From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:45:36 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:45:36 +0100
Subject: Soft: Logiciel TermSuite version 1.5
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.104536.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:44:36 +0100
From: Beatrice Daille <beatrice.daille at univ-nantes.fr>
Message-ID: <530F7984.9080402 at univ-nantes.fr>
X-url: https://logiciels.lina.univ-nantes.fr/redmine/projects/termsuite/


TermSuite est outil libre sous licence Apache 2 dédié à l'extraction
terminologique monolingue et à l'extraction terminologique bilingue à
partir de corpus comparables.

TermSuite traite les langues : Anglais, Français, Allemand, Espagnol,
Letton, Chinois et Russe.

TermSuite adopte la plate-forme Apache UIMA.

TermSuite effectue les traitements informatiques en 3 phases :

1. Analyses linguistiques : découpage du texte en mots, analyse
   morphosyntaxique et lemmatisation et conversion au format Multext ;

2. Extraction terminologique monolingue : détection d'occurrences de
   termes simples et complexes, normalisation et regroupement des termes
   en fonction de leurs variations, filtrage statistique ; listes de
   termes en format tsv et TBX.

3. Alignement terminologique bilingue : plusieurs types d’alignement par
   paires de langues sont proposés qui adoptent différentes approches :
   distributionnelle pour les termes simples, compositionnelle ou mixte
   pour les termes complexes et les composés savants.

La nouvelle version TermSuite 1.5 est maintenant disponible avec plein
de nouveautés :

- nouvelle interface graphique
- passage à l'échelle, traitement possible de corpus de plusieurs
  millions de mots
- choix des variantes à collecter,
...

Le nouveau site de téléchargement :
https://logiciels.lina.univ-nantes.fr/redmine/projects/termsuite/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:56:40 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:56:40 +0100
Subject: Revue: Revue DISCOURS, Numero 13
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:22:51 +0100
From: Christian Raymond <christian.raymond at irisa.fr>
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X-url: http://discours.revues.org/8845



Sorry for multiple posting

(English version below)

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Nous sommes très heureux d'annoncer la publication de DISCOURS 13 | 2013
http://discours.revues.org/8845

Au sommaire :

  - *Emmanuelle Roussel*
    Temporalité et compétences (méta)linguistiques
    http://discours.revues.org/8846

  - *Dimitri Voilmy et Mari Wiklund*
    Syntactic and Prosodic Forms of First Names in Institutional
    Interaction Involving Multiple Participants
    http://discours.revues.org/8869


  - *Layal Kanaan*
    /Jæ?ne/ dans le discours des Libanais : pragmaticalisation,
    distribution et emplois d'un marqueur discursif déverbal
    http://discours.revues.org/8856

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

Le comité de rédaction


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We are pleased to announce the publication of the 13th issue of DISCOURS
13 | 2013
http://discours.revues.org/8845

You can read the following articles:

  - *Emmanuelle Roussel*
    Temporalité et compétences (méta)linguistiques
    http://discours.revues.org/8846

  - *Dimitri Voilmy et Mari Wiklund*
    Syntactic and Prosodic Forms of First Names in Institutional
    Interaction Involving Multiple Participants
    http://discours.revues.org/8869

  -  *Layal Kanaan*
    /Jæ?ne/ dans le discours des Libanais : pragmaticalisation,
    distribution et emplois d'un marqueur discursif déverbal
    http://discours.revues.org/8856

We would like to invite contributions for upcoming issues.  (Please see
submission information http://discours.revues.org/index224.html)


The editorial board


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 10:03:17 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 11:03:17 +0100
Subject: Job: Statistical Machine Translation Expert, CDI
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.110317.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:09:51 +0000
From: "Riad, Ali" <ali.riad at elanit.lu>
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Dear all,

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

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

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

Please find below a brief description of the position:

Écouter

Lire phonétiquement

Dictionnaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Job location: Luxembourg

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


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

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best Regards,


Ali RIAD

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:57:51 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:57:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: SIGIR Medical Information Retrieval Workshop
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.105751.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:47:54 +0000
From: Liadh Kelly <lkelly at computing.dcu.ie>
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    Medical Information Retrieval (MedIR) Workshop


    http://medir.dcu.ie/

    At SIGIR 2014, July 11 2014, Gold Coast, Australia


    Call for Papers (2 & 4 page)

Submission deadline: April 28

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

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

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

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

         - Users and information needs
         - Semantics and NLP for medical IR
         - Reliability and trust in medical IR
         - Personalised search
         - Evaluation of medical IR
         - Multilingual issues in medical IR
         - Multimedia technologies in medical IR
         - The role of social media in medical IR


    Paper Submissions

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

Papers should be anonymised for double blind review and submitted in pdf
format through the EasyChair system
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medir2014no later than
midnight Pacific Daylight Time on April 28, 2014. Submissions will be
reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted papers
will be included in the SIGIR 2014 Medical Information Search Workshop
proceedings.


    Important Dates

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


    Further Information

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


    Workshop Organisers

Lorraine Goeuriot, Dublin City University, Ireland

Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland

Liadh Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland

Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland

Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne, Australia


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:22:29 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:22:29 +0100
Subject: Job: CDI, Informaticien/Developpeur Web, Techlimed, Lyon
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.102229.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:37:10 +0100
From: Djamel MOSTEFA <djamel.mostefa at techlimed.com>
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CDI : Informaticien/Développeur Web, Techlimed, Lyon
===========================================

Dans le cadre du développement des ses activités, Techlimed propose un
CDI à temps plein pour un informaticien développeur web.
Le poste est basé à Lyon.

Contexte
------------
Techlimed (www.techlimed.com), jeune entreprise innovante, spécialisée
dans le traitement automatique de la langue, développe des logiciels
d’analyse et traitement des contenus en langue arabe couvrant la
recherche d’information, la veille, l’e-gov, l’e-learning, etc.
Dans le cadre du développement de ses projets et activités, Techlimed
souhaite recruter un informaticien développeur web en CDI à temps plein
dès que possible avec, de préférence une expérience dans l’intégration
et le déploiement de moteurs de recherche Open Source (Solr,
ElasticSearch).


Mission
-----------
Le candidat retenu aura pour mission de développer des interfaces et
applications web communiquant avec le cœur de la technologie Techlimed,
notamment pour l’implémentation de moteurs de recherche. Il sera en
charge de développer, maintenir et étendre des sites web dynamiques. Il
sera à même de manipuler des fichiers XML, d’utiliser des scripts PHP ou
JavaScript et de gérer l’interconnexion à des bases de données de type
MySQL ou autres.
L’affichage des documents en ligne est réalisé par l’utilisation du
langage XSLT/XPath.
Les compétences requises sont Apache, PHP, HTML, JAVA, AJAX, JQuery,
JavaScript, SQL, XML, RDF, XML Schema, CSS, XSLT, XPath, Drupal,
Symphony, WordPress, Responsive Web Design


Profil souhaité
--------------------
De formation Universitaire ou Ecole d’ingénieur (Diplômé d'une licence
pro, master ou école d'ingénieur en conception / programmation /
intégration web) avec une première expérience professionnelle dans le
développement web.
Une expérience dans l’intégration et le déploiement des moteurs de
recherche d’information Open Source (Solr, ElasticSearch, etc) serait
apprécié.

Vous êtes autonome et rigoureux(se), dot(é)e d'un bon esprit de
synthèse. 
Vous aimez le travail en équipe et faites preuve d'un bon sens du
relationnel.


Salaire : en fonction des qualifications et expériences. 

Le poste est basé à Lyon. 
Les candidats doivent avoir la citoyenneté d’un pays de l’Union
européenne ou être en possession d’un titre de séjour.
Toute candidature sera étudiée jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

Les candidatures doivent être adressées par courriel à
jobs at techlimed.com (lettre de motivation et curriculum vitae) à
l’attention de :

Djamel MOSTEFA	
Directeur technique / CTO
Techlimed 
42, rue de l’université 
69007 Lyon

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:52:53 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:52:53 +0100
Subject: Appel: Hackathon Participation, WASSA 2014, @ACL 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.105253.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:03:14 +0100
From: Alexandra Balahur Dobrescu <alexandra.balahur-dobrescu at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Message-id: <53106CF2.3050405 at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
X-url: http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/

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

              5^th Workshop on Computational Approaches to

     Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)

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

                   - Endorsed by SIGNLL and SIGSEM -

Sentiment analysis systems hackathon

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

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

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

The systems can be oriented to the following tasks:

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

- Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and
  summarization

- Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis techniques

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

- Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models

- Online reputation management

- Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks

- Classification of stance in dialogues

- Subjectivity and sentiment analysis in social media

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

Alexandra.Balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu

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

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

We are looking forward to your participation!

On behalf of the WASSA 2014 Organizers,
Alexandra Balahur


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:21:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:21:18 +0100
Subject: Journee: TOTh 2014, Formation
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.102118.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:20:45 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
Message-ID: <CAFW-+pbo7yOHwU5c3VncR_1G1yP6Nqr1rdE_=5cFY_JKwy4rbA at mail.gmail.com>
X-url: http://porphyre.org/formation-toth/2014


Formation TOTh 2014

http://porphyre.org/formation-toth/2014

Informations : formation at porphyre.org

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Titre : Analyse des textes à des fins onomasiologiques
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Dates : 10 & 11 juin 2014
Lieu : Institut de la Montagne, Campus Scientifique, Le Bourget du Lac

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

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

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

Sont retenus les éléments qui pointent vers le concept nécessaires à la
rédaction des définitions en langue naturelle. Les résultats obtenus
nous amènent à proposer une possible organisation des données qui est
soumise à l'expert. Dans cette démarche, l'expert du domaine, au sein
d'une équipe multidisciplinaire, joue un rôle essentiel, car au moment
de valider les données il << stabilise >> les connaissances sur le
concept.

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

les professionnels de la langue d'une approche méthodologique et
systématique pour la définition ;
les professionnels de la connaissance de compétences linguistiques
indispensables pour l'acquisition de connaissances à partir de
ressources linguistiques.

Publics visés
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Linguistes, Terminologues, Traducteurs, Documentalistes,
Informaticiens, Ingénieurs cogniticiens...

Programme
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1. Introduction
2. Fondements théoriques

2.1. Terminologie, ontologie
2.2. Terme, collocation

3. Textes de spécialité
4. Extraction de données terminologiques

4.1. Candidats termes
4.2. Candidats collocations
4.3. Relations sémantiques à base de marqueurs linguistiques
4.4. Organisation des données terminologiques
4.5. Validation par l'expert

5. Des textes à la définition

5.1. Définition(s) de définition
5.2. Eléments de définitions à des fins de rédaction
5.3. Rôle de l'expert dans la validation des résultats

6. Médiation entre terminologue et expert

Formateurs
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Rute Costa - CLUNL - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Christophe Roche - Equipe Condillac - Université de Savoie
Raquel Silva - CLUNL - Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Horaires
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Mardi, 10 juin, de 14h30 à 17h30
Mercredi, 11 juin, de 09h00 à 17h00

Tarifs
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Etudiants : 80 EURO
Institutionnels : 120 EURO
Industriels : 180 EURO


http://porphyre.org/formation-toth/2014


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:25:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:25:43 +0100
Subject: Job: 3 Postes MCF en Informatique, CERI/Univ. Avignon,
 Langage/Reseaux/RO
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.102543.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:25:57 +0100
From: Fabrice Lefèvre
Message-ID: <530F12B5.6040107 at univ-avignon.fr>


Bonjour,

Trois postes de Maître de Conférences en informatique (section 27) sont
mis au concours pour la campagne 2014 au Centre d'Enseignement et de
Recherche en Informatique de l'Université d'Avignon
(ceri.univ-avignon.fr).

Les personnes recrutées effectueront leur recherche au sein du LIA
(lia.univ-avignon.fr).

Les profils des 3 postes, consultables sur lia.univ-avignon.fr rubrique
Emplois, couvrent les thématiques du laboratoire :

- Informatique - Spécialité langage/recherche et extraction
  d'information (Poste 0284 / Galaxie 4043)

- Informatique - Spécialité réseaux  (Poste 0334 / Galaxie 4045)

- Informatique - Spécialité recherche opérationnelle et optimisation
  (Poste 0324 / Galaxie 4044)

Contacts :

Enseignement : Corinne Fredouille corinne.fredouille at univ-avignon.fr - 
Directrice des Etudes du CERI et Fabrice Lefèvre 
fabrice.lefevre at univ-avignon.fr - Directeur du CERI

Recherche : Georges Linares georges.linares at univ-avignon.fr - Directeur
du LIA et Fabrice Lefèvre fabrice.lefevre at univ-avignon.fr - Directeur du
CERI

Cordialement,
- Fabrice Lefèvre

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:47:00 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:47:00 +0100
Subject: Appel: TALN articles longs, extension au vendredi 7 mars
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:41:12 +0100
From: Benoit Favre <benoit.favre at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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                         APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

                               TALN-2014
  21e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

                        http://www.taln2014.org
                            1-4 Juillet 2014
                               Marseille


-->     Extension de date limite de soumission
-->     Nouvelle Date : Vendredi 7 Mars 2014
                        ---------------------


CALENDRIER
==========

1. Articles longs
    - Date limite de soumission : 7 mars 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 14 avril 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 30 mai 2014

2. Articles courts
    - Date limite de soumission : 24 avril 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 22 mai 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 30 mai 2014

3. Démonstrations
    - Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 10 mai 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 30 mai 2014

PRÉSENTATION
============
Organisée par le LPL (Laboratoire Parole et Langage) et le LIF
(Laboratoire d’Informatique Fondamentale), la conférence TALN
(Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles) aura lieu pour son 20ème
anniversaire à Marseille (Faculté Saint-Charles, Université
d'Aix-Marseille) du 1er au 4 juillet 2014

La conférence TALN’2014, qui est organisée sous l’égide de l’ATALA, se
tiendra conjointement avec la 16e édition des Rencontres des Étudiants
Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues
(RECITAL’2014).

La conférence TALN’2014 comprendra des communications orales présentant
des travaux de recherche et des prises de position, des communications
affichées, des conférences invitées et des démonstrations.

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

TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS
=======================
Deux formats de communications sont prévus : les articles longs (de 12 à
14 pages) et les articles courts (de 6 à 8 pages).

Les auteurs sont invités à présenter deux types de communications :

  - des articles présentant des travaux de recherche originaux
  - des prises de position présentant un point de vue sur l’état des
    recherches en TALN, fondées sur une solide expérience du domaine

Les articles doivent présenter des travaux originaux, comportant un
apport substantiel par rapport à d'autres travaux éventuellement déjà
publiés. Les traductions d'articles publiés ailleurs dans une autre
langue ne sont pas acceptées.

Les articles longs seront présentés sous forme d’une communication
orale, les articles courts sous forme d’un poster.

Les communications pourront porter sur tous les thèmes du TAL.

CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION
=====================
Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du
domaine. Pour les travaux de recherche, seront considérées en
particulier :

  - l’adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence
  - l’importance et l’originalité de la contribution
  - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique
  - la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport aux
    autres travaux du domaine
  - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche
    internationale
  - l’organisation et la clarté de la présentation

Pour les prises de position, seront privilégiées :

  - la largeur de vue et la prise en compte de l’état de l’art
  - l’originalité et l’impact du point de vue présenté

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

Le comité de programme sélectionnera parmi les communications acceptées
un article (prix TALN) pour recommandation à publication (dans une
version étendue) dans la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (revue
TAL).

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

Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word sont disponibles sur le
site web de la conférence : http://www.taln2014.org

COMITE D'ORGANISATION
=====================
        Philippe Blache         Frédéric Béchet
        Carine André            Brigitte Bigi
        Sébastien Bermond       Cyril Deniaud
        Nadéra Bureau           Benoît Favre
        Stéphanie Desous        Joëlle Lavaud
        Nuria Gala              Frédéric Lefevre
        Grégoire Montcheuil     Alexis Nasr
        Catherine Perrot        Klim Peshkov
        Laurent Prévot          Carlos Ramisch
        Stéphane Rauzy          Claudia Starke

CONTACTS
========
  philippe.blache[arobas]lpl-aix.fr
  nadera.bureau[arobas]lpl-aix.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:38:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:38:31 +0100
Subject: Appel: IC 2014, dernier appel a posters et demonstrations
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.103831.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:31:53 +0100
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
Message-ID: <530F7689.3030606 at i3s.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014

*Appel à soumissions pour la session Posters et Démonstrations des*

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

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

------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Dates importantes :*
Date limite de soumission : vendredi 28 février 2014
Date de notification aux auteurs : lundi 17 mars 2014
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La conférence d'Ingénierie des Connaissances fête cette année ses 25
ans! Elle est le rendez-vous annuel de la communauté française et
francophone qui s'intéresse aux problématiques liées à l'ingénierie des
connaissances. Académiques et industriels s'y retrouvent pour échanger
et réfléchir sur des problèmes de recherche qui se posent en
acquisition, représentation et gestion des connaissances.
L'essor des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la 
Communication, et notamment des technologies du Web, dans l'ensemble de 
la société engendre des mutations dans les pratiques individuelles et 
collectives. L'Ingénierie des Connaissances accompagne cette évolution, 
en inventant les modèles, méthodes et outils permettant l''intégration 
de connaissances et de raisonnements sur ces connaissances dans des 
environnements informatiques. De fait, on constate aujourd'hui une 
omniprésence des connaissances, en même temps qu'un décloisonnement des 
communautés de recherche en Intelligence Artificielle pour répondre aux 
problèmes qui se posent. Ainsi, la construction des systèmes à base de 
connaissances fait appel à l'Ingénierie des Connaissances, au traitement 
automatique des langues, à l'apprentissage automatique et à la fouille 
de données; le traitement des connaissances associe Ingénierie des 
Connaissances avec recherche d'information, recherche opérationnelle, 
analyse de données; la modélisation des environnements informatiques, de 
ses acteurs humains ou logiciels, allie Ingénierie des Connaissances et 
systèmes multi-agents; enfin l'Ingénierie des Connaissances touche à des 
thématiques classiques dans les communautés de l'interaction 
homme-machine et des environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage 
humain pour placer l'utilisateur au centre des systèmes.
En plaçant l'utilisateur au coeur des systèmes informatiques, 
l'Ingénierie des Connaissances est sollicitée pour traiter la masse de 
données disponibles sur le web tout en assistant l'utilisateur pour les 
visualiser, contextualiser, expliquer, recommander, classer, prédire, 
approximer, sécuriser, fiabiliser, pour pallier à leur imprécision voire 
incohérence.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Soumissions*

/*Posters :*/
Sont concernés des travaux en cours ou au stade de résultats
préliminaires de recherche ou appliqués. Les posters sont destinés à
provoquer la discussion au sein de la communauté pour accompagner au
mieux le démarrage des travaux présentés. Ils seront exposés dans un
espace de discussion.

/*Démonstrations :*/
Une ou plusieurs séances de démonstrations seront organisées pour
permettre aux participants de présenter leurs développements dans un
espace de discussion. Ce peuvent être des maquettes, prototypes, outils
finalisés, mais aussi applications industrielles et opérationnelles. Les
propositions de démonstrations peuvent venir compléter une
communication.

Des résultats peuvent donner lieu à une double soumission pour poster ET 
démonstration.
La soumission d'un poster et/ou d'une démonstration peut également venir
en complément d'un article (long ou court) accepté à la conférence ou
d'une présentation dans la session spéciale "Logiciels, Projets,
Industrie".

Les textes associés aux démonstrations et aux posters ne devront pas
excéder 3 pages et devront respecter les styles de documents proposés
pour la conférence : http://www.irit.fr/IC2014.

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


Les articles des posters et démonstrations acceptés seront inclus dans 
les actes d'IC 2014.

Pour les posters acceptés, le format de présentation sera A0 vertical.

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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:53:52 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:53:52 +0100
Subject: Appel: CNL 2014, extended deadline 31 March 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.105352.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:11:14 +0100
From: Camilo Thorne <cthorne at inf.unibz.it>
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Extended submission deadline: 31 March 2014

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

Co-located with COLING 2014

20-22 August 2014
Galway, Ireland

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

Proceedings in Springer LNCS.

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

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


Topics
------

Possible topics for CNL 2014 include:

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


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

Submission deadline (extended):  31 March 2014
Notification of acceptance:      12 May 2014
Deadline for revised papers:     9 June 2014
Workshop:                        20-22 August 2014


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

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

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


Venue
-----

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


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

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


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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 18:06:15 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 19:06:15 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension, Computer Speech and Language Special,
 Issue on Hybrid Machine Translation
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.190615.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:36:32 -0600
From: Marta Ruiz <martaruizcostajussa at gmail.com>
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X-url: http://ees.elsevier.com/csl

Hybrid Machine Translation focuses on combining the best properties of
different Machine Translation (MT) paradigms. Nowadays, it is very
popular to include linguistic features in Statistical Machine
Translation (SMT) systems or to modify the standard Rule-based Machine
Translation (RBMT) architecture to include statistical knowledge. Other
ways of hybridization include the system combination techniques which
may combine a rich variety of translation paradigms.

This special issue in the prestigious Computer Speech and Language
journal will cover different approaches from Hybrid Machine Translation
and take advantage of the latest and leading research to discuss the
progress in the field.

This special issue invites contributions related to (but not limited):

   1. theoretical and experimental design of hybrid MT architectures
   2. experimental results with hybrid MT systems guided by corpus-based
      or rule-based systems
   3. introduction of linguistics in corpus-based approaches
   4. rule-based systems extended or built with statistical information
   5. induction of lexical or grammatical transfer rules from corpora
   6. description of open source tools and language resources for hybrid
      MT
   7. description of computationally efficient algorithms for hybrid MT
   8. applications of hybrid MT systems
   9. hybrid methods applied to spoken language translation (SLT)
   10. hybrid evaluation methods
   11. system combination of different MT and SLT paradigms.

*Submission procedure*

Prospective authors should follow the regular guidelines of the Computer
Speech and Language Journal for electronic submission
(*http://ees.elsevier.com/csl*). During submission authors must select
"SI: Hybrid Machine Translation" as Article Type.

*Important dates: *
20th March 2014: Deadline for Submissions [EXTENDED]
1st June 2014: Notification of Resubmission
1st July 2014: Deadline for Resubmission
1st August 2014: Final Decision


*Guest Editors:*
Dr. Marta R. Costa-jussà, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore,
*martaruizcostajussa at gmail.com*
Prof. José A. R. Fonollosa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,
Barcelona, *jose.fonollosa at upc.edu*

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 20:56:48 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:56:48 +0100
Subject: Job: Speech Linguistic Project Manager, Google Speech Research
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.215648.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 12:13:59 +0000
From: Hadrien Gelas <hadrieng at google.com>
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Speech Linguistic Project Manager - Google Speech Research

Job title:

Speech Linguistic Project Manager for French

Location:

London, UK

Linguistic Field(s):

   - Phonetics/Phonology
   - Semantics
   - Discourse Analysis

Job description:

The Speech Team at Google builds technologies to turn spoken input into
machine understandable format, or written text into spoken output. Our
technology is used to enable voice-based interactions in products like
Google Now, Voice Search, Dictation, Speech-to-Speech Translation,
Google Glass, and more.

As a Linguistic Project Manager and a native-level speaker of French,
you will oversee and manage all work related to achieving high data
quality for speech projects in your own language.

You will be part of a team based in London, managing a team of Data
Evaluators and working on a number of projects towards Speech research:
ASR, TTS, and NLP.

This includes:

   - training, managing and overseeing the work of your team
   - creating verbalisation rules, such as expanding URLs, email
     addresses, numbers
   - propose new projects to fulfill research needs for spoken languages
     around the world
   - creating annotation conventions
   - evaluating data quality
   - providing expertise on pronunciation and phonotactics
   - working with QA tools according to given guidelines and using
     in-house tools


Job requirements:

   - native-level speaker of French (with good command of the standard
     dialect) and fluent in English
   - must have attended elementary school in the country where the
     language is spoken
   - keen ear for phonetic nuances and attention to detail; knowledge of
     the language’s phonology
   - ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; should have an
     interest in current speech, mobile and online technology
   - excellent oral and written communication skills
   - good organizational skills
   - previous project management and people management experience
   - previous experience with speech/NLP-related projects a plus
   - advanced degree in Linguistics preferred; experience with
     Computational Linguistics a plus
   - also a plus: proficiency with HTML, XML, and some programming
     language; previous experience working in a Linux environment

Project duration: 6-11 months (with potential for extension)

**This is not a permanent position but a contract position.**

For immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter in
English (PDF format preferred) with "Speech Linguistic Project Manager
[French]" in the subject line.

Email Address for applications: DataOpsMan at gmail.com

Contact information: Ara Kim
Closing date: open until filled

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 18:00:29 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 19:00:29 +0100
Subject: Appel: Prague Stringology Conference 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.190029.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 08:05:54 +0100 (CET)
From: Jan.Holub at fit.cvut.cz
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------------------------------------------------------------------------

                   Prague Stringology Conference 2014

               19th event of the Prague Stringology Club

                      http://www.stringology.org

                           Call for Papers

              Prague, Czech Republic, September 1-3, 2014

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* New: indexed by Scopus and Thomson Reuters

PSC 2014 is the 19th event of the Prague Stringology Club. It is an
international conference focusing on stringology and related areas. It
is organized annually by the Prague Stringology Club, a research group
in the Department of Theoretical Computer Science at the Faculty of
Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague. The
proceedings of recent conferences are indexed in Thomson Reuters, Scopus
and DBLP.



TOPICS:

Stringology is a part of algorithmic research that deals with the
processing of text strings. It has existed for at least thirty years and
developed into a respected subfield of its own. The last twenty years
have produced an explosion of new results. This progress is due in part
to the human genome effort, an area to which string algorithms make
important contributions. String processing extends into tree processing
that is called Arbology. The topics of the conference include but are
not limited to:

  * algorithms for pattern matching in strings, images and trees
  * data structures (automata, trees etc.) for pattern matching
    in strings, images and trees
  * coding and data compression
  * bioinformatics
  * information retrieval
  * string processing algorithms in databases
  * searching for regularities
  * natural language processing



INVITED TALK:

  * To be announced



SUBMISSION:

Authors are cordially invited to submit their full papers (PDF format,
up to 15 pages, A4 page format) by May 13, 2014. The paper should start
with the title, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, and
a one-paragraph summary of the results and ideas. The paper should be
submitted via submission server
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psc20140).

For their final version the papers are required to be prepared using the
LaTeX style available at http://www.stringology.org/pscproc2 which has
an interface compatible to the standard LNCS style.



IMPORTANT DATES:

  * Submission of Papers: May 13, 2014
  * Notification of Acceptance: June 27, 2014
  * Early Registration: July 7, 2014
  * Final Version Due: July 7, 2014



PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

  * A. Amir, Bar Ilan University, Israel
  * G. Andrejkova, P. J. Safarik University, Slovakia
  * M. Crochemore, University of Marne-la-Vallee, France,
           and King's College London, UK 
  * S. Faro, University of Catania, Italy
  * F. Franek, McMaster University, Canada
  * J. Holub (chair), Czech Technical University in Prague,
           Czech Republic
  * C. S. Iliopoulos, King's College London, UK
  * S. Inenaga, Kyushu University, Japan
  * S. T. Klein, Bar Ilan University, Israel
  * T. Lecroq (chair), University of Rouen, France
  * B. Melichar (honorary chair), Czech Technical University in Prague,
           Czech Republic
  * Y. Pinzon, National University of Colombia, Colombia
  * M.-F. Sagot, Inria Rhone-Alpes, France
  * W. F. Smyth, McMaster University, Canada, and 
           Curtin University of Technology, Australia
  * B. W. Watson, FASTAR Group (Stellenbosch University), South Africa
  * J. Zdarek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

  * M. Balik (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague,
           Czech Republic
  * J. Holub (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague,
           Czech Republic
  * J. Janousek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  * B. Melichar, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  * L. Vagner, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  * J. Zdarek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic



HISTORY:

PSC 2014 was preceded by Prague Stringology Workshops in 1996-2000 and
by Prague Stringology Conferences in 2001-2006, 2008-2013. Each year
proceedings are prepared for the conference. They are published by Czech
Technical University in Prague and are also available from the PSC web
pages. Selected papers from the later workshops were also published in a
special issue of the journal Kybernetika. Selected papers from the
2002-2006, 2008 conferences were then published in the Nordic Journal of
Computing, Journal of Automata, Languages, and Combinatorics,
International Journal of Foundations in Computer Science, and Discrete
Applied Mathematics.



LOCATION & PUBLICATION:

PSC 2014 will be held at the Department of Theoretical Computer Science
the Czech Technical University in Prague on September 1-3, 2014.  (The
precise location will be announced later.) The working language is
English. As usual, accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings
published by the Czech Technical University in Prague and distributed at
the conference. After further refereeing, selected papers will then be
published in an international journal.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 21:03:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 22:03:09 +0100
Subject: Conf: Colloque A l'articulation du lexique,
 de la grammaire et du discours, 3 au 5 avril 2014, Paris 3
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.220309.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:30:10 +0000
From: Gaétane Dostie <Gaetane.Dostie at USherbrooke.ca>
Message-ID: <CF3B80D8.C630%Gaetane.Dostie at USherbrooke.ca>
X-url: http://www.univ-paris3.fr/a-l-articulation-du-lexique-de-la-grammaire-et-du


Bonjour, 

Le programme du colloque "À l'articulation du lexique, de la grammaire
et du discours : marqueurs grammaticaux et marqueurs discursifs" qui se
tiendra à l'Université Paris 3 du 3 au 5 avril 2014 est maintenant en
ligne :
http://www.univ-paris3.fr/a-l-articulation-du-lexique-de-la-grammaire-et-du
-discours-marqueurs-grammaticaux-et-marqueurs-discursifs-255785.kjsp?RH=123
3068248160

La fiche d'inscription, à compléter avant le 15 mars, est également
disponible sur le site du colloque.

Bien cordialement,

Florence Lefeuvre (U. Paris 3)
Gaétane Dostie (U. de Sherbrooke)



*******
Programme 

Colloque international "À l’articulation du lexique, de la grammaire et
du discours : marqueurs grammaticaux et marqueurs discursifs"
3 au 5 avril 2014

Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne nouvelle
Équipe d’accueil : Clesthia (Syled EA 2290)
Salles   
Jeudi : Claude Simon, Maison de la Recherche, 4 rue des Irlandais
Vendredi et samedi : Las Vergnas, Censier, 13 rue de Santeuil, 3e étage


Jeudi le 3 avril 2014

Accueil 
8 h 30 – 9 h

Mot de bienvenue
9 h – 9 h 15
Gabriella Parussa, directrice de l’équipe Clesthia, Université Paris 3 –
Sorbonne nouvelle

Présidence : Catherine Schnedecker, LILPA, EA 1339, Université de
Strasbourg 

9 h 15 – 10 h 15
Conférencière invitée	Mary-Annik Morel, Paris 3 – Sorbonne nouvelle
Titre : « Réexamen des ligateurs et des ponctuants à la lumière des
indices intonatifs et posturo-mimico-gestuels : intonation / regard /
texte / mains (dialogue oral spontané en français) »
 
10 h 15 – 10 h 45	Anne Le Draoulec et Andrée Borillo
CLLE-ERSS (UMR5263), CNRS & Université Toulouse-Le Mirail
Titre : « "Après" sur les traces de "maintenant" dans le rôle de
marqueur pragmatique »

Pause
10 h 45 – 11 h

11 h – 11 h 30	Didier Bottineau, CNRS, UMR 7114 MoDyCo,
 Université Paris
Ouest (Nanterre)
Danh Thành Do-Hurinville, INALCO
Titre : « Le marqueur discursif "rapport à" par rapport à "rapport" et
"par rapport à", échelle de grammaticalisation et pragmaticalisation »

11 h 30 – 12 h	Gaétane Dostie, CATIFQ, Université de Sherbrooke
Titre : « De la liberté d’association des mots lexicaux et grammaticaux
au quasi-figement. La locution polycatégorielle et polysémique "c’est
ça" »

12 h – 12 h 30	Gilles Corminboeuf, Fonds national de la recherche suisse
et Université de Neuchâtel
Titre : « "Comme ça", marqueur d’approximation »

Déjeuner 
12 h 30  – 14 h

Présidence : Andrée Borillo CLLE-ERSS (UMR5263), CNRS & Université
Toulouse-Le Mirail

14 h – 14 h 30	Florence Lefeuvre, Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris 3, CLESTIA
Titre : « Une chose est sûre : un emploi de "chose" en cataphore
résomptive »

14 h 30 – 15 h	Géraldine Zumwald Küster, Université de Fribourg
Titre : « Les différents emplois de "c’est que" suivi d’une proposition »

15 h – 15 h 30	Myriam Bras, CLLE-ERSS, UMR 5263, CNRS et Université de
Toulouse 2-Le Mirail, Université de Toulouse
Catherine Schnedecker, LILPA, EA 1339, Université de Strasbourg
Titre : « "Dans un (premier+second+nième) temps" vs "en
(premier+second+nième) lieu" : variations diachroniques »

Pause 
15 h 30 – 15 h 45  

15 h 45 – 16 h 15	Pascal Montchaud, Université de Neuchâtel
Titre : « "D’une part", "d’autre part", "d’un côté" et "de l’autre"
sont-ils des marqueurs discursifs ? »

6 h 15  – 16 h 45	Maïté Dupont, Université catholique de Louvain
Titre : « L'environnement collocationnel de "mais" : approche
diaphasique »

16 h 45 – 17 h 15	Mongi Kahloul, Institut Supérieur des Langues
(Gabès, Tunisie) et UMR 5191 "ICAR" (CNRS & ENS/Lyon2)
Titre : « "Décidément" : anaphoricité, intensité et attitude énonciative »


Vendredi le 4 avril 2014

Présidence : Catherine Collin, Université de Nantes

9 h 15 – 10 h 15
Conférencière invitée	Liesbeth Degand, Université catholique de Louvain
Titre : « Rôle de la position dans la définition des marqueurs discursifs »

10 h 15 – 10 h 45	 Belinda Lavieu-Gwozdz EA4384, CIRCEFT-ESCOL,
Université Paris Est-Créteil
Céline Vaguer, Laboratoire CLLE-ERSS (CNRS UMR 5263), Université de
Toulouse II - Le Mirail
Titre : « Émergence d'un marqueur discursif : "en même temps" »

10 h 45 – 11 h 15	Élisabeth Richard et Griselda Drouet, LIDILE
(EA3874), Université Rennes 2
Titre : « "En même temps" : un marqueur double ? De la simultanéité
temporelle à la contradiction énonciative »

Pause
11 h 15 – 11 h 30

11 h 30 – 12 h	Philippe Planchon, Laboratoire FORELL, Université de
Poitiers
Titre « Modalités d'intégration des opérations prédicatives et
énonciatives dans la caractérisation des marqueurs dérivés du morphème
"accord" »

12 h – 12 h 30	Guillaume Ciry, Laboratoire CALHISTE, Université de
Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambrésis
Titre : « Pour une analyse multidimensionnelle du marqueur discursif "Si
vous voulez" et de ses variantes en français actuel »

Déjeuner
12 h 30 – 14 h

Présidence : Elisabeth Richard, Université Rennes 2

14 h  – 14 h 30	Céline Corteel, EA 4521 GRAMMATICA, Université d’Artois
Titre : « Le rôle de "même" dans les anaphores démonstratives en “Ce
même N” »

14 h 30 – 15 h	Estelle Moline, Université de Caen – Basse-Normandie
Titre : « "Tu fais n’importe quoi, avec n’importe qui, n’importe quand,
n’importe comment, et tu veux que ce soit de la belle ouvrage. N’importe
comment" : assertion, concession, complémentation verbale et marquage
discursif » 

15 h  – 15 h 30 Cristina Petraş, Université Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iaşi
Titre : « Des classifieurs / enclosures aux marqueurs d’exemplification /
approximation : "genre", "style", "type" en français hexagonal et "manière
de" en français acadien »

Pause
15 h 30 – 15 h 45

15 h 45  – 16 h 45
Conférencier invité Pierre Larrivée, Université de Caen – Basse-Normandie
Titre : « Entre grammaire et discours : variation synchronique, registre,
pragmatique et l’urgente documentation du vernaculaire »

Dîner du colloque
Lieu à préciser
20 h



Samedi le 5 avril 2014

Présidence : Claus D. Pusch, Albert-Ludwigs Universität
Fribourg-en-Brisgau

9 h 15 – 9 h 45	Hélène Vassiliadou, UR 1339, LiLPa / Scolia, Université de
Strasbourg

Titre : « "C’est-à-dire (que)" : des emplois propositionnels aux emplois
discursifs »

9 h 45  – 10 h 15   Laurence Rouanne, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Titre : « "C’est dire" : un marqueur discursif ? »

10 h 15 – 10 h 45
Laure Lansari, CLILLAC-ARP EA 3967, Université Paris Diderot
Titre : « "J’allais dire" : de la périphrase verbale au marqueur
discursif »

Pause 
10 h 45 – 11 h

11 h – 11 h 30 	Sonia Gómez-Jordana, Université Complutense de Madrid
Titre : « Les traces grammaticales dans les marqueurs discursifs : "‘y a
comme qui dirait un problème" »

11 h 30  – 12 h 	Evelyne Saunier, Université Paris Descartes
Titre : « "Au fait", "en fait", "de fait" : trois types de repérage
discursif »

12 h – 12 h 30	Denis Paillard, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle
(UMR 7110), Université Paris Diderot
Titre : « Polycatégorialité et sémantique discursive »

Déjeuner
12 h 30 – 14 h

Présidence : Estelle Moline, Université de Caen – Basse-Normandie

14 h – 14 h 30 	Catherine Collin, Laboratoire linguistique de Nantes
LLING EA 3827, Université de Nantes
Titre : « Marqueurs et repérage : l'ailleurs discursif  "Et partout
ailleurs, d'ailleurs" »

14 h 30 – 15 h	Fanny Lafontaine, Laboratoire Parole et Langage,
Université de Provence
Titre : « "Alors que ": mot de grammaire et mot de discours »

15 h  – 15 h 30	Claus D. Pusch, Albert-Ludwigs Universität
Fribourg-en-Brisgau
Titre : « Les usages discursifs de "bien que" en français parlé »

Pause
15 h 30 – 15 h 45

15 h 45– 16 h 45
Conférencière invitée	Jeanne-Marie Debaisieux, Université Paris 3 –
Sorbonne Nouvelle 
Titre : « Les conjonctions en emploi discursif : grammaticalisation ou
polyfonctionnalité structurelle »

Mot de clôture 
16 h 45

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 17:59:07 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:59:07 +0100
Subject: Appel: Call for Demos, NLDB'2014, Montpellier, France
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.185907.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 14:02:20 +0100
From: Mathieu Roche <Mathieu.Roche at lirmm.fr>
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X-url: http://www.nldb.org/

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

 2nd Call for Demos - NLDB'2014

 18-20 June 2014 - Montpellier, France

 http://www.nldb.org/

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

 The 19th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to
 Information Systems (NLDB'2014) invites submissions of demonstrations
 of state-of-the-art research or industrial prototypes related to all
 aspects of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems
 field.

 Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
 - Applications of NLP in Information Systems
 - Social Media and Web Data
 - Big Data and Natural Language
 - Semantic Web and Open Linked Data
 - Question Answering (QA)
 - Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing
 - Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling
 - NLP Applications (Opinion Mining, Information Extraction, etc.)

 Demo submissions will be handled online via the easychair conference
 management system:
 https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2014demonstratio

 Demonstration paper submissions should have 4 pages (LNCS format).
 Developers should outline the design of their system and provide
 details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, originality,
 and relevance to NLP in Information Systems.

 The accepted papers for demos will be included in the conference
 proceedings, to be published by Springer Verlag in the "Lecture Notes
 in Computer Science" (LNCS) Series. The demos will be presented in a
 special demonstration session. At least one of the demo submitters must
 register for the conference, and perform the demo on site.

 Invited speakers of NLDB'2014:
 - Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK
 - Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

 Important Dates:
 - Demo submission deadline (firm): March 13, 2014
 - Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2014
 - Camera-ready paper due: April 7, 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 20:52:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:52:31 +0100
Subject: Job: Recrutement d'un(e) MCF en Humanites numeriques,
 Universite de Lille 3
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.215231.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:58:10 +0100
From: Stéphane Chaudiron
Message-ID: <5314B4A2.9040202 at univ-lille3.fr>
X-url: http://geriico.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/


L'université de Lille 3 (laboratoire GERiiCO) recrute un(e) MCF sur le
profil "Sciences de l'information et du document : Humanités
numériques".

Profil recherche :

Le laboratoire GERiiCO souhaite renforcer sa dynamique dans le champ des
humanités numériques. Justifiant d'une formation en sciences de
l'information et du document, le ou la candidat(e) devra démontrer de
solides compétences ainsi qu'une réelle expérience de recherche dans au
moins un des domaines portant sur les transformations (et la continuité)
apportées par la culture numérique : le rôle des systèmes d'organisation
des connaissances, les reconfigurations du document liés à la
numérisation et à la dématérialisation, la communication scientifique.

Les actions de recherche s'inscrivant de plus en plus dans un contexte
international, la pratique de l'anglais est fortement appréciée.

Le profil complet du poste est accessible sur Galaxie.

