous avons alors comparé l’expression en tant que tel du besoin informationnel et mis en avant ce qu’apportait, en termes d’informations et de précisions, le recours à l’un ou l’autre du langage utilisé. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From OAJournal at OSONLINESERVICE.NET Mon Jun 23 03:43:41 2014 From: OAJournal at OSONLINESERVICE.NET (OAJournal) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:43:41 +0800 Subject: Start Publishing ---- 50% OFF for Book Publishing Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timeflies at SCHISTOUSBRACINGBOWKNOT.NET Mon Jun 23 22:15:37 2014 From: timeflies at SCHISTOUSBRACINGBOWKNOT.NET (timeflies) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:15:37 +0800 Subject: Dear ln@listserv.linguistlist.org, Time Flies / Get Your Research Paper Published Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hamon at LIMSI.FR Wed Jun 25 08:46:54 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:46:54 +0200 Subject: Appel: SENTIRE, ICDM workshop series on opinion mining Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:11:23 -0500 (EST) From: SenticNet Message-ID: <1252123989.2749595.1403647883224.open-xchange at bosoxweb05.eigbox.net> X-url: http://sentic.net/sentire Apologies for cross-posting, Submissions are invited for the 4th edition of Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE), the IEEE ICDM workshop series on opinion mining. The term SENTIRE comes from the Latin feel and it is root of words such as sentiment and sensation. SENTIRE aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the field of opinion mining and sentiment analysis to share information on their latest investigations in social information retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends Web mining, AI, Semantic Web, information retrieval and natural language processing. The workshop is going to be held in Shenzhen on 14th December 2014. For more information, please visit: http://sentic.net/sentire RATIONALE Memory and data capacities double approximately every two years and, apparently, the Web is following the same rule. User-generated contents, in particular, are an ever-growing source of opinion and sentiments which are continuously spread worldwide through blogs, wikis, fora, chats and social networks. The distillation of knowledge from such sources is a key factor for applications in fields such as commerce, tourism, education and health, but the quantity and the nature of the contents they generate make it a very difficult task. Due to such challenging research problems and wide variety of practical applications, opinion mining and sentiment analysis have become very active research areas in the last decade. Our understanding and knowledge of the problem and its solution are still limited as natural language understanding techniques are still pretty weak. Most of current research in sentiment analysis, in fact, merely relies on machine learning algorithms. Such algorithms, despite most of them being very effective, produce no human understandable results such that we know little about how and why output values are obtained. All such approaches, moreover, rely on syntactical structure of text, which is far from the way human mind processes natural language. Next-generation opinion mining systems should employ techniques capable to better grasp the conceptual rules that govern sentiment and the clues that can convey these concepts from realization to verbalization in the human mind. TOPICS SENTIRE aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the field of opinion mining and sentiment analysis to share information on their latest investigations in social information retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends Web mining, AI, Semantic Web, information retrieval and natural language processing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Sentiment identification & classification - Opinion and sentiment summarization & visualization - Explicit & latent semantic analysis for sentiment mining - Concept-level opinion and sentiment analysis - Sentic computing - Opinion and sentiment search & retrieval - Time evolving opinion & sentiment analysis - Semantic multidimensional scaling for sentiment analysis - Multidomain & cross-domain evaluation - Domain adaptation for sentiment classification - Multimodal sentiment analysis - Multimodal fusion for continuous interpretation of semantics - Multilingual sentiment analysis & re-use of knowledge bases - Knowledge base construction & integration with opinion analysis - Transfer learning of opinion & sentiment with knowledge bases - Sentiment corpora & annotation - Affective knowledge acquisition for sentiment analysis - Biologically inspired opinion mining - Sentiment topic detection & trend discovery - Big social data analysis - Social ranking - Social network analysis - Social media marketing - Comparative opinion analysis - Opinion spam detection TIMEFRAME - August 1st, 2014: Submission deadline - September 26th, 2014: Notification of acceptance - October 20th, 2014: Final manuscripts due - December 14th, 2014: Workshop date SUBMISSIONS AND PROCEEDINGS Authors are required to follow IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines. The paper length is limited to 10 pages, including references, diagrams, and appendices, if any. Manuscripts are to be submitted through EasyChair. Each submitted paper will be evaluated by three PC members with respect to its novelty, significance, technical soundness, presentation, and experiments. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE ICDM proceedings. Selected, expanded versions of papers presented at the workshop will be invited to a forthcoming Special Issue of Cognitive Computation on opinion mining and sentiment analysis. ORGANIZERS - Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) - Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) - Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University (China) - Yongzheng Zhang, LinkedIn Inc. (USA) From hamon at LIMSI.FR Wed Jun 25 08:37:52 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:37:52 +0200 Subject: Revue: TAL, parution du numero 54-2, Entites Nommees Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:20:45 +0200 From: Sophie Rosset Message-ID: <20140624092045.GB3087 at m37.limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.atala.org/-Entites-Nommees- [Nos excuses pour les envois multiples] Bonjour, Le numéro spécial 54-2 de la revue TAL, intitulé "Entitées Nommées", coordonné par Sophia Ananiadou, Nathalie Friburger, Sophie Rosset est maintenant en ligne à l'adresse suivante : http://www.atala.org/-Entites-Nommees- Sommaire : Sophia Ananiadou, Nathalie Friburger, Sophie Rosset Préface http://www.atala.org/Preface,692 Damien Nouvel, Jean-Yves Antoine, Nathalie Friburger, Arnaud Soulet Fouille de règles d'annotation pour la reconnaissance d'entités nommées (http://www.atala.org/Fouille-de-regles-d-annotation) Mohamed Hatmi, Christine Jacquin, Sylvain Meignier, Emmanuel Morin, Solen Quiniou Intégration de la reconnaissance des entités nommées au processus de reconnaissance de la parole (http://www.atala.org/Integration-de-la-reconnaissance) Wei Wang, Romaric Besançon, Olivier Ferret, Brigitte Grau Extraction et regroupement de relations entre entités pour l'extraction d'information non supervisée (http://www.atala.org/Extraction-et-regroupement-de) Souhir Gahbiche-Braham, Hélène Bonneau-Maynard, François Yvon Traitement automatique des entités nommées en arabe : détection et traduction (http://www.atala.org/Traitement-automatique-des-entites) Notes de lecture http://www.atala.org/Notes-de-lecture,687 Résumés de thèses http://www.atala.org/Resumes-de-these,686 Bien cordialement, Sophia Ananiadou, Nathalie Friburger, Sophie Rosset ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Wed Jun 25 08:39:20 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:39:20 +0200 Subject: Job: Linguiste, Semantia Marseille Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:35:17 +0200 From: Lucile Paroz Message-Id: <905DAD9C-1D11-4D66-A462-9A0ECACCCB57 at semantia.com> Fiche de poste - Linguiste Semantia est une société française issue de la recherche universitaire spécialisée dans le traitement automatique du langage naturel écrit. Semantia propose une gamme complète de produits dédiés à des marchés spécifiques : - les annonces classées ou petites annonces avec Semantia Classifieds - le e-commerce avec Semantia eCommerce - le voyage avec Semantia Travel - l'emploi avec Semantia Job Ces services s'appuient sur des référentiels métiers et sur des modèles linguistiques et sémantiques robustes, performants et spécialisés : télécommunication, banque, assurance, énergie, informatique, hi-fi, vidéo, textile, tourisme, électroménager bricolage, sport, emploi, rencontre, ameublement, alimentaire, photographie, médical, immobilier, automobile,... Aujourd'hui, les services déployés chez les clients de Semantia traitent près de 5 000 000 de questions Internautes et près de 30 000 000 fiches par mois. Semantia est présente en région marseillaise (siège), à Paris et à San Francisco. Missions Intégré(e) à l’équipe de traitement du langage, vous aurez pour principales missions : 1. dans le cadre du suivi des projets en cours : - développer et maintenir les bases de connaissances des clients existants - suivre, classer et répondre aux demandes des clients - proposer de nouvelles thématiques - produire des rapports mensuels destinés aux clients - communiquer et échanger avec les clients - mettre à jour les documentations - partager les bonnes pratiques aux autres membres de l'équipe 2. dans le cadre de développement de nouveaux projets : - déterminer la meilleure stratégie linguistique en fonction du domaine du client, des langues à développer et du projet concerné - déterminer la meilleure stratégie de paramétrage du moteur linguistique - développer les bases de connaissances - préparer ou rédiger les documentations nécessaires 3. dans le cadre de la recherche et développement : - participer activement aux activités de R&D de la société 4. dans le cadre de l’appui au marketing et au commercial : - apporter son expérience et son expertise dans la réflexion de nouveaux produits et services Connaissances requises - Expressions régulières et systèmes symboliques - Bonnes connaissances en syntaxe et morphologie des langues du monde - Capacité d'adaptation en fonction des langues travaillées - Notions en langages informatiques environnement web : PHP, SQL, HTML - Maîtrise des suites bureautiques Connaissances appréciées - Méthode de gestion Agile, environnement de développement Eclipse, systèmes Mac OS X et Linux de graphisme et de Mind Mapping. Qualités demandées - Facilité d'adaptation et efficacité, travail en équipe, logique, rigueur et motivation, créativité. Profil Titulaire d'un Bac+5 en linguistique informatique Contrat proposé Contrat à durée indéterminée Salaire selon expérience Localisation Gémenos (13) Contacts e-mail : drh at semantia.com Tél. : +33 4 42 36 80 91 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Wed Jun 25 08:36:19 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:36:19 +0200 Subject: Conf: INTERSPEECH 2014, Keynote spekers, September 14-18, 2014, Singapore Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:08:03 +0800 From: "Organization @ Interspeech 2014" Message-ID: <53A7C443.8060302 at interspeech2014.org> X-url: http://www.interspeech2014.org ----------------------------------------------------- - INTERSPEECH 2014 - SINGAPORE - - September 14-18, 2014 - - http://www.interspeech2014.org - ----------------------------------------------------- ISCA, COLIPS and the organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2014 are proud to announce that INTERSPEECH 2014 will feature five plenary talks by internationally renowned experts. - keynote speech by the ISCA Medallist 2014 - "Decision Learning in Data Science: Where John Nash Meets Social Media" by Professor K. J. Ray Liu - "Language Diversity: Speech Processing In A Multi-Lingual Context" by Dr. Lori Lamel - "Sound Patterns In Language" by Professor William Shi-Yuan WANG 王士元 - "Achievements and Challenges of Deep Learning From Speech Analysis And Recognition To Language And Multimodal Processing" by Dr. Li DENG Details of the keynote speeches and biographies of the presenters are given below. Looking forward to welcome you in Singapore, the organizing committee ************************************************************************ * On Monday, 15th of September * ************************************************************************ The ISCA Medallist 2014 will give a keynote speech. The name of the Medallist and subject of the talk will be disclosed on the first day of INTERSPEECH 2014. ************************************************************************ * On Tuesday morning, 16th of September * ************************************************************************ Professor K. J. Ray Liu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Maryland, College Park will give a presentation on: "Decision Learning in Data Science: Where John Nash Meets Social Media" Abstract With the increasing ubiquity and power of mobile devices, as well as the prevalence of social media, more and more activities in our daily life are being recorded, tracked, and shared, creating the notion of “social media”. Such abundant and still growing real life data, known as “big data”, provide a tremendous research opportunity in many fields. To analyze, learn and understand such user-generated big data, machine learning has been an important tool and various machine learning algorithms have been developed. However, since the user-generated big data is the outcome of users’ decisions, actions and their socio-economic interactions, which are highly dynamic, without considering users’ local behaviours and interests, existing learning approaches tend to focus on optimizing a global objective function at the macroeconomic level, while totally ignore users’ local decisions at the micro-economic level. As such there is a growing need in bridging machine/social learning with strategic decision making, which are two traditionally distinct research disciplines, to be able to jointly consider both global phenomenon and local effects to understand/model/analyze better the newly arising issues in the emerging social media. In this talk, we present the notion of “decision learning” that can involve users's behaviours and interactions by combining learning with strategic decision making. We will discuss some examples from social media with real data to show how decision learning can be used to better analyze users’ optimal decision from a user’ perspective as well as design a mechanism from the system designer’s perspective to achieve a desirable outcome. Biography of the speaker Dr. K. J. Ray Liu was named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of University of Maryland in 2007, where he is Christine Kim Eminent Professor of Information Technology. He leads the Maryland Signals and Information Group conducting research encompassing broad areas of signal processing and communications with recent focus on cooperative communications, cognitive networking, social learning and decision making, and information forensics and security. Dr. Liu has received numerous honours and awards including IEEE Signal Processing Society 2009 Technical Achievement Award and various best paper awards from IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Vehicular Technology Societies, and EURASIP. A Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS, he is recognized by Thomson Reuters as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher. Dr. Liu was the President of IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and the founding Editor-in-Chief of EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. Dr. Liu also received various research and teaching recognitions from the University of Maryland, including Poole and Kent Senior Faculty Teaching Award, Outstanding Faculty Research Award, and Outstanding Faculty Service Award, all from A. James Clark School of Engineering; and Invention of the Year Award (three times) from Office of Technology Commercialization. ************************************************************************ * On Tuesday afternoon, 16th of September * ************************************************************************ Dr. Lori Lamel Senior Research scientist (DR1), LIMSI-CNRS will give a presentation on "Language Diversity: Speech Processing In A Multi-Lingual Context" Abstract Speech processing encompasses a variety of technologies that automatically process speech for some downstream processing. These technologies include identifying the language or dialect spoken, the person speaking, what is said and how it is said. The downstream processing may be limited to a transcription or to a transcription enhanced with additional meta-data, or may be used to carry out an action or interpreted within a spoken dialogue system or more generally for analytics. With the availability of large spoken multimedia or multimodal data there is growing interest in using such technologies to provide structure and random access to particular segments. Automatic tools can also serve to annotate large corpora for exploitation in linguistic studies of spoken language, such as acoustic-phonetics, pronunciation variation and diachronic evolution, permitting the validation of hypotheses and models. In this talk I will present some of my experience with speech processing in multiple languages, drawing upon progress in the context of several research projects, most recently the Quaero program and the IARPA Babel program, both of which address the development of technologies in a variety of languages, with the aim to some highlight recent research directions and challenges. Biography of the speaker I am a senior research scientist (DR1) at the CNRS, which I joined as a permanent researcher at LIMSI in October 1991. I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in May 1988 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. My research activities focus on large vocabulary speaker- independent, continuous speech recognition in multiple languages with a recent focus on low-resourced languages; lightly and unsupervised acoustic model training methods; studies in acoustic- phonetics; lexical and pronunciation modelling. I contributed to the design, and realization of large speech corpora (TIMIT, BREF, TED). I have been actively involved in the research projects, most recently leading the activities on speech processing in the OSEO Quaero program, and I am currently co-principal investigator for LIMSI as part of the IARPA Babel Babelon team led by BBN. I served on the Steering committee for Interspeech 2013 as co-technical program chair along with Pascal Perrier, and I am now serving on the Technical Program Committee of Interspeech 2014. ************************************************************************ * On Wednesday, 17th of September * ************************************************************************ Professor William Shi-Yuan WANG 王士元 Centre for Language and Human Complexity, Chinese University of Hong Kong Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley Honorary Professor, Peking University Academician, Academia Sinica will give a presentation about "Sound Patterns In Language" Abstract In contrast to other species, humans are unique in having developed thousands of diverse languages which are not mutually intelligible. However, any infant can learn any language with ease, because all languages are based upon common biological infrastructures of sensori-motor, memorial, and cognitive faculties. While languages may differ significantly in the sounds they use, the overall organization is largely the same. It is divided into a discrete segmental system for building words ​ and a continuous prosodic system for expressing, phrasing, attitudes, and emotions. Within this organization, I will discuss a class of languages called 'tone languages', which makes special use of F0 to build words. Although the best known of these is Chinese, tone languages are found in many parts of the world, and operate on different principles. I will also comment on relations between sound patterns in language and sound patterns in music, the two worlds of sound universal to our species. Biography of the speaker William S-Y. Wang received his early schooling in China, and his PhD from the University of Michigan. He was appointed Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1965, and taught there for 30 years. Currently he is in the Department of Electronic Engineering and in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Director of the newly established Joint Research Centre for Language and Human Complexity. His primary interest is the evolution of language from a multi- disciplinary perspective. ************************************************************************ * On Thursday, 18th of September * ************************************************************************ Dr. Li DENG Principal Researcher and Research Manager Deep Learning Technology Centre, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA will give a presentation on the "Achievements and Challenges of Deep Learning From Speech Analysis And Recognition To Language And Multimodal Processing" Abstract Artificial neural networks have been around for over half a century and their applications to speech processing have been almost as long, yet it was not until year 2010 that their real impact had been made by a deep form of such networks, built upon part of the earlier work on (shallow) neural nets and (deep) graphical models developed by both speech and machine learning communities. This keynote will first reflect on the path to this transformative success, sparked by speech analysis using deep learning methods on spectrogram-like raw features and then progressing rapidly to speech recognition with increasingly larger vocabularies and scale. The role of well-timed academic-industrial collaboration will be highlighted, so will be the advances of big data, big compute, and the seamless integration between the application-domain knowledge of speech and general principles of deep learning. Then, an overview will be given on sweeping achievements of deep learning in speech recognition since its initial success in 2010 (as well as in image recognition and computer vision since 2012). Such achievements have resulted in across-the-board, industry-wide deployment of deep learning. The final part of the talk will look ahead towards stimulating new challenges of deep learning --- making intelligent machines capable of not only hearing (speech) and seeing (vision), but also of thinking with a “mind”; i.e. reasoning and inference over complex, hierarchical relationships and knowledge sources that comprise a vast number of entities and semantic concepts in the real world based in part on multi- sensory data from the user. To this end, language and multimodal processing --- joint exploitation and learning from text, speech/audio, and image/video --- is evolving into a new frontier of deep learning, beginning to be embraced by a mixture of research communities including speech and spoken language processing, natural language processing, computer vision, machine learning, information retrieval, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and data/knowledge management. A review of recent published studies will be provided on deep learning applied to selected language and multimodal processing tasks, with a trace back to the relevant early connectionist modelling and neural network literature and with future directions in this new exciting deep learning frontier discussed and analyzed. Biography of the speaker Li Deng received Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a tenured professor (1989-1999) at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and then joined Microsoft Research, Redmond, where he is currently a Principal Research Manager of its Deep Learning Technology Centre. Since 2000, he has also been an affiliate full professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, teaching computer speech processing. He has been granted over 60 US or international patents, and has received numerous awards and honours bestowed by IEEE, ISCA, ASA, and Microsoft including the latest IEEE SPS Best Paper Award (2013) on deep neural nets for speech recognition. He authored or co-authored 4 books including the latest one on Deep Learning: Methods and Applications. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the ISCA. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2009-2011), and currently as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. His recent research interests and activities have been focused on deep learning and machine intelligence applied to large-scale text analysis and to speech/language/image multimodal processing, advancing his earlier work with collaborators on speech analysis and recognition using deep neural networks since 2009. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Wed Jun 25 08:45:35 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:45:35 +0200 Subject: Job: Postdoc position, Knowledge Discovery for biomarker identification, LORIA/Inria Nancy Grand Est Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:06:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Amedeo Napoli Message-ID: <1870489271.5126969.1403625987691.JavaMail.zimbra at loria.fr> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Postdoc position available at INRA Clermont-Ferrand -- LORIA/Inria Nancy Grand Est Knowledge Discovery for biomarker identification (Knowledge Discovery based on Formal Concept Analysis, pattern mining and preferences, for the identification of early predictive biomarkers of diseases) Location: Clermont-Ferrand - Nancy Duration: 2 years Keywords: biomarker, prediction, Formal Concept Analysis, knowledge discovery, multi-dimensional modeling. Description of the task. The goal of the project is to identify predictive (bio)markers of the evolution of health status toward metabolic syndrome development (from metabolomics signatures, socio-economic parameters and ``food habits''), with the objective of building a model and determining whether the integration of multidimensional parameters improves prediction. Finally, this approach should allow to identify determinants of the evolution of health status. In this project, the volume of data is very important and data are as well heterogeneous (both numerical and symbolic). The integration of large volumes of data can be guided by domain knowledge and be supported by a data schema considered as a mediation system (virtual integration needing correspondences between data sources). This global schema can be based on a concept lattice and defined for materializing the characteristics and the correspondences between data sources. The concept lattice provides a classification structure that can be used for various tasks, such as data indexing, information retrieval, data mining, data modeling, and reasoning. The concept lattice is built thanks to Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), which can be considered as a symbolic method for knowledge discovery (KD). It is also planned to use pattern mining methods for extracting frequent or rare patterns and association rules as well. In this context, the post-doc fellow’s research will consist in studying the set of data to be analyzed from a theoretical and practical point of view. The theoretical point of view consists in checking which symbolic KD methods are appropriate for analyzing the data and which kind of coupling with numerical KD methods could bring more useful results. The practical point of view consists in applying the given methods to the data to be analyzed and to interpret the results. Algorithms for FCA, pattern mining and numerical KD methods will be reused but new developments or adaptations are planned for carrying out this project. Application: The candidate should prepare a detailed CV including a complete bibliography, a motivation letter and recommendation letters as a single pdf file. This file should be sent by email to both contacts below. Contacts: Estelle Pujos-Guillot, INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) UMR 1019 Human Nutrition Unit Research Centre of Clermont-Ferrand/Theix F-63122 St Genès Champanelle France Tel: +33 473 624 141 Email: estelle.pujos at clermont.inra.fr Amedeo Napoli, LORIA (CNRS - Inria Nancy Grand Est - Université de Lorraine) Équipe Orpailleur - Bâtiment B BP 239, F-54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Tel: +33 383 592 068 Email: Amedeo.Napoli at loria.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Wed Jun 25 08:48:23 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:48:23 +0200 Subject: Job: Post-doc de 6 mois, Annotation semantique d'information textuelle en biologie vegetale Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:52:57 +0200 From: Claire Nedellec Message-ID: <53AA7FD9.9000104 at jouy.inra.fr> X-url: http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/bibliome/ X-url: http://www.campus-paris-saclay.fr/index.php/en/Idex-Paris-Saclay/Les-Lidex/Paris-Saclay-Center-for-Data-Science X-url: https://sites.google.com/site/bionlpst2013/ =================================== Post-doc ou ingénieur, 6 mois en annotation sémantique de textes ====================================== L’équipe Bibliome de l’unité MIG (INRA) recherche un post-doctorant ou ingénieur à temps plein pour une durée de 6 mois sur l’annotation manuelle et automatique d’articles scientifiques de biologie guidée par un modèle de connaissance dans le cadre du projet DataChallenge conjoint MIG et LIMSI (CNRS). Il est financé par le Center for Data Science (Idex Paris-Saclay). La personne engagée coordonnera la finalisation de l’annotation manuelle d’articles de biologie moléculaire par des experts biologistes en vue de la préparation d'une tâche pour un challenge d’extraction automatique d’information à partir de textes. Le domaine concerné est le développement de la graine chez l'arabette (Arabidopsis thaliana). Le modèle de connaissances qui est utilisé pour l'annotation devra être comparé à d'autres modèles proposés pour d’autres espèces (humain, procaryotes). Un modèle unifié pourra être proposé pour la représentation des connaissances du texte qui soit approprié à son utilisation en Biologie des Systèmes. Compétences: extraction d’information, annotation manuelle de texte, ingénierie de la connaissance, biologie moléculaire. Candidature : envoi du CV et de publications par email. Contact : Claire Nédellec (claire.nedellec at jouy.inra.fr) et Robert Bossy (robert.bossy at jouy.inra.fr) Lieu de travail : Unité MIG, centre de recherche INRA de Jouy-en-Josas. Date : A partir juillet 2014 Rémunération : grille de salaire INRA Références: Bibliome: http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/bibliome/ CDS: http://www.campus-paris-saclay.fr/index.php/en/Idex-Paris-Saclay/Les-Lidex/Paris-Saclay-Center-for-Data-Science BioNLP-ST 2013 (tasks GE & GRN): https://sites.google.com/site/bionlpst2013/ ----------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 27 20:15:46 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:15:46 +0200 Subject: Appel: Revue TAL, Traitement automatique du langage parle (possibilite de mettre a jour article jusqu'au 15 juillet!) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:58:59 +0200 From: Laurent Besacier Message-Id: X-url: http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/ Dernier appel à communications: numéro spécial sur le traitement automatique du langage parlé pour la revue TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) --ENGLISH VERSION OF THIS CFP CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THIS MESSAGE-- possibilité de mettre à jour article jusqu'au 15 juillet! / mais soumettre un titre et une liste d'auteurs avant le 30 Juin Direction : Laurent Besacier, Wolfang Minker Date limite : 30 juin 2014 (possibilité de mettre à jour article jusqu'au 15 juillet) La communication orale reste le moyen le plus naturel pour dialoguer et interagir (avec la machine ou avec une autre personne). Le traitement automatique du langage parlé (TALP) et le dialogue trouvent désormais de nombreuses applications directes dans des domaines divers tels que (liste non exhaustive) la recherche d'information, l'interaction en langue naturelle avec des dispositifs mobiles, la robotique sociale, les technologies d'assistance à la personne, l'apprentissage des langues, etc. Cependant, le TALP pose des problèmes spécifiques liés à la nature même du matériau traité. En effet, on est amené à traiter des énoncés de parole plus ou moins spontanée et contenant de nombreux traits paralinguistiques. Par exemple, la présence de disfluences orales (répétitions, reprises, incises...) réduit la régularité syntaxique des énoncés ; les énoncés oraux sont également riches d'informations liés aux affects, etc. Par ailleurs, l'étape de transcription automatique, souvent nécessaire avant l'application de traitements de plus haut niveau (compréhension, traduction, analyse, etc.) rend des sorties bruitées (contenant des erreurs) qui nécessitent des analyses robustes et un couplage étroit entre étapes de traitement. Nous invitons donc les contributions portant sur tout aspect (théorique, méthodologique et pratique) relatif au traitement automatique du langage parlé et à la communication orale, et en particulier (liste non exclusive) : - Reconnaissance automatique de la parole - Compréhension automatique de la parole - Traduction de parole - Synthèse de la parole - Dialogue oral homme - machine - Analyse robuste de la langue parlée - Analyse des affects sociaux ou des émotions dans des énoncés oraux - Fouille de documents à composante orale - Applications à composantes orales (recherche d'information, interaction, robotique, etc) - Outils d'aide à l'apprentissage d’une langue seconde - Aspects multilingues du traitement automatique du langage parlé - Evaluation de systèmes de traitement du langage parlé - Corpus et ressources pour l'oral - Analyse du discours oral - Dialogue adaptatif au contexte et au profil de l'utilisateur - Analyse des traits paralinguistiques dans des énoncés oraux ÉDITEURS INVITÉS Laurent Besacier Wolfang Minker COMITE SCIENTIFIQUE ADDA Gilles LIMSI, Paris ANTOINE Jean-Yves U. F. Rabelais, Tours AUBERGE Véronique LIG, Grenoble BELLEGARDA Jérôme APPLE, USA BONNEAU-MEYNARD Hélène, LIMSI, Orsay CERISARA Christophe LORIA, Nancy CERNOCKY Jan Univ. Brno, Tcheque Republic DAMNATI Géraldine Orangs Labs, Lannion DEVILLERS Laurence LIMSI, Orsay DUTOIT Thierry TCTS, Mons ESTEVE Yannick LIUM, Le Mans ESKENAZI Maxine CMU, Pittsburgh FAVRE Benoit LIF, Marseille FERRANE Isabelle IRIT, Toulouse GRAVIER Guillaume IRISA, Rennes JOUVET Denis LORIA, Nancy KAHN Juliette LNE, Paris LECOUTEUX Benjamin LIG, Grenoble LEFEVRE Fabrice LIA, Avignon LINARES Georges LIA, Avignon MEIGNIER Sylvain LIUM, Le Mans PIETQUIN Olivier Univ. Lille 1 POPESCU-BELIS Andrei IDIAP, Martigny ROSSET Sophie LIMSI, Orsay LANGUE Les articles sont écrits en français ou en anglais. Les soumissions en anglais ne sont acceptées que pour les auteurs non francophones. FORMAT DE LA SOUMISSION Les articles doivent être déposés sur la plateforme http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/ La revue ne publie que des contributions originales, en français ou en anglais. Les papiers acceptés feront au maximum 25 pages en PDF. Le style est disponible pour téléchargement sur le site du journal TAL CONTACT Laurent Besacier (Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr) Wolfgang Minker (Wolfgang.Minker at uni-ulm.de) ==========CFP IN ENGLISH============ Special issue on spoken language processing Guest editors: Laurent Besacier, Wolfgang Minker Speech is the most natural way to communicate and interact (with the machine or with another person) . Spoken language processing and dialogue have now many direct applications in various areas such as (but not limited to) information retrieval, natural language interaction with mobile devices, social robotics, assistive technologies, technologies for language learning, etc. . However, spoken language processing poses specific problems related to the nature of the speech material itself. Indeed, spontaneous speech utterances have to be processed and they contain many paralinguistic features. For instance, disfluencies (repetitions , false starts, etc.) reduces the syntactic regularity of utterances. Moreover, spontaneous utterances convey rich information related to emotions , etc. Furthermore, automatic speech recognition (ASR) step, often required before the application of higher level processing (understanding , translation, analysis, etc.), produces noisy outputs (with errors ) which require robust and tight coupling between modules. We invite contributions on any aspect (theoretical, methodological and practical) of spoken language processing and oral communication ; in particular (non-exclusive list): - Automatic speech recognition - Spoken language understanding - Speech translation - Text-to-Speech synthesis - Man-machine dialogue - Robust analysis of spoken language - Analysis of social affects or emotions in spontaneous speech - Mining spoken language documents - Spoken language applications (mobile interaction, robotics, etc. ) - Technologies for language learning - Multilingual aspects of spoken language processing - Evaluation for spoken language processing - Corpora and resources for spoken language - (Spoken) discourse analysis - Adaptive dialogue (context, user profile) - Analysis of paralinguistic features in spoken language IMPORTANT DATES - call : march 2014 - submission of contributions : 30 june 2014 (possibility to update paper until July 15th) - first authors notification : 15 september 2014 - publication : end 2014 / begin 2015 Submission format LANGUAGE Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking authors are requested to submit their contributions in French. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must describe original, completed, and unpublished work. Each submission will be reviewed by two programme committee members. Papers must be submitted on Sciencesconf platform http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/ Accepted papers will be maximum 25 pages long in PDF. 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Deadline is July 2nd 2014 Click here to Register (http://www.coling-2014.org/registration.php) Register for Main Conference (http://www.coling-2014.org/schedule.php), 1 or 2 day Workshops (http://www.coling-2014.org/workshops.php) and half day Tutorials (http://www.coling-2014.org/tutorials.php)! ********************************************** Conference Programme Monday - August 25th 09:00-10:15 Invited Speaker: Mary Harper, IARPA Learning from 26 languages: Program Management and Science in the Babel Program 10:45-12:25 Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue I 10:45-12:25 Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Social Media I 10:45-12:25 Information Retrieval and Question Answering 10:45-12:25 Machine Learning for CL and NLP 15:45-17:25 Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue II 15:45-17:25 Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Social Media III 15:45-17:25 Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics and Compositional Semantics I 15:45-17:25 Software, Tools Tuesday - August 26th 09:00-10:15 Invited Speaker: Ted Gibson, MIT Language for communication: Language as rational inference 10:45-12:25 Syntax, grammar induction, syntactic and semantic parsing I 10:45-12:25 Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Social Media III 10:45-12:25 Applications I 10:45-12:25 Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue III 15:45-17:25 Syntax, grammar induction, syntactic and semantic parsing II 15:45-17:25 Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics and Compositional Semantics II 15:45-17:25 Applications II 15:45-17:25 Language Resources Wednesday - August 27th Exursion Day Thursday - August 28th 09:00-10:15 Invited Speaker: Qun Liu, CNGL/DCU Annotation Adaptation and Language Adaptation in NLP 10:45-12:25 IE/database linking I 10:45-12:25 Lexical Semantics and Ontologies I 10:45-12:25 Natural Language Generation and Summarization I 10:45-12:25 Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue IV and Multimodal Processing 14:00-15:15 Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics and Compositional Semantics III 14:00-15:15 Morphology, word segmentation, tagging and chunking I 14:00-15:15 Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech, Spoken Language Understanding 14:00-15:15 Lesser Resourced Languages 15:45-17:25 Syntax, grammar induction, syntactic and semantic parsing III 15:45-17:25 Machine Translation I 15:45-17:25 Linguistic and Cognitive Issues in CL and NLP I 15:45-17:25 Natural Language Generation and Summarization II and Paraphrasing Friday - August 29th 09:00-10:15 Invited Speaker: Martin Kay, XEROX Does a Computational Linguist have to be a Linguist? 10:45-12:25 Machine Translation II 10:45-12:25 IE/database linking II 10:45-12:25 Linguistic and Cognitive Issues in CL and NLP II 10:45-12:25 Lexical Semantics and Ontologies II 14:00-15:15 Machine Translation III 14:00-15:15 Lexical Semantics and Ontologies III 14:00-15:15 IE/database linking III 14:00-15:15 Morphology, word segmentation, tagging and chunking II 15:45-17:25 Best Paper Talk and Closing The conference committee and organisers take no responsibility for changes or inaccuracies to the conference programme. The above programme is subject to change. ********************************************* Accommodation Don’t forget to book your accommodation at time of registering. Rooms are limited on campus and early booking is advisable! To view accommodation options click here (http://www.coling-2014.org/accommodation.php). Just book on the registration form at the same time as your registration. ********************************************* Ireland Inspires! Click here to see the Ireland Inspires Video (http://youtu.be/9wmIZEl1nSo) COLING 2014 www.coling-2014.org coling2014reg at keynotepco.ie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 27 20:18:48 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:18:48 +0200 Subject: These: Haithem Afli, La traduction automatique statistique dans un contexte multimodal Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:14:22 +0200 From: Haithem Afli Message-Id: X-url: http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/~afli Bonjour à tous, j'ai le plaisir de vous convier à la soutenance de ma thèse intitulée « La traduction automatique statistique dans un contexte multimodal ». Celle-ci se tiendra le lundi 7 juillet à 14 heures au Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Maine (amphithéâtre du bâtiment IC2), Avenue Laënnec 72085 LE MANS. Elle sera suivie d'un pot auquel vous êtes chaleureusement conviés. Le jury sera composé de : Rapporteurs : - M. Kamel Smaïli Professeur à l'Université du Lorraine (LORIA) - M. Philippe Langlais Professeur à l'Université de Montréal (RALI) Examinateurs : - M. Alexandre Allauzen Maître de Conférences HDR à l'Université de Paris Sud (LIMSI-CNRS) - M. Emmanuel Morin Professeur à l'Université de Nantes (LINA) Directeur: - M. Holger Shwenk Professeur à l'Université du Maine (LIUM) Co-directeur: - M. Loïc Barrault Maître de Conférences à l'Université du Maine (LIUM) Résumé: Les performances des systèmes de traduction automatique statistique dépendent de la disponibilité de textes parallèles bilingues, appelés aussi bitextes. Cependant, les textes parallèles librement disponibles sont aussi des ressources rares~: la taille est souvent limitée, la couverture linguistique insuffisante ou le domaine des textes n'est pas approprié. Il y a relativement peu de paires de langues pour lesquelles des corpus parallèles de tailles raisonnables sont disponibles pour certains domaines. L'une des façons pour pallier au manque de données parallèles est d'exploiter les corpus comparables qui sont plus abondants. Les travaux précédents dans ce domaine n'ont été appliqués que pour la modalité texte. La question que nous nous sommes posée durant cette thèse est de savoir si un corpus comparable multimodal permet d’apporter des solutions au manque de données parallèles dans le domaine de la traduction automatique. Dans cette thèse, nous avons étudié comment utiliser des ressources provenant de différentes modalités (texte ou parole) pour le développement d'un système de traduction automatique statistique. Une première partie des contributions consiste à proposer une technique pour l’extraction des données parallèles à partir d’un corpus comparable multimodal (audio et texte). Les enregistrements sont transcrits avec un système de reconnaissance automatique de la parole et traduits avec un système de traduction automatique. Ces traductions sont ensuite utilisées comme requêtes d’un système de recherche d’information pour sélectionner des phrases parallèles sans erreur et générer un bitexte. Dans la deuxième partie des contributions, nous visons l'amélioration de notre méthode en exploitant les entités sous-phrastiques créant ainsi une extension à notre système en vue de générer des segments parallèles. Nous améliorons aussi le module de filtrage. Enfin, nous présentons plusieurs manières d'aborder l'adaptation des systèmes de traduction avec les données extraites. Nos expériences ont été menées sur les données des sites web TED et Euronews qui montrent la faisabilité de nos approches. Mots-clés : Traduction automatique statistique, corpus multimodal bilingue, extraction de données parallèles. Cordialement, ======================================================== Haithem AFLI Laboratoire Informatique de l'Université du Maine (LIUM) Institut Claude Chappe - 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France Tel : 02 43 83 38 52 web : http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/~afli Mail : haithem.afli at lium.univ-lemans.