Les candidat(e)s intéressé(e)s peuvent contacter Stéphane Chaudiron,
directeur du laboratoire GERiiCO, stephane.chaudiron at univ-lille3.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 18:08:37 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 19:08:37 +0100
Subject: Appel: IDEAS 2014, Web and Text Intelligence Track
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.190837.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:21:24 -0000
From: "Ricardo Campos" <ricardo.campos at inescporto.pt>
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----Apologies for cross-posting---


18th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS
2014)

http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas14/ideas14.php

07-09 July 2014, Porto, Portugal

-----Call for papers ---------

(Web and Text Intelligence Track):
http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas14/webtext.php

Web and text intelligence are related areas that have been used to
improve human computer interaction in general and in particular to
explore and analyze information available on the Internet. Both areas
benefit from knowledge, concepts and techniques from artificial
intelligence, statistics, linguistic, graph theory, among other
fields. Web and Text Mining are hot application areas for AI and source
for inspiration for new AI methods and algorithms. The growing of social
networks and Web site interactivity demands more powerful representation
for Web and its dynamics, such as Graphs and Complex Networks. Complex
Network formalisms are being applied not only for the Web but to
approach many other complex phenomena studied in AI. Known developments
are self adaptive web sites, usage monitoring, web site personalization,
social network analyses, community detection, automatic Web site
organization, information retrieval, information extraction, large
document collection mining and exploration, visualization, usability,
among others.

This special track will include relevant and novel work on methods and
theories (and their applications) that help us understand the Web and
how to build automatic tools for better exploiting its complex world,
including potentially useful techniques for exploring textual sources
and other kinds of contents.

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

- Web and text mining
- Visual Web mining
- Link mining
- Web usability
- Web automation and adaptation
- Web content mining
- Multimedia Web mining
- Recommender systems for the Web
- Focused crawling
- Community detection
- Social network mining and analysis
- Graph mining
- Complex networks
- Information Retrieval
- Information Extraction
- Ontologies in Text Mining
- Document and Text Classification
- Visual Text Mining

Important Dates:
--------------------------

- March 24, 2014: Papers submission deadline
- May 19, 2014: Notification of acceptance
- June 9, 2014: Camera-ready deadline

Proceedings:
--------------------------

The conference proceedings will be published by ACM; the ISBN assigned
by ACM to IDEAS14 is: 978-1-4503-2627-8

Organizing:
--------------------------

- Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, ISEP
- Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, ISEC
- Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

General Chair:
--------------------------

- Jorge Bernardino, CISUC-ISEC, Coimbra, Portugal

Program Co-Chairs 
--------------------------

- Ana Almeida, ISEP, Porto, Portugal
- Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University, Canada

Publicity Chair
--------------------------

- Elsa Ferreira Gomes, ISEP, Porto, Portugal

Track Organizing Committee:
--------------------------

- Alípio Jorge, U. Porto, Portugal
- Alneu de Andrade Lopes, ICMC-USP, Brazil
- Ricardo Prudêncio, UPFE, Brazil
- Nuno Escudeiro, ISEP-IPP, Portugal
- Ricardo Campos, I.P. Tomar, INESC TEC, Portugal
- Dimiter Dimitrov, Bulgaria
- Giorgos Papadourakis, Greece
- Helmut Dispert, Germany
- Tatjana Welzer, Slovenia
- Cesar Ferri, Spain,
- Pavel Vorobkalov, Russian Federation

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 20:54:33 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:54:33 +0100
Subject: Appel: Rules and Human Language Technology,
 RuleML 2014 Special Track
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.215433.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 12:30:50 +0100
From: Lévy Francois <francois.levy at lipn.univ-paris13.fr>
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Call for Papers: Rules and Human Language Technology

RuleML 2014 Special Track: Rules and Human Language Technology

(Whole RuleML call on http://ruleml2014.vse.cz/
rules-and-human-language-technology )
(collocated with Ecai 2014 : http://www.ecai2014.org/ruleml/ )

Over the last decade, there has been enormous growth in open, web-based
distribution of textual material from business, legal, and government
communities concerning constructs such as contracts, business processes,
legal cases, regulations, policies, legislation, health services, and
citizen information sources. Unstructured or semi-structured textual
material makes up a large portion of what is now called Big Data. In
addition, there have been dramatic improvements in the effectiveness and
accuracy of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and, more broadly, Human
Language Technologies (HLT), accompanied by a significant expansion of
the HLT community itself. In parallel, there have been substantial
developments in machine-readable, knowledge-based semantic
representations. For instance, a recent RuleML-OASIS collaboration led
to LegalRuleML, which bridges between legal sources and formal rules.

Nevertheless, there is a substantial knowledge-acquisition bottleneck in
using HLT to translate from the textual content of Big Data to
machine-readable, knowledge-based semantic representations (and from
formal representations back to text). Consequently, the research and
industrial communities cannot make full use of the abundance of
information available in Big Data to scale up such representations. By
the same token, how the representations can be applied is limited. While
there have been some efforts to address the bottleneck (e.g.  controlled
languages such as Executable English, SBVR, or ACE) and advanced parsers
with semantic translation (e.g. C&C/Boxer), much more remains to be
done. The Special Track is intended to focus attention on the issues,
provide an outlet for current work, and be a forum for the exchange of
ideas.

The Special Track is relevant to a range of communities (e.g., in
Business, Law, and Government), who are concerned with translating
between human language and formal rules. For example, in the BRMS
community, there is growing interest in acquiring and maintaining rules
extracted from textual documents such as contracts, public or internal
regulations of corporations, and policy documents. Similarly, the
requirements engineering community is interested in acquiring
requirements from texts and generating rules to check the software
behavior. The concerns of the Special Track also bear on work in
decision support and process modeling communities.

Papers of interest in the Special Track will (typically) relate to the
translation of texts that are descriptive (e.g., statements of facts and
rules on facts) or prescriptive (e.g., statements of obligations or
prohibitions in laws, regulations, or policies) to or from semantic
representations.

Topics

  * Natural language interfaces for rule languages, editors, engines,
    and use cases
  * Development of language resources, e.g. terminologies, thesauri,
    ontologies, and corpora
  * Ontologies and vocabularies for business rules
  * Information retrieval and extraction from textual corpora
  * Semantic annotation of textual corpora
  * Multilingual aspects of processing texts
  * Rule-mining techniques and applications
  * Close analysis of the alignment between linguistic expressions and
    rule formalisms.
  * Automatic Classification of documents in corpora
  * Parsing of natural language expressions into machine-readable,
    knowledge-based semantic representations
  * Generation of natural language from those representations
  * Translatability of the diverse human languages to formal rules
  * Controlled languages (e.g., Executable English, ACE, SBVR, CLCE,
    RECON) as sources, targets, or intermediaries for rule acquisition
    grounded in business, legal, or government textual corpora
  * Logical formalisms for human language representation (e.g.,
    Discourse Representation Structures, the feature structures of
    phrase structure grammars, and the defeasible deontic logic of
    LegalRuleML)
  * Epistemological and computational properties of HLT target
    formalisms
  * Metrics for capturing the correspondence between text and rules
    (e.g., notions of 'isomorphism' between legal text and rules)
  * The relationship between semantic representation and interpretation.

Organisers

Francois Levy (LIPN, University of Paris, France) and Adam Wyner
(University of Aberdeen, UK)

Important Dates for RuleML (including the special tracks)

Abstract submission: March 31, 2014
Paper submission:    April 8, 2014
Notification:        May 20, 2014
Camera ready:        June 6, 2014
RuleML 2014 dates:   August 18-20, 2014

Submission guidelines

Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be
submitted at EasyChair for the special track as:

  * Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
  * Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)

Please upload all submissions in LNCS format. To ensure high quality,
submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based
on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of
exposition. Accepted papers will be published in book form in the
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series with the RuleML
main track proceedings.

Program Committee

  * Johan Bos (University of Groningen, NL)
  * Jack Conrad (Thomson Reuters, USA)
  * Enrico Francesconi (ITTIG-CNR, Florence, Italy)
  * Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
  * Aldo Gangemi (LIPN, Univ. Paris 13, France)
  * Matthias Grabmair (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
  * Tobias Kuhn (Yale University, USA)
  * Yue Ma (TCS, TU-Dresden, Germany)
  * Leora Morgenstern (SAIC, Arlington, Va, USA)
  * Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, Univ. Paris 13, France)
  * Wim Peters (University of Sheffield, UK)
  * Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
  * John Sowa (VivoMind Intelligence Inc., Rockville, MD. USA)
  * Daniela Tiscornia (National Research Council, Italy)
  * Giulia Venturi (ILC-CNR, Italy)
  * Amal Zouaq (DMCS, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada)
  * Paul Fodor (Stony Brook University, USA)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 20:57:46 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:57:46 +0100
Subject: Appel: SEPLN 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.215746.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 13:37:00 +0100
From: Horacio Saggion <horacio.saggion at upf.edu>
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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - XXX CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL
LANGUAG PROCESSING (SEPLN)


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


The XXX edition of the annual Conference of the Spanish Society for
Natural Language Processing will be held during the 17th, 18th, and 19th
of September 2014 at Universitat de Girona.

The main objective of the meeting is to present the latest research and
development in Natural Language Processing (NLP) carried out by the
scientific community and the industrial sector. The conference also
seeks to serve as a bridge between research and industry as well as a
forum for sharing new projects in this field.

We encourage the submission of workshops proposals, small group meetings
to bring together researchers, students and/or professionals to share
information, experience and skills on technological or professional
advances that suggest promising directions for future research.

Proposals for workshops should be sent to Horacio Saggion (
horacio.saggion at upf.edu) , indicating the following information:

- Workshop title.

- Name, affiliation, address, e-mail and phone number of workshop
  responsible.

- Name, affiliation and e-mail of other co-organizers, if any.

- Tentative program committee members

- Summary of the workshop, including objectives, topics, justification,
methodology, minimum and maximum number of participants.

- Special audio-visual, computer or hall disposition requirements.

- Indicate if the workshops you are proposing have been run before,
  where, and how many people attended.

NOTE: All aspects of scientific organization of the workshops
(scientific committee, paper selection, invited speakers, etc.) are the
sole responsibility of workshop organizers.

The SEPLN scientific Committee will make the final decision regarding
acceptance of all workshops.

Important Dates:

Proposal Submission: 24th March 2014

Workshop Acceptance/Rejection: 31st  March 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 20:58:57 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:58:57 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MdC Informatique,  Langage / Recherche et extraction,
 LIA (UAPV)
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.215857.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:15:09 +0100
From: Marc El-Beze <marc.elbeze at univ-avignon.fr>
Message-ID: <5315D1DD.9010108 at univ-avignon.fr>
X-url: http://www.univ-avignon.fr/fr/pratique/ressources-humaines/recrutement-et-concours.html

Spécialité Langage / Recherche et extraction d'information

PROFIL ENSEIGNEMENT

Le candidat devra être capable d'assurer son service d'enseignement en
Licence ou en Master Informatique au CERI (Centre d'Enseignement et de
Recherche en Informatique) de l'Université d'Avignon. Par ailleurs, il
sera conduit très rapidement à prendre des responsabilités
administratives dans le domaine de l'enseignement, comme notamment des
responsabilités d'Unités d'Enseignement dans un premier temps, puis des
responsabilités en tant que responsable d'année de formation. Un
investissement fort dans le pilotage et l'animation de la structure
d'enseignement est également attendu, aussi bien au niveau Licence que
Master, internes au CER, en collaboration ou avec d'autres composantes
de l'Université, d'autres Universités / Ecoles, aux niveaux national et
international. Plus particulièrement, le candidat pourra être amené très
rapidement à prendre en charge des enseignements de niveau Master,
orientés industrie et R&D, liés par exemple à l'ingénierie des systèmes
d'information, l'ingénierie du document et de l'information (et plus
particulièrement la gestion électronique de documents (GED)), la fouille
de données (Data et Text Mining) ou encore aux systèmes et applications
embarqués.

Contacts : Corinne Fredouille corinne.fredouille at univ-avignon.fr,
Directrice des études du CERI Fabrice Lefèvre
fabrice.lefevre at univ-avignon.fr, Directeur du CERI

« L'Université d'Avignon a pour politique de favoriser l'épanouissement
scientifique des maîtres de conférences « primo-recruté » en réduisant
leur service d'enseignement à 150h TD la première année »

PROFIL RECHERCHE Recherche et Extraction d'information

Le maître de conférences recruté intégrera la thématique Langage du LIA
(Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon), notamment en contribuant à ses
activités en Recherche et Extraction d'Information. Seront privilégiés
les sujets centraux de cette thématique, en particulier le traitement
automatique du langage écrit et oral, la fouille de texte, la recherche
et l'extraction de contenus sémantiques, l'indexation et
l'enrichissement de larges volumes d'informations extraites du web
(données ouvertes, wikipedia, presse, réseaux sociaux, forums ou blogs,
collections multimédia...),, avec des approches indépendantes de la
langue et du domaine, faisant appel à des méthodes numériques et à
l'exploitation de ressources linguistiques (notamment pour la détection
d'opinions, le résumé automatique de documents, les systèmes de
recommandation fondés sur le contenu, les systèmes de
questions-réponses...). Les candidats devront montrer leur capacité à
formaliser des problèmes sous-jacents et à proposer des solutions
originales, applicables à différents objets linguistiques : documents
textuels structurés et non structurés, dialogues oraux ou écrits,
parole, audio, multimédia... Un intérêt particulier sera accordé à la
capacité de s'engager dans des campagnes d'évaluations nationales ou
internationales, éventuellement de participer à leur organisation. Enfin
l'aptitude à s'investir dans les projets pluri-disciplinaires de la
Fédération de Recherche (FR) Agorantic, centrée sur les sciences du Web,
sera fortement appréciée. Dans ce cadre, les critères recherche qui
seront employés pour évaluer les candidatures sont : - publications au
meilleur niveau - rayonnement international et mobilité - capacité à
s'investir dans une activité contractuelle - animation de la communauté
scientifique - adéquation aux compétences scientifiques et
technologiques spécifiques citées dans le profil

Contacts : Georges Linares georges.linares at uiv-avignon.fr - Directeur du 
LIA Fabrice Lefèvre fabrice.lefevre at univ-avignon.fr - Directeur du CERI

AUTRES INFORMATIONS

Aucune dérogation à l'obligation de résidence ne sera accordée. Poste 
également ouvert aux personnes bénéficiant de la reconnaissance de la 
qualité de travailleur handicapé. Pour faciliter la lecture du document, 
le masculin générique se réfère aussi bien aux femmes qu'aux hommes.

Le dossier de candidature doit être transmis : 1) dématérialisé à 
l'adresse électronique suivante : recrut27mcf0284 at univ-avignon.fr 
(rappeler le n° du poste dans l'objet de votre courriel) 2) 1 seul 
exemplaire en version « papier », à l'adresse suivante :

Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse DRH

Case 4 - Recrutement Enseignants-Chercheurs

74, rue Louis Pasteur -- 84029 AVIGNON cedex 1

(le n° du poste doit être rappelé sur l'enveloppe)

Clôture des candidatures le mardi 1er avril 2014 -- Tout dossier,
électronique ou papier, reçu après cette date sera déclaré irrecevable.
Toutes les informations relatives à cette campagne sont disponibles sur
le site de l'université à l'adresse suivante :
http://www.univ-avignon.fr/fr/pratique/ressources-humaines/recrutement-et-concours.html


Pour tout renseignement d'ordre administratif sur la constitution de 
votre dossier, vous pouvez contacter la Direction des Ressources Humaines :

Muriel Maubré -- 04 90 16 25 36 -- muriel.maubre at univ-avignon.fr 

Delphine Aumelas -- 04 90 16 25 38 -- delphine.aumelas at univ-avignon.fr

UNIVERSITE D'AVIGNON Référence GALAXIE : 4043

Numéro dans le SI local : 0284 Référence GESUP :

Corps : Maître de conférences Section 1 : 27-Informatique

Profil : Informatique - Spécialité langage/recherche et extraction 
d'information

Implantation du poste : 0840685N - UNIVERSITE D'AVIGNON

Localisation : AVIGNON CAMPUS AGROPARC

Code postal de la localisation : 84000

Etat du poste : Vacant

Adresse d'envoi du dossier :

DRH - CASE 4 -
74 RUE LOUIS PASTEUR 84029 - AVIGNON CEDEX 1

Contact administratif : N° de téléphone : 04 90 16 25 36, 04 90 16 25 38

N° de Fax : 04 90 16 25 50

Email : drh at univ-avignon.fr

MURIEL MAUBRE RESPONSABLE BUREAU ENSEIGNANTS TITU

Date de prise de fonction : 01/09/2014

Enseignements : Composante ou UFR : Référence UFR : UFR ip STS (SCIENCES
TECHNOLOGIES ET SANTE Profil recherche :

Laboratoire: EA4128 - LABORATOIRE D'INFORMATIQUE D'AVIGNON - LIA

Dossier Papier OUI Dossier numérique physique (CD,DVD, clé USB) NON

Dossier transmis par courrier électronique OUI

e-mail gestionnaire recrut27mcf0284 at univ-avignon.fr 
<mailto:recrut27mcf0284 at univ-avignon.fr>

N° POSTE : 0284 CORPS ACTUEL (MCF ou PR) :

MCF CORPS DEMANDE A LA PUBLICATION (MCF ou PR) : MCF SECTION CNU 
DEMANDEE A LA PUBLICATION : 27ème section

ARTICLE DE REFERENCE : 26 I -- 1° ETAT DU POSTE : Vacant

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 18:02:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 19:02:06 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden,
 26=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9330_?=April 2014
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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:28:33 +0100
From: peter ljunglöf <peter.ljunglof at heatherleaf.se>
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

EACL 2014
The 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
Gothenburg, Sweden
26–30 April 2014
http://eacl2014.org/


The 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics covers research in all aspects of automated
natural language processing, including but not limited to the following
areas:

- computational and cognitive models of language acquisition and
  language processing 
- information retrieval and question answering
- generation and summarization
- language resources and evaluation
- machine learning methods and algorithms for natural language
  processing
- machine translation and multilingual systems
- phonetics, phonology, morphology, word segmentation, tagging, and
  chunking
- pragmatics, discourse, and dialogue
- semantics, textual entailment
- social media, sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- spoken language processing and language modeling
- syntax, parsing, grammar formalisms, and grammar induction
- text mining and natural language processing applications

Apart from regular paper sessions and poster sessions, EACL 2014 will
contain workshops, tutorials, invited speakers and several social
events.


REGISTRATION

EACL 2014 registration is open! All information ca be found at the
following web page:

    http://eacl2014.org/registration

Early registration deadline is 3 March 2014.
Late registration deadline is 24 April 2014.
Online registration will not be available after 24 April, you can
however register on-site at the conference.


EACL WORKSHOPS

The following workshops will be held during 26–27 April. 

- CAtoCL: Workshop on Computational Approaches to Causality in Language
- CLFL: 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature
- CVSC: 2nd Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their
  Compositionality
- CogACLL: Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language
  Learning
- DM: Dialogue in Motion
- HaCaT: Workshop on Humans and Computer-assisted Translation
- HyTra: 3rd Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation
- LASM: 5th Workshop on Language Analysis for Social Media
- LaTeCH: 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage,
  Social Sciences, and Humanities
- Louhi: 5th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and
  Information Analysis
- MWE: 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions
- PITR: 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for
  Target Reader Populations
- TTNLS: Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics
- WaC-9: 9th Web as Corpus workshop

For details, see: http://eacl2014.org/workshops


EACL TUTORIALS

The following workshops will be given during 26–27 April. 

- Computational modelling of metaphor, by Ekaterina Shutova and Tony
  Veale
- Natural language processing for social media, by Kalina Bontcheva and
  Leon Derczynski
- Recent advances in dependency parsing, by Ryan McDonald and Joakim
  Nivre
- Describing images in natural language, by Julia Hockenmaier
- Structured sparsity in natural language processing: Models, algorithms
- and applications, by André F. T. Martins, Mário A. T. Figueiredo, Noah
- A. Smith, and Dani Yogatama
- Building models to reveal how natural speech is represented in the
  brain, by Alexander Huth

For details, see: http://eacl2014.org/tutorials


INVITED SPEAKERS

During the main conference, 28–30 April, we will have the following
three invited speakers.

- Simon King, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Ulrike von Luxburg, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

For details, see: http://eacl2014.org/invited-speakers


MAIN PROGRAM

Apart from the above, the main program will contain regular paper
sessions, poster sessions, software demonstrations, as well as several
social events. For details, see http://eacl2014.org/program

A list of all accepted papers can be found here:
http://eacl2014.org/accepted-papers

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:41:48 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Analyse automatique de documents multimedias (Jean
 Carrive, INA), 18 mars 2014, INALCO, Paris
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:35:08 +0100
From: Mathieu Valette <mvalette at inalco.fr>
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L'Equipe de Recherche Textes, Informatique, Multilinguisme (ERTIM) de
l'INALCO a le plaisir de vous inviter à son prochain séminaire de
recherche :

Analyse automatique de documents multimédias
Jean Carrive, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel

Le séminaire aura lieu mardi 18 mars 2014, de 10h30 à 12h30 à l'INALCO
Recherche, 2 rue de Lille 75007 Paris (Salons d'honneur — escalier C,
deuxième étage).

Accès : Stations de métro Saint Germain-des-Prés (ligne 4), Rue du Bac
(ligne 12), Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre (ligne 1), Musée d'Orsay (RER
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:35:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:35:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: CIAA 2014, Extended deadline
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.213520.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 07:59:43 +0100 (CET)
From: Denis Maurel <denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr>
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* PAPER SUBMISSION EXTENDED March 16, 2014 * 
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S 


CIAA 2014—Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata 

The 19th International CIAA 2014 will take place in Giessen, Germany,
from July 30–August 2, 2014. The conference is organized by the Institut
für Informatik of the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. Special thanks
go to the invited speakers

Javier Esparza (Technische Universität München, Germany) 
Friedrich Otto (Universität Kassel, Germany) 
Giovanni Pighizzini (Università degli studi di Milano, Italy) 
Georgios Sirakoulis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece) 

for accepting our invitation to present their recent results at CIAA
2014.

Authors are invited to submit a paper (no more than 12 pages in LNCS
style) presenting original research concerning the topics of the
conference by

*** March 16, 2014 (extended deadline; strict). *** 

For the topics, the submission instructions, and further information, 
please see the website at 

http://www.informatik.uni-giessen.de/ciaa2014/ 

The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series. As in previous years, extended versions
of selected papers from the proceedings will appear in a special issue
of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:38:28 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:38:28 +0100
Subject: Conf: LREC 2014 Workshop, Language Technology Service Platforms,
 May 31, 2014, Reykjavik
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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:28:05 +0100
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[Apologies for multiple postings]

LREC 2014 Workshop Language Technology Service Platforms: Synergies, 
Standards, Sharing - May 31, 2014, Reykjavik
Contact: lrec-infra at lrec-conf.org

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Motivation and background
Increasingly, Human Language Technology (HLT) requires sophisticated
infrastructures to support research, development, innovation,
collaboration and deployment as services ready for production use. To
address this need, several supporting infrastructures have been
established over the past few years, and others are being built or
planned.  The LREC 2014 Workshop on Language Technology Service
Platforms brings together major infrastructural/coordination initiatives
from all over the world. The overall goal is to explore means by which
these and other infrastructure projects can best collaborate and
interoperate in order to avoid duplication of effort, fragmentation, and
above all, to facilitate the use and reuse of technologies and resources
distributed throughout the world.

Focus
Web services are an increasingly common means to provide access to
language technologies and resources. These services typically work in
combination with repositories of language resources and workflow
managers. This development brings with it its own set of issues in
relation to collaboration and interoperability, including:
interoperability of input to and output from language technologies 
deployed as web services;
means to provide services for evaluation/replicability of results and 
iterative development;
means to support multi-site collaborative work;
licensing and cataloguing of language technologies and resources;
sharing and access mechanisms to language technologies and resources;
quality assessment and sustainability of language technologies and 
resources.

Aims
This workshop aims to foster discussion on these (and related) issues in
order to arrive at a set of concrete plans for future collaboration and
cooperation as well as immediate next steps.
General discussions will focus on the following questions: How can the
various infrastructures collaborate, in both the near and long-term
future? What are the steps needed in order to share both language
technologies and resources? How can the projects and initiatives
(including not only those involved in the workshop, but also others)
join forces in order to eventually create a global infrastructure for
Human Language Technologies?

The goal is to leave the workshop with a resolution that 1. lists all 
active infrastructure and platform initiatives, 2. describes the 
consensus of all initiatives involved in the workshop, 3. outlines the 
requirements for collaboration and 4. proposes solutions.

Researchers and technologists interested in platforms, services, sharing
of language resources etc. are encouraged to participate in the workshop
in order to make sure that their voice is heard. As described above, the
consensus and outcome of the workshop will be put down in writing in a
short resolution document meant to be used by the whole community for
public relation and dissemination purposes, especially with regard to
discussions with journalists, administrators, politicians and funding
agencies.

Preliminary program plan
The first session will provide short introductions to the 
infrastructural/coordination initiatives involved in the organisation.
In order to outline some concrete next steps for the immediate future, 
there will be sessions devoted to surveying two to four currently 
implemented solutions to crucial problems, with an eye toward assessing 
and comparing the various solutions in order to determine immediate 
action items. These sessions will address topics such as:
interoperability and the use of standards, for example, syntax and 
semantics used to exchange information between web services and/or 
technologies that may not have been developed at the same site (i.e., 
that do not necessarily utilize the same formats, categories, etc.)
implemented means to provide evaluation/replicability and means to 
enable multi-site collaboration
licensing for data and tools shared over networks and services.

Contribute to an overview of the Language Resources and Technologies 
landscape!
In order to facilitate the discussion we ask workshop participants to
answer the following questions and to send their answers to the
organisers (see Contact mail below) at the beginning of May. A summary
of the responses will be provided at the workshop to inform and to focus
the discussion.

(1) Access -- How do you make information about your tools and/or 
    resources available to the world? How and where do you find
    information on tools and resources you would like to use?
(2) Obstacles to Data and Technology Exchange -- What do you see as the
    major obstacle(s) to the exchange of data between technologies?
(3) Data or Technology Gaps -- Are there tools, technologies or
    resources that do not exist at this time that are required to answer
    your research or development questions?
(4) Interoperability and Standards -- What syntax and semantics do you
    use to exchange information between web services and/or tools that
    may not have been developed at the same site (i.e., do not
    necessarily utilize the same formats, categories, etc.)?
(5) Evaluation -- What have you implemented to provide
    evaluation/replicability?
(6) Licensing -- How are you handling licensing for data shared over
    networks and services?
(7) Collaboration -- How would you propose to promote collaboration
    among the various infrastructure projects located around the world?

We also welcome any additional comments or views that you wish to
express.

We look forward to welcoming you in Reykjavik!

Organising Initiatives
COCOSDA
ELRA -- European Language Resource Association
FLaReNet
Language Applications (LAPPS) Grid
Language Grid
META-NET
MLi -- Towards a MultiLingual Data & Services infrastructure
MUSE FP7 -- ClowdFlows initiative
Research Data Alliance

Organisers
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Italy and ELRA, France)
Khalid Choukri (ELRA, France)
Christopher Cieri (LDC, USA)
Tomaz( Erjavec (Joz(ef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA)
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Oleksandr Kolomiyets (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS and IMMI, France)
Yohei Murakami (Kyoto University, Japan)
Satoshi Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Senja Pollak (Joz(ef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)
Georg Rehm (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
Herman Stehouwer (Max Planck, Germany)
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
Andrejs Vasil,jevs (Tilde, Latvia)
Peter Wittenburg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The
Netherlands)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:44:41 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:44:41 +0100
Subject: Appel: TIPA n=?UTF-8?Q?=C2=B030=2C_?=Extension date de soumission
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214441.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:36:23 +0100
From: Joëlle Lavaud <joelle.lavaud at lpl-aix.fr>
Message-ID: <53174477.8030203 at lpl-aix.fr>
X-url: http://tipa.revues.org/222
X-url: http://tipa.revues.org/

TIPA 30 - Extension de la date de soumission au 20 mars 2014

****************************
APPEL À CONTRIBUTIONS

Revue TIPA : Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage

http://tipa.revues.org/


Le 30^ème numéro de la revue TIPA est à paraître en décembre 2014, sur
le thème

LES PROÉMINENCES À L'ORAL

Editeur invité : Sophie Herment, Laboratoire Parole et Langage,
Aix-Marseille Université

Poursuivant la tradition de la revue TIPA, le 30^ème numéro rassemblera
des travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage. Des
articles traitant des proéminences à l'oral feront l'objet de ce numéro.

Nous accepterons des soumissions dans différents domaines 
linguistiques : prosodie, phonétique, phonologie, syntaxe, morphologie, 
pragmatique, dialectologie, diachronie.

Le terme proéminences englobe des acceptions différentes qui, nous 
l'espérons, seront traitées dans les diverses contributions. A l'oral, 
les proéminences peuvent aller de l'emphase ou la focalisation, aux 
entités métriques comme les syllabes fortes par exemple, en passant par 
les accents mélodiques, etc.

Des articles traitant des interfaces pourront faire l'objet de 
soumissions : comment les proéminences syntaxiques sont-elles réalisées 
à l'oral ? Comment la structure informationnelle est-elle reliée à la 
proéminence ? Certains constituants morphologiques sont-ils plus 
proéminents que d'autres ? Etc.

Nous accueillerons des études se réclamant de différentes perspectives : 
des approches fondées sur l'analyse de corpus, des approches plus 
théoriques, en linguistique, psycholinguistique, neurolinguistique, 
sociolinguistique, des études sur le traitement automatique du langage, 
sur l'apprentissage des langues (première ou seconde)...

Tous ces aspects sont loin d'être exhaustifs et d'autres approches 
permettant d'apporter un éclairage sur le thème du numéro 30 de TIPA 
seront bien entendu envisagées.

La langue de publication sera soit le français, soit l'anglais. Chaque 
article contiendra un résumé de 2 pages dans l'autre langue, afin que 
les papiers en français soient plus accessibles aux lecteurs qui lisent 
l'anglais et inversement.

_Dates à retenir_

Prolongée jusqu'au 20 mars : date limite pour soumission des résumés

30 mars : notification d'acceptation

30 juin : réception des articles

Décembre : publication.

_Instructions pour les auteurs_

Merci d'envoyer 2 fichiers à : tipa at lpl-aix.fr

- l'un en .doc contenant le titre, le nom et l'affiliation de l'auteur 
  (des auteurs).

- l'autre anonyme en .pdf, ne dépassant pas une page A4 (en times 12)
  contenant : le titre; ½ page d'introduction au sujet de la recherche
  et au cadre théorique/méthodologique ; ½ page donnant les résultats ou
  conclusions principaux. Une courte bibliographie(5 ou 6 titres parmi
  lesquels les auteurs ne devront pas apparaître plus de deux fois)
  pourra venir compléter la page de résumé.

Pour davantage de détails, les auteurs pourront suivre ce lien :

http://tipa.revues.org/222


************************************************************************
TIPA 30 - Deadline Extended : March 20, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

TIPA: Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage
http://tipa.revues.org/

The 30^th issue of the TIPA journal is to appear in December 2014, on 
the following topic:

PROMINENCES and SPOKEN LANGUAGE

Invited editor: Sophie Herment, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, 
Aix-Marseille Université

Following the TIPA tradition, the 30th issue of the journal will gather
interdisciplinary works on speech and language. Articles dealing with
prominences and spoken language will be welcome.

We invite submissions based on various backgrounds and linguistic 
fields: prosody, phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, pragmatics, 
dialectology, diachrony.

The term prominence encompasses many different meanings which will 
hopefully be dealt with in the various contributions. In spoken 
language, prominences can range from emphasis, focalisation, pitch 
accents, metric entities such as strong syllables or strong feet, etc.

Articles dealing with interfaces will also be of great interest: how are
syntactic prominences realized in the spoken language? How is
information structure related to prominence? Are certain morphological
constituents more prominent than others? etc.

Papers building on different perspectives will be considered: 
corpus-based approaches, theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, 
neurolinguistics, automatic language processing, sociolinguistics, 
language teaching...

These aspects are by no means exhaustive, and all related issues or 
approaches that can shed light on the topic will be considered.

The language of publication will be either English or French. Each 
article should contain a detailed two-page abstract in the other 
language, in order to make papers in French more accessible to 
English-speaking readers, and vice versa, thus insuring a larger 
audience for all the articles.

_Important dates:_

March 20, 2014  (Extension): deadline for abstract submission

March 30: notification of acceptance

June 30: deadline for submission of articles

December: publication.

_Submission guidelines:_

Please send your proposal in 2 files to: tipa at lpl-aix.fr

- one in .doc containing the title, name and affiliation of the author(s).

- the other anonymous in .pdf: it should not be longer than one A4 page 
(in times 12) and contain: the title; ½ page introducing the subject of 
the research and the theoretical / methodological framework; ½ page 
accounting for the main results. This one-page abstract can be followed 
by a short bibliography (5 or 6 titles; the author(s) of the proposal 
should not appear more than twice).

Instructions for authors can be found at
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/index.php?id=27

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:45:56 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:45:56 +0100
Subject: Appel: TSD 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214556.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:42:37 +0100
From: TSD 2014 <xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz>
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      *********************************************************
		   TSD 2014 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
      *********************************************************

   Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
                               (TSD 2014)
               Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014
                     http://www.tsdconference.org/

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

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

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

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

TSD SERIES

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


TOPICS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

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

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

The registration fee is not fixed yet, but we can anticipate that
it will be similar to that of previous years, e.g. in 2012:

    Student: Early payment (by May 31) - 10000 CZK (approx. EUR 365)
    Full participant: Early payment (by May 31) - 12000 CZK (approx. EUR
    440)

The fee has a "all in one" form, to keep equality between participants.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

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

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

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

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the
papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.  Authors
using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS
template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings
Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format.  For this service a
service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically.

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

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

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

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


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

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


ADDRESS

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

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


LOCATION

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

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

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

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


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:36:16 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:36:16 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL 2014 Tutorial in Natural Language Processing for
 Social Media
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.213616.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:32:47 +0100
From: peter ljunglöf <peter.ljunglof at heatherleaf.se>
Message-Id: <5B733E16-5291-44CC-BFFB-95DADA4136A1 at heatherleaf.se>
X-url: http://eacl2014.org/tutorial-social-media


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

   EACL Tutorial in Natural Language Processing for Social Media


   Gothenburg, Sweden, 26 April 2014 

   http://eacl2014.org/tutorial-social-media


There is an increasing need to interpret and act upon information from
large-volume, social media streams, such as Twitter, Facebook, and forum
posts. However, NLP methods face difficulties when processing social
media text. We call for participation in an intermediate-to-advanced
level tutorial, discussing the state of the art in processing social
media text.

Key points of the tutorial include:
- Characterisation of language in social media, and why it is difficult
  to process
- In-depth examination of multiple approaches to core NLP tasks on
  social media text
- Discussion of corpus collection and the use of crowdsourcing for
  annotation
- Practical, legal and ethical aspects of gathering and distributing
  social media data and metadata
- Current and future applications of social media information

The tutorial takes a detailed view of key NLP tasks (corpus annotation,
linguistic pre-processing, information extraction and opinion mining) of
social media content. After a short introduction to the challenges of
processing social media, we will cover key NLP algorithms adapted to
processing such content, discuss available evaluation datasets and
outline remaining challenges.

The core of the tutorial will present NLP techniques tailored to social
media, specifically: language identification, tokenisation,
normalisation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, entity
linking, event recognition, opinion mining, and text summarisation.

Since the lack of human-annotated NLP corpora of social media content is
another major challenge, this tutorial will cover also crowdsourcing
approaches used to collect training and evaluation data (including
paid-for crowdsourcing with CrowdFlower, also combined with
expert-sourcing and games with a purpose). We will also discuss briefly
practical and ethical considerations, arising from gathering and mining
social media content.

The last part of the tutorial will address applications, including
summarisation of social media content, user modelling (geo-location,
age, gender, and personality identification), media monitoring and
information visualisation (for e.g. detecting bushfires, predicting
virus outbreaks), and using social media to predict economical and
political outcomes (e.g. stock price movements, voting intentions).


  Web address: http://eacl2014.org/tutorial-social-media

Registration is to be made online via the EACL main registration site:
http://eacl2014.org/registration

This tutorial is supported by the CHIST-ERA project uComp (www.ucomp.eu)
and also by the EU FP7 project Pheme (www.pheme.eu).


Hope to see you in Göteborg!

Leon Derczynski and Kalina Bontcheva

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:39:37 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:39:37 +0100
Subject: Job: Senior Technical Engineer / Scientist (Software team
 Manager), ELDA
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.213937.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:35:44 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
Message-ID: <5319D940.50907 at elda.org>
X-url: http://www.elda.org/article289.html

[Apologies for multiple postings]

The European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a company
specialized in Human Language Technologies within an international
context, acting as the distribution agency of the European Language
Resources Association (ELRA), is currently seeking to fill an immediate
vacancy for *Senior Technical Engineer/Scientist (Software team
Manager)* position.

Under the supervision of the CEO, the responsibilities of the Senior
Technical Engineer/Scientist include managing of a small development
team, designing/specifying tools and software components for Language
Resources, production frameworks and platforms, carrying out quality
control and assessment. He/she will be in charge of renovating the
current language resources production workflows. This yields excellent
opportunities for young, creative, and motivated candidates wishing to
participate actively to the Language Engineering field. He/she will be
in charge of conducting the activities related to language resources and
Natural Language Processing technologies. The task will mostly consist
in managing language resources production projects and co-ordinating
ELDA's participation in R&D projects while being also hands-on whenever
required by the development team.

Profile :

     Good knowledge of Linux and open source software
     Proficiency in Python, Django, PhP, Perl, CSS
     Proficiency in Django-CMS is a plus
     Good knowledge of e-commerce development (Python/Django-oriented)
     Proficiency in French and English
     Dynamic and communicative, flexible to combine and work on
     different tasks
     Experience with technology transfer projects, industrial
     projects,collaborative projects within the European Commission or
     other international frameworks
     Good knowledge of the Language Technology area is a plus
     Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular
     the ability to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team
     Citizenship of (or residency papers) a European Union country
     Applications will be considered until the position is filled. The
     position is based in Paris.

Salary : Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed
above together with a curriculum vitae to :

Khalid Choukri
ELRA / ELDA
9, rue des Cordlières
75013 Paris
FRANCE
Fax : 01 43 13 33 30
Mail : job at elda.org


Please check out our other vacant positions:

  * Project Manager in Speech and Multimodal
    http://www.elda.org/article289.html
  * Junior Technical Engineer / Scientist (Project Manager)
    http://www.elda.org/article292.html

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:48:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:48:19 +0100
Subject: Appel: AiML 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214819.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:34:40 +0000
From: Agi Kurucz <agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <5319A0C0.7020702 at kcl.ac.uk>
X-url: http://www.philos.rug.nl/AiML2014/


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

AiML-2014:  CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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

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

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

- history of modal logic
- philosophy of modal logic
- applications of modal logic
- computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of
  modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming, model
  checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics)
- theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives
  on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity,
  correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics,
  modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory of
  modal logic)
- specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics,
  modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process
  logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based
  systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar
  formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and
  temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural
  logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics)

Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

              http://www.collegepublications.co.uk

in a volume to be made available at the conference.

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

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

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

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts of full papers submission deadline: 14 March 2014
Full papers submission deadline: 21 March 2014
Full papers acceptance notification: 2 May 2014
Short presentations submission deadline:  12 May 2014
Short presentations acceptance notification:  2 June 2014
Final version of full papers and short presentations due: 9 June 2014
Conference: 5-8 August, 2014.

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

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

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

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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:40:47 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:40:47 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF TAL, 27/7e, INALCO (Paris)
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214047.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:32:18 +0100
From: Mathieu Valette <mvalette at inalco.fr>
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X-url: http://www.er-tim.fr/


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

Un poste de Maître de Conférences en TAL (CNU 27e/7e) est ouvert au
concours en 2014 à l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations
Orientales (INALCO, Paris) pour une prise de fonction à la rentrée
2014-2015.
Le poste est rattaché au département Textes, Informatique,
Multilinguisme (TIM) et à l'Equipe de Recherche Textes, Informatique,
Multilinguisme (EA 2520 ERTIM)

https://www.inalco.fr/IMG/pdf/MCF_578_Traitement_automatique_des_langues.pdf

PROFIL ENSEIGNEMENT 
La personne recrutée devra faire état de connaissances tant en
linguistique qu’en informatique. Une expérience du multilinguisme
(traitement de données multilingues ou élaboration d’outils destinés à
ce traitement) et la connaissance d’une ou plusieurs langues enseignées
à l’INALCO sera un atout. Elle aura à enseigner à tous les niveaux du
cursus (Licence Traitement Numérique Multilingue, Master Ingénierie
Linguistique) des matières relevant de domaines formels telles que
l’algorithmique, la programmation ou les statistiques, et associant
linguistique et informatique (traitement de corpus, fouille de textes,
constitution de ressources).