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 27 20:32:10 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:32:10 +0200 Subject: Job: Post-doctoral position on machine learning / data clustering, Lyon Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:25:30 +0200 From: Julien Velcin Message-ID: <53ABF51A.7080100 at univ-lyon2.fr> Post-doctoral position at ERIC, University of Lyon (France): Modeling and analysis dynamics of web reputation. ERIC is a research unit specialized in business intelligence and data mining. In the context of the ImagiWeb project, a 10-month postdoctoral position is available on machine learning / data clustering, with applications to social media analysis. See below for more details about the offer. Julien Velcin julien.velcin at univ-lyon2.fr Post-doctoral Position Title: Modeling and analysis dynamics of web reputation Supervision: Julien Velcin, Stephane Bonnevay Place: ERIC Lab (University of Lyon) Duration: 10 months Funding: 2250 € per month (ANR Project ImagiWeb, gross salary) Context The ImagiWeb project, funded by the French National Research Agency (2012-2015), aims at studying the image (a.k.a. web reputation) of entities of various kinds (companies, politicians etc.) as this is diffused and viewed on the Internet. The study of these representations and their dynamics is considered today to be a real challenge, which deals with several issues related to data mining: information/topic extraction, opinion mining, web reputation, social network analysis etc. The project involves six partners (3 academic labs, 3 companies) and two real case studies are considered. Description Building and tracking images (web reputations), by taking into account both temporal and spatial dimensions, can be addressed as a machine learning problem. In the context of the ImagiWeb project, this post-doctoral position aims mainly at building new unsupervised machine learning models and algorithms. Graphical models [1, 8], probabilistic models or various dynamic models that take into account conditional dependences, will be considered for dealing with this problem. For data clustering, several models have been designed for the attribute-value data [5, 6] and relational data [9]. Recent models of evolutionary clustering have been proposed for integrating the temporal evolution into the process [2, 3, 4, 10]. Researchers of the ImagiWeb project have recently designed a new model for representing and manipulating the “images” (paper under review). This model is able to deal with entities (e.g., politicians, companies, brands etc.), temporally described by opinionated labels. Up to now, it has been tested on short descriptions extracted from a sample of Twitter. The recruited researcher will address theoretical issues and she/he will perform experiments on real datasets provided by the ImagiWeb project. More precisely: - She/he will update the graphical model in both addressing some of its shortcomings and integrating additional information available in the data (in particular, the author of the message). - She/he will propose an accurate way to deal with the timeline by going beyond evenly-distributed time windows, for instance by using the notion of change points [7]. - She/he will participate in submitting the new model(s) to a high-level international conference in machine learning and/or data mining. - She/he will design the algorithm that implements the new model and test it on the datasets of the ImagiWeb project. She/he will be involved in the integration of the code into a full prototype. Profile requirements Applicants must have a PhD Thesis in Science with a clear research orientation. Priority will be given to students who have already worked in the domains of statistical machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, data clustering. Application procedure Applications must be sent by email to Julien Velcin (julien.velcin at univ-lyon2.fr) and Stéphane Bonnevay (stephane.bonnevay at univ-lyon1.fr). Candidates should send the following elements: - Cover letter - CV (including recent publications) - Marks and awards obtained during their Master degree - Recommendation letters After a first selection step, interviews will be organized before taking the final decision. References [1] C.M. Bishop. Pattern recognition and machine learning, volume 4. Springer, New York, 2006. chapter 8. [2] Fuyuan Cao, Jiye Liang, Liang Bai, Xingwang Zhao, and Chuangyin Dang. A framework for clustering categorical time-evolving data. Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on, 18(5):872–882, October 2010. [3] Deepayan Chakrabarti, Ravi Kumar, and Andrew Tomkins. Evolutionary clustering. In Inter- national conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, KDD ’06, pages 554–560. ACM, 2006. [4] Yun Chi, Xiaodan Song, Dengyong Zhou, Koji Hino, and Belle L. Tseng. Evolutionary spectral clustering by incorporating temporal smoothness. In International conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, KDD ’07, pages 153–162. ACM, 2007. [5] A.P. Dempster, N.M. Laird, and D.B. Rubin. Maximum likelihood from incomplete data via the em algorithm. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological), pages 1–38, 1977. [6] MAF Figueiredo and A.K. Jain. Unsupervised learning of finite mixture models. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on, 24(3):381–396, 2002. [7] Lajos Horváth and Marie Husková. Change-point detection in panel data. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 33(4):631–648, 2012. [8] D. Magatti. Graphical models for text mining : knowledge extraction and performance estimation. PhD thesis, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2010. [9] M. Shafiei and H. Chipman. Mixed-membership stochastic block-models for transactional net- works. In Data Mining (ICDM), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on, pages 1019–1024. IEEE, 2010. [10] Tianbing Xu, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Philip S. Yu, and Bo Long. Dirichlet process based evolu- tionary clustering. In International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM ’08, pages 648–657. IEEE Computer Society, 2008. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 27 20:43:56 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:43:56 +0200 Subject: Sujet de these: Proposition de these CIFRE en SDL Message-ID: Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:51:54 +0200 From: Condamines Message-ID: <53AD850A.6040702 at univ-tlse2.fr> X-url: http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr (English version below). _Proposition d'une thèse financée en Sciences du Langage_. Financement CIFRE : Airbus/CLLE-ERSS (UMR 5263) Dans le cadre de la conception des futures générations de cockpits, Airbus souhaite définir les formats de textes les mieux adaptés pour communiquer de manière efficace (compréhension rapide et sans ambiguïté) des catégories d'informations (ordre, état, etc.) selon les contextes (urgence, etc.), en fonction de l'intention à transmettre (provoquer/bloquer les réactions immédiates, calmer, etc.). Le sujet de thèse concernera les textes écrits en anglais sur les écrans des postes de pilotage à destination de pilotes de diverses langues maternelles. Le chercheur CIFRE aura pour tâche de définir ces formats de textes. Il s'appuiera sur les travaux existant dans le domaine des langages contrôlés. Ses propositions, basées sur des connaissances linguistiques, feront l'objet d'une évaluation psycholinguistique visant à mesurer l'efficacité des messages traités au niveau des processus cognitifs de compréhension du langage. La thèse se déroulera à Toulouse. _Encadrement_ : Anne Condamines, Directrice de Recherche CNRS (anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr) et Hélène Giraudo, Chargée de Recherches CNRS (helene.giraudo at univ-tlse2.fr), Laboratoire CLLE-ERSS (http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr/)// _Compétences requises_ : M2 en sciences du langage ou linguistique anglaise Anglais indispensable Des connaissances en psycholinguistiques et/ou TAL seront appréciées. _Renseignements_ : anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr , helene.giraudo at univ-tlse2.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _PhD grant in Language Sciences_ CIFRE Funding: Airbus/CLLE, ERSS team (UMR5263) Within the framework of the conception of future cockpits, Airbus aims to define the most adapted text formats to communicate, in the most efficient way, some informational categories (order, state, etc.) according to different contexts (like emergency) and depending on the intention to transmit (to induce/to block immediate reactions) The PhD subject will focus on English written texts presented on the cockpit screens for pilots having a different L1. The researcher recruited by this CIFRE contract will have to define the formats of these particular texts. She/He will rely on the scientific literature devoted to the domain of controlled languages. Her/His proposals, based on linguistic knowledge, will be tested through psycholinguistic experiments measuring the relevance and efficiency of these messages, but according to the cognitive processes involved in language comprehension. The PhD will be carried in Toulouse _Framework of the PhD_ : Anne Condamines, Directrice de Recherche au CNRS (anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr) and Hélène Giraudo, Chargée de Recherche au CNRS (helene.giraudo at univ-tlse2.fr), Laboratoire CLLE-ERSS (http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr) _Required skills_ M2 in Language Sciences or in English linguistics High level proficiency in English Knowledge in Psycholinguistics and/or NLP will be a plus _Informations_ : anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr, helene.giraudo at univ-tlse2.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 27 20:41:03 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:41:03 +0200 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns 2014 and SWJ Fast-Track Message-ID: Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 01:29:45 +0200 From: Aldo Gangemi Message-Id: X-url: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014 === Apologies for multiple postings === ***************************************************************** Call for Patterns 5th Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP2014) http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014 WOP will be held on October 19 or 20, 2014, in conjunction with ISWC 2014 (http://iswc2014.semanticweb.org_) ***************************************************************** Submission deadline : 7 July, 2014 ***************************************************************** This is the fifth edition in a series of workshops addressing the topic of ontology and semantic web patterns as best practices, related to the ontologydesignpatterns.org initiative. This edition of WOP will be the very first in Europe, in which traditionally the design pattern community for semantic web and linked data has been very strong. As interest in the Semantic Web increases and technologies for realizing the Semantic Web become more mature, the need for high-quality and reusable Semantic Web ontologies increases as well. To address the quality and reusability issues, different types of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) have emerged, and methods for devising or discovering new ones from heterogeneous knowledge sources are needed. Patterns need to be shared by a community in order to provide a common language, and to stimulate pattern usage and development. Hence, the aim of this workshop is twofold * providing an arena for proposing and discussing good practices, patterns, pattern-based ontologies, systems etc., and * broadening the pattern community that is developing its own “language” for discussing and describing relevant problems and their solutions. WOP2014 will be a half-day workshop consisting of two parts: paper presentations and posters. The poster session will feature pattern posters, i.e. presentations of patterns submitted according the call for patterns. ---- Fast-track submission to the Semantic Web journal ---- This year's workshop on ontology and semantic web patterns will offer a fast-track submission of selected papers to the Semantic Web journal's special issue on ontology design patterns. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their work to the journal. While fast-tracked papers will still undergo a full open and transparent review, they will be considered as /acceptable/ by the journal. Please note that we will make the selection of papers based on how suitable they are for such an extended submission and that such papers may still get rejected by the journal, e.g., if the authors fail to address the issues pointed out during review. Please contact Krzysztof Janowicz if you have further questions, e.g., on the suitability of a paper. ---- Paper Topics For Research Papers and Short Papers ----- The main aim of the workshop is to discuss and collect solutions to recurrent problems that matter to researchers and practitioners of the Semantic Web field, and that impact on design and engineering of ontologies, linked data, knowledge extraction, and other semantic web applications. We invite the submission of original research results related to the focus areas of the workshop. Research papers (maximum 12 pages LNCS style) should present mature work and document established results, or be short papers presenting proposed research directions and novel ideas (maximum 4 pages LNCS style). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Ontology design patterns (ODPs) and pattern-based ontology design * Anti-patterns and their relations to ODPs * Pattern-based ontologies * Ontology patterns and their relation with standards * Ontology pattern extraction * Analysis of ontology pattern usage * Pattern-based ontology evaluation and selection * Correspondence patterns for ontology matching and integration * Best practices and examples for using existing ontologies/datasets to instantiate ODPs * Discussion of use cases of particular ODPs across ontologies * Evaluation of ODPs (methods, benchmarks) * Patterns and Linked data (usage, emerging patterns, etc.) * Linked Data patterns, patterns for using different vocabularies together * Web semantics from a pattern perspective * ODPs used for interaction with data * Data mining patterns * Automatic ontology construction (ontology learning) based on patterns * Reasoning pipelines * Usage of patterns in business intelligence * Relation between NLP patterns (either for learning, or procedural) and ontologies/linked data design * Frame semantics in text and knowledge representation * Knowledge patterns and knowledge reengineering based on patterns * Pattern-based information extraction * Nary-fact extraction and representation * Patterns in semantic social networks, semantic wikis, semantic blogs * Reengineering patterns for conceptual models, folksonomies, lexicons, thesauri * Usage of patterns in conceptual modeling * Processes and services process patterns * Problem solving methods and patterns * Contextual reasoning and patterns as context * Pattern-based methods and methodologies for development of semantic applications * Usage of patterns in Semantic Web design * Collaborative ontology design and collaboration patterns * Tools and applications for pattern-based knowledge engineering * Ontology Patterns for specific domains (cultural heritage, digital humanities, multimedia, etc). For submission details visit: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014/Submission ----- Patterns ----- We invite the submission of research results in the form of ontology design patterns (ODPs). Patterns submitted should have a general relevance to the ontology engineering field, or specific interest within a knowledge domain. Patterns should solve some particular modeling problem, and be of significant interest for discussion at the workshop. Patterns should be original, in the sense that they are the intellectual product of the author(s), however they may still be based on the collective experience of a community. Pattern submissions for the pattern session will be collected: * through the ODP portal and * by submitting a description of the pattern (pattern description) via EasyChair Detailed instructions for patterns submission, including how to submit via the ontologydesignpatterns.org portal, are found at the submission page at: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014/Submission Note that an account in the ODP portal is needed for submitting patterns; thus, authors should take care to request an account at least one week before their intended submission. Pattern submissions can be made in any type of ODPs. Currently, portal templates for submission are provided for the following types of patterns (see general typology for explanation of the types): * Content patterns * Structural patterns: logical and architecture patterns. * Correspondence patterns: re-engineering and alignment patterns. For other types of patterns, the author is welcome to submit only a pattern description. ---- Important dates (2014, 11:59 Hawaii time) ---- * Submission date (research papers and patterns): 7 July, 2014 * Author notifications: July 30, 2014 * Camera-ready proceedings: August 20, 2014 * Workshops will be held on October 19-20, 2014 (tba) ----- WOP2014 Chairs ----- * Victor de Boer, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Aldo Gangemi, LIPN Paris Sorbonne Citè/Paris 13 (FR) * Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara * Agnieszka Ławrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland ----- Steering Committee ----- The workshop series is arranged by a fixed steering committee, appointing the chairs and adjusting the focus of the workshop on a yearly basis. The WOP Steering committee consists of: * Eva Blomqvist, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Natasha Noy, Stanford University (US) * Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Alan Rector, University of Manchester (UK) * Francois Scharffe, INRIA (FR) * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz (DE) * Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center (US) ----- Program Committee ----- * Benjamin Adams, University of Auckland, NZ * Alessandro Adamou, KMI Open University (UK) * Lora Aroyo, VU (NL) * Eva Blomqvist, Linköping University (SE) * Victor de Boer, VU University Amsterdam (NL) * Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) * Enrico Daga, ISTC-CNR, Rome (IT) * Aldo Gangemi, LIPN Paris Sorbonne Citè/Paris 13 (FR) * Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO) (ES) * Gerd Gröner, University of Koblenz (DE) * Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Espírito Santo (BR) * Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University (US) * Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit/Universiteit van Amsterdam, (NL) * Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara (US) * Adila Alfa Krisnadhi, Wright State University (US) * Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, University of Oviedo, (SP) * Agnieszka Ławrynowicz, Poznań University of Technology (PL) * Steffen Lohmann, University of Stuttgart (DE) * Timothy Lebo, RPI, USA * Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, University of Bologna/STLab ISTC-CNR (IT) * Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh (US) * Raul Palma, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PL) * María Poveda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (SP) * Catherine Roussey, Irstea - Centre de Clermont-Ferrand, France * Alan Ruttenberg, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, (US) * Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock (SE) * Mari Carmen Suarez-Figueroa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, (SP) * Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague (CZ) * Boris Villazón-Terrazas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (ES) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jobs at BREAKTHROUGHELYSIUM.NET Sun Jun 29 18:35:51 2014 From: jobs at BREAKTHROUGHELYSIUM.NET (jobs) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:35:51 -0600 Subject: Dear ln@listserv.linguistlist.org, Looking for Part-time Work? Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 09:52:44 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:52:44 +0200 Subject: Appel: FCA4AI Workshop at ECAI 2014 (extended deadline and last call) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 23:26:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Amedeo Napoli Message-ID: <260141211.15594545.1401657994780.JavaMail.zimbra at loria.fr> X-url: http://www.fca4ai.hse.ru ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FCA4AI (Third Edition) -- ``What can FCA do for Artificial Intelligence?'' co-located with ECAI 2014, Prague, Czech Republic August 19 2014 http://www.fca4ai.hse.ru ------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Information. The first and the second editions of the FCA4AI Workshop (ECAI 2012, Montpellier and IJCAI 2013, Beijing) showed that many researchers working in Artificial Intelligence are indeed interested by a powerful method for classification and mining such as Formal Concept Analysis (see http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-939/ and http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1058/). We have the chance to organize a new edition of the workshop in Prague at the ECAI 2014 Conference. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematically well-founded theory aimed at data analysis and classification. FCA allows one to build a concept lattice and a system of dependencies (implications) which can be used for many AI needs, e.g. knowledge processing involving learning, knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and reasoning, ontology engineering, and as well as information retrieval and text processing. Thus, there exist many ``natural links'' between FCA and AI. Recent years have been witnessing increased scientific activity around FCA, in particular a strand of work emerged that is aimed at extending the possibilities of FCA w.r.t. knowledge processing, such as work on pattern structures and relational context analysis. These extensions are aimed at allowing FCA to deal with more complex than just binary data, both from the data analysis and knowledge discovery point of view and from the knowledge representation point of view, including, e.g., ontology engineering. All these works extend the capabilities of FCA and offer new possibilities for AI activities in the framework of FCA. Accordingly, in this workshop, we will be interested in two main issues: - How can FCA support AI activities such as knowledge processing (knowledge discovery, knowledge representation and reasoning), learning (clustering, pattern and data mining), natural language processing, information retrieval. - How can FCA be extended in order to help AI researchers to solve new and complex problems in their domain. The workshop is dedicated to discuss such issues. TOPICS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to: - Concept lattices and related structures: description logics, pattern structures, relational structures. - Knowledge discovery and data mining with FCA: association rules, itemsets and data dependencies, attribute implications, data pre-processing, redundancy and dimensionality reduction, classification and clustering. - Knowledge engineering and ontology engineering: knowledge representation and reasoning. - Scalable algorithms for concept lattices and artificial intelligence ``in the large'' (distributed aspects, big data). - Applications of concept lattices: semantic web, information retrieval, visualization and navigation, pattern recognition. The workshop will include time for audience discussion for having a better understanding of the issues, challenges, and ideas being presented. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: June 15, 2014 Notification to authors: July 10, 2014 Final version: July 21, 2014 Workshop: August 19, 2014 SUBMISSION DETAILS: The workshop welcomes submissions in pdf format in Springer's LNCS style. Submissions can be: - technical papers not exceeding 8 pages, - system descriptions or position papers on work in progress not exceeding 4 pages Submissions are via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fca4ai2014 (opening soon) The workshop proceedings will be published as CEUR proceedings. A selection of the best papers presented at the workshop will be considered for a special issue of a high-level journal. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: Sergei O. Kuznetsov Higher Schools of Economics, Moscow, Russia Amedeo Napoli LORIA-INRIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France Sebastian Rudolph Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE (in constitution) Mathieu D'Aquin, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Franz Baader, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany Radim Belohlavek, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Karell Bertet, Universit? de La Rochelle, France Claudio Carpineto, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Roma, Italy Felix Distel, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany S?bastien Ferr?, IRISA Rennes, France Bernhard Ganter, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA Marianne Huchard, LIRMM Montpellier, France Dmitry I. Ignatov, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Mehdi Kaytoue, LIRIS-INSA, University of Lyon, France Markus Kr?tzsch, University of Oxford, UK Sergei A. Obiedkov, Higher Schools of Economics, Moscow, Russia Jan Outrata, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic Uta Priss, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfenb?ttel, Germany Baris Sertkaya, SAP Dresden, Germany, Henry Soldano, Universit? de Paris-Nord, France Gerd Stumme, Universitaet Kassel, Germany Petko Valtchev, Universit? du Qu?bec ? 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Il est possible sur le wiki de discuter de ph?nom?nes syntaxiques du fran?ais, de parcourir la (m?ta)grammaire FRMG, de tester des phrases d'exemples (avec sortie graphique), et d'?diter si n?cessaire les sorties de ces derni?res. Par ailleurs, FRMG wiki offre ?galement un service de traitement de petit corpus (jusqu'? 1 millions de mots), avec possibilit? de r?cup?ration des r?sultats sous divers formats (CONLL, Passage, FRMG DepXML) et/ou de visualisation des r?sultats. FRMG wiki se veut un espace de discussion autour des ph?nom?nes syntaxiques du fran?ais et est encore un prototype. Les contributions en terme de contenu, de remarques, de demandes de fonctionnalit?s sont donc les bienvenues. N'h?sitez donc pas ? nous contacter: Paul Bui-Quang (paul.bui-quang at inria.fr) d?veloppeur principal Eric de la Clergerie (eric.de_la_clergerie at inria.fr) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 09:59:36 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:59:36 +0200 Subject: Appel: Revue TAL, Numero special sur le traitement automatique du langage parle Message-ID: Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 10:12:26 +0200 From: Laurent Besacier Message-Id: <2B175808-5405-40B6-85F1-F05EB5B936AC at imag.fr> X-url: http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/ Troisieme appel ? communications: num?ro sp?cial sur le traitement automatique du langage parl? pour la revue TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) - ENGLISH VERSION OF THIS CFP CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THIS MESSAGE - Direction : Laurent Besacier, Wolfang Minker Date limite : 30 juin 2014 La communication orale reste le moyen le plus naturel pour dialoguer et interagir (avec la machine ou avec une autre personne). Le traitement automatique du langage parl? (TALP) et le dialogue trouvent d?sormais de nombreuses applications directes dans des domaines divers tels que (liste non exhaustive) la recherche d'information, l'interaction en langue naturelle avec des dispositifs mobiles, la robotique sociale, les technologies d'assistance ? la personne, l'apprentissage des langues, etc. Cependant, le TALP pose des probl?mes sp?cifiques li?s ? la nature m?me du mat?riau trait?. En effet, on est amen? ? traiter des ?nonc?s de parole plus ou moins spontan?e et contenant de nombreux traits paralinguistiques. Par exemple, la pr?sence de disfluences orales (r?p?titions, reprises, incises...) r?duit la r?gularit? syntaxique des ?nonc?s ; les ?nonc?s oraux sont ?galement riches d'informations li?s aux affects, etc. Par ailleurs, l'?tape de transcription automatique, souvent n?cessaire avant l'application de traitements de plus haut niveau (compr?hension, traduction, analyse, etc.) rend des sorties bruit?es (contenant des erreurs) qui n?cessitent des analyses robustes et un couplage ?troit entre ?tapes de traitement. Nous invitons donc les contributions portant sur tout aspect (th?orique, m?thodologique et pratique) relatif au traitement automatique du langage parl? et ? la communication orale, et en particulier (liste non exclusive) : - Reconnaissance automatique de la parole - Compr?hension automatique de la parole - Traduction de parole - Synth?se de la parole - Dialogue oral homme - machine - Analyse robuste de la langue parl?e - Analyse des affects sociaux ou des ?motions dans des ?nonc?s oraux - Fouille de documents ? composante orale - Applications ? composantes orales (recherche d'information, interaction, robotique, etc) - Outils d'aide ? l'apprentissage d?une langue seconde - Aspects multilingues du traitement automatique du langage parl? - Evaluation de syst?mes de traitement du langage parl? - Corpus et ressources pour l'oral - Analyse du discours oral - Dialogue adaptatif au contexte et au profil de l'utilisateur - Analyse des traits paralinguistiques dans des ?nonc?s oraux ?DITEURS INVIT?S Laurent Besacier Wolfang Minker COMITE SCIENTIFIQUE ADDA Gilles LIMSI, Paris ANTOINE Jean-Yves U. F. Rabelais, Tours AUBERGE V?ronique LIG, Grenoble BELLEGARDA J?r?me APPLE, USA BONNEAU-MEYNARD H?l?ne, LIMSI, Orsay CERISARA Christophe LORIA, Nancy CERNOCKY Jan Univ. Brno, Tcheque Republic DAMNATI G?raldine Orangs Labs, Lannion DEVILLERS Laurence LIMSI, Orsay DUTOIT Thierry TCTS, Mons ESTEVE Yannick LIUM, Le Mans ESKENAZI Maxine CMU, Pittsburgh FAVRE Benoit LIF, Marseille FERRANE Isabelle IRIT, Toulouse GRAVIER Guillaume IRISA, Rennes JOUVET Denis LORIA, Nancy KAHN Juliette LNE, Paris LECOUTEUX Benjamin LIG, Grenoble LEFEVRE Fabrice LIA, Avignon LINARES Georges LIA, Avignon MEIGNIER Sylvain LIUM, Le Mans PIETQUIN Olivier Univ. Lille 1 POPESCU-BELIS Andrei IDIAP, Martigny ROSSET Sophie LIMSI, Orsay LANGUE Les articles sont ?crits en fran?ais ou en anglais. Les soumissions en anglais ne sont accept?es que pour les auteurs non francophones. FORMAT DE LA SOUMISSION Les articles doivent ?tre d?pos?s sur la plateforme http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/ La revue ne publie que des contributions originales, en fran?ais ou en anglais. Les papiers accept?s feront au maximum 25 pages en PDF. Le style est disponible pour t?l?chargement sur le site du journal TAL CONTACT Laurent Besacier (Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr) Wolfgang Minker (Wolfgang.Minker at uni-ulm.de) ==========CFP IN ENGLISH============ Special issue on spoken language processing Guest editors: Laurent Besacier, Wolfgang Minker Speech is the most natural way to communicate and interact (with the machine or with another person) . Spoken language processing and dialogue have now many direct applications in various areas such as (but not limited to) information retrieval, natural language interaction with mobile devices, social robotics, assistive technologies, technologies for language learning, etc. . However, spoken language processing poses specific problems related to the nature of the speech material itself. Indeed, spontaneous speech utterances have to be processed and they contain many paralinguistic features. For instance, disfluencies (repetitions , false starts, etc.) reduces the syntactic regularity of utterances. Moreover, spontaneous utterances convey rich information related to emotions , etc. Furthermore, automatic speech recognition (ASR) step, often required before the application of higher level processing (understanding , translation, analysis, etc.), produces noisy outputs (with errors ) which require robust and tight coupling between modules. We invite contributions on any aspect (theoretical, methodological and practical) of spoken language processing and oral communication ; in particular (non-exclusive list): - Automatic speech recognition - Spoken language understanding - Speech translation - Text-to-Speech synthesis - Man-machine dialogue - Robust analysis of spoken language - Analysis of social affects or emotions in spontaneous speech - Mining spoken language documents - Spoken language applications (mobile interaction, robotics, etc. ) - Technologies for language learning - Multilingual aspects of spoken language processing - Evaluation for spoken language processing - Corpora and resources for spoken language - (Spoken) discourse analysis - Adaptive dialogue (context, user profile) - Analysis of paralinguistic features in spoken language IMPORTANT DATES - call : march 2014 - submission of contributions : 30 june 2014 - first authors notification : 15 september 2014 - publication : end 2014 / begin 2015 Submission format LANGUAGE Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking authors are requested to submit their contributions in French. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must describe original, completed, and unpublished work. Each submission will be reviewed by two programme committee members. Papers must be submitted on Sciencesconf platform http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/ Accepted papers will be maximum 25 pages long in PDF. 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Message-ID: <53897430.70302 at ldi.univ-paris13.fr> X-url: http://www-ldi.univ-paris13.fr/MasterPro/website/ Le master 2 Traitement Informatique et Linguistique des Documents (TILDE) est une formation ? vocation professionnelle propos?e ? l'UFR LSHS de l'universit? Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cit?. Le master TILDE est une mention du parcours TAL de l'offre de formation en Sciences du langage de Sorbonne Paris Cit?. Le Master 2 TILDE a ?t? cr?? en 2005. Il pr?pare les ?tudiants au m?tier d'ing?nieur en industrie des langues. Les enseignants de la formation donnent principalement des cours d'informatique, de linguistique et d'ing?nierie linguistique et documentaire. Un stage en entreprise compl?te la formation. L'inscription au Master 2 TILDE est ouverte ? tous les ?tudiants d?tenteurs d'un Master 1 ou d'une ?quivalence. La formation peut ?tre suivie en pr?sentiel ou ? distance. Elle peut faire l'objet d'une formation continue. Le Master TILDE est adoss?e au laboratoire LDI (Lexiques, Dictionnaires, Informatique : UMR 7187 CNRS Universit? Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cit?). Le Master TILDE peut aussi faire l'objet d'une co-diplomation avec l'Universit? de Cracovie et l'Universit? de Cergy (? partir de 2015 pour l'Universit? de Cergy). *Responsable :*Monsieur Salah Mejri (Professeur des Universit?s, Universit? Paris 13-Sorbonne Paris Cit?) *Contact :*Madame Arabelle BAUDETTE-AL ELLEWI (t?l. 01.49.49.38.58, mail abaudette_AT_ldi.univ-paris13.fr) *Secr?tariat :*Monsieur Arnaud Limmois (mail : master-slatel.lshs_AT_univ-paris13.fr) Plus d'informations sont disponibles sur le site de la formation http://www-ldi.univ-paris13.fr/MasterPro/website/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 10:11:07 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:11:07 +0200 Subject: Conf: NLDB'2014, 18-20 June 2014, Montpellier, France Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:12:01 +0200 From: Mathieu Roche Message-Id: <00D17AD7-AD8D-4D09-A84A-1D974BD79C5B at lirmm.fr> X-url: http://www.nldb.org/ ============== Last CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - NLDB'2014 19th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems 18-20 June 2014 - Montpellier, France http://www.nldb.org/ Registration: http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/NLDB2014/Web/conf_registration.html ============== Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher, industrials and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an established field thanks to developments in Natural Language and technologies that made the storage and manipulation of large electronic dictionaries possible. As Information Systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems. The use of Natural Language in Software Engineering has contributed to both improving the development process from the viewpoints of developers (improve the process of conceptual modeling, validation, etc) and the usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces, semantic webs, etc). NLDB'2014 will take place in Montpellier (France). The conference invites researchers from academia and industry to submit papers for oral or poster presentations on recent, unpublished research that addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as review and discussion papers. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Applications of NLP in Information Systems: Multilingual Information Systems, NLP in Requirement Engineering, NLP in Knowledge Management, Semantic Data Integration and Data Cleaning - Social Media and Web Data: Corpus analysis, Language identification, Text normalization, Robust NLP for social media, Text classification, Information Extraction and Sentiment Analysis for social media - Big Data and Natural Language - Semantic Web Open Linked Data: Ontology Learning and Alignment, Populating ontologies, Querying Ontologies and linked data, Semantic tagging and classification, Ontology-driven NLP - Question Answering (QA): NL interfaces to databases, QA using web data, multi-lingual QA, Non-factoid QA (how/why/opinion questions, lists), geographical QA, QA corpora and training sets - Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive Computing, Embedded, Robotic and Mobile Applications. - Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling: Analysis of Natural Language Descriptions, Terminological Ontologies, Consistency Checking, Metadata Creation and Harvesting, Ontology-driven Systems Integration, Ontology Management - NLP Applications: Business Intelligence, Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis, QA systems, Event Detection, Named Entity and Event Detection, Information Extraction, Summarization, NLP for Data Mining, NLP for Data Warehouses, Plagiarism detection, Identity detection ================= INVITED SPEAKERS ================= Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK Title: Applications of Biomedical Text Mining Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Title: Personal Ontologies ========================= PROGRAM ========================= http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/NLDB2014/Web/conf_programme.html# ========================= REGISTRATION ========================= http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/NLDB2014/Web/conf_registration.html ========================= HOTELS ========================= http://www.lirmm.fr/~mroche/NLDB2014/Web/hotels.html ========================= SPONSORS ========================= Local Organizer: TETIS Local Support: LIRMM, Cirad, AgroParisTech, R?gion Languedoc-Roussillon, IUT B?ziers ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 09:46:56 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:46:56 +0200 Subject: Journee: Premiere edition des Doctoriales de Linguistique (DOCTILING) du laboratoire STL, Lille, 12 juin 2014 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 23:33:30 +0200 From: Aur?lie Merlo Message-Id: Ch?rEs coll?gues, Nous vous rappelons que la premi?re ?dition des DOCTorIales de LINGuistique organis?e par le laboratoire Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) (UMR 8163, CNRS, Lille 3 & Lille 1) aura lieu jeudi 12 juin 2014 ? l?universit? Lille 3 (3 Rue du Barreau, 59650 Villeneuve-d?Ascq) en salle B1.619. Vous trouverez ci-dessous le programme de ces doctoriales. En esp?rant vous y voir nombreux. Bien ? vous, Le comit? d'organisation : Edwige Dugas (edwige.dugas at univ-lille3.fr), Aur?lie Merlo (aurelie at ergonotics.com) et Ornella Wandji (ornwandji at yahoo.fr) * * * 9h15-9h30 Ouverture (animatrice : Edwige Dugas) 9h30-10h00 Analyse automatique des verbes dans des corpus m?dicaux : enjeux th?oriques et appliqu?s Ornella Wandji Tchami 10h00-10h30 La traduction de discours juridiques ? vocation internationale : le cas des textes des Nations Unies Hanaa Beldjerd 10h30-11h00 Beat-like gestures use in different types of speech in American English Mathilde Peyr? 11h00-11h15 Pause 11h15-11h45 Contrastive psycholinguistic study of the cognitive impact of posture verbs C?cile Douet 11h45-12h15 Texture of second language English discourse: analysing learners? vocabulary use Amjed Bamatraf 12h15-12h45 Temporalit? dans les discours d?apprenants japonais du fran?ais L3 : tendances acquisitionnelles communes, traits individuels et influence d?un enseignement traditionnel Najima Kerrou 12h45-14h00 D?jeuner libre 14h00-14h30 Temps, espace et entit?s en italien et fran?ais L2 Simona Anastasio 14h30-15h00 La connaissance de la segmentation de la cha?ne parl?e peut-elle favoriser le d?veloppement de la compr?hension orale chez des apprenants d?butants de fran?ais langue ?trang?re ? Laetitia Batjom 15h00-15h30 La r?duplication en m?n??g?x?? du Dantila Salouma Doucour? 15h30-15h45 Pause 15h45-16h15 S?mantique des constructions [non-Adj] et [in-Adj] en fran?ais Edwige Dugas 16h15-16h45 Humorous implications and meanings: a multi-modal study of sarcasm in interactional humor Sabina Tabacaru 16h45-17h15 Production et perception de la prosodie de l'anglais par des apprenants francophones : pr?sentation d'une ?tude exp?rimentale en cours Marc Capliez 17h15-17h30 Cl?ture (animatrice : Ornella Wandji Tchami) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 09:51:29 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:51:29 +0200 Subject: Sujet de these: Alignement multimodal de ressources educatives / Multimodal alignment of educational resources Message-ID: Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 22:39:11 +0200 From: Solen Quiniou Message-Id: X-url: http://www.lina.univ-nantes.fr/spip.php?page=fiche_emploi&id_emploi=90 Sujet de th?se : Alignement multimodal de ressources ?ducatives. http://www.lina.univ-nantes.fr/spip.php?page=fiche_emploi&id_emploi=90 Laboratoire : LINA, Nantes (?quipe TALN) Financement : MESR Dates : octobre 2014 - octobre 2017 De nombreuses ressources ?ducatives libres sont produites aujourd? hui. Cependant, l?acc?s ? ces ressources reste complexe : la navigation entre les ressources est difficile et l?utilisation de ces ressources en-dehors de leur cadre est pratiquement impossible. Afin de rendre plus accessibles les ressources existantes, il est n?cessaire de cr?er un alignement entre ces documents de diverses natures. Ces alignements peuvent alors permettre de proposer de nouveaux paradigmes de navigation intermodale, du texte ? la vid?o, de la vid?o au texte, o? le texte peut correspondre ? de l??crit bien form?, du manuscrit ou aux transparents d?une pr?sentation. L?objectif de cette th?se de doctorat est de d?velopper des techniques pour aligner automatiquement des fragments de documents issus de diff?rentes modalit?s. Cette th?se porte ? la fois sur les domaines du traitement automatique des langues, de l'extraction d?information mais ?galement de l?apprentissage automatique. Le candidat devra ?tre issu d?un master informatique ou de toute autre formation ?quivalente et ?tre class? dans le premier tiers de sa promotion. Des comp?tences en traitement automatique du langage et/ou en apprentissage automatique seront appr?ci?es. Les candidatures sont ? envoyer par email ? Colin de La Higuera (cdlh at univ-nantes.fr) et ? Solen Quiniou (solen.quiniou at univ-nantes.fr) pour le *5 juin 2014*. Elles devront contenir un CV, un relev? de notes du master (ou ?quivalent) avec une indication du classement du candidat, une lettre de motivation ainsi qu?une lettre de recommandation ou le nom d?un professeur pouvant recommander le candidat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 10:09:08 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:09:08 +0200 Subject: Job: Two Postdoctoral positions in Machine Learning for Machine translation Message-ID: Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 17:07:40 +0200 From: Alexandre Allauzen Message-ID: <538F363C.5060107 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/Scientifique/tlp/mt/ Two postdoctoral positions are available at the LIMSI-CNRS lab. The positions are all one year, with possibilities of extension. We are seeking researchers with interests in machine learning applied to statistical machine translation, automatic speech recognition or computational linguistics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Speech translation - Bayesian models for natural language processing - Multilingual topic models - Word Sense Disambiguation - Statistical Language Modeling Candidates must possess a Ph.D. in machine learning or natural language/speech processing. Please send your CV and/or questions to Alexandre Allauzen (allauzen at limsi.fr) and Fran?ois Yvon (yvon at limsi.fr). We can meet interested applicants in person at ACL. Duration: 12 months, starting Fall or Winter 2014, with a possibility to extend for an additional 12 months. Application deadline: Open until filled The successful candidates will join a dynamic research team working on various aspects of Statistical Machine Translation and Speech Processing. For information regarding our activities, see http://www.limsi.fr/Scientifique/tlp/mt/ About the LIMSI-CNRS: The LIMSI-CNRS lab is situated at Orsay, a green area 25 km south of Paris. A suburban train connects Orsay to Paris city center. Detailed information about the LIMSI lab can be found at http://www.limsi.