Il est à noter que le contexte académique impose de savoir enseigner des
disciplines techniques à des étudiants en langue et linguistique
générale ayant peu ou pas de connaissances informatiques, tout en
sachant valoriser leurs compétences linguistiques variées.

Département d’enseignement : TIM (Textes, Informatique, Multilinguisme)

Le TIM (Textes, Informatique, Multilinguisme) est un département
d’enseignement prenant en charge une formation de la deuxième année de
Licence au Doctorat. Il offre une formation en traitement automatique
des langues et ingénierie linguistique avec comme débouchés privilégiés
les métiers de l’ingénierie multilingue (fouille de textes, veille,
recherche d’information, traductique, etc.). Le master (deux parcours
professionnels, un parcours recherche) est co- habilité avec les
universités Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle et Paris Ouest Nanterre la
Défense. Les étudiants de la formation sont, pour la plupart, issus des
filières d’enseignements des langues de l’INALCO (plus de 90 langues
enseignées).

Lieux d’exercice :
INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 PARIS (cours de Licence) 
INALCO-Recherche, 2 rue de Lille 75007 PARIS (cours de Master)

Equipe pédagogique : sept permanents et une vingtaine d'intervenants
extérieurs. 
Nom directrice département : Marie-Anne MOREAUX
Email directrice dépt. : marie-anne.moreaux at inalco.fr

PROFIL RECHERCHE

La personne recrutée devra développer son activité scientifique en
fouille de textes multilingues, au moyen de méthodes statistiques ou
d’apprentissage automatique (machine learning). Elle devra articuler ses
recherches avec celle des autres membres de l’équipe, notamment dans la
perspective d’établir un dialogue entre TAL et sciences du langage
mettant ainsi à profit l’environnement linguistique hors norme de
l’INALCO. Les candidats sont invités à prendre contact avec le directeur
du laboratoire.

Laboratoire de rattachement : ERTIM (EA 2520)

La personne recrutée devra impérativement s’intégrer dans l’équipe ERTIM
(EA 2520). L’ERTIM (anciennement CRIM) est un centre de recherche en
ingénierie linguistique qui se focalise depuis plusieurs années sur la
fouille de textes multilingues, l'extraction de données linguistiques
(terminologies, lexiques) et le filtrage de documents. Son projet
scientifique s’articule autour des thèmes suivants : (i) la recherche en
linguistique pour les applications en traitement automatique des langues
; (ii) le développement de méthodologie pour l’ingénierie des documents
numériques multilingues ; (iii) la production de ressources
multilingues.

Lieu d’exercice :
INALCO Recherche, 2 rue de Lille 75007 PARIS

Nom directeur labo : Mathieu VALETTE
E-mail directeur labo : mvalette at inalco.fr 
URL labo : http://www.er-tim.fr/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:42:58 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:42:58 +0100
Subject: Appel: Extended deadlinen Arabic natural dialect processing,
 Workshop at ICCTIM2014
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214258.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:17:22 +0100
From: smaili <Kamel.Smaili at loria.fr>
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The submission deadline has been extended to *March 20, 2014*

* Workshop at **ICCTIM2014**, Dubai, april 10, 2014 *

http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icctim2014/workshops/

Title : Arabic natural dialect processing

Summary

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the language of more than 250 million
persons. It is used mainly in writing and in formal
speech. Unfortunately, most of Arab people, do not use MSA in their
daily conversations; the result is that different Arabic dialects are
spoken through more than twenty countries.In fact, MSA is not acquired
as a mother tongue, but rather it is learned as a second language at
school and through exposure to formal broadcast programs (such as the
daily news), religious practice, and newspaper. Spoken Arabic is often
referred to as colloquial Arabic, dialects, or vernaculars. It's a mixed
form, which has many variations, and often a dominating influence from
local languages (from before the introduction of Arabic) and from
languages of the countries which occupied the Arabic region. Differences
between the various variants of spoken Arabic can be large enough to
make them incomprehensible to Arabic people coming from different
regions.

Hence, regarding the large differences between such spoken languages, we
can consider them as disparate languages or more exactly as different
dialects depending on the geographical place in which they are
practiced: Morocco, Algeria, Egypt,... Because in general, they are not
written therefore, corpora are not available. Everyone knows the
importance of such corporawhen we would like to mine texts or to develop
some applications as speech recognition or machine translation which are
based on statistical models. The only existing corpora but not yet
explored are those used in social networks which cannot be used easily
due to the multiplicity of formats, the number of foreign words, the
mixture between dialects and French or English and so on.


This workshop is an opportunity for the NLP community to focus on this
challenging topic and encourage them to develop new resource Arabic
dialect,Arabic dialect corpora processing tools and help in highlighting
the difficulties of processing Arabic dialects especially those which
use so many foreign words adapted lexically and grammatically to
Arabic. The workshop topics include but not limited to:

1. Collecting Arabic dialect corpora

2. Diacritization of Arabic dialects

3. Mining Arabic social networks

4. Language modelling

5. Arabic dialect morphology

6. Development of mobile Arabic dialects applications: speech
    recognition, machine translation, ...

7. Tagging Arabic dialects corpora

8. Maghreb Arabic dialects versus Orient Arabic dialects: Linguistic
    study.

Format and duration: a full day workshop will held on April 10,
2014. The language of the workshop is English and submissions should be
with respect to ICCTIM2014 paper submission instructions. All papers
will be peer reviewed.Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF
format as soon as possible and before March 20, 2014.

When you submit by using the OpenConf management system, please select
others in the proposed topics and in keywords, enter Arabic dialect.

In all the cases, when you submit, please send an email to the chairman
of the workshop:smaili at loria.fr


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:49:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:49:42 +0100
Subject: Appel: IDEAS 2014, Data Preparation for Data Mining Track
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214942.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:55:49 +0000
From: Paulo Oliveira <pjo at isep.ipp.pt>
Message-Id: <8B843F68-FEF4-4096-A5C7-18FBB7F1E7DE at isep.ipp.pt>
X-url: http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas14/dataprepmine.php

(Please accept my apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP)

Data Preparation for Data Mining Track of the 
18th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium 
(IDEAS 2014)
July 7-9, 2014, Porto, Portugal
http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas14/dataprepmine.php
 
(accepted papers will be included in the IDEAS14 proceedings and
published by ACM)
 
-----Call for Papers ---------

Current technological developments allow the collection of huge amounts
of data that can be used to support decision-making processes. However,
this is only possible if data can be transformed into knowledge.
 
Various kind of data mining algorithms are used to extract data
patterns.  Tasks for pattern extraction include classification (rules or
trees), regression, clustering, association, sequence modeling,
dependency, and so forth. However, much work in the field of data mining
was built on the existence of data with quality, and real-world data is
often incomplete, noisy, or inconsistent, representing an obstacle for
efficient data analysis/mining. Other challenges include big data
(number of features/examples, efficiency, parallel processing), curse of
dimensionality, or the use of domain knowledge. Although most mining
algorithms have some procedures for dealing with dirty data, they lack
for robustness. Furthermore, low-quality data will lead to low-quality
data analysis/mining results (Garbage in, garbage out). Data preparation
techniques, when applied before mining, can substantially improve the
overall quality of the data and consequently improve the mining results
and/or the time required for the actual mining process. Thus, the
development of data preparation techniques is both a challenging and a
critical task. This special session on Data Preparation for Data Mining
will address practical techniques and methodologies of data preparation
for data-mining applications.
 
Topics of Interest:
--------------------------
   - Data collecting
   - Data integration
   - Data reduction
   - Data cleaning
   - Detection of outliers
   - Data/Information quality
   - Data profiling
   - Data enrichment
   - Feature selection and transformation
   - Data summarization
   - Data discretization
   - Data encoding
   - Sampling
   - Data preparation on regression/classification
   - Data preparation on segmentation/clustering
   - Data preparation on association rules
   - Data preparation on text mining
   - Data preparation on web mining
   - Data preparation on visual data mining
   - Data preparation on temporal and spatial data mining
   - Data preparation on multimedia mining (audio/video)
 
Important Dates:
--------------------------
   - March 24, 2014: Papers submission deadline
   - May 19, 2014: Notification of acceptance
   - June 9, 2014: Camera-ready deadline
  
 Track Organizing Committee:
--------------------------
   - Pedro Henriques, University of Minho, Portugal
   - Fátima Rodrigues, Institute of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto,
     Portugal
   - Paulo Oliveira, Institute of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto,
     Portugal
   - Alberto Freitas, Faculty of Medicine- University of Porto, Portugal

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:46:38 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:46:38 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: LIMSI, Diana McCarthy, 1 avril 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214638.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:17:51 +0100
From: Marianna Apidianaki <marianna at limsi.fr>
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Chers collègues,

Diana McCarthy (Université de Cambridge), chercheuse invitée au
LIMSI-CNRS dans le cadre du réseau Digiteo, donnera un séminaire le **
mardi 1 avril à 11h30**.


Titre : Modelling Lexical Ambiguity in Computers, With and Without Word
Senses

Résumé :

In Computational Linguistics, there is a growing body of work that
models word meaning from corpus data without recourse to a hand-crafted
inventory. This has several advantages, including focusing computers on
meanings which are attested in the data, but there is still the issue of
whether word usages are best clustered into word senses or whether some
other representation is better. In this talk I will describe a few
projects using topic models and vector space models acquired from corpus
data for representing word meaning. I will demonstrate how these models
can be used both with and without an explicit representation of word
sense. In applications such as novel sense detection for lexicography,
representation of word sense is necessary, while for similarity
judgements a more dynamic representation outperforms the
alternatives. Linguists have advocated that a clear cut division into
senses is not appropriate for all words, and that there is a spectrum of
behaviour from clear cut cases of ambiguity to vague words with
inter-related meanings. I will end with a brief introduction to current
work which aims to identify empirically where on this spectrum a given
lemma is.


Le séminaire aura lieu en salle de conférences du bâtiment 508, au
LIMSI. 
Pour venir au LIMSI, voir les informations sur :
http://www.limsi.fr/Pratique/acces/index.fr.html

Bien cordialement,
Marianna Apidianaki

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:18:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:18:10 +0100
Subject: Appel: Organisation de la Plate-Forme IA de l'AFIA 2015 (repondre
 avant le 28/3/14)
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.221810.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:45:35 +0100
From: Secretaire AFIA <secretaire at afia.asso.fr>
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L'AFIA recherche un organisateur pour sa Plate-forme de l'Intelligence
Artificielle 2015 (période : entre le 29 juin et le 10 juillet, montant
d'inscription max : 300 euros pour un événement de 5 jours, hébergement
maximum de 4 conférences en parallèle, nombre de participants envisagés
: 300).

Si vous êtes intéressés par l'organisation d'un tel événement, merci de
contacter le bureau de l'AFIA (bureau AT afia.asso.fr) pour plus de
spécifications sachant que la date limite pour une réponse consolidée
est fixée au 28 mars 2014.

Pour avoir plus d'information, consulter :
http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=146

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:08:11 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:08:11 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL 2014 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational
 Language Learning, April 26, 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.220811.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 23:13:49 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
Message-Id: <2F7B75E6-F69A-4C6C-9051-A2F9CD704574 at ens.fr>
X-url: https://sites.google.com/site/cognitivews2014/


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

               April 26, 2014
             Gothenburg, Sweden

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

Invited Speakers:
Philippe Blache, Aix-Marseille Université (France)
Alexander Clark, King’s College, London (UK)

Endorsed by the Special Interest Group of the ACL on Natural Language
Learning (SIGNLL)

Registration: http://eacl2014.org/registration

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

The Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning
(CogACLL) is the fifth edition of related workshops that was first held
at ACL 2007 in Prague, EACL 2009 in Athens, EACL 2012 in Avignon and as
a standalone event in Paris 2013.

The workshop is targeted at anyone interested in the relevance of
computational techniques for understanding first, second and bilingual
language acquisition and change or loss in normal and pathological
conditions. The human ability to acquire and process language has long
attracted interest and generated much debate due to the apparent ease
with which such a complex and dynamic system is learnt and used on the
face of ambiguity, noise and uncertainty. This subject raises many
questions ranging from the nature vs. nurture debate of how much needs
to be innate and how much needs to be learned for acquisition to be
successful, to the mechanisms involved in this process (general vs
specific) and their representations in the human brain. There are also
developmental issues related to the different stages consistently found
during acquisition (e.g. one word vs. two words) and possible
organizations of this knowledge. These have been discussed in the
context of first and second language acquisition and bilingualism, with
cross linguistic studies shedding light on the influence of the language
and the environment.  The past decades have seen a massive expansion in
the application of statistical and machine learning methods to natural
language processing (NLP). This work has yielded impressive results in
numerous speech and language processing tasks, including e.g. speech
recognition, morphological analysis, parsing, lexical acquisition,
semantic interpretation, and dialogue management.  The good results have
generally been viewed as engineering achievements. Recently researchers
have begun to investigate the relevance of computational learning
methods for research on human language acquisition and change. The use
of computational modeling is a relatively recent trend boosted by
advances in machine learning techniques, and the availability of
resources like corpora of child and child-directed sentences, and data
from psycholinguistic tasks by normal and pathological groups.


WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

9:30  - 9:40: Opening and Introduction

9:40  - 10:30: Invited talk

"Challenging incrementality in human language processing: two operations
for a cognitive architecture" Philippe Blache


10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30: Session 1: Phonology, morphology and word segmentation

11:00 - 11:20
"A Brazilian Portuguese Phonological-prosodic Algorithm Applied to
Deviant Language Acquisition: A Case Study" 
Vera Vasilévski, Márcio José Araujo and Helena Ferro Blasi

11:20 - 11:40
"Bayesian inference as a cross-linguistic word segmentation strategy:
Always learning useful things" 
Lawrence Phillips and Lisa Pearl

11:40 - 12:00
"Learning the hyperparameters to learn morphology" 
Stella Frank

12:00 - 12:30
"An explicit statistical model of learning lexical segmentation using
multiple cues" 
Çağrı Çöltekin and John Nerbonne

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:50: Invited Talk

"Distributional Learning as a Theory of Language Acquisition"
Alexander Clark

14:50 - 15:20: Session 2: Lexical acquisition and language evolution

14:50 - 15:20
"A multi-modal corpus for the evaluation of computational models for
(grounded) language acquisition processes"
Judith Gaspers, Maximilian Panzner, Andre Lemme, Philipp Cimiano,
Katharina J. Rohlfing and Sebastian Wrede

15:20 - 15:45: Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:05

"Towards a computational model of grammaticalization and lexical
diversity" 
Christian Bentz and Paula Buttery

16:05 - 16:25
"How well can a corpus-derived co-occurrence network simulate human
associative behavior?" 
Gemma Bel Enguix, Reinhard Rapp and Michael Zock

16:25 - 16:45
"Agent-based modeling of language evolution" 
Torvald Lekvam, Björn Gambäck and Lars Bungum

16:45 - 17:15: Session 3: Second language acquisition

16:45 - 17:15
"Missing Generalizations: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to L2
Written Production" 
Daniel Wiechmann and Elma Kerz

17:15 - 17:30: Closing


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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


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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT

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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:28:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:28:42 +0100
Subject: Appel: Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.222842.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:14:49 +0100
From: retore <christian.retore at labri.fr>
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LACL 2014
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
                  IRIT, Toulouse, France
		18-20 June 2014
                 http://www.irit.fr/LACL2014/
Co-located with the CSLP 2014,
8-th International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language
Processing
http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2014

17-18 June 2014
                 http://www.

             SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
PRESENTATION

LACL'2014 is the 8th international conference on logical and formal
methods in computational linguistics. This conference addresses the use
of type theoretic, proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for
describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the
implementation of natural language processing software relying on such
models. It will be held at IRIT, Toulouse, France, from 18 to 20 June
2014 (with support from IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier et INP de
Toulouse)

Scope: 

Computer scientists, linguists, mathematicians and philosophers are
invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in
computational linguistics and natural language processing, in natural
language analysis, generation or acquisition.

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

  * logical foundation of syntactic formalisms
        o categorial grammars
        o minimalist grammars
        o dependency grammars
        o tree adjoining grammars
        o model theoretic syntax
        o formal language theory for natural language processing
        o data-driven approaches
  * logics for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and
    dialog
        o discourse theories
        o Montague semantics
        o compositionality
        o dynamic logics
        o game semantics
        o situation semantics
        o generative lexicon
        o categorical semantics
  * applications of these models to natural language processing
        o software for natural language analysis
        o software for acquiring linguistic resources
        o software for natural language generation
        o software for information extraction
        o inference tasks
        o evaluation
        o scalability


SUBMISSIONS and PROCEEDINGS*

Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by
Springer (see authors instructions at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)
and may consist of up to 12 pages of content (including figures,
bibliography, possible appendices). In exceptional cases by prior
agreement
with program committee a paper up to 16 pages may be considered.
It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at
the meeting by one of its authors.

Submission is exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format,
through the EasyChair system. The submission site is
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacl2014

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published as a
volume of the FoLLI subline of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) by Springer (http://www.springer.com/lncs).

/*/ Instructions for submissions to CSLP 2014 are given at the site of
the workshop.

Invited speakers:

Prof. Zhaohui Luo, Computer Science Department, Royal Holloway,
University of London, U.K.

Prof. Michael Moortgat, Department of Language, Literature and
Communication, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Prof. Reinhard Muskens, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University,
the Netherlands

PREVIOUS EDITIONS

A selection of the 1995 articles appeared in a special issue of the
Journal of Logic, Language and Information (7:4, 1998). The
proceedings of the international conferences LACL'96 ,LACL'97,
LACL'98, LACL'2001, LACL'2005 LACL'2011 appeared in the series Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (volumes 1328, 1582, 2014,
2099, 3492, 6736), and the proceedings of LACL 2012 in Lacture Notes
in Computer Science (volume 7351) published by Springer. 



IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2014
Camera ready copies due: April 15, 2014
Conference dates: June 18-20, 2014

INSCRIPTION FEES

Exact amount can be fixed only after the organizers will have better
estimation of the number of participants. We expect to keep it at the
level of approximately 300 euros (for LACL only) and 100 euros (for
workshop only) with usual reduced rates for students and participation
in both events.

CONTACTS

soloviev at irit.fr and
asher at irit.fr
(co-chairs of LACL 2014)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:27:32 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:27:32 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2015, First Call for Proposals
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.222732.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:40:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: Achim Jung <A.Jung at cs.bham.ac.uk>
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(Apologies for multiple postings.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

CATEGORIES 
==========

Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via:

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

and include all of the following:

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

b. General proposal information: Title, category

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

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

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

Chair: Achim Jung (Birmingham)

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

Queries
=======

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:11:41 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:11:41 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF 27, Aix-Marseille, LSIS,
 Systemes d'information (Recherche d'information, TAL...)
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.221141.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:16:03 +0100
From: Patrice Bellot <patrice.bellot at lsis.org>
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Bonjour,

un poste de Maître de conférences en Informatique (Référence GALAXIE
157) est mis au concours au sein d'Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté
d'Economie-Gestion (FEG), et du laboratoire LSIS (CNRS UMR 7296),
Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes.

Profil Recherche (laboratoire LSIS, UMR CNRS) : 
--------------------------------------------------------
L’enseignant(e) recruté(e) peut contribuer au renforcement de plusieurs
équipes du LSIS parmi lesquelles l'équipe DIMAG (Data, Information &
content MAnagement Group) dont les recherches s’articulent autour de
trois thèmes qui appréhendent les SI à différents niveaux: Conception de
Systèmes d’Information Décisionnels et Adaptatifs, Recherche et
Extraction d’Information, Fouille et Intégration de Données. Pour
l'équipe DIMAG (13 enseignants-chercheurs, 19 doctorants), la priorité
sera donnée aux candidat(e)s ayant de solides compétences en Recherche
d'Information (modèles numériques, modèles sémantiques, application de
la RI aux domaines de la santé et/ou des Humanités...), en apprentissage
automatique appliqué à la fouille de textes et de données et en
Traitement Automatique des Langues sur de très grands corpus. La
participation du(de la) candidat(e) à une campagne d'évaluation de type
TREC/CLEF/INEX sera un plus. Si la personne recrutée est rattachée à
l'équipe DIMAG, elle pourra être amenée à participer aux projets
scientifiques de l'Equipement d'Excellence (Equipex) OpenEdition.org.

Profil Enseignement (faculté Economie-Gestion) : 
--------------------------------------------------------
Les enseignements à prendre en charge pour ce poste relèvent
essentiellement du domaine des Systèmes d’Information et des domaines de
base de l’informatique. Au niveau Master (Master MIAGE), les besoins
concernent notamment les aspects méthodologiques et techniques liés aux
Systèmes d’Information, à l’Informatique de Gestion, au domaine de la
Business Intelligence, ou encore à la modélisation des processus métiers
(BPM). Une compétence concernant les ERP serait un plus.

Liens utiles :
--------------------------------------------------------
Aix-Marseille Université : http://www.univ-amu.fr

Master MIAGE : http://formations.univ-amu.fr/ME5BIG.html

Laboratoire LSIS : http://www.lsis.org
Equipe-projet DIMAG : http://www.lsis.org/spip.php?id_rubrique=291
Equipex OpenEdition : http://www.openedition.org / http://lab.hypotheses.org

Notice pour le dépôt des dossiers :
   http://drh.univ-amu.fr/public_content/session-synchronisee-2014
Composition du comité de sélection :
   http://drh.univ-amu.fr/public_content/mcf-sections-25-a-69

Contacts :
--------------------------------------------------------
Enseignement : jean.caussanel at univ-amu.fr (directeur Département MIAGE)
Recherche : patrice.bellot at univ-amu.fr (président du comité de
            sélection, représentant du laboratoire)


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 20:54:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 21:54:19 +0100
Subject: Ecole: SSTiC 2014, March 15, 4th registration deadline
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Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 11:58:10 +0100
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2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 7-11, 2014

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

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

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--- March 15, 4th registration deadline ---

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AIM:

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

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

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

ADDRESSED TO:

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

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

REGIME:

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

VENUE:

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

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

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

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

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

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

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

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

FEES:

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

ACCOMMODATION:

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

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

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

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

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

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

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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:26:16 +0100
Subject: Conf: Workshop Fouille d'opinions dans le Web social, 10 avril
 2014, Lyon
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:00:52 +0100
From: Caroline Brun <Caroline.Brun at xrce.xerox.com>
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[ APPEL A PARTICIPATION ]

WORKSHOP Fouille d’opinion dans le Web social

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter au Workshop "Fouille d’opinion
dans le Web social", organisée le jeudi 10 avril à l’ISH de Lyon (espace
Marc Bloch / salle Bizet). Le détail de la journée est précisé
ci-dessous.
  
Si vous souhaitez assister à cette journée, la participation est
gratuite. Toutefois, dans un souci d'organisation, il est nécessaire de
vous inscrire en remplissant le formulaire que vous trouverez à
l’adresse url suivante
:http://perso.univ-st-etienne.fr/mapi9921/forum_wi2
  
Au plaisir de vous voir le 10 avril,
  
Caroline Brun
Julien Velcin
  
##Supports :
Projet Web Intelligence de la région Rhône-Alpes, ARC6
  
##Organisateurs :
C. Brun (Xerox Research Center Europe, Grenoble)
J. Velcin (Université Lyon 2, Laboratoire ERIC, Lyon)

##Site web :
http://mediamining.univ-lyon2.fr/velcin/fows   

##Date et lieu :
jeudi 10 avril 2014, Institut des Sciences de l’Homme de Lyon (espace
Marc Bloch / Salle Bizet)

##Inscription (obligatoire) :
http://perso.univ-st-etienne.fr/mapi9921/forum_wi2

##Contexte et objectifs :

Le Web social a vu une explosion des données générées par les individus
: réseaux sociaux (Facebook, Google+, Linked'in), blogs et micro-blogs
(MySpace, Twitter), discussions en lignes (forums). Il y a aujourd'hui
un intérêt crucial à développer de nouveaux outils afin d'exploiter
intelligemment cette source inestimable d'information. Dans cette
journée thématique, nous nous intéressons en particulier à l'analyse des
données liées à l'opinion ou aux sentiments exprimés par les internautes
au sein de ces réseaux d'information. L'exploitation de ces données a
permis, récemment, d'obtenir des résultats remarquables dans le domaine
du marketing (recommandation de produits), de la politique (prévision de
sondages), menant vers de nombreuses applications : personnalisation des
services, marketing, veille d'information, gestion de la e-reputation,
gestion de la relation clients, etc.

Cette journée, organisée dans le cadre du projet WI de la région
Rhône-Alpes (http://web-intelligence-rhone-alpes.org) et de l’ARC6
(http://www.arc6-tic.rhonealpes.fr), également soutenue par le pôle
d’excellence Imaginove, a trois objectifs :

1) Présenter quelques avancées récentes en matière de fouille des
   données d’opinion et de sentiments issues du Web.

2) Croiser les regards en invitant des chercheurs issus de différents
   horizons (académiques, industriels, informaticiens, linguistes).

3) Partager l’expérience acquise sur différents projets de recherche
   (sur les données, et notamment leur annotation, les algorithmes
   employés, les résultats obtenus et espérés, la nature des consortiums
   déployés).


##Programme :

(les résumés des conférences invitées sont précisés un peu plus loin.)

9h : accueil café
9h15 : introduction de la journée (J. Velcin / C. Brun)
9h45 : conférencier invité n°1 (B. Daille)
10h45 : pause thé/café
11h : conférencier invité n°2 (M. Roche)
12h : 2 communications courtes
- Détection automatique d'évènements et d'opinion publique à partir de
  Twitter (H. E. Dridi et G. Lapalme)
- Le langage figuratif dans le web social : cas de l'ironie et du
  sarcasme (J. Karoui, N. Aussenac Gilles, F. Benamara and
  L. H. Belguith)
12h40 : pause déjeuner (repas non pris en charge pour les participants)
14h : conférencier invité n°3 (L. Dini)
15h : 2 communications courtes
- Classification des utilisateurs selon leurs orientations politiques
  (Y. Meguebli, F. Popineau and B.-L. Doan)
- Analyse d'opinions par apprentissage supervisé et connaissances a
  priori (M. Dermouche, L. Khouas, J. Velcin and S. Loudcher)
15h40 : pause
16h : conférencier invité n°4 (M. Valette)
17h : fin de la journée
  
##Conférenciers invités :

- Béatrice Daille, LINA, Université de Nantes (http://bdaille.com)

Résumé
Avec l'essor du web, les opinions exprimées sur internet sont devenues
des données stratégiques qu'il faut pouvoir suivre en temps réel et
caractériser finement. Dans le cadre du projet ANR Blogoscopie, nous
avons développé l'outil Apopsis chargé de détecter les opinions
exprimées localement dans les blogs quelle que soit la thématique et de
les catégoriser en fonction de leur orientation positive ou
négative. Cet outil s'appuie sur une grammaire de l'opinion incluant des
étiquettes sémantiques reflétant les différentes catégories d'opinions
émises. Cette grammaire a été élaborée à partir de deux ressources
linguistiques : un corpus de référence annoté et un lexique de
l'opinion. Apopis est précis pour la détection et l'orientation des
opinions évaluatives mais la variété des expressions évaluatives reste
un frein à une détection exhaustive. Apopsis permet aussi la détection
des opinions émises sur les tweets en temps réel pour un sujet choisi
par l'utilisateur au travers d'une interface web.

- Luca Dini, Président de Holmes Semantic Solution
  (http://www.ho2s.com/fr)

Résumé
L'insoutenable légèreté des jugements de l'utilisateur. Au cours des
dernières années, nous avons observé deux tendances parallèles dans la
recherche en linguistique computationnelle et le développement du
commerce électronique. Du côté de la recherche, il y a eu un intérêt
croissant pour les algorithmes et les approches qui sont en mesure de
capter la polarité des opinions exprimées par les utilisateurs sur les
produits, les institutions et les services. De l'autre côté, presque
tous les grands sites de commerce électronique et d'agrégation de
contenu offrent désormais aux utilisateurs la possibilité d'écrire des
commentaires et d'exprimer leur appréciation via un score numérique
(généralement représentée sous la forme d'un nombre d'étoiles). Cette
présentation décrira une expérience à grande échelle visant à détecter
la fiabilité des utilisateurs lors de la conversion de leurs opinions
écrites sur le produit en un score numérique (nombre d'étoiles). Nous
allons montrer que, en raison d'un certain nombre de facteurs, un tel
jugement est très peu fiable et que, confronté à un "gold standard"
uniforme, il offre une précision inférieure à un système de pointe
spécialisé dans la détection d'opinions.

- Mathieu Roche, CIRAD, TETIS Lab, Montpellier
  (http://www2.lirmm.fr/~mroche)

Résumé
L'analyse de sentiment est un domaine de recherche en développement
constant ces dernières années. Les analyses proposées reposent souvent
sur l'utilisation d'un vocabulaire d'opinion adapté au domaine
d'étude. Cette présentation décrira deux types de méthodes non
supervisées afin de construire un vocabulaire d'opinion dédié. Celles-ci
s'appuient sur la combinaison d'approches de fouille de textes et/ou de
fouille du Web. Les avantages et les limites de ces approches seront
discutés dans le cadre de cette présentation. Une partie de ces méthodes
sont intégrées au projet SENTERRITOIRE (projet soutenu par la MSH-M,
[2011-2014]) dont l'objectif est de proposer un environnement
décisionnel fondé sur une analyse automatique des textes liés à
l'aménagement du territoire. Le projet se concentre, dans un premier
temps, sur l'extraction automatique des descripteurs géospatiaux. Ces
derniers sont par la suite enrichis par des informations caractérisant
plus largement le concept de "territoire" afin d'analyser
automatiquement l'utilisation de ces concepts dans les textes, et les
perceptions qu'ils véhiculent.

- Mathieu Valette, INALCO, équipe ERTIM, Paris
  (http://mathieu.valette.free.fr)

Résumé
La fouille d'opinion et l'analyse des sentiments reposent sur
l'identification de marques linguistiques de la subjectivité. Selon une
lecture positiviste répandue, celle-ci serait en effet fondée sur des
valeurs, par opposition aux faits objectifs traditionnellement
privilégiés en extraction de connaissances. Mais la plupart des méthodes
de détection de la subjectivité reposent, par imitation, sur
l'établissement de lexiques axiologiques qui constituent des bases de
connaissances que l'on projette ensuite sur les documents traités. Notre
propos est d'envisager l'expression des opinions et des sentiments à
partir d'une caractérisation globale des textes qui, à des fins
expérimentales, s'affranchisse le plus possible des lexiques préétablis,
pour se focaliser sur l'identification de descripteurs
alternatifs. Parmi ces descripteurs, on s'intéressera plus
particulièrement à la caractérisation des genres textuels (par exemple,
le pamphlet est dévolu à la critique négative) et au positionnement
énonciatif des auteurs (par exemple, expression de la temporalité vécue,
aspectualité, rôles et interactions des acteurs).

##Contacts :
caroline.brun at xrce.xerox.com
julien.velcin at univ-lyon2.fr

# LES FORUMS WEB INTELLIGENCE
Les forums web Intelligence sont des occasions de rencontres et
d'échanges entre chercheurs, industriels et associations/collectivités,
intéressés par le thème du Web, de son développement et de son usage, en
lien avec les techniques d'intelligence artificielle. Outre la synergie
triangulaire entre académiques, industriels et
associations/collectivités, les forums sont également des opportunités
pour sensibiliser les étudiants à la recherche, et pour permettre à des
doctorants de s'insérer dans la communauté scientifique et d'y
contribuer progressivement.

##Les dates à retenir :
- 27 mars, Lyon, Manufacture des Tabacs (amphi Malraux) : Environnement
  cloud et multi-clouds

- 10 avril , Lyon (ISH) : Fouille d’opinion dans le Web social
- 19 juin, Futur du Web

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:17:40 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:17:40 +0100
Subject: Job: Chercheur postdoctoral,
 Preferences sur l'ordre des complements du verbe en ancien
 francais
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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:36:54 +0100
From: Benoit Crabbé <benoit.crabbe at gmail.com>
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Chercheur postdoctoral : Préférences sur l’ordre des compléments du
verbe en ancien français

Contacts: Sophie Prévost, Lattice - Benoît Crabbé, ALPAGE
Adresses des responsables: sophie.prevost_at_ens.fr,
                           benoit.crabbe_at_linguist.jussieu.fr
Universités: Université Paris 7 et Lattice (CNRS – ENS/Paris 3)
Niveau: Chercheur postdoctorant
Durée: 12 mois, à  partir de septembre 2014
Salaire: 24 000 € net / an
Spécialités: Syntaxe de l’ancien français, corpus annotés, statistiques
Date limite de candidature: 1er mai  2014
Adresse pour la candidature: sophie.prevost_at_ens.fr
Référence de candidature: EFL-WO3

Description

Ce poste est offert par l’axe « Experimental Grammar in a cross
linguistic perspective », du projet Labex  « Empirical foundations of
linguistics » (www.labex-efl.org/)
Le sujet porte sur l'étude de l'ordre des mots en ancien français, et
plus spécifiquement de l'ordre des compléments de verbes ditransitifs.
Il s'agit d'identifier et d'étudier les différentes propriétés
influençant l’ordre relatif des compléments du verbe et ce dans une
perspective comparative (date, genre, forme des textes). Les résultats
obtenus seront mis en perspective avec les acquis sur l’ordre du sujet
et du complément en ancien français (Marchello-Nizia 1995). Ils devront
aussi être comparés avec les résultats quantitatifs obtenus quant à
l’agencement respectif des compléments des verbes ditransitifs  en
français moderne (cf Thuilier, 2012a et 2012b) et en anglais moderne
(Bresnan et Ford 2010).
Cette perspective comparative apportera un nouvel éclairage sur
l’évolution de la langue française.
Le candidat devra avoir des compétences en syntaxe de l’ancien français,
annotation de corpus, et en statistiques.
Il devra mener une étude quantitative et statistique du corpus annoté
d’ancien français SRCMF (http://srcmf.org/).
Le candidat devra faire preuve d’un potentiel de recherche exceptionnel.
Une bonne connaissance du français sera un atout supplémentaire. 
Il devra avoir soutenu son doctorat avant le 1er décembre 2014.
Pour candidater, envoyer: 
- un CV (avec liste de publications)
- le nom de deux référents (avec adresse mail)
- site web où l’on peut trouver les publications.


Références

Bresnan, J. and Ford, M., 2010. « Predicting Syntax: Processing Dative
Constructions in American and Australian Varieties of English »,
Language 86 (1): 186-213. 
Marchello-Nizia, C., 1995. L’évolution du français : ordre des mots,
démonstratifs, accent tonique, Paris : Armand Colin
Thulier, J., 2012a. « Lemme verbal et classe sémantique dans
l’ordonnancement des compléments postverbaux », Neveu & al. (eds.) Actes
du 3ème Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française 2012 (CMLF 2012),
2451-2469.
Thuilier, J., 2012b. « Contraintes préférentielles et ordre des mots en
français ».  Thèse de doctorat Université Paris Diderot.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:23:12 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:23:12 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL 2014, Tutorial on Computational modelling of metaphor,
 Gothenburg, Sweden, 26 April 2014
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:20:16 +0100
From: peter ljunglöf <peter.ljunglof at heatherleaf.se>
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

EACL 2014 Tutorial on Computational modelling of metaphor  

Gothenburg, Sweden, 26 April
http://eacl2014.org/tutorial-metaphor

Instructors: Ekaterina Shutova and Tony Veale

 TUTORIAL DESCRIPTION

Metaphor processing is a rapidly growing area in NLP.  Characteristic to
all areas of human activity (from the ordinary to the poetic or the
scientific) and, thus, to all types of discourse, metaphor poses an
important problem for NLP systems. Its ubiquity in language has been
established in a number of corpus studies and the role it plays in human
reasoning has been confirmed in psychological experiments. This makes
metaphor an important research area for computational and cognitive
linguistics, and its automatic identification and interpretation
indispensable for any semantics-oriented NLP application.

Computational work on metaphor in NLP and AI ignited in the 1970s and
gained momentum in the 1980s, providing a wealth of ideas on the form,
structure and mechanisms of the phenomenon. The last decade has
witnessed a technological leap in natural language computation, as
manually crafted rules have gradually given way to more robust
corpus-based statistical methods. This is also the case for metaphor
research. In the recent years, the problem of metaphor modeling has been
steadily gaining interest within the NLP community, with a growing
number of approaches exploiting statistical techniques. Compared to more
traditional approaches based on hand-coded resources, these more recent
methods boast of a wider coverage, as well as greater efficiency and
robustness. However, even the statistical metaphor processing approaches
largely focus on a limited domain or a subset of conceptual
phenomena. At the same time, recent work on computational lexical
semantics and lexical acquisition techniques, as well as a wide range of
NLP methods applying machine learning to open-domain semantic tasks,
opens many new avenues for creation of large-scale robust tools for the
recognition and interpretation of metaphor.

Despite a growing recognition of the importance of metaphor to the
semantic and affective processing of language, and despite the
availability of new NLP tools that enable us to take metaphor processing
to the next level, educational initiatives for introducing the NLP
community to this fascinating area of research have been relatively few
in number. Our proposed tutorial thus addresses this gap, by aiming to:

introduce a CL audience to the main linguistic, conceptual and cognitive
properties of metaphor;

cover the history of metaphor modelling and the state-of-the-art
approaches to metaphor identification and interpretation

analyse the trends in computational metaphor research and compare
different types of approaches, aiming to identify the most promising
system features and techniques in metaphor modelling

discuss potential applications of metaphor processing in wider NLP

relate the problem of metaphor modelling to that of other types of
figurative language


The tutorial is targeted both at participants who are new to the field
and need a comprehensive overview of metaphor processing techniques and
applications, as well as at experienced scientists who want to stay up
to date on the recent advances in metaphor research.


TUTORIAL OUTLINE

Introduction: Linguistic, cognitive and cultural properties of metaphor
Linguistic metaphor
Conceptual metaphor
Metaphorical inference
Extended metaphor / metaphor in discourse
Conventional and novel metaphor
Metaphor in corpora and lexical resources

Computational approaches to metaphor identification
Knowledge-based methods
Lexical resource-based methods
Metaphor and selectional preferences
Metaphor and abstractness
Metaphor and cultural stereotypes
Word similarity and association-based methods
Supervised learning for metaphor identification
Weakly-supervised and unsupervised methods

Computational approaches to metaphor interpretation
Knowledge-based methods
Metaphor interpretation by explanation (SlipNet)
Metaphor interpretation as paraphrasing (supervised and unsupervised)
Challenges in metaphor generation

Applications of metaphor processing systems
Metaphor in machine translation 
Metaphor in opinion mining
Metaphor in information retrieval
Metaphor in educational applications
Metaphor in social science
Metaphor in psychology

Metaphor and other types of figurative language
Metaphor and blending
Metaphor and simile
Metaphor and analogy
Metaphor and irony



We look forward to seeing you at the tutorial!

Katia and Tony

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:19:14 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:19:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier IC&Sante, Report de la date de soumission au 16/03
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.221914.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:48:54 +0100
From: Sandra Bringay <Sandra.Bringay at lirmm.fr>
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X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/16

Atelier Ingénierie des connaissances et Santé
https://www.lirmm.fr/ic-sante/

En association avec les 25èmes Journées francophones d'Ingénierie des
Connaissances, Clermont Ferrand, du 12 au 16 mai 2014
(http://www.irit.fr/IC2014)

Au cours des dernières années, le nombre de données médicales n'a cessé
d'augmenter suite à l’informatisation croissante des professionnels de
santé. Ces données restent trop souvent sous-exploitées. Les méthodes
d’ingénierie des connaissances proposent des solutions pertinentes pour
traiter toute la richesse potentielle de ces bases, même si des
questions d'éthique, de mise en place de solutions, d'acquisition et de
sécurité restent posées. L’atelier sera l’occasion de débattre des
verrous liés à la modélisation, la structuration, l'extraction, la
recherche et la fouille de données de santé de tous types. L’atelier
permettra de présenter des activités de recherche innovantes, des
méthodes, des technologies et des démonstrateurs développés aussi bien
dans le monde académique, dans les laboratoires affiliés aux structures
de santé et par des industriels impliqués dans le domaine de
l'ingénierie de connaissances.

L’objectif de cet atelier est d’offrir un cadre d’échange entre les
chercheurs, les industriels et les utilisateurs intéressés par les
dernières avancées scientifiques du domaine de l’ingénierie des
connaissances en Santé. On s'intéressera par exemple aux thèmes :

* Terminologies et Ontologies médicales : Interopérabilité des systèmes
  d'information en santé, indexation terminologique de la littérature
  médicale, de dossiers médicaux de patients et de récits cliniques,
  annotations de documents, formalismes de représentation, alignement
  d'ontologies.

* Usage du Web 2.0 en santé : Réseaux collaboratifs des praticiens de
  santé, patients et famille, réseaux bibliographiques dans le domaine
  médical, annotation sociale de ressources médicale 

* Traitement d'informations multimodales : Traitement du texte, image et
  son, classification et intégration de contenus médicaux multimodaux,
  multi-sources

* Extraction de connaissances à partir de contenus médicaux :
  Anonymisation, extraction d'entités nommées, de variable et/ou
  indicateurs pathologiques, recherche de corrélations, fouille de
  données médicales

* Systèmes d'information en santé : Représentation, traitement et accès
  aux informations et des connaissances en santé, Systèmes d'information
  décisionnels de santé, Gestion des dossiers médicaux de patients,
  Personnalisation et santé.

Nous faisons appel aux chercheurs et aux experts du domaine pour qu’ils
présentent leurs travaux. Nous encourageons également les jeunes
chercheurs et les industriels intéressés par ces questions à participer
à cette manifestation et à se faire connaître. Chaque soumission fera
l’objet d’une évaluation par plusieurs re-lecteurs du comité de
programme. L’atelier est ouvert à la présentation de travaux de
différents stades d'avancement.

Site web de l'atelier : 
--------------------------
https://www.lirmm.fr/ic-sante/

Soumissions :
--------------------------
Les textes (soumission et version finale) doivent être rédigés en
français (en anglais pour les non francophones), de façon anonyme, sur 6
pages maximum en incluant toutes les références et les figures, au
format de la conférence Ingénierie des connaissances
(http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/16). 
Les articles sont à envoyer via le site
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsant2014


Dates importantes :
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* Date limite de soumission : 10 mars 2014 -> Report 16 mars 2014
* Réponse aux auteurs : 31 mars 2014
* Versions définitives des contributions : 14 avril 2014

Organisatrices :
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* Sandra Bringay, LIRMM-UM3, http://www.lirmm.fr/~bringay/
* Nathalie Souf, IRIT-UPS, http://www.irit.fr/~Nathalie.Souf
* Lynda Tamine-Lechani, IRIT-UPS, http://www.irit.fr/~Lynda.Tamine-Lechani/

Comité de programme :
-------------------------------
Jérome Azé, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Audrey Baneyx, Sciences Politiques, Paris 
Catherine Berrut, LIG, Grenoble 
Sandra Bringay, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Jean Charlet, AP-HP & INSERM U1142, Paris 
Adrien Coulet, LORIA, Nancy 
Olivier Cure, LIGM, Paris 
Cedrick Fairon, Université de Louvain 
Natalia Grabar, STL, Lille 
Brigitte Grau, LIMSI, Paris 
Marie-Christine Jaulent, INSERM U1142, Paris 
Clément Jonquet, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Vanda Luengo, LIG, Grenoble 
Fleur Mougin, ERIAS - ISPED, Université de Bordeaux 
Pascal Poncelet, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Mathieu Roche, CIRAD, Montpellier 
Lina Soualmia, LITIS, Rouen 
Nathalie Souf, IRIT, Toulouse 
Lynda Tamine Lechani IRIT, Toulouse 
Maguelonne Teisseire, IRSTEA, Montpellier 
Mouna Torjmen Khemakhem, Université de Sfax, Tunisie 
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, Paris 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:21:46 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:21:46 +0100
Subject: Appel: WASSA 2014 @ACL 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.222146.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:48:35 +0100
From: Alexandra Balahur Dobrescu <alexandra.balahur-dobrescu at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
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Apologies for cross-postings.
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5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and 
Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)
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http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/
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*******************************************************
BACKGROUND
*******************************************************

Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as
subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP),
has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks
was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that
made it possible for people all over the world to share, comment or
consult content on any given topic. In this context, opinions,
sentiments and emotions expressed in Social Media texts have been shown
to have a high influence on the social and economic behaviour worldwide.
SSA systems are highly relevant to many real-world applications (e.g.
marketing, eGovernance, business intelligent, social analysis) and also
to many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) -- information
extraction, question answering, textual entailment, to name just a few.
The importance of this field has been proven by the high number of
approaches proposed in research in the past decade, as well as by the
interest that it raised from other disciplines (Economics, Sociology,
Psychology) and the applications that were created using its technology.
In spite of the growing body of research in the area in the past years,
dealing with affective phenomena in text has proven to be a complex,
interdisciplinary problem that remains far from being solved. Its
challenges include the need to address the issue from different
perspectives and at different levels, depending on the characteristics
of the textual genre, the language(s) treated and the final application
for which the analysis is done.

*******************************************************
ENVISAGED SCOPE OF WASSA 2014
*******************************************************

The aim of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity,
Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014) is to continue the line
of the previous editions, bringing together researchers in Computational
Linguistics working on Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis and
researchers working on interdisciplinary aspects of affect computation
from text. Additionally, starting with WASSA 2013, we extended the focus
to Social Media phenomena and the impact of affect-related phenomena in
this context.  In this new proposed edition, we would like to encourage
the submission of long and short research and demo papers including, but
not restricted to the following topics related to subjectivity and
sentiment analysis:

- Resources for subjectivity, sentiment and social media analysis;
  (semi-)automatic corpora generation and annotation
- Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and
  summarization
- Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis techniques
- Data linking through social networks based on affect-related NLP
  methods
- Impact of affective data from social media
- Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models
- Online reputation management
- Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment 
  analysis
- Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis
- Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective language
- Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task
- Use of Semantic Web technologies for subjectivity and sentiment 
  analysis
- Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis
- Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluations subjectivity and sentiment 
  analysis
- Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks
- Classification of stance in dialogues
- Applications of sentiment and social media analysis systems


In addition, in the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis
systems have been proposed and showcased in the past years, we feel
there is a growing need to make users familiar with these systems and
have them employed for building an end application.  To this aim, we
would like to organize a "Hackathon" (please see details below).

*******************************************************
SENTIMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS HACKATHON
*******************************************************

In the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis systems have
been proposed and showcased in the past years, we feel there is a
growing need to make other researchers and users familiar with these
systems and have them employ them for building an end application.
The Hackathon word stands for "Hacking Marathon", and its purpose is to
introduce some.
The activity will be open to all the people who will sign up for the
workshop.
We plan to organize a half a day session, in the first half presenting
the participating systems and their use and creating teams for
"application" development and leaving the second half of the day for
working on the systems and presenting the results. We plan to give the
participants the possibility to vote on the best application created and
reward the winner with a gadget.

*******************************************************
ORGANIZERS
*******************************************************

Alexandra Balahur
  European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
alexandra.balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu

Erik van der Goot
  European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Erik.van-der-Goot at jrc.ec.europa.eu

Ralf Steinberger
  European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Ralf.Steinberger at jrc.ec.europa.eu

Andrés Montoyo
  University of Alicante, DLSI, Ap. De Correos 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain
montoyo at dlsi.ua.es

*******************************************************
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
*******************************************************

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


*******************************************************
IMPORTANT DATES
*******************************************************

-    Paper submission deadline:  March 21, 2014
-    Notification of acceptance: April 11, 2014
-    Camera-ready deadline: April 29, 2014
-    Workshop to take part at ACL 2014: June 27, 2014

*******************************************************
SUBMISSIONS
*******************************************************

We encourage the submission of long, short and demo papers (especially
describing systems participating in the hackathon)
Long papers for WASSA 2014 must not exceed eight (8) pages without
references. Short papers must not exceed five (5) pages without
references. Papers for WASSA should be submitted using the ACL 2014
Style Files, available at:
Reviewing for WASSA 2014 will be double blind: reviewers will not be 
presented with the identity of paper authors. Authors should avoid 
writing anything that makes their identity obvious in the text.
Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously 
have been formally published.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACL WASSA proceedings. The best 
papers will be chosen for a special issue of an ISI- indexed journal. 
Previous special issues of WASSA were/are in the process of being 
published in the Decision Support Systems, Computer Speech and Language 
and Information Processing and Management journals (Elsevier).
To submit a paper, please access: https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/WASSA/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:14:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:14:18 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL 2014,
 Tutorial on Recent Advances in Dependency Parsing, Gothenburg,
 Sweden, 27 April 2014
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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:14:43 +0100
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

   EACL 2014 Tutorial: Recent Advances in Dependency Parsing
   Ryan McDonald, Joakim Nivre
   Gothenburg, Sweden, Sunday 27 April 2014
   http://eacl2014.org/tutorial-dependency-parsing


Syntactic parsing is a fundamental problem in natural language
processing which has been tackled using a wide variety of approaches.
In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in parsers that make
use of dependency structures, which offer a simple and transparent
encoding of predicate-argument structure and can be derived accurately
and efficiency using parsers trained on annotated corpora. Thanks to
their simplicity, transparency and efficiency, dependency parsers are in
widespread use for applications such as information extraction, question
answering, machine translation, language modeling, semantic role
labeling, and textual entailment.

This tutorial will focus on advances in dependency parsing that are not
covered in textbooks or previous tutorials, which means roughly work
from 2008 and onwards. However, in order to make the material accessible
to participants without a background in dependency parsing, we will
spend roughly the first quarter of the tutorial going over basic
concepts and techniques in the field, including the theoretical
foundations of dependency grammar and basic definitions of
representations, tasks, and evaluation metrics. After reviewing the
basic concepts, we will introduce the two dominant paradigms in early
work on data-driven dependency parsing -- global, exhaustive,
graph-based parsing and local, greedy, transition-based parsing -- and
review the contrastive error analysis presented in McDonald and Nivre
(2007), which highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of the two models
and set the challenge to improve both graph-based and transition-based
methods. This provides a basis for understanding many of the later
developments covered in the tutorial. The rest of the tutorial will be
divided into two main parts, covering advances in graph-based parsing
and related approaches, on the one hand, and advances based on
transition-based parsing, on the other. We will finish off with a
synthesizing conclusion and outlook for the future.

Research on graph-based dependency parsing in recent years has to a
large extent been driven by the wish to make efficient use of
higher-order models, thereby overcoming the limitations of strictly
local feature representations found in early models. As a consequence,
there has been developments towards specialized exact inference and
approximate inference methods, the latter especially for non-projective
parsing. In addition, there has been work on trying to find exact
dynamic programming solutions for restricted subsets of non-projective
structures, often referred to as mildly non-projective dependency trees.

Recent work on transition-based dependency parsing has focused on two
lines of research, often in combination. The first line has been
concerned with improving the search techniques through the use of beam
search, dynamic programming, and easy-first inference, thereby
overcoming the limitations of greedy left-to-right search. The second
line has been to improve the learning methods by moving to global
structured learning and or imitation learning with exploration, thereby
countering the negative effects of local classifier learning.  In
addition, there has been work on joint morphological and syntactic
analysis.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:17:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:17:06 +0100
Subject: ATALA: Adhesion 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.141706.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 23:20:39 +0100
From: "Antoniadis" <georges.antoniadis at u-grenoble3.fr>
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Chers membres de la liste LN, 

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


La publication de la revue numérique TAL, 

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

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

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

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


sont autant d'activités menées bénévolement par les membres de
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comptons donc sur l'esprit associatif des adhérents et sur leurs
cotisations pour maintenir le dynamisme et la qualité scientifique du
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Nous vous rappelons le tarif des adhésions pour l'année 2014 : 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:28:29 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:28:29 +0100
Subject: Journee: AFIA - ATALA, Langue,
 apprentissage automatique et fouille de donnees, Paris, 25 mars
 2014
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:32:11 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
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APPEL À PARTICIPATION --- merci de diffuser largement

LANGUE, APPRENTISSAGE AUTOMATIQUE ET FOUILLE DE DONNÉES

Cette journée regroupe des interventions qui présentent un état de l'art
ou un tutoriel sur les thématiques de l'apprentissage et de la fouille
de données en relation avec le traitement automatique des langues. Pour
tous publics : étudiants, chercheurs, ingénieurs, etc.

   Journée commune AFIA - ATALA
   http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Journée+commune+AFIA+-+ATALA+2014

   25 mars 2014
   Auditorium de l'INALCO, Paris 13e
   Adresse : https://www.inalco.fr/ina_gabarit_rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=2770

INSCRIPTION À LA JOURNÉE

La journée est soutenue par l'AFIA et l'ATALA, la participation à la
journée est libre et gratuite.  Pour des raisons de logistique, nous
vous demandons néanmoins de vous inscrire :

     https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cDThoom7k-UBHhvc0ulGfuzr6B6pAoEDI6IvmDpsvGk/viewform

PROGRAMME

============================================================
8h45 Introduction
   Présentation de l'AFIA (Yves Demazeau, président de l'AFIA)
   Présentation de l'ATALA (Patrick Paroubek, président de l'ATALA)
   Présentation de la journée (Pierre Zweigenbaum et Brigitte Grau)

9h15
     Méthodes statistiques en traitement des langues :
     État des lieux et perspectives
     François Yvon (LIMSI)

10h00 pause

10h30 Apprendre des représentations continues/distribuées de mots et de
      documents
      Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI), Benjamin Piwovarski (LIP6)

11h30 Apprentissage automatique symbolique pour le TAL : intérêts et
      limites
      Isabelle Tellier (LATTICE)

12h15-13h45 repas libre

13h45 Fouille de données pour le TAL
      Peggy Cellier (IRISA), Damien Nouvel (LIMSI), Thierry Charnois
      (LIPN)

14h45 Analyse syntaxique en dépendances avec des approches
      discriminantes
      Alexis Nasr (LIF)

15h30 pause

16h00 Tutoriel : CRF linéaire
     Thomas Lavergne (LIMSI)

16h45 clôture
============================================================

COORDINATEURS DE LA JOURNÉE

Pierre Zweigenbaum & Brigitte Grau (LIMSI, Orsay)

COMITÉ DE PROGRAMME

Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI, Orsay)
Massih-Reza Amini (LIG, Grenoble)
Patrice Bellot (LSIS, Marseille)
Thierry Charnois (LIPN, Villetaneuse)
Vincent Claveau (IRISA, Rennes)
Bruno Crémilleux (GREYC, Caen)
Pascal Denis (INRIA, Lille)
Gaël Dias (GREYC, Caen)
Olivier Ferret (CEA, Palaiseau)
Patrick Gallinari (LIP6, Paris)
Éric Gaussier (LIG, Grenoble)
Brigitte Grau (LIMSI, Orsay)
Alexis Nasr (LIF, Marseille)
Mathieu Roche (CIRAD, Montpellier)
Isabelle Tellier (LATTICE, Paris)
Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno (LIA, Avignon)
Yannick Toussaint (LORIA, Nancy)
Mathieu Valette (INALCO, Paris)
Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT, Toulouse)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI, Orsay)

Plus de détails sur :
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:39:52 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:39:52 +0100
Subject: Appel: Call for System Demonstrations, COLING 2014
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:59:26 +0000
From: John Judge <jjudge at computing.dcu.ie>
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********** Apologies for cross-posting **********

COLING 2014 Call for System Demonstrations
The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August
23 - 29, 2014, Dublin, Ireland

http://www.coling-2014.org

Important dates
19 May 2014: Paper submission deadline
23 June 2014: Author notification
7 July 2014: Camera-ready paper submission deadline


The COLING 2014 Demonstration Programme Committee invites proposals for
system demonstrations. The demonstration programme is part of the main
conference programme and aims at showcasing working systems that apply a
wide range of conference topics. The session will provide opportunities
to exchange ideas gained from implementing NLP systems, and to obtain
feedback from expert users.

COLING 2014 will be held in Dublin, Ireland from 23-29 August 2014.

The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s. It is
held every two years and regularly attracts more than 700 delegates. The
conference has developed into one of the premier Natural Language
Processing (NLP) conferences worldwide and is a major international
event for the presentation of new research results and for the
demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of
Computational Linguistics and NLP.

Topics of interest
COLING 2014 solicits demonstrations on original and unpublished research
on the following topics, including, but not limited to:

- pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon;
- cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language
  processing;
- models of communication by language;
- lexical semantics and ontologies;
- word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
- parsing, both syntactic and deep;
- generation and summarisation;
- paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering;
- speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding;
- multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
- information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge base
  linking;
- machine learning for natural language;
- modelling of discourse and dialogue;
- sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media;
- multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
- applications, tools and language resources;
- system evaluation methodology and metrics.


Submissions
The submissions should address the following questions:
- What is the problem the proposed system addresses?
- Why is the system important and what is its impact?
- What is the novelty of the used approach/technology?
- Who is the target audience?
- How does the system work?
- How does it compare with existing systems?
- How is the system licenced?

The maximum submission length is 4 pages (including references). Papers
shall be submitted in English and must conform to the official COLING
2014 style guidelines available on the conference website. The
anonymisation of submissions is optional. If authors choose to remain
anonymous, it is their responsibility to take every measure to conceal
potentially identifying information.
http://www.coling-2014.org/instructions-for-authors.php

Submission and reviewing will be managed in the START system:
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/demos/

The only accepted format for submissions is PDF. Accepted papers will
appear in the conference proceedings in a dedicated volume for
demonstration systems.


Demonstration chairs
Lamia Tounsi, CNGL, Dublin City University, Ireland
Rafal Rak, NaCTeM, University of Manchester, UK


Programme Committee
Michiel Bacchiani, Google Inc.
Kay Berkling, Cooperative State University, Karlsruhe
Ann Bies, Linguistic Data Consortium
William Black, University of Manchester
Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University
Chris Brew, Nuance Communications
Aoife Cahill, Educational Testing Service
Vittorio Castelli, IBM
Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, IBM
Léa Deleris, IBM
Martin Emms, Trinity College Dublin
Guillaume Gravier, IRISA & INRIA Rennes
Keith Hall, Google Research
Derrick Higgins, Educational Testing Service
Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo
Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universität Berlin
Daxin Jiang, Microsoft STC-A
John Kelleher, Trinity College Dublin
Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd
BalaKrishna Kolluru, Toshiba
Seamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin
Saturnino Luz, Trinity College Dublin
Nitin Madnani, Educational Testing Service
Hilary McDonald, Trinity College Dublin
Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Peter Mika, Yahoo Labs
Tony O'Dowd, KantanMT
Florian Pinel, IBM
Johann Roturier, Symantec
Andrew Rowley, University of Manchester
Frédérique Segond, Viseo Research
Swapna Somasundaran, Educational Testing Services
Tomoki Toda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Xinglong Wang, Brandwatch
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:18:00 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:18:00 +0100
Subject: Appel: JFIM 2014, Fes, date limite 31 mars 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.141800.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:35:18 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
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JFIM 2014 - Premier appel : merci de diffuser largement

============================================================
15e Journées Francophones d'Informatique Médicale
11-13 juin 2014
Fès, Maroc
http://imia.limsi.fr/jfim2014/ (en travaux)
============================================================

DATES IMPORTANTES
      31 mars 2014	Date limite de soumission
      30 avril 2014	Notification aux auteurs
       15 mai 2014	Retour des communications finalisées
       12-13 juin 2014	Conférence

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

La quinzième édition des Journées francophones d'informatique médicale
se tiendra à la Faculté de médecine de Fès, au Maroc, les 12 et 13 Juin
2014. Ces 15e JFIM seront organisées par la Société Marocaine
d’Informatique Médicale (SMIM) et auront lieu à la suite du Congrès
National d’Informatique Médicale (CNIM) qui se tiendra les 11 et 12
juin. Le comité scientifique des JFIM est placé sous l’égide du SIG
francophone de l’IMIA, en collaboration avec les autres sociétés
francophones d’informatique médicale.

THÈMES

Connaissances et informations médicales
     Ontologies ; standards ; terminologies
     Fouille de données et de textes ; traitement automatique des
     langues
     Imagerie et simulation
     Aide à la décision et guides de bonnes pratiques
     Diagnostic ; traitement ; pronostic ; stratification des risques

Systèmes d'information en santé
     Développement et évaluation des systèmes d'information cliniques
     Infrastructures et systèmes d'information de santé régionaux et
     nationaux

Facteurs humains
Enseignement et formation en informatique
Qualité, caractère privé et sécurité de l'information
Évaluation des systèmes et de leur utilisabilité cognitive
Questions éthiques et mesures réglementaires en informatique

SOUMISSIONS

Les participants sont invités à proposer un article long (de 8 à 12
pages hors références), un article court (4 à 6 pages hors références)
ou le résumé d'une affiche (résumé d'une page hors références).  Le
comité scientifique se réserve le droit de convertir une proposition
d'une catégorie à une autre. Seuls les articles seront publiés.

Les propositions doivent être soumises au format PDF à l'adresse
     https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jfim2014
     (les feuilles de style seront fournies sous peu)

PUBLICATION

Les actes de la conférences seront publiés dans la série CEUR.org
(ISSN 1613-0073) à accès ouvert et gratuit.

COMITÉ SCIENTIFIQUE
(en cours de complétion)
Présidents : Pierre Zweigenbaum et Cheick Oumar Bagayoko
(co-présidents du SIG francophone de l'IMIA)

COMITÉ D'ORGANISATION
(en cours de complétion)
Mohammed Bennani Othmani (Casablanca, Maroc, président de la SMIMS)
Chakib Nejjari (Fès, Maroc)
Zineb Sehrier (Fès, Maroc)

JFIM : http://imia.limsi.fr/jfim2014/
CNIM : http://www.smims.ma/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:18:39 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:18:39 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste de professeur, Humanites Numeriques,
 Universite Stendhal Grenoble 3, 1er septembre 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.141839.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:47:31 +0100
From: Agnès Tutin <agnes.tutin at u-grenoble3.fr>
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Bonjour,

Un poste de professeur en Humanités Numériques sera à pourvoir à
l'Université Stendhal au 1er septembre 2014 (sections 7-27).  Cf. profil
sur :
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ListesPostesPublies/ANTEE/2014_1/0381840U/FOPC_0381840U_4083.pdf

Bien à vous

Agnès Tutin
Université Stendhal

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:40:41 +0100
Subject: Job: Viseo, Offre CDI recherche en data Mining
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.144041.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:56:31 +0000
From: Frederique Segond <fsegond at objetdirect.com>
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X-url: http://www.viseo.net/
X-url: http://www.viseo.net/viseo-recherche-et-developpement

Viseo http://www.viseo.net/ the French leader in information systems is
looking for an exceptional researcher in the field of data mining with
strong skills in machine learning and statistics at their research and
development centre located in Grenoble, France
http://www.viseo.net/viseo-recherche-et-developpement.

Desired Skills and Experience

Candidates must have:

A PhD in Data Ming, Machine Learning or related subject Development
Experience in an 'OO' language; C, C++, C#, Java ???

good publications and research records

Good team spirit

interest in technology transfer

knowledge of Semantic Web is a plus

Good English and French skills are a plus



For more information or applications contact: fsegond at viseo.net

Dr Frédérique SEGOND


Responsable Centre de Recherche
Research Centre Manager
http://www.viseo.net/viseo-recherche-et-developpement

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:20:02 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:20:02 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage, James Pustejovsky, 2 seances (28 mars et 4
 avril), Computational Models of Events
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.142002.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:18:37 +0100
From: Marie Candito <marie.candito at gmail.com>
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************* Séminaire de l'équipe Alpage *********

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

James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, professeur invité à Alpage),
donnera 2 séances liées :

- vendredi 28 mars
- vendredi 4 avril

de 11h à 12h15,

Attention : lieu inhabituel :

salle 265E
*Bâtiment Halle aux Farines*
10 rue Françoise Dolto
75013 Paris

Toute personne intéressée est la bienvenue.

*********************************************************
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University :

Computational Models of Events (Two Lectures)

Abstract :

The notion of event has long been central for both modeling the
semantics of natural language as well as reasoning in goal-driven tasks
in artificial intelligence. This talk examines developments in
computational models for events, bringing together recent work from the
areas of semantics, logic, computer science, and computational
linguistics. The goal is to look at event structure from a unifying
perspective, enabled by a new synthesis of how these disciplines have
approached the problem. This entails examining the structure of events
at all levels impacted by linguistic expressions: (a) predicate
decomposition and subatomic event structure; (b) atomic events and the
mapping to syntax; (c) events in discourse structure; and (d) causation
in the macro-event structure of narratives and scripts.

This talk outlines a unified theory of event structure. The demands on
such a theory require it to both facilitate the systematic mapping from
semantic forms to syntactic representations and support event-based
inferences in texts. What emerges is a framework that represents a
situation and its participants in terms of subevents, modeled
dynamically through time and space. In addition, the theory must
identify events as part of larger scenarios and scripts. The course
covers recent work in this direction and models unifiying these
representational levels for event-based reasoning.

Common to all traditions is the view that events are the means by which
we model situations and changes in our world. We first examine the
subatomic structure of events from the perspective of hybrid modal
logic, using dynamic and linear temporal logics as our means of encoding
change.  Then, we look at the properties of atomic event structure, and
the effects of discourse relations on temporal inferencing.  Next, we
examine the problem of identifying where events happens, which is
critical for any deep causal reasoning involving events and their
participants.  We will develop a procedure for "event localization",
which is the process of identifying the spatial extent of an event,
activity, or situation.  Finally, we examine events above the level of
the sentence and local discourse. That is, we study how events are
structured within larger narratives and scripts, reflecting
conventionalized patterns of behavior and causal and coherence relations
within texts and discourse.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:43:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:43:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: First Joint Workshop SPMRL-SANCL 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.144320.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:09:06 +0100
From: Djamé Seddah <djame.seddah at inria.fr>
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First Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich
Languages and Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Languages (SPMRL-SANCL
2014)

ENDORSED BY SIGPARSE

Co-located with Coling 2014, August 23/24 in Dublin, Ireland

SPMRL-SANCL 2014 will feature a shared task on semi-supervised parsing
morphologically rich languages.

Outline

Statistical parsing of morphologically-rich languages has repeatedly
been shown to exhibit non-trivial challenges including, among others,
sparse lexica in the face of rich inflectional systems, parsing
deficiency in the face of free word order and treebank annotation
idiosyncrasies in the face of morphosyntactic interactions.

Similar problems arise for parsing non-canonical languages. Besides
technical issues such as lexical sparseness and ad-hoc structures, we
also face theoretical problems including constructions that do not, or
very seldomly occur in standard language, such as verbless sentences or
complex hashtags.

The first joint SPMRL-SANCL workshop addresses both the challenge of
parsing MRLs and NCLs. It provides a forum for research addressing the
often overlapping issues of both fields with the goal of identifying
cross-cutting issues in the annotation and parsing methodology for such
languages.

Areas of interest

The areas of interest of the SPMRL-SANCL workshop include, but are not
limited to, the following list of topics:

- applying cutting-edge parsing techniques to new languages and domains

- strengths and weaknesses of current parsing techniques when applied to
  morphologically-rich and/or non-canonical language

- insights and techniques that are targeted at improving parsing quality
  for morphologically-rich and/or non-canonical language

- using insights from parsing and associated processing problems to
  motivate decisions in the creation of new syntactically annotated
  corpora

- annotation and parsing of data from domains and genres that are not
  yet covered for many languages

- discussing the role of parsing in higher-level NLP applications
  involving MRLs and NCLs, e.g. syntax-enhanced MT and semantic
  analysis.


Shared Task

The workshop will also host the second shared task on parsing
morphologically rich language (see
http://spmrl.org/spmrl2014-sharedtask.html).  The first shared task was
held in conjunction with SPMRL 2013.  It helped show that carefully
engineered approaches can help to push the envelope on languages such as
Hungarian, Basque, Hebrew and Polish, where the shared task results for
constituency parsing are the best current known for those languages. The
task embodied a focus on realistic scenarios (no gold tokenization, no
gold part-of-speech or morphology), as well as meaningful evaluation
measures, including a cross-framework evaluation that permits
comparisons between constituent and dependency parsing models.

The second installment of the Shared Task will feature a similar range
of languages. Moreover, it will also consider a semi-supervised scenario
where larger quantities of in-domain text are available. These unlabeled
data are aimed to be used for self-training, co-training, lexical
acquisition, generating word clusters, word embeddings and so on. A
separate call for the Shared Task is forthcoming.

Special Track on Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Language

In addition to regular paper submissions, we solicit poster submissions
addressing the syntactic analysis of frequent phenomena of non-canonical
language, which are difficult to annotate and parse using conventional
annotation schemes. Cases in point are the representation of verbless
utterances in a dependency scheme, the pros and cons of different
representations of disfluencies for statistical parsing, or the analysis
of complex hashtags which incorporate and merge different syntactic
arguments into one token. The posters should focus, in more detail, on
one more of these issues.

More details on the submission categories for the poster session can be
found below and at: http://spmrl.org/sancl-posters2014.html

Important Dates

  --------------------- -----------------------
  Submission deadline   May 2, 2014
  Author Notification   June 6, 2014
  Camera ready copy     June 27, 2014
  Workshop              August (23/24?), 2014
  --------------------- -----------------------

How to Submit

We solicit the following submission categories:
- long papers (up to 11 pages excluding references)
- short papers (up to 6 pages excluding references)
- abstracts (500 words excluding examples/references, for SANCL poster
  topics)
- shared task paper submissions (deadline/format will be disclosed
  later)

Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial and
completed research addressing a topic relevant to either SANCL or SPMRL.

Short papers are suited for presenting work in progress, position papers
or short, focused contributions relevant to either SANCL or SPMRL
(including the poster session topics described above and, in more
detail, here).

Both long and short papers should present original, unpublished
research. They will be peer reviewed and will be presented as either an
oral talk or as a poster at the workshop. Long/short papers will be
included in the proceedings. Abstract submissions are most appropriate
for presenting an idea for an analysis for one or more of the poster
topics. In contrast to long/short paper submissions, abstract
submissions do not need to back up their ideas with experimental
results. Abstract submission will receive a yes/no review and will not
be included in the proceedings.

Submissions will be accepted until May, 2 , 2014, (11:59 p.m. PST) in
PDF format via the START system and must be formatted using the Coling
2014 formatting instructions:
http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php

Organizers

Workshop

- Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
- Yuval Marton (Microsoft Inc., US)
- Ines Rehbein (Potsdam University, Germany)
- Yannick Versley (Heidelberg University, Germany)
- Özlem Çetinoğlu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Joel Tetreault (Yahoo! Labs, US)

SANCL Special Track

- Ines Rehbein (Potsdam University, Germany)
- Özlem Çetinoğlu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Djamé Seddah (Université Paris Sorbonne & INRIA's Alpage Project,
  France)
- Joel Tetreault (Yahoo! Labs, US)

Shared task

- Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, US)
- Djamé Seddah (Université Paris Sorbonne & INRIA's Alpage Project,
  France)
- Reut Tsarfaty (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Program committee

- Bernd Bohnet (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Marie Candito (University of Paris 7, France)
- Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service Inc., US)
- Jinho D. Choi (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)
- Grzegorz Chrupala (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
- Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
- Markus Dickinson (Indiana University, US)
- Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
- Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)
- Richard Farkas (University of Szeged, Hungary)
- Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland)
- Josef van Genabith (DFKI, Germany)
- Koldo Gojenola (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
- Spence Green (Stanford University, US)
- Samar Husain (Potsdam University, Germany)
- Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, US)
- Joseph Le Roux (Université Paris-Nord, France)
- John Lee (City University of Hong Kong, China)
- Wolfgang Maier (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
- Takuya Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- David McClosky (IBM Research, US)
- Detmar Meurers (University of Tübingen, Germany)
- Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
- Adam Przepiorkowski (ICS PAS, Poland)
- Owen Rambow (Columbia University, US)
- Kenji Sagae (University of Southern California, US)
- Benoit Sagot (Inria, France)
- Djamé Seddah (Univ. Paris Sorbonne, France)
- Wolfgang Seeker (IMS Stuttgart, Germany)
- Anders Soogard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- Lamia Tounsi (Dublin City University, Ireland)
- Daniel Zeman (Charles University, Czechia)

Contact

For general questions about the workshop, please email
- spmrl.sancl at gmail.com. 
  For specific questions about the shared task,
  please email the shared task organizers 
- spmrl.sharedtask at gmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:33:23 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:33:23 +0100
Subject: Appel: WoLLIC 2014
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:17:48 -0300
From: Ruy de Queiroz <ruy at cin.ufpe.br>
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DEADLINE APPROACHING!


[Please circulate. Apologies for any cross-postings.]


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


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

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

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


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

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

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

INVITED SPEAKERS
Verónica Becher (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki)
Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg)
Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University)
Luca Vigano (Università di Verona)
Thomas Wilke (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

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

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

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ulrich Kohlenbach (Technische Universität Darmstadt) - Chair
Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)
Eric Allender (Rutgers University)
Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University)
Stefano Berardi (Università di Torino)
Julian Bradfield (University of Edinburgh)
Xavier Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes de Chile)
Olivier Danvy (University of Aarhus)
Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA)
Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld)
Michiel van Lambalgen (University of Amsterdam)
Klaus Meer (Technische Universität Cottbus)
George Metcalfe (University of Bern)
Dale Miller (INRIA/LIX)
Russell Miller (City University of New York)
Sara Negri (University of Helsinki)
Grigory Olkhovikov (Urals State University)
Nicole Schweikardt (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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

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

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

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


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:35:00 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:35:00 +0100
Subject: Appel: PolTAL 2014 (9th International Conference on Natural
 Language Processing), Warsaw, 17-19 September 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.143500.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:41:02 +0100
From: Adam Przepiorkowski <adamp at ipipan.waw.pl>
Message-ID: <87txb3m6xd.fsf at bach.ipipan.waw.pl>
X-url: http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl/


Registration is now open – and submissions are welcome until 30 March
2014 – for:

                              PolTAL 2014
      9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing

                             Warsaw, Poland
                          17–19 September 2014
                      http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl/

PolTAL 2014 is the ninth in the series of the TAL conferences, following
JapTAL 2012 (Kanazawa, Japan), IceTAL 2010 (Reykjavík, Iceland), GoTAL
2008 (Gothenburg, Sweden), FinTAL 2006 (Turku, Finland), EsTAL 2004
(Alicante, Spain), PorTAL 2002 (Faro, Portugal), VexTAL 1999 (Venice,
Italy) and FracTAL 1997 (Besançon, France).

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

The conference is organised and hosted by the Institute of Computer
Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.


PROCEEDINGS:

PolTAL 2014 proceedings will appear in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series, as
in case of previous TAL conferences.
 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

- Johan Bos, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge, UK
- Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK


SCOPE:

Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished
research on all aspects of computational linguistics and natural
language and speech processing, including, but not limited to:

- word segmentation, tagging and chunking,
- syntax, parsing and grammar formalisms,
- lexical semantics and word sense disambiguation,
- compositional semantics and semantic parsing,
- distributional and model-theoretic approaches to semantics,
- pragmatics, discourse and dialogue,
- linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language,
- language resources and tools,
- lexicon, lexical databases and ontologies,
- corpus linguistics and corpus-based language modelling,
- information retrieval, question answering and information extraction,
- generation and summarisation,
- machine translation, translation aids and multilingual systems,
- dialogue systems and multimodal systems,

as well as:

- phonetics, phonology and morphology,
- speech recognition and speech synthesis,
- simulation and visualisation,
- knowledge acquisition and representation,
- text and speech interfaces,
- text and speech classification,
- systems evaluation.

 
SUBMISSIONS:

We welcome submissions both from the academia and the industry on any
topic that is of interest to the NLP community, particularly encouraging
research emphasising multidisciplinary and linguistic aspects of
Computational Linguistics.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least three programme committee
members. The submissions will be judged on relevance, originality,
technical quality and presentation. Papers can be submitted in two
categories:

- full papers (up to 12 pages), describing substantial research with
  well-evaluated results,
- short papers (up to 5 pages), typically describing ongoing research
  and preliminary results.

At the conference, full papers will be presented as talks and short
papers will be presented as posters.

Submissions should be made via EasyChair, at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=poltal2014.  They should be
formatted according to LNCS specifications at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. We strongly
encourage the use of LaTeX2e:

- direct link to the LNCS package:
  ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip,
- direct link to the default author instructions:
  ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/instruct/authors/typeinst.zip.

Submissions must be anonymous. Page limits include bibliography,
appendices, if any, etc.  All submissions should be in the PDF format.


IMPORTANT DATES:

- January 2014: submission open
- March 2014: registration open

- 30 March 2014: SUBMISSION DEADLINE

- 10 May 2014: acceptance notifications sent out
- 1 June 2014: deadline for early-bird registration
- 1 June 2014: camera-ready papers ready
- 17–19 September 2014: PolTAL 2014


REGISTRATION:

Is open at: http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/registration/.  Note
that early-bird registration is possible until 1 June 2014.


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

- Tilman Becker, DFKI, Germany
- Chris Biemann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
- Igor Boguslavsky, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, and
  Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of
  Sciences, Russia
- Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Johan Bos, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Caroline Brun, Xerox Corporation, France
- Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany
- Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Sylviane Cardey, University of Franche-Comté, France
- Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge, UK
- Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Markus Dickinson, Indiana University, USA
- Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA
- Dan Flickinger, Stanford University, USA
- Mikel L. Forcada, University of Alicante, Spain
- Filip Ginter, University of Turku, Finland
- Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris Diderot, France
- Thomas Hain, University of Sheffield, UK
- Janne Bondi Johannessen, University of Oslo, Norway
- Laura Kallmeyer, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
- Ron Kaplan, Nuance Communications, USA
- Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University, Germany
- Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, USA
- Krister Lindén, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Krzysztof Marasek, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information
  Technology, Poland
- Géza Németh, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
- Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Pierre Nugues, University of Lund, Sweden
- Guy Perrier, INRIA Lorraine, France
- Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland
- Adam Przepiórkowski, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of
  Sciences, Poland (chair)
- Aarne Ranta, Chalmers University and University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Agata Savary, Université François Rabelais Tours, France
- Sabine Schulte im Walde, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Koenraad de Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway
- Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Sebastian Stüker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Izabella Thomas, University of Franche-Comté, France
- Reut Tsarfaty, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Martin Volk, University of Zurich, Switzerland


CONTACT – Organising Committee chairs:

- Maciej Ogrodniczuk
- Adam Przepiórkowski

Contact e-mail address: poltal at chopin.ipipan.waw.pl.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:31:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:31:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: CogALex-4,
 pre-COLING workshop with a shared task devoted to the 'lexical
 access-problem'
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.143155.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:25:29 +0800
From: Michael Zock <Michael.Zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <53207C69.9090109 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-webpage/index.html

Apologies for multiple postings
Please distribute to colleagues

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

1st Call for Papers

4th WORKSHOP ON COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF THE LEXICON (CogALex)
together with a shared task concerning the ‘lexical access-problem’

Pre-conference workshop at COLING 2014 (August 23d, Dublin, Ireland)

Submission deadline: May 25, 2014


Invited speaker: Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)

For more information, see :
http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-webpage/index.html
(Beware though that this page is still under construction)

==============================================================
GOAL

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers involved in the
construction and application of electronic dictionaries to discuss
modifications of existing resources in line with the users' needs,
thereby fully exploiting the advantages of the digital form. Given the
breadth of the questions, we welcome reports on work from many
perspectives, including but not limited to: computational lexicography,
psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, language learning and
ergonomics.


MOTIVATION

The way we look at dictionaries (their creation and use) has changed
dramatically over the past 30 years. While being considered as an
appendix to grammar in the past, by now they have moved to centre
stage. Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP which can be conducted
without them. Also, rather than being static entities (data-base view),
dictionaries are now viewed as dynamic networks, i.e. graphs, whose
nodes and links (connection strengths) may change over
time. Interestingly, properties concerning topology, clustering and
evolution known from other disciplines (society, economy, human brain)
also apply to dictionaries: everything is linked, hence accessible, and
everything is evolving. Given these similarities, one may wonder what we
can learn from these disciplines.

In this 4th edition of the CogALex workshop we therefore also invite
scientists working in these fields, with the goal to broaden the
picture, i.e. to gain a better understanding concerning the mental
lexicon and to integrate these findings into our dictionaries in order
to support navigation. Given recent advances in neurosciences, it
appears timely to seek inspiration from neuroscientists studying the
human brain. There is also a lot to be learned from other fields
studying graphs and networks, even if their object of study is something
else than language, for example biology, economy or society.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources and
electronic dictionaries. To perform the groundwork for the next
generation of such resources we invite researchers involved in the
building of such tools.  The idea is to discuss modifications of
existing resources by taking the users’ needs and knowledge states into
account, and to capitalize on the advantages of the digital media. For
this workshop we solicit papers including but not limited to the
following topics, each of which can be considered from various points of
view: linguistics, neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip of the tongue
problem, associations), network related sciences (sociology, economy,
biology), mathematics (vector-based approaches, graph theory,
small-world problem), etc.


1) Analysis of the conceptual input of a dictionary user

  - What does a language producer start from (bag of words)?

  - What is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message and
    looking for a word?

  - What does it take to bridge the gap between this input and the
    desired output (target word)?


2) The meaning of words

  - Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed)
  - Meaning representation (concept based, primitives)
  - Revelation of hidden information (distributional semantics, latent
    semantics, vector-based approaches: LSA/HAL)
  - Neural models, neurosemantics, neurocomputational theories of
    content representation.


3) Structure of the lexicon

  - Discovering structures in the lexicon: formal and semantic point of
    view (clustering, topical structure)
  - Creative ways of getting access to and using word associations
    (reading between the lines, subliminal communication);
  - Evolution, i.e. dynamic aspects of the lexicon (changes of weights)
  - Neural models of the mental lexicon (distribution of information
    concerning words, organisation of words)


4) Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes

  - Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and
    indexes (crowd-sourcing, serious games, etc.)
  - Impact and use of social networks (Facebook, Twitter) for building
    dictionaries, for organizing and indexing the data (clustering of
    words), and for allowing to track navigational strategies, etc.
  - (Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g. synonym,
    hypernym, meronym, association, collocation, ...)
  - Use of corpora and patterns (data-mining) for getting access to
    words, their uses, combinations and associations


5) Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies, interface issues,...)