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 09:55:18 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 11:55:18 +0200 Subject: Job: Post Doc en TAL, Laboratoire MoDyCo Message-ID: Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:01:12 +0200 From: jean-luc minel Message-ID: <538C1328.4080004 at u-paris10.fr> X-url: http://www.modyco.fr/ *Post Doc en TAL au laboratoire MoDyCo* Dans le cadre d'un partenariat entre l'AERES et le laboratoire MoDyCo, un appel ? candidature est ouvert pour un post-doctorat type CNRSd'une dur?e d'un an.** *Sujet :* Un des objectifs actuels de l'AERES est de produire des documents qui restituent le travail d'?valuation r?alis? par les comit?s de visite dans le cadre des campagnes d'?valuation annuelles (vagues d'?valuation). De soixante ? quatre-vingt ?tablissements sont ?valu?s chaque ann?e. Chaque ?tablissement produit d'abord un rapport d'auto?valuation qui permet de caract?riser les ?tablissements. Chaque comit? de visite produit ensuite un rapport, relativement norm? quant ? son organisation en rubriques, en s'appuyant sur un r?f?rentiel qui structure l'?valuation et le rapport. A titre d'information, le rapport d'activit? de 2012 (accessible sur le site de l'AERES) contient une s?rie de repr?sentations visuelles (histogrammes et radars) qui synth?tisent les points forts et points faibles des ?tablissements ?valu?s. Ces histogrammes ont ?t? construits ? partir d'une analyse manuelle d'unit?s d'information extraites des rapports d'experts. L'objectif du post doctorat est d'utiliser des outils de TAL -- Traitement Automatique des Langues - (lexicom?triques, logom?triques, textom?triques, etc.), et des ressources ontologiques pour analyser ou annoter les textes etpermettre de construire automatiquement ou semi automatiquement ce type de repr?sentations visuelles. Ces outils s'appuieront surdes ressources lexicales, et/ou des patrons linguistiques, construits ? partir de ressources g?n?ralistes et de ressources ?labor?es ? partir des rapports existants. Deux approches sont possibles. Une approche qualifi?e de symbolique qui vise ? construire manuellement, ou ? d?couvrir automatiquement par des m?thodes de fouille de donn?es, des grammaires locales, et une approche qualifi?e de probabiliste (supervis?e) qui s'appuie sur des algorithmes de classification automatique et un corpus annot? manuellement. Dans les deux cas, on cherchera ? utiliser des logiciels existants en /open source/. Les deux approches pourront ?tre combin?es. Une cha?ne logicielle avec interface devra ?tre d?velopp?e ? destination d'utilisateurs non informaticiens.** *Comp?tences attendues :* Nous recherchons un docteuren informatique et/ou en TAL ayant, des comp?tences approfondies en TAL, en ontologies, en utilisation de technologies s?mantiques pour l'indexation et la recherche d'information, en fouille de textes ou apprentissage automatique. Il est en outre important que le candidat fasse preuve de bonnes connaissances du fran?ais ?crit, des techniques d'extractions ? base de patrons structurels, lexicaux ou grammaticaux, et des algorithmes de classification supervis?e ou semi-supervis?e.** *Environnement de travail* Le post-doc sera accueilli dans le laboratoire MoDyCo (www.modyco.fr)avec un statut post-doc CNRS. Il sera plac? sous la responsabilit? scientifique de Delphine Battistelli (MoDyCo), Thierry Charnois (LIPN) et Jean-Luc Minel (MoDyCo) La dur?e du contrat est de 12 mois (d?marrage pr?vu en septembre 2014). Salaire : environ 2038 euros nets Contacts : Delphine Battistelli, Thierry Charnois, Jean-Luc Minel (MoDyCo) *Comment candidater :* Les candidatures sont ? envoyer d?s que possible et seront ?tudi?esjusqu'? ce que le poste soit pourvu. Il convient de rappeler que la r?glementation du CNRS exige que le post doc n'ait pas soutenu sa th?se dans le laboratoire d'accueil. Envoyer un CV et une lettre de motivation, ainsi que des lettres derecommandation (ou deux noms de personnes susceptibles de recommander lecandidat), par courrier ?lectronique : Myriam Djedi (myriam.djedi at u-paris10.fr) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 10:13:02 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:13:02 +0200 Subject: Livre: La comparaison et son expression en francais Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 08:09:06 +0000 From: Annick DENIEL Message-ID: LA COMPARAISON ET SON EXPRESSION EN FRANCAIS Par Catherine Fuchs directeur de recherche ?m?rite au CNRS, sp?cialiste de linguistique fran?aise, est l?auteur d?une dizaine d?ouvrages, parmi lesquels Les ambigu?t?s du fran?ais, Paraphrase et ?nonciation et le Dictionnaire des verbes du fran?ais actuel (en collaboration avec L. Florea) parus chez Ophrys. ?tes-vous de ceux qui pensent que la comparaison en fran?ais se limite ? Pierre est plus grand que Paul ou ? Luc est b?te comme ses pieds ? Si oui, ouvrez ce livre. Vous y trouverez les mille et une fa?ons d?exprimer autrement ces comparaisons ; vous y d?couvrirez aussi l?existence de bien d?autres types de comparaisons. Si non, ce livre est pour vous. Il vous guidera dans l?infinie vari?t? du champ de la comparaison : de l?in?galit? (Les femmes travaillent plus que les hommes ; Il dort moins qu?autrefois) ? l??galit? (Son livre est aussi dr?le que le pr?c?dent ; Il a autant de talent que d?esprit), de la pr?valence (Il vaut mieux pr?venir que gu?rir) ? la pr?f?rence (J?aime mieux le th? que le caf? ; Il a pr?f?r? la mort au d?shonneur) et ? l?alternative r?solue (Un bon croquis, plut?t qu?un long discours !), de la similarit? (Il ment comme il respire) ? l?analogie (Elle a fil?, telle une fl?che), de l?identit? (Il a le m?me pull que toi) ? l?alt?rit? (J?ai d?autres mod?les que celui-ci). Ce tour d?horizon des constructions comparatives du fran?ais ? le premier ? ce jour ? est illustr? par de tr?s nombreux exemples relevant de registres diff?rents : exemples de la langue courante, exemples litt?raires, exemples journalistiques ou tir?s de la Toile, slogans publicitaires. R?dig? de fa?on simple, en ?vitant toute technicit? inutile, cet ouvrage s?adresse aux enseignants et apprenants de fran?ais (langue maternelle ou seconde) ainsi qu?aux ?tudiants et aux universitaires des cursus de lettres et de linguistique. Caract?ristiques : 208 pages, 18 ? - ISBN 978-2-7080-1409-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 10:03:15 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:03:15 +0200 Subject: Conf: INTERSPEECH 2014 Tutorials, Singapore, September 14-18, 2014 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 17:55:53 +0800 From: "Organization @ Interspeech 2014" Message-ID: <538C4A29.3050301 at interspeech2014.org> X-url: http://www.INTERSPEECH2014.org X-url: http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=tutorial.html --- INTERSPEECH 2014 - SINGAPORE --- September 14-18, 2014 --- http://www.INTERSPEECH2014.org The INTERSPEECH 2014 Organising Committee is pleased to announce the following 8 tutorials presented by distinguished speakers at the conference and will be offered on Sunday, 14 September 2014. All Tutorials will be of three (3) hours duration and require an additional registration fee (separate from the conference registration fee). - Non-speech acoustic event detection and classification - Contribution of MRI to Exploring and Modeling Speech Production - Computational Models for Audiovisual Emotion Perception - The Art and Science of Speech Feature Engineering - Recent Advances in Speaker Diarization - Multimodal Speech Recognition with the AusTalk 3D Audio-Visual Corpus - Semantic Web and Linked Big Data Resources for Spoken Language Processing - Speech and Audio for Multimedia Semantics ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISCSLP Tutorials @ INTERSPEECH 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Additionally, the ISCSLP 2014 Organising Committee welcomes the INTERSPEECH 2014 delegates to join the 4 ISCSLP tutorials which will be offered on Saturday, 13 September 2014. - Adaptation Techniques for Statistical Speech Recognition - Emotion and Mental State Recognition: Features, Models, System Applications and Beyond - Unsupervised Speech and Language Processing via Topic Models - Deep Learning for Speech Generation and Synthesis More information available at: http://www.interspeech2014.org/public.php?page=tutorial.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tutorials Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ T1: Non-speech acoustic event detection and classification The research in audio signal processing has been dominated by speech research, but most of the sounds in our real-life environments are actually non-speech events such as cars passing by, wind, warning beeps, and animal sounds. These acoustic events contain much information about the environment and physical events that take place in it, enabling novel application areas such as safety, health monitoring and investigation of biodiversity. But while recent years have seen wide-spread adoption of applications such as speech recognition and song recognition, generic computer audition is still in its infancy. Non-speech acoustic events have several fundamental differences to speech, but many of the core algorithms used by speech researchers can be leveraged for generic audio analysis. The tutorial is a comprehensive review of the field of acoustic event detection as it currently stands. The goal of the tutorial is foster interest in the community, highlight the challenges and opportunities and provide a starting point for new researchers. We will discuss what acoustic event detection entails, the commonalities differences with speech processing, such as the large variation in sounds and the possible overlap with other sounds. We will then discuss basic experimental and algorithm design, including descriptions of available databases and machine learning methods. We will then discuss more advanced topics such as methods to deal with temporally overlapping sounds and modelling the relations between sounds. We will finish with a discussion of avenues for future research. Organizers: Tuomas Virtanen and Jort F. Gemmeke T2: Contribution of MRI to Exploring and Modeling Speech Production Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides us a magic vision to look into the human body in various ways not only with static imaging but also with motion imaging. MRI has been a powerful technique for speech research to study finer anatomy of the speech organs or to visualize true vocal tracts in three dimensions. Inherent problems of slow image acquisition for speech tasks or insufficient signal- to-noise ratio for microscopic observation have been the cost for researchers to search for task-specific imaging techniques. The recent advances of the 3-Tesla technology suggest more practical solutions to broader applications of MRI by overcoming previous technical limitations. In this joint tutorial in two parts, we summarize our previous effort to accumulate scientific knowledge with MRI and to advance speech modeling studies for future development. Part I, given by Kiyoshi Honda, introduces how to visualize the speech organs and vocal tracts by presenting techniques and data for finer static imaging, synchronized motion imaging, surface marker tracking, real-time imaging, and vocal-tract mechanical modeling. Part 2, presented by Jianwu Dang, focuses on applications of MRI for phonetics of Mandarin vowels, acoustics of the vocal tracts with side branches, analysis and simulation in search of talker characteristics, physiological modeling of the articulatory system, and motor control paradigm for speech articulation. Organizers: Kiyoshi HONDA and Jianwu DANG T3: Computational Models for Audiovisual Emotion Perception In this tutorial we will explore engineering approaches to understanding human emotion perception, focusing both on modeling and application. We will highlight both current and historical trends in emotion perception modeling, focusing on both psychological and engineering-driven theories of perception (statistical analyses, data-driven computational modeling, and implicit sensing). The importance of this topic can be appreciated from both an engineering viewpoint, any system that either models human behavior or interacts with human partners must understand emotion perception as it fundamentally underlies and modulates our communication, or from a psychological perspective, emotion perception is also used in the diagnosis of many mental health conditions and is tracked in therapeutic interventions. Research in emotion perception seeks to identify models that describe the felt sense of ?typical? emotion expression ? i.e., an observer/evaluator?s attribution of the emotional state of the speaker. This felt sense is a function of the methods through which individuals integrate the presented multimodal emotional information. We will cover psychological theories of emotion, engineering models of emotion, and experimental approaches to measure emotion. We will demonstrate how these modeling strategies can be used as a component of emotion classification frameworks and how they can be used to inform the design of emotional behaviors. Organizers: Emily Mower Provost and Carlos Busso T4: The Art and Science of Speech Feature Engineering With significant advances in mobile technology and audio sensing devices, there is a fundamental need to describe vast amounts of audio data in terms of well representative lower dimensional descriptors for efficient automatic processing. The extraction of these signal representations, also called features, constitutes the first step in processing a speech signal. The art and science of feature engineering relates to addressing the two inherent challenges - extracting sufficient information from the speech signal for the task at hand and suppressing the unwanted redundancies for computational efficiency and robustness. The area of speech feature extraction combines a wide variety of disciplines like signal processing, machine learning, psychophysics, information theory, linguistics and physiology. It has a rich history spanning more than five decades and has seen tremendous advances in the last few years. This has propelled the transition of the speech technology from controlled environments to millions of end user applications. In this tutorial, we review the evolution of speech feature processing methods, summarize the recent advances of the last two decades and provide insights into the future of feature engineering. This will include the discussions on the spectral representation methods developed in the past, human auditory motivated techniques for robust speech processing, data driven unsupervised features like ivectors and recent advances in deep neural network based techniques. With experimental results, we will also illustrate the impact of these features for various state-of-the-art speech processing systems. The future of speech signal processing will need to address various robustness issues in complex acoustic environments while being able to derive useful information from big data. Organizers: Sriram Ganapathy and Samuel Thomas T5: Recent Advances in Speaker Diarization The tutorial will start with an introduction to speaker diarization giving a general overview of the subject. Afterwards, we will cover the basic background including feature extraction, and common modeling techniques such as GMMs and HMMs. Then, we will discuss the first processing step usually done in speaker diarization which is voice activity detection. We will consequently describe the classic approaches for speaker diarization which are widely used today. We will then introduce state-of-the-art techniques in speaker recognition required to understand modern speaker diarization techniques. Following, we will describe approaches for speaker diarization using advanced representation methods (supervectors, speaker factors, i-vectors) and we will describe supervised and unsupervised learning techniques used for speaker diarization. We will also discuss issues such as coping with unknown number of speakers, detecting and dealing with overlapping speech, diarization confidence estimation, and online speaker diarization. Finally we will discuss two recent works: exploiting a-prioiri acoustic information (such as processing a meeting when some of the participants are known in advanced to the system, and training data is available for them), The second recent work is modeling speaker-turn dynamics. If time permits, we will also discuss concepts such as multi-modal diarization and using TDOA (time difference of arrival) for diarization of meetings. Organizers: Hagai Aronowitz T6: Multimodal Speech Recognition with the AusTalk 3D Audio-Visual Corpus This tutorial will provide attendees a brief overview of 3D based AVSR research. In this tutorial, attendees will learn how to use the newly developed 3D based audio visual data corpus we derived from the AusTalk corpus (https://austalk.edu.au/) for audio-visual speech/speaker recognition. In addition, we also plan to introduce some results using this newly developed 3D audio- visual data corpus, which show that there is a significant speech accuracy increase by integrating both depth-level and grey-level visual features. In the first part of the tutorial, we will review some recent works published in the last decade, so that attendees can obtain an overview of the fundamental concepts and challenges in this field. In the second part of the tutorial, we will briefly describe the recording protocol and contents of the 3D data corpus, and show attendees how to use this corpus for their own research. In the third part of this tutorial, we will present our results using the 3D data corpus. The experimental results show that, compared with the conventional AVSR based on the audio and grey-level visual features, the integration of grey and depth visual information can boost the AVSR accuracy significantly. Moreover, we will also experimentally explain why adding depth information can benefit the standard AVSR systems. Eventually, through our tutorial, we hope we can inspire more researchers in the community to contribute to this exciting research. Organizers: Roberto Togneri, Mohammed Bennamoun and Chao (Luke) Sui T7: Semantic Web and Linked Big Data Resources for Spoken Language Processing State-of-the-art statistical spoken language processing typically requires significant manual effort to construct domain-specific schemas (ontologies) as well as manual effort to annotate training data against these schemas. At the same time, a recent surge of activity and progress on semantic web-related concepts from the large search-engine companies represents a potential alternative to the manually intensive design of spoken language processing systems. Standards such as schema.org have been established for schemas (ontologies) that webmasters can use to semantically and uniformly markup their web pages. Search engines like Bing, Google, and Yandex have adopted these standards and are leveraging them to create semantic search engines at the scale of the web. As a result, the open linked data resources and semantic graphs covering various domains (such as Freebase [3]) have grown massively every year and contains far more information than any single resource anywhere on the Web. Furthermore, these resources contain links to text data (such as Wikipedia pages) related to the knowledge in the graph. Recently, several studies on speech language processing started exploiting these massive linked data resources for language modeling and spoken language understanding. This tutorial will include a brief introduction to the semantic web and the linked data structure, available resources, and querying languages. An overview of related work on information extraction and language processing will be presented, where the main focus will be on methods for learning spoken language understanding models from these resources. Organizers: Dilek Hakkani-T?r and Larry Heck T8: Speech and Audio for Multimedia Semantics Internet media sharing sites and the one-click upload capability of smartphones are producing a deluge of multimedia content. While visual features are often dominant in such material, acoustic and speech information in particular often complements it. By facilitating access to large amounts of data, the text-based Internet gave a huge boost to the field of natural language processing. The vast amount of consumer-produced video becoming available now will do the same for video processing, eventually enabling semantic understanding of multimedia material, with implications for human computer interaction, robotics, etc. Large-scale multi-modal analysis of audio-visual material is now central to a number of multi-site research projects around the world. While each of these have slightly different targets, they are facing largely the same challenges: how to robustly and efficiently process large amounts of data, how to represent and then fuse information across modalities, how to train classifiers and segmenters on unlabeled data, how to include human feedback, etc. In this tutorial, we will present the state of the art in large-scale video, speech, and non-speech audio processing, and show how these approaches are being applied to tasks such as content based video retrieval (CBVR) and multimedia event detection (MED). We will introduce the most important tools and techniques, and show how the combination of information across modalities can be used to induce semantics on multimedia material through ranking of information and fusion. Finally, we will discuss opportunities for research that the INTERSPEECH community specifically will find interesting and fertile. Organizers: Florian Metze and Koichi Shinoda ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISCSLP Tutorials @ INTERSPEECH 2014 Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISCSLP-T1: Adaptation Techniques for Statistical Speech Recognition Adaptation is a technique to make better use of existing models for test data from new acoustic or linguistic conditions. It is an important and challenging research area of statistical speech recognition. This tutorial gives a systematic review of fundamental theories as well as introduction of state- of-the-art adaptation techniques. It includes both acoustic and language model adaptation. Following a simple example of acoustic model adaptation, basic concepts, procedures and categories of adaptation will be introduced. Then, a number of advanced adaptation techniques will be discussed, such as discriminative adaptation, Deep Neural Network adaptation, adaptive training, relationship to noise robustness etc. After the detailed review of acoustic model adaptation, an introduction of language model adaptation, such as topic adaptation will also be given. The whole tutorial is then summarised and future research direction will be discussed. Organizers: Kai Yu ISCSLP-T2: Emotion and Mental State Recognition: Features, Models, System Applications and Beyond Emotion recognition is the ability to identify what you are feeling from moment to moment and to understand the connection between your feelings and your expressions. In today?s world, human-computer interaction (HCI) interface undoubtedly plays an important role in our daily life. Toward harmonious HCI interfaces, automated analysis and recognition of human emotion has attracted increasing attention from researchers in multidisciplinary research fields. A specific area of current interest that also has key implications for HCI is the estimation of cognitive load (mental workload), research into which is still at an early stage. Technologies for processing daily activities including speech, text and music have expanded the interaction modalities between humans and computer- supported communicational artifacts. In this tutorial, we will present theoretical and practical work offering new and broad views of the latest research in emotional awareness from audio and speech. We discuss several parts spanning a variety of theoretical background and applications ranging from salient emotional features, emotional-cognitive models, compensation methods for variability due to speaker and linguistic content, to machine learning approaches applicable to emotion recognition. In each topic, we will review the state of the art by introducing current methods and presenting several applications. In particular, the application to cognitive load estimation will be discussed, from its psychophysiological origins to system design considerations. Eventually, technologies developed in different areas will be combined for future applications, so in addition to a survey of future research challenges, we will envision a few scenarios in which affective computing can make a difference. Organizers: Chung-Hsien Wu, Hsin-Min Wang, Julien Epps and Vidhyasaharan Sethu ISCSLP-T3: Unsupervised Speech and Language Processing via Topic Models In this tutorial, we will present state-of-art machine learning approaches for speech and language processing with highlight on the unsupervised methods for structural learning from the unlabeled sequential patterns. In general, speech and language processing involves extensive knowledge of statistical models. We require designing a flexible, scalable and robust system to meet heterogeneous and non-stationary environments in the era of big data. This tutorial starts from an introduction of unsupervised speech and language processing based on factor analysis and independent component analysis. The unsupervised learning is generalized to a latent variable model which is known as the topic model. The evolution of topic models from latent semantic analysis to hierarchical Dirichlet process, from non-Bayesian parametric models to Bayesian nonparametric models, and from single-layer model to hierarchical tree model shall be surveyed in an organized fashion. The inference approaches based on variational Bayesian and Gibbs sampling are introduced. We will also present several case studies on topic modeling for speech and language applications including language model, document model, retrieval model, segmentation model and summarization model. At last, we will point out new trends of topic models for speech and language processing. Organizers: Jen-Tzung Chien ISCSLP-T4: Deep Learning for Speech Generation and Synthesis Deep learning, which can represent high-level abstractions in data with an architecture of multiple non-linear transformation, has made a huge impact on automatic speech recognition (ASR) research, products and services. However, deep learning for speech generation and synthesis (i.e., text-to-speech), which is an inverse process of speech recognition (i.e., speech-to-text), has not generated the similar momentum as it is for ASR yet. Recently, motivated by the success of Deep Neural Networks in speech recognition, some neural network based research attempts have been tried successfully on improving the performance of statistical parametric based speech generation/synthesis. In this tutorial, we focus on deep learning approaches to the problems in speech generation and synthesis, especially on Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis and voice conversion. First, we give a review for the current main stream of statistical parametric based speech generation and synthesis, or the GMM-HMM based speech synthesis and GMM-based voice conversion with emphasis on analyzing the major factors responsible for the quality problems in the GMM-based voice synthesis/conversion and the intrinsic limitations of a decision-tree based, contextual state clustering and state-based statistical distribution modeling. We then present the latest deep learning algorithms for feature parameter trajectory generation, in contrast to deep learning for recognition or classification. We cover common technologies in Deep Neural Network (DNN) and improved DNN: Mixture Density Networks (MDN), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) with Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory (BLSTM) and Conditional RBM (CRBM). Finally, we share our research insights and hand-on experience on building speech generation and synthesis systems based upon deep learning algorithms. Organizers: Yao Qian and Frank K. Soong ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 5 10:07:38 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 12:07:38 +0200 Subject: Conf: TALN 2014, 1-4 Juillet 2014, Marseille Message-ID: Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 11:25:38 +0200 From: Philippe Blache Message-Id: <2D750647-7326-42A6-A4E5-DE380F7A1F58 at lpl-aix.fr> X-url: http://www.taln2014.org APPEL ? PARTICIPATION TALN-2014 21e conf?rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles 1-4 Juillet 2014 Marseille http://www.taln2014.org Vous ?tes convi?s ? participer ? la conf?rence TALN, qui aura lieu ? Marseille du 1er au 4 Juillet 2014. Vous pouvez consulter le programme sur le site de la conf?rence (http://www.taln2014.org). Les inscriptions sont ouvertes, vous b?n?ficiez d'un tarif r?duit si vous vous inscrivez avant le 6 Juin. Les inscriptions couvrent les repas de midi et le repas de gala. AIDES et SUBVENTIONS -------------------- L'ATALA offre des bourses aux ?tudiants membres de l'ATALA, permettant de prendre en charge les droits d'inscription. Ces bourses sont accord?es en priorit? aux ?tudiants ayant une communication accept?e. Les demandes doivent parvenir avant le 20 Juin ? l'adresse contact at taln2014.org. Par ailleurs, nous accordons un tarif pr?f?rentiel pour : - les laboratoires inscrivant plus de 3 participants - les participants (notamment ?trangers) venant de laboratoires ne disposant pas de moyens suffisants Faites parvenir votre demande argument?e ? contact at taln2014.org avant le 15 Juin. EVENEMENTS ---------- - Une session particuli?re, ? la m?moire de Jean V?ronis, sera organis?e le Mercredi 2 Juillet, ? l'issue de la premi?re journ?e. - Le vendredi sera consacr? au "Salon de l'innovation en TAL". Cette journ?e permettra de pr?senter diff?rents projets publics et priv?s, avec une vingtaine d'exposants, en m?me temps que les posters et les d?monstrations. Une table ronde sur le bilan de ces 20 derni?res ann?es en TAL accueillera 4 conf?renciers invit?s : Annie Zaenen, Dominique Laurent, Christian Boitet et Fran?ois Yvon. - Le jeudi soir, le repas de la conf?rence sera organis? sur un bateau, il y aura un concert (d'un groupe marseillais c?l?bre). Nous partirons vers 19h, retour vers 23h30. Quelques places suppl?mentaires pour des accompagnants seront disponibles, r?servez-les sur le site. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 07:04:19 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 09:04:19 +0200 Subject: These: Driss Sadoun, Des specifications en langage naturel aux specifications formelles Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:45:17 +0200 From: sadoun Message-ID: <5391D3FD.2070307 at limsi.fr> Bonjour, J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter ? ma soutenance de th?se intitul?e /"Des sp?cifications en langage naturel aux sp?cifications formelles via une ontologie comme mod?le pivot" /ainsi qu'au pot qui suivra. *Date et heure* : Mercredi 17 juin 2014, ? 14h *Lieu* : LIMSI-CNRS, B?timents /S/ Rue John von Neumann Universit? Paris-Sud 91403 ORSAY (France) en salle de conf?rence. *Le jury est constitu? de :* *Co-directeurs* : Mme Brigitte Grau Professeur (LIMSI-CNRS - ENSIIE) Mme Catherine Dubois Professeur (CEDRIC-CNAM - ENSIIE) M. Yacine Ghamri-Doudane Professeur (Universit? de La Rochelle) *Rapporteurs* : M. Fran?ois L?vy Professeur (LIPN - Universit? Paris 13) M. Yamine Ait-Ameur Professeur (IRIT-ENSEEIHT) *Examinateurs* : Mme Chantal Reynaud Professeur (LRI - Universit? Paris-Sud) M. Yannick Toussaint CR HDR (LORIA-INRIA) *R?sum? *: Le d?veloppement d'un syst?me a pour objectif de r?pondre ? des exigences. Aussi, le succ?s de sa r?alisation repose en grande partie sur la phase de sp?cification des exigences qui a pour vocation de d?crire de mani?re pr?cise et non ambigu? toutes les caract?ristiques du syst?me ? d?velopper. Les sp?cifications d'exigences sont le r?sultat d'une analyse des besoins faisant intervenir diff?rentes parties. Elles sont g?n?ralement r?dig?es en langage naturel (LN) pour une plus large compr?hension, ce qui peut mener ? diverses interpr?tations, car les textes en LN peuvent contenir des ambigu?t?s s?mantiques ou des informations implicites. Il n'est donc pas ais? de sp?cifier un ensemble complet et coh?rent d'exigences. D'o? la n?cessit? d'une v?rification formelle des sp?cifications r?sultats. Les sp?cifications LN ne sont pas consid?r?es comme formelles et ne permettent pas l'application directe de m?thodes v?rification formelles. Ce constat m?ne ? la n?cessit? de transformer les sp?cifications LN en sp?cifications formelles. C'est dans ce contexte que s'inscrit cette th?se. La difficult? principale d'une telle transformation r?side dans l'ampleur du foss? entre sp?cifications LN et sp?cifications formelles. L'objectif de mon travail de th?se est de proposer une approche permettant de v?rifier automatiquement des sp?cifications d'exigences utilisateur, ?crites en langage naturel et d?crivant le comportement d'un syst?me. Pour cela, nous avons explor? les possibilit?s offertes par un mod?le de repr?sentation fond? sur un formalisme logique. Nos contributions portent essentiellement sur trois propositions : 1) une ontologie en /OWL-DL/ fond?e sur les logiques de description, comme mod?le de repr?sentation pivot permettant de faire le lien entre sp?cifications en langage naturel et sp?cifications formelles; 2) une approche d'instanciation du mod?le de repr?sentation pivot, fond?e sur une analyse dirig?e par la s?mantique de l'ontologie, permettant de passer automatiquement des sp?cifications en langage naturel ? leur repr?sentation conceptuelle; et 3) une approche exploitant le formalisme logique de l'ontologie, pour permettre un passage automatique du mod?le de repr?sentation pivot vers un langage de sp?cifications formelles nomm? /Maude/. *Abstract:* The main objective of system development is to address requirements. As such, success in its realisation is highly dependent on a requirement specification phase which aims to describe precisely and unambiguously all the characteristics of the system that should be developed. In order to arrive at a set of requirements, a user needs analysis is carried out which involves different parties (stakeholders). The system requirements are generally written in natural language to garantuee a wider understanding. However, since NL texts can contain semantic ambiguities, implicit information, or other inconsistenties, this can lead to diverse interpretations. Hence, it is not easy to specify a set of complete and consistent requirements, and therefore, the specified requirements must be formally checked. Specifications written in NL are not considered to be formal and do not allow for a direct application of formal methods. We must therefore transform NL requirements into formal specifications. The work presented in this thesis was carried out in this framework. The main difficulty of such transformation is the gap between NL requirements and formal specifications. The objective of this work is to propose an approach for an automatic verification of user requirements which are written in natural language and describe a system's expected behaviour. Our approach uses the potential offered by a representation model based on a logical formalism. Our contribution has three main aspects: 1) an /OWL-DL/ontology based on description logic, used as a pivot representation model that serves as a link between NL requirements to formal specifications; 2) an approach for the instantiation of the pivot ontology, which allows an automatic transformation of NL requirements to their conceptual representations; and 3) an approach exploiting the logical formalism of the ontology in order to automatically translate the ontology into a formal specification language called /Maude/. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 06:58:27 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 08:58:27 +0200 Subject: Info: INTERSPEECH 2014, Grants and Awards Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 16:10:59 +0800 From: "Organization @ Interspeech 2014" Message-ID: <53917793.6070504 at interspeech2014.org> X-url: http://www.interspeech2014.org X-url: http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/images/files/grants/grant_form.txt X-url: http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/grants. --- INTERSPEECH 2014 - SINGAPORE --- September 14-18, 2014 --- http://www.interspeech2014.org INTERSPEECH 2014 Organizing Committee is glad to announce that 5 travel grants will be offered by INTESPEECH 2014 sponsors and that ISCA will offer 55 grants for students and young scientists and give 3 ISCA Best Student Paper Awards. Modalities and details about the grants and Best Paper Awards are given below. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ISCA Grants ------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Information ISCA will offer grants to students and young scientists (age<35) in order to help them attend the conference. Each grant, equivalent to 650 Euros, will be disbursed in cash at the registration desk during the conference. All grant recipients are strongly encouraged to participate in the Student Volunteer Program with a workload of one day or 3 sessions for the entire conference. For details - please refer to the Student Volunteer Program page. Conditions The grants for participation in INTERSPEECH 2014 will be administered by the ISCA Board and awarded, according to the available budget, to applicants who provide the information listed below: * Letter of acceptance of a paper to be presented. * Mentioning of other funding being requested, awarded or rejected by other sources * Sworn statement that the applicant never received any previous grants from ISCA. Note that preference is given to applicants from areas needing greater support. The purpose of these grants is to guarantee a representation of the diverse scientific topics of the conference and a cross- section of the international speech community as wide as possible. Exceptionally, researchers in special situations like unemployment or coming from low income-level countries could also apply. Applicants from all countries are eligible. Application Process Applicants should complete the application form with additional documents: 1) Curriculum Vitae with academic records 2) Complete list of previous publications (title, year, co-authors journal/book/proceedings, pages). 3) List of the conferences and workshops previously attended. 4) Letter of acceptance of the paper(s) from the conference organizers 5) Copy of the original manuscript(s) accepted to the conference 6) Recommendation letter (email is acceptable) from the Director of your Laboratory Application form can be downloaded from http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/images/files/grants/grant_form.txt Please submit the application package by sending an email with subject heading ?ISCA Grants for INTERSPEECH 2014? to the grants coordinator Prof. Alan Black: grants at isca-speech.org before 17 June 2014. Prof. Alan Black will send notification letter to all applicants.For more information of grant application, please refer to http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/grants. As there is a limited period for application, interested applicants are encouraged to start preparing the required documents if s/he would like to consider this source of support to attend INTERSPEECH 2014. ************************************************************************ * Important Dates * ************************************************************************ Grant application start after acceptance notification: June 10, 2014 Grant application deadline: June 17, 2014 Notification of grant acceptance: June 24, 2014 Early Registration: July 10, 2014 ************************************************************************ Registration Procedure All grant recipients must be ISCA members to receive the grants. All grant recipients will be given free registration to the INTERSPEECH main conference that includes the technical program, reception, and banquet, but excludes other options (such as tutorials). Grant recipients please inform the organizer your Registration ID, which you can obtain from the online registration system, before you make payment (if any) so that the organizer can waive your registration fee by changing your account setting. All grants will be disbursed onsite, during the conference. Please see Dr Tong Rong with the notification letter and paper ID at the registration desk, to collect your money. All grant recipients are required to register online to the system to confirm the attendance, to make purchases beyond the free package. As all accounts have to be settled immediately, the organizers will not entertain any request to transfer, ship or send money after the conference ends. ISCA Board will make the selection and provide the list of grant recipients to INTERSPEECH 2014 organizing committee. The committee will inform you the registration procedure. Please contact registration at interspeech2014.org, if you have any inquiry. Please note that grant recipients need to complete the registration by 10 Jul 2014. Late registration fees apply if this early registration deadline is not met. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- INTERSPEECH 2014 Student Travel Grants ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERSPEECH 2014 would like to express sincere gratitude to Google, Samsung and IFLYTEK CO., LTD. for their combined support of 5 student travel grants, 3 will be selected as the Google grantees, 1 will be selected as the Samsung grantee, and 1 will be selected as the IFLYTEK CO., LTD. grantee. The grantees are selected based on the technical quality of their paper(s). The grantees will be notified and announced on the INTERSPEECH 2014 website by July 3, 2014. Grantees will be announced by the INTERSPEECH General Chair during the closing ceremony. For any inquiry, please contact awards at interspeech2014.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ISCA Best Student Paper Awards ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Each year, ISCA awards 3 best student paper awards at INTERSPEECH based on the technical merit of the paper and the presentation at the conference. Note that the first author student needs to present the paper in person to be considered for the award. The ISCA Best Student Paper Award is sponsored by IBM Research. In addition, Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Larry Heck from Microsoft Research are donating their honorarium from their tutorial ?Semantic Web and Linked Big Data Resources for Spoken Language Processing? to financially sponsor the ISCA Best Student Paper Award. The shortlist of Best Student Paper Awards will be announced on the INTERSPEECH 2014 website by July 3, 2014 and the final awardees will be announced by the president of ISCA during the closing ceremony. For any inquiry, please contact awards at interspeech2014.org. The INTERSPEECH 2014 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 06:59:43 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 08:59:43 +0200 Subject: Sujet de these: Appel a candidatures financement de these, Vertus et faiblesses du crowd-sourcing Message-ID: Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 10:02:51 +0200 From: Thomas Lebarb? Message-Id: <0A6B7A63-8C7B-4AE9-858A-3EA1F10746EB at u-grenoble3.fr> Bonjour, Le LIDILEM lance un appel ? candidatures pour des contrats doctoraux r?gionaux dans le cadre de l?ARC 5. Ce contrat doctoral r?gional est ouvert dans le cadre de l?ARC 5, au sein de l??quipe LIDILEM en Sciences du langages, sous r?serve de confirmation par le vote final de la r?gion Rh?ne Alpes. Vertus et faiblesses du crowd-sourcing : Evaluation qualitative et quantitative de la transcription de fonds patrimoniaux Mots cl?s : transcription, fonds patrimoniaux, crowd-sourcing, cha?nes ?ditoriales, corpus, ?valuation, qualit? R?sum? : La question du crowd-sourcing est souvent soumise aux porteurs des projets d??dition de fonds de manuscrits, notamment ceux soutenus depuis quelques ann?es par la r?gion Rh?ne-Alpes. L??mergence d?outils collaboratifs pour la transcription, tels ceux du Bentham Project (www.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/), incite ? penser que recourir au grand public pour transcrire de grands volumes de manuscrits pourrait ?tre une solution ?conomiquement viable. Dans la lign?e de diff?rents projets que la R?gion a soutenus (? Bouvard et P?cuchet ?, ? Stendhal ?, ? Cha?nes ?ditoriales patrimoniales ?), nous souhaitons encadrer un projet de recherche qui permette de d?finir et de caract?riser des mesures de qualit? afin de comparer objectivement les m?thodes collaboratives aux m?thodes plus traditionnelles d??dition de corpus patrimoniaux dans le but de confirmer ou d?infirmer l?hypoth?se de la pertinence et de l?efficacit? des m?thodes contributives. Comp?tences requises : Le(la) candidat(e) devra ?tre titulaire d?un master recherche dans une des disciplines suivantes : lettres, sciences du langage, informatique. Il(elle) devra justifier des comp?tences suivantes : - d?veloppement informatique en ligne - encodage xml de donn?es textuelles - normes et standards d?inter-op?rabilit? et de moissonnabilit? - m?thodes d??valuation qualitative et quantitave - une exp?rience des m?thodes et outils propres aux humanit?s num?riques des textes est souhaitable pour une adaptation rapide ? l?environnement du projet de recherche. Date limite de d?p?t des candidatures : 10 juin 2014 Pour plus d'informations, contacter : Thomas Lebarb? thomas.lebarbe at u-grenoble3.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 07:06:42 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 09:06:42 +0200 Subject: Job: Open Positions in ASR, SyNTHEMA, Italy Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:11:47 +0200 From: Carlo Aliprandi Message-ID: <53920463.2040103 at synthema.it> X-url: http://www.synthema.it/index.php/Tecnologia/speechtechnology/ SyNTHEMA, a leading provider of Language and Semantic technologies located in Pisa (Italy), is looking for: - Researchers in Automatic Speech Recognition SyNTHEMA's expertise spans over 20 years of building state-of-the art solutions for Enterprise Search, Customer Relationship Intelligence, Sentiment Analysis, Speech Recognition, Respeaking, Audio Mining and Speech Analytics. JUNIOR ASR RESEARCHER (REF JASR_2014) ------------------------------------- We are looking for a Software Engineer with some education background in Computational Linguist to join our Research & Development Team. In this position, under the direction of the International R&D Manager, you will be responsible for advancing research and development in our ASR systems Minimum Requirements: - a Master's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics, - programming skills - self-motivated, goal-oriented and likes working in a team, - Fluency in English, speaking and writing. The ideal candidate: - programming skills (c and c++) - has an education background in ASR, - has experience working with ASR toolkits, like HTK, Sphinx, Julius. ASR RESEARCHER (REF. ASR_2014) ------------------------------- We are looking for a Software Engineer with some experience in Computational Linguist to join our Research & Development Team. In this position, under the direction of the International R&D Manager, you will be responsible for advancing research and development in our ASR systems, managing responsibilities in EU projects. Minimum Requirements: - a Master's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics, - good programming skills, (c, c++, java) - self-motivated, goal-oriented and likes working in a team, - good Fluency in English, speaking and writing. The ideal candidate: - has a background of the technology and techniques used in ASR engines, - has experience in development and deployment of an ASR engine, with emphasis on language modelling, dictionary tuning, acoustic modelling and domain adaptation, - has experience working with ASR toolkits, like HTK, Sphinx, Julius. The positions are open until filled. To apply, please submit your CV, a publication list and a cover letter describing your experience and interests to: Dr. Carlo Aliprandi Email: carlo.aliprandi AT synthema .it Language and Speech Solutions Manager Synthema S.r.l. Via Malasoma 24 I-56121 Ospedaletto (PI) - ITALY Tel: +39.050.96564.11, Fax: +39.050.96564.21 http://www.synthema.it/index.php/Tecnologia/speechtechnology/ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/carlo-aliprandi/4/874/180 From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 07:18:39 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 09:18:39 +0200 Subject: Sujet de these: Modelisation des systemes ethiques, LIP6-Institut Mines Telecom Message-ID: Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 22:09:46 +0200 From: Jean-Gabriel Ganascia Message-ID: <5392200A.1010905 at Ganascia.name> Th?se financ?e dans le cadre du projet ANR Ethicaa - ?thique des Agents Autonomes Sujet : mod?lisation des syst?mes ?thiques 1- Institutions d?accueil et direction de th?se Le candidat sera accueilli au sein de l??quipe ACASA du LIP6 ? l?Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie. Il travaillera en collaboration ?troite avec des enseignants-chercheurs des ?coles de l?institut Mines T?l?com, en particulier avec Pierre-Antoine Chardel et Thibault de Swarte, sous la direction conjointe de Jean-Gabriel Ganascia et de Robert Voyer. Contact: Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (Jean-Gabriel.Ganascia at lip6.fr) 2- Sujet de th?se Introduction Cette th?se s?inscrit dans le cadre du projet ANR Ethicaa (Ethique des Agents Autonomes) qui se propose d??tudier les sp?cifications d?agents artificiels autonomes interagissant avec des humains et capables de les aider ? r?soudre des conflits ?thiques. Ces conflits apparaissent ? la fois au sein d?un agent, soumis ? des principes ?thiques antagoniques, entre les agents eux-m?mes, voire entre les agents et les op?rateurs humains. Ce sujet de th?se porte sur les diff?rentes fa?ons de surmonter les conflits entre principes ?thiques /au sein d?un seul agent/. Pour cela, il faudra faire r?f?rence ? diff?rentes th?ories ?thiques d?crites par divers courants philosophiques (cons?quentialisme, d?ontisme, etc.)en vue de les mod?liser en ayant recours ? diff?rentes formalisations issues des travaux d?intelligence artificielle inspir?s des logiques modales, des logiques non-monotones (comme les ASP (Gelfond 2007)) de, l'argumentation formelle (Dung 1995)) ou de la programmation d?agents intelligents, comme le formalisme BDI (Rao & Georgeff, 1995).Il s?agira enfin de valider les diff?rents mod?les sur des ?tudes de cas d?j? inventori?es dans le cadre du projet Ethicaa. Ce sujet s?inscrivant ? la fronti?re de la philosophie et de l?intelligence artificielle, il sera encadr? ? la fois par des philosophes et par des sp?cialistes d?intelligence artificielle. Travail ? effectuer Le travail s?effectuera en trois temps. Dans le premier, on reprendra les diff?rentes mod?lisations informatiques des raisonnements ?thiques effectu?es au cours de ces derni?res ann?es (Ganascia, 2007 ; 2014 ; Bringsjord & al., 2006 ; Power, 2005). On les mettra alors en regard des diff?rents syst?mes ?thiques identifi?s par les philosophes. On comparera ces diff?rentes formalisations et on d?terminera les propri?t?s s?mantiques et algorithmiques de chacune d?entre elles. Dans un second temps, on concevra un ou ?ventuellement deux formalismes de repr?sentation des connaissances, voire plus si cela se r?v?le n?cessaire puis on les d?ploiera sur des architectures d?agents intelligents. Sur la base de ces repr?sentations l?agent devra ?tre en mesure soit de r?guler son comportement, soit d??valuer et/ou de ? juger ? le comportement d?autres agents (autonomes ou humains) selon des crit?res ?thiques. On s?int?ressera tout particuli?rement ? la capacit? de ces agents ? surmonter les dilemmes ?thiques, ou, le cas ?ch?ant, ? expliciter clairement les diff?rentes alternatives, et ? argumenter leurs positions avec des agents, qu?ils soient humains ou artificiels. On s'appuiera en particulier sur des mod?lisations symboliques du raisonnement, telles que l'argumentation formelle, l'abduction et les formes de programmation logique non monotones. Dans un troisi?me temps, on proc?dera ? un impl?mentation informatique de chacun des formalismes de repr?sentation des connaissances mentionn?s plus haut, afin de les tester sur les cas d??tude identifi?s dans le cadre du projet Ethicaa. On s?int?ressera plus particuli?rement au /partage d?autorit?/ entre hommes et machines dans l?a?ronautique, aux /transactions ? haute fr?quence/ dans la bourse et ? /l'investissement responsable/. Pr?requis Pour effectuer ce sujet de th?se, il faudrait avoir re?u une formation pr?alable en intelligence artificielle symbolique, avec une connaissance des diff?rents formalismes de mod?lisation du raisonnement et de d?duction automatique. Il faudrait aussi ?tre en mesure d?impl?menter ces diff?rents mod?les et de les tester. Enfin, il serait souhaitable demanifester un go?t pour les questions philosophiques, et ?ventuellement avoir une formation dans ce domaine. R?f?rences Bringsjord, S., Arkoudas, K., Bello, P.: Toward a General Logicist Methodology for Engineering Ethically Correct Robots. Technical report, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy NY 12180 USA (2006) Dung., P. M. : On the acceptability of arguments and its fundamental role in nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming and /n/-person games. /Artificial Intelligence/, 77:321?357, 1995. Ganascia, J.G.: Modelling ethical rules of lying with answer set programming. Ethics and Information Technology 9(1) (2007) 39?47 Ganascia, J.G.: An agent-based formalization for resolving ethical conflicts. In Konieczny, S., Meyer, T., eds.: Workshop on Belief change, Non-monotonic rea- soning and Conflict Resolution, Montpellier, France, ECAI (August 2012) 34?40 Ganascia, J.G.: Non-Monotonic Resolution of Conflicts for Ethical Reasoning. To appear MIT Press (2014) Gelfond, M.: Answer sets, chapter 7. In: Handbook of Knowledge Representation. Elsevier (2007) Gensler, H.: Formal Ethics. Routledge (1996) Powers, T.: Deontological machine ethics. Technical report, American Association of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium 2005, Washington, D.C. (2005) Rao, A., Georgeff, M.: Bdi agents: From theory to practice. Proceedings of the first international conference on multiagent systems ICMAS95 95(Technical Note 56) (1995) 312?319 Tufis, M., Ganascia, J.G.: Grafting norms onto the BDI agent model. In: A Construction Manual for Robot?s Ethical Systems: Requirements, Methods, Implementations. To appear MIT Press (2014) vonWright, G.H.: Deontic logics. Mind (60) (1951) 1?15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 8 07:19:18 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 09:19:18 +0200 Subject: Info: Actes JADT'2014 (Paris) en ligne sur Lexicometrica Message-ID: Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 18:59:54 +0200 From: Serge Fleury Message-ID: X-url: http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2014/ Actes JADT'2014 (Paris) en ligne sur Lexicometrica : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2014/ Textes au format PDF pr?par?s par le comit? d'organisation des JADT'2014 (3-6 juin 2014) http://jadt.org Les Journ?es internationales d?Analyse statistique des Donn?es Textuelles (JADT) r?unissent tous les deux ans, depuis 1990, des chercheurs travaillant dans les diff?rents domaines concern?s par les traitements automatiques et statistiques de donn?es textuelles : statisticiens, linguistes, sociologues, sp?cialistes d?analyse du discours, informaticiens, sp?cialistes de lexicographie et de fouille de textes. Elles permettent aux participants de pr?senter leurs r?sultats, de confronter leurs outils et leurs exp?riences. Rappel : ------------ Actes JADT'2012 (Li?ge) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2012/tocJADT2012.htm Actes JADT'2010 (Rome) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2010/tocJADT2010.htm Actes JADT'2008 (Lyon) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2008/tocJADT2008.htm Actes JADT'2006 (Besan?on) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2006/tocJADT2006.htm Actes JADT'2004 (Louvain) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2004/tocJADT2004.htm Actes JADT'2002 (St Malo) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2002/tocJADT2002.htm Actes JADT'2000 (Lausanne) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt2000/tocJADT2000.htm Actes JADT'1998 (Nice) : http://lexicometrica.univ-paris3.fr/jadt/jadt1998/JADT1998.htm __________________________________________________ L'?quipe Lexicometrica Coordinateurs de la r?daction : Andr? 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Paris 13e autour des enjeux et d?fis *de l'archivage des corpus issus du web pour la recherche en SHS* De plus en plus structur?es, format?es et interop?rables, les donn?es de la recherche contribuent elles-m?mes au d?veloppement du web des donn?es. Mais qu'en est-il de leur pr?servation sur le long terme ? Comment conserver les archives scientifiques quand elles int?grent des corpus multim?dias ou issus du Web ? Comment garantir les conditions d'un retour ? la source dans le cadre de corpus issus du web constitu?s sp?cifiquement pour des projets de recherche ? Quel sont les outils, les plateformes, les projets qui concourent ? partager et diffuser les fonds d'archives scientifiques et, inversement, ? archiver les contenus en ligne quand ils sont constitu?s en objets d'?tude ? Dans quelle mesure les techniques et les politiques d'archivage du web peuvent-elles compl?ter ou interf?rer avec celles de l'archivage scientifique ? Y a-t-il une concurrence entre les acteurs, ou les plateformes sont-elles au contraire appel?es ? s'articuler en exploitant les nouvelles possibilit?s de partage et les nouvelles mani?res de construire des corpus ? Pour en d?battre nous recevrons : - *St?phane Pouyllau, *Ing?nieur de recherche au CNRS, sp?cialis? en humanit?s num?riques, en information scientifique et technique et en informatisation des donn?es de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales. Co-concepteur de M?diHAL (http://medihal.archives-ouvertes.fr)et ancien co-directeur d'ISIDORE (http://rechercheisidore.fr/), il est actuellement directeur-adjoint technique de la TGIR Huma-Num (http://www.huma-num.fr) - *Paul Girard, *responsable du m?dialab de Sciences Po (http://www.medialab.sciences-po.fr/fr) , direction technique des projets de recherche, collaboration entre SHS, ing?nierie des connaissances et design de l'information, entre artistes et ing?nieurs des technologies de l'interactivit?, de l'image num?rique et de la r?alit? augment?e. - *Benjamin Ooghe Tabanou*, ing?nieur au m?dialab de Sciences Po (http://www.medialab.sciences-po.fr/fr), a rejoint l??quipe DIME-SHS en juin 2012 pour se consacrer au d?veloppement de l?outil Hypertext Corpus Initiative. ?galement cofondateur de l?association *Regards Citoyens* (http://www.regardscitoyens.org/qui-sommes-nous/) qui cherche ? mieux faire comprendre le fonctionnement des institutions politiques en redistribuant de larges corpus de donn?es notamment li?s ? l?activit? du Parlement. *Le s?minaire est ouvert ? tous sans inscription pr?alable, sous r?serve des places disponibles* David Rapin D?p?t L?gal du Web Institut National de l'Audiovisuel david.rapin at ina.fr +33 1 49 83 29 85 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 20:52:59 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:52:59 +0200 Subject: Appel: Envororisk'2014 (informatique et risque) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:28:01 +0200 From: Jean Yves ANTOINE Message-ID: <53956201.5020802 at univ-tours.fr> X-url: http://www.polynome-even.fr/envirorisk-bourges/?page=0 X-url: http://www.envirorisk-bourges.fr/ Appel ? communication Risques informatiques - Envirorisk 2014* Dans le cadre de la conf?rence Envirorisk 2014, le th?me risques informatiques concerne l'apport de l'informatique et les risques introduits dans cinq domaines (assistance ? la personne handicap?e, transports, sant?, syst?mes de production et collectivit?s). On peut citer les logiciels qui aident les autistes, la conduite des m?tros, l'automatisation des proc?d?s de fabrication ou la gestion territoriale des dossiers de handicap. L'informatique limite certains risques mais peut ? l'inverse en introduire de nouveaux. Pour de meilleures pratiques, des travaux inter-disciplinaires sont n?cessaires pour ces questions fronti?res entre disciplines op?rationnelles et syst?miques. Ainsi, nous encourageons les regards crois?s des usagers avec les experts des sciences humaines et sociales et des sciences et techniques. Plus de renseignement sur la conf?rences : http://www.polynome-even.fr/envirorisk-bourges/?page=0 Pour soumettre votre candidature, vous devez : - compl?ter le formulaire d'intention disponible sur la page d'appel ? communication http://www.envirorisk-bourges.fr/ - retourner votre r?sum? de proposition de communication (Word ou PDF, 2 pages maximum figures incluses), d'ici le 27 juin ? candidature at envirorisk-bourges.org Les auteurs retenus seront contact?s le 4 juillet 2014 et les textes complets seront demand?s pour le 31 juillet en respectant une charte graphique qui leur sera transmise. Les papiers longs accept?s ne doivent pas d?passer 8 pages. Les actes des communications seront imprim?s par un ?diteur scientifique et distribu?s lors du Forum Envirorisk 2014. Les meilleurs papiers pourront faire l'objet d'une version ?tendue pour un num?ro sp?cial dans une revue scientifique. Comit? de programme du th?me risques informatiques : - Jean-Yves ANTOINE, Universit? 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Nuria ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 20:54:26 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:54:26 +0200 Subject: Cursus: Formation master TAL, Besancon Message-ID: Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:55:23 +0200 From: Sylviane CARDEY Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20140609145250.05b7f330 at pop.univ-fcomte.fr> X-url: http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr/master.html#master MASTER en Traitement Automatique des Langues, Centre Lucien Tesni?re, Universit? de Franche-Comt?, Besan?on, France Le Master en Traitement Automatique des Langues est une formation de l?UFR SLHS de l?universit? de Franche-Comt?. La formation est adoss?e au Centre de recherche Lucien Tesni?re. Elle r?pond aux besoins incontournables de la soci?t? moderne, besoin de communication en diff?rentes langues et besoin de traiter l'information rapidement. Cette formation est pluridisciplinaire, elle comprend des cours de linguistique, de langues et d?informatique pour le traitement automatique des langues. Les ?tudiants acqui?rent des comp?tences th?oriques en langue, linguistique fondamentale, en techniques de mod?lisation, toutes dans un contexte de d?termination, de repr?sentation et d?exploitation des ph?nom?nes linguistiques. Le c?t? pratique des cours comprend la recherche et l?organisation de donn?es linguistiques, leur formalisation et ?galement leur repr?sentation sous une forme impl?mentable. Les travaux pratiques informatiques couvrent les techniques de mod?lisation et sp?cification, la r?solution de probl?mes, les techniques d?impl?mentation de langues sp?cialis?es de formalisation, le g?nie logiciel pour le TAL, le tout dans un contexte d?informatisation de donn?es linguistiques formalis?es en vue de besoins vari?s et divers. La formation TAL est compl?t?e par un stage en entreprise. Une mobilit? de 6 mois ? un an est possible la deuxi?me ann?e. L'inscription au Master TAL ? l?universit? de Franche-Comt? est ouverte ? tous les ?tudiants d?tenteurs d'un dipl?me de licence, d?un Master 1 ou d'une ?quivalence. Responsable du master : Madame Sylviane Cardey-Greenfield (Professeur des Universit?s, Universit? de Franche-Comt?) Contact : T?l: +33 (0)3 81 66 53 94, mail : mohand.beddar at univ-fcomte.fr et sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr Pour plus d'informations : http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr/master.html#master Professeur Sylviane CARDEY-GREENFIELD Institut universitaire de France Directrice du Centre de recherche en linguistique et traitement automatique des langues, Lucien Tesni?re Centre Tesni?re, UFR SLHS 30, rue M?gevand 25030 Besan?on cedex France T?l : 33 (0) 3 81665394 Fax : 33 (0) 3 81665300 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 20:56:14 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:56:14 +0200 Subject: Seminaire: Traces digitales, Serge Heiden et Milan Bouchet-Valat, 19 juin 2014, Universite de Paris Est Marne la Vallee Message-ID: Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 19:40:52 +0200 From: Nicolas Turenne Message-ID: <5395F1A4.9010600 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 [d?sol? pour les r?ceptions multiples] Cher(e)s coll?gues, Dans le cadre de la 20i?me s?ance du s?minaire 'traces digitales' du groupe CorText, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Serge Heiden (ENS Lyon) et Milan Bouchet-Valat (Sciences Po Paris) , qui nous parleront de plateformes d'extraction de connaissances ? partir donn?es textuelles. Cette matin?e aura lieu le jeudi 19 juin de 10h00 ? 13h00, dans la grande salle de r?union de l'Institut des Systemes Complexes ISC PIF (Institut des Systemes Complexes - Paris Ile de France) 113 rue Nationale 75013, Paris. Voir http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html 10h-11h30 {Serge Heiden} ( IR CNRS - HDR, ENS Lyon) Philologie num?rique et analyse textom?trique : analyse de corpus textuels XML structur?s et lemmatis?s avec le logiciel open-source TXM. 11h30-13h00 {Milan Bouchet-Valat} ( PhD Student, Sciences Po Paris ) Le paquet R "R.temis". Cas d'etude sur un corpus de l'affaire Assange . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 20:58:21 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:58:21 +0200 Subject: Habilitation: Xavier Tannier, Evenements dans les textes et ciblage d'information, 18 juin 2014, Orsay Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:43:56 +0200 From: Xavier Tannier Message-ID: <5396A92C.7070302 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.limsi.fr/~xtannier/ Bonjour ? tous, J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter ? ma soutenance d'Habilitation ? Diriger des Recherches intitul?e "?v?nements dans les textes, ?v?nements dans le monde et ciblage d'information", ainsi qu'au pot qui suivra. La soutenance aura lieu le mercredi 18 juin 2014 ? 13h30 dans la salle de conf?rence du LIMSI-CNRS. Le jury est constitu? de : - Marie-Francine Moens, Professeure ? l'Universit? Catholique de Louvain, directrice du laboratoire LIIR (rapporteure) - B?atrice Daille, Professeur ? l'Universit? de Nantes, responsable de l'?quipe TALN du LINA (rapporteure) - Pascale S?billot, Professeur ? l'INSA de Rennes, IRISA/TEXMEX (rapporteure) - Patrice Bellot, Professeur ? Aix-Marseille Universit?, ?cole Polytech, LSIS/DiMag et OASIS-WICSI (examinateur) - Catherine Berrut, Professeure d'informatique ? l'Universit? Joseph Fourier de Grenoblen Polytech'Grenoble, LIG/MRIM (examinatrice) - Sophie Rosset, Directrice de recherches au CNRS, LIMSI-TLP (examinatrice) - Pierre Zweigenbaum, Directeur de recherches au CNRS, LIMSI-ILES Xavier Tannier. R?sum? : Dans ce m?moire, nous organisons nos travaux principaux autour de quatre axes de traitement des informations textuelles : le ciblage, l'agr?gation, la hi?rarchisation et la contextualisation d'information. La majeure partie du document est d?di?e ? l'analyse des ?v?nements. Nous introduisons d'abord la notion d'?v?nement ? travers les diverses sp?cialit?s du traitement automatique des langues qui s'en sont pr?occup?es. Nous proposons ainsi un survol des diff?rents modes de repr?sentation des ?v?nements, tout en instaurant un fil rouge pour l'ensemble de la premi?re partie. Nous distinguons ensuite deux grandes classes de travaux autour des ?v?nements, deux grandes visions que nous avons nomm?es, pour la premi?re, l'"?v?nement dans le texte", et pour la seconde, l'"?v?nement dans le monde". Dans la premi?re, nous consid?rons l'?v?nement comme la d?signation linguistique de quelque chose qui se passe, et nous tentons d'une part d'identifier ces d?signations dans les textes, et d'autre part d'induire les relations temporelles existant entre ces ?v?nements, que ce soit dans des textes journalistiques ou m?dicaux. Nous r?fl?chissons enfin ? une m?trique d'?valuation adapt?e ? ce type d'informations. Pour ce qui est de l'"?v?nement dans le monde", nous envisageons plus l'?v?nement tel qu'il est per?u par le citoyen, et nous proposons plusieurs approches originales pour aider celui-ci ? mieux appr?hender la quantit? ?crasante d'?v?nements dont il prend connaissance chaque jour : les chronologies th?matiques, les fils temporels, et une approche automatis?e du journalisme de donn?es. La deuxi?me partie revient sur des travaux en lien avec le ciblage d'information. Nous d?crivons tout d'abord nos travaux sur les syst?mes de questions-r?ponses, dans lesquels nous avons eu recours ? l'analyse syntaxique pour aider ? justifier les r?ponses trouv?es ? une question en langage naturel. Enfin, nous abordons le sujet de la collecte th?matique de documents sur le Web, dans le but de cr?er automatiquement des corpus et des lexiques sp?cialis?s. Enfin, nous concluons et revenons sur les perspectives associ?es aux travaux pr?sent?s sur les ?v?nements, avec pour but d'abolir partiellement la fronti?re qui s?parent les diff?rents axes pr?sent?s. Xavier Tannier Ma?tre de conf?rence LIMSI-CNRS (b?t. 508, bureau 12, RdC) Universit? Paris-Sud B.P. 133 91403 ORSAY CEDEX FRANCE http://www.limsi.fr/~xtannier/ tel: 0033 (0)1 69 85 80 12 fax: 0033 (0)1 69 85 80 88 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 21:02:55 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:02:55 +0200 Subject: Sujet de these: Ethiques individuelles et collectives d'agents autonomes (reponse avant le 30/06) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:54:56 +0200 From: Olivier Boissier Message-Id: X-url: http://www.emse.fr/~boissier/sujet-these-ethicaa.pdf Veuillez trouver ci-joint une proposition de th?se de l'Institut Henri Fayol/ENS Mines Saint-Etienne et du GREYC, financ?e dans le cadre du projet ANR ETHICAA (Ethique et Agents Autonomes) sur 3 ans. Titre du projet : Ethiques individuelles et collectives d?agents autonomes au sein de syst?mes multi-agents Laboratoire de rattachement de la th?se : Institut Henri Fayol / ENS Mines Saint-Etienne Autre laboratoire impliqu? : Normandie Univ, UNICAEN GREYC, CNRS Responsables scientifiques de la th?se : - Pr. Olivier Boissier (olivier.boissier at emse.fr) - Dr. Gr?gory Bonnet (gregory.bonnet at unicaen.fr) Description synth?tique du sujet (description d?taill?e disponible ? http://www.emse.fr/~boissier/sujet-these-ethicaa.pdf) : Les r?cents d?veloppements des technologies de l?information et de la communication conduisent les utilisateurs humains ? utiliser de plus en plus d?agents artificiels (robots ou logiciels) ayant des capacit?s de d?cision autonomes embarqu?es. Cela concerne des domaines divers comme, par exemple, le commerce ?lectronique et les logiciels de transaction ? haute fr?quence, le transports et les v?hicules sans pilotes, la domotique et les robots compagnons. Au vu des questions ?thiques soulev?es dans l'utilisation de ces technologies, notre approche est de proposer des mod?les et des outils visant ? mettre en place au sein des agents des m?canismes de d?cision permettant de choisir tel ou tel comportement ?thique selon la situation. Cette approche est consid?r?e dans un contexte multi-agent, i.e. un collectif d?agents artificiels ou humains. Cette dimension collective est un des fondements du comportement ?thique et soul?ve de nombreux d?fis tels que celui des conflits entre des principes ?thiques d?agents diff?rents, de collectifs, etc. Cette th?se a pour objectif de travailler sur l?articulation entre comportements ?thiques individuels dans un collectif d?agents autonomes. En effet, afin de constituer un collectif, les agents doivent non seulement s?accorder sur des notions d??thique collective mais aussi g?rer les conflits entre ?thiques individuelles et collectives. Mots cl?: ?thique, autonomie, syst?me multi-agent, conflit, collectif Modalit?s de candidatures : Les candidats doivent faire parvenir leurs candidatures (lettre de motivation, CV, justificatifs des dipl?mes, relev? des notes obtenues ? ces dipl?mes, lettres de r?f?rence) par mail aux responsables scientifiques de l'allocataire avant le 30 juin 2014. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 20:59:47 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:59:47 +0200 Subject: Seminaire: Alpage / Google Tech Talk, Rich Washington, 13 juin 2014 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 10:23:39 +0200 From: Marie Candito Message-ID: ************** S?minaire de l'?quipe Alpage ********* Rich Washington (Google) donnera un Google Tech Talk ? Alpage, sur les probl?matiques d'analyse de textes et apprentissage machine, Vendredi 13 juin, ? 14h en salle 255 Attention ? l'horaire, ce sera ? 14h (contrairement aux habituels s?minaires Alpage) B?timent Olympe de Gouges, 2eme ?tage 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. ************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 21:01:19 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:01:19 +0200 Subject: Conf: 37th Annual ACM SIGIR 2014 conference, Gold Coast Australia, July 6-11 2014 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:24:25 +0000 From: Richi Nayak Message-ID: <032189CFEE6B094A8CB9DB0838786ADF235EFA05 at ex10mb1.qut.edu.au> X-url: http://sigir.org/sigir2014/index.php Come and join us for the exciting SIGIR 2014 program of six days papers, posters, demonstrations, tutorials, workshops and social events, focused on research and development in the area of information retrieval. http://sigir.org/sigir2014/index.php It includes three SIGIR 2014 Plenaries: ACM-W Athena Award Lecture: Putting Searchers into Search By Susan Dumais Seeking Simplicity in Search User Interfaces By Marti Hearst The data revolution: how companies are transforming with big data By Hugh E. Williams The SIGIR 2014 registration is open (link below). https://ei.eventinfotech.com.au/ei/rs.esp?id=1187&scriptid=HOME Accommodation can also be reserved through the registration process, but of course the number of reserved rooms in the conference hotel/s is limited. The weekend sees the Gold Coast Marathon being run on 5/6 July and so accommodation should be arranged sooner rather than later. Follow us on Social Media via Facebook and Twitter for latest updates and discussion: https://www.facebook.com/SIGIR2014 https://twitter.com/intent/follow?original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fsigir.org%2Fsigir2014%2Findex.php&screen_name=SIGIR2014&tw_p=followbutton&variant=2.0&xd_token=8d755076c852a8 From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 21:04:10 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:04:10 +0200 Subject: Appel: Appel a candidature, Organisation de JEP-TALN 2016 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:21:44 +0200 From: Guillaume Gravier Message-ID: <5396F858.4000604 at irisa.fr> L'ATALA et l'AFCP sollicitent des candidatures pour l'organisation conjointe des Journ?es d'?tudes sur la Parole (JEP) et de la conf?rence Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel (TALN) en 2016. Cet ?v?nement s'inscrit dans la continuit? des ?ditions pr?c?dentes (Nancy en 2002, F?s en 2004, Avignon en 2008, Grenoble en 2012). Chacune de ces ?ditions a regroup? sur une semaine aux alentours de 250 participants pour environ 200 communications. Le dossier de candidature (3 pages maximum) devra comporter les ?l?ments suivants : 1. description g?n?rale du projet et des th?mes mis en avant 2. calendrier pr?vu 3. organisateurs (noms et affiliations) : merci de bien pr?ciser les r?les cl?s, d'identifier les correspondants JEP et TALN et l'organisateur RECITAL. 4. logistique, lieu, locaux, h?bergement : merci de pr?ciser o? se tiendra la conf?rence, les facilit?s qu'offre ce lieu, quels sont les h?bergements possibles (y compris pour les ?tudiants), les acc?s (train, avion), etc. 5. financement, sponsor : merci de pr?ciser les soutiens financiers sur lesquels vous comptez (organismes et ?ventuellement montants que vous pensez solliciter, ...) 6. points forts de votre candidature, motivations Les dossiers de candidatures sont ? envoyer conjointement au Pr?sident du Comit? permanent TALN (philippe.blache at lpl.univ-aix.fr) et au Pr?sident du Conseil d'administration de l'AFCP (guig at irisa.fr). N'h?sitez pas ? nous contacter lors du montage de votre dossier. Date limite de d?pot des candidatures : 30 septembre 2014 R?ponse avant la fin octobre 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 21:07:22 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:07:22 +0200 Subject: Appel: Colloque 40 ans de Pratiques Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:22:07 +0200 From: michelle lecolle Message-ID: <539730AF.90703 at univ-lorraine.fr> X-url: http://colloque40anspratiques.event.univ-lorraine.fr/ Dans le cadre du quaranti?me anniversaire de la revue /Pratiques/ et de la collection ? Recherches linguistiques ?, le Centre de recherche sur les m?diations (CREM) organise en 2015 une manifestation scientifique sous la forme de trois colloques, intitul?s respectivement ? /Pratiques/ et l?enseignement du fran?ais : bilan et perspectives ? (8-9-10 avril 2015), ? Apprentissage du langage oral ? l??cole maternelle. Regards crois?s sur un corpus homog?ne ? (11-12 juin 2015), et ? Texte et discours en confrontation dans l?espace europ?en. Pour un renouvellement ?pist?mologique et heuristique ? (15-18 septembre 2015). Consultez le site des colloques (? partir du 1er juillet) : crempraxitexte2015.event.univ-lorraine.fr. En effet, les sciences du langage sur le site de Metz ont, depuis leur cr?ation, consist? ? traiter des th?ories textuelles et discursives, d?une part, et de la didactique du fran?ais, d?autre part. Les recherches ont ?t? men?es au sein du CELTED (Centre d??tudes linguistiques des textes et des discours) et se poursuivent aujourd?hui dans le cadre du CREM au sein de l??quipe Praxitexte. Gr?ce ? ses supports ?ditoriaux (/Pratiques/ et ? Recherches Linguistiques ?) et aux nombreux stages, universit?s d??t? et colloques organis?s depuis la naissance de Pratiques, s?est instaur?e une solide tradition de dialogues et de confrontations internationales, que ces trois prochains colloques entendent poursuivre, enrichir et ?largir. _Appel ? communication_ Colloque international */Pratiques/**et l'enseignement du fran?ais : bilan et perspectives* 8, 9, 10 avril 2015 Universit? de Lorraine, Metz L?objectif majeur du colloque ? Pratiques et l?enseignement du fran?ais : bilan et perspectives ? est de dresser un ?tat des lieux de la didactique du fran?ais et des pratiques actuelles de son enseignement, de mesurer les changements intervenus depuis quarante ans, d?y appr?cier le r?le jou? par Pratiques, et surtout de r?fl?chir aux orientations ? venir de la discipline fran?ais. Cr??e en mars 1974, sur des bases militantes de r?novation th?orique des contenus d?enseignement et d?innovation p?dagogique, la revue Pratiques a pour originalit? d??tre devenue progressivement un lieu de confrontation pluridisciplinaire et de d?bats th?oriques focalis?s sur la didactique du fran?ais, la linguistique, et la litt?rature. En t?moignent, et pour ne prendre que quelques exemples, les titres suivants : ? La didactique du fran?ais ? (2008), ? Didactique du fran?ais (1) ? (2010), ? Didactique du fran?ais (2) ? (2011), ? L??criture d?invention ? (2005), ? Polyphonie ? (2004), ? Textes ? contextes ? (2006), ? Linguistique populaire ? ? (2008), ? La synonymie ? (2009), ? Interactions et corpus oraux ? (2010), ? Le figement en d?bat ? (2013), ? Les ?critures th??trales ? (2003), ? Anthropologies de la litt?rature ? (2011). La revue est ? la fois le reflet du contexte culturel et th?orique des ann?es 70 qui l?a vue na?tre, mais aussi l?instrument d?un collectif organique agissant dans les diff?rents contextes qui ont suivi. L?audience de Pratiques est nationale et internationale. Au niveau national, les membres du collectif ont r?guli?rement particip?, sur tout le territoire, ? la formation initiale et continue des enseignants de fran?ais, ainsi qu?? la r?daction des Instructions Officielles de l??cole primaire, du coll?ge et du lyc?e. Au niveau international, l?audience de la revue s?est concr?tis?e par des activit?s de formation continue (Belgique, Suisse romande, pays du Maghreb) et la r?daction ou l?expertise de plans d??tudes (Belgique, Suisse romande, Qu?bec). Cette dimension internationale se mesure aussi au nombre des abonnements dans les diff?rents continents, ? la pr?sence de la revue dans les d?partements de langue et de litt?rature fran?aise ? l??tranger, et au nombre de missions (conf?rences et s?minaires) assur?es par les membres de la revue. Le colloque portera sur les diff?rents ordres d?enseignement (premier degr?, coll?ge, lyc?e, universit?) et traitera des objets et th?mes suivants : * Les transformations qu?a connues l?enseignement du fran?ais depuis 40 ans ; * Les th?ories susceptibles de transformer ? ou d??tre interrog?es par ? l?enseignement du fran?ais ; * L??tat actuel des recherches en didactique du fran?ais ; * Les perspectives et propositions de recherche sur l?enseignement du fran?ais. Pour ce faire, 4 axes de r?flexion sont propos?s, alliant archive, actualit? et avenir : * ?cole, culture, politique, soci?t? ; * Enseignement de la langue, des textes et des discours ; * Enseignement de la litt?rature ; * Du didactique et des didactiques. 1. ?cole, culture, politique, soci?t? Pour mesurer combien le contexte des ann?es 70 ?tait diff?rent, on peut prendre quelques analyseurs. Les sciences humaines, par exemple, sont alors en pleine expansion, port?es par le paradigme structuraliste et les th?ories marxistes ; leur fonction critique associe ? naturellement ? les comp?tences scientifiques des acteurs sociaux et leur engagement politique. Autre exemple, les comportements et les pratiques culturelles d?alors ne sont pas encore transform?s par les multiples usages (gratuits) de l?internet et du num?rique qui modifieront les mani?res de lire et d??crire. L?objectif de ce premier axe est de rendre compte du contexte de la cr?ation de Pratiques, mais aussi d?analyser les conjonctures externes (politiques et sociales) et internes ? l?institution scolaire et ? la discipline, et de montrer les changements intervenus. Qu?en est-il, aujourd?hui, du lien entre les diff?rents paradigmes th?oriques et de leur usage dans l?enseignement du fran?ais ? Quelles mutations se sont op?r?es concernant les modes de d?veloppement des comp?tences culturelles et langagi?res des scolaris?s ? Quel est le r?le des revues dans la production et la diffusion des connaissances en mati?re de didactique du fran?ais ? Quels effets ont eu diff?rentes r?formes qui ont touch? ? la langue et ? la culture (r?formes des programmes, de l?orthographe, f?minisation des noms de m?tiers, etc.) ? 2. Enseignement de la langue, des textes et des discours L?enseignement de la langue, et de la grammaire, conna?t une situation difficile, il est soumis ? des tensions politiques et ?pist?mologiques qui ont accentu? son retard et son inad?quation. Les contenus et les finalit?s de l?enseignement de la langue sont en effet le th??tre de contradictions difficiles ? surmonter, parmi lesquelles on citera celle qui oppose la phrase et le texte (quelle unit? d?analyse ?), ou bien la langue ? scolaire ? et les usages sociaux de la variation linguistique (quelle langue ?), enfin la contradiction, majeure, ancienne, qui d?termine les pr?c?dentes et oppose ? l??crit ? ? ? l?oral ? (quelle-s norme-s ?). Les mod?les d?analyse des ph?nom?nes langagiers, transpos?s des sciences du langage, sont d?autant plus h?t?rog?nes qu?ils poursuivent des buts eux-m?mes peu compatibles (inculquer des r?gles d?orthographe ou sensibiliser les ?l?ves ? la vari?t? des genres de discours). Par quelles voies pourrait-on d?passer les contradictions ? langue-discours ? et reconfigurer le champ de la didactique du fran?ais, de mani?re ? y revitaliser l?enseignement de la langue ? Il s?agira de traiter de ces diff?rentes tensions en les articulant aux trois ? p?les didactiques ? ou institutionnels impliqu?s par l?enseignement de la langue : i) les pratiques scolaires en mati?re d?enseignement grammatical (les manuels, les instructions et les savoirs des ma?tres) ; ii) les usages et les besoins langagiers des ?l?ves ; iii) les contenus de savoirs en sciences du langage et les mod?les d?analyse qu?elles construisent et diffusent. 3. Enseignement de la litt?rature L?enjeu principal de ce troisi?me axe est d?analyser les reconfigurations de la discipline fran?ais, c?est-?-dire les contenus de l?enseignement litt?raire, les exercices pratiqu?s et les d?marches d?enseignement. Il s?agira, en particulier, de r?fl?chir aux fonctions, aux enjeux et aux formes de la scolarisation de la litt?rature et du champ litt?raire en g?n?ral dans l?enseignement du fran?ais. Seront examin?s les modes d??laboration et de transposition didactique qui permettent de probl?matiser les objets textuels (corpus, genres, litt?rature de jeunesse) et les pratiques de m?diations litt?raires. Concernant les pratiques de lecture, on cherchera ? probl?matiser les concepts de compr?hension, d?interpr?tation et la place accord?e au sujet lecteur. Quant aux pratiques d??criture, on se demandera quels sont les ?quilibres respectifs du commentaire et des ?critures litt?raires (ateliers d??criture, ?criture d?invention, etc.). Par ailleurs, l?enjeu de cet axe r?side ?galement, sur le plan de la recherche, dans l??valuation de l?autonomisation croissante de la didactique de la litt?rature par rapport ? celle de la langue. Dans tous les cas, un regard historique sera port? sur les textes officiels, les manuels scolaires et les pratiques de classe (y compris en coop?ration avec les biblioth?ques et autres partenaires du livre). Par rapport ? l?avenir de l?enseignement de la litt?rature, certaines questions pourront particuli?rement faire l?objet de r?flexion, selon qu?elles portent sur les ?l?ves (place de la litt?rature dans les pratiques sociales des ?l?ves et leurs rapports avec les pratiques scolaires) ou sur les enseignements : comment traiter des valeurs sans revenir ? l?instrumentalisation moralisante des textes litt?raires ? Quelles sont les modalit?s de mise en ?uvre d?activit?s trans- ou pluridisciplinaires que pr?suppose l?acquisition d?une ? culture humaniste ? ? Enfin, quels liens critiques peut-on faire entre une culture ? humaniste ? et les humanit?s num?riques pr?sentes et ? venir ? 4. Du didactique et des didactiques Le quatri?me axe interroge les voies par lesquelles la didactique du fran?ais s?est progressivement institu?e en un champ ? autonome ?. Les recherches en didactique du fran?ais (auparavant, on parlait plut?t de ? p?dagogie du fran?ais ?) ont commenc? ? ?merger, d?abord dans un rapport d?application des th?ories linguistiques ou des nouvelles critiques (narratologie, po?tique etc.), avant de s?ouvrir ? d?autres champs th?oriques de r?f?rence et de s?autonomiser progressivement. Quels ont ?t?, sur le plan institutionnel, les lieux et les acteurs ?uvrant ? la constitution et ? la reconnaissance de la didactique du fran?ais et, inversement, quels ont ?t? et sont encore les facteurs de r?sistance ? On analysera les modes de ? disciplinarisation ? (formes et contenus) du fran?ais et on s?interrogera sur l?orientation des recherches contemporaines en didactique du fran?ais (domaines, objets d??tudes, types de recherche, rapports avec le fran?ais langue ?trang?re). Il sera aussi int?ressant d?analyser les modes de th?orisation diff?rents des didactiques, par exemple leurs innovations conceptuelles respectives. On cherchera enfin ? ?valuer si les recherches en didactique du fran?ais ont eu des effets sur les pratiques d?enseignement du fran?ais et lesquels. Modalit?s de soumission des communications Les propositions de communication devront ?tre envoy?es sous la forme d?un r?sum? de 500 mots en format word et/ou pdf. Il sera assorti de 5 mots cl?s et d?une courte bibliographie de 4 r?f?rences jug?es importantes. Le fichier de la proposition (anonymis?) sera accompagn? d?un second fichier comportant les coordonn?es de l?auteur de la communication (statut professionnel, ?tablissement, adresses postale et ?lectronique personnelles). Chaque proposition de communication fera l?objet d?une double expertise. L?auteur aura pr?cis? l?axe du colloque dans lequel il envisage d?intervenir. La dur?e de communication est de 30 minutes, elle sera suivie d?une discussion. Calendrier - Les r?sum?s des contributions pourront ?tre envoy?s ? partir du 1er juillet 2014, ? l?adresse suivante : http://colloque40anspratiques.event.univ-lorraine.fr/. - La date limite d?envoi des propositions est fix?e au 30 ao?t 2014. - Les auteurs seront avis?s des r?sultats de l?expertise en double aveugle le 15 septembre 2014. - Les communications, dans leur version d?finitive, seront ? nouveau expertis?es, apr?s le colloque, pour donner lieu ? une publication des actes. Pour toute question relative au colloque, contacter : petitjean.andre2 at gmail.com Voir aussi la page suivante sur le site du CREM : http://crem.univ-lorraine.fr/seminaires/Appelacom.html Responsables du colloque Caroline Masseron (Universit? de Lorraine) Raymond Michel (Universit? de Lorraine) Andr? Petitjean (Universit? de Lorraine) Comit? scientifique Ruth Amossy (Universit? de Tel Aviv, Isra?l) Elisabeth Bautier (Universit? de Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France) Anouar Ben Msila (Universit? Moulay Isma?l, Meknes, Maroc) Jean-Paul Bronckart (Universit? de Gen?ve, FAPSE, Suisse) Jean-Louis Chiss (Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France) Jacques Crinon (Universit? Paris-Est Cr?teil Val-de-Marne, ESPE, France) Sylvia Disegni (Universit? de Naples, Italie) Jean-Louis Dufays (Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgique) Jean-Paul Dufiet (Universit? de Trento, Italie) Kjersti Fl?ttum (Universit? de Bergen, Norv?ge) Enrica Galazzi (Universit? Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italie) Bertrand Gervais (Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al, Qu?bec) Martine Jey (Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, ESPE, France) Mervi Helkkula (Universit? d?Helsinki, Finlande) Ayse Kiran (Universit? d?Hacettepe, Turquie) Maria Litsardaki (Universit? Aristote, Thessalonique, Gr?ce) Lita Lundquist (Copenhagen Business School, Danemark) Dominique Maingueneau (Universit? de Paris-Sorbonne, France) J?r?me Meizoz (Universit? de Lausanne, Suisse) Sophie Moirand (Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France) Franck Neveu (Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, France) Henning N?lke (Universit? d?Aarhus, Danemark) Elisabeth Nonnon (Universit? Lille 3, France) Dorothy Noyes (The Ohio State University, ?tats-Unis) Sylvie Plane (Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, ESPE, France) Alain Rabatel (Universit? Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, ESPE, France) Maria das Gra?as Soares Rodrigues (Universit? F?d?rale de Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil) Bernard Schneuwly (Universit? de Gen?ve, FAPSE, Suisse) Alain Viala (Universit? d?Oxford, Angleterre) Maria Dolores Vivero Garcia, (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Espagne) Comit? d?organisation Danielle Coltier, Christine Deronne, Marceline Laparra, Sophie Lawson, Anne Leclaire-Halt?, Michelle Lecolle, Julie Lefebvre, Josette Linder, Caroline Masseron, Raymond Michel, Alain Muller, Laurent Perrin, Andr? Petitjean, Jean-Marie Privat, Yves Reuter, Marie Scarpa, Marie-Christine Vinson. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Tue Jun 10 21:11:05 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:11:05 +0200 Subject: Job: Ingenieur de recherche en TAL, Synapse, Toulouse Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:54:52 +0200 From: Patrick S?gu?la Message-ID: <001f01cf84cc$b35d6170$1a182450$@synapse-fr.com> X-url: http://www.synapse-developpement.fr Synapse D?veloppement Edition de Logiciels Proposition d?emploi Ing?nieur de recherche en TAL Synapse D?veloppement repousse depuis 20 ans les limites de la compr?hension de l??crit par les machines pour offrir ? ses clients des services toujours plus innovants tout en restant simple d?utilisation. VOS MISSIONS : - Vous participez aux projets de recherche et d?veloppement de notre ?quipe. Ces projets peuvent ?tre en collaboration avec des laboratoires acad?miques et entreprises europ?ennes innovantes. Ils peuvent aussi ?tre amen?s par des clients d?sireux de cr?er un nouveau service. - Veille technologique sur les domaines du TAL comme le Machine Reading, le Machine Learning, les syst?mes de Question/R?ponse ou l?extraction d?entit?s nomm?es. - Possibilit? de publication dans des conf?rences internationales - Prise en main et d?veloppement de la technologie d?analyse de texte et des applications commercialis?es par Synapse D?veloppement. PROFIL : Titulaire d?un doctorat ou dipl?me ?quivalent. Vous ?tes curieux, dynamique et passionn? par la compr?hension de textes par les ordinateurs. Vous aimez les d?fis technologiques et vous aimez r?soudre de mani?re pragmatique des probl?mes complexes. Vous avez envie de vous impliquer dans une ?quipe pluridisciplinaire. Vous avez envie de participer ? l?aventure d?une petite soci?t? o? l?activit? de recherche et d?veloppement est tr?s importante. Vous ?tes un d?veloppeur dot? de bonnes comp?tences en analyse et mod?lisation. Comp?tences techniques : - Connaissance des standards du TAL - Connaissance des bases de donn?es textuelles (Cassandra, Mongo DB, Neo4J, etc.). - Connaissance des moteurs de recherche tels que Lucene, SOLR, Elastic Search serait un plus. - Bonne connaissance des langages objets et du d?veloppement en g?n?ral Contact : direction at synapse-fr.com Contrat : CDI Soci?t? : Synapse D?veloppement, http://www.synapse-developpement.fr/ Lieu : Toulouse centre Tel : 06.63.38.69.06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 18:53:53 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 20:53:53 +0200 Subject: Appel: SSST-8: 8th Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (EMNLP 2014) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:28:22 -0400 From: "Carpuat, Marine" Message-ID: X-url: http://www.cse.ust.hk/~dekai/ssst/ *** Special theme: Compositional Distributional Semantics and Machine Translation *** The Eighth Workshop on Syntax, Semantics and Structure in Statistical Translation (SSST-8) seeks to bring together a large number of researchers working on diverse aspects of structure, semantics and representation in relation to statistical machine translation. Since its first edition in 2006, its program each year has comprised high-quality papers discussing current work spanning topics including: new grammatical models of translation; new learning methods for syntax- and semantics-based models; formal properties of synchronous/transduction grammars (hereafter S/TGs); discriminative training of models incorporating linguistic features; using S/TGs for semantics and generation; and syntax- and semantics-based evaluation of machine translation. We invite two types of submissions this year: 1. Extended abstracts for poster or hands-on presentations on the special theme 2. Full papers spanning all areas of interest for SSST =========================== Special Theme Extended Abstracts =========================== This year, the special theme of semantics of the past three editions of SSST takes a new step with a "working workshop" bringing together researchers interested in compositional distributional semantics, distributed representations, and continuous vector space models in MT, with tutorials bridging both directions, as well as discussions and hands-on work on relevant tasks with real data. Such models have proven beneficial for a number of NLP tasks, for example phrasal similarity, lexical entailment, modeling semantic deviance, detecting order restrictions in recursive structures, or improving NP bracketing in parsing. However, they have not received as much attention in MT. Extended abstracts of at most two (2) pages should describe poster or hands-on presentations that will stimulate discussions on the special theme of compositional distributional semantics and machine translation, including position papers, recent work, pilot studies, negative results. We encourage the presentation of relevant work that has been published or submitted elsewhere, as well as new work in progress. ========= Full Papers ========= The need for structural mappings between languages is widely recognized in the fields of statistical machine translation and spoken language translation, and there is now wide consensus that these mappings are appropriately represented using a family of formalisms that includes synchronous/transduction grammars and similar notational equivalents. To date, flat-structured models, such as the word-based IBM models of the early 1990s or the more recent phrase-based models, remain widely used. But tree-structured mappings arguably offer a much greater potential for learning valid generalizations about relationships between languages. Within this area of research there is a rich diversity of approaches. There is active research ranging from formal properties of S/TGs to large-scale end-to-end systems. There are approaches that make heavy use of linguistic theory, and approaches that use little or none. There is theoretical work characterizing the expressiveness and complexity of particular formalisms, as well as empirical work assessing their modeling accuracy and descriptive adequacy across various language pairs. There is work being done to invent better translation models, and work to design better algorithms. Recent years have seen significant progress on all these fronts. In particular, systems based on these formalisms are now top contenders in MT evaluations. At the same time, SMT has seen a movement toward semantics over the past few years, which has been reflected at recent SSST workshops, including the last three editions which had semantics for SMT as a special theme. The issues of deep syntax and shallow semantics are closely linked and SSST-8 continues to encourage submissions on semantics for MT in a number of directions, including semantic role labeling, sense disambiguation, and compositional distributional semantics for translation and evaluation. We invite papers on: - syntax-based / semantics-based / tree-structured SMT - machine learning techniques for inducing structured translation models - algorithms for training, decoding, and scoring with semantic representation structure - empirical studies on adequacy and efficiency of formalisms - creation and usefulness of syntactic/semantic resources for MT - formal properties of synchronous/transduction grammars - learning semantic information from monolingual, parallel or comparable corpora - unsupervised and semi-supervised word sense induction and disambiguation methods for MT - lexical substitution, word sense induction and disambiguation, semantic role labeling, textual entailment, paraphrase and other semantic tasks for MT - semantic features for MT models (word alignment, translation lexicons, language models, etc.) - evaluation of syntactic/semantic components within MT (task-based evaluation) - scalability of structured translation methods to small or large data - applications of S/TGs to related areas including: - speech translation - formal semantics and semantic parsing - paraphrases and textual entailment - information retrieval and extraction - syntactically- and semantically-motivated evaluation of MT - compositional distributional semantics in MT - distributed representations and continuous vector space models in MT ========= Organizers ========= Dekai WU, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Marine CARPUAT, National Research Council (NRC) Canada Xavier CARRERAS, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya (UPC) Eva Maria VECCHI, Cambridge University ============= Important Dates ============= Submission deadline for papers and extended abstracts: 26 Jul 2014 Notification to authors: 26 Aug 2014 Camera copy deadline: 15 Sep 2014 For more information http://www.cse.ust.hk/~dekai/ssst/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:53:19 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:53:19 +0200 Subject: Postdoc: Natural Language Processing at Aix-Marseille University Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 14:33:57 +0200 From: Benoit Favre Message-ID: X-url: http://www.sensei-conversation.eu/ Postdoc position on conversation summarization (Full time, one year - Closing date for applications 2014-07-01) We are looking for an outstanding research scientist to join the "SENSEI" european project (http://www.sensei-conversation.eu/). You will contribute to conversation analysis summarization research to allow the exploitation of large quantity of comments in social media and spoken conversations. Job description: You will contribute to the design and development of speech and text summarization technologies for conversational data such as social media comments and tweets. There will be three components to the system: linguistic analysis of the conversations, content selection and aggregation, and generation of the summaries (text or other media). The approach is expected to make use of recent machine learning advances such as deep learning, and focus on limiting the quantity of supervision needed. The prototype will be evaluated by end-user professionals in ecological conditions. Profile: The applicant must hold a PhD degree, preferably in the field of natural language processing or machine learning. He/she should: - Be proficient in one of Java / C++ programming and python or php scripting - Have experience with developing efficient NLP / machine learning systems. - Be keen on researching the literature and writing papers - Enjoy team work and be autonomous Location: You will work at the LIF computer science lab at Aix-Marseille University in France, at the Luminy campus next to the calanques. Dates: Interviews will be held in July 2014, the Postdoc will start in september / october 2014 and last one year. Contact: Enquiries and applications should be sent to Benoit Favre: benoit.favre at lif.univ-mrs.fr SENSEI project page: http://www.sensei-conversation.eu/ From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:13:41 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:13:41 +0200 Subject: Appel: Deadline extension, LD4KD, ECMK/PKDD Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:18:35 +0100 From: Mathieu.Daquin Message-ID: <5398491B.8010904 at open.ac.uk> X-url: http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2014/ ** apologies for cross-posting ** ================================ LD4KD 2014 1st Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2014/ co-located with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery 2014 (ECML/PKDD 2014) 15-19 September 2014, Nancy, France (http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/ ) Deadline extended to 27th June 2014. ================================ Linked Data have attracted a lot of attention in recent years in many research areas, as their technologies and principles provide new ways to overcome typical data management and consumption issues such as reliability, heterogeneity, provenance or completeness. However, the way in which Linked Data can be applicable and beneficial to the Knowledge Discovery (KDD) pocess is still not completely understood. Many aspects of KDD could benefit from Linked Data, e.g. mining Linked Data sources, using Linked Data to enrich, represent or integrate local data for data preparation, interpretation or visualisation. LD4KD will be an interactive hub to explore the benefits of Linked Data principles and technologies for Knowledge Discovery, together with addressing the new challenges that will emerge from joining the two fields. It will be an opportunity for practitioners of both fields to create communication and collaboration channels,and bridge the gap between their overlapping, but mostly isolated communities. The workshop encourages the participation of researchers from the Knowledge Discovery field to discuss and get informed about the use, benefits and challenges of Linked Data, while th Linked Data researchers can take advantage of and adapt Knowledge Discovery methods in their domain. *SCOPE* We welcome high quality position and research papers in which (1) Linked Data are used as support of Knowledge Discovery processes to extract useful knowledge, or (2) Knowledge Discovery techniques are adapted to work and possibly extend Linked Data. Topics of either theoretical and applied interest include, but are not limited to: - Linked Data for data pre-processing: cleaning, sorting, filtering or enrichment - Linked Data applied to Machine Learning - Linked Data for pattern extraction and behaviour detection - Linked Data for pattern interpretation, visualization or optimisation - Reasoning with patterns and Linked Data - Reasoning on and extracting knowledge from Linked Data - Linked Data mining - Links prediction or links discovery using KDD - Graph mining in Linked Data - Interacting with Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission deadline: June 20th - Extended to June 27th Notification Of Acceptance: July 20th Camera ready copies due: August 5th, 2014 Workshop date: September 15th/19th, 2014 *SUBMISSIONS* Articles should be written following the Springer LNCS template (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and can be up to 10 pages in lenght for research papers or 5 pages for position papers, including figures and references. Submissions are exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format, through the EasyChair system. The submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ld4kd * ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Ilaria Tiddi, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Mathieu d'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Nicolas Jay, Orpailleur, Loria, France *CONTACTS* mathieu.daquin at open.ac.uk ilaria.tiddi at open.ac.uk nicolas.jay at loria.fr *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE* Claudia D?Amato, University of Bari Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari Johannes F?rnkranz, TU Darmstadt Nathalie Hernandez, IRIT Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, University of Poznan Francesca Lisi, University of Bari Vanessa Lopez, IBM Dublin Amedeo Napoli, LORIA Andriy Nikolov, Fluid Operations, Germany Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden Harald Sack, University of Potsdam Vojt?ch Sv?tek, University Prague Isabelle Tellier, University of Paris Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Tommaso di Noia, Politecnico of Bari J?rgen Umbrich, WU Vienna Gerhard Wohlgenannt, WU Vienna -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:16:26 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:16:26 +0200 Subject: Sujet de these: Resume automatique multi-documents dynamique, CEA LIST / LVIC Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:21:51 +0200 From: Ga?l de Chalendar Message-ID: <40075295.DBcD3kYvjI at brezhoneg> Urgent: date limite de candidature 25/06/2014 Choral [1] est un syst?me de r?sum? automatique mono-document par extraction d?velopp? au LVIC, industrialis? et mis ? la disposition des 3000 utilisateurs de l'IRSN. Choral repose largement sur l'analyseur linguistique multilingue du laboratoire, LIMA [2]. Actuellement, Choral se contente d'extraire verbatim les phrases d'un unique document source qu'il juge les plus pertinentes selon plusieurs crit?res (sens des mots les plus repr?sent?s dans le document, expressions exprimant le point de vue de l'auteur, pr?sence de syntagmes nominaux complexes, ...). Les tendances de fond de ces derni?res ann?es dans le domaine sont le r?sum? multi-documents [3,4] et le r?sum? dynamique (ou ?volutif) [5]. Une approche compl?mentaire, le r?sum? orient? par un profil, a d?j? ?t? explor?e au laboratoire [6]. Le but de cette th?se sera de proposer des am?liorations des techniques existantes et d'en int?grer une impl?mentation ? Choral en vue de son exp?rimentation. La th?se se d?roulera de la mani?re suivante: - exploration de la bibliographie ; - prise en main des outils et du code existants; - proposition d'am?liorations possibles des approches existantes exploitant les sp?cificit?s des outils et ressources du laboratoire; - conception et d?veloppement d'une impl?mentation dans Choral ; - ?valuation des r?sultats sur des donn?es de r?f?rence ; - si possible, participation ? une campagne d'?valuation. La th?se se d?roulera dans les locaux du LVIC situ?s ? Nano Innov ? Palaiseau (pr?s de Polytechnique, Sup'Optique, Thales et Danone). Elle est financ?e par le CEA. Requis : - date limite de r?ception des candidatures : 25 juin 2014 - Master 2 en informatique avec une composante TAL - Mentions en licence, master 1 et 2 (joindre relev?s de notes) Envoyer les candidatures ?: gael.de-chalendar at cea.fr R?f?rences: [1] Flores, J. G., Ferret, O., & de Chalendar, G. Summarizing through sense concentration and Contextual Exploration rules: the CHORAL system at TAC 2009. [2] Besan?on, R. et al. (2010). ?LIMA: A Multilingual Framework for Linguistic Analysis and Linguistic Resources Development and Evaluation?. In LREC 2010. [3] Ji, H., Favre, B., Lin, W. P., Gillick, D., Hakkani-Tur, D., & Grishman, R. (2013). Open-Domain multi-document summarization via information extraction: Challenges and prospects. In Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization (pp. 177-201). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [4] Munoz, R., & Atkinson, J. (2013). Rhetorics-based multi-document summarization. Expert Systems with Applications. [5] Gohr, A., Spiliopoulou, M., & Hinneburg, A. (2013). Visually Summarizing Semantic Evolution in Document Streams with Topic Table. In Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (pp. 136-150). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [6] Ferret, O., Ch?ar, S. L., & Fluhr, C. (2004). Filtrage pour la construction de r?sum?s multi-documents guid?e par un profil. Traitement automatique des langues, 45(1), 65-93. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:44:16 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:44:16 +0200 Subject: Appel: ToRPorEsp, Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish (Propor 2014) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:51:50 -0300 From: Muntsa Padr? Message-ID: X-url: https://sites.google.com/site/torporesp X-url: http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/ ======================================================== Call For Papers ToRPorEsp: Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish (Propor 2014) ======================================================== October, 5th, 2014 S?o Carlos (SP), Brazil https://sites.google.com/site/torporesp Deadline for Abstract Submissions: July, 15th, 2014 (11:59pm GMT -12) --------------------------------------------------------------- Much of the research and development of NLP tools has been done for English, leading to best state of the art systems for this language, while other languages lack of the coverage of English resources. Although there are several interesting initiatives to develop state of the art tools for other languages, there may not be enough awareness in the community about them and the same work may be repeated in several institutions and projects. This is a limitation for new projects or research that would benefit from having such tools available to develop higher level systems. Similarly, work done for one language may be beneficial to other closely related languages. Within this context, we present the first Workshop on Tools and Resources for Automatically Processing Portuguese and Spanish in PROPOR 2014 (International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese, http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/). This workshop aims to be a forum for the presentation and discussion of language-specific developments for Portuguese and Spanish, two closely related languages. We expect to join together researchers and developers with a focus on the creation of tools and linguistic resources for these two languages. These are two thriving communities that can join efforts to maximize the impact of the developments in the area for each of these languages, and promote resource reuse and sharing. This workshop offers a venue for researchers and developers to show work in NLP tools and resources, covering a wide spectrum of tasks (from PoS taggers and parsers to text simplification or sentiment analysis tools), and linguistic resources (WordNet initiatives, grammars, etc). Furthermore, given the proximity of these two languages, this workshop aims to promote discussion of crosslinguistic approaches and possible tuning of existing tools for one language as basis for developing similar tools for the other. A special interest of the workshop is to facilitate access to technologies and resources that are specific to Portuguese and Spanish. We intend that the workshop will contribute to make tools and resources easily available to the local community. To that aim, we encourage submissions that are oriented towards simplifying the integration of a given tool or resource to address specific needs in these regions. Detailed descriptions, motivation of utility with specific scenarios, even tutorial-like approaches will be highly appreciated. All workshop-related materials will be readily available from the workshop webpage, to promote adoption. The workshop is targeted at anyone interested on developing and using tools and resources for Portuguese and Spanish. Presentations and demonstrations are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics: * NLP tools: PoS taggers, parsers, etc * NLP applications: text simplification, summarization, sentiment analysis, information retrieval, etc * Linguistic Resources: WordNet, grammars, etc * Techniques to Automatically create such resources * Techniques to Automatically adapt such resources to local variants of the languages. * Cross-lingual approches, between Portuguese and Spanish or other languages. --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS The main goal of this workshop is to offer a venue for sharing tools and resources . Thus we encourage submissions of presentations and demonstrations of both consolidated and under-development resources. Authors are invited to submit their presentations/demonstrations in the form of abstracts that will be published online. We accept submissions in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Abstracts should contain authors names, afiliations, a set of keywords and should be up to four pages including references. Papers must be submitted in PDF, following the Springer LNAI format guidelines. --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES July, 15th, 2014 - Abstract submission deadline September, 1st, 2014 - Notification of acceptance October, 5th, 2014 - Workshop --------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Laura Alonso Alemany (Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) * N?ria Bel (UPF, Spain) * Maria Jos? Finatto (UFRGS, Brazil) * Montserrat Marimon (UPF, Spain) * Llu?s Padr? (UPC, Spain) * Muntsa Padr? (UFRGS, Brazil) * Thiago Pardo (ICMC-USP, Brazil) * Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research Brazil and FGv/EMAp, Brazil) * Carlos Ramisch (LIF-TALEP, France) * Aline Villavicencio (UFRGS, Brazil) * Rodrigo Wilkens (UFRGS, Brazil) --------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Laura Alonso Alemany (Universidad Nacional de C?rdoba, Argentina) * Muntsa Padr? (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) * Alexandre Rademaker (IBM Research Brazil and FGv/EMAp, Brazil) * Aline Villavicencio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Contact: torporesp2014 at gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:07:35 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:07:35 +0200 Subject: Appel: Translating and the Computer Conference 2014 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:56:14 +0000 From: "Stajner, Sanja" Message-ID: <8D7E2A326D0D3549A39B4B714C54FFAA9A8D25F5 at EXCHMBX10X05.unv.wlv.ac.uk> ----------------------------------------- Translating and the Computer Conference 2014 A unique meeting point for experts in language research and technology 27 ? 28 November 2014, London, UK Call for abstracts First the Computer, then Internet and more recently the Cloud, are changing and modelling expectations and processes in the Language and Localization industry. These are accompanied by new requirements for Standards and Intercompatibility. The digital age is modifying the concept of text and quality. Content is a key item together with strings, chunks, segments and words. - How does this affect demand and supply of language services? - What are the tools available to meet the new demands? - What are the resources and how can they be managed in this evolving context? - How do these changes affect translators and other language professionals? - What is the training necessary to deal with these new requirements? The Translating and the Computer Conference seeks submissions including, but not limited to: - Terminology - Translation technology (on and off-line) - Memories - Corpora (use of, data collection and structuring) - Workflow (preprocessing, postprocessing and feedback loops, progress tracking) - Quality Assurance (revision aids, standards, processes and metrics) - Fit for purpose translation (professional, human, automatic, gisting / self-service) - Machine Translation and Post Editing (technological advances, user interfaces, real-world case studies) - Collaborative and Crowd-sourced Translations - Translation of real-time, user-generated content - Translation of the spoken word (video, audio, interpreting) - Standards (interoperability, return on investment, impact on quality) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The conference committee seeks original unpublished papers on all aspects of using computer hardware and software to assist in translation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to those listed above. Papers may report on research, on commercial translation products as well as users and actual implementations. Authors are invited to submit an extended abstract of a maximum of 750 words of the paper they would like to present, together with a short 200 word abstract and short biography. While the extended abstract is limited to 750 words (longer papers will NOT be considered), it should provide sufficient information to allow evaluation of the submission by the committee. The short abstracts of accepted papers will be used for online programme and event advertising. Abstracts must be submitted via the START conference submission system: https://www.softconf.com/e/tc2014 Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their submissions by 28 July 2014. Authors whose submissions are accepted for oral presentation will subsequently have the option to submit a full paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings, which will be produced on CD for conference delegates. Speakers' final presentations must be submitted by 3 November 2014, in order to be included in the conference proceedings. Speakers will be required to register for the conference and pay a reduced registration fee. SCHEDULE 20 June 2014 - deadline for abstracts 28 July 2014 - all authors notified of decisions 3 November 2014 - speakers' full papers to be submitted 14 November 2014 - speakers? presentations to be submitted 27-28 November 2014 ? conference takes place in London Programme Chairs - Juliet Macan, Arancho Doc srl. - Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton - Olaf-Michael Stefanov, United Nations (ret), JIAMCATT - Jo?o Esteves-Ferreira, Tradulex, International Association for Quality Translation Programme Committee - Alain D?silets, National Research Council of Canada (NRC) - David Chambers, World Intellectual Property Organisation (ret) - Gloria Corpas Pastor, University of Malaga - David Filip, LRC, CNGL, LT-Web, University of Limerick - Pamela Mayorca, Institute of Translating and Interpreting - Paola Valli, University of Trieste For more information, please go to the website www.translatingandthecomputer.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:49:15 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:49:15 +0200 Subject: Job: Postdoc Labex EFL, Apprentissage et fouille de relations entre concepts pour l'enrichissement d'ontologies Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:45:14 +0200 From: haifa.zargayouna at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Message-ID: X-url: http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~zargayouna/PostDocLabEX_fr.pdf Apologies for multiple postings (English version below) ============ Offre post-doc ============ Titre : Apprentissage et fouille de relations entre concepts pour l'enrichissement d'ontologies Contexte : Le travail de postdoc se d?roulera au sein du PRES Sorbonne Paris Cit? entre le LIPN (http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/), dans l'?quipe ?Repr?sentation des Connaissances et Langage Naturel? (RCLN) et le LATTICE (http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/). Ce poste est r?mun?r? gr?ce au soutien du laboratoire d'excellence "Empirical Foundations of Linguistics" (labex EFL, http://www.labex-efl.org/). Il fait partie d'un projet plus large sur l?extraction d?information, visant ? int?grer des approches ? base d?apprentissage automatique, de fouille de donn?es s?quentielles et de ressources, men? en commun entre le LIPN et le LATTICE dans le cadre du labex EFL. Description : http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~zargayouna/PostDocLabEX_fr.pdf Contact : Isabelle Tellier (isabelle.tellier at univ-paris3.fr) et Ha?fa Zargayouna (haifa.zargayouna at lipn.univ-paris13.fr) ============ Post-doctoral position ============ Title: Learning relations between concepts for automatic ontology enrichment. Context: The candidate will work at the PRES Sorbonne Paris Cit?, alternating between the LIPN (http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/en/laboratory), RCLN team ?Repr?sentation des Connaissances et Langage Naturel? and the LATTICE (http://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/). The post will be supported by the ?laboratoire d?excellence? Empirical Foundations of Linguistics (LabEx EFL, http://www.labex-efl.org/ ). The work will be part of a broader project on information extraction, which aims to integrate approaches based on machine learning, pattern and resource mining, a project led commonly by LIPN and LATTICE within the LabEx EFL. Description: http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~zargayouna/PostDocLabEX_en.pdf Contact : Isabelle Tellier (isabelle.tellier at univ-paris3.fr) and Ha?fa Zargayouna (haifa.zargayouna at lipn.univ-paris13.fr) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:59:58 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:59:58 +0200 Subject: Conf: SEPLN 2014, Girona, Spain, 16th-19th September 2014 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 21:26:26 +0200 From: Horacio Saggion Message-ID: X-url: http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/index.html *** SEPLN 2014: REGISTRATION *** http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/index.html The 30th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language processing will be held in Girona, Spain on 16th-19th September 2014. The 16th September 2014 will feature two workshops and a tutorial (see SEPLN Web page for details) The 17th to 19th September 2014 will feature the full SEPLN technical program; see detailed program at the end of this message or check the SEPLN Web site. To register to SEPLN 2014 you will need to fill in a form (see below). After submitting your data, you will receive by e-mail instructions on how to pay the registration fees. SEPLN fees are as follows: *** Until 30th June 2014 *** SEPLN Member : 210 euro Not SEPLN Member + Membership : 235 euro Not SEPLN Member : 260 euro STUDENT : 170 euro *** From 1st July 2014 *** SEPLN Member : 270 euro Not SEPLN Member + Membership : 295 euro Not SEPLN Member : 320 euro STUDENT : 230 euro Use the following link to register: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12EW4CcykZn4IJNBC_VyNuXO5vM1jisinUeUKpQHs0c/viewform?usp=send_form Or consult the SEPLN 2014 Web site at: http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/ The full SEPLN technical program is as follows: *30th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN)* **** Workshops and Tutorial : 16th September 2014 **** *(Program to be announced)* **** Main Conference; 17th-18th September 2014 **** *(Full program below)* *Scientific Program* *Main Conference ? 17th, 18th, and 19th September 2014* *17th September 2014* 09:00-09:30 Registration 09:30-10:00 Opening 10:00-11:00 Invited Talk: *Enrique Alfonseca* (Google) *News understanding through event pattern clustering* 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 Full Papers: Information Extraction 11:30-12:00 *An?lisis morfosint?ctico y clasificaci?n de entidades nombradas en un entorno Big Data.* Pablo Gamallo; Juan Carlos Pichel; Marcos Garcia; Jos? Manuel Abu?n;Tom?s Fern?ndez Pena 12:00-12:30 *Entity-Centric Coreference Solving of Person Entities for Open Information Extraction.* Marcos Garcia; Pablo Gamallo 12:30-15:00 Lunch Break 15:00-16:30 Full Papers: Word Sense Disambiguation / Corpus Analysis 15:00-15:30 *Etiquetado de met?foras ling??sticas en un conjunto de documentos en espa?ol*. Fernando Mart?nez Santiago, Miguel ?ngel Garc?a Cumbreras, Arturo Montejo R?ez, Manuel Carlos D?az Galiano 15:30-16:00 *Methodology and evaluation of the Galician WordNet expansion with the WN-Toolkit*. Xavier G?mez Guinovart & Antoni Oliver 16:00-16:30 *An unsupervised Approach for Person Name Disambiguation in Web People Search*. Agust?n D. Delgado, Raquel Mart?nez, Soto Montalvo, V?ctor Fresno 16:30-17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-18:30 Project?s Presentations (Round Table, 10 mins each) *Tratamiento inteligente de la informaci?n para ayuda a la toma de decisiones.* Sonia V?zquez, Elena Lloret, Fernando Peregrino, Yoan Guti?rrez, Javier Fern?ndez, Jos? Manuel G?mez *Proyecto FIRST (Flexible Interactive Reading Support Tool): Desarrollo de una herramienta para ayudar a personas con autismo mediante la simplificaci?n de textos.* Mar?a-Teresa Mart?n Valdivia, Eugenio Mart?nez C?mara, Eduard Barbu, L. Alfonso Ure?a-L?pez, Paloma Moreda, Elena Lloret *Open Idea: Plataforma inteligente para gesti?n de ideas innovadoras.* Miguel ?ngel Rodr?guez-Garc?a, Rafael Valencia-Garc?a, Gema Alcaraz-M?rmol, C?sar Carralero *ATTOS: Trend Analysis and Thematic through Opinions and Sentiments.* L. Alfonso Ure?a, Rafael Mu?oz, Jos? A. Troyano y M? Teresa Mart?on *NewsReader project. *Rodrigo Agerri, Eneko Agirre, Itziar Aldabe, Bego?a Altuna, Zuhaitz Beloki, Egoitz Laparra, Maddalen L?pez de Lacalle, German Rigau, Aitor Soroa, Rub?n Urizar *An?lisis Sem?ntico de la Opini?n de los Ciudadanos en Redes Sociales en la Ciudad del Futuro.* Julio Villena-Rom?n, Adri?n Luna-Cobos, Jos? Carlos Gonz?lez Crist?bal *TrendMiner: Large-scale Cross-lingual Trend Mining Summarization of Real-time Media Streams.* Paloma Mart?nez, Isabel Segura, Thierry Declerck, Jos? L. Mart?nez *Utilizaci?n de las Tecnolog?as del Habla y de los Mundos Virtuales para el Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Educativas*. David Griol, Araceli Sanchis, Jos? Manuel Molina, Zoraida Callejas *Establishing a Linguistic Olympiad in Spain, Year 1.* Antonio Toral, Guillermo Latour, Stanislav Gurevich, Mikel Forcada, Gema Ram?rez-S?nchez 18:30-20:00 Break 20:00-22:00 Reception *18th September 2014* 09:00-09:30 Registration 09:30-11:00 Full Papers: Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing 09:30-10:00 *Translating sentences from 'original' to 'simplified' Spanish*. Sanja Stajner 10:00-10:30 *Descripci?n y Evaluaci?n de un Sistema de Extracci?n de Definiciones para el Catal?n.* Luis Espinosa-Anke, Horacio Saggion 10:30-11:00 *The aid of machine learning to overcome the classification of real health discharge reports written in Spanish.* Alicia P?rez, Arantza Casillas, Koldo Gojenola, Maite Oronoz, Nerea Aguirre, Estibaliz Amillano 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-12:30 Invited Talk: *Roberto Navigli* (La Sapienza) *(Digital) goodies from the ERC Wishing Well: BabelNet, Babelfy, video games with a purpose and the Wikipedia bitaxonomy* 12:30-15:00 Lunch Break 15:00-16:30 Demonstrations and Industry Papers *ADRSpanishTool: a tool for extracting adverse drug reactions and indications.* Santiago de la Pe?a, Isabel Segura-Bedmar, Paloma Mart?nez, Jos? Luis Mart?nez *ViZPar: A GUI for ZPar with Manual Feature Selection*. Isabel Ortiz, Miguel Ballesteros, Yue Zhang *Desarrollo de portales de voz municipales interactivos y adaptados al usuario.* David Griol, Mar?a Garc?a-Jim?nez, Jos? Manuel Molina, Araceli Sanchis *imaxin|software: PLN aplicada a la mejora de la comunicaci?n multiling?e de empresas e instituciones.* Jos? Ramom Pichel Campos, Diego V?zquez Rey, Luz Castro Pena, Antonio Fern?ndez Cabezas *Integration of a Machine Translation System into the Editorial Process Flow of a Daily Newspaper.* Juan Alberto Alonso Mart?n, Anna Civil Serra *track-It! Sistema de An?lisis de Reputaci?n en Tiempo Real.* Julio Villena-Rom?n, Janine Garc?a-Morera, Jos? Carlos Gonz?lez Crist?bal *Aplicaci?n de tecnolog?as de Procesamiento de lenguaje natural y tecnolog?a sem?ntica en Brand Rain y Anpro21. *Oscar Trabazos, Silvia Su?rez, Remei Bori, Oriol Flo 16:30-17:00 Coffee Break 17:00-18:30 SEPLN General Assembly 18:30-20:00 Break 21:00-24:00 Conference Dinner *19th September 2014* 09:00-09:30 Registration 09:30-11:00 Full Papers: Natural Language Processing Tools 09:30-10:00 *ParTes. Test Suite for Parsing Evaluation*. Marina Lloberes, Irene Castell?n, Llu?s Padr?, Edgar Gonz?lez 10:00-10:30 *PoS-tagging the Web in Portuguese. National varieties, text typologies and spelling systems*. Marcos Garcia; Pablo Gamallo; Iria Gayo; Miguel A. Pousada Cruz 10:30-11:00 *Document-Level Machine Translation as a Re-translation Process.* Eva Mart?nez Garcia, Cristina Espa?a-Bonet, Llu?s M?rquez Villodre 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-13:00 Full Papers: Terminology Extraction and Opinion Lexicons 11:30-12:00 *ML-SentiCon: Un lexic?n multil?ng?e de polaridades sem?nticas a nivel de lemas.* Ferm?n L. Cruz, Jos? A. Troyano, Beatriz Pontes, F. Javier Ortega 12:00-12:30 *Unsupervised acquisition of domain aspect terms for Aspect Based Opinion Mining.* Aitor Garc?a Pablos, Montse Cuadros, German Rigau 12:30-13:00 *Boosting Terminology Extraction through Crosslingual Resources.* Sergio Cajal, Horacio Rodr?guez 13:00-13:30 Closure Looking forward to see you in Girona in September! Kind regards, Horacio Saggion SEPLN 2014 Chair ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 18:56:38 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 20:56:38 +0200 Subject: Appel: AusDM 2014, The 12th Australasian Data Mining Conference, Brisbane Australia, Nov 27-28 2014 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 05:38:30 +0000 From: Richi Nayak Message-ID: <032189CFEE6B094A8CB9DB0838786ADF235F244F at ex10mb1.qut.edu.au> X-url: http://ausdm14.ausdm.org/ ********************************************************* 12th Australasian Data Mining Conference (AusDM 2014) Brisbane, Australia 27-28 November 2014 http://ausdm14.ausdm.org/ ********************************************************* Data Mining is the art and science of intelligent analysis of (usually big) data sets for meaningful insights. Data mining is actively applied across all industries including defence, medicine, science, finance, customer relationship management, government, insurance, telecommunications, retail and distribution, transportation, and utilities. The Australasian Data Mining Conference has established itself as the premier Australasian meeting for both practitioners and researchers in data mining. Since AusDM'02 the conference has showcased research in data mining, providing a forum for presenting and discussing the latest research and developments. Since 2006, all proceedings have been printed as volumes in the CRPIT series. This year's conference, AusDM'14 builds on this tradition of facilitating the cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas, experience and potential research directions. Specifically, the conference seeks to showcase: Industry Case Studies; Research Prototypes; Practical Analytics Technology; and Research Student Projects. AusDM'14 will be a meeting place for pushing forward the frontiers of data mining in industry and academia. We have lined up an excellent Keynote Speaker program. Publication and topics ====================== We are calling for papers, both research and applications, and from both academia and industry, for publication and presentation at the conference. All papers will go through peer-review by a panel of international experts. Accepted papers will be published in an upcoming volume (Data Mining and Analytics 2014) of the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) series by the Australian Computer Society which is also held in full-text on the ACM Digital Library. The proceeding in electronic version will be distributed at the conference. For more details on CRPIT please see http://www.crpit.com. This year we are introducing a new track "Industry Showcase" for industry participants to present the state-of-the-art analytics projects. These submissions can be of non-academic-publication style and will be for presentation only. These case studies and data mining experiences will not be included in the conference proceeding. Please note that we require that at least one author for each accepted paper will register for the conference and present their work. AusDM invites contributions addressing current research in data mining and knowledge discovery as well as experiences, novel applications and future challenges. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Applications and Case Studies | Lessons and Experiences - Big Data Analytics - Biomedical and Health Data Mining - Business Analytics - Computational Aspects of Data Mining - Data Integration, Matching and Linkage - Data Mining Education - Data Mining in Security and Surveillance - Data Preparation, Cleaning and Preprocessing - Data Stream Mining - Evaluation of Results and their Communication - Implementations of Data Mining in Industry - Integrating Domain Knowledge - Link, Tree, Graph, Network and Process Mining - Multimedia Data Mining - New Data Mining Algorithms - Professional Challenges in Data Mining - Privacy-preserving Data Mining - Social Network and Social Media Mining - Spatial and Temporal Data Mining - Text Mining - Visual Analytics - Web Mining and Personalization Submission of papers ==================== We invite three types of submissions for AusDM 2014: - Research Track: Normal academic submissions reporting on research progress, with a paper length of between 8 and 12 pages in CRPIT style, as detailed below. For academic submissions we will use a double-blinded review process, i.e. paper submissions must NOT include authors names or affiliations or acknowledgments referring to funding bodies. Self-citing references should also be removed from the submitted papers for the double blind reviewing purpose. These information can be added on after the review. - Application Track: Submissions on specific data mining implementations and experiences in government and industry settings. Submissions in this category can be between 4 and 8 pages in CRPIT style, as detailed below. A committee made of mix of academic and industry representatives will review these submissions. - Industry Showcase: Submissions in this track are presentation only. In this track, government and industry participants can present the case studies and their experiences without getting worried about publication. We call for an extended abstract up to two pages to assess these submissions. A special committee made of industry representatives will review these submissions. Paper submissions in Research and Application tracks are required to follow the general format specified for papers in the CRPIT series by the Australian Computer Society. Submission details are available from http://crpit.com/AuthorsSubmitting.html. LaTeX styles and Word templates may be found on this site. LaTeX is the recommended typesetting package. The electronic submissions must be in PDF only, and made through the AusDM'14 Submission Page at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ausdm2014/. Important Dates =============== Submission of abstracts: 28 July 2014 Submission of full papers: 4 August 2014 (midnight PST) Notification of authors: 22 September 2014 Final version and author registration: 14 October 2014 Conference 27-28 November 2014 Organising Committee ==================== Program Chairs (Research) Lin Liu, University of South Australia, Adelaide Xue Li, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Program Chairs (Application) Yanchang Zhao, Department of Immigration & Border Protection, Australia; and RDataMining.com Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Melbourne Conference Chairs Richi Nayak, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Paul Kennedy, University of Technology, Sydney Sponsorship Chair Andrew Stranieri, University of Ballarat, Ballarat Local Chair Yue Xu, Brisbane, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Simeon Simoff, University of Western Sydney Graham Williams, Australian Taxation Office Other Steering Committee Members Peter Christen, The Australian National University, Canberra Paul Kennedy, University of Technology, Sydney Jiuyong Li, University of South Australia, Adelaide Kok-Leong Ong, Deakin University, Melbourne John Roddick, Flinders University, Adelaide Andrew Stranieri, University of Ballarat, Ballarat Geoff Webb, Monash University, Melbourne Join us on LinkedIn =================== http://www.linkedin.com/groups/AusDM-4907891 From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:19:12 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:19:12 +0200 Subject: Job: Postdoctoral position, IMMI-CNRS Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:02:15 +0200 From: Gilles ADDA Message-ID: <53988B97.9090700 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.immi-labs.org/ Post-doc position at IMMI-CNRS A post-doctoral position is proposed at IMMI-CNRS (Orsay, France - http://www.immi-labs.org/). IMMI is an International Joint Research CNRS Unit (UMI) in the field of Multimedia and Multilingual Document Processing. It gathers three contributing partners: LIMSI-CNRS, RWTH Aachen and KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). Context of the project The project relies on an experimental platform for online monitoring of social media and information streams, with self-adaptive properties, in order to detect, collect, process, categorize, and analyze multilingual streams. The platform includes advanced linguistic analysis, discourse analysis, extraction of entities and terminology, topic detection, translation and the project includes studies on unsupervised and cross-lingual adaptation. Requirements and objectives A PhD in a field related to the project (translation, natural language processing or machine learning) is required. The candidate will perform research in the framework mentioned above, and will supervize collection and annotation of the data. Salary will follow CNRS standard rules for contractual researchers, according to the experience of the candidate. Contacts * Gilles Adda (adda [at] immi-labs.org) Agenda * Opening date: August 2014 * Application deadline: Open until filled * Duration: 24 months From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 13 19:35:37 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:35:37 +0200 Subject: Appel: 5th Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP2014) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:38:55 +0200 From: Aldo Gangemi Message-Id: <9CCAA2F7-7A48-48AF-998C-408B00BF6B70 at lipn.univ-paris13.fr> X-url: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014 X-url: http://iswc2014.semanticweb.org === Apologies for multiple postings === ***************************************************************** Call for Patterns 5th Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP2014) http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014 WOP will be held on October 19 or 20, 2014, in conjunction with ISWC 2014 (http://iswc2014.semanticweb.org) ***************************************************************** Submission deadline : 7 July, 2014 ***************************************************************** This is the fifth edition in a series of workshops addressing the topic of ontology and semantic web patterns as best practices, related to the ontologydesignpatterns.org initiative. This edition of WOP will be the very first in Europe, in which traditionally the design pattern community for semantic web and linked data has been very strong. As interest in the Semantic Web increases and technologies for realizing the Semantic Web become more mature, the need for high-quality and reusable Semantic Web ontologies increases as well. To address the quality and reusability issues, different types of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) have emerged, and methods for devising or discovering new ones from heterogeneous knowledge sources are needed. Patterns need to be shared by a community in order to provide a common language, and to stimulate pattern usage and development. Hence, the aim of this workshop is twofold * providing an arena for proposing and discussing good practices, patterns, pattern-based ontologies, systems etc., and * broadening the pattern community that is developing its own ?language? for discussing and describing relevant problems and their solutions. WOP2014 will be a half-day workshop consisting of two parts: paper presentations and posters. The poster session will feature pattern posters, i.e. presentations of patterns submitted according the call for patterns. ---- Paper Topics For Research Papers and Short Papers ----- The main aim of the workshop is to discuss and collect solutions to recurrent problems that matter to researchers and practitioners of the Semantic Web field, and that impact on design and engineering of ontologies, linked data, knowledge extraction, and other semantic web applications. We invite the submission of original research results related to the focus areas of the workshop. Research papers (maximum 12 pages LNCS style) should present mature work and document established results, or be short papers presenting proposed research directions and novel ideas (maximum 4 pages LNCS style). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Ontology design patterns (ODPs) and pattern-based ontology design * Anti-patterns and their relations to ODPs * Pattern-based ontologies * Ontology patterns and their relation with standards * Ontology pattern extraction * Analysis of ontology pattern usage * Pattern-based ontology evaluation and selection * Correspondence patterns for ontology matching and integration * Best practices and examples for using existing ontologies/datasets to instantiate ODPs * Discussion of use cases of particular ODPs across ontologies * Evaluation of ODPs (methods, benchmarks) * Patterns and Linked data (usage, emerging patterns, etc.) * Linked Data patterns, patterns for using different vocabularies together * Web semantics from a pattern perspective * ODPs used for interaction with data * Data mining patterns * Automatic ontology construction (ontology learning) based on patterns * Reasoning pipelines * Usage of patterns in business intelligence * Relation between NLP patterns (either for learning, or procedural) and ontologies/linked data design * Frame semantics in text and knowledge representation * Knowledge patterns and knowledge reengineering based on patterns * Pattern-based information extraction * Nary-fact extraction and representation * Patterns in semantic social networks, semantic wikis, semantic blogs * Reengineering patterns for conceptual models, folksonomies, lexicons, thesauri * Usage of patterns in conceptual modeling * Processes and services process patterns * Problem solving methods and patterns * Contextual reasoning and patterns as context * Pattern-based methods and methodologies for development of semantic applications * Usage of patterns in Semantic Web design * Collaborative ontology design and collaboration patterns * Tools and applications for pattern-based knowledge engineering * Ontology Patterns for specific domains (cultural heritage, digital humanities, multimedia, etc). For submission details visit: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014/Submission ----- Patterns ----- We invite the submission of research results in the form of ontology design patterns (ODPs). Patterns submitted should have a general relevance to the ontology engineering field, or specific interest within a knowledge domain. Patterns should solve some particular modeling problem, and be of significant interest for discussion at the workshop. Patterns should be original, in the sense that they are the intellectual product of the author(s), however they may still be based on the collective experience of a community. Pattern submissions for the pattern session will be collected: * through the ODP portal and * by submitting a description of the pattern (pattern description) via EasyChair Detailed instructions for patterns submission, including how to submit via the ontologydesignpatterns.org portal, are found at the submission page at: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014/Submission . Note that an account in the ODP portal is needed for submitting patterns; thus, authors should take care to request an account at least one week before their intended submission. Pattern submissions can be made in any type of ODPs. Currently, portal templates for submission are provided for the following types of patterns (see general typology for explanation of the types): * Content patterns * Structural patterns: logical and architecture patterns. * Correspondence patterns: re-engineering and alignment patterns. For other types of patterns, the author is welcome to submit only a pattern description. ---- Important dates (2014, 11:59 Hawaii time) ---- * Submission date (research papers and patterns): 7 July, 2014 * Author notifications: July 30, 2014 * Camera-ready proceedings: August 20, 2014 * Workshops will be held on October 19-20, 2014 (tba) ----- WOP2014 Chairs ----- * Victor de Boer, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Aldo Gangemi, LIPN Paris Sorbonne Cit?/Paris 13 (FR) * Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara * Agnieszka ?awrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland ----- Steering Committee ----- The workshop series is arranged by a fixed steering committee, appointing the chairs and adjusting the focus of the workshop on a yearly basis. The WOP Steering committee consists of: * Eva Blomqvist, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Natasha Noy, Stanford University (US) * Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Alan Rector, University of Manchester (UK) * Francois Scharffe, INRIA (FR) * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz (DE) * Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center (US) ----- Program Committee ----- * Benjamin Adams, University of Auckland, NZ * Alessandro Adamou, KMI Open University (UK) * Lora Aroyo, VU (NL) * Eva Blomqvist, Link?ping University (SE) * Victor de Boer, VU University Amsterdam (NL) * Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (ES) * Enrico Daga, ISTC-CNR, Rome (IT) * Aldo Gangemi, LIPN Paris Sorbonne Cit?/Paris 13 (FR) * Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO) (ES) * Gerd Gr?ner, University of Koblenz (DE) * Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo (BR) * Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University (US) * Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit/Universiteit van Amsterdam, (NL) * Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara (US) * Adila Alfa Krisnadhi, Wright State University (US) * Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, University of Oviedo, (SP) * Agnieszka ?awrynowicz, Pozna? University of Technology (PL) * Steffen Lohmann, University of Stuttgart (DE) * Timothy Lebo, RPI, USA * Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, University of Bologna/STLab ISTC-CNR (IT) * Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh (US) * Raul Palma, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PL) * Mar?a Poveda, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (SP) * Catherine Roussey, Irstea - Centre de Clermont-Ferrand, France * Alan Ruttenberg, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, (US) * Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock (SE) * Mari Carmen Suarez-Figueroa, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, (SP) * Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague (CZ) * Boris Villaz?n-Terrazas, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (ES) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From CurrentResearch at MEGAPHONEMOTILITY.NET Sat Jun 14 07:12:49 2014 From: CurrentResearch at MEGAPHONEMOTILITY.NET (CurrentResearch) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2014 15:12:49 +0800 Subject: Dear ln@listserv.linguistlist.org, Welcome to Submit Your Papers and Books to Us Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We would be grateful if you could forward this information through your networks ! Frederic Benhamou and Milad Doueihi #di2014 Conference Co-chairs ------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES --------------------- ? Regular registration: June 13 - September 1st, 2014 ? Late registration: September 2 - September 15, 2014 ? On-site registration: September 17-19, 2014 ? #di2014 Conference: September 17-19, 2014 ------------------------ DI2014 CONFERENCE ------------------- #di2014 is a new international scientific and interdisciplinary forum dedicated to digital society and cultures. The challenge is to bring together researchers from various disciplines in order to discuss and contribute to shaping a new scientific and cultural paradigm. Main areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Digital Art & Culturally-Aware Information Technology, Data, Digital Organisations, Social Web, Digital Identity, e-Learning, Green Digital Economy, Digital Trends and Emerging Practices, Human-Robot Interaction, Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Humanities, etc. Interdisciplinary interactions are a key component of this conference. #di2014 is at the heart of a Digital Week (Sept. 13-21, 2014) bringing together conferences, workshops, demonstrations, performances and concerts related to Art, Science and Economy. More info : www.di2014.org / @DIConf14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:07:14 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:07:14 +0200 Subject: Appel: Call for System Participation, Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction (Registration Deadline: July 1st) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 06:34:07 -0700 From: Wajdi Zaghouani Message-ID: <1402925647.95132.YahooMailNeo at web121705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> X-url: http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/shared_task.html X-url: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/qalb-shared-task ======================================================= Last Call for System Participation Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction In conjunction with EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing Apologies for multiple postings Please distribute to colleagues ======================================================= Last Call for System Participation Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar Registration deadline: July 1, 2014 System test period: July 7-18, 2014 Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014 Shared Task Website: http://www.emnlp2014.org/workshops/anlp/shared_task.html ======================================================= Shared Task Description As part of the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014, we will conduct a shared task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction. We designed this task in the traditions of high profile shared tasks in natural language processing such as CONLL's grammar/error detection and correction shared tasks in 2011-2013 and numerous machine translation campaigns by NIST/WMT/MEDAR, among others. The task relies on resources created under the Qatar Arabic Language Bank (QALB) project (currently over 1M words of manually corrected Arabic text). A participating system in this shared task will be given Modern Standard Arabic texts, which are to be automatically corrected. The input will be provided in Arabic script, and will be annotated for part-of-speech (in different granularities), inflectional features, clitics (which appear in 20% of Arabic words), lemmas, and English glosses. All of the input text will be preprocessed in a common way to make sure all participants have access to all of these features at no additional overhead novelty cost. We follow the file format and evaluation framework used by the CONLL shared tasks on error correction. The task is focused on correction as opposed to identification. There will not be an error identification task per se. Participants need to register. Once registered, all participating teams will be provided with a common training data set (about 1 million words), which includes common preprocessed input and corrected output. Registration link is on the Shared Task Website (see above). A common development set will also be provided. A blind test data set will be used to evaluate the output of the participating teams. An evaluation script will be provided to all the teams. Each participating team can submit up to three systems. Participants are welcome to use additional resourcesand tools that are not part of the released data set. However, allsuch additions must be fully disclosed. All those who registered to participate in the Shared Task will receive an email message onJuly 7, 2014with specific instructions on how to download the test set and how to send the automatic correction of it. The information will also be available at the shared task group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/qalb-shared-task). Participants are expected to author a short paper (4 pages + 2 for references) describing their approach, resources and experiments. The paper needs to follow the standard format of EMNLP conference. DISCUSSION GROUP The following discussion group has been created and is used for all announcements and discussions related to the shared task. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/qalb-shared-task Participants are encouraged to subscribe and follow the discussion group. IMPORTANT DATES Shared task registration period: April 8, 2014 through July 1, 2014 Shared task test release: July 7, 2014 Shared task system output collection: July 18, 2014 Submission deadline for system description papers: July 26, 2014 Author notification: August 26, 2014 Camera Ready: September 15, 2014 Arabic NLP Workshop: October 25, 2014 ORGANIZERS Behrang Mohit (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Alla Rozovskaya (co-chair), Columbia University Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar Nizar Habash (advisor), Columbia University From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:10:24 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:10:24 +0200 Subject: Seminaire: FIT Post Congress Seminars "Terminology Management" , 7-9 August 2014, Berlin Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:12:26 +0200 From: excellence Message-ID: X-url: http://www.fit2014.org Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to the Terminology Management - Intensive Training Course based on the ECQA Certified Terminology Manager that will take place on August 7th - 9th 2014 in Berlin. On the three days following the FIT XXth World Congress, the CPD unit of the BD? (BD? Weiterbildungs- und Fachverlagsgesellschaft) together with the consultancy and training unit of the International Network for Terminology TermNet (TermNet Business GmbH) will host this 3-day seminar on Terminology Management. The seminar is also open to colleagues who do not wish to attend the FIT XXth World Congress (Aug. 4th - 6th 2014 - www.fit2014.org) in Berlin. Target audience: The seminar is designed as a theoretical and practical introductory training course on terminology management to help professional translators, interpreters and terminologists to develop their terminology management skills and set up or improve their terminology management system. For detailed contents and learning objectives, please refer to the attached programme. The seminar will be held in English. Trainers: * Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dirk Schmitz, Cologne University of Applied Sciences * Prof. Dr. Frieda Steurs, KU Leuven - University of Leuven * Prof. Dr. Hendrik Kockaert, KU Leuven - University of Leuven * Dr. Gabriele Sauberer, Director, TermNet Business GmbH * Blanca N?jera, Deputy Director, TermNet Business GmbH Optional certification: The seminar programme has been developed within the framework of ECQA - the European Certification and Qualification Association (www.ecqa.org ). After the seminar, participants will be given the opportunity to sit an exam to obtain the ECQA Certificate for Terminology Managers (basic level). The exam is taken online some weeks after the workshop to ensure that participants have enough time to work through the training material. If you have any questions concerning the seminar programme and certification, please contact Blanca N?jera by e-mail at: events at termnet.org Registration: please register online at http://www.seminare.bdue.de or send an e-mail to: service at bdue.de Registration closes on July 1st 2014. There are only few places available. Please disseminate this information also among colleagues and friends who might be interested! Kind regards, Your TermNet Events Team ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:12:56 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:12:56 +0200 Subject: Conf: WACAI 2014, Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel et Interaction, 30 juin-1er juillet 2014, Rouen Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:02:27 +0200 From: Magalie Ochs Message-ID: <53A163B3.20104 at telecom-paristech.fr> X-url: http://wacai14.litislab.fr/?page_id=135 X-url: http://wacai14.litislab.fr/?page_id=23 Le prochain Workshop Affect, Compagnon Artificiel et Interaction se d?roule tr?s prochainement ! Nous avons le plaisir d?accueillir de nombreux chercheurs et ?tudiants travaillant sur les agents conversationnels anim?s et les robots sociaux. Le programme est en ligne : http://wacai14.litislab.fr/?page_id=135 Les inscriptions sont ouvertes ! Le tarif pour ces deux jours de conf?rence est de 65? pour les permanents et 35? pour les ?tudiants : http://wacai14.litislab.fr/?page_id=23 Au plaisir de vous y rencontrer, G?rard Bailly, Magalie Ochs et Alexandre Pauchet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:15:05 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:15:05 +0200 Subject: Conf: Problems in Terminological Work Workshop, Sept-Oct 2014, Spanish edition, Barcelone Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:05:11 +0000 From: Tutoria Terminologia Message-ID: <931D3873A66FA442AA1531898AF37EC50B06880E at srv-exch-mbx.IDEC-UPF.LOCAL> X-url: http://www.idec.upf.edu/problems-in-terminological-work-workshop Problems in Terminological Work Workshop (Sept-Oct 2014, Spanish edition) The objective of this workshop is to establish and develop skills for detecting those problems which arise when preparing a terminological project and for applying the most effective solutions. Attending to the different habitual phenomena and activities in the various phases of the terminological project process, this objective is laid out in the following skills: - Accurately defining the terms found and discerning the terminological units of categories other than nouns. - Detecting those terminological units that are equivalent to each other and treating them in a manner that is suitable to the type of project. - Preparing suitable definitions with the requirements established and distinguishing inaccurate or inadequate definitions. - Tackling the different instances of possible terminological novelties, including the creation of neologisms, based on solid criteria. Further information: http://www.idec.upf.edu/problems-in-terminological-work-workshop Contact us: tutoria.terminologia at idec.upf.edu Yours sincerely, Alba Coll Tutora. M?ster en Terminolog?a tutoria.terminologia at idec.upf.edu www.idec.upf.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:05:27 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:05:27 +0200 Subject: These: Maxime Lefrancois, Representation des connaissances semantiques lexicales de la Theorie Sens-Texte Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:47:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Maxime Lefran?ois Message-ID: <1513674925.1986849.1402919243313.JavaMail.zimbra at inria.fr> X-url: http://maxime-lefrancois.info ENGLISH VERSION BELOW ====================== Bonjour ? tous, J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter ? ma soutenance de th?se, " Repr?sentation des connaissances s?mantiques lexicales de la Th?orie Sens-Texte: Conceptualisation, repr?sentation, et op?rationnalisation des d?finitions lexicographiques ", ainsi qu'au pot qui suivra. La soutenance aura lieu mardi 24 juin ? 14:00 , en salle Euler Violet , ? l?Inria Sophia Antipolis. Bien cordialement, Maxime Lefran?ois Attach? de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche, IUT Nice c?te d'azur Doctorant ?quipe Wimmics, Inria/I3S http://maxime-lefrancois.info --- Jury : DR. Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Universit? de Toulouse, IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse , relectrice ext?rieure Pr. Igor Boguslavsky, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid & Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow , relecteur ext?rieur Pr. Marie-Laure Mugnier, Universit? Montpellier 2, LIRMM/Inria , relectrice ext?rieure Pr. Andrea Tettamanzi, Universit? de Nice-Sophia Antipolis , examinateur Directeur : DR. Fabien Gandon, Inria Sophia Antipolis-M?diterran?e Co-directeur : Pr. Christian Boitet, Universit? Joseph Fourier, LIG, Grenoble R?sum?: Nous pr?sentons notre recherche en ing?nierie des connaissances appliqu?e ? la linguistique. Plus particuli?rement, aux pr?dicats linguistiques, aux repr?sentations linguistiques, et aux d?finitions lexicographiques de la th?orie linguistique Sens-Texte (TST). Nous adoptons une m?thodologie en trois ?tapes. Nous ?tudions dans un premier temps la conceptualisation de la TST, et montrons en quoi elle devrait ?tre ?tendue pour faciliter une formalisation ult?rieure. Nous justifions en particulier la n?cessit? de d?finir un nouveau niveau de repr?sentation s?mantique profond, bas? sur des graphes. Nous y d?finissons la notion de type d'unit? s?mantique profonde et sa structure actancielle: un ensemble de positions actancielles sign?es, qui peuvent ?tre obligatoires, optionnelles, ou interdites, et ?tiquet?es par des r?les s?mantiques lexicalis?s. Nous montrons que l'organisation hi?rarchique des types d'unit?s s?mantiques profondes peut correspondre ? une hi?rarchie de sens au sein de laquelle les structures actancielles sont h?rit?es et sp?cialis?es. Nous reconceptualisons les d?finitions lexicographiques au niveau s?mantique profond, et au niveau du dictionnaire. Finalement, nous pr?sentons un prototype d'?diteur de d?finitions bas? sur la manipulation directe de graphes, qui permettera une int?gration future de nos travaux dans des projets de lexicographie explicative et combinatoire. Ensuite, nous proposons un formalisme de repr?sentation des connaissances adapt? ? cette conceptualisation. Nous d?montrons que les logiques de description et le formalisme des Graphes Conceptuels ne sont pas adapt?s pour repr?senter les connaissances de la TST. Nous construisons alors un nouveau formalisme de repr?sentation des connaissances adapt?, dit des Graphes d'Unit?s. Enfin nous ?tudions l'op?rationnalisation du formalisme des Graphes d'Unit?s. Nous lui associons une s?mantique formelle bas?e sur la th?orie des mod?les et l'alg?bre relationnelle, et montrons que les conditions de d?cidabilit? du raisonnement logique correspondent aux intuitions des lexicographes. Nous proposons ?galement une impl?mentation du formalisme avec les standards du web s?mantique, ce qui permet de profiter des architectures existantes pour le partage, l'interop?rationnalisation, et l'interrogation des connaissances sur le web des donn?es lexicales li?es. =============== ENGLISH VERSION =============== Hello, I am pleased to invite you to the defence of my PhD thesis, ? Meaning-Text Theory Lexical Semantic Knowledge Representation: Conceptualization, Representation, and Operationalization of Lexicographic Definitions ?, and the drinks afterwards. The defence will take place on Tuesday June 24th, at 2pm in room Euler Violet at Inria Sophia Antipolis. Best regards, Maxime Lefran?ois Attach? de l'Enseignement et de la Recherche, IUT Nice c?te d'azur PhD Student Wimmics Team, Inria/I3S http://maxime-lefrancois.info --- Jury : DR. Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Universit? de Toulouse, IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse , reviewer Pr. Igor Boguslavsky, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid & Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow , reviewer Pr. Marie-Laure Mugnier, Universit? Montpellier 2, LIRMM/Inria , reviewer Pr. Andrea Tettamanzi, Universit? de Nice-Sophia Antipolis , examiner Advisor : DR. Fabien Gandon, Inria Sophia Antipolis-M?diterran?e Co-Advisor : Pr. Christian Boitet, Universit? Joseph Fourier, LIG, Grenoble Abstract: We present our research in applying knowledge engineering to linguistics. In particular, to linguistic predicates, linguistic representations, and lexicographic definitions of the Meaning-Text Theory (MTT). We adopt a three-step methodology. We first study the MTT conceptualization, and show how it should be extended to ease its formalization. We therefore justify the need of defining a new deep semantic, graph-based, representation level for the Meaning-Text model. We define the notion of deep semantic unit types and its actantial structure: a set of signed obligatory, optional or forbidden actant slots with lexicalized semantic roles as labels. We show that their hierarchical organization may correspond to a hierarchy of meanings, inside which actantial structures are inherited and specialized. We re-conceptualize lexicographic definitions at the deep semantic level, and at the level of dictionaries. Finally, we present a definition editor prototype based on graph direct manipulation, which will allow us, in future work, to integrate our formal model into explanatory combinatorial lexicographic projects. We then propose a knowledge representation formalism adapted for this conceptualization. We demonstrate that Description Logics and the Conceptual Graphs formalism do not fit our needs. This leads us to construct a new knowledge representation formalism: the Unit Graphs formalism. Finally, we operationalize the Unit Graphs formalism. We assign it a formal semantic model, which we create based on model theory and relational algebra. We then show that the reasoning decidability conditions match the intuitions that lexicographers have. We also provide an implementation using semantic web standards, which enable us to use existing architectures for sharing, interoperability, and knowledge querying over the web of lexical linked data. Maxime Lefran?ois ATER IUT Info Nice Fabron Doctorant ?quipe Wimmics, UNS/I3S/CNRS/INRIA http://maxime-lefrancois.info @Max_Lefrancois ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 18:54:24 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 20:54:24 +0200 Subject: Appel: IEEE CIM Special Issue on New Trends of Learning in Computational Intelligence Message-ID: Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 09:43:55 -0500 (EST) From: SenticNet Message-ID: <63146292.1489152.1402843435062.open-xchange at bosoxweb03.eigbox.net> Apologies for cross-posting, A special issue of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine will be dedicated to New Trends of Learning in Computational Intelligence. Prospective authors are invited to submit their original unpublished research and application contributions. Comprehensive tutorial and survey papers can also be considered for this special issue. RATIONALE Over the past few decades, conventional computational intelligence techniques faced severe bottlenecks in terms of algorithmic learning. Particularly, in areas of big data computation, brain science, cognition and reasoning, it is almost inevitable that intensive human intervention and time consuming trial and error efforts need to be employed before any meaningful observations can be obtained. The recent development of emerging computational intelligence techniques such as extreme learning machines (ELM) and fast solutions shed some light upon how to effectively deal with these computational bottlenecks. Based on the observations that increasing correlation can be found among apparently different theories from different fields, as well as the increasing evidence of convergence between computational intelligence techniques and biological learning mechanisms, this special issue seeks to promote novel research investigations in computational intelligence bridging among related areas. TOPICS Topics of interest for this special issue include but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations and algorithms: - Extreme learning machines (ELM), No-Prop algorithms and random kitchen sinks - Real-time learning, reasoning and cognition - Sequential / incremental learning - Clustering and feature extraction / selection - Closed form and non-closed form solutions - Multiple hidden layers solutions and random networks - Parallel and distributed computing / cloud computing - Fast implementation of deep learning - Applications: - Biologically-inspired natural language processing - Big data analytics - Cognitive science / computation - Autonomous systems - Situation / Intention Awareness TIMEFRAME - 15th August, 2014: Submission of Manuscripts - 15th October, 2014: Notification of Review Results - 15th November, 2014: Submission of Revised Manuscripts - 15th December, 2014: Submission of Final Manuscripts - May, 2015: Publication PAPER SUBMISSION The maximum length for the manuscript is typically 25 pages in single column format with double-spacing, including figures and references. Authors should specify in the first page of their manuscripts the corresponding author?s contact and up to 5 keywords. Submission should be made via email to any of the guest editors listed below. GUEST EDITORS - Guang-Bin Huang, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) - Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) - Kar-Ann Toh, Yonsei University (South Korea) - Bernard Widrow, Stanford University (USA) - Zongben Xu, Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:18:40 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:18:40 +0200 Subject: Q: Recherche corpus / jeu de donnees en francais, Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:23:06 -0400 From: Claude Coulombe Message-ID: Bonjour, Je m'int?resse aux logiciels capables de corriger des r?ponses ? des questions ouvertes ou de courts essais. ? votre connaissance, existe-t-il un corpus ou jeu de donn?es (ou banc d'essai) pour la langue fran?aise ?quivalent par exemple au corpus (en anglais) qui a ?t? utilis? lors de la comp?tition ASAP (Automated Student Assessment Prize) tenu en 2012 et support? par la Hewlett Foundation ( https://www.kaggle.com/c/asap-aes). Merci Claude Coulombe architecte logiciel candidat au doctorat T?luq - l'universit? ? distance de l'Universit? du Qu?bec. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:12:14 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:12:14 +0200 Subject: Job: Post-doc ou ingenieur en TAL, Universite de Tours Message-ID: Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:43:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Denis Maurel Message-ID: <1488656700.11990972.1402998213411.JavaMail.zimbra at univ-tours.fr> X-url: http://li.univ-tours.fr/ X-url: http://www.istex.fr/ X-url: http://tln.li.univ-tours.fr/Tln_CasEN.html Le laboratoire d?informatique de l?universit? Fran?ois-Rabelais de Tours recrute un post-doc ou un ing?nieur en TAL pour un CDD de un an dans le cadre du projet Istex . Le LI travaille depuis plusieurs ann?es sur un syst?me de reconnaissance d?entit?s nomm?es en fran?ais, CasEn , qui consiste en des cascades de graphes Unitex. L'avant-derni?re version de CasEn a ?t? class?e premi?re sur la t?che REN de l??valuation ETAPE sur le fran?ais oral. Le travail consiste en une nouvelle version de CasEN sp?cifique pour traiter des textes scientifiques (articles ou chapitres) qui sont et vont ?tre d?pos?s sur la plateforme Istex. Il s?agira donc de cr?er une nouvelle cascade, en particulier pour l'anglais, inspir?e de CasEn, de la lancer sur ces textes, de v?rifier les r?sultats et d?am?liorer la couverture du syst?me. Cela pourra ?tre aussi l'occasion d'am?liorer les programmes Unitex utilis?s, en lien avec un ing?nieur de l'INIST. Pour un post-doc, la recherche pourrait porter sur les liens entre les entit?s cit?es dans les articles ("entity linking"). Comp?tences attendues : - Th?se ou, ?ventuellement, Master en TAL. - Tr?s bonne connaissance de l'anglais. - Connaissance de la notion d?entit?s nomm?es et de syst?mes ? base de r?gles. Comp?tences suppl?mentaires appr?ci?es : - Connaissance de la plateforme Unitex. - Quelques notions de programmation, m?me rudimentaires. Prise de fonction id?ale entre le 1er septembre et le 1er octobre 2014. R?mun?ration suivant le niveau de recrutement (bac+8 ou bac+5) et l'anciennet?, en conformit? avec les ?chelles de r?mun?ration des universit?s. Contact : envoyer un courriel avec motivation et CV ? Denis MAUREL et Nathalie FRIBURGER. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:17:46 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:17:46 +0200 Subject: Appel: Deadline extension, DMNLP ECML/PKDD, Workshop on Interactions between Data Mining and Natural Language Processing Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 10:28:29 +0200 From: Peggy Cellier Message-ID: <53A29F2D.1080204 at irisa.fr> X-url: http://dmnlp.loria.fr [Apologies for multiple postings] ******************************************************** ******************************************************** Submission deadline: 27 June 2014 (extended!) Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dmnlp2014 ******************************************************** ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Interactions between Data Mining and Natural Language Processing (DMNLP'2014) ECML/PKDD 2014 Workshop September 15, 2014 Nancy, France http://dmnlp.loria.fr ******************************************************** ------ SCOPE ------ On the one hand, in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), numerical Machine Learning methods (e.g., SVM, CRF) have been intensively explored and applied. Despite the good results obtained by the numerical methods, one major drawback is that they do not provide a human readable model. A promising direction is the integration of symbolic knowledge. On the other hand, research in Data Mining has progressed significantly in the last decades, through the development of advanced algorithms and techniques to extract knowledge from data in different forms. In particular, for two decades Pattern Mining has been one of the most active field in Knowledge Discovery. Recently, a new field has emerged taking benefit of both domains: Data Mining and NLP. The objective of DMNLP is thus to provide a forum to discuss how Data Mining can be interesting for NLP tasks, providing symbolic knowledge, but also how NLP can enhance data mining approaches by providing richer and/or more complex information to mine and by integrating linguistics knowledge directly in the mining process. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from both communities in order to stimulate discussions about the cross-fertilization of those two research fields. The idea of this workshop is to discuss future directions and new challenges emerging from the cross-fertilization of Data Mining and NLP and in the same time initiate collaborations between researchers of both communities. --------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- The workshop promotes works where the two following dimensions are combined in one as symbiosis. The first dimension is Data Mining, for instance Pattern Mining (itemsets, sequences, trees, graphs, association rules), classification (decision trees, FCA,...), inductive logic programming. The second dimension is NLP, for example question/answering systems, translation, information extraction, linguistic analysis (lexical analysis, terminology, syntax, semantics, discourse, stylistics), classification, knowledge extraction/ontology building from texts, information retrieval, corpus annotation, social/opinion mining. A list of non-exhaustive topics that fit the scope of the workshop is thus: - Pattern discovery for NLP - Constraint-based pattern mining in text - Data mining query languages for expressing NLP tasks - Data representation (sequence, tree, graphs) for NLP - Modelization of text for data mining - Relationships between data mining and NLP - Modeling and visualizing data mining results on text - Integrating NLP characteristics in data mining - Data mining approaches for linguistic knowledge building - Knowledge discovery for linguistic analysis (e.g. stylistic, socio-linguistics,?) - Linguistically-informed text representations for Data Mining ------------------ SUBMISSION FORMAT ------------------ Our main goal is to stimulate discussions, collaborations and the sharing of experiences. In that respect, we would have three submission types: * unpublished works (max 16 pages, double submissions allowed) * short papers and vision statements (max 8 pages) * recently published works (special oral-only track, no page limits) For more details on submission, see the DMNLP webpage at http://dmnlp.loria.fr ----------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------- * Deadline for submissions: Friday, June 20, 2014 * Author notification: Friday, July 11, 2014 * Final version: Tuesday July 22, 2014 * Workshop date: Monday September 15, 2014 -------------- ORGANIZATION -------------- * Peggy Cellier, INSA Rennes, IRISA, Rennes, France * Thierry Charnois, Universit? de Paris 13, LIPN, France * Andreas Hotho, University of Kassel, Germany * Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada * Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium * Yannick Toussaint, INRIA, LORIA, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France ------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------- * Martin Atzmueller, University of Kassel, Germany * Delphine Battistelli, MoDyCo-Universit? Paris Ouest, France * Yves Bestgen, Universit? catholique de Louvain, Belgium * Philipp Cimiano, University of Bielefeld, Germany * Bruno Cremilleux, Universit? de Caen, France * Beatrice, Daille, LINA, France * Yves Lepage, Waseda University, Japan * Francois Jacquenet, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, Saint-Etienne, France * Jiri Klema, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic * Amedeo Napoli, LORIA Nancy, France * Adeline Nazarenko, Universit? de Paris 13, LIPN, France * Claire N?dellec, Institut National de Recherche Agronomique, France * Pascal Poncelet, LIRMM Montpellier, France * Maria Teresa Pazienza, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy * Stephen Poteet, Boeing, USA * Solen Quiniou, LINA-Universit? de Nantes, France * Mathieu Roche, TETIS, Montpellier, France * Arnaud Soulet, Universit? Fran?ois Rabelais, Tours, France * Steffen, Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany * Koichi Takeuchi, Okayama University, Japan * Isabelle Tellier, Lattice, Paris, France * Johanna V?lker, University of Mannheim, Germany * Xifeng Yan, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA * Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Thu Jun 19 19:16:50 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:16:50 +0200 Subject: Appel: DO 2014 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:52:22 -0400 From: Selja Sepp?l? Message-ID: X-url: https://sites.google.com/site/definitionsinontologies/ Call for papers - Second International Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies (DO 2014) Apologies for cross-posting Please forward this message to colleagues in the areas of interest CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies (DO 2014) at the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2014) October 6-7, 2014 Houston, USA Website: https://sites.google.com/site/definitionsinontologies/ This workshop is a follow-up to the workshop on Definitions in Ontologies (DO 2013) held last year in Montreal in conjunction with ICBO 2013. The focus of this second workshop is on definition practices in either human or machine-assisted ontology development. PRESENTATION A current problem in ontology development is constructing the needed definitions of terms either logical or in natural language. For example, ontologies built using OBO Foundry principles are advised to include both logical and natural language definitions, but ontology developers too often focus on only one of these, or they pay insufficient attention to whether they are equivalent. Explicit definitions of terms in ontologies serve a number of purposes. Logical definitions allow reasoners to create inferred hierarchies, lessening the burden of asserting and checking the validity of subsumptions. Natural language definitions help to ameliorate the pervasive problem of low inter-annotator agreement. In specialized domains, experts will know their own field well, but may only have limited knowledge of adjacent disciplines. Good definitions make it possible for non-experts to understand unfamiliar terms and thereby make it possible for more confident reuse of terms by external ontologies, which in turn facilitates data integration. The goal of this workshop is to bring together interested researchers and developers to explore these issues by presenting case studies in a biomedical domain discussing the difficulties that arise when constructing definitions with a view to sharing strategies in the future. Even in the seemingly narrow domain of definition construction, cross-fertilization from related disciplines should yield benefits in quality and help to identify novel approaches. Papers submitted should include one or more case studies and raise specific questions related to definitions with a link to a biomedical domain. Reports on successful or unsuccessful methods are both appropriate. TOPICS - experiences in formulating definitions - tools that assist in definition editing, including collaborative systems - coordination of logical and textual definitions - validation and quality control of definitions, e.g., checking that definitions comply with the all/some form - methods for constructing definitions from multiple sources - use of controlled languages such as Rabbit or ACE for more user-friendly logical definition creation - use of templates to systematize definition creation FORMAT AND OUTCOMES This will be a half-day workshop with a selected mix of presentations based on accepted papers. In order to promote discussion, each presentation will be followed by a short response by a participant of the workshop to be arranged in advance of the workshop. This workshop will document findings on the workshop's website (https://sites.google.com/site/definitionsinontologies/). We expect accepted papers to be published in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (JBS). INTENDED AUDIENCE - ontologists, tool developers, and domain experts whose work encounters issues regarding definitions - tool developers building definition- or ontology-authoring tools - philosophers and logicians - biomedical researchers working on definitions in nomenclatures such as SNOMED - computer scientists addressing these issues in languages like OWL - NLP researchers working on definition extraction, generation, or checking - NLP/IR researchers reusing definitions produced for ontologies SUBMISSIONS All papers should include one or more case studies and raise specific questions related to definitions with a link to a biomedical domain. Papers should be between 5 and 10 pages long, excluding references, formatted using the JBS templates at http://www.jbiomedsem.com/authors/instructions/research#preparing-main-manuscript, and submitted via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=do2014). IMPORTANT DATES Workshop paper submission: July 15, 2014 Notification of paper acceptance: August 15, 2014 Camera-ready copies for the proceedings: September 15, 2014 Workshops: October 6-7, 2014 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Selja Sepp?l? (University at Buffalo, USA) Patrick Ray (University at Buffalo, USA) Alan Ruttenberg (University at Buffalo, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France) M?lanie Courtot (MBB Department Simon Fraser University and BC Public Health Microbiology & Reference Laboratory, Canada) Natalia Grabar (Universit? de Lille 3, France) Janna Hastings (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK) James Malone (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK) Alexis Nasr (Aix Marseille Universit?, France) Richard Power (The Open University, UK) Allan Third (The Open University, UK) SUPPORTED BY The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) The State University of New York at Buffalo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 22 19:25:27 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:25:27 +0200 Subject: Job: 3 offres de post-doc, Traitement automatique des langues, LIMSI Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:52:05 +0200 From: Pierre Zweigenbaum Message-ID: <53A458A5.8070200 at limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.patient-genesys.com/ Veuillez nous excuser pour l'envoi multiple. Le LIMSI propose trois offres de post-doctorat en traitement automatique des langues dans le cadre de deux projets collaboratifs. 1. Gestion de dialogue dans un syst?me de dialogue personne-machine o? le syst?me joue le r?le du patient pendant une consultation m?dicale avec un m?decin. 2. Acquisition de connaissances sur les correspondances entre des ontologies/terminologies professionnelles et la terminologie du grand public. 3. Extraction d'informations ? partir de forums de sant? pour aider la pharmacovigilance. Plus de d?tails ci-dessous. Post-doctoral positions at LIMSI-CNRS, Paris Saclay (Paris Sud) University LIMSI is a multi-disciplinary research unit that addresses the automatic processing of human language for a range of tasks. LIMSI invites applications for three one-year Postdoctoral positions in Natural Language Processing. The topics involve: 1. Dialogue management in a human-machine dialogue system where the system plays the role of a patient during a medical consultation with a doctor. 2. Acquisition of knowledge about the mappings between professional ontology / terminology and lay people terminology. 3. Information extraction from social media for improve pharmacovigilance. CONTEXT The postdoctoral fellow will contribute to one of the two following projects: Patient Genesys (1, 2: http://www.patient-genesys.com/): in the framework of continuous medical education, the goal of the project is to design and develop a framework for virtual patient-doctor consultation. This is a collaborative project including a hospital and small and medium enterprises. Vigi4MED (3): the aim of the project is to discover unknown effects of drugs by exploring the contents of posts in patient forums. This is a collaborative project with academic partners among which two pharmacovigilance centers. JOB REQUIREMENTS - Ph.D. in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics - Solid programming skills - Strong publication record - A good command of French is a plus - Knowledge of medical terminologies and ontologies is a plus ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Net salary: between 2000 and 2400 ? per month according to experience Benefits: LIMSI offers a generous benefit package including health insurance and 44 days vacation pa. Duration: 12 months, renewable depending on performance and funding availability Start date: 1st October 2014 Location: Orsay, greater Paris area, France TO APPLY Please send: * a cover letter * a curriculum vitae, including a list of publications * the names and contact information of at least two referees to both: Cyril Grouin (grouin at limsi.fr) Sophie Rosset (rosset at limsi.fr) Pierre Zweigenbaum (pz at limsi.fr) Application deadline: July 15th, 2014 Applications will be examined in the following week. ABOUT LIMSI-CNRS LIMSI is a laboratory of the French National Center for Research (CNRS), a leading research institution in Europe. LIMSI is a multi-disciplinary research unit that covers a number of fields from thermodynamics to cognition, encompassing fluid mechanics, energetics, acoustic and voice synthesis, spoken language and text processing, vision, visualisation and perception, virtual and augmented reality. LIMSI hosts about 200 researchers, professors, research support staff and graduate students. It is located in a green area about 30 minutes south of Paris. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 22 19:21:24 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:21:24 +0200 Subject: Appel: Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Special Issue on Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:30:33 +0200 From: "Reinhard Rapp" Message-ID: <45AAADB6E08D4114A33C67C5B869DAD2 at ASUSPC> X-url: http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/bucc-introduction.html ***** Journal of Natural Language Engineering - Special Issue on ?Machine Translation Using Comparable Corpora? ***** CALL FOR PAPERS Statistical machine translation based on parallel corpora has been very successful. The major search engines' translation systems, which are used by millions of people, are primarily using this approach, and it has been possible to come up with new language pairs in a fraction of the time that would be required when using more traditional rule-based methods. In contrast, research on comparable corpora is still at an earlier stage. Comparable corpora can be defined as monolingual corpora covering roughly the same subject area in different languages but without being exact translations of each other. However, despite its tremendous success, the use of parallel corpora in MT has a number of drawbacks: 1) It has been shown that translated language is somewhat different from original language, for example Klebanov & Flor showed that "associative texture" is lost in translation. 2) As they require translation, parallel corpora will always be a far scarcer resource than comparable corpora. This is a severe drawback for a number of reasons: a) Among the about 7000 world languages, of which 600 have a written form, the vast majority are of the "low resource" type. b) The number of possible language pairs increases with the square of the number of languages. When using parallel corpora, one bitext is needed for each language pair. When using comparable corpora, one monolingual corpus per language suffices. c) For improved translation quality, translation systems specialized on particular genres and domains are desirable. But it is far more difficult to acquire appropriate parallel rather than comparable training corpora. d) As language evolves over time, the training corpora should be updated on a regular basis. Again, this is more difficult in the parallel case. For such reasons it would be a big step forward if it were possible to base statistical machine translation on comparable rather than on parallel corpora: The acquisition of training data would be far easier, and the unnatural "translation bias" (source language shining through) within the training data could be avoided. But is there any evidence that this is possible? Motivation for using comparable corpora in MT research comes from a cognitive perspective: Experience tells that persons who have learned a second language completely independently from their mother tongue can nevertheless translate between the languages. That is, human performance shows that there must be a way to bridge the gap between languages which does not rely on parallel data. Using parallel data for MT is of course a nice shortcut. But avoiding this shortcut by doing MT based on comparable corpora may well be a key to a better understanding of human translation, and to better MT quality. Work on comparable corpora in the context of MT has been ongoing for almost 20 years. It has turned out that this is a very hard problem to solve, but as it is among the grand challenges in multilingual NLP, interest has steadily increased. Apart from the increase in publications this can be seen from the considerable number of research projects (such as ACCURAT and TTC) which are fully or partially devoted to MT using comparable corpora. Given also the success of the workshop series on ?Building and Using Comparable Corpora? (BUCC), which is now in its seventh year, and following the publication of a related book (http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-20127-1), we think that it is now time to devote a journal special issue to this field. It is meant to bundle the latest top class research, make it available to everybody working in the field, and at the same time give an overview on the state of the art to all interested researchers. TOPICS OF INTEREST We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following topics: - Comparable corpora based MT systems (CCMTs) - Architectures for CCMTs - CCMTs for less-resourced languages - CCMTs for less-resourced domains - CCMTs dealing with morphologically rich languages - CCMTs for spoken translation - Applications of CCMTs - CCMT evaluation - Open source CCMT systems - Hybrid systems combining SMT and CCMT - Hybrid systems combining rule-based MT and CCMT - Enhancing phrase-based SMT using comparable corpora - Expanding phrase tables using comparable corpora - Comparable corpora based processing tools/kits for MT - Methods for mining comparable corpora from the Web - Applying Harris' distributional hypothesis to comparable corpora - Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora - Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora - Parallel corpora vs. pairs of non-parallel monolingual 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, and named entities from comparable corpora IMPORTANT DATES December 1, 2014: Paper submission deadline February 1, 2015: Notification May 1, 2015: Deadline for revised papers July 1, 2015: Final notification September 1, 2015: Final paper due GUEST EDITORS Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Aix Marseille (France) and Mainz (Germany) Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK) Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS (France) FURTHER INFORMATION Please use the following e-mail address to contact the guest editors: jnle.bucc (at) limsi (dot) fr Further details on paper submission will be made available in due course at the BUCC website: http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2014/bucc-introduction.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 22 19:22:38 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:22:38 +0200 Subject: Appel: ECMK/PKDD Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:14:44 +0100 From: Mathieu.Daquin Message-ID: <53A44FE4.1020706 at open.ac.uk> X-url: http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2014/ ** apologies for cross-posting ** ================================ LD4KD 2014 1st Workshop on Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery http://events.kmi.open.ac.uk/ld4kd2014/ co-located with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery 2014 (ECML/PKDD 2014) 15-19 September 2014, Nancy, France (http://www.ecmlpkdd2014.org/ ) Deadline extended to 27th June 2014. ================================ Linked Data have attracted a lot of attention in recent years in many research areas, as their technologies and principles provide new ways to overcome typical data management and consumption issues such as reliability, heterogeneity, provenance or completeness. However, the way in which Linked Data can be applicable and beneficial to the Knowledge Discovery (KDD) pocess is still not completely understood. Many aspects of KDD could benefit from Linked Data, e.g. mining Linked Data sources, using Linked Data to enrich, represent or integrate local data for data preparation, interpretation or visualisation. LD4KD will be an interactive hub to explore the benefits of Linked Data principles and technologies for Knowledge Discovery, together with addressing the new challenges that will emerge from joining the two fields. It will be an opportunity for practitioners of both fields to create communication and collaboration channels,and bridge the gap between their overlapping, but mostly isolated communities. The workshop encourages the participation of researchers from the Knowledge Discovery field to discuss and get informed about the use, benefits and challenges of Linked Data, while th Linked Data researchers can take advantage of and adapt Knowledge Discovery methods in their domain. *SCOPE* We welcome high quality position and research papers in which (1) Linked Data are used as support of Knowledge Discovery processes to extract useful knowledge, or (2) Knowledge Discovery techniques are adapted to work and possibly extend Linked Data. Topics of either theoretical and applied interest include, but are not limited to: - Linked Data for data pre-processing: cleaning, sorting, filtering or enrichment - Linked Data applied to Machine Learning - Linked Data for pattern extraction and behaviour detection - Linked Data for pattern interpretation, visualization or optimisation - Reasoning with patterns and Linked Data - Reasoning on and extracting knowledge from Linked Data - Linked Data mining - Links prediction or links discovery using KDD - Graph mining in Linked Data - Interacting with Linked Data for Knowledge Discovery *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission deadline: June 20th - Extended to June 27th Notification Of Acceptance: July 20th Camera ready copies due: August 5th, 2014 Workshop date: September 15th/19th, 2014 *SUBMISSIONS* Articles should be written following the Springer LNCS template (see authors instructions at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and can be up to 10 pages in lenght for research papers or 5 pages for position papers, including figures and references. Submissions are exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format, through the EasyChair system. The submission site is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ld4kd * ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Ilaria Tiddi, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Mathieu d'Aquin, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Nicolas Jay, Orpailleur, Loria, France *CONTACTS* mathieu.daquin at open.ac.uk ilaria.tiddi at open.ac.uk nicolas.jay at loria.fr *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE* Claudia D?Amato, University of Bari Nicola Fanizzi, University of Bari Johannes F?rnkranz, TU Darmstadt Nathalie Hernandez, IRIT Agnieszka Lawrynowicz, University of Poznan Francesca Lisi, University of Bari Vanessa Lopez, IBM Dublin Amedeo Napoli, LORIA Andriy Nikolov, Fluid Operations, Germany Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Sebastian Rudolph, TU Dresden Harald Sack, University of Potsdam Vojt?ch Sv?tek, University Prague Isabelle Tellier, University of Paris Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Tommaso di Noia, Politecnico of Bari J?rgen Umbrich, WU Vienna Gerhard Wohlgenannt, WU Vienna -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). The Open University is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 22 19:26:10 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:26:10 +0200 Subject: Job: Postdoc in IR at Idiap, Switzerland Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:06:13 +0200 From: Andrei Popescu-Belis Message-ID: <53A46A05.8030302 at idiap.ch> X-url: http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs Postdoctoral position in Information Retrieval (OP-20140616-125432) Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland *Description* We invite applications for a postdoctoral position at Idiap in information retrieval and natural language processing, for a technology transfer project funded by the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation (CTI / KTI, www.kti.admin.ch). The postdoc will perform applied research on content-based document recommendation, term extraction, and named entity recognition, within Idiap?s NLP group, aiming for integration within the operational document retrieval system developed by our industrial partner for a large number of corporate customers. The project also involves researchers working on interface design. Candidates should hold a PhD degree in information retrieval, natural language processing, or a related field. Strong skills in programming and software development and an interest for technology transfer are expected. While English is the main working language, knowledge of French would be an advantage. The position is offered for 18 months. Review of the applications will start immediately and will continue until the position is filled. The appointment should start on October 1st, 2014. *How to apply* Please fill in and submit your application through the Idiap online recruitment system, by clicking on the position?s title at http://www.idiap.ch/education-and-jobs or directly via http://bit.ly/1psgptZ. *Contact information* Further information about this position can be requested via the Idiap online recruitment system or by contacting Dr. Andrei Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis at idiap.ch), head of Idiap?s NLP group (www.idiap.ch/nlp). *About the host institution* Idiap is an independent, non-profit research institute recognized and supported by the Swiss Government, and affiliated with the Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Geneva. Idiap is located in the town of Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in the south of Switzerland, surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, and offering exciting recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Geneva and Lausanne. Although Idiap is located in the French part of Switzerland, English is the working language. Free French lessons are provided. Idiap offers competitive salaries and conditions at all levels in a young, dynamic, and multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal opportunity employer and is actively involved in the "Advancement of Women in Science" European initiative. The Institute maintains a principle of open competition (on the basis of merit) to appoint the best candidate, provides equal opportunity for all candidates, and equally encourage both genders to apply. *Keywords* information retrieval, natural language processing, document recommendation, named entity recognition, term extraction Andrei Popescu-Belis Idiap Research Institute | tel: (41 27) 721 7729 Centre du Parc, CP 592 | fax: (41 27) 721 7712 CH-1920 Martigny | name.surname at idiap.ch Switzerland | www.idiap.ch/~apbelis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Sun Jun 22 19:31:14 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 21:31:14 +0200 Subject: These: Marilyne Latour, Du besoin d'informations a la formulation des requetes Message-ID: Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 20:37:07 +0200 From: Marilyne Latour Message-ID: Bonjour, J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter ? ma soutenance de th?se intitul?e, ? Du besoin d'informations ? la formulation des requ?tes : ?tude des usages de diff?rents types d'utilisateurs visant l'am?lioration d'un syst?me de recherche d'informations ?. La soutenance aura lieu mardi 24 juin ?11h00 dans l'amphith??tre Montergnole ? l? Universit? Stendhal Grenoble 3 / Institut de la communication et des m?dias-Echirolles. Vous ?tes ?galement convi?s au pot de th?se qui suivra la soutenance. Bien cordialement ; Marilyne LATOUR ------------------------------------- Le jury de soutenance sera compos? de : Laurence Balicco, Universit? Stendhal Grenoble 3, Directrice de th?se Sylvie Lain?-Cruzel, Universit? Jean Moulin Lyon 3, Rapporteur Josiane Mothe, Universit? Paul Sabatier Toulouse 3, Rapporteur C?line Paganelli, Universit? Paul Val?ry Montpellier 3, Examinateur R?sum? de la th?se : Devant des collections massives et h?t?rog?nes de donn?es, les syst?mes de RI doivent d?sormais pouvoir appr?hender des comportements d?utilisateurs aussi vari?s qu?impr?visibles. L?objectif de notre travail est d??valuer la fa?on dont un m?me utilisateur verbalise un besoin informationnel ? travers un ?nonc? de type ? expression libre ? (appel? langage naturel) et un ?nonc? de type mots-cl?s (appel? langage de requ?tes). Pour cela, nous nous situons dans un contexte applicatif, ? savoir des demandes de remboursement des utilisateurs d?un moteur de recherche d?di? ? des ?tudes ?conomiques en fran?ais. Nous avons recueilli via ce moteur, les deux types d??nonc?s sur 5 ann?es cons?cutives totalisant un corpus de 1398 demandes en langage naturel et de 3427 requ?tes. Nous avons alors compar? l?expression en tant que tel du besoin informationnel et mis en avant ce qu?apportait, en termes d?informations et de pr?cisions, le recours ? l?un ou l?autre du langage utilis?. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From OAJournal at OSONLINESERVICE.NET Mon Jun 23 03:43:41 2014 From: OAJournal at OSONLINESERVICE.NET (OAJournal) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:43:41 +0800 Subject: Start Publishing ---- 50% OFF for Book Publishing Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From timeflies at SCHISTOUSBRACINGBOWKNOT.NET Mon Jun 23 22:15:37 2014 From: timeflies at SCHISTOUSBRACINGBOWKNOT.NET (timeflies) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:15:37 +0800 Subject: Dear ln@listserv.linguistlist.org, Time Flies / Get Your Research Paper Published Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From hamon at LIMSI.FR Wed Jun 25 08:46:54 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:46:54 +0200 Subject: Appel: SENTIRE, ICDM workshop series on opinion mining Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 17:11:23 -0500 (EST) From: SenticNet Message-ID: <1252123989.2749595.1403647883224.open-xchange at bosoxweb05.eigbox.net> X-url: http://sentic.net/sentire Apologies for cross-posting, Submissions are invited for the 4th edition of Sentiment Elicitation from Natural Text for Information Retrieval and Extraction (SENTIRE), the IEEE ICDM workshop series on opinion mining. The term SENTIRE comes from the Latin feel and it is root of words such as sentiment and sensation. SENTIRE aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the field of opinion mining and sentiment analysis to share information on their latest investigations in social information retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends Web mining, AI, Semantic Web, information retrieval and natural language processing. The workshop is going to be held in Shenzhen on 14th December 2014. For more information, please visit: http://sentic.net/sentire RATIONALE Memory and data capacities double approximately every two years and, apparently, the Web is following the same rule. User-generated contents, in particular, are an ever-growing source of opinion and sentiments which are continuously spread worldwide through blogs, wikis, fora, chats and social networks. The distillation of knowledge from such sources is a key factor for applications in fields such as commerce, tourism, education and health, but the quantity and the nature of the contents they generate make it a very difficult task. Due to such challenging research problems and wide variety of practical applications, opinion mining and sentiment analysis have become very active research areas in the last decade. Our understanding and knowledge of the problem and its solution are still limited as natural language understanding techniques are still pretty weak. Most of current research in sentiment analysis, in fact, merely relies on machine learning algorithms. Such algorithms, despite most of them being very effective, produce no human understandable results such that we know little about how and why output values are obtained. All such approaches, moreover, rely on syntactical structure of text, which is far from the way human mind processes natural language. Next-generation opinion mining systems should employ techniques capable to better grasp the conceptual rules that govern sentiment and the clues that can convey these concepts from realization to verbalization in the human mind. TOPICS SENTIRE aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the field of opinion mining and sentiment analysis to share information on their latest investigations in social information retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends Web mining, AI, Semantic Web, information retrieval and natural language processing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Sentiment identification & classification - Opinion and sentiment summarization & visualization - Explicit & latent semantic analysis for sentiment mining - Concept-level opinion and sentiment analysis - Sentic computing - Opinion and sentiment search & retrieval - Time evolving opinion & sentiment analysis - Semantic multidimensional scaling for sentiment analysis - Multidomain & cross-domain evaluation - Domain adaptation for sentiment classification - Multimodal sentiment analysis - Multimodal fusion for continuous interpretation of semantics - Multilingual sentiment analysis & re-use of knowledge bases - Knowledge base construction & integration with opinion analysis - Transfer learning of opinion & sentiment with knowledge bases - Sentiment corpora & annotation - Affective knowledge acquisition for sentiment analysis - Biologically inspired opinion mining - Sentiment topic detection & trend discovery - Big social data analysis - Social ranking - Social network analysis - Social media marketing - Comparative opinion analysis - Opinion spam detection TIMEFRAME - August 1st, 2014: Submission deadline - September 26th, 2014: Notification of acceptance - October 20th, 2014: Final manuscripts due - December 14th, 2014: Workshop date SUBMISSIONS AND PROCEEDINGS Authors are required to follow IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings Author Guidelines. The paper length is limited to 10 pages, including references, diagrams, and appendices, if any. Manuscripts are to be submitted through EasyChair. Each submitted paper will be evaluated by three PC members with respect to its novelty, significance, technical soundness, presentation, and experiments. Accepted papers will be published in IEEE ICDM proceedings. Selected, expanded versions of papers presented at the workshop will be invited to a forthcoming Special Issue of Cognitive Computation on opinion mining and sentiment analysis. ORGANIZERS - Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) - Bing Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) - Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University (China) - Yongzheng Zhang, LinkedIn Inc. (USA) From hamon at LIMSI.FR Wed Jun 25 08:37:52 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:37:52 +0200 Subject: Revue: TAL, parution du numero 54-2, Entites Nommees Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:20:45 +0200 From: Sophie Rosset Message-ID: <20140624092045.GB3087 at m37.limsi.fr> X-url: http://www.atala.org/-Entites-Nommees- [Nos excuses pour les envois multiples] Bonjour, Le num?ro sp?cial 54-2 de la revue TAL, intitul? "Entit?es Nomm?es", coordonn? par Sophia Ananiadou, Nathalie Friburger, Sophie Rosset est maintenant en ligne ? l'adresse suivante : http://www.atala.org/-Entites-Nommees- Sommaire : Sophia Ananiadou, Nathalie Friburger, Sophie Rosset Pr?face http://www.atala.org/Preface,692 Damien Nouvel, Jean-Yves Antoine, Nathalie Friburger, Arnaud Soulet Fouille de r?gles d'annotation pour la reconnaissance d'entit?s nomm?es (http://www.atala.org/Fouille-de-regles-d-annotation) Mohamed Hatmi, Christine Jacquin, Sylvain Meignier, Emmanuel Morin, Solen Quiniou Int?gration de la reconnaissance des entit?s nomm?es au processus de reconnaissance de la parole (http://www.atala.org/Integration-de-la-reconnaissance) Wei Wang, Romaric Besan?on, Olivier Ferret, Brigitte Grau Extraction et regroupement de relations entre entit?s pour l'extraction d'information non supervis?e (http://www.atala.org/Extraction-et-regroupement-de) Souhir Gahbiche-Braham, H?l?ne Bonneau-Maynard, Fran?ois Yvon Traitement automatique des entit?s nomm?es en arabe : d?tection et traduction (http://www.atala.org/Traitement-automatique-des-entites) Notes de lecture http://www.atala.org/Notes-de-lecture,687 R?sum?s de th?ses http://www.atala.org/Resumes-de-these,686 Bien cordialement, Sophia Ananiadou, Nathalie Friburger, Sophie Rosset ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Wed Jun 25 08:39:20 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:39:20 +0200 Subject: Job: Linguiste, Semantia Marseille Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:35:17 +0200 From: Lucile Paroz Message-Id: <905DAD9C-1D11-4D66-A462-9A0ECACCCB57 at semantia.com> Fiche de poste - Linguiste Semantia est une soci?t? fran?aise issue de la recherche universitaire sp?cialis?e dans le traitement automatique du langage naturel ?crit. Semantia propose une gamme compl?te de produits d?di?s ? des march?s sp?cifiques : - les annonces class?es ou petites annonces avec Semantia Classifieds - le e-commerce avec Semantia eCommerce - le voyage avec Semantia Travel - l'emploi avec Semantia Job Ces services s'appuient sur des r?f?rentiels m?tiers et sur des mod?les linguistiques et s?mantiques robustes, performants et sp?cialis?s : t?l?communication, banque, assurance, ?nergie, informatique, hi-fi, vid?o, textile, tourisme, ?lectrom?nager bricolage, sport, emploi, rencontre, ameublement, alimentaire, photographie, m?dical, immobilier, automobile,... Aujourd'hui, les services d?ploy?s chez les clients de Semantia traitent pr?s de 5 000 000 de questions Internautes et pr?s de 30 000 000 fiches par mois. Semantia est pr?sente en r?gion marseillaise (si?ge), ? Paris et ? San Francisco. Missions Int?gr?(e) ? l??quipe de traitement du langage, vous aurez pour principales missions : 1. dans le cadre du suivi des projets en cours : - d?velopper et maintenir les bases de connaissances des clients existants - suivre, classer et r?pondre aux demandes des clients - proposer de nouvelles th?matiques - produire des rapports mensuels destin?s aux clients - communiquer et ?changer avec les clients - mettre ? jour les documentations - partager les bonnes pratiques aux autres membres de l'?quipe 2. dans le cadre de d?veloppement de nouveaux projets : - d?terminer la meilleure strat?gie linguistique en fonction du domaine du client, des langues ? d?velopper et du projet concern? - d?terminer la meilleure strat?gie de param?trage du moteur linguistique - d?velopper les bases de connaissances - pr?parer ou r?diger les documentations n?cessaires 3. dans le cadre de la recherche et d?veloppement : - participer activement aux activit?s de R&D de la soci?t? 4. dans le cadre de l?appui au marketing et au commercial : - apporter son exp?rience et son expertise dans la r?flexion de nouveaux produits et services Connaissances requises - Expressions r?guli?res et syst?mes symboliques - Bonnes connaissances en syntaxe et morphologie des langues du monde - Capacit? d'adaptation en fonction des langues travaill?es - Notions en langages informatiques environnement web : PHP, SQL, HTML - Ma?trise des suites bureautiques Connaissances appr?ci?es - M?thode de gestion Agile, environnement de d?veloppement Eclipse, syst?mes Mac OS X et Linux de graphisme et de Mind Mapping. Qualit?s demand?es - Facilit? d'adaptation et efficacit?, travail en ?quipe, logique, rigueur et motivation, cr?ativit?. Profil Titulaire d'un Bac+5 en linguistique informatique Contrat propos? Contrat ? dur?e ind?termin?e Salaire selon exp?rience Localisation G?menos (13) Contacts e-mail : drh at semantia.com T?l. : +33 4 42 36 80 91 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Wed Jun 25 08:36:19 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:36:19 +0200 Subject: Conf: INTERSPEECH 2014, Keynote spekers, September 14-18, 2014, Singapore Message-ID: Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:08:03 +0800 From: "Organization @ Interspeech 2014" Message-ID: <53A7C443.8060302 at interspeech2014.org> X-url: http://www.interspeech2014.org ----------------------------------------------------- - INTERSPEECH 2014 - SINGAPORE - - September 14-18, 2014 - - http://www.interspeech2014.org - ----------------------------------------------------- ISCA, COLIPS and the organizing Committee of INTERSPEECH 2014 are proud to announce that INTERSPEECH 2014 will feature five plenary talks by internationally renowned experts. - keynote speech by the ISCA Medallist 2014 - "Decision Learning in Data Science: Where John Nash Meets Social Media" by Professor K. J. Ray Liu - "Language Diversity: Speech Processing In A Multi-Lingual Context" by Dr. Lori Lamel - "Sound Patterns In Language" by Professor William Shi-Yuan WANG ??? - "Achievements and Challenges of Deep Learning From Speech Analysis And Recognition To Language And Multimodal Processing" by Dr. Li DENG Details of the keynote speeches and biographies of the presenters are given below. Looking forward to welcome you in Singapore, the organizing committee ************************************************************************ * On Monday, 15th of September * ************************************************************************ The ISCA Medallist 2014 will give a keynote speech. The name of the Medallist and subject of the talk will be disclosed on the first day of INTERSPEECH 2014. ************************************************************************ * On Tuesday morning, 16th of September * ************************************************************************ Professor K. J. Ray Liu Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Maryland, College Park will give a presentation on: "Decision Learning in Data Science: Where John Nash Meets Social Media" Abstract With the increasing ubiquity and power of mobile devices, as well as the prevalence of social media, more and more activities in our daily life are being recorded, tracked, and shared, creating the notion of ?social media?. Such abundant and still growing real life data, known as ?big data?, provide a tremendous research opportunity in many fields. To analyze, learn and understand such user-generated big data, machine learning has been an important tool and various machine learning algorithms have been developed. However, since the user-generated big data is the outcome of users? decisions, actions and their socio-economic interactions, which are highly dynamic, without considering users? local behaviours and interests, existing learning approaches tend to focus on optimizing a global objective function at the macroeconomic level, while totally ignore users? local decisions at the micro-economic level. As such there is a growing need in bridging machine/social learning with strategic decision making, which are two traditionally distinct research disciplines, to be able to jointly consider both global phenomenon and local effects to understand/model/analyze better the newly arising issues in the emerging social media. In this talk, we present the notion of ?decision learning? that can involve users's behaviours and interactions by combining learning with strategic decision making. We will discuss some examples from social media with real data to show how decision learning can be used to better analyze users? optimal decision from a user? perspective as well as design a mechanism from the system designer?s perspective to achieve a desirable outcome. Biography of the speaker Dr. K. J. Ray Liu was named a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher of University of Maryland in 2007, where he is Christine Kim Eminent Professor of Information Technology. He leads the Maryland Signals and Information Group conducting research encompassing broad areas of signal processing and communications with recent focus on cooperative communications, cognitive networking, social learning and decision making, and information forensics and security. Dr. Liu has received numerous honours and awards including IEEE Signal Processing Society 2009 Technical Achievement Award and various best paper awards from IEEE Signal Processing, Communications, and Vehicular Technology Societies, and EURASIP. A Fellow of the IEEE and AAAS, he is recognized by Thomson Reuters as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher. Dr. Liu was the President of IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and the founding Editor-in-Chief of EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. Dr. Liu also received various research and teaching recognitions from the University of Maryland, including Poole and Kent Senior Faculty Teaching Award, Outstanding Faculty Research Award, and Outstanding Faculty Service Award, all from A. James Clark School of Engineering; and Invention of the Year Award (three times) from Office of Technology Commercialization. ************************************************************************ * On Tuesday afternoon, 16th of September * ************************************************************************ Dr. Lori Lamel Senior Research scientist (DR1), LIMSI-CNRS will give a presentation on "Language Diversity: Speech Processing In A Multi-Lingual Context" Abstract Speech processing encompasses a variety of technologies that automatically process speech for some downstream processing. These technologies include identifying the language or dialect spoken, the person speaking, what is said and how it is said. The downstream processing may be limited to a transcription or to a transcription enhanced with additional meta-data, or may be used to carry out an action or interpreted within a spoken dialogue system or more generally for analytics. With the availability of large spoken multimedia or multimodal data there is growing interest in using such technologies to provide structure and random access to particular segments. Automatic tools can also serve to annotate large corpora for exploitation in linguistic studies of spoken language, such as acoustic-phonetics, pronunciation variation and diachronic evolution, permitting the validation of hypotheses and models. In this talk I will present some of my experience with speech processing in multiple languages, drawing upon progress in the context of several research projects, most recently the Quaero program and the IARPA Babel program, both of which address the development of technologies in a variety of languages, with the aim to some highlight recent research directions and challenges. Biography of the speaker I am a senior research scientist (DR1) at the CNRS, which I joined as a permanent researcher at LIMSI in October 1991. I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in May 1988 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. My research activities focus on large vocabulary speaker- independent, continuous speech recognition in multiple languages with a recent focus on low-resourced languages; lightly and unsupervised acoustic model training methods; studies in acoustic- phonetics; lexical and pronunciation modelling. I contributed to the design, and realization of large speech corpora (TIMIT, BREF, TED). I have been actively involved in the research projects, most recently leading the activities on speech processing in the OSEO Quaero program, and I am currently co-principal investigator for LIMSI as part of the IARPA Babel Babelon team led by BBN. I served on the Steering committee for Interspeech 2013 as co-technical program chair along with Pascal Perrier, and I am now serving on the Technical Program Committee of Interspeech 2014. ************************************************************************ * On Wednesday, 17th of September * ************************************************************************ Professor William Shi-Yuan WANG ??? Centre for Language and Human Complexity, Chinese University of Hong Kong Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley Honorary Professor, Peking University Academician, Academia Sinica will give a presentation about "Sound Patterns In Language" Abstract In contrast to other species, humans are unique in having developed thousands of diverse languages which are not mutually intelligible. However, any infant can learn any language with ease, because all languages are based upon common biological infrastructures of sensori-motor, memorial, and cognitive faculties. While languages may differ significantly in the sounds they use, the overall organization is largely the same. It is divided into a discrete segmental system for building words ? and a continuous prosodic system for expressing, phrasing, attitudes, and emotions. Within this organization, I will discuss a class of languages called 'tone languages', which makes special use of F0 to build words. Although the best known of these is Chinese, tone languages are found in many parts of the world, and operate on different principles. I will also comment on relations between sound patterns in language and sound patterns in music, the two worlds of sound universal to our species. Biography of the speaker William S-Y. Wang received his early schooling in China, and his PhD from the University of Michigan. He was appointed Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1965, and taught there for 30 years. Currently he is in the Department of Electronic Engineering and in the Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Director of the newly established Joint Research Centre for Language and Human Complexity. His primary interest is the evolution of language from a multi- disciplinary perspective. ************************************************************************ * On Thursday, 18th of September * ************************************************************************ Dr. Li DENG Principal Researcher and Research Manager Deep Learning Technology Centre, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA will give a presentation on the "Achievements and Challenges of Deep Learning From Speech Analysis And Recognition To Language And Multimodal Processing" Abstract Artificial neural networks have been around for over half a century and their applications to speech processing have been almost as long, yet it was not until year 2010 that their real impact had been made by a deep form of such networks, built upon part of the earlier work on (shallow) neural nets and (deep) graphical models developed by both speech and machine learning communities. This keynote will first reflect on the path to this transformative success, sparked by speech analysis using deep learning methods on spectrogram-like raw features and then progressing rapidly to speech recognition with increasingly larger vocabularies and scale. The role of well-timed academic-industrial collaboration will be highlighted, so will be the advances of big data, big compute, and the seamless integration between the application-domain knowledge of speech and general principles of deep learning. Then, an overview will be given on sweeping achievements of deep learning in speech recognition since its initial success in 2010 (as well as in image recognition and computer vision since 2012). Such achievements have resulted in across-the-board, industry-wide deployment of deep learning. The final part of the talk will look ahead towards stimulating new challenges of deep learning --- making intelligent machines capable of not only hearing (speech) and seeing (vision), but also of thinking with a ?mind?; i.e. reasoning and inference over complex, hierarchical relationships and knowledge sources that comprise a vast number of entities and semantic concepts in the real world based in part on multi- sensory data from the user. To this end, language and multimodal processing --- joint exploitation and learning from text, speech/audio, and image/video --- is evolving into a new frontier of deep learning, beginning to be embraced by a mixture of research communities including speech and spoken language processing, natural language processing, computer vision, machine learning, information retrieval, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and data/knowledge management. A review of recent published studies will be provided on deep learning applied to selected language and multimodal processing tasks, with a trace back to the relevant early connectionist modelling and neural network literature and with future directions in this new exciting deep learning frontier discussed and analyzed. Biography of the speaker Li Deng received Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a tenured professor (1989-1999) at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and then joined Microsoft Research, Redmond, where he is currently a Principal Research Manager of its Deep Learning Technology Centre. Since 2000, he has also been an affiliate full professor at the University of Washington, Seattle, teaching computer speech processing. He has been granted over 60 US or international patents, and has received numerous awards and honours bestowed by IEEE, ISCA, ASA, and Microsoft including the latest IEEE SPS Best Paper Award (2013) on deep neural nets for speech recognition. He authored or co-authored 4 books including the latest one on Deep Learning: Methods and Applications. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the ISCA. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2009-2011), and currently as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. His recent research interests and activities have been focused on deep learning and machine intelligence applied to large-scale text analysis and to speech/language/image multimodal processing, advancing his earlier work with collaborators on speech analysis and recognition using deep neural networks since 2009. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Wed Jun 25 08:45:35 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:45:35 +0200 Subject: Job: Postdoc position, Knowledge Discovery for biomarker identification, LORIA/Inria Nancy Grand Est Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 18:06:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Amedeo Napoli Message-ID: <1870489271.5126969.1403625987691.JavaMail.zimbra at loria.fr> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Postdoc position available at INRA Clermont-Ferrand -- LORIA/Inria Nancy Grand Est Knowledge Discovery for biomarker identification (Knowledge Discovery based on Formal Concept Analysis, pattern mining and preferences, for the identification of early predictive biomarkers of diseases) Location: Clermont-Ferrand - Nancy Duration: 2 years Keywords: biomarker, prediction, Formal Concept Analysis, knowledge discovery, multi-dimensional modeling. Description of the task. The goal of the project is to identify predictive (bio)markers of the evolution of health status toward metabolic syndrome development (from metabolomics signatures, socio-economic parameters and ``food habits''), with the objective of building a model and determining whether the integration of multidimensional parameters improves prediction. Finally, this approach should allow to identify determinants of the evolution of health status. In this project, the volume of data is very important and data are as well heterogeneous (both numerical and symbolic). The integration of large volumes of data can be guided by domain knowledge and be supported by a data schema considered as a mediation system (virtual integration needing correspondences between data sources). This global schema can be based on a concept lattice and defined for materializing the characteristics and the correspondences between data sources. The concept lattice provides a classification structure that can be used for various tasks, such as data indexing, information retrieval, data mining, data modeling, and reasoning. The concept lattice is built thanks to Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), which can be considered as a symbolic method for knowledge discovery (KD). It is also planned to use pattern mining methods for extracting frequent or rare patterns and association rules as well. In this context, the post-doc fellow?s research will consist in studying the set of data to be analyzed from a theoretical and practical point of view. The theoretical point of view consists in checking which symbolic KD methods are appropriate for analyzing the data and which kind of coupling with numerical KD methods could bring more useful results. The practical point of view consists in applying the given methods to the data to be analyzed and to interpret the results. Algorithms for FCA, pattern mining and numerical KD methods will be reused but new developments or adaptations are planned for carrying out this project. Application: The candidate should prepare a detailed CV including a complete bibliography, a motivation letter and recommendation letters as a single pdf file. This file should be sent by email to both contacts below. Contacts: Estelle Pujos-Guillot, INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique) UMR 1019 Human Nutrition Unit Research Centre of Clermont-Ferrand/Theix F-63122 St Gen?s Champanelle France Tel: +33 473 624 141 Email: estelle.pujos at clermont.inra.fr Amedeo Napoli, LORIA (CNRS - Inria Nancy Grand Est - Universit? de Lorraine) ?quipe Orpailleur - B?timent B BP 239, F-54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Tel: +33 383 592 068 Email: Amedeo.Napoli at loria.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Wed Jun 25 08:48:23 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:48:23 +0200 Subject: Job: Post-doc de 6 mois, Annotation semantique d'information textuelle en biologie vegetale Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 09:52:57 +0200 From: Claire Nedellec Message-ID: <53AA7FD9.9000104 at jouy.inra.fr> X-url: http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/bibliome/ X-url: http://www.campus-paris-saclay.fr/index.php/en/Idex-Paris-Saclay/Les-Lidex/Paris-Saclay-Center-for-Data-Science X-url: https://sites.google.com/site/bionlpst2013/ =================================== Post-doc ou ing?nieur, 6 mois en annotation s?mantique de textes ====================================== L??quipe Bibliome de l?unit? MIG (INRA) recherche un post-doctorant ou ing?nieur ? temps plein pour une dur?e de 6 mois sur l?annotation manuelle et automatique d?articles scientifiques de biologie guid?e par un mod?le de connaissance dans le cadre du projet DataChallenge conjoint MIG et LIMSI (CNRS). Il est financ? par le Center for Data Science (Idex Paris-Saclay). La personne engag?e coordonnera la finalisation de l?annotation manuelle d?articles de biologie mol?culaire par des experts biologistes en vue de la pr?paration d'une t?che pour un challenge d?extraction automatique d?information ? partir de textes. Le domaine concern? est le d?veloppement de la graine chez l'arabette (Arabidopsis thaliana). Le mod?le de connaissances qui est utilis? pour l'annotation devra ?tre compar? ? d'autres mod?les propos?s pour d?autres esp?ces (humain, procaryotes). Un mod?le unifi? pourra ?tre propos? pour la repr?sentation des connaissances du texte qui soit appropri? ? son utilisation en Biologie des Syst?mes. Comp?tences: extraction d?information, annotation manuelle de texte, ing?nierie de la connaissance, biologie mol?culaire. Candidature : envoi du CV et de publications par email. Contact : Claire N?dellec (claire.nedellec at jouy.inra.fr) et Robert Bossy (robert.bossy at jouy.inra.fr) Lieu de travail : Unit? MIG, centre de recherche INRA de Jouy-en-Josas. Date : A partir juillet 2014 R?mun?ration : grille de salaire INRA R?f?rences: Bibliome: http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/bibliome/ CDS: http://www.campus-paris-saclay.fr/index.php/en/Idex-Paris-Saclay/Les-Lidex/Paris-Saclay-Center-for-Data-Science BioNLP-ST 2013 (tasks GE & GRN): https://sites.google.com/site/bionlpst2013/ ----------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 27 20:15:46 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:15:46 +0200 Subject: Appel: Revue TAL, Traitement automatique du langage parle (possibilite de mettre a jour article jusqu'au 15 juillet!) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:58:59 +0200 From: Laurent Besacier Message-Id: X-url: http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/ Dernier appel ? communications: num?ro sp?cial sur le traitement automatique du langage parl? pour la revue TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) --ENGLISH VERSION OF THIS CFP CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THIS MESSAGE-- possibilit? de mettre ? jour article jusqu'au 15 juillet! / mais soumettre un titre et une liste d'auteurs avant le 30 Juin Direction : Laurent Besacier, Wolfang Minker Date limite : 30 juin 2014 (possibilit? de mettre ? jour article jusqu'au 15 juillet) La communication orale reste le moyen le plus naturel pour dialoguer et interagir (avec la machine ou avec une autre personne). Le traitement automatique du langage parl? (TALP) et le dialogue trouvent d?sormais de nombreuses applications directes dans des domaines divers tels que (liste non exhaustive) la recherche d'information, l'interaction en langue naturelle avec des dispositifs mobiles, la robotique sociale, les technologies d'assistance ? la personne, l'apprentissage des langues, etc. Cependant, le TALP pose des probl?mes sp?cifiques li?s ? la nature m?me du mat?riau trait?. En effet, on est amen? ? traiter des ?nonc?s de parole plus ou moins spontan?e et contenant de nombreux traits paralinguistiques. Par exemple, la pr?sence de disfluences orales (r?p?titions, reprises, incises...) r?duit la r?gularit? syntaxique des ?nonc?s ; les ?nonc?s oraux sont ?galement riches d'informations li?s aux affects, etc. Par ailleurs, l'?tape de transcription automatique, souvent n?cessaire avant l'application de traitements de plus haut niveau (compr?hension, traduction, analyse, etc.) rend des sorties bruit?es (contenant des erreurs) qui n?cessitent des analyses robustes et un couplage ?troit entre ?tapes de traitement. Nous invitons donc les contributions portant sur tout aspect (th?orique, m?thodologique et pratique) relatif au traitement automatique du langage parl? et ? la communication orale, et en particulier (liste non exclusive) : - Reconnaissance automatique de la parole - Compr?hension automatique de la parole - Traduction de parole - Synth?se de la parole - Dialogue oral homme - machine - Analyse robuste de la langue parl?e - Analyse des affects sociaux ou des ?motions dans des ?nonc?s oraux - Fouille de documents ? composante orale - Applications ? composantes orales (recherche d'information, interaction, robotique, etc) - Outils d'aide ? l'apprentissage d?une langue seconde - Aspects multilingues du traitement automatique du langage parl? - Evaluation de syst?mes de traitement du langage parl? - Corpus et ressources pour l'oral - Analyse du discours oral - Dialogue adaptatif au contexte et au profil de l'utilisateur - Analyse des traits paralinguistiques dans des ?nonc?s oraux ?DITEURS INVIT?S Laurent Besacier Wolfang Minker COMITE SCIENTIFIQUE ADDA Gilles LIMSI, Paris ANTOINE Jean-Yves U. F. Rabelais, Tours AUBERGE V?ronique LIG, Grenoble BELLEGARDA J?r?me APPLE, USA BONNEAU-MEYNARD H?l?ne, LIMSI, Orsay CERISARA Christophe LORIA, Nancy CERNOCKY Jan Univ. Brno, Tcheque Republic DAMNATI G?raldine Orangs Labs, Lannion DEVILLERS Laurence LIMSI, Orsay DUTOIT Thierry TCTS, Mons ESTEVE Yannick LIUM, Le Mans ESKENAZI Maxine CMU, Pittsburgh FAVRE Benoit LIF, Marseille FERRANE Isabelle IRIT, Toulouse GRAVIER Guillaume IRISA, Rennes JOUVET Denis LORIA, Nancy KAHN Juliette LNE, Paris LECOUTEUX Benjamin LIG, Grenoble LEFEVRE Fabrice LIA, Avignon LINARES Georges LIA, Avignon MEIGNIER Sylvain LIUM, Le Mans PIETQUIN Olivier Univ. Lille 1 POPESCU-BELIS Andrei IDIAP, Martigny ROSSET Sophie LIMSI, Orsay LANGUE Les articles sont ?crits en fran?ais ou en anglais. Les soumissions en anglais ne sont accept?es que pour les auteurs non francophones. FORMAT DE LA SOUMISSION Les articles doivent ?tre d?pos?s sur la plateforme http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/ La revue ne publie que des contributions originales, en fran?ais ou en anglais. Les papiers accept?s feront au maximum 25 pages en PDF. Le style est disponible pour t?l?chargement sur le site du journal TAL CONTACT Laurent Besacier (Laurent.Besacier at imag.fr) Wolfgang Minker (Wolfgang.Minker at uni-ulm.de) ==========CFP IN ENGLISH============ Special issue on spoken language processing Guest editors: Laurent Besacier, Wolfgang Minker Speech is the most natural way to communicate and interact (with the machine or with another person) . Spoken language processing and dialogue have now many direct applications in various areas such as (but not limited to) information retrieval, natural language interaction with mobile devices, social robotics, assistive technologies, technologies for language learning, etc. . However, spoken language processing poses specific problems related to the nature of the speech material itself. Indeed, spontaneous speech utterances have to be processed and they contain many paralinguistic features. For instance, disfluencies (repetitions , false starts, etc.) reduces the syntactic regularity of utterances. Moreover, spontaneous utterances convey rich information related to emotions , etc. Furthermore, automatic speech recognition (ASR) step, often required before the application of higher level processing (understanding , translation, analysis, etc.), produces noisy outputs (with errors ) which require robust and tight coupling between modules. We invite contributions on any aspect (theoretical, methodological and practical) of spoken language processing and oral communication ; in particular (non-exclusive list): - Automatic speech recognition - Spoken language understanding - Speech translation - Text-to-Speech synthesis - Man-machine dialogue - Robust analysis of spoken language - Analysis of social affects or emotions in spontaneous speech - Mining spoken language documents - Spoken language applications (mobile interaction, robotics, etc. ) - Technologies for language learning - Multilingual aspects of spoken language processing - Evaluation for spoken language processing - Corpora and resources for spoken language - (Spoken) discourse analysis - Adaptive dialogue (context, user profile) - Analysis of paralinguistic features in spoken language IMPORTANT DATES - call : march 2014 - submission of contributions : 30 june 2014 (possibility to update paper until July 15th) - first authors notification : 15 september 2014 - publication : end 2014 / begin 2015 Submission format LANGUAGE Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking authors are requested to submit their contributions in French. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must describe original, completed, and unpublished work. Each submission will be reviewed by two programme committee members. Papers must be submitted on Sciencesconf platform http://tal-55-2.sciencesconf.org/ Accepted papers will be maximum 25 pages long in PDF. Style sheets are available for download on the Web site of the TAL journal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 27 20:38:35 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:38:35 +0200 Subject: Conf: COLING2014, Conference Programme Announced & 6 Days to Early Registration, Dublin, 25-29 August 2014 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:20:28 +0000 From: COLING 2014 - Registration Message-ID: X-url: http://www.coling-2014.org/index.php 6 days left to register at Early Fee! Deadline is July 2nd 2014 Click here to Register (http://www.coling-2014.org/registration.php) Register for Main Conference (http://www.coling-2014.org/schedule.php), 1 or 2 day Workshops (http://www.coling-2014.org/workshops.php) and half day Tutorials (http://www.coling-2014.org/tutorials.php)! ********************************************** Conference Programme Monday - August 25th 09:00-10:15 Invited Speaker: Mary Harper, IARPA Learning from 26 languages: Program Management and Science in the Babel Program 10:45-12:25 Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue I 10:45-12:25 Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Social Media I 10:45-12:25 Information Retrieval and Question Answering 10:45-12:25 Machine Learning for CL and NLP 15:45-17:25 Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue II 15:45-17:25 Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Social Media III 15:45-17:25 Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics and Compositional Semantics I 15:45-17:25 Software, Tools Tuesday - August 26th 09:00-10:15 Invited Speaker: Ted Gibson, MIT Language for communication: Language as rational inference 10:45-12:25 Syntax, grammar induction, syntactic and semantic parsing I 10:45-12:25 Sentiment Analysis, Opinion Mining and Social Media III 10:45-12:25 Applications I 10:45-12:25 Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue III 15:45-17:25 Syntax, grammar induction, syntactic and semantic parsing II 15:45-17:25 Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics and Compositional Semantics II 15:45-17:25 Applications II 15:45-17:25 Language Resources Wednesday - August 27th Exursion Day Thursday - August 28th 09:00-10:15 Invited Speaker: Qun Liu, CNGL/DCU Annotation Adaptation and Language Adaptation in NLP 10:45-12:25 IE/database linking I 10:45-12:25 Lexical Semantics and Ontologies I 10:45-12:25 Natural Language Generation and Summarization I 10:45-12:25 Modeling of Discourse and Dialogue IV and Multimodal Processing 14:00-15:15 Semantic Processing, Distributional Semantics and Compositional Semantics III 14:00-15:15 Morphology, word segmentation, tagging and chunking I 14:00-15:15 Speech Recognition, Text-To-Speech, Spoken Language Understanding 14:00-15:15 Lesser Resourced Languages 15:45-17:25 Syntax, grammar induction, syntactic and semantic parsing III 15:45-17:25 Machine Translation I 15:45-17:25 Linguistic and Cognitive Issues in CL and NLP I 15:45-17:25 Natural Language Generation and Summarization II and Paraphrasing Friday - August 29th 09:00-10:15 Invited Speaker: Martin Kay, XEROX Does a Computational Linguist have to be a Linguist? 10:45-12:25 Machine Translation II 10:45-12:25 IE/database linking II 10:45-12:25 Linguistic and Cognitive Issues in CL and NLP II 10:45-12:25 Lexical Semantics and Ontologies II 14:00-15:15 Machine Translation III 14:00-15:15 Lexical Semantics and Ontologies III 14:00-15:15 IE/database linking III 14:00-15:15 Morphology, word segmentation, tagging and chunking II 15:45-17:25 Best Paper Talk and Closing The conference committee and organisers take no responsibility for changes or inaccuracies to the conference programme. The above programme is subject to change. ********************************************* Accommodation Don?t forget to book your accommodation at time of registering. Rooms are limited on campus and early booking is advisable! To view accommodation options click here (http://www.coling-2014.org/accommodation.php). Just book on the registration form at the same time as your registration. ********************************************* Ireland Inspires! Click here to see the Ireland Inspires Video (http://youtu.be/9wmIZEl1nSo) COLING 2014 www.coling-2014.org coling2014reg at keynotepco.ie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 27 20:18:48 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:18:48 +0200 Subject: These: Haithem Afli, La traduction automatique statistique dans un contexte multimodal Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 18:14:22 +0200 From: Haithem Afli Message-Id: X-url: http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/~afli Bonjour ? tous, j'ai le plaisir de vous convier ? la soutenance de ma th?se intitul?e ? La traduction automatique statistique dans un contexte multimodal ?. Celle-ci se tiendra le lundi 7 juillet ? 14 heures au Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universit? du Maine (amphith??tre du b?timent IC2), Avenue La?nnec 72085 LE MANS. Elle sera suivie d'un pot auquel vous ?tes chaleureusement convi?s. Le jury sera compos? de : Rapporteurs : - M. Kamel Sma?li Professeur ? l'Universit? du Lorraine (LORIA) - M. Philippe Langlais Professeur ? l'Universit? de Montr?al (RALI) Examinateurs : - M. Alexandre Allauzen Ma?tre de Conf?rences HDR ? l'Universit? de Paris Sud (LIMSI-CNRS) - M. Emmanuel Morin Professeur ? l'Universit? de Nantes (LINA) Directeur: - M. Holger Shwenk Professeur ? l'Universit? du Maine (LIUM) Co-directeur: - M. Lo?c Barrault Ma?tre de Conf?rences ? l'Universit? du Maine (LIUM) R?sum?: Les performances des syst?mes de traduction automatique statistique d?pendent de la disponibilit? de textes parall?les bilingues, appel?s aussi bitextes. Cependant, les textes parall?les librement disponibles sont aussi des ressources rares~: la taille est souvent limit?e, la couverture linguistique insuffisante ou le domaine des textes n'est pas appropri?. Il y a relativement peu de paires de langues pour lesquelles des corpus parall?les de tailles raisonnables sont disponibles pour certains domaines. L'une des fa?ons pour pallier au manque de donn?es parall?les est d'exploiter les corpus comparables qui sont plus abondants. Les travaux pr?c?dents dans ce domaine n'ont ?t? appliqu?s que pour la modalit? texte. La question que nous nous sommes pos?e durant cette th?se est de savoir si un corpus comparable multimodal permet d?apporter des solutions au manque de donn?es parall?les dans le domaine de la traduction automatique. Dans cette th?se, nous avons ?tudi? comment utiliser des ressources provenant de diff?rentes modalit?s (texte ou parole) pour le d?veloppement d'un syst?me de traduction automatique statistique. Une premi?re partie des contributions consiste ? proposer une technique pour l?extraction des donn?es parall?les ? partir d?un corpus comparable multimodal (audio et texte). Les enregistrements sont transcrits avec un syst?me de reconnaissance automatique de la parole et traduits avec un syst?me de traduction automatique. Ces traductions sont ensuite utilis?es comme requ?tes d?un syst?me de recherche d?information pour s?lectionner des phrases parall?les sans erreur et g?n?rer un bitexte. Dans la deuxi?me partie des contributions, nous visons l'am?lioration de notre m?thode en exploitant les entit?s sous-phrastiques cr?ant ainsi une extension ? notre syst?me en vue de g?n?rer des segments parall?les. Nous am?liorons aussi le module de filtrage. Enfin, nous pr?sentons plusieurs mani?res d'aborder l'adaptation des syst?mes de traduction avec les donn?es extraites. Nos exp?riences ont ?t? men?es sur les donn?es des sites web TED et Euronews qui montrent la faisabilit? de nos approches. Mots-cl?s : Traduction automatique statistique, corpus multimodal bilingue, extraction de donn?es parall?les. Cordialement, ======================================================== Haithem AFLI Laboratoire Informatique de l'Universit? du Maine (LIUM) Institut Claude Chappe - 72085 Le Mans Cedex 9, France Tel : 02 43 83 38 52 web : http://www-lium.univ-lemans.fr/~afli Mail : haithem.afli at lium.univ-lemans.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 27 20:32:10 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:32:10 +0200 Subject: Job: Post-doctoral position on machine learning / data clustering, Lyon Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 12:25:30 +0200 From: Julien Velcin Message-ID: <53ABF51A.7080100 at univ-lyon2.fr> Post-doctoral position at ERIC, University of Lyon (France): Modeling and analysis dynamics of web reputation. ERIC is a research unit specialized in business intelligence and data mining. In the context of the ImagiWeb project, a 10-month postdoctoral position is available on machine learning / data clustering, with applications to social media analysis. See below for more details about the offer. Julien Velcin julien.velcin at univ-lyon2.fr Post-doctoral Position Title: Modeling and analysis dynamics of web reputation Supervision: Julien Velcin, Stephane Bonnevay Place: ERIC Lab (University of Lyon) Duration: 10 months Funding: 2250 ? per month (ANR Project ImagiWeb, gross salary) Context The ImagiWeb project, funded by the French National Research Agency (2012-2015), aims at studying the image (a.k.a. web reputation) of entities of various kinds (companies, politicians etc.) as this is diffused and viewed on the Internet. The study of these representations and their dynamics is considered today to be a real challenge, which deals with several issues related to data mining: information/topic extraction, opinion mining, web reputation, social network analysis etc. The project involves six partners (3 academic labs, 3 companies) and two real case studies are considered. Description Building and tracking images (web reputations), by taking into account both temporal and spatial dimensions, can be addressed as a machine learning problem. In the context of the ImagiWeb project, this post-doctoral position aims mainly at building new unsupervised machine learning models and algorithms. Graphical models [1, 8], probabilistic models or various dynamic models that take into account conditional dependences, will be considered for dealing with this problem. For data clustering, several models have been designed for the attribute-value data [5, 6] and relational data [9]. Recent models of evolutionary clustering have been proposed for integrating the temporal evolution into the process [2, 3, 4, 10]. Researchers of the ImagiWeb project have recently designed a new model for representing and manipulating the ?images? (paper under review). This model is able to deal with entities (e.g., politicians, companies, brands etc.), temporally described by opinionated labels. Up to now, it has been tested on short descriptions extracted from a sample of Twitter. The recruited researcher will address theoretical issues and she/he will perform experiments on real datasets provided by the ImagiWeb project. More precisely: - She/he will update the graphical model in both addressing some of its shortcomings and integrating additional information available in the data (in particular, the author of the message). - She/he will propose an accurate way to deal with the timeline by going beyond evenly-distributed time windows, for instance by using the notion of change points [7]. - She/he will participate in submitting the new model(s) to a high-level international conference in machine learning and/or data mining. - She/he will design the algorithm that implements the new model and test it on the datasets of the ImagiWeb project. She/he will be involved in the integration of the code into a full prototype. Profile requirements Applicants must have a PhD Thesis in Science with a clear research orientation. Priority will be given to students who have already worked in the domains of statistical machine learning, probabilistic graphical models, data clustering. Application procedure Applications must be sent by email to Julien Velcin (julien.velcin at univ-lyon2.fr) and St?phane Bonnevay (stephane.bonnevay at univ-lyon1.fr). Candidates should send the following elements: - Cover letter - CV (including recent publications) - Marks and awards obtained during their Master degree - Recommendation letters After a first selection step, interviews will be organized before taking the final decision. References [1] C.M. Bishop. Pattern recognition and machine learning, volume 4. Springer, New York, 2006. chapter 8. [2] Fuyuan Cao, Jiye Liang, Liang Bai, Xingwang Zhao, and Chuangyin Dang. A framework for clustering categorical time-evolving data. Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on, 18(5):872?882, October 2010. [3] Deepayan Chakrabarti, Ravi Kumar, and Andrew Tomkins. Evolutionary clustering. In Inter- national conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, KDD ?06, pages 554?560. ACM, 2006. [4] Yun Chi, Xiaodan Song, Dengyong Zhou, Koji Hino, and Belle L. Tseng. Evolutionary spectral clustering by incorporating temporal smoothness. In International conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, KDD ?07, pages 153?162. ACM, 2007. [5] A.P. Dempster, N.M. Laird, and D.B. Rubin. Maximum likelihood from incomplete data via the em algorithm. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Methodological), pages 1?38, 1977. [6] MAF Figueiredo and A.K. Jain. Unsupervised learning of finite mixture models. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on, 24(3):381?396, 2002. [7] Lajos Horv?th and Marie Huskov?. Change-point detection in panel data. Journal of Time Series Analysis, 33(4):631?648, 2012. [8] D. Magatti. Graphical models for text mining : knowledge extraction and performance estimation. PhD thesis, Universita degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2010. [9] M. Shafiei and H. Chipman. Mixed-membership stochastic block-models for transactional net- works. In Data Mining (ICDM), 2010 IEEE 10th International Conference on, pages 1019?1024. IEEE, 2010. [10] Tianbing Xu, Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Philip S. Yu, and Bo Long. Dirichlet process based evolu- tionary clustering. In International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM ?08, pages 648?657. IEEE Computer Society, 2008. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 27 20:43:56 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:43:56 +0200 Subject: Sujet de these: Proposition de these CIFRE en SDL Message-ID: Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:51:54 +0200 From: Condamines Message-ID: <53AD850A.6040702 at univ-tlse2.fr> X-url: http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr (English version below). _Proposition d'une th?se financ?e en Sciences du Langage_. Financement CIFRE : Airbus/CLLE-ERSS (UMR 5263) Dans le cadre de la conception des futures g?n?rations de cockpits, Airbus souhaite d?finir les formats de textes les mieux adapt?s pour communiquer de mani?re efficace (compr?hension rapide et sans ambigu?t?) des cat?gories d'informations (ordre, ?tat, etc.) selon les contextes (urgence, etc.), en fonction de l'intention ? transmettre (provoquer/bloquer les r?actions imm?diates, calmer, etc.). Le sujet de th?se concernera les textes ?crits en anglais sur les ?crans des postes de pilotage ? destination de pilotes de diverses langues maternelles. Le chercheur CIFRE aura pour t?che de d?finir ces formats de textes. Il s'appuiera sur les travaux existant dans le domaine des langages contr?l?s. Ses propositions, bas?es sur des connaissances linguistiques, feront l'objet d'une ?valuation psycholinguistique visant ? mesurer l'efficacit? des messages trait?s au niveau des processus cognitifs de compr?hension du langage. La th?se se d?roulera ? Toulouse. _Encadrement_ : Anne Condamines, Directrice de Recherche CNRS (anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr) et H?l?ne Giraudo, Charg?e de Recherches CNRS (helene.giraudo at univ-tlse2.fr), Laboratoire CLLE-ERSS (http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr/)// _Comp?tences requises_ : M2 en sciences du langage ou linguistique anglaise Anglais indispensable Des connaissances en psycholinguistiques et/ou TAL seront appr?ci?es. _Renseignements_ : anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr , helene.giraudo at univ-tlse2.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _PhD grant in Language Sciences_ CIFRE Funding: Airbus/CLLE, ERSS team (UMR5263) Within the framework of the conception of future cockpits, Airbus aims to define the most adapted text formats to communicate, in the most efficient way, some informational categories (order, state, etc.) according to different contexts (like emergency) and depending on the intention to transmit (to induce/to block immediate reactions) The PhD subject will focus on English written texts presented on the cockpit screens for pilots having a different L1. The researcher recruited by this CIFRE contract will have to define the formats of these particular texts. She/He will rely on the scientific literature devoted to the domain of controlled languages. Her/His proposals, based on linguistic knowledge, will be tested through psycholinguistic experiments measuring the relevance and efficiency of these messages, but according to the cognitive processes involved in language comprehension. The PhD will be carried in Toulouse _Framework of the PhD_ : Anne Condamines, Directrice de Recherche au CNRS (anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr) and H?l?ne Giraudo, Charg?e de Recherche au CNRS (helene.giraudo at univ-tlse2.fr), Laboratoire CLLE-ERSS (http://w3.erss.univ-tlse2.fr) _Required skills_ M2 in Language Sciences or in English linguistics High level proficiency in English Knowledge in Psycholinguistics and/or NLP will be a plus _Informations_ : anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr, helene.giraudo at univ-tlse2.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From hamon at LIMSI.FR Fri Jun 27 20:41:03 2014 From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 22:41:03 +0200 Subject: Appel: Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns 2014 and SWJ Fast-Track Message-ID: Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 01:29:45 +0200 From: Aldo Gangemi Message-Id: X-url: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014 === Apologies for multiple postings === ***************************************************************** Call for Patterns 5th Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web Patterns (WOP2014) http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014 WOP will be held on October 19 or 20, 2014, in conjunction with ISWC 2014 (http://iswc2014.semanticweb.org_) ***************************************************************** Submission deadline : 7 July, 2014 ***************************************************************** This is the fifth edition in a series of workshops addressing the topic of ontology and semantic web patterns as best practices, related to the ontologydesignpatterns.org initiative. This edition of WOP will be the very first in Europe, in which traditionally the design pattern community for semantic web and linked data has been very strong. As interest in the Semantic Web increases and technologies for realizing the Semantic Web become more mature, the need for high-quality and reusable Semantic Web ontologies increases as well. To address the quality and reusability issues, different types of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) have emerged, and methods for devising or discovering new ones from heterogeneous knowledge sources are needed. Patterns need to be shared by a community in order to provide a common language, and to stimulate pattern usage and development. Hence, the aim of this workshop is twofold * providing an arena for proposing and discussing good practices, patterns, pattern-based ontologies, systems etc., and * broadening the pattern community that is developing its own ?language? for discussing and describing relevant problems and their solutions. WOP2014 will be a half-day workshop consisting of two parts: paper presentations and posters. The poster session will feature pattern posters, i.e. presentations of patterns submitted according the call for patterns. ---- Fast-track submission to the Semantic Web journal ---- This year's workshop on ontology and semantic web patterns will offer a fast-track submission of selected papers to the Semantic Web journal's special issue on ontology design patterns. Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit a revised and extended version of their work to the journal. While fast-tracked papers will still undergo a full open and transparent review, they will be considered as /acceptable/ by the journal. Please note that we will make the selection of papers based on how suitable they are for such an extended submission and that such papers may still get rejected by the journal, e.g., if the authors fail to address the issues pointed out during review. Please contact Krzysztof Janowicz if you have further questions, e.g., on the suitability of a paper. ---- Paper Topics For Research Papers and Short Papers ----- The main aim of the workshop is to discuss and collect solutions to recurrent problems that matter to researchers and practitioners of the Semantic Web field, and that impact on design and engineering of ontologies, linked data, knowledge extraction, and other semantic web applications. We invite the submission of original research results related to the focus areas of the workshop. Research papers (maximum 12 pages LNCS style) should present mature work and document established results, or be short papers presenting proposed research directions and novel ideas (maximum 4 pages LNCS style). Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Ontology design patterns (ODPs) and pattern-based ontology design * Anti-patterns and their relations to ODPs * Pattern-based ontologies * Ontology patterns and their relation with standards * Ontology pattern extraction * Analysis of ontology pattern usage * Pattern-based ontology evaluation and selection * Correspondence patterns for ontology matching and integration * Best practices and examples for using existing ontologies/datasets to instantiate ODPs * Discussion of use cases of particular ODPs across ontologies * Evaluation of ODPs (methods, benchmarks) * Patterns and Linked data (usage, emerging patterns, etc.) * Linked Data patterns, patterns for using different vocabularies together * Web semantics from a pattern perspective * ODPs used for interaction with data * Data mining patterns * Automatic ontology construction (ontology learning) based on patterns * Reasoning pipelines * Usage of patterns in business intelligence * Relation between NLP patterns (either for learning, or procedural) and ontologies/linked data design * Frame semantics in text and knowledge representation * Knowledge patterns and knowledge reengineering based on patterns * Pattern-based information extraction * Nary-fact extraction and representation * Patterns in semantic social networks, semantic wikis, semantic blogs * Reengineering patterns for conceptual models, folksonomies, lexicons, thesauri * Usage of patterns in conceptual modeling * Processes and services process patterns * Problem solving methods and patterns * Contextual reasoning and patterns as context * Pattern-based methods and methodologies for development of semantic applications * Usage of patterns in Semantic Web design * Collaborative ontology design and collaboration patterns * Tools and applications for pattern-based knowledge engineering * Ontology Patterns for specific domains (cultural heritage, digital humanities, multimedia, etc). For submission details visit: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014/Submission ----- Patterns ----- We invite the submission of research results in the form of ontology design patterns (ODPs). Patterns submitted should have a general relevance to the ontology engineering field, or specific interest within a knowledge domain. Patterns should solve some particular modeling problem, and be of significant interest for discussion at the workshop. Patterns should be original, in the sense that they are the intellectual product of the author(s), however they may still be based on the collective experience of a community. Pattern submissions for the pattern session will be collected: * through the ODP portal and * by submitting a description of the pattern (pattern description) via EasyChair Detailed instructions for patterns submission, including how to submit via the ontologydesignpatterns.org portal, are found at the submission page at: http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/WOP:2014/Submission Note that an account in the ODP portal is needed for submitting patterns; thus, authors should take care to request an account at least one week before their intended submission. Pattern submissions can be made in any type of ODPs. Currently, portal templates for submission are provided for the following types of patterns (see general typology for explanation of the types): * Content patterns * Structural patterns: logical and architecture patterns. * Correspondence patterns: re-engineering and alignment patterns. For other types of patterns, the author is welcome to submit only a pattern description. ---- Important dates (2014, 11:59 Hawaii time) ---- * Submission date (research papers and patterns): 7 July, 2014 * Author notifications: July 30, 2014 * Camera-ready proceedings: August 20, 2014 * Workshops will be held on October 19-20, 2014 (tba) ----- WOP2014 Chairs ----- * Victor de Boer, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands * Aldo Gangemi, LIPN Paris Sorbonne Cit?/Paris 13 (FR) * Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara * Agnieszka ?awrynowicz, Poznan University of Technology, Poland ----- Steering Committee ----- The workshop series is arranged by a fixed steering committee, appointing the chairs and adjusting the focus of the workshop on a yearly basis. The WOP Steering committee consists of: * Eva Blomqvist, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Aldo Gangemi, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Natasha Noy, Stanford University (US) * Valentina Presutti, ISTC-CNR (IT) * Alan Rector, University of Manchester (UK) * Francois Scharffe, INRIA (FR) * Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz (DE) * Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center (US) ----- Program Committee ----- * Benjamin Adams, University of Auckland, NZ * Alessandro Adamou, KMI Open University (UK) * Lora Aroyo, VU (NL) * Eva Blomqvist, Link?ping University (SE) * Victor de Boer, VU University Amsterdam (NL) * Oscar Corcho, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (ES) * Enrico Daga, ISTC-CNR, Rome (IT) * Aldo Gangemi, LIPN Paris Sorbonne Cit?/Paris 13 (FR) * Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez, Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO) (ES) * Gerd Gr?ner, University of Koblenz (DE) * Giancarlo Guizzardi, Federal University of Esp?rito Santo (BR) * Pascal Hitzler, Wright State University (US) * Rinke Hoekstra, Vrije Universiteit/Universiteit van Amsterdam, (NL) * Krzysztof Janowicz, University of California, Santa Barbara (US) * Adila Alfa Krisnadhi, Wright State University (US) * Jose Emilio Labra Gayo, University of Oviedo, (SP) * Agnieszka ?awrynowicz, Pozna? University of Technology (PL) * Steffen Lohmann, University of Stuttgart (DE) * Timothy Lebo, RPI, USA * Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, University of Bologna/STLab ISTC-CNR (IT) * Alessandro Oltramari, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh (US) * Raul Palma, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PL) * Mar?a Poveda, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (SP) * Catherine Roussey, Irstea - Centre de Clermont-Ferrand, France * Alan Ruttenberg, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, (US) * Kurt Sandkuhl, University of Rostock (SE) * Mari Carmen Suarez-Figueroa, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, (SP) * Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague (CZ) * Boris Villaz?n-Terrazas, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid (ES) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA d?cline toute responsabilit? concernant le contenu des messages diffus?s sur la liste LN ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From jobs at BREAKTHROUGHELYSIUM.NET Sun Jun 29 18:35:51 2014 From: jobs at BREAKTHROUGHELYSIUM.NET (jobs) Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:35:51 -0600 Subject: Dear ln@listserv.linguistlist.org, Looking for Part-time Work? 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