  - Search based on sound, meaning or associations
  - Search (simple query vs multiple words)
  - Context-dependent search (modification of users’ goals during search)
  - Recovery
  - Navigation (frequent navigational patterns or search strategies used
    by people)
  - Interface problems, data-visualisation

6) Dictionary applications

  - Methods supporting vocabulary learning (for example, creation of
    data-bases showing words in various contexts)
  - Tools for supporting Human translation


IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submissions: May 25, 2014
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014
Camera-ready papers due: July 7, 2014
Workshop date: August 23, 2014


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should follow the COLING main conference formatting details
(http:// www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php) and should be
submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/WS-1/ (you must register first).

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submission must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding six (6) pages
(references included). Characteristics of short papers include: a small,
focused contribution; work in progress; a negative result; a piece of
opinion; an interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must
describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without
exceeding twelve (12) pages (references included).

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

For further details see:
http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-webpage/index.html

SHARED TASK

We invite participation in a shared task devoted to the problem of
lexical access in language production, with the aim of providing a
quantitative comparison between different systems.

Motivation of shared task

The quality of a dictionary depends not only on coverage, but also on
the accessibility of the information. That is, a crucial point is
dictionary access. Access strategies vary with the task (text
understanding vs. text production) and the knowledge available at the
very moment of consultation (words, concepts, speech sounds). Unlike
readers who look for meanings, writers start from them, searching for
the corresponding words. While paper dictionaries are static, permitting
only limited strategies for accessing information, their electronic
counterparts promise dynamic, proactive search via multiple criteria
(meaning, sound, related words) and via diverse access
routes. Navigation takes place in a huge conceptual lexical space, and
the results are displayable in a multitude of forms (e.g. as trees, as
lists, as graphs, or sorted alphabetically, by topic, by frequency).

To bring some structure into this multitude of possibilities, the shared
task will concentrate on a crucial subtask, namely multiword
association.  we will organize a novel type of shared task which will
allow quantitative comparisons between different systems. The task
chosen is multiword association.

What we mean by this in the context of this workshop is the
following. Suppose, we were looking for a word expressing the following
ideas: ísuperior dark coffee made of beans from Arabiaí, but could not
remember the intended word mocha. Since people always remember something
concerning the elusive word, it would be nice to have a system accepting
this kind of input, to propose then a number of candidates for the
target word. Given the above example, we might enter dark, coffee,
beans, and Arabia, and the system would be supposed to come up with
lists of associated words such as mocha, espresso, or cappuccino.


Procedure

The participants will receive lists of five given words (primes) such as
'circus', 'funny', 'nose', 'fool', and 'fun' and are supposed to compute
the word which is most closely associated to all of them. In this case,
the word 'clown' would be the expected answer. Here are some more
examples:

given words: gin, drink, scotch, bottle, soda
expected answer: whisky

given words: wheel, driver, bus, drive, lorry
expected answer: car

given words: neck, animal, zoo, long, tall
expected answer: giraffe

given words: holiday, work, sun, summer, abroad
expected answer: vacation

given words: home, garden, door, boat, chimney
expected answer: house

given words: blue, cloud, stars, night, high
expected answer: sky

We will provide a training set of 2000 sets of five input words
(multiword stimuli), together with the expected target words
(associative response). The participants will have several weeks to
train their systems on this data. After the the training phase, we will
release a test set containing another 2000 sets of five input words, but
without providing the expected target words.

Participants will have five days to run their systems on the test data,
thereby predicting the target words. For each system, we will compare
the results to the expected target words and compute an accuracy. The
participants will be invited to submit a paper describing their approach
and the results.

For the participating systems, we will distinguish two categories: (1)
Unrestricted systems. They can use any kind of data to compute their
results.  (2) Restricted systems: These systems are only allowed to draw
on the freely available ukWaC corpus (comprising 2 billion words) in
order to extract information on word associations. Participants are
allowed to compete in either category or in both.


Schedule for Shared Task

  - Training Data Release: March 25, 2014
  - Test Data Release: May 5, 2014
  - Final Results: May 9, 2014
  - Deadline for Paper Submission: May 25, 2014
  - Reviewers' feedback: June, 15, 2014
  - Camera-Ready Version: July 7, 2014
  - Workshop date: August 23, 2014

All data releases to be found on the workshop website.


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

  - Bel Enguix, Gemma(LIF-CNRS, France) and (GRLMC, Tarragona, Spain)
  - Chang, Jason(National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
  - Cook, Paul(University of Melbourne, Australia)
  - Cristea, Dan(University A.I.Cuza, Iasi, Romania)
  - De Deyne, Simon(Experimental Psychology, Leuven, Belgium) and
    (Adelaide, Australia)
  - De Melo, Gerard(IIIS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
  - Ferret, Olivier(CEA LIST, Gif sur Yvette, France)
  - Fontenelle, Thierry(CDT, Luxemburg)
  - Gala, Nuria(LIF-CNRS, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France)
  - Granger, Sylviane(Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
  - Grefenstette, Gregory (Inria, Saclay, France)
  - Hirst, Graeme(University of Toronto, Canada)
  - Hovy, Eduard(CMU, Pittsburgh, USA)
  - Hsieh, Shu-Kai(National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
  - Huang, Chu-Ren(Hongkong Polytechnic University, China)
  - Joyce, Terry(Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan)
  - Lapalme, Guy(RALI, University of Montreal, Canada)
  - Lenci, Alessandro(CNR, university of Pisa, Italy)
  - L'Homme, Marie Claude(University of Montreal, Canada)
  - Mihalcea, Rada(University of Texas, USA)
  - Navigli, Roberto(Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy)
  - Pirrelli, Vito(ILC, Pisa, Italy)
  - Polguère, Alain(ATILF-CNRS, Nancy, France)
  - Rapp, Reinhard(LIF-CNRS, France) and (Mainz, Germany)
  - Rosso, Paolo(NLEL, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
  - Schwab, Didier(LIG-GETALP, Grenoble, France)
  - Serasset, Gilles(IMAG, Grenoble, France)
  - Sharoff, Serge(University of Leeds, UK)
  - Su, Jun-Ming(University of Tainan, Taiwan)
  - Tiberius, Carole(Institute for Dutch Lexicology, The Netherlands)
  - Tokunaga, Takenobu(TITECH, Tokyo, Japan)
  - Tufis, Dan(RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
  - Valitutti, Alessandro(Helsinki Institute of Information Technology,
    Finland)
  - Wandmacher, Tonio(IRT SystemX, Saclay, France)
  - Zock, Michael(LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), currently (University of
    Tainan, Taiwan)



WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS and CONTACT PERSONS

  - Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), michael.zock AT
    lif.univ-mrs.fr
  - Reinhard Rapp (University of Aix Marseille (France) and Mainz
    (Germany), reinhardrapp AT gmx.de
  - Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong),
    churen.huang AT inet.polyu.edu.hk


For more details see:

http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-webpage/index.html
(again, this page is still under construction)


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:25:08 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:25:08 +0100
Subject: Stage: 2 Traineeship positions at the EC's 'Joint Research
 Centre' (JRC), Terminology discovery
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.142508.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:02:53 +0100
From: Ralf Steinberger <ralf.steinberger at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Message-id: <003801cf3dfb$c36b2ba0$4a4182e0$@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
X-url: http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR
X-url: http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) is looking to fill
two traineeship positions in the field of:
 
 
Terminology discovery over time in the field of disaster risk
management.
 
 
If you are interested, please follow the instructions provided at
http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR
<http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR> &site=IPR (Code:
2014-IPR-G-000-2974 - ISPRA).
 
Generic URL: http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR

Job description:
http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showprj.php?type=T&id=2203

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

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

Starting date: around September 2014

Duration: 5 months each

Remuneration: Up to approximately 1000 Euro per month.

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

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

JRC-EMM Publications:
http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html
                
 
 
DESSCRIPTION OF THE FORESEEN ACTIVITY:
 
The Europe Media Monitor (EMM) group at the European Commission’s Joint
Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, is looking for two trainees to
work on a project to automatically explore the development of
terminology in the field of ‘Disaster Risk Management’ (DRM). The
purpose is to give the international stakeholders in that field
(e.g. the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UN-ISDR)
concrete and countable evidence of new concepts (terms) emerging in
their field, of changing concepts and of shifts in interest over
time. The study will include both scientific publications and texts
produced by national and international governmental organisations
working in that field.
 
This first exploratory study will exclusively concern English language
text in the field of Disaster Risk Management, but other languages and
subject areas will be considered in case the outcome of this exploratory
study is deemed concrete and useful. This work may lead to a scientific
publication co-authored by the project contributors.
 
A scenario to reach this goal of terminology discovery might consist of
the following steps:
 
(1) Manual or semi-automatic selection and collection of freely
    available documents covering the sub-areas of the life cycle of
    Disaster Risk Management (Prevention and mitigation; Preparedness;
    Response; Recovery and reconstruction);

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
The foreseen traineeship duration is five months, starting around 1
September 2014. The working language in the EMM team is English.
 
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
 
The task is foreseen to be carried out jointly by two trainees who, in
combination, possess the skills or satisfy the criteria listed
below. The combination of a more linguistically inclined person and a
programmer could be fruitful.
 
- Mature student or post-graduate in any of the following fields (or
  similar): computational linguistics, computer science, library
  sciences, machine learning;
- Knowledge of – and experience with – freely available Language
  Technology tools (e.g. for terminology extraction, term weighting,
  categorisation);
- Experience with document format conversion (PDF, HTML, MS-Word etc. to
  text);
- Sufficient programming experience to autonomously implement all
  necessary steps (Java preferred);
- Knowledge of statistical methods for term weighing (e.g. chi-square,
  TF.IDF) and for automatic categorisation;
- Linguistic sensitivity and an interest for terminology extraction
  (what is a term?; relationships between terms); 
- Ability to present the project outcome in a format suitable for DRM
  specialists who may not be so knowledgeable of Information Technology
  (presentation; reporting; visualisation?). 
- Ability to work autonomously;
- Team worker;
- Good working knowledge of English plus the ability to communicate in
  at least one other official EU language.

 
In your application, please state your interests and please provide
clear information on your skill set, by elaborating on the
above-mentioned list. Should you apply as a ready-made team, please
nevertheless clearly state your personal skills and strengths.
 
THE JRC TEAM:
 
The Joint Research Centre (JRC; http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/) is the
scientific-technical arm of the European Commission. The approximately
2200 JRC employees working in Ispra are from all EU countries and there
are also some non-EU visitors. The working environment is multilingual,
multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary. The JRC’s Europe Media Monitor
(EMM) team (http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=179) carries out research
and development in the field of text mining (Language Technology;
Computational Linguistics) for the purposes of media monitoring. EMM
gathers an average of almost 200,000 online news articles per day in
over 70 languages and analyses them to help its large international user
community understand and use this enormous amount of media
information. EMM is publicly accessible via
http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html. The JRC is also known for having
distributed large quantities of parallel linguistic resources
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=61), including JRC-Acquis, DGT-Acquis,
JRC-Names, the Translation Memories DGT-TM, ECDC-TM and EAC-TM
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=61), and more.
 
Ralf Steinberger <http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/RS.html>  
European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)
21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
URL – Applications:  <http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html> http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html 
URL – Resources: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=61  
URL – Publications: http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:38:35 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:38:35 +0100
Subject: Habilitation: Agata Savary,
 Representation and Processing of Composition
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.143835.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:29:31 +0100
From: Agata Savary <agata.savary at univ-tours.fr>
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Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter à ma soutenance d'Habilitation à Diriger
des Recherches intitulée "Representation and Processing of Composition, 
Variation and Approximation in Language Resources and Tools".
La soutenance aura lieu le *jeudi 27 mars 2014 à 15 heures* à l'*amphi
3* de l'antenne universitaire de Blois (3 place Jean-Jaurès, 41000
Blois).

Le jury est composé de :

Anne ABEILLÉ, Professeur des universités, Université Paris 7, France
Jean-Yves ANTOINE, Professeur des universités, Université François
   Rabelais Tours, France
Béatrice DAILLE, Professeur des universités, Université de Nantes,
   France
Jan HAJIC(, Professeur, Charles University in Prague, République Tchèque
Denis MAUREL, Professeur des universités, Université François Rabelais
   Tours, France
Agnieszka MYKOWIECKA, Chargée de recherche, HDR, Académie polonaise de
   sciences, Varsovie, Pologne
Joachim NIEHREN, Directeur de recherche, Institut national de recherche
   en informatique et en automatique, Lille, France

Un plan d'accès à l'antenne universitaire est accessible à l'adresse:
http://iut-blois.univ-tours.fr/informations-pratiques/informations-pratiques-92416.kjsp?RH=IUTBLOIS_FR

La soutenance sera suivie d'un pot en salle 401 auquel vous êtes
cordialement conviés.

Au plaisir de vous accueillir à cet événement,

Agata Savary

========
Résumé:

In my habilitation dissertation, meant to validate my capacity of and
maturity for directing research activities, I present a panorama of
several topics in computational linguistics, linguistics and computer
science.
Over the past decade, I was notably concerned with the phenomena of
compositionality and variability of linguistic objects. I illustrate the
advantages of a compositional approach to the language in the domain of
emotion detection and I explain how some linguistic objects, most
prominently multi-word expressions, defy the compositionality
principles. I demonstrate that the complex properties of MWEs, notably
variability, are partially regular and partially idiosyncratic. This
fact places the MWEs on the frontiers between different levels of
linguistic processing, such as lexicon and syntax.
I show the highly heterogeneous nature of MWEs by citing their two
existing taxonomies.  After an extensive state-of-the art study of MWE
description and processing, I summarize Multiflex, a formalism and a
tool for lexical high-quality morphosyntactic description of MWUs.  It
uses a graph-based approach in which the inflection of a MWU is
expressed in function of the morphology of its components, and of
morphosyntactic transformation patterns. Due to unification the
inflection paradigms are represented compactly. Orthographic,
inflectional and syntactic variants are treated within the same
framework. The proposal is multilingual: it has been tested on six
European languages of three different origins (Germanic, Romance and
Slavic), I believe that many others can also be successfully
covered. Multiflex proves interoperable. It adapts to different
morphological language models, token boundary definitions, and
underlying modules for the morphology of single words. It has been
applied to the creation and enrichment of linguistic resources, as well
as to morphosyntactic analysis and generation. It can be integrated into
other NLP applications requiring the conflation of different surface
realizations of the same concept.
Another chapter of my activity concerns named entities, most of which
are particular types of MWEs. Their rich semantic load turned them into
a hot topic in the NLP community, which is documented in my state-of-the
art survey. I present the main assumptions, processes and results issued
from large annotation tasks at two levels (for named entities and for
coreference), parts of the National Corpus of Polish construction. I
have also contributed to the development of both rule-based and
probabilistic named entity recognition tools, and to an automated
enrichment of Prolexbase, a large multilingual database of proper names,
from open sources.  With respect to multi-word expressions, named
entities and coreference mentions, I pay a special attention to nested
structures. This problem sheds new light on the treatment of complex
linguistic units in NLP. When these units start being modeled as trees
(or, more generally, as acyclic graphs) rather than as flat sequences of
tokens, long-distance dependencies, discontinuities, overlapping and
other frequent linguistic properties become easier to represent. This
calls for more complex processing methods which control larger contexts
than what usually happens in sequential processing. Thus, both named
entity recognition and coreference resolution comes very close to
parsing, and named entities or mentions with their nested structures are
analogous to multi-word expressions with embedded complements.

My parallel activity concerns finite-state methods for natural language
and XML processing.  My main contribution in this field, co-authored
with 2 colleagues, is the first full-fledged method for tree-to-language
correction, and more precisely for correcting XML documents with respect
to a DTD. We have also produced interesting results in incremental
finite-state algorithmics, particularly relevant to data evolution
contexts such as dynamic vocabularies or user updates.  Multilinguality
is the leitmotif of my research. I have applied my methods to several
natural languages, most importantly to Polish, Serbian, English and
French. I have been among the initiators of a highly multilingual
European scientific network dedicated to parsing and multi- word
expressions. I have used multilingual linguistic data in experimental
studies. I believe that it is particularly worthwhile to design NLP
solutions taking declension-rich (e.g. Slavic) languages into account,
since this leads to more universal solutions, at least as far as nominal
constructions (MWUs, NEs, mentions) are concerned. For instance, when
Multiflex had been developed with Polish in mind it could be applied as
such to French, English, Serbian and Greek.  Also, a French-Serbian
collaboration led to substantial modifications in morphological modeling
in Prolexbase in its early development stages. This allowed for its
later application to Polish with very few adaptations of the existing
model. Other researchers also stress the advantages of NLP studies on
highly inflected languages since their morphology encodes much more
syntactic information than is the case e.g. in English.
In this dissertation I am also supposed to demonstrate my ability of
playing an active role in shaping the scientific landscape, on a local,
national and international scale. I describe my: (i) various scientific
collaborations and supervision activities, (ii) roles in over 10
regional, national and international projects, (iii) responsibilities in
collective bodies such as program and organizing committees of
conferences and workshops, PhD juries, and the National University
Council (CNU), (iv) activity as an evaluator and a reviewer of European
collaborative projects.  The issues addressed in this dissertation open
interesting scientific perspectives, in which a special impact is put on
links among various domains and communities. These perspectives include:
(i) integrating fine-grained language data into the linked open data,
(ii) deep parsing of multi-word expressions, (iii) modeling multi-word
expression identification in a treebank as a tree-to-language correction
problem, and (iv) a taxonomy and an experimental benchmark for
tree-to-language correction approaches.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:36:44 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:36:44 +0100
Subject: Appel: AiML 2014, Deadline Extension to 9 April 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.143644.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:07:32 +0000
From: Agi Kurucz <agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk>
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*** Apologies for cross-postings ****

***** DEADLINE EXTENSION *****  AiML-2014 **************

In response to a number of requests for extension, the
deadline for submitting both abstracts and full papers has
been *** EXTENDED*** to 9 April 2014

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

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

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

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

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

- history of modal logic
- philosophy of modal logic
- applications of modal logic
- computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of
  modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming, model
  checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics)
- theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives
  on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity,
  correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics,
  modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory of
  modal logic)
- specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics,
  modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process
  logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based
  systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar
  formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and
  temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural
  logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics)

Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

              http://www.collegepublications.co.uk

in a volume to be made available at the conference.

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

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

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

IMPORTANT DATES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:15:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:15:42 +0100
Subject: Appel: revue TAL, Note de lecture (BRETONNEL)
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.221542.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:29:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Denis Maurel <denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr>
Message-ID: <1778593860.98647.1395073751667.JavaMail.zimbra at univ-tours.fr>

La revue TAL publie régulièrement des notes de lecture. 

Nous recherchons un collègue souhaitant lire le livre: 

"Kevin BRETONNEL COHEN, Dina DEMNER-FUSHMAN. Biomedical Natural Language
Processing. John Benjamins publishing company. 2013. 160 pages."

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

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

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

Denis Maurel 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:33:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:33:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014 Final Call for Posters,
 Deadline Extension 23 March 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.213320.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:50:52 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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** apologies for cross-posting **

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

** Deadline Extension:
**     Sunday 23 March 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Poster and Demo Chairs:
- Raphael Troncy (Multimedia Department, EURECOM, FR)
- Eva Blomqvist (Department of Computer and Information Science,
  Linkoping University, SE)
		
The poster track of ESWC 2014 will provide an opportunity for presenting
late-breaking results, on-going research projects, and speculative or
innovative work in progress. Posters are intended to provide authors and
participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage
in discussions about the work.

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

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

* Submission Guidelines *

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

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

* Important Dates *

Submission Deadline: March 23, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2014
Camera-Ready Paper: April 25, 2014

* Important Notes *

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

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


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:01:59 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:01:59 +0100
Subject: Appel: Special issue of ACM TACCESS On Speech and Language
 Interaction for Daily Assistive Technology
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.220159.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:09:09 +0100
From: François Portet <Francois.Portet at imag.fr>
Message-ID: <532329A5.6040700 at imag.fr>
X-url: http://www.acm.org/pubs/sim_submissions.html).
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*Third Call for Papers - Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Accessible
Computing (TACCESS) On Speech and Language Interaction for Daily
Assistive Technology *

/Guest Editors: François Portet, Frank Rudzicz, Jan Alexandersson, Heidi
Christensen/

Assistive technologies (AT) allow individuals with disabilities to do
things that would otherwise be difficult or impossible. Many assistive
technologies involve providing universal access, such as modifications
to televisions or telephones to make them accessible to those with
vision or hearing impairments. An important sub-discipline within this
community is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), which has
its focus on communication technologies for those with impairments that
interfere with some aspect of human communication, including spoken or
written modalities. Another important sub-discipline is Ambient Assisted
Living (AAL) which facilitates independent living; these technologies
break down the barriers faced by people with physical or cognitive
impairments and support their relatives and caregivers. These
technologies are expected to improve quality-of-life of users and
promote independence, accessibility, learning, and social connectivity.

Speech and natural language processing (NLP) can be used in AT/AAC in a
variety of ways including, improving the intelligibility of
unintelligible speech, and providing communicative assistance for frail
individuals or those with severe motor impairments. The range of
applications and technologies in AAL that can rely on speech and NLP
technologies is very large, and the number of individuals actively
working within these research communities is growing, as evidenced by
the successful INTERSPEECH 2013 satellite workshop on Speech and
Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT). In particular,
one of the greatest challenges in AAL is to design smart spaces (e.g.,
at home, work, hospital) and intelligent companions that anticipate user
needs and enable them to interact with and in their daily environment
and provide ways to communicate with others. This technology can benefit
each of visually-, physically-, speech- or cognitively- impaired
persons.

Topics of interest for submission to this special issue include (but are
not limited to):

- Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces designed for people
  with physical or cognitive impairments

- Applications of speech and NLP technology (automatic speech
  recognition, synthesis, dialogue, natural language generation) for AT
  applications

- Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AT applications

- Long-term adaptation of speech/NLP based AT system to user's change

- User studies, overview of speech/NLP technology for AT: understanding
  the user's needs and future speech and language based technologies.

- Understanding, modeling and recognition of aged or disordered speech

- Speech analysis and diagnosis: automatic recognition and detection of
  speech pathologies and speech capability loss

- Speech-based distress recognition

- Automated processing of symbol languages, sign language and nonverbal
  communication including translation systems.

- Text and audio processing for improved comprehension and
  intelligibility, e.g., sentence simplification or text-to-speech

- Evaluation methodology of systems and components in the lab and in the
  wild.

- Resources; corpora and annotation schemes

- Other topics in AAC, AAL, and AT

*Submission process*

Contributions must not have been previously published or be under
consideration for publication elsewhere, although substantial extensions
of conference or workshop papers will be considered. as long as they
adhere to ACM's minimum standards regarding prior publication
(http://www.acm.org/pubs/sim_submissions.html). Studies involving
experimentations with real target users will be appreciated. All
submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as
published in the Journal website at http://www.rit.edu/gccis/taccess/.

Submissions should follow the journal's suggested writing format
(http://www.gccis.rit.edu/taccess/authors.html) and should be submitted
through Manuscript Central http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taccess,
indicating that the paper is intended for the Special Issue. All papers
will be subject to the peer review process and final decisions regarding
publication will be based on this review.

*Important dates:*

- Full paper submission: 31^st March 2014

- Response to authors: 30^th June 2014

- Revised submission deadline: 31^st August 2014

- Notification of acceptance: 31^st October 2014

- Final manuscripts due: 30^th November 2014

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:31:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:31:42 +0100
Subject: Job: Postdoctorat Terminologie/Linguistique,
 Atilf projet Termith (debut septembre 2014)
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:26:33 +0100 (CET)
From: Laurence Kister <laurence.kister at univ-lorraine.fr>
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Atilf - UMR 7118 CNRS/Université de Lorraine – Nancy 

Extraction et édition terminologique 
Construction d’une onto-terminologie 
	
Projet TermITH 
TERMinologie et Indexation de Textes en sciences Humaines 
ANR Contint (Contenus numériques et interactions) 
	
Post-doctorat 
	
Responsables : 
Laurence Kister – Evelyne Jacquey 	
Date de début du contrat et durée : 
Septembre 2014 – 12 mois 
	
Mission 
La mission s’articule autour de : 
- la structuration et la hiérarchisation des concepts spécifiques aux
  sciences du langage en une onto-terminologie 
- la rédaction de définitions terminologiques pour les termes
  correspondant aux concepts 

Les candidats termes à organiser et à définir sont issus de différentes
ressources terminologiques et/ou textuelles : 
- référentiel linguistique de l’Inist 
- Thesaulangue (thesaurus conçu et maintenu par le centre de
  documentation de l’Atilf) 
- candidats termes extraits automatiquement de textes intégraux (textes
  du corpus Scientext et sélection de textes de sciences du langage
  fournis par Open Edition) 
- termes extraits de ressources encyclopédiques de type dictionnaires de
  spécialité et terminologies disponibles 
- GTN – gros tas de notions (O. Tremblay, 2009, Thèse)
  http://olst.ling.umontreal.ca/pdf/OphelieTremblayThese2009.pdf 

Les concepts à organiser en fonction des relations qu’ils entretiennent
les uns avec les autres feront l’objet d’une définition
terminologique. La rédaction de ces définitions s’inspirera du cadre
formel du GTN et s’appuiera sur : 
- des dictionnaires de spécialité 
- des terminologies existantes 
- des indices extraits des contextes d’occurrences des termes dans les
  textes : 
- lexicaux (lexèmes spécifiques issus du calcul de spécificité de Lafon
  (1980) tel ceux implémentés dans le logiciel TXM ou lexico3) 
- sémantiques issus des définitions lexicographiques des lexèmes
  contenus dans les contextes d’occurrence des termes 
- des référentiels catégorisés sémantiquement conçu par l’Inist
  (scenario 3 du projet TermITH) 	

Contexte scientifique 

TermITH s’intéresse à l'indexation automatique de textes scientifiques
en SHS. Il procède à la détection, la désambiguïsation et la
qualification de candidats termes en analysant leurs formes
linguistiques dans les textes. Nous nous situons dans une approche
allant du texte (réalisations linguistiques de termes dans les textes)
aux termes (objet conceptuels) comme, parmi d’autres, (Daille 1994),
(Toussaint et al. 2001), (Bourigault et Slozdian 1999) et (Bourigault et
al. 2001). Les travaux menés se situent dans le champ de l'extraction
terminologique à partir de textes intégraux appartenant à différents
domaines des SHS : la méthodologie est mise au point à partir de textes
en sciences du langage , puis testée sur des textes de sciences de
l’information et de la communication, d’archéologie, de psychologie et
de chimie verte. 

Accéder aux réalisations linguistiques des termes dans les textes
suppose de les reconnaître comme telles. Parmi les travaux qui abordent
cette problématique, une première partie s'appuie sur l'utilisation
d'extracteurs automatiques de candidats termes ensuite validés par des
experts des différents domaines de spécialités : Acabit (Daille 1994 ;
2003), Yatea (Aubin et Hamon 2006), TermoStat (Drouin 2003) ou encore la
plate-forme TTC-TermSuite (Daille et al. , 2011). D'autres travaux
s'intéressent à la validation, à l'extraction et aux relations qui
s’établissent entre les termes contenus dans les textes en adoptant une
perspective distributionnelle pour identifier les réalisations
linguistiques de termes. Les travaux de Daille (2003), Toussaint et
al. (1998), Namer et Zweigenbaum (2004) ou L'Homme (2004a) utilisent des
connaissances relevant de la morphologie dérivationnelle ou
constructionnelle. Les travaux de Baneyx et al. (2005), Jacques et
Aussenac-Gilles (2006), Aussenac-Gilles et Condamines (2009), Kister et
Jacquey (2012), Manser (2012), Jacquey et al. (2013), Périnet et Hamon
(2013) détectent et exploitent des patrons lexico-syntaxiques pour
l'identification des relations entre (réalisations linguistiques de)
termes. Enfin, les travaux de Grabar et Zweigenbaum (2004), Claveau et
L'Homme (2005), Poibeau (2005) ou Condamines et Péry-Woodley (2007)
reposent sur l'utilisation de structures sémantiques, textuelles ou
discursives. 

Notre objectif est l’analyse des contextes d'occurrences des candidats
termes afin de sélectionner automatiquement celles qui relèvent d'un
usage terminologique et de rejeter les autres. Ainsi, nous procédons à
un type particulier de désambiguïsation sémantique que nous appelons
désambiguïsation terminologique . Comme l’a montré L'Homme (2004b), même
si le terme, en tant qu'étiquette de concept dans une terminologie
donnée avec une application définie, n'est pas ambigu, ses réalisations
linguistiques peuvent l'être. Ceci est particulièrement valable lorsque
les termes sont des candidats termes extraits automatiquement par une
plate-forme d'extraction terminologique. Ce phénomène se manifeste aussi
lorsque les termes dont on observe les occurrences en texte intégral
apparaissent dans des thesauri ou des référentiels terminologiques. Les
ambiguïtés peuvent être diverses : 

- ambiguïté avec le lexique ou la phraséologie transdisciplinaire :
  argument, corpus, définition, énoncé, exemple, objet, référence

[+termino] En chemin, nous avons souligné la grande flexibilité des SN
définis pluriel, qui en fait le lieu possible d'une négociation de la
référence et de la désignation (Figures et référence plurielle en corpus
journalistique - Lecolle M. (2000). Cahiers de grammaire (25))

[-termino] Les auteurs font référence à [...] (Validation d'une
méthodologie pour l'étude des marqueurs de la segmentation dans un grand
corpus de texte - Piérard S. et Begsten Y. (2007). TAL(47/2))

- ambiguïté avec un autre domaine de spécialité : patient

[+termino] [...] ou plus rarement, à des rôles argumentaux (agent,
patient, objet,...) [...] (Les relations sémantiques : du linguistique
au formel - Aussenac-Gilles N. et Séguéla P. (2000). Cahiers de
grammaire (25))

[-termino] es patients cérébrolésés [...] (Nouveaux habits de la
lexicographie spécialisée : Intégration de la métaphorique dans le
dictionnaire du football - Leroyer P. et Moller B. (2004). EURALEX)

- ambiguïté avec un emploi lexical ou phraséologique de langue générale :
  argument, définition, énoncé, expression, objet

[+termino] [...] les expressions du type le jour suivant. (Validation
d'une méthodologie pour l'étude des marqueurs de la segmentation dans un
grand corpus de texte - Piérard S. et Begsten Y. (2007). TAL(47/2))

[-termino] L'expression de telle ou telle relation [...] (Variabilité
des outils de TAL et genre textuel : cas des patrons lexico-syntaxiques
- Jacques M.-P. et Aussenac-Gilles N. (2006). TAL (47))

Comme le montrent ces quelques exemples de réalisations linguistiques de
candidats termes, c'est le contexte au sens large qui nous permet de
sélectionner les occurrences relevant d'un emploi terminologique. 

Un autre objectif de TermITH est de contribuer à la mise à jour des
ressources terminologiques disponibles dans les domaines concernés par
le projet. Les sciences du langage constituent le domaine sur lequel la
méthodologie de l’ensemble du projet est mise au point et c’est tout
naturellement sur ce domaine que porte le sujet du post-doctorat (voir
description de la mission). Les ressources terminologiques de références
sont Thesaulangue et le vocabulaire de la linguistique de
l’Inist. L’optimisation et l’enrichissement des ressources bénéficieront
des résultats de deux des tâches du projet TermITH : 
- la détection et la désambiguïsation des réalisations linguistiques des
  termes dans les textes de sciences du langage 
- la mise en œuvre de scenarii d’utilisation par l’Inist pour évaluer la
  qualité des termes extraits des textes en vue de l’alimentation et la
  mise à jour des ressources terminologiques 


Références 
Aubin S. et Hamon T. (2006) Improving Term Extraction with
Terminological Resources. In Advances in Natural Language Processin, 5th
International Conference on NLP, FinTA . 

Aussenac-Gilles N., Condamines A. (2009). Marqueurs de relations, genre
textuel, structures syntaxiques. In Minel, J.-L. (Ed.), Filtrage
sémantique , 115-149. Paris: Hermes/Lavoisier. 

Baneyx A., Malaisé V., Charlet J., Zweigenbaum P. et Bachimont
B. (2005). Synergie entre analyse distributionnelle et patrons
lexico-syntaxiques pour la construction d'ontologies
différentielles. Dans Actes de la conférence TIA ,
12p. http://estime.spim.jussieu.fr/~jc/Files/BaneyxTIA2005.pdf [page
consultée le 3 mars 2014] 

Bourigault D., Jacquemin C. et L'Homme M.C. (2001). Recent Advances in
Computationnal Terminology . John Benjamins :Amsterdam. 

Bourigault D.et Slozdian M. (1999). Pour une terminologie
textuelle. Revue Terminologies Nouvelles 19 (Actes de la conférence TIA
), 29-32. http://www.rifal.org/cahiers/rint19/rint19.pdf [page consultée
le 3 mars 2014] 

Claveau V. et L'Homme M.C. (2005). Apprentissage par analogie pour la
structuration de terminologies - utilisation comparée de ressources
endogènes et exogènes. Dans Actes de la conférence TIA-2005 , 12
p. http://www.irisa.fr/texmex/people/claveau/publis/Claveau-LHomme-tia05.pdf
[page consultée le 3 mars 2014] 

Condamines A et Péry-Woodley M.P. (2007). Linguistic markers of semantic
and textual relations. In Alamargot, D., Terrier, P. & Cellier,
J.-M. (Eds.), Written documents in the workplace. Studies in Writing
. 3-16. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 

Daille B. (1994). Approche mixte pour l’extraction de terminologie :
statistique lexicale et filtres linguistiques, Thèse en informatique
fondamentale, Université Paris 7. 

Daille B. (2003). Conceptual structuring through term variations. In
Proceedings of the ACL2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions : Analysis,
Acquisition and Treatment , Bond E., Kohonen A. Carthy D.M. et
Villalencio A. (eds), 9-16. 

Drouin P. (2003). Term extraction using technical corpora as a point of
leverage. In Terminology 9(1), 99-117. 

Grabar N et Zweigenbaum P. (2004). Lexically-based terminology
structuring. In Terminology , 10(1), 23-54. 

Jacques M-P.et Aussenac-Gilles N. (2006). Variabilité des performances
des outils de TAL et genre textuel. Cas des patrons
lexico-syntaxiques. Dans : Traitement Automatique des Langues , 47(1),
11-32. 

http://www.atala.org/Variabilite-des-performances-des [page consultée le
3 mars 2014] 

L'Homme M.C. (2004a). Adjectifs dérivés sémantiques dans la
structuration de terminologies. Dans Actes de la conférende
Terminologie, ontologie et représentation des connaissances , Université
Jean-Moulin Lyon-3, 22-23 janvier,
6p. http://olst.ling.umontreal.ca/pdf/lhomme-lyon2003.pdf [page
consultée le 3 mars 2014] 

L’Homme M.C. (2004b). La terminologie : principes et techniques ,
Montréal : Presses de l'Université de Montréal. 

Manser M. (2012). État de l’art sur l’acquisition de relations
sémantiques entre termes : contextualisation des relations de
synonymie. Dans Actes de la conférence JEP-RECITA ,
163-175. http://aclweb.org/anthology//F/F12/F12-3013.pdf [page consultée
le 3 mars 2014] 

Namer F. et Zweigenbaum P. (2004). Acquiring meaning for French medical
terminology: contribution of morphosemantics. In Marius Fieschi, Enrico
Coiera, and Yu-Chuan Jack Li, editors, Proceedings 10th World Congress
on Medical Informatics , volume 107 of Studies in Health Technology and
Informatics , 535-539, Amsterdam, IOS
Press. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15360870?dopt=Abstract [page
consultée le 3 mars 2014] 

Périnet A.et Hamon H. (2013). Hybrid acquisition of semantic relations
based on context normalization in distributional analysis. Dans Actes de
la conférence TIA ,
113-120. https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/tia2013/Proceedings/actesTIA2013.pdf
[page consultée le 3 mars 2014] 

Poibeau T. (2005). Parcours interprétatifs et terminologie. Dans Actes
TIA, Rouen. 

Toussaint Y., Namer F., Daille B., Jacquemin C., Royauté J.et Hathout
N. (1998). Une approche linguistique et statistique pour l'analyse de
l'information en corpus. Dans Actes de la conférence TALN , ATALA,
Paris, France. 

Profil recherché 

- Terminologue 
- Linguiste : Sémantique lexicale, Lexicologie 

Conditions de recrutement en post-doctorat 
- être titulaire d’une thèse depuis moins de 2 ans 
- ne pas avoir soutenu sa thèse dans le labo qui propose le
  post-doctorat 
	
Pour en savoir plus sur l’Atilf 

    * http://www.atilf.fr 

Pour en savoir plus sur TermiTH 

    * http://www.atilf.fr/ressources/termith/index.php 
    * http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/suivi-bilan/sciences-et-technologies-de-l-information-et-de-la-communication/contenus-numeriques-et-interactions/fiche-projet-contint/?tx_lwmsuivibilan_pi2[CODE]=ANR-12-CORD-0029 

Salaire mensuel 2 500 € brut soit environ 2000 € net 
Lieu de travail 
Atilf UMR 7118 CNRS/Université de Lorraine 
BP 30687 
44, avenue de la libération 
54063 Nancy Cedex 


Candidature souhaitée pour le 10 mai 2014 

Adresser une lettre de motivation accompagnée d’un CV détaillé à
Laurence Kister et Evelyne Jacquey 
laurence.kister at univ-lorraine.fr et evelyne.jacquey at atilf.fr 

Pour toute demande d’information complémentaire : mail ou téléphone 
Laurence Kister : 03 54 50 53 43 (lundi et vendredi) 
Evelyne Jacquey : 03 54 50 52 94 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:42:05 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:42:05 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Final Call for Challenge, Deadline Extension,
 Semantic Publishing
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:01:37 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemPub
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemPub
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/index.php/SemPub/Task3


** apologies for cross-posting **

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

** Deadline Extension:
**     Friday 21 March 2014 - 23:59 Central European Time

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR)
Challenge Chairs:
- Angelo Di Iorio (Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
  University of Bologna, IT)
- Christoph Lange (Enterprise Information Systems, University of Bonn /
  Fraunhofer IAIS, DE)


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

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

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

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

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


TARGET AUDIENCE

The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia.


TASKS

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


= Extraction Tasks =

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


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

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


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

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


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

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

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

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

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


EVALUATION

= Extraction Tasks 1 and 2 =

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

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


= In-use Task 3 =

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

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

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


FEEDBACK AND DISCUSSION

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


JUDGING AND PRIZES

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
HOW TO PARTICIPATE

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

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


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

All papers submissions should be provided via EasyChair:

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


MAILING LIST

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

* December 3, 2013: Publication of the full description of the
  extraction tasks 1 and 2, rules and queries; publication of the
  training/testing dataset 
* January 31, 2014, 23:59 CET: Deadline for making remarks to the task 1
  and 2 training/testing datasets
* February 5, 2014: Publication of the final task 1 and 2
  training/testing datasets
* EXTENDED to March 18, 2014, 23:59 CET: Abstract submission (task 3
  only)
* EXTENDED to March 18, 2014: Publication of the task 1 and 2 evaluation
  dataset
* EXTENDED to March 21, 2014, 23:59 CET: Submission due
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: Demo at ESWC-14, and winner selection


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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

We are inviting further members.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:19:14 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:19:14 +0100
Subject: Conf: LREC 2014, Deadline Extension for Early-Bird Registration,
 May 26-31 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:25:13 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:25:13 +0100
Subject: Appel: workshops, PROPOR 2014
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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:09:52 +0000
From: Vera Lucia Strube de Lima <vera.strube at pucrs.br>
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==============================
Second Call for Workshop Proposals (deadline extended)
===========================
P R O P O R 2014
October 6-8, 2014
Sao Carlos - SP, Brazil
http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/

The PROPOR 2014 organizing committee invites proposals for the Workshops
to be held in conjunction with the main conference in S‹o Carlos.

The PROPOR-2014 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to
be held in conjunction with the conference. The overall purpose of a
workshop is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and
discuss novel research ideas on active and emerging topics of
computational processing of Portuguese.

Workshops can take on a number of forms including (but not limited to)
being organized around emerging research areas, challenge problems and
industrial applications. The organizers of approved workshops are
required to announce the workshop and call for papers, gather
submissions, conduct the reviewing process and decide upon the final
workshop program. They must also prepare a set of workshop proceedings
to be distributed with the registration materials at the conference or
in an electronic version. They may choose to form organizing or program
committees for assistance in these tasks.

Important Dates
April 7, 2014:  Workshop proposals due (extended)
April 14, 2014:  Notification of decision
May 14, 2014:  Workshop web pages available and linked to the main
               site. Workshop CFP published.
October 6-8, 2014: PROPOR 2014 Workshops (electronic proceedings due for
        online publication)

Proposal Details
Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to propor at propor.org. They
should be no more than three pages in length and must include the
following:
* Description of the workshop: title, abstract, objectives, goals,
  relevance, and expected outcome
* Motivation why a PROPOR workshop on this topic is needed
* Description of the target audience
* List of core committed program committee members (at least 2 to 3
  members)
* Preliminary list of invited speakers (if any)
* For workshops previously held at PROPOR or other conferences details
  on venue, attendance and number of submissions from previous years.
* For new workshops a list of potential attendees/submissions and/or a
  justification of the expected attendees and submissions.
* Relevant experience of the organizing committee
* Duration of the workshop (full day or half day)
* Contact information (address, email, and phone) for all organizers
* Designation of a contact person

The workshop organizers are responsible for:
* Creating and distributing a call-for-papers, call-for-participation
  and any other relevant advertising. The calls should make it clear
  that at least one author of any accepted paper must attend the event
  and that papers will be withdrawn if no such participation is secured
  with the payment of the workshop dues. The call should clearly
  describe the review and selection process. Finally, the calls must be
  framed to encourage as broad a participation as possible.
* Creating and publishing (in a timely manner) a web site with all the
  relevant information pertaining to the workshop.
* Provide an extended abstract for the conference program
* Review and select papers submitted
* Schedule the presentations within the workshop
* It should be noted that the conference organization does not budget
  for free registration, accommodation or travel expenses for the
  workshop organizers or their invited speakers. The workshop organizers
  should therefore secure any source of funding / sponsorship deemed
  necessary for their invited speakers.
* Prepare electronic proceedings volumes by mid-September 2014.

Questions
Please contact our Workshop Chair for questions (e-mail
propor at propor.org)
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:39:05 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:39:05 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Final Call for Challenge [Deadline Extension],
 Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:53:47 +0100 (CET)
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** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Final Call for Challenge: Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender
Systems ====

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

** Deadline Extension:
**     Friday 21 March 2014 - 23:59 Central European Time

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite
  Paris-Sorbonne, FR)
Challenge Chairs:
- Tommaso Di Noia (Polytechnic University of Bari, IT)
- Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ES)


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

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

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

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

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


TARGET AUDIENCE

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

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


TASKS

* Task 1: Rating prediction in cold-start situations

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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


*  Task 3: Diversity

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

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

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


DATASET

* DBbook dataset

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

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

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

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

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

The training sets are available at:


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

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


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

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


ADDITIONAL DATASETS

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

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

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


JUDGING AND PRIZES

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

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

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

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


HOW TO PARTICIPATE

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

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

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair: 

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


MAILING LIST

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

* EXTENDED to March 14, 2014, 23:59 CET: Result submission due
* EXTENDED to March 21, 2014, 23:59 CET: Paper submission due
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: The Challenge takes place at ESWC'14


EVALUATION COORDINATOR

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


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)

* Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
* Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
* Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
* Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
* Andreas Hotho, Universitat Wurzburg, Germany
* Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund University, Germany
* Pasquale Lops, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
* Valentina Maccatrozzo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Roberto Mirizzi, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
* Alexandre Passant, seevl.fm, Ireland
* Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
* David Vallet, NICTA, Australia
* Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece
* Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
* Tao Ye, Pandora Internet Radio, USA


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:20:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:20:55 +0100
Subject: Journee: Journee Commune TAL & IA, 25 mars 2014, INALCO Paris
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.222055.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:21:36 +0100
From: Secretaire AFIA <secretaire at afia.asso.fr>
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------ Merci de diffuser cette annonce auprès de vos collègues et
       contacts -------

L'Association Française d’Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA) organise avec
l'Association pour le traitement automatique des langues (ATALA) une 2e
journée Commune TAL&IA (Traitement Automatique des Langues et
Intelligence Artificielle).

Le traitement automatique des langues (TAL), visant à réaliser des
tâches relevant de la cognition humaine, a de longue date des liens avec
l'intelligence artificielle (IA). L'objectif de cette journée est de
renforcer les liens qui existent entre ces deux domaines, avec un accent
sur deux thématiques particulièrement actives :
- D'une part, l'apprentissage automatique a pris une large part dans les
  travaux en TAL, comme en témoignent les articles publiés dans les
  grandes conférences du domaine ou des ouvrages de synthèse comme le
  livre de Gaussier et Yvon (2011, 2012). Il s'agit surtout
  d'apprentissage supervisé, avec un regain d'intérêt pour
  l'apprentissage non supervisé et l'exploitation de grands corpus non
  annotés.
- D'autre part, la fouille de données est souvent employée pour explorer
  les corpus et acquérir des connaissances linguistiques et autres
  ressources pour le TAL ; elle est par ailleurs utilisatrice de TAL
  dans le cadre de la fouille de textes à visée applicative.

L'une comme l'autre peuvent aider à relever le défi des données
textuelles massives qui forment une part importante des « big data » et,
de façon tout aussi pertinente, à mettre au point des méthodes qui font
avancer le domaine.

Cette journée regroupe des interventions qui présentent un état de l'art
ou un tutoriel sur les thématiques de l'apprentissage et de la fouille
de données en relation avec le traitement automatique des langues. Le
public visé inclut les étudiants, chercheurs et ingénieurs qui
s'intéressent à ces thématiques et aimeraient s'y initier ou en acquérir
une meilleure connaissance.

Date : 25 mars 2014
Lieu : Auditorium de l'INALCO, Paris 13e
Programme et détails: 
http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Journ%C3%A9e+commune+AFIA+-+ATALA+2014
http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=159

Inscription à la journée
La journée est soutenue par l'AFIA et l'ATALA, la participation à la
journée est libre et gratuite.
Pour des raisons de logistique, nous vous demandons néanmoins de vous
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:10:49 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:10:49 +0100
Subject: Appel: TSD 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.221049.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:51:26 +0100
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      *********************************************************
		   TSD 2014 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
      *********************************************************

   Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
                               (TSD 2014)
               Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014
                     http://www.tsdconference.org/

THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

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

The submission will be closed during the next working day after the
deadline - for individual extension requirements please contact the
organizers (tsd2014 at tsdconference.org).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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


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

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


TSD SERIES

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


TOPICS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

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

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


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

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

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

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

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the
papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.  Authors
using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS
template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings
Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format.  For this service a
service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically.

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

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

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

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


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

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


ADDRESS

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

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


LOCATION

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

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

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

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


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:44:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:44:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Final Call for Challenge,
 Deadline Extension: Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.214455.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:09:49 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20140314171009.40A47159564 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemSA
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemSA
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org


Message-Id: <20140314171009.40A47159564 at vina.cines.fr>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:09:49 +0100 (CET)

** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Final Call for Challenge: Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis ====
Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemSA
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemSA

** Deadline Extension:
**     Friday 21 March 2014 - 23:59 Central European Time

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite
   Paris-Sorbonne, FR)
Challenge Chairs:
- Erik Cambria (National University of Singapore, SG)
- Diego Reforgiato (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

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

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

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

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


TARGET AUDIENCE

The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia.


TASKS

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

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

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

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

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


EVALUATION DATASET

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


EVALUATION

The evaluation will be performed by the members of the Program
Committee. For systems that can be tuned with different parameters,
please indicate a range of up to 4 sets of settings. Settings with the
best F-measures will be considered for judgment. For each system,
reviewers will give a numerical score within the range [1-10] and
details motivating their choice. The scores will be given to the
following aspects:
1. Use of common-sense knowledge and semantics;
2. Precision, recall, and F-measure wrt the selected task;
3. Computational time;
4. Innovative nature of the approach.


JUDGING AND PRIZES

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

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

There will be a board of judges at the conference who will evaluate
again the systems in more detail. The judges will then meet in private
to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. It may happen that
the same system runs for both the awards. Winners will be selected only
for tasks with at least 3 participants. In any case all submissions will
be reviewed and, if accepted, published in ESWC post-proceedings. An
amount of 700 euros has already been secured for the first task for what
the first point of the evaluation aspects is concerned. We are currently
working on securing further funding.


HOW TO PARTICIPATE

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

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair:

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


MAILING LIST

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

* EXTENDED to March 21, 2014, 23:59 CET: Submission due
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: The Challenge takes place at ESWC-14


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA)
* Cheng Xiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
* Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas (USA)
* Ping Chen, University of Houston-Downtown (USA)
* Yongzheng Zhang, LinkedIn Inc. (USA)
* Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon Inc. (USA)
* Rui Xia, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (China)
* Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University (Japan)
* Amir Hussain, University of Stirling (UK)
* Alexander Gelbukh, National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico)
* Bjoern Schuller, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
* Amitava Das, Samsung Research India (India)
* Dipankar Das, National Institute of Technology (India)
* Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)
* Stefano Squartini, Marche Polytechnic University (Italy)
* Cristina Bosco, University of Torino (Italy)
* Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia (Spain)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:48:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:48:06 +0100
Subject: Job: Open Position for Graduate Fellowship in Semantic Web
 Technologies, CNR-STLAB
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.214806.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:51:30 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20140317095150.D4ACC15955F at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://bit.ly/1grbiBH


Message-Id: <20140317095150.D4ACC15955F at vina.cines.fr>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:51:30 +0100 (CET)

TITLE: Open Position for Graduate Fellowship in Semantic Web
Technologies at CNR-STLAB

Important notice: send by March 30th to stlab-recruitment at cnr.it your
CV, a motivational statement, and the contact of at least one referee
(or a recommendation letter). 

The official procedure for being admitted to the selection is described
on the official application post (see below) and the deadline is April
9th.

Topic: Theories and methods for knowledge extraction and representation
  at a web scale and their application to cultural heritage and
  eGovernment.
Type of Grant: Graduate Fellowship
Employer: Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies of CNR
Salary: EUR 19.367,00 (nineteen-thousand-three-hundred-sixtyseven/00)
  net of expenses in charge of CNR.
Starting from: April 2014
Duration: 12 months
Location: Rome, Italy
Official application deadline: 27 February, 2014
Link to the official application post: http://bit.ly/1grbiBH
Contact person (administrative issues): stefania.capotosti at istc.cnr.it
Scientific responsible: Dr. Valentina Presutti 

Type of Grant: Graduate Fellowship

There will be a public selection procedure, based on qualifications and
an interview, for the assignment of n. 1 (one) - Graduate Fellowship in
order to conduct research related to the Scientific Area Information
Sciences AND Computer Sciences at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences
and Technologies, CNR, in the scope of the projects: eGovernment,
Digital Libraries and Hermes, under the scientific responsibility of
Dr. Valentina Presutti.

To the selection may apply individuals who, whatever their nationality
or age, are in possession of the following requirements at the date of
expiry of the deadline for submission of applications:
a) Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Literature and
   Philosophy in accordance with the legislation in force before DM
   509/99 or Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Linguistics or
   Science of Language (or equivalent) in accordance with the
   regulations referred to in DM 509/99 or Master's Degree in Computer
   Science, Engineering Linguistics or Science of Language (or
   equivalent) in accordance with the regulations referred to in DM
   270/04, with professional resume suitable for the conduct of research
   according to the specifications given in the following points (the
   candidate is in charge, penalty of exclusion, of demonstrating
   equiparation of graduation diplomas);
b) All qualifications obtained abroad (bachelor's degree, doctorate, and
   any other qualification) shall be previously recognized in Italy in
   accordance with current legislation (information on the website of
   the Ministry of University and Scientific Research: www.miur.it). The
   equivalence of those diplomas obtained abroad who have not already
   been recognized in Italy with the expected formal procedure above,
   will be evaluated, with the only purpose of the present selection, by
   the Examining Committee constituted according to art. 6, paragraph 1
   of the Regulations;
c) Documented experience of research, development and application of
   semantic technologies. In particular, it is required expertise in at
   least one of the following areas: ontology design and open data,
   knowledge representation, and natural language processing;
d) Excellent knowledge of OWL, RDF, and SPARQL;
e) Knowledge of mobile application development platforms;
f) Knowledge and documented experience of Java development; preference
   will be given to candidates that know also other programming
   languages;
g) English proficiency.

THE ENGLISH CALL ON THE WEB-SITE DOES NOT HAVE LEGAL VALUE IN ITSELF,
AND THUS DOES NOT SUPERSEDE THE ITALIAN VERSION OF THE CALL ANNOUNCEMENT
(BANDO).


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:34:16 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:34:16 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Final Call for Demos,
 Deadline Extension 23 March 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.213416.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:15:59 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20140314161619.DC80177C59 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-demos
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org


** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Final Call for Demos ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-demos

** Deadline Extension:
**     Sunday 23 March 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time

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

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

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

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

* What is the research background and application context of the
  demonstration, and what makes this a novel showcase for semantic
  technologies.
* What is the key technology used, and how does the demonstrated system,
  application or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work.
* What exactly will be demonstrated? What exactly will a visitor of the
  demonstration learn?

* Submission Guidelines *

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

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

* Important Dates *

Submission Deadline: March 23, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2014
Camera-Ready Paper: April 25, 2014

* Important Notice *

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

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


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:57:02 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:57:02 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: LDI, Programme Mars 2014, Universite Paris 13
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.215702.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:37:18 +0100
From: BUVET Pierre_André
Message-ID: <5323222E.1010808 at ldi.univ-paris13.fr>


les séminaires du LDI ont lieu le lundi de 10h à 12h dans la salle de
réunion du laboratoire (au bout du couloir E niveau 0 de l'ufr LSHS de
l'Université Paris 13 PSC)

programme pour les 3 semaines à venir :

Iris Eshkol (Université d'Orléans)  17 mars 2014  Titre :  " Annotation 
des corpus "non standards"
Fabrice Issac (Université Paris 13 PSC) 24 mars 2014 Titre : "La 
linguiste outillée"
Jan Goes (Université d'Artois)   31 mars 2014 Titre : " Linguistique et 
didactique "

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:52:52 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:52:52 +0100
Subject: Appel: COLING 2014 Update, Invited Speakers, Social Programme,
 Call for Papers and More
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.215252.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:11:28 +0000
From: John Judge <jjudge at computing.dcu.ie>
Message-ID: <53231C20.3090700 at computing.dcu.ie>
X-url: http://www.coling-2014.org

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

COLING 2014
http://www.coling-2014.org

Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August, 2014

With St Patrick’s Day upon us many great landmarks around the world are
turning green to honour the Patron Saint of Ireland and to shine a
spotlight on the Emerald Isle. We’re very proud to host COLING here in
Ireland this year so to mark the occasion we’re happy to share with you
some highlights of this year’s event.

Invited speakers

The Programme Committee and Scientific Advisory Board have been working
hard to ensure a varied and interesting range of invited talks for this
year’s event. This work has proven quite fruitful and we’re pleased to
announce Martin Kay (Stanford University), Qun Liu (CNGL) and Ted Gibson
(MIT) as invited speakers for this year’s conference. The invited
speaker programme is not complete yet, so be sure to keep an eye out for
future announcements

Social Programme Announced
In addition to the scientific programme, we have put a lot of effort
into arranging a wide and varied social programme for our delegates. The
Gala Dinner will take place on Tuesday August 26th in the Guinness
Storehouse at the world famous St. James’ Gate Guinness Brewery. This is
the most visited tourist attraction in Ireland, and offers our delegates
an opportunity to visit this truly unique site which is internationally
renowned and to enjoy some Irish hospitality. For more information see
http://www.coling-2014.org/banquet.php .

An excursion day on the Wednesday of the conference is something of a 
COLING tradition and this year is no exception. With so many sights and 
attractions to see in Dublin and the surrounding areas deciding on a 
single trip was impossible. So for this year’s excursion day we’ve been 
creative. Delegates have a choice of 4 different destinations catering 
for lovers of history, culture, scenery and the city. Then all the 
excursions converge in the historical Dining Hall of Trinity College 
(which was founded by Queen Elizabeth I) in the heart of the city centre 
for lunch. After lunch delegates have time to explore the streets of 
Dublin; Grafton Street, Dublin’s main shopping area is right beside 
Trinity College and other popular attractions close by are Dublin 
Castle, the National Gallery, the Natural History Museum & Temple Bar. 
For more information see http://www.coling-2014.org/excursion.php .

Registration Opening Next Week
COLING registration will be opening next week. Be sure to register early 
to avail of our Early Bird rates. Registration for the main conference 
as well as all Workshops and Tutorials will be done through a single 
site. For more information see 
http://www.coling-2014.org/registration.php and follow @Coling2014 on 
Twitter for updates.

Call for Papers:

The first call for papers for the main conference is open for another 
week. The deadline for paper submission is Friday March 21st at 23.59 
UTC -12. This is a hard deadline, no extension will be offered. Papers 
should be prepared using the paper templates available here 
http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip. For more information and 
instructions for authors see the call for papers here 
http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php.

Sponsorship and Promotion Opportunities

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


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:28:38 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:28:38 +0100
Subject: Job: Offre de stage Developpeur Web
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.222838.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:59:58 +0100
From: Ammar Mahdhaoui <ammar.mahdhaoui at techlimed.com>
Message-ID: <53287B8E.3010600 at techlimed.com>


*Bonjour,*

*Organisation :* ce stage est organisé par l'Université/École
d'ingénieur en collaboration avec TECHLIMED R&D. L'étudiant sera
accompagné par l'équipe de TECHLIMED R&D et ses experts en traitement
d'informations. En collaboration étroite avec un développeur senior,
vous serez en charge de la maintenance et du co-développement des
différentes applications composant la future plate-forme (en particulier
un portail web).

Techlimed**est un éditeur de logiciel NLP (linguistique et informatique)
spécialisé dans le traitement automatique de la langue arabe. Primée
notamment par Oséo / Ministère de la Recherche, pour le caractère
innovant de sa technologie, Techlimed est une startup développant des
solutions orientées recherche et veille d'information. Notre société a
une activité internationale, avec des partenaires et clients en Europe,
au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient.

*Contexte :***De nombreuses applications de TAL nécessitent de grandes
quantités de données annotées manuellement. La production de ces données
est coûteuse. D'autre part, la nature et la qualité des annotations à
produire dépendent très largement des besoins en terme d'exploitations
futures du corpus. Pour faciliter la production de tels corpus,
plusieurs outils récents ont été développés parmi lesquels on peut citer
: l'application Web 2.0 System EasyRef développé pour annoter des corpus
syntaxiques et ACOLAD, plateforme open-source développé pour l'édition
collaborative de corpus de dépendances. Ces outils tentent de résoudre
de nombreux problèmes liés à la création et l'annotation de corpus, en
particulier l'aspect collaboratif.

*Missions* :

Aux cotés du Chef de projet et de son équipe, vous serez en charge de la 
conception et la réalisation d'une plateforme collaborative d'annotation 
et d'analyse syntaxique. Vous participez également au développement 
d'applications et sites web :

  * Conception technique

  * Développement

*Profil* :

  * Minimum Bac+3

  * Vous êtes autonome

  * Vous aimez travailler en équipe

  * Vous vous adaptez rapidement à de nouveaux langages et technologies

  * Vous êtes curieux et portez un intérêt aux dernières tendances du
    métier

*Compétences demandées :*

  * Maîtrise du langage PHP

  * Connaissance de HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JavaScript, AJAX

  * Connaissance de SQL sur les bases de données MySQL

  * Connaissance du CMF Drupal serait un plus



/*Contact : jobs at techlimed.com*/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:14:11 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:14:11 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2014 Student Session
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.221411.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:23:57 +0100
From: Ronald de Haan <dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at>
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Please forward to students. Apologies for the multiple messages.

*Final Call for Papers*
*ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION*

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

Tübingen, Germany, August 11-22, 2014

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


*ABOUT:*
The Student Session of the 26th European Summer School in Logic,
Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in Tübingen, Germany
on August 11-22, 2014. We invite submissions of original, unpublished
work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language,
Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be
reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be
presented orally or as posters and will appear in the student session
proceedings by Springer. This is an excellent opportunity to receive
valuable feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a
diverse audience.


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


*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:*
All authors must be students, and submissions may be singly or jointly
authored. Submissions should not be longer than 8 pages for an oral
presentation and 4 pages for a poster presentation (including examples
and references). Submissions must be anonymous, without any identifying
information. More detailed guidelines regarding submission can be found
on the Student Session website:
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/ .


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

ESSLLI 2014 will feature a wide range of foundational and advanced
courses and workshops in all areas of Logic, Language, and
Computation. For further information, including registration information
and course listings, and for general inquiries about ESSLLI 2014, please
consult the main ESSLLI 2014 page: http://www.esslli2014.info/.


Kind regards,

The ESSLLI 2014 Student Session Organization Committee


Chair:
- Ronald de Haan (Technische Universität Wien)

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

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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:31:28 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:31:28 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste de MC en Traitement Automatique des Langues
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.223128.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:25:55 +0100 (CET)
From: sylviane cardey <sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr>
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Un poste de Maître de Conférences en Traitement Automatique des Langues
est mis au concours pour la campagne 2014 au Centre de recherche en
linguistique et traitement automatique des langues L. Tesniere a
l'Universite de Franche-Comte a Besancon.

Le profil enseignement est TAL et pour la recherche TAL et modelisation.

http://www.univ-fcomte.fr/index.php?id=article_13725_1_1&itemracine=137&global_id_item=137
poste 0169 


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:04:41 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:04:41 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension,
 ESWC'14 Challenge on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.220441.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 07:59:02 -0500 (EST)
From: feeds <feeds at sentic.net>
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Apologies for cross-posting,

The submission deadline of the ESWC'14 Challenge on Concept-Level
Sentiment Analysis (http://sentic.net/challenge) has been extended to
31st March. The Challenge will be held in Crete, Greece, on 25th May
2014 at the European Semantic Web Conference. The Challenge is open to
everyone from industry and academia.

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

Concept-level sentiment analysis focuses on a semantic analysis of text
through the use of web ontologies or semantic networks, which allow the
aggregation of conceptual and affective information associated with
natural language opinions.  By relying on large semantic knowledge
bases, concept- level sentiment analysis steps away from blind use of
keywords and word co- occurrence count, but rather relies on the
implicit features associated with natural language concepts.  Unlike
purely syntactical techniques, concept- based approaches are able to
detect also sentiments that are expressed in a subtle manner, e.g.,
through the analysis of concepts that do not explicitly convey any
emotion, but which are implicitly linked to other concepts that do so.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The evaluation will be performed by the members of the Program
Committee. For systems that can be tuned with different parameters,
please indicate a range of up to 4 sets of settings. Settings with the
best F-measures will be considered for judgment. For each system,
reviewers will give a numerical score within the range [1-10] and
details motivating their choice. The scores will be given to the
following aspects:
1. Use of common-sense knowledge and semantics;
2. Precision, recall, and F-measure wrt the selected task;
3. Computational time;
4. Innovative nature of the approach.

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

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

There will be a board of judges at the conference who will evaluate
again the systems in more detail. The judges will then meet in private
to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. It may happen that
the same system runs for both the awards. An amount of €700 has already
been secured for the first task, for what the first point of the
evaluation aspects is concerned. We are currently working on securing
further funding.

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

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

TIMEFRAME
- March 31, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Submission
- April 9, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance
- May 27-29, 2014: Challenge days

CHALLENGE CHAIRS
- Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
- Diego Reforgiato, CNR STLAB Laboratory (Italy)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:13:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:13:06 +0100
Subject: Appel: SEPLN 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.221306.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:50:37 +0100
From: "BURGA DIAZ, ALICIA" <alicia.burga at upf.edu>
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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS:

30th CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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


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

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

* The title of the communication.

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

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

* The documents must not include headers or footers.

* Papers should NOT include the names of the authors.

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

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

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

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

Please, send your proposals using the following link::

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

The format of the SEPLN journal must be followed:

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

Deadline for full papers, demos, and projects: 10th April 2014

Notifications: 26th May 2014
Camera Ready: 7th June 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:06:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:06:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: Logical Aspect of Computational Linguistics,
 deadline extension, March 24, 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.220655.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:26:54 +0100
From: retore <christian.retore at labri.fr>
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X-url: http://www.irit.fr/LACL2014/


LACL 2014
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
IRIT, Toulouse, France
18-20 June 2014
http://www.irit.fr/LACL2014/
Co-located with the CSLP 2014,
8-th International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language
Processing
http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2014

17-18 June 2014

THIRD CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AND DEADLINE EXTENSION (to 24.03)


PRESENTATION

LACL'2014 is the 8th international conference on logical and formal
methods in computational linguistics. This conference addresses the use
of type theoretic, proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for
describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the
implementation of natural language processing software relying on such
models. It will be held at IRIT, Toulouse, France, from 18 to 20 June
2014 (with support from IRIT, Université Paul Sabatier et INP de
Toulouse)

Scope:

Computer scientists, linguists, mathematicians and philosophers are
invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in
computational linguistics and natural language processing, in natural
language analysis, generation or acquisition.

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

   * logical foundation of syntactic formalisms
         o categorial grammars
         o minimalist grammars
         o dependency grammars
         o tree adjoining grammars
         o model theoretic syntax
         o formal language theory for natural language processing
         o data-driven approaches
   * logics for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and
         dialog
         o discourse theories
         o Montague semantics
         o compositionality
         o dynamic logics
         o game semantics
         o situation semantics
         o generative lexicon
         o categorical semantics
   * applications of these models to natural language processing
         o software for natural language analysis
         o software for acquiring linguistic resources
         o software for natural language generation
         o software for information extraction
         o inference tasks
         o evaluation
         o scalability


SUBMISSIONS and PROCEEDINGS*

Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by
Springer (see authors instructions at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)
and may consist of up to 12 pages of content (including figures, bibliography, possible appendices). In exceptional cases by prior agreement
with program committee a paper up to 16 pages may be considered.
It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at
the meeting by one of its authors.

Submission is exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format, through the EasyChair system. The submission site is
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacl2014

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published as a
volume of the FoLLI subline of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) by Springer (http://www.springer.com/lncs).

/*/ Instructions for submissions to CSLP 2014 are given at the site of the workshop.

Invited speakers:

Prof. Zhaohui Luo, Computer Science Department, Royal Holloway,
University of London, U.K.

Prof. Michael Moortgat, Department of Language, Literature and
Communication, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Prof. Reinhard Muskens, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University,
the Netherlands

PREVIOUS EDITIONS

A selection of the 1995 articles appeared in a special issue of the
Journal of Logic, Language and Information (7:4, 1998). The
proceedings of the international conferences LACL'96 ,LACL'97,
LACL'98, LACL'2001, LACL'2005 LACL'2011 appeared in the series Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (volumes 1328, 1582, 2014,
2099, 3492, 6736), and the proceedings of LACL 2012 in Lacture Notes
in Computer Science (volume 7351) published by Springer.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: March 24, 2014
Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2014
Camera ready copies due: April 15, 2014
Conference dates: June 18-20, 2014

INSCRIPTION FEES

Exact amount can be fixed only after the organizers will have better
estimation of the number of participants. We expect to keep it at the
level of approximately 300 euros (for LACL only) and 100 euros (for
workshop only) with usual reduced rates for students and participation
in both events.

CONTACTS

soloviev at irit.fr and
asher at irit.fr
(co-chairs of LACL 2014)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:08:22 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:08:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: KI 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.220822.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:59:02 +1100
From: Michael Thielscher <mit at cse.unsw.edu.au>
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**** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this
     call ****

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

  KI 2014 - The 37th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
               Stuttgart, September 22--26, 2014

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

		  	     www.ki2014.de

KI 2014 is the 37th edition of the German Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and
industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing a premier forum
for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of
intelligent system technology.  The technical program of KI 2014 will
comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and
tutorials.  KI 2014 will be co-located with Informatik 2014 (Annual
Conference of the German Informatics Society) and MATES 2014 (The 12th
German Conference on Multi- Agent System Technologies). The conference
invites original research papers from all areas of AI, its fundamentals,
its algorithms, its history and its applications.

You are invited to submit original research and application papers on
all aspects of AI research, including but not limited to the following:

- Agent-based and multiagent systems 
- AI applications and innovations 
- Cognitive modeling 
- Commonsense reasoning 
- Computer vision 
- Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization 
- Evolutionary computation 
- Game playing and interactive entertainment 
- Information retrieval, integration, and extraction 
- Knowledge acquisition and ontologies 
- Knowledge representation and reasoning 
- Machine learning and data mining 
- Multidisciplinary AI 
- Natural language processing 
- Planning and scheduling
- Robotics - Uncertainty in AI 
- Web and information systems

We especially welcome application papers that provide novel insights on
the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as papers that bring
useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science
into AI.

======== Important Dates ========

Workshop/Tutorial submission: March 15 
Full/Short Paper submission:  May 1 
Acceptance notification:      June 23 
Final version due:            July 4 
KI Workshops and Conference:  September 22-26

======== Workshops, Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium ========

Together with the main conference, we plan to organize a small number of
high-quality workshops and tutorials. We especially encourage workshops
organized by AI Special Interest Groups (GI-Fachgruppen), workshops that
bring together researchers from different disciplines, and workshops
that highlight emerging topics of AI research. Tutorials should target a
large percentage of conference participants, including graduate students
as well as experienced researchers, and practitioners.

The technical program of KI2014 is also complemented by a doctoral
consortium that invites participation by PhD students at any stage and
from any subject area within AI. The KI doctoral consortium is organized
as a joint event with the doctoral program of Informatik 2014, and
includes a mentoring program, a PhD workshop, and poster presentations.

For details on submitting workshop and tutorials and for applying to the
doctoral consortium, please see the KI2014 web page.

======== Submission ========

Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 12 pages
in Springer LNCS style for full technical contributions and 6 pages for
short papers. Full technical papers are expected to report on new
research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the
field. Short papers are also included in the main proceedings and can
report on new research or other issues of interest to the AI community.
Examples of work suitable for short paper submissions include: novel
ideas whose scope is not large enough for a full paper: important
implementation techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short
experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet
completely solved or analyzed; position or challenge papers; etc.  Short
paper submissions are especially invited for software demonstration or
PhD work in progress.  Submission will be through the Easychair
conference management system :

	http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2014

Papers will be subject to blind peer review. All papers will be reviewed
based on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of results,
originality of ideas, soundness, and quality of the presentation. All
accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings,
and will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each
accepted paper must register for the conference and present the
contribution.  The KI 2014 proceedings will be published by Springer as
a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series.

======== Main Organizers ========

Program Chairs
* Carsten Lutz (Universität Bremen) 
* Michael Thielscher (University of New South Wales)

Workshop and Tutorial Chair 
* Frieder Stolzenburg (Hochschule Harz)

Doctoral Consortium Chair 
* Markus Krötzsch (TU Dresden)

For enquiries, please contact ki2014 at easychair.org.

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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:54:33 +0100
Subject: Livre: Challenges Of Discourse Processing,
 The case of technical Documents
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date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:36:33 +0100
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CHALLENGES of DISCOURSE PROCESSING: the case of technical Documents
Patrick Saint-Dizier
Cambridge, Mars 2014.
Collaborateurs: Juyeon Kang, Mathilde Janier, Camille Albert.
180 pages.

Couvre: 
l'art d'écrire des docs techniques (guidelines), l'explication dans le
discours technique, TextCoop et Dislog et l'analyse du discours en
logique. Implémentation d'analyseurs du discours.  Analyse des
exigences. Le projet LELIE: analyse et prévention des risques par
l'analyse des documents techniques.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 14:53:28 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:53:28 +0100
Subject: Appel: RECITAL 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.22.MAR.2014.155328.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:48:55 +0100
From: Nuria Gala <Nuria.Gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <53294BE7.3060300 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>


RECITAL 2014 : Troisième appel à communications
----------------------------------------------

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

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


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

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


Présentation
------------

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

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

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

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

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

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


Thèmes principaux
-----------------

Les communications pourront porter sur les thèmes habituels du TAL :

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

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


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 15:17:36 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:17:36 +0100
Subject: Appel: WACAI 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.22.MAR.2014.161736.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:45:13 +0100
From: Magalie Ochs <magalie.ochs at telecom-paristech.fr>
Message-ID: <532BFC19.30302 at telecom-paristech.fr>
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*Appel à Contributions : Workshop francophone Affect, Compagnon
Artificiel, Interaction (WACAI) 2014 – 30 juin, 1er juillet à Rouen *

http://wacai14.litislab.fr/

L’objectif du workshop WACAI 2014 est de réunir les recherches et
développements en cours autour des /Agents Conversationnels Animés
(ACA)/ et des/robots sociaux/. Cette rencontre est plus particulièrement
centrée sur l’étude, la modélisation, le développement et l’évaluation
de l’interaction de systèmes interactifs avec leurs partenaires (humains
ou artefactuels). A l’interface entre sciences de l’ingénieur et
sciences humaines et sociales, l’ambition de WACAI est d’appréhender
l’interaction personne-système dans toute sa complexité (biologique,
linguistique, sociale, culturelle et émotionnelle).

Après les précédentes éditions bi-annuelles du workshop WACA, organisées
successivement à Grenoble (2005), à Toulouse (2006), à Paris (2008), à
Lille (2010) et WACAI à Grenoble (2012), cette nouvelle édition se
déroulera à Rouen le 30 Juin et 1er Juillet 2014.

Les contributions attendues (en français ou en anglais) sont de trois
ordres :

- des articles scientifiques (max 6 pages) ;

- des revues de questions ou des états de l’art (max 8 pages), notamment
  sur les liens entre les problématiques communes et les spécificités
  des communautés ACA et robotique ;

- des descriptions de réalisations ou d’expérimentations en cours (2
  pages);

sur les domaines de l'/Informatique Affective/, le /Traitement des
//Signaux Sociaux/, les /Agents Conversationnels Animés/ et les /Robots
Sociaux/.

*Dates importantes*

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 15:11:41 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:11:41 +0100
Subject: Cursus: European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL)
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:35:56 +0100
From: Bertram Fronhoefer <Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de>
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         ======================================================
           European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL)
         ======================================================
                       http://www.epcl-study.eu/

                         CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL) is run jointly by
four of the leading European universities in the field:

- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy),
- Technische Universität Dresden (Germany),
- Technische Universität Wien (Austria), and
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).

Further international universities, research organizations and
enterprises that contribute to Computational Logic or apply results from
it are involved as associated partners: The Simon Fraser University
(Canada), the Universidad de Chile, the NICTA (National ICT Australia),
as well as several companies.

The program involves three years of PhD study in at least two of the
European partner universities. It leads to a joint doctoral degree
issued by the partner universities at which the studies have been
physically performed.  The language of the program is English.
Financial support is available in the form of positions and
scholarships. A foundation track and an application-oriented track match
with career perspectives in university research as well as in industrial
research.

Necessary requirements for participation in EPCL are: A Master's degree
in Computer Science or Mathematics, or an equivalent degree; the proof
of adequate knowledge of English; and substantial knowledge in the areas
Foundations of Logics, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and
Declarative Programming.

The program starts annually in the winter term. Applications for 2014
have to be electronically submitted on the Webpage
http://www.epcl-study.eu/ before the

               =========================================
                 Application Deadline on 30 April 2014
               =========================================


If you have enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the coordinator
of the program

Prof. Steffen Hölldobler
Technische Universität Dresden
Fakultät Informatik
International Center for Computational Logic
Email: sh at iccl.tu-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (351) 463 38340

EPCL is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (BMBF) within the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
program International Doctorates in Germany (IPID).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 14:57:26 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:57:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension, WASSA 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.22.MAR.2014.155726.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:09:23 +0100
From: Alexandra Balahur Dobrescu <alexandra.balahur-dobrescu at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Message-id: <53299703.4080505 at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
X-url: http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/

Apologies for cross-postings.
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/Due to several requests, the deadline has been extended to March 30th./

_______________________________________________________________

5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and
Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)
************************************************************************
http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/
************************************************************************

*******************************************************
BACKGROUND
*******************************************************

Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as
subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP),
has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks
was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that
made it possible for people all over the world to share, comment or
consult content on any given topic. In this context, opinions,
sentiments and emotions expressed in Social Media texts have been shown
to have a high influence on the social and economic behaviour worldwide.
SSA systems are highly relevant to many real-world applications (e.g.
marketing, eGovernance, business intelligent, social analysis) and also
to many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) -- information
extraction, question answering, textual entailment, to name just a few.
The importance of this field has been proven by the high number of
approaches proposed in research in the past decade, as well as by the
interest that it raised from other disciplines (Economics, Sociology,
Psychology) and the applications that were created using its technology.
In spite of the growing body of research in the area in the past years,
dealing with affective phenomena in text has proven to be a complex,
interdisciplinary problem that remains far from being solved. Its
challenges include the need to address the issue from different
perspectives and at different levels, depending on the characteristics
of the textual genre, the language(s) treated and the final application
for which the analysis is done.

*******************************************************
ENVISAGED SCOPE OF WASSA 2014
*******************************************************

The aim of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity,
Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014) is to continue the line
of the previous editions, bringing together researchers in Computational
Linguistics working on Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis and
researchers working on interdisciplinary aspects of affect computation
from text. Additionally, starting with WASSA 2013, we extended the focus
to Social Media phenomena and the impact of affect-related phenomena in
this context.  In this new proposed edition, we would like to encourage
the submission of long and short research and demo papers including, but
not restricted to the following topics related to subjectivity and
sentiment analysis:

- Resources for subjectivity, sentiment and social media analysis; 
  (semi-)automatic corpora generation and annotation
- Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and 
  summarization
- Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment 
  analysis techniques
- Data linking through social networks based on affect-related NLP
  methods
- Impact of affective data from social media
- Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models
- Online reputation management
- Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment
  analysis
- Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis
- Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective language
- Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task
- Use of Semantic Web technologies for subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis
- Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis
- Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluations subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis
- Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks
- Classification of stance in dialogues
- Applications of sentiment and social media analysis systems


In addition, in the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis
systems have been proposed and showcased in the past years, we feel
there is a growing need to make users familiar with these systems and
have them employed for building an end application.  To this aim, we
would like to organize a "Hackathon" (please see details below).

*******************************************************
SENTIMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS HACKATHON
*******************************************************

In the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis systems have 
been proposed and showcased in the past years, we feel there is a 
growing need to make other researchers and users familiar with these 
systems and have them employ them for building an end application.
The Hackathon word stands for "Hacking Marathon", and its purpose is to 
introduce some.
The activity will be open to all the people who will sign up for the 
workshop.
We plan to organize a half a day session, in the first half presenting 
the participating systems and their use and creating teams for 
"application" development and leaving the second half of the day for 
working on the systems and presenting the results. We plan to give the 
participants the possibility to vote on the best application created and 
reward the winner with a gadget.

*******************************************************
ORGANIZERS
*******************************************************

Alexandra Balahur
  European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
alexandra.balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu

Erik van der Goot
  European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Erik.van-der-Goot at jrc.ec.europa.eu

Ralf Steinberger
  European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Ralf.Steinberger at jrc.ec.europa.eu

Andrés Montoyo
  University of Alicante, DLSI, Ap. De Correos 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain
montoyo at dlsi.ua.es

*******************************************************
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
*******************************************************

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


*******************************************************
IMPORTANT DATES
*******************************************************

- EXTENDED Paper submission deadline :  March 30, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2014
- Camera-ready deadline: April 29, 2014
- Workshop to take part at ACL 2014: June 27, 2014

*******************************************************
SUBMISSIONS
*******************************************************

We encourage the submission of long, short and demo papers (especially
describing systems participating in the hackathon)
Long papers for WASSA 2014 must not exceed eight (8) pages without 
references. Short papers must not exceed five (5) pages without 
references. Papers for WASSA should be submitted using the ACL 2014 
Style Files, available at:
Reviewing for WASSA 2014 will be double blind: reviewers will not be 
presented with the identity of paper authors. Authors should avoid 
writing anything that makes their identity obvious in the text.
Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously 
have been formally published.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACL WASSA proceedings. The best
papers will be chosen for a special issue of an ISI- indexed journal.
Previous special issues of WASSA were/are in the process of being 
published in the Decision Support Systems, Computer Speech and Language 
and Information Processing and Management journals (Elsevier).
To submit a paper, please access: https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/WASSA/

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:09:12 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Session 3, Data,
 Digital methods and mapping social complexity, 27/03/2014, ENSCI
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:08:02 +0100
From: "Data, digital methods and mapping social complexity Seminar" <contact at digitalmethods-seminar.org>
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*27.03.14 // Session 3: Digitized archives and distant reading // 
14:30-17:30 @ ENSCI (http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/venue/)*


The growing digitization of our textual and literary heritage has
convinced many academics and observers of higher education that we are
currently experiencing a renaissance in the Humanities. Some scholars
argue that this mass of data is profoundly changing the methodological
toolbox of a field whose scholarship is traditionally based on close
reading and interpretation of texts. Digitization has rendered novels,
plays, poems and historical texts open to forms of statistical analysis
and visualization methods previously unavailable to these objects. As a
result, this "digital turn" is creating a vivid debate within the
Humanities about the effects that the use of algorithms might have on
the interpretation, understanding and teaching of literature and
history.

*[14h30-15h45]*Nous commencerons ce séminaire en discutant 
collectivement des articles listés ci-dessous. Ces lectures commentées, 
présentées par Kari de Pryck 
(http://www.medialab.sciences-po.fr/people/kari-de-pryck/) et Audrey 
Baneyx (http://www.medialab.sciences-po.fr/people/audrey-baneyx/), nous 
permettrons de nous faire une idée des sujets abordés au cours de cette 
séance. Cela représente une quarantaine de pages au total.

  * Mayaffre, D. (2010), Vers une herméneutique matérielle numérique.
    Corpus textuels, Logométrie et Langage politique, manuscrit pour
    l'habilitation à diriger des recherches, Université de Nice. (Lien
    vers le texte intégral
    (http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00655380/) / Téléchargement des
    extraits qui seront discutés
    (http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/HDR-Mayaffre-extraits.pdf)).
  * Cinquin, S. (2011), Utiliser la lexicométrie en histoire (1) :
    panorama historiographique, Devenir historien-ne. (Lien
    (http://devhist.hypotheses.org/898)).
  * Michel, J.-B., et al. (2011). Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using
    Millions of Digitized Books. Science, 331(6014), 176--182. (Lien
    (http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3279742/reload=0;jsessionid=Djr8Ax8ZjJUypm5m9Me2.10)).
  * Diski, J. (2011). Short Cuts. London Review of Books. (Lien
    (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n02/jenny-diski/short-cuts)).
  * Jockers, M. (2012). Computing and Visualizing the 19th-Century
    Literary Genome, Presentation at DH2012 Hamburg. (Lien
    (http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/computing-and-visualizing-the-19th-century-literary-genome/).)
  * Fitzpatrick, K., Galloway, A.R. & English, J.F. (2013), Franco
    Moretti's "Distant Reading": A Symposium, Los Angeles Review of
    Books. (Lien
    (https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/franco-morettis-distant-reading-a-symposium)).

*[15h45-16h00]*Pause

*[16h00-17h30]* *Claire Lemercier 
(http://www.cso.edu/cv_equipe.asp?per_id=168)*, chercheuse au Centre de
Sociologie des Organisations (CSO) de Sciences Po, viendra ensuite
discuter de l'impact des outils numériques sur ses propres recherches au
cours d'une présentation intitulée *"Les grands corpus en ligne
changeront-ils la boîte à outils de l'historien.ne ?"*Cette intervention
tentera de remettre en perspective les changements en cours, liés à la
numérisation massive de corpus variés, avec la première période d'âge
d'or proclamé de la quantification en histoire et dans les humanités,
aujourd'hui souvent oubliée. Cet âge d'or avait été suivi d'un rejet
assez massif et n'avait pas réellement modifié la boîte à outils de la
plupart des historien.ne.s. Peut-il en aller autrement aujourd'hui, et à
quelles conditions ? Quelques pistes seront présentées à partir d'une
expérience de chercheuse ayant parfois sollicité de grands corpus, et de
formatrice ayant souvent accompagné des collègues ou étudiants dans une
réflexion à ce sujet. Le propos sera ancré dans les spécificités de
l'histoire comme communauté disciplinaire, mais pensé pour appeler
réponses ou comparaisons de la part de spécialistes d'autres
disciplines, notamment de la littérature ou de l'informatique.

Le séminaire est libre d'accès. Si vous êtes intéressés et souhaitez
participer à cette session, merci de vous inscrireici
(http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/inscription/).

Le comité d'organisation

Notre site web : http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/
L'annonce de cette séance : 
http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/27-03-14-dm3-digitized-archives-and-distant-reading-1430-1800-ensci/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 15:23:03 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:23:03 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Alexandre d'Aspremont, Traces digitales, 27 mars 2014,
 Universite de Paris Est Marne la Vallee
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:09:16 +0100
From: Nicolas Turenne <nturenne.inra at yahoo.fr>
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[désolé pour les réceptions multiples]

Chers collègues,

Dans le cadre de la dix-septième séance du séminaire 'traces digitales'
du groupe CorText, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Alexandre
d'Aspremont (INRIA-ENS) qui nous parlera nous parlera d'apprentissage
automatique.
Cette matinée aura lieu le jeudi 27 mars de 10h à 11h30, dans la salle
de réunion C219 du Latts (Université Paris-Est Marne la Vallée - rue
Galilée, bâtiment du Bois de l’Etang - 2ème étage - aile C). Voir
http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html



Alexandre d'Aspremont ( directeur de recherches, INRIA-ENS projet SIERRA
- apprentissage statistique)

Relaxations convexes pour l'ordonnancement de données ADN.

Résumé : La sériation cherche à reconstruire un ordre linéaire entre un
série de variables, en utilisant des données de similarité entre ces
variables. Ce problème a des applications directes en archéologie et en
assemblage de séquences ADN par exemple.  Nous montrons l'équivalence
entre le problème de sériation et un problème combinatoire quadratique
sur les permutations (2-SUM). Nous proposons une relaxation convexe de
2-SUM qui améliore la robustesse des solutions dans le cas ou les
données sont bruitées. Cette relaxation nous permet également d'inclure
des contraintes structurelles sur la solution, pour résoudre des
problèmes de sériation semi-supervisés.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 15:00:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:00:06 +0100
Subject: Stage: Translitteration des noms propres pour l'extraction
 d'entites nommees, IRT SystemX
Message-ID: <SAT.22.MAR.2014.160006.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:50:19 +0000
From: SEMMAR Nasredine 202247 <nasredine.semmar at cea.fr>
Message-ID: <50CC12289F0C854FBFF134F270030CD71C4DF460 at EXDAG0-B2.intra.cea.fr>

Proposition de stage : Translittération des noms propres pour
l’extraction d’entités nommées

Lieu du stage : IRT SystemX, 8 avenue de la Vauve, 91190 Palaiseau

CONTEXTE :

L’IRT SystemX est un institut de R&D thématique interdisciplinaire
rassemblant les compétences de l’industrie et de la recherche publique
dans une logique de co-investissement public-privé : Alstom, Bull,
Campus Paris-Saclay, INRIA, Institut Mines Telecom, Kalray, OVH,
Renault, Sherpa, Systematic Paris-Region en sont les fondateurs. Les IRT
s’inscrivent dans le cadre du Programme Investissements d’Avenir.

Au sein de SYSTEMX, vous serez intégré dans l’équipe de l’un des projets
de recherche : Intégration Multimédia Multilingue (IMM).

Le projet IMM réunit des acteurs du monde académique (CEA, CNRS-LIMSI,
INRIA, LNE, UPMC-LIP6), des industriels (Bertin Technologie, CapGemini,
Exalead, OVH, Systran, Temis, Vecsys, Vocapia) et des utilisateurs de
référence dans le domaine de l'analyse de contenus non structurés
(texte, vidéo).

L'objectif du projet IMM est de développer de nouvelles fonctions ou
capacités pour des composants nécessaires pour des applications de
veille sur les sources ouvertes (moteur de recherche, de transcription
de la parole, de traduction...), de concevoir des environnements
d'exécution et d’intégration de ces composants et de relever un certain
nombre de défis comme par exemple réduire le temps d'adaptation à un
contexte nouveau (sources, domaine, langue).

SUJET DE STAGE :

La translittération consiste à substituer à chaque graphème d’un système
d’écriture, un autre graphème ou un groupe de graphèmes d’un autre
système d’écriture, indépendamment de la prononciation.

La translittération connait un essor important en raison du caractère de
plus en plus multilingue du Web. De nombreuses approches ont été
proposées pour développer des systèmes de translittération mais la
majorité des systèmes actuels ne prennent pas en compte la complexité
des problèmes de la transcription et de la translittération, lesquels
touchent autant à l’oralité qu’à la scripturalité des systèmes
linguistiques impliqués.

L’objectif de ce stage est de concevoir et de développer un outil de
translittération automatique de noms propres de l’arabe vers le script
latin et se déroulera selon les étapes suivantes :

- Etude, analyse et évaluation de l’existant. Cette étape permet
  d’identifier l’approche à explorer.

- Implémentation d’un outil automatique de translittération de noms
  propres de l’arabe vers le latin.

- Evaluation des résultats pour une généralisation à d’autres alphabets.

Vos missions :

- Faire un état de l’art dans le domaine : approches existantes et
  outils disponibles.

- Choix de l’approche et conception de l’outil de translitération des
  noms propres de l’arabe vers le script latin.

- Réaliser une évaluation des résultats.

Le profil recherché :

- Niveau : BAC+4 ou BAC +5, en Informatique ou Informatique Linguistique
  (Ingénieur ou Master) pour un stage de 4 à 6 mois.

Vos Compétences sont :

Obligatoires :

- Informatique : maîtrise d’un langage de programmation (C++, Java,
  Perl, Python).

- Technologies d’apprentissage.

Optionnelles :

- Technologies d’apprentissage : clustering, HMM.

- Traitement automatique des langues.

- La connaissance de la langue arabe est un plus.

BIBLIOGRAPHIE :

- ALGHAMDI M. (2005). Alghorithms for Romanizing Arabic names. Journal
  of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences,Volume 17,
  Riyadh, 105-128.

- AL-ONAIZAN Y., KNIGHT K. (2002). Translating named entities using
  monolingual and bilingual resources. Proceedings of the 40th ACL
  Conference, USA.

- JIANG L., ZHOU M., CHIEN L. F., NIU C. (2007). Named entity
  translation with web mining and transliteration. Proceedings of the
  20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
  1629-1634.

- TAO T., YOON S. Y., FISTER A., SPROAT R., ZHAI C. (2006). Unsupervised
  named entity transliteration using temporal and phonetic
  correlation. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in
  Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’06), 250-257.

- YASER A. O., KNIGHT K. (2002). Translating named entities using
  monolingual and bilingual resources. Proceedings of the 40th Annual
  Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL’02),
  400-408.

CONDITIONS DE CANDIDATURE :

Contact et envoi des candidatures (CV détaillé et lettre de motivation):

Nasredine SEMMAR, 01 69 08 01 46, nasredine.semmar at cea.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 15:02:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:02:19 +0100
Subject: Appel: COLING 2014, Call for System Demonstrations
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 02:17:54 +0000
From: 박성배 <sbpark at sejong.knu.ac.kr>
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********** Apologies for cross-posting **********

COLING 2014 Call for System Demonstrations
The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August
23 - 29, 2014, Dublin, Ireland

http://www.coling-2014.org

Important dates
19 May 2014: Paper submission deadline
23 June 2014: Author notification
7 July 2014: Camera-ready paper submission deadline

The COLING 2014 Demonstration Programme Committee invites proposals for
system demonstrations. The demonstration programme is part of the main
conference programme and aims at showcasing working systems that apply a
wide range of conference topics. The session will provide opportunities
to exchange ideas gained from implementing NLP systems, and to obtain
feedback from expert users.

COLING 2014 will be held in Dublin, Ireland from 23-29 August 2014.

The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s. It is
held every two years and regularly attracts more than 700 delegates. The
conference has developed into one of the premier Natural Language
Processing (NLP) conferences worldwide and is a major international
event for the presentation of new research results and for the
demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of
Computational Linguistics and NLP.

Topics of interest
COLING 2014 solicits demonstrations on original and unpublished research
on the following topics, including, but not limited to:

- pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon;
- cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language
  processing;
- models of communication by language;
- lexical semantics and ontologies;
- word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
- parsing, both syntactic and deep;
- generation and summarisation;
- paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering;
- speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding;
- multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
- information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge base
  linking;
- machine learning for natural language;
- modelling of discourse and dialogue;
- sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media;
- multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
- applications, tools and language resources;
- system evaluation methodology and metrics.


Submissions
The submissions should address the following questions:
- What is the problem the proposed system addresses?
- Why is the system important and what is its impact?
- What is the novelty of the used approach/technology?
- Who is the target audience?
- How does the system work?
- How does it compare with existing systems?
- How is the system licenced?

The maximum submission length is 4 pages (including references). Papers
shall be submitted in English and must conform to the official COLING
2014 style guidelines available on the conference website. The
anonymisation of submissions is optional. If authors choose to remain
anonymous, it is their responsibility to take every measure to conceal
potentially identifying information.
http://www.coling-2014.org/instructions-for-authors.php

Submission and reviewing will be managed in the START system:
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/demos/

The only accepted format for submissions is PDF. Accepted papers will
appear in the conference proceedings in a dedicated volume for
demonstration systems.


Demonstration chairs
Lamia Tounsi, CNGL, Dublin City University, Ireland
Rafal Rak, NaCTeM, University of Manchester, UK


Programme Committee
Michiel Bacchiani, Google Inc.
Kay Berkling, Cooperative State University, Karlsruhe
Ann Bies, Linguistic Data Consortium
William Black, University of Manchester
Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University
Chris Brew, Nuance Communications
Aoife Cahill, Educational Testing Service
Vittorio Castelli, IBM
Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, IBM
Léa Deleris, IBM
Martin Emms, Trinity College Dublin
Guillaume Gravier, IRISA & INRIA Rennes
Keith Hall, Google Research
Derrick Higgins, Educational Testing Service
Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo
Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universität Berlin
Daxin Jiang, Microsoft STC-A
John Kelleher, Trinity College Dublin
Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd
BalaKrishna Kolluru, Toshiba
Seamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin
Saturnino Luz, Trinity College Dublin
Nitin Madnani, Educational Testing Service
Hilary McDonald, Trinity College Dublin
Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Peter Mika, Yahoo Labs
Tony O'Dowd, KantanMT
Florian Pinel, IBM
Johann Roturier, Symantec
Andrew Rowley, University of Manchester
Frédérique Segond, Viseo Research
Swapna Somasundaran, Educational Testing Services
Tomoki Toda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Xinglong Wang, Brandwatch
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:14:52 +0100
Subject: Job: annotateurs Fran=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A7ais_?=et Allemand, ELDA
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:09:40 +0100
From: Leixa jérémy <leixa at elda.org>
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Annotateur (H/F) en langue Française

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

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

_Mission_ :__

Il s'agit d'annoter des documents textuels de types microblogs (tweets)
afin d'en extraire les opinions et les sentiments. Le travail sera
effectué via un logiciel et selon des conventions d'annotation
spécifiques. La formation au logiciel et aux conventions sera assurée
par l'employeur.

_Profil recherché_ :__

  * Français langue maternelle
  * Bonne maîtrise de l'outil informatique
  * Capacité à intégrer des règles (d'annotation) et à les suivre
    scrupuleusement et avec constance
  * Une première expérience d'annotation serait un plus


_Durée_ : Plein-temps, pour une durée de 1 mois et demi (extensible à 2).

_Lieu_ : la mission s'effectuera au sein des locaux d'ELDA (Paris 13e)

_Salaire_ : selon profil et performances.

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

################################
Annotateur (H/F) en langue Allemande

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

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

_Mission_ :__

Il s'agit d'annoter des documents textuels de types microblogs (tweets) 
afin d'en extraire les opinions et les sentiments. Le travail sera 
effectué via un logiciel et selon des conventions d'annotation 
spécifiques. La formation au logiciel et aux conventions sera assurée 
par l'employeur.

_Profil recherché_ :__

  * Allemand langue maternelle
  * Bonne maîtrise de l'outil informatique
  * Capacité à intégrer des règles (d'annotation) et à les suivre
    scrupuleusement et avec constance
  * Une première expérience d'annotation serait un plus


_Durée_ : Plein-temps, pour une durée de 1 mois et demi (extensible à 2).

_Lieu_ : la mission s'effectuera au sein des locaux d'ELDA (Paris 13e)

_Salaire_ : selon profil et performances.

Les candidatures (CV, lettre de motivation) doivent être adressées à
leixa at elda.org et à chomicha at elda.org .  
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 15:03:52 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:03:52 +0100
Subject: Appel: WoLLIC 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.22.MAR.2014.160352.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:46:40 -0300
From: Ruy de Queiroz <ruy at cin.ufpe.br>
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DEADLINE APPROACHING!

[Please circulate. Apologies for any cross-postings.]


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


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

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

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


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

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

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

INVITED SPEAKERS
Verónica Becher (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki)
Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg)
Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University)
Luca Vigano (Università di Verona)
Thomas Wilke (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)

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

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

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ulrich Kohlenbach (Technische Universität Darmstadt) - Chair
Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)
Eric Allender (Rutgers University)
Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University)
Stefano Berardi (Università di Torino)
Julian Bradfield (University of Edinburgh)
Xavier Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá)
Olivier Danvy (University of Aarhus)
Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA)
Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld)
Michiel van Lambalgen (University of Amsterdam)
Klaus Meer (Technische Universität Cottbus)
George Metcalfe (University of Bern)
Dale Miller (INRIA/LIX)
Russell Miller (City University of New York)
Sara Negri (University of Helsinki)
Grigory Olkhovikov (Urals State University)
Nicole Schweikardt (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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

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

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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 15:24:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:24:55 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL workshop, Computational Linguistics for Literature,
 April 27, 2014, Gothenburg
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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 10:05:27 -0400
From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak at eecs.uottawa.ca>
Message-ID: <532D98A7.2050503 at eecs.uottawa.ca>



The Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature,
co-located with EACL in Gothenburg, invites all and sundry for a day of
NLP with a difference. Join us on April 27 to hear two exciting invited
talks and eight intriguing presentations. You will meet digital poetics
and encounter a particular view of digital humanities. You will find out
how to turn a novel into a piece of music, how to recreate a social
network in a piece of prose, and much more.

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

Come one, come all!

Anna, Anna, Sta


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:14:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:14:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: CogALex-IV, Workshop co-located with Coling
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.221418.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:42:49 +0800
From: zock <zock at free.fr>
Message-ID: <533195E9.3030201 at free.fr>
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Apologies for multiple postings. Please distribute to colleagues.

Please note that the url of the CogALex website (announced beginning
march) has changed.

The one mentioned in this message is the correct one (sorry for causing
any inconvenience)

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

1st Call for Papers

4th Workshop on  Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex)
together with a shared task concerning the 'lexical access-problem'

Pre-conference workshop at COLING 2014 (August 23d, Dublin, Ireland)

Submission deadline: May 25, 2014

Invited speaker : Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)

http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/CogALex-IV/cogalex-webpage/
index.html


GOAL

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers involved in the
construction and application of electronic dictionaries to discuss
modifications of existing resources in line with the users' needs,
thereby fully exploiting the advantages of the digital form. Given the
breadth of the questions, we welcome reports on work from many
perspectives, including but not limited to: computational lexicography,
psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, language learning and
ergonomics.

MOTIVATION

The way we look at dictionaries (their creation and use) has changed
dramatically over the past 30 years. While being considered as an
appendix to grammar in the past, by now they have moved to centre
stage. Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP which can be conducted
without them. Also, rather than being static entities (data-base view),
dictionaries are now viewed as dynamic networks, i.e. graphs, whose
nodes and links (connection strengths) may change over
time. Interestingly, properties concerning topology, clustering and
evolution known from other disciplines (society, economy, human brain)
also apply to dictionaries: everything is linked, hence accessible, and
everything is evolving. Given these similarities, one may wonder what we
can learn from these disciplines.

In this 4th edition of the CogALex workshop we therefore also invite
scientists working in these fields, with the goal to broaden the
picture, i.e. to gain a better understanding concerning the mental
lexicon and to integrate these findings into our dictionaries in order
to support navigation. Given recent advances in neurosciences, it
appears timely to seek inspiration from neuroscientists studying the
human brain. There is also a lot to be learned from other fields
studying graphs and networks, even if their object of study is something
else than language, for example biology, economy or society.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources and
electronic dictionaries. To perform the groundwork for the next
generation of such resources we invite researchers involved in the
building of such tools.  The idea is to discuss modifications of
existing resources by taking the users’ needs and knowledge states into
account, and to capitalize on the advantages of the digital media. For
this workshop we solicit papers including but not limited to the
following topics, each of which can be considered from various points of
view: linguistics, neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip of the tongue
problem, associations), network related sciences (sociology, economy,
biology), mathematics (vector-based approaches, graph theory,
small-world problem), etc.

1) Analysis of the conceptual input of a dictionary user

* What does a language producer start from (bag of words)?
* What is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message and
  looking for a word?
* What does it take to bridge the gap between this input and the desired
  output (target word)?

2) The meaning of words

* Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed)
* Meaning representation (concept based, primitives)
* Revelation of hidden information (distributional semantics, latent
  semantics, vector-based approaches: LSA/HAL)
* Neural models, neurosemantics, neurocomputational theories of content
  representation.

3) Structure of the lexicon

* Discovering structures in the lexicon: formal and semantic point of
  view (clustering, topical structure)

* Creative ways of getting access to and using word associations
  (reading between the lines, subliminal communication);

* Evolution, i.e. dynamic aspects of the lexicon (changes of weights)

* Neural models of the mental lexicon (distribution of information
  concerning words, organisation of words)

4) Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes

* Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and
  indexes (crowd-sourcing, serious games, etc.)
* Impact and use of social networks (Facebook, Twitter) for building
  dictionaries, for organizing and indexing the data (clustering of
  words), and for allowing to track navigational strategies, etc.
* (Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g. synonym, hypernym,
  meronym, association, collocation, ...)
* Use of corpora and patterns (data-mining) for getting access to words,
  their uses, combinations and associations

5) Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies, interface issues,...)

* Search based on sound, meaning or associations
* Search (simple query vs multiple words)
* Context-dependent search (modification of users’ goals during search)
* Recovery
* Navigation (frequent navigational patterns or search strategies used
  by people)
* Interface problems, data-visualisation

6) Dictionary applications

* Methods supporting vocabulary learning (for example, creation of
  data-bases showing words in various contexts)
* Tools for supporting Human translation

IMPORTANT DATES

* Deadline for paper submissions: May 25, 2014
* Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014
* Camera-ready papers due : July 7, 2014
* Worskhop date: August 23, 2014

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should follow the COLING main conference formatting details
(http:// www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php) and should be
submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/WS-1/ (you must register first).

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submission must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding six (6) pages
(references included). Characteristics of short papers include: a small,
focused contribution; work in progress; a negative result; a piece of
opinion; an interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must
describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without
exceeding twelve (12) pages (references included).

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

For further details see:
http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/CogALex-IV/cogalex-webpage/index.html


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

* Bel Enguix, Gemma (LIF-CNRS, France)
* Chang, Jason (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
* Cook, Paul (University of Melbourne, Australia)
* Cristea, Dan (University A.I.Cuza, Iasi, Romania)
* De Deyne, Simon (Experimental Psychology, Leuven, Belgium) and
  (Adelaide, Australia)
* De Melo, Gerard (IIIS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
* Ferret, Olivier (CEA LIST, Gif sur Yvette, France)
* Fontenelle, Thierry (CDT, Luxemburg)
* Gala, Nuria (LIF-CNRS, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France)
* Granger, Sylviane (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
* Grefenstette, Gregory (Inria, Saclay, France)
* Hirst, Graeme (University of Toronto, Canada)
* Hovy, Eduard (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA)
* Hsieh, Shu-Kai (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
* Huang, Chu-Ren (Hongkong Polytechnic University, China)
* Joyce, Terry (Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan)
* Lapalme, Guy (RALI, University of Montreal, Canada)
* Lenci, Alessandro (CNR, university of Pisa, Italy)
* L'Homme, Marie Claude (University of Montreal, Canada)
* Mihalcea, Rada (University of Texas, USA)
* Navigli, Roberto (Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy)
* Pirrelli, Vito (ILC, Pisa, Italy)
* Polguère, Alain (ATILF-CNRS, Nancy, France)
* Rapp, Reinhard (LIF-CNRS, France) and (Mainz, Germany)
* Rosso, Paolo (NLEL, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
* Schwab, Didier (LIG-GETALP, Grenoble, France)
* Serasset, Gilles (IMAG, Grenoble, France)
* Sharoff, Serge (University of Leeds, UK)
* Su, Jun-Ming (University of Tainan, Taiwan)
* Tiberius, Carole (Institute for Dutch Lexicology, The Netherlands)
* Tokunaga, Takenobu (TITECH, Tokyo, Japan)
* Tufis, Dan (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
* Valitutti, Alessandro (Helsinki Institute of Information Technology, Finland)
* Wandmacher, Tonio (IRT SystemX, Saclay, France)
* Zock, Michael (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), currently (University of Tainan,
Taiwan)


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS and CONTACT PERSONS

* Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), michael.zock AT
  lif.univ-mrs.fr
* Reinhard Rapp (University of Aix Marseille (France) and Mainz (Germany),
  reinhardrapp AT gmx.de
* Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong),
  churen.huang AT inet.polyu.edu.hk


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:16:16 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:16:16 +0100
Subject: Appel: Shared task on the 'lexical access problem',
 CogALex-IV Workshop
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.221616.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:48:41 +0800
From: zock <zock at free.fr>
Message-ID: <53319749.90508 at free.fr>
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SHARED TASK ON THE LEXICAL ACCESS PROBLEM (COMPUTING ASSOCIATIONS WHEN
GIVEN MULTIPLE STIMULI)

In the framework of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon
(CogALex) to be held at COLING 2014, we invite participation in a shared
task devoted to the problem of lexical access in language production,
with the aim of providing a quantitative comparison between different
systems.

MOTIVATION

The quality of a dictionary depends not only on coverage, but also on
the accessibility of the information. That is a crucial point is
dictionary access.  Access strategies vary with the task (text
understanding vs. text production) and the knowledge available at the
very moment of consultation (words, concepts, speech sounds). Unlike
readers who look for meanings, writers start from them, searching for
the corresponding words. While paper dictionaries are static, permitting
only limited strategies for accessing information, their electronic
counterparts promise dynamic, proactive search via multiple criteria
(meaning, sound, related words) and via diverse access
routes. Navigation takes place in a huge conceptual lexical space, and
the results are displayable in a multitude of forms (e.g. as trees, as
lists, as graphs, or sorted alphabetically, by topic, by frequency).

To bring some structure into this multitude of possibilities, the shared
task will concentrate on a crucial subtask, namely multiword
association.  What we mean by this in the context of this workshop is
the following. Suppose, we were looking for a word expressing the
following ideas: 'superior dark coffee made of beans from Arabia', but
could not remember the intended word 'mocha' due to the
tip-of-the-tongue problem. Since people always remember something
concerning the elusive word, it would be nice to have a system accepting
this kind of input, to propose then a number of candidates for the
target word.  Given the above example, we might enter 'dark', 'coffee',
'beans', and 'Arabia', and the system would be supposed to come up with
one or several associated words such as 'mocha', 'espresso', or
'cappuccino'.

 
TASK DEFINITION

The participants will receive lists of five given words (primes) such as
'circus', 'funny', 'nose', 'fool', and 'fun' and are supposed to compute
the word which is most closely associated to all of them. In this case,
the word 'clown' would be the expected response. Here are some more
examples:

 given words: gin, drink, scotch, bottle, soda
 target word: whisky

 given words: wheel, driver, bus, drive, lorry
 target word: car

 given words: neck, animal, zoo, long, tall
 target word: giraffe

 given words: holiday, work, sun, summer, abroad
 target word: vacation

 given words: home, garden, door, boat, chimney
 target word: house

 given words: blue, cloud, stars, night, high
 target word: sky

We will provide a training set of 2000 sets of five input words
(multiword stimuli), together with the expected target words
(associative responses). The participants will have about five weeks to
train their systems on this data.  After the training phase, we will
release a test set containing another 2000 sets of five input words, but
without providing the expected target words.

Participants will have five days to run their systems on the test data,
thereby predicting the target words. For each system, we will compare
the results to the expected target words and compute an accuracy. The
participants will be invited to submit a paper describing their approach
and their results.

For the participating systems, we will distinguish two categories:

(1) Unrestricted systems. They can use any kind of data to compute their
    results.

(2) Restricted systems: These systems are only allowed to draw on the
    freely available ukWaC corpus in order to extract information on
    word associations.  The ukWaC corpus comprises about 2 billion words
    and is can be downloaded from
    http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/doku.php?id=corpora.

Participants are allowed to compete in either category or in both.


VENUE

The shared task will take place as part of the CogALex workshop which is
co-located with COLING 2014 (Dublin). The workshop date is August 23,
2014.  Shared task participants who wish to have a paper published in
the workshop proceedings will be required to present their work at the
workshop.


SHARED TASK SCHEDULE

Training data release: March 27, 2014
Test data release: May 5, 2014
Final results due: May 9, 2014
Deadline for paper submission: May 25, 2014
Reviewers' feedback: June, 15, 2014
Camera-ready version: July 7, 2014
Workshop date: August 23, 2014


FURTHER INFORMATION

CogALex workshop website: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/CogALex-IV/cogalex-webpage/index.html
Data releases: To be found on the above workshop website from the dates
given in the schedule.
Registration for the shared task: Send e-mail to Michael Zock, with
Reinhard Rapp in copy.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), michael.zock AT
lif.univ-mrs.fr
Reinhard Rapp (University of Aix Marseille (France) and Mainz (Germany),
reinhardrapp AT gmx.de
Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong),
churen.huang AT inet.polyu.edu.hk

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:42:11 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL 2014 Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014),
 April 26-27, 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 23:40:40 +0100
From: Agata Savary <agata.savary at univ-tours.fr>
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                         Call for Participation
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         The 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014)

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

Endorsed by the
Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX)
SIGLEX's Multiword Expressions Section (SIGLEX-MWE), and
PARSEME, European IC1207 COST Action

Invited Speakers:
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute (Qatar)
Ekaterina Shutova, ICSI, UC Berkeley (USA)
One more invited speaker: TBC

Workshop website:http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwe2014/?

Registration:http://eacl2014.org/registration
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The Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014) is the tenth
anniversary edition of related workshops which have been held almost
every year since 2003 in conjunction with ACL, EACL, NAACL, COLING and
LREC.

The workshop provides an important venue for interaction, sharing of
resources and tools and collaboration efforts for advancing the
computational treatment of Multiword Expressions (MWEs). The workshop is
targeted at anyone working on a variety of languages and MWE types.

MWEs include idioms (storm in a teacup, sweep under the rug), fixed
phrases (in vitro, by and large, rock'n roll), noun compounds (olive
oil, laser printer), compound verbs (take a nap, bring about), among
others. These, while easily mastered by native speakers, are a key issue
and a current weakness for natural language parsing and generation, as
well as real-life applications depending on some degree of semantic
interpretation, such as machine translation, just to name a prominent
one among many. However, thanks to the joint efforts of researchers from
several fields working on MWEs, significant progress has been made in
recent years, especially concerning the construction of large-scale
language resources. For instance, there is a large number of recent
papers that focus on acquisition of MWEs from corpora, and others that
describe a variety of techniques to find paraphrases for MWEs. Current
methods use a plethora of tools such as association measures, machine
learning, syntactic patterns, web queries, etc.

This year's tenth anniversary edition of the MWE workshop is also
supported by the IC1207 COST action PARSEME dedicated to Parsing and
Multiword Expressions. This European initiative, which started in 2013,
gathers 29 European COST member countries, one COST cooperating state
and 3 non-COST institutions from the USA and Brazil. Its objective is to
increase and enhance the information and communication technology
support of the European multilingual heritage by bringing about a
substantial progress in the understanding and modelling of MWEs within
advanced multilingual NLP techniques, notably deep parsing.

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

Saturday, April 26, 2014

8:45--9:00 Opening Remarks

09:00-10:00 Oral Session 1: Detection and Extraction of MWEs

9:00--9:30 Breaking Bad: Extraction of Verb-Particle Constructions from
a Parallel Subtitles Corpus
Aaron Smith

9:30--10:00 A Supervised Model for Extraction of Multiword Expressions,
Based on Statistical Context Features
Meghdad Farahmand and Ronaldo Martins

10:00-10:30 Oral Session 2: PARSEME I -- Parsing MWEs

10:00--10:30 VPCTagger: Detecting Verb-Particle Constructions With
Syntax-Based Methods
István Nagy T. and Veronika Vincze

10:30--11:00 Coffee Break

11:00--12:00 Invited Talk 1: Preslav Nakov - Title "The Web as an
Implicit
Training Set: Application to Noun Compounds Syntax and Semantics"

12:00-12:30 Oral Session 2: PARSEME I -- Parsing MWEs (continued)

12:00--12:30 The Relevance of Collocations for Parsing
Eric Wehrli

12:30--14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Oral Session 3: Short papers -- PARSEME II

14:00--14:20 Parsing Modern Greek verb MWEs with LFG/XLE grammars Niki
Samaridi and Stella Markantonatou

14:20--14:40 Evaluation of a Substitution Method for Idiom
Transformation in Statistical Machine Translation
Giancarlo Salton, Robert Ross and John Kelleher

14:40--15:00 Encoding MWEs in a conceptual lexicon
Aggeliki Fotopoulou, Stella Markantonatou and Voula Giouli

15:00--15:30 Poster Booster Session (4 minutes per poster)

German Compounds and Statistical Machine Translation. Can they get
along?
Carla Parra Escartín, Stephan Peitz and Hermann Ney

Extracting MWEs from Italian corpora: A case study for refining
thePOS-pattern methodology
Sara Castagnoli, Malvina Nissim and Francesca Masini

Mickey Mouse is not a Phrase: Improving Relevance in E-Commerce with
Multiword Expressions
Prathyusha Senthil Kumar, Vamsi Salaka, Tracy Holloway King and Brian
Johnson

Encoding of Compounds in Swedish FrameNet
Karin Friberg Heppin and Miriam R L Petruck

Extraction of Nominal Multiword Expressions in French
Marie Dubremetz and Joakim Nivre

Towards an Empirical Subcategorization of Multiword Expressions
Luigi Squillante

Contexts, Patterns, Interrelations - New Ways of Presenting Multi-word
Expressions
Kathrin Steyer and Annelen Brunner

Detecting change and emergence for multiword expressions
Martin Emms and Arun Jayapal

An Approach to Take Multi-Word Expressions
Claire Bonial, Meredith Green, Jenette Preciado and Martha Palmer

15:30--16:00 Coffee Break

16:00--17:30 Poster Session

Sunday, April 27, 2014

9:30--10:30 Invited Talk 2: TBA

10:30--11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Oral Session 5: Short papers -- MWEs in multilingual
applications

11:00--11:20 Paraphrasing Swedish Compound Nouns in Machine Translation
Edvin Ullman and Joakim Nivre

11:20--11:40 Feature Norms of German Noun Compounds
Stephen Roller and Sabine Schulte im Walde

11:40--12:00 Identifying collocations using cross-lingual association
measures Lis Pereira, Elga Strafella, Kevin Duh and Yuji Matsumoto

12:00-12:30 Oral Session 6: Issues in lexicon construction and Machine
Translation

12:00--12:30 Unsupervised Construction of a Lexicon and a Repository of
Variation Patterns for Arabic Modal Multiword Expressions
Rania Al-Sabbagh, Roxana Girju and Jana diesner

12:30--14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Oral Session 6: Issues in lexicon construction and Machine
Translation (continued)

14:00--14:30 Issues in Translating Verb-Particle Constructions from
German to English
Nina Schottmüller and Joakim Nivre

14:30--15:30 Invited Talk 3: Ekaterina Shutova - Title: "Statistical
modelling of metaphor"

15:30--15:45 Closing remarks

Program Committee

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

Workshop Organizers
Valia Kordoni (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Markus Egg (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
Agata Savary, special track organizer (Université François Rabelais Tours,
France)
Eric Wehrli, special track organizer (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
Stefan Evert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:55:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:55:31 +0100
Subject: Job: Offre d'emploi LNE,
 Poste d'Ingenieur/ docteur Traitement Automatique de l'information
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.215531.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:18:11 +0100
From: "Pasquier Audrey" <audrey.pasquier at lne.fr>
Message-ID: <70C622AB7EA16E4EA1CE5596C9F1BDEB0105043B at TMSG.intra.lne>
X-url: http://www.lne.fr/


Ingénieur - Docteur Informatique 
Traitement Automatique de l’Information


L’entreprise : www.lne.fr

Au carrefour de la science et de l’industrie depuis sa création en 1901,
le LNE offre son expertise à l’ensemble des acteurs économiques
impliqués dans la qualité et la sécurité des produits. 

Le LNE en quelques chiffres: 
780 collaborateurs. 5 métiers (la Mesure, les essais, la certification,
la formation et la R&D). 8 domaines d’intervention (Métrologie, Santé,
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conditionnement, Produits de consommation). 

55 000 m2 de laboratoires (dont 10 000m2 à Paris et 45 000m2 à
Trappes). 

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Poitiers et Nîmes, 2 antennes  à St Etienne et Toulouse, 3 filiales à
Washington, Hong Kong et Shanghai). 9000 clients. 


Missions:

L’ingénieur de recherche sera intégré à une équipe de 2
ingénieurs-docteur qui encadrent différents stagiaires et doctorants. Il
prendra part à l’animation des campagnes d’évaluation de systèmes de
Traitement de l’Information Multimédia organisées par l’équipe.

Ces campagnes internationales touchent des domaines tels que la
recherche d’information, le traitement de la langue écrite ou parlée, le
traitement de l’image à des fins industrielles, de sécurité ou de
recherche. Elles  prennent des formes diverses : évaluation de briques
technologiques dans une chaîne de traitement, évaluation d’une brique
technologique en isolation ou caractérisation de la partie logicielle
des capteurs de mesure physique.


Dans ce contexte, l’ingénieur se verra attribuer les missions suivantes :
Développement de protocoles d’évaluation en traitement de l’image et de
  l’information
Etablissement de procédures industrialisables
Développement de méthodes de caractérisation de fiabilité des systèmes
Implémentation d’outils
Outils de mesure de la qualité des systèmes
Outils de simulation de données et de processus physiques
Outils d’exploration et de visualisation de données
Animation des campagnes d’évaluation
Aide aux équipes participantes pour l’utilisation des outils du LNE
Contrôle formel des données
Scoring des systèmes
Organisation de rencontres scientifiques et industrielles
Rédaction des rapports d’évaluation
Montage et gestion de projets de recherche et industriel nationaux et
  internationaux
Réponse technique aux appels d’offre
Planification et suivi de projet
Prospectives

Profil :

De formation Bac + 8 (titulaire d’un doctorat) avec une spécialisation
en informatique ou traitement du signal, vous possédez de bonnes
connaissances en traitement de l’image.

Vous disposez dans l’idéal de connaissances complémentaires en méthodes
d’apprentissage automatique et en imagerie médicale ainsi que d’une
première expérience professionnelle dans le domaine.

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

La maîtrise de la langue française et de l’Anglais sont indispensables,
la maîtrise d’une autre langue sera appréciée. 


Déplacements fréquents en région parisienne et ponctuels au niveau
national et international.

Poste à pourvoir en CDI sur notre site de Trappes – 78.

Pour postuler : Envoyer CV et lettre de motivation à
audrey.pasquier at lne.fr en mentionnant la référence : AP/IIT/DE

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:31:04 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:31:04 +0100
Subject: Appel: SLSP 2014
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.213104.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 21:44:40 +0100
From: "GRLMC" <grlmc at urv.cat>
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2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
PROCESSING

SLSP 2014

Grenoble, France

October 14-16, 2014

Organised by:

Équipe GETALP
Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/

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AIMS:

SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying
excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are
currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims
at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large,
well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of
these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between
subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant
room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career
and particular focus will be put on methodology.

VENUE:

SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps.

SCOPE:

The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of
statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and
speech processing.
The list below is indicative and not exhaustive:

phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology
syntax, semantics
discourse, dialogue, pragmatics
statistical models for natural language processing
supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods
applied to natural language, including speech
statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods
similarity
alignment
language resources
part-of-speech tagging
parsing
semantic role labelling
natural language generation
anaphora and coreference resolution
speech recognition 
speaker identification/verification
speech transcription
speech synthesis
machine translation
translation technology
text summarisation
information retrieval
text categorisation
information extraction
term extraction
spelling correction
text and web mining
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
spoken dialogue systems
author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering

STRUCTURE:

SLSP 2014 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and
Statistical Error Mining
Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look
Outside?
Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning:
Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK)
Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US)
Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK)
Hervé Bourlard (Martigny, CH)
Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK)
Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE)
David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US)
Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US)
Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE)
Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE)
Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX)
James Glass (Cambridge, US)
Ralph Grishman (New York, US)
Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US)
Xiaodong He (Redmond, US)
Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP)
Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR)
Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR)
Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG)
Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair)
Manuel Montes-y-Gómez (Puebla, MX)
Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP)
Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US)
Vincent Ng (Dallas, US)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE)
Elmar Nöth (Erlangen, DE)
Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT)
Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US)
Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US)
Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA)
Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK)
James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US)
Gaël Richard (Paris, FR)
German Rigau (San Sebastián, ES)
Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES)
Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP)
Björn W. Schuller (London, UK)
Satoshi Sekine (New York, US)
Richard Sproat (New York, US)
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK)
Jian Su (Singapore, SG)
Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL)
Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN)
Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL)
Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK)
Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE)
Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI)
Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair)
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English
presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed
12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be
prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's
LNAI/LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series
will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the
conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14,
2014. The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014
Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014
Early registration: July 2, 2014
Late registration: September 30, 2014
Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SLSP 2014
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

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

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:45:14 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:45:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: SenticNet, ICML14 workshop on sentiment analysis
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 04:49:50 -0500 (EST)
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Apologies for cross-posting,

Submissions are invited for MASALA (Machine-learning Approaches to
Sentiment Analysis and Learning Algorithms), an ICML14 workshop
exploring the new frontiers of big data computing for opinion mining
through machine-learning techniques and sentiment learning methods. For
more information, please visit: http://sentic.net/masala

RATIONALE
The distillation of knowledge from social media is an extremely
difficult task as the content of today's Web, while perfectly suitable
for human consumption, remains hardly accessible to machines. The
opportunity to capture the opinions of the general public about social
events, political movements, company strategies, marketing campaigns,
and product preferences has raised growing interest both within the
scientific community, leading to many exciting open challenges, as well
as in the business world, due to the remarkable benefits to be had from
marketing and financial market prediction.

Statistical NLP has been the mainstream NLP research direction since
late 1990s.  It relies on language models based on popular
machine-learning algorithms such as maximum-likelihood, expectation
maximization, conditional random fields, and support vector machines. By
feeding a large training corpus of annotated texts to a machine-learning
algorithm, it is possible for the system to not only learn the valence
of keywords, but also to take into account the valence of other
arbitrary keywords, punctuation, and word co-occurrence
frequencies. However, standard statistical methods are generally
semantically weak if they merely focus on lexical co-occurrence elements
with little predictive value individually.

Endogenous NLP, instead, involves the use of machine-learning techniques
to perform semantic analysis of a corpus by building structures that
approximate concepts from a large set of documents. It does not involve
prior semantic understanding of documents; instead, it relies only on
the endogenous knowledge of these (rather than on external knowledge
bases). The advantages of this approach over the knowledge engineering
approach are effectiveness, considerable savings in terms of expert
manpower, and straightforward portability to different
domains. Endogenous NLP includes methods based either on lexical
semantics, which focuses on the meanings of individual words (e.g., LSA,
LDA, and MapReduce), or compositional semantics, which looks at the
meanings of sentences and longer utterances (e.g., HMM, association rule
learning, and probabilistic generative models).

TOPICS
MASALA aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the
field of machine learning for opinion mining and sentiment analysis to
share information on their latest investigations in social information
retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and
industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends
opinion mining, social media marketing, information retrieval, and
natural language processing. Topics of interest include but are not
limited to:

- Endogenous NLP for sentiment analysis
- Sentiment learning algorithms
- Big social data analysis
- Opinion retrieval, extraction, classification, tracking and summarization
- Domain specific sentiment analysis and model adaptation
- Emotion detection
- Sentiment pattern mining
- Concept-level sentiment analysis
- Biologically-inspired opinion mining
- Social-network motivated methods for natural language processing
- Topic modeling for aspect-based sentiment analysis
- Learning to rank for social media
- Content-based and social-based recommendation
- Multimodal sentiment analysis
- Content-, concept-, and context-based sentiment analysis

TIMEFRAME
- April 20th, 2014: Submission deadline
- May 11th, 2014: Notification of acceptance
- May 18th, 2014: Final manuscripts due
- June 25th, 2014: Workshop date

ORGANIZERS
- Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University (China)
- Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
- Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:51:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:51:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Call for EU Project Networking
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.215150.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:31:56 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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** apologies for cross-posting **

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

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Project Networking Session Chairs:
- Alessio Iabichella (STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy)
- Sergio Consoli (STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy)

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

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


* SUBMISSION *

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

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

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


* IMPORTANT DATES *

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


* IMPORTANT NOTICE *

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


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:27:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:27:30 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier Web Intelligence @ RFIA 2014 (date limite 23/4)
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.222730.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:08:50 +0100
From: Olivier Boissier <Olivier.Boissier at emse.fr>
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Atelier Web Intelligence

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

https://sites.google.com/site/wirfia2014/

 
L’objectif de l’atelier Web Intelligence est de faire le point sur les
modèles et techniques de l’Intelligence Artificielle en lien avec le
développement du Web.
 
Le Web constitue en effet un espace d’information et de services,
intrinsèquement ouvert et décentralisé, qui connait une formidable
multiplication des données, des services et des connaissances
disponibles, en même temps qu'une extension dans le monde physique (web
des objets) et dans les réseaux sociaux de ses utilisateurs (web
social). Dans une société qui évolue vers le « tout numérique », un
enjeu majeur est de pouvoir utiliser le web comme support à la
communication et à l’échange d’information, à la création et à la
composition personnalisées de multiples services accessibles par tous et
de n’importe où. Cela concerne donc les entreprises, les organisations
locales, régionales et gouvernementales et, de plus en plus, le grand
public, les utilisateurs étant considérés individuellement ou en tant
que membres de communautés.
 
Il s’agit donc dans cet atelier de présenter les recherches et
développements en cours, de rassembler les communautés de l'Intelligence
Artificielle contribuant aux différentes facettes de cette problématique
large et soulevant de nombreux défis tant au niveau des usages que des
technologies.

Contributions
 
Les contributions attendues (en français ou en anglais) peuvent être :
- des articles scientifiques (max 6 pages) ;
- des descriptions de réalisations ou d’expérimentations en cours (2
  pages);
 
Les formats de soumissions respecteront le format indiqué sur :
http://rfia2014.univ-rouen.fr/content/soumissions
 
Les articles doivent être soumis en version pdf et envoyés à
wi-rfia-14 at emse.fr
 
Dates importantes
Soumission des articles : 23 Avril 2014
Notification aux auteurs : 14 Mai 2014
Version finale : 28 Mai 2014
 
Organisateurs :
 
Olivier Boissier, Institut Henri Fayol, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne
Catherine Faron Zucker, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, laboratoire
I3S
Serge Garlatti, Telecom Bretagne
Thomas Guyet, Agrocampus-Ouest/IRISA
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:19:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:19:30 +0100
Subject: Appel: EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing &
 Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.221930.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:07:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Wajdi Zaghouani <wajdiuqam at yahoo.com>
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=======================================================

First Call for Papers and Participation
EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing
Including Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction

Apologies for multiple postings
Please distribute to colleagues

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

First Call for Papers and Participation

Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar

Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014
Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014
Shared task registration deadline: July 1, 2014

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

====================
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
====================

There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of
Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP). Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic
NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the
Arab World and in association with international conferences, e.g., the
conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools (MEDAR-2009,
NEMLAR-2004), the workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic
Languages (LREC 2010, EACL 2009, ACL 2007, ACL 2005, ACL 2002, ACL
1998), the workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based
Languages (MTSummit XII 2009, LSA 2007, COLING 2004), the International
Symposium on Computer and Arabic Language (ISCAL 2009, ISCAL 2007), the
Colloque International sur le Traitement Automatique de la Langue Arabe
(CITALA 2007), the International Symposium on Processing of Arabic
(Tunisia 2002), the workshop on Arabic Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC 2002), and the workshop on Arabic Language Processing (ACL -2001),
among others. This workshop proposal follows in the footsteps of these
efforts to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their
ongoing work. This workshop is timely given the continued rise in
research projects focusing on Arabic NLP in the Arab World and the West.

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to,
the following:

* Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation,
  tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking,
  parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect
  modeling, etc.

* Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech
  synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive
  technologies, social media, etc.

* Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc.

Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work.
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the
Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or
mixed. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors
should be willing to discuss the details of their work.  Submissions are
expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references.  Associated
with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text error correction
(details below).

===========
SHARED TASK
===========

As part of the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014
(to be held in Doha, Qatar), 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 CONLLÕs
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 provided input will be provided in Arabic script and in a
standard Romanization scheme, and will be annotated for part-of-speech
(in three different granularities), clitics (which appear in 20% of
Arabic words), lemmas, English glosses, and dependency tree relations.
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. An XML format will be used to encode all of this
information.  A participating system then returns a corrected version of
the Arabic text that is one sentence per line in an XML format.  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, which includes common preprocessed
input and corrected output. 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.  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.

===============
IMPORTANT DATES
===============

Shared task registration period: April8, 2014 through July 1, 2014
Shared task test release:  July 7, 2014
Shared task system output collection: July 18, 2014
Submission deadline (Workshop and shared task papers): July 26, 2014
Author notification: August 26, 2014
Camera Ready: September 15, 2014
Workshop:October 25, 2014 

==========
ORGANIZERS
==========

Program Co-chairs
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Publication Co-chairs
Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Website Committee
Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Noura Farra, Columbia University 

Shared Task Committee
Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Alla Rozovskaya, Columbia University
Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar 
Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Nizar Habash, Columbia University (advisory)

Program Committee Members 
(TBA in Second Call)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:23:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:23:06 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier Applications Pratiques de l'intelligence
 Artificielle @ RFIA 2014 (date limite 23/4)
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.222306.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:08:41 +0100
From: Secretaire AFIA <secretaire at afia.asso.fr>
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Appel à Contributions
 
Atelier Applications Pratiques de l'Intelligence Artificielle
 
RFIA 2014 – Rouen – 30 juin et 1er juillet 2014
 
 
Les recherches en Intelligence Artificielle (IA) donnent lieu depuis de
nombreuses années à de belles applications qui sont maintenant déployées
surtout dans le domaine industriel mais pas uniquement. Le succès de ces
applications est tel qu’il n’étonne plus. Les modèles et technologies de
l’IA sont parfois intégrés à un tel point aux autres composants
informatiques que ces éléments fondamentaux ne sont plus visibles aux
utilisateurs et que les concepteurs les passent sous silence.
 
Cet atelier a pour objectif de « désenfouir » les éléments d’IA des
applications où ils sont intégrés et souhaite faire le point sur leurs
avancées. L’objectif est de proposer aux chercheurs, académiques,
industriels et autres, un lieu d’échange où ils puissent partager leurs
expériences, débattre des différents verrous qu’ils rencontrent et des
méthodes qu’ils mettent en œuvre, pour enrichir le potentiel applicatif
des modèles et outils de l’IA, en mettant en valeur l’IA de ces
applications.
 
Contributions
 
Les contributions attendues  (en français ou en anglais) peuvent être :
- des articles scientifiques (max 6 pages) ;
- des descriptions de réalisations ou d’expérimentations en cours (2
  pages);
 
Les formats de soumissions respecteront le format indiqué sur :
http://rfia2014.univ-rouen.fr/content/soumissions
 
Les articles devront être envoyés en version pdf à Yves.Demazeau at imag.fr
 
Dates importantes
 
Soumission des articles : 23 Avril 2014
Notification aux auteurs : 14 Mai 2014
Version finale : 28 Mai 2014
 
Organisateurs :
 
Karell Bertet, L3I, Université de La Rochelle, Limousin Poitou-Charentes
Yves Demazeau, LIG, CNRS, Grenoble Alpes
Sylvie Després, LIMICS, Université de Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cité
Philippe Mathieu, LIFL, Université de Lille 1, Université Lille Nord de
France

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:05:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:05:42 +0100
Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.220542.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:20:04 +0100
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Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement.

*****************************************************************
ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
*****************************************************************

We are happy to announce that 1 new Evaluation Package is now available
in our catalogue.

*ELRA-E0042 CLEFeHealth 2013 Evaluation Package*
The CLEFeHealth 2013 Task 3 Evaluation Package contains data used for
the User-centred health information retrieval Shared task at the
CLEFeHealth Lab conducted in 2013. Task 3 aimed at evaluating
information retrieval to address questions patients may have when
reading clinical reports.
For more information, see: 
http://catalog.elra.info/product_info.php?products_id=1218

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

Visit our On-line Catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info
Visit the Universal Catalogue: http://universal.elra.info
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:33:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:33:43 +0100
Subject: Appel: Revue Discours, numero Varia
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.213343.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:44:53 +0100
From: Benjamin Fagard <benjamin.fagard at ens.fr>
Message-ID: <532E1265.6090703 at ens.fr>
X-url: http://discours.revues.org/206


Chère collègue, cher collègue,

je me permets de vous envoyer ci-dessous l'appel à soumissions pour le
prochain numéro de la revue Discours (http://discours.revues.org/). Le
numéro 15 de la revue Discours est un numéro varia, visant à ouvrir la
perspective de son champ d’étude aux approches multimodales sur le
discours (voir ci-dessous). Des propositions de contributions sont
néanmoins acceptées sur tous les aspects thématiques de la revue.

Bien cordialement,

Benjamin Fagard, pour le comité éditorial

ps: mes excuses pour les doublons éventuels



                  *Appel à soumissions – Discours 15*

Date limite: 23 juin 2014

Coordination éditoriale : Catherine Bolly & Benjamin Fagard

Le numéro 15 de la revue /Discours /est un numéro varia, visant à ouvrir
la perspective de son champ d’étude aux approches multimodales sur le
discours. Des propositions de contributions sont néanmoins acceptées sur
tous les aspects thématiques de la revue.

Dans ce numéro, nous accueillons avec un intérêt particulier les
contributions visant à faire avancer les connaissances sur les
thématiques suivantes :

- Interaction discours, prosodie, posture, expressions faciales et/ou
  gestes

- Définition multimodale de l’objet « discours »

- Unités discursives et unités gestuelles

- Marqueurs d’attitude et d’interaction (en discours et/ou en
  gestualité)

- Structuration du discours (en langue vocale et/ou en langue des
  signes)

- Rapport gain/coût cognitif lors de la production de gestes (mode
  verbal, mode non-verbal et/ou langue des signes)

- Traitement automatique des unités posturales, mimiques et gestuelles
  (détection, segmentation, annotation, ‘eye-tracking’, capture de
  mouvement, etc.)

Nous privilégions les études sur corpus et les études basées sur
l’analyse de données (notamment linguistiques et/ou gestuelles)
authentiques.


/Discours/ est une revue électronique internationale et
interdisciplinaire (linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique)
qui publie deux numéros par an et occasionnellement des numéros
thématiques. Elle est un lieu d'échange et de confrontation des données,
des analyses et des théories visant la description, la compréhension, la
formalisation et le traitement informatique de l'organisation des
textes.

CALENDRIER

* Soumission: 23 juin 2014 à discours at revues.org

* Décision finale du comité : Octobre 2014

* Publication en ligne : Décembre 2014

MODALITÉS

* Chaque soumission est évaluée par deux experts (comité scientifique
  international)

* Langue : français ou anglais

Description complète des instructions pour la soumission à l'adresse
http://discours.revues.org/206

Site: http://discours.revues.org/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:59:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:59:18 +0100
Subject: Cursus: The European Master's Program in Computational Logic,
 Application until 31 May 2014
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.215918.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:52:13 +0100
From: Tobias Philipp <tobias.philipp at tu-dresden.de>
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Dear all,

I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that applications for the
European Master's Program in Computational Logic are still possible
UNTIL 31 May 2014.  A limited number of small scholarships is available.

More details are given below.

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

Many thanks -- Steffen

************************************************************************
The European Master's Program in Computational Logic

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

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

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

A limited number of small scholarships is available.
(see:
http://www.emcl-study.eu/fileadmin/emcl_booklet_tree/mss_jc_scholarship_scheme.html).

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

Kind regards -- Steffen Hölldobler

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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:48:15 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:48:15 +0100
Subject: Sujet de these: Bourse de these cartographie musicale flechee
 "handicap", Avignon
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.214815.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:10:24 +0100
From: Marc El-Beze <marc.elbeze at univ-avignon.fr>
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Pour cette offre de thèse veuillez contacter rapidement
Didier Josselin (didier.josselin at univ-avignon.fr)


-------- Message original --------
Sujet: 	Bourse de thèse cartographie musicale fléchée "handicap"
Date : 	Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:04:31 +0100
De : 	Didier JOSSELIN <didier.josselin at univ-avignon.fr>
Répondre à : 	didier.josselin at univ-avignon.fr
Organisation : 	CNRS
Pour : 	Marc El beze <marc.elbeze at univ-avignon.fr>, Corinne Fredouille 
<corinne.fredouille at univ-avignon.fr>



Bonjour,
Comme je sais que vous avez travaillé tous les deux sur des aspects
audition et orthophonie, je voulais savoir si vous pouviez diffuser ce
projet de thèse dans vos listes car je suis à la recherche d'un(e)
doctorant(e) sur ce sujet sur un fléchage de bourses ministères
"handicap". Notre établissement pourrait aisément accueillir ce(tte)
thésard(e).
La dead-line est serrée : il faudrait que la connection se fasse avant
la fin de la semaine. Pour l'instant je n'ai trouvé personne.
Merci de votre aide.
Amitiés.
Didier.


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:02:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:02:42 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension, 28 April 2014,
 Special issue of ACM TACCESS On Speech and Language Interaction
 for Daily Assistive Technology
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.220242.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:07:14 +0100
From: François Portet <Francois.Portet at imag.fr>
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*Deadline extension - Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Accessible
Computing (TACCESS) on Speech and Language Interaction for Daily
Assistive Technology (SLPAT)*

/Guest Editors: François Portet, Frank Rudzicz, Jan Alexandersson, Heidi
Christensen/

Please note that to accommodate other recent calls for papers, we are
extending the deadline for full paper submission to the ACM Transactions
on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) Special Issue on Speech and Language
Interaction for Daily Assistive Technology. We are also adjusting the
response to authors deadline. The new dates are as follows:

  * Full paper submission: *28th April 2014***
  * Response to authors: 14th July 2014
  * Revised submission deadline: 31st August 2014
  * Notification of acceptance: 31st October 2014
  * Final manuscripts due: 30th November 2014

*Submission process*

o Contributions must not have been previously published or be under
  consideration for publication elsewhere, although substantial
  extensions of conference or workshop papers will be considered. as
  long as they adhere to ACM's minimum standards regarding prior
  publication (http://www.acm.org/pubs/sim_submissions.html). Studies
  involving experimentations with real target users will be
  appreciated. All submissions have to be prepared according to the
  Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at
  http://www.rit.edu/gccis/taccess/.

o Submissions should follow the journal's suggested writing format
  (http://www.gccis.rit.edu/taccess/authors.html) and should be
  submitted through Manuscript Central
  http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taccess , indicating that the paper is
  intended for the Special Issue (tick a box in one of the page during
  the submission process). All papers will be subject to the peer review
  process and final decisions regarding publication will be based on
  this review.

*Topics of interest for submission to this special issue include (but
are not limited to):*

- Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces designed for people
  with physical or cognitive impairments

- Applications of speech and NLP technology (automatic speech
  recognition, synthesis, dialogue, natural language generation) for AT
  applications

- Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AT applications

- Long-term adaptation of speech/NLP based AT system to user's change

- User studies, overview of speech/NLP technology for AT: understanding
  the user's needs and future speech and language based technologies-

- Understanding, modeling and recognition of aged or disordered speech

- Speech analysis and diagnosis: automatic recognition and detection of
  speech pathologies and speech capability loss

- Speech-based distress recognition

- Automated processing of symbol languages, sign language and nonverbal
  communication including translation systems-

- Text and audio processing for improved comprehension and
  intelligibility, e- g- , sentence simplification or text-to-speech

- Evaluation methodology of systems and components in the lab and in the
  wild-

- Resources; corpora and annotation schemes

- Other topics in AAC, AAL, and AT

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:23:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:23:10 +0100
Subject: Appel: Demo, TALN2014
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.212310.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:43:11 +0100
From: Grégoire de Montcheuil
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X-url: http://www.taln2014.org


APPEL À DÉMONSTRATIONS
----------------------

TALN-2014
21e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
Marseille du 1-4 Juillet 2014.
http://www.taln2014.org


CALENDRIER
----------
- Date limite de soumission : 15 mai 2014
- Notification aux auteurs : 20 mai 2014
- Date limite de soumission des versions définitives : 30 mai 2014


PRÉSENTATION
------------
Organisée par le LPL (Laboratoire Parole et Langage) et le LIF
(Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale), la conférence TALN
(Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles) aura lieu pour son 20ème
anniversaire à Marseille (Faculté Saint-Charles, Université
d'Aix-Marseille) du 1er au 4 juillet 2014

La conférence TALN'2014, qui est organisée sous l'égide de l'ATALA, se
tiendra conjointement avec la 16e édition des Rencontres des Étudiants
Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues
(RECITAL'2014).

La conférence TALN'2014 comprendra des communications orales présentant
des travaux de recherche et des prises de position, des communications
affichées, des conférences invitées et des démonstrations.

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

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

La session Démonstrations, accueillera des présentations sous les formes
suivantes (selon les besoins et disponibilités) :
- stand d'exposant ;
- affiche de présentation ;
- démonstration de produits logiciels.

Pour participer, les candidats devront envoyer un résumé de une à deux
pages au format de la conférence sur le site EasyChair de celle-ci.

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

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

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

Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word sont disponibles sur le
site web de la conférence (http://www.taln2014.org).

Contacts : demo at taln2014.org

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:14:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:14:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: Colloque Crealscience,
 Les etats anciens de langues a l'heure du numerique
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.211455.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:38:09 +0100
From: Fabrice Issac LDI <fabrice at ldi.univ-paris13.fr>
Message-ID: <5333F181.2080203 at ldi.univ-paris13.fr>

Appel Colloque international. Les états anciens de langues à l'heure du
numérique
------------------------------------------------------------------------
20-21 novembre 2014
Université Paris-Sorbonne et Université Paris 13 Nord

Comité scientifique :
- Peter Blumenthal,  
- Christiane Marchello-Nizia,  
- Salah Mejri, 
- Michel Molin, 
- Jean Pruvost, 
- Olivier Soutet

Les études sur les états anciens des langues ont bénéficié, comme
beaucoup d'autres disciplines, de l'apport des outils et méthodes issus
du numérique. Il existe maintenant de nombreux corpus, lexiques, outils
d'aide à l'édition, outils d'analyse, ... adaptés à ces problématiques.

Le programme ANR Créalscience s'inscrit dans cette
perspective. Associant méthodologies dictionnairiques et informatiques
avec pour cadre le français médiéval (XIIe-XVe siècle), ce projet a pour
ambition de donner un inventaire des créations terminologiques.

La rencontre internationale que nous organisons a pour objectif de
réunir des chercheurs autour de ce type de projet. Il s'agit aussi de
croiser les connaissances et de favoriser les échanges
interdisciplinaires entre chercheurs de communautés scientifiques
différentes.

Les communications devront combiner au moins deux des trois aspects
ci-dessous :
- informatique
- dictionnairique / lexicographie
- anciennes langues (latin, grec, langues européennes du Moyen Âge)

Communications :
Les communications auront deux formes : orales ou affichées (poster).
Les auteurs devront fournir un résumé de 5000 signes avec une
bibliographie pour le 30 juin 2014 au comité d’organisation. Les
propositions seront évaluées par deux experts du comité scientifique.
Le comité d’organisation informera les auteurs de sa décision
d’acceptation et du classement de la communication (communication orale
ou affichée).
Les résumés des communications acceptées feront l'objet de publication
dans des actes distribués en début de colloque en version papier et
électronique. Une session poster est également prévue.
La publication des actes se fera après le colloque. Les propositions
seront envoyées à l'adresse suivante :

    colloque2014crealscience.fr

Comité d'organisation :
- Joëlle Ducos : joelle.ducos at paris-sorbonne.fr
- Fabrice Issac : fabrice at ldi.univ-paris13.fr
- Xavier-Laurent Salvador : xavier-laurent.salvador at univ-paris13.fr

Calendrier :
- 30/06/2014 réception des propositions
- 15/09/2014 Notification aux auteurs
- 11/2014 colloque

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:21:37 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:21:37 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL Workshop,
 Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality,
 Gothenburg, Sweden, April 27, 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.212137.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:47:16 +0100
From: Alexandre Allauzen <allauzen at limsi.fr>
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
************************************************************************
Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality
(2nd edition)

Co-located with EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden
April 27, 2014
https://sites.google.com/site/cvscworkshop2014
************************************************************************


INVITED TALK:
Geoffrey Zweig: Encoding Antonymy in Continuous Space Models
Ivan Titov: Inducing Cross-Lingual Semantic Representations of Words,
Phrases, Sentences and Events
Phil Blunsom: Generating from distributed representations: translating
in a continuous space

PANEL DISCUSSION: Christopher Manning and the invited speakers


PROGRAM:

9:30 - 9:40 Opening Remarks

9:40 - 10:30 Inducing Cross-Lingual Semantic Representations of Words,
Phrases, Sentences and Events
Ivan Titov (Invited Talk)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:20 Post-hoc Manipulations of Vector Space Models with
Application to Semantic Role Labeling
Jenna Kanerva and Filip Ginter

11:20 - 11:40 Distributional Composition using Higher-Order Dependency
Vectors 
Julie Weeds, David Weir and Jeremy Reffin 

11:40 - 12:00 A
Systematic Study of Semantic Vector Space Model Parameters 
Douwe Kiela and Stephen Clark

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:50 Encoding Antonymy in Continuous Space Models
Geoffrey Zweig (Invited Talk)

14:50 - 15:10 Extractive Summarization using Continuous Vector Space
Models
Mikael Kågebäck, Olof Mogren, Nina Tahmasebi and Devdatt Dubhashi

15:10 - 15:30 Investigating the Contribution of Distributional Semantic
Information for Dialogue Act Classification
Dmitrijs Milajevs and Matthew Purver

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:50 Generating from distributed representations: translating
in a continuous space
Phil Blunsom (Invited Talk)

16:50 - 17:50 Panel Discussion with Chris Manning, Phil Blunsom, Ivan
Titov and Geoffrey Zweig

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:25:17 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:25:17 +0100
Subject: Appel: PolTAL 2014, Extended submission deadline to 5 April 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.212517.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:41:52 +0100
From: "Maciej Ogrodniczuk" <maciej.ogrodniczuk at gmail.com>
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Submission deadline for PolTAL 2014 - 9th International Conference on
Natural Language Processing - has been extended: we accept submissions
as long as it is 5 April 2014 anywhere on the planet.

Please find complete conference information at http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl/.

Looking forward to seeing you in Warsaw,
Adam Przepiórkowski and Maciej Ogrodniczuk
Conference Chairs


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:33:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:33:55 +0100
Subject: Sujet de these: Deux bourses, Langage et Cognition, Labex BLRI
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.213355.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:51:25 +0100
From: Nadéra Bureau <nadera.bureau at lpl-aix.fr>
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Le Labex Brain and Language Research Institute (BLRI) financera à la
rentrée 2014

deux bourses de thèses dans le périmètre du Labex

(voir : http://147.94.196.238/index.html)

- Approche neuro-computationnelle du langage

- Le Langage en tant qu'action interactive

- Pathologies du langage 

- Le langage dans sa matrice cognitive

- Dynamique cérébrale du langage

Les candidats intéressés devront trouver un directeur de thèse au sein
du BLRI (http://147.94.196.238/pages/membre.html) et élaborer avec elle
ou lui un projet de thèse. Le dossier de candidature doit comporter :

- la description scientifique du projet (< 5 pages) : Titre, résumé,
  contexte, méthodologie/expériences envisagées, résultats attendus,
  calendrier prévisionnel

- un argumentaire montrant la pertinence du projet pour le BLRI

- un CV détaillé

- une lettre de motivation

Date limite des candidatures : 20 Mai 2014 

Pré-sélection des candidats à auditionner le 5 Juin 2014
Auditions des candidats retenus : 18 Juin 2014

Démarrage : 1er septembre 2014 

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

Contact administratif : nadera.bureau at blri.fr

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:35:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:35:50 +0100
Subject: Job: Post-Doc, Langage et cognition, Labex BLRI
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.213550.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:02:39 +0100
From: Nadéra Bureau <nadera.bureau at lpl-aix.fr>
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Recrutement de 1 Post-docs

Le "Brain and Language Research Institute" est un "Laboratoire
d'Excellence" faisant partie d'Aix-Marseille Université. Il fédère 6
Laboratoires de haut niveau dans le domaine des sciences du Langage, des
neurosciences, de la psychologie cognitive, de la médecine et des
sciences de l'informatique. Le BLRI a différents programmes de recherche
interdisciplinaires sur la production et la perception du langage et de
ses corrélats cérébraux.

Le post doc sera recruté pour une durée d'un an. Les candidatures seront
sélectionnées à partir des sujets de recherche ci-dessous.

- Approche neuro-computationnelle du langage

- Le Langage en tant qu'action interactive

- Pathologies du langage 

- Le langage dans sa matrice cognitive

- Dynamique cérébrale du langage

Location : Dans le périmètre du Labex

Les candidats doivent envoyer un CV détaillé et leur projet de recherche
de 3 pages.

Les demandes peuvent être soumises à tout moment

. Durée : 1 an

. Salaire : 1 950 € net par mois 

Les dossiers de candidature sont à envoyer à contact at blri.fr

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:38:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:38:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: IDEAS 2014 (Web and Text Intelligence Track),
 Extended Deadline, April 7, 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.213818.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 19:39:55 -0000
From: "Ricardo Campos" <ricardo.campos at ipt.pt>
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Web and Text Intelligence Track of the 

18th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS
2014)

07-09 July 2014, Porto, Portugal

http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas14/webtext.php

(accepted articles published by ACM)

-----Call for papers ---------

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

- Web and text mining
- Visual Web mining
- Link mining
- Web usability
- Web automation and adaptation
- Web content mining
- Multimedia Web mining
- Recommender systems for the Web
- Focused crawling
- Community detection
- Social network mining and analysis
- Graph mining
- Complex networks
- Information Retrieval
- Information Extraction
- Ontologies in Text Mining
- Document and Text Classification
- Visual Text Mining

Important Dates:
--------------------------

- April 7, 2014: Papers submission deadline 
- May 19, 2014: Notification of acceptance 
- June 22, 2014: Camera-ready deadline

Track Organizing Committee:
--------------------------

- Alípio Jorge, U. Porto, Portugal 
- Alneu de Andrade Lopes, ICMC-USP, Brazil 
- Ricardo Prudêncio, UPFE, Brazil 
- Nuno Escudeiro, ISEP-IPP, Portugal 
- Ricardo Campos, I.P. Tomar, INESC TEC, Portugal 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:45:36 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:45:36 +0100
Subject: Soft: Logiciel TermSuite version 1.5
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.104536.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:44:36 +0100
From: Beatrice Daille <beatrice.daille at univ-nantes.fr>
Message-ID: <530F7984.9080402 at univ-nantes.fr>
X-url: https://logiciels.lina.univ-nantes.fr/redmine/projects/termsuite/


TermSuite est outil libre sous licence Apache 2 d?di? ? l'extraction
terminologique monolingue et ? l'extraction terminologique bilingue ?
partir de corpus comparables.

TermSuite traite les langues : Anglais, Fran?ais, Allemand, Espagnol,
Letton, Chinois et Russe.

TermSuite adopte la plate-forme Apache UIMA.

TermSuite effectue les traitements informatiques en 3 phases :

1. Analyses linguistiques : d?coupage du texte en mots, analyse
   morphosyntaxique et lemmatisation et conversion au format Multext ;

2. Extraction terminologique monolingue : d?tection d'occurrences de
   termes simples et complexes, normalisation et regroupement des termes
   en fonction de leurs variations, filtrage statistique ; listes de
   termes en format tsv et TBX.

3. Alignement terminologique bilingue : plusieurs types d?alignement par
   paires de langues sont propos?s qui adoptent diff?rentes approches :
   distributionnelle pour les termes simples, compositionnelle ou mixte
   pour les termes complexes et les compos?s savants.

La nouvelle version TermSuite 1.5 est maintenant disponible avec plein
de nouveaut?s :

- nouvelle interface graphique
- passage ? l'?chelle, traitement possible de corpus de plusieurs
  millions de mots
- choix des variantes ? collecter,
...

Le nouveau site de t?l?chargement :
https://logiciels.lina.univ-nantes.fr/redmine/projects/termsuite/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:56:40 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:56:40 +0100
Subject: Revue: Revue DISCOURS, Numero 13
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.105640.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:22:51 +0100
From: Christian Raymond <christian.raymond at irisa.fr>
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X-url: http://discours.revues.org/8845



Sorry for multiple posting

(English version below)

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Nous sommes tr?s heureux d'annoncer la publication de DISCOURS 13 | 2013
http://discours.revues.org/8845

Au sommaire :

  - *Emmanuelle Roussel*
    Temporalit? et comp?tences (m?ta)linguistiques
    http://discours.revues.org/8846

  - *Dimitri Voilmy et Mari Wiklund*
    Syntactic and Prosodic Forms of First Names in Institutional
    Interaction Involving Multiple Participants
    http://discours.revues.org/8869


  - *Layal Kanaan*
    /J??ne/ dans le discours des Libanais : pragmaticalisation,
    distribution et emplois d'un marqueur discursif d?verbal
    http://discours.revues.org/8856

Nous vous souhaitons une bonne lecture et nous vous invitons par
ailleurs ? soumettre ? tout moment pour les num?ros ?
para?tre. Consultez les modalit?s de soumission
http://discours.revues.org/index208.html .

Le comit? de r?daction


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We are pleased to announce the publication of the 13th issue of DISCOURS
13 | 2013
http://discours.revues.org/8845

You can read the following articles:

  - *Emmanuelle Roussel*
    Temporalit? et comp?tences (m?ta)linguistiques
    http://discours.revues.org/8846

  - *Dimitri Voilmy et Mari Wiklund*
    Syntactic and Prosodic Forms of First Names in Institutional
    Interaction Involving Multiple Participants
    http://discours.revues.org/8869

  -  *Layal Kanaan*
    /J??ne/ dans le discours des Libanais : pragmaticalisation,
    distribution et emplois d'un marqueur discursif d?verbal
    http://discours.revues.org/8856

We would like to invite contributions for upcoming issues.  (Please see
submission information http://discours.revues.org/index224.html)


The editorial board


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 10:03:17 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 11:03:17 +0100
Subject: Job: Statistical Machine Translation Expert, CDI
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.110317.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 10:09:51 +0000
From: "Riad, Ali" <ali.riad at elanit.lu>
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Dear all,

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

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

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

Please find below a brief description of the position:

?couter

Lire phon?tiquement

Dictionnaire

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Job location: Luxembourg

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


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

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Best Regards,


Ali RIAD

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:57:51 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:57:51 +0100
Subject: Appel: SIGIR Medical Information Retrieval Workshop
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.105751.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:47:54 +0000
From: Liadh Kelly <lkelly at computing.dcu.ie>
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    Medical Information Retrieval (MedIR) Workshop


    http://medir.dcu.ie/

    At SIGIR 2014, July 11 2014, Gold Coast, Australia


    Call for Papers (2 & 4 page)

Submission deadline: April 28

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

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

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

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

         - Users and information needs
         - Semantics and NLP for medical IR
         - Reliability and trust in medical IR
         - Personalised search
         - Evaluation of medical IR
         - Multilingual issues in medical IR
         - Multimedia technologies in medical IR
         - The role of social media in medical IR


    Paper Submissions

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

Papers should be anonymised for double blind review and submitted in pdf
format through the EasyChair system
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=medir2014no later than
midnight Pacific Daylight Time on April 28, 2014. Submissions will be
reviewed by members of the workshop program committee. Accepted papers
will be included in the SIGIR 2014 Medical Information Search Workshop
proceedings.


    Important Dates

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


    Further Information

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


    Workshop Organisers

Lorraine Goeuriot, Dublin City University, Ireland

Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland

Liadh Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland

Henning M?ller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland

Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne, Australia


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:22:29 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:22:29 +0100
Subject: Job: CDI, Informaticien/Developpeur Web, Techlimed, Lyon
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.102229.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:37:10 +0100
From: Djamel MOSTEFA <djamel.mostefa at techlimed.com>
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CDI : Informaticien/D?veloppeur Web, Techlimed, Lyon
===========================================

Dans le cadre du d?veloppement des ses activit?s, Techlimed propose un
CDI ? temps plein pour un informaticien d?veloppeur web.
Le poste est bas? ? Lyon.

Contexte
------------
Techlimed (www.techlimed.com), jeune entreprise innovante, sp?cialis?e
dans le traitement automatique de la langue, d?veloppe des logiciels
d?analyse et traitement des contenus en langue arabe couvrant la
recherche d?information, la veille, l?e-gov, l?e-learning, etc.
Dans le cadre du d?veloppement de ses projets et activit?s, Techlimed
souhaite recruter un informaticien d?veloppeur web en CDI ? temps plein
d?s que possible avec, de pr?f?rence une exp?rience dans l?int?gration
et le d?ploiement de moteurs de recherche Open Source (Solr,
ElasticSearch).


Mission
-----------
Le candidat retenu aura pour mission de d?velopper des interfaces et
applications web communiquant avec le c?ur de la technologie Techlimed,
notamment pour l?impl?mentation de moteurs de recherche. Il sera en
charge de d?velopper, maintenir et ?tendre des sites web dynamiques. Il
sera ? m?me de manipuler des fichiers XML, d?utiliser des scripts PHP ou
JavaScript et de g?rer l?interconnexion ? des bases de donn?es de type
MySQL ou autres.
L?affichage des documents en ligne est r?alis? par l?utilisation du
langage XSLT/XPath.
Les comp?tences requises sont Apache, PHP, HTML, JAVA, AJAX, JQuery,
JavaScript, SQL, XML, RDF, XML Schema, CSS, XSLT, XPath, Drupal,
Symphony, WordPress, Responsive Web Design


Profil souhait?
--------------------
De formation Universitaire ou Ecole d?ing?nieur (Dipl?m? d'une licence
pro, master ou ?cole d'ing?nieur en conception / programmation /
int?gration web) avec une premi?re exp?rience professionnelle dans le
d?veloppement web.
Une exp?rience dans l?int?gration et le d?ploiement des moteurs de
recherche d?information Open Source (Solr, ElasticSearch, etc) serait
appr?ci?.

Vous ?tes autonome et rigoureux(se), dot(?)e d'un bon esprit de
synth?se. 
Vous aimez le travail en ?quipe et faites preuve d'un bon sens du
relationnel.


Salaire : en fonction des qualifications et exp?riences. 

Le poste est bas? ? Lyon. 
Les candidats doivent avoir la citoyennet? d?un pays de l?Union
europ?enne ou ?tre en possession d?un titre de s?jour.
Toute candidature sera ?tudi?e jusqu?? ce que le poste soit pourvu.

Les candidatures doivent ?tre adress?es par courriel ?
jobs at techlimed.com (lettre de motivation et curriculum vitae) ?
l?attention de :

Djamel MOSTEFA	
Directeur technique / CTO
Techlimed 
42, rue de l?universit? 
69007 Lyon

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:52:53 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:52:53 +0100
Subject: Appel: Hackathon Participation, WASSA 2014, @ACL 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.105253.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:03:14 +0100
From: Alexandra Balahur Dobrescu <alexandra.balahur-dobrescu at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Message-id: <53106CF2.3050405 at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
X-url: http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/

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

              5^th Workshop on Computational Approaches to

     Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)

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

                   - Endorsed by SIGNLL and SIGSEM -

Sentiment analysis systems hackathon

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

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

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

The systems can be oriented to the following tasks:

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

- Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and
  summarization

- Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis techniques

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

- Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models

- Online reputation management

- Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks

- Classification of stance in dialogues

- Subjectivity and sentiment analysis in social media

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

Alexandra.Balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu

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

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

We are looking forward to your participation!

On behalf of the WASSA 2014 Organizers,
Alexandra Balahur


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:21:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:21:18 +0100
Subject: Journee: TOTh 2014, Formation
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.102118.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:20:45 +0100
From: Luc Damas <luc.damas at univ-savoie.fr>
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Formation TOTh 2014

http://porphyre.org/formation-toth/2014

Informations : formation at porphyre.org

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Titre : Analyse des textes ? des fins onomasiologiques
------------------------------------------------------------------

Dates : 10 & 11 juin 2014
Lieu : Institut de la Montagne, Campus Scientifique, Le Bourget du Lac

Responsables
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Pr. Rute Costa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Pr. Christophe Roche Universit? de Savoie

Pr?sentation g?n?rale
------------------------------------------------------------------
Les terminologues jouent un r?le central dans toute activit?
professionnelle o? les comp?tences discursives, le transfert et
l'organisation des connaissances sont requis. Les terminologies sont
indispensables ? une communication sp?cialis?e rigoureuse et efficace.
Leur construction est un probl?me complexe qui doit prendre en compte
les dimensions linguistique et conceptuelle qui les composent.
L'analyse des textes ? des fins onomasiologiques est particuli?rement
int?ressante pour l'aide ? la r?daction des d?finitions en Terminologie.

Dans beaucoup de contextes professionnels, le texte est au coeur du
travail terminologique. Il importe donc de savoir ce que l'on peut y
trouver d'utile pour le travail terminologique de base conceptuelle*.
L'analyse linguistique des textes ? des fins terminologiques requiert
des connaissances sp?cifiques. Le but est de proposer, en plus de
l'extraction des traditionnels candidats termes et collocations, des
m?thodologies pour l'identification des marqueurs linguistiques et des
relations s?mantiques.

Sont retenus les ?l?ments qui pointent vers le concept n?cessaires ? la
r?daction des d?finitions en langue naturelle. Les r?sultats obtenus
nous am?nent ? proposer une possible organisation des donn?es qui est
soumise ? l'expert. Dans cette d?marche, l'expert du domaine, au sein
d'une ?quipe multidisciplinaire, joue un r?le essentiel, car au moment
de valider les donn?es il << stabilise >> les connaissances sur le
concept.

Objectifs
------------------------------------------------------------------
La formation vise ? promouvoir la collaboration entre les professionnels
de la langue et de la connaissance. Elle a ?galement pour objectif de
pr?senter les th?ories, m?thodes et outils d'analyse de textes ? des
fins terminologiques, dotant ainsi :

les professionnels de la langue d'une approche m?thodologique et
syst?matique pour la d?finition ;
les professionnels de la connaissance de comp?tences linguistiques
indispensables pour l'acquisition de connaissances ? partir de
ressources linguistiques.

Publics vis?s
------------------------------------------------------------------
Linguistes, Terminologues, Traducteurs, Documentalistes,
Informaticiens, Ing?nieurs cogniticiens...

Programme
------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Introduction
2. Fondements th?oriques

2.1. Terminologie, ontologie
2.2. Terme, collocation

3. Textes de sp?cialit?
4. Extraction de donn?es terminologiques

4.1. Candidats termes
4.2. Candidats collocations
4.3. Relations s?mantiques ? base de marqueurs linguistiques
4.4. Organisation des donn?es terminologiques
4.5. Validation par l'expert

5. Des textes ? la d?finition

5.1. D?finition(s) de d?finition
5.2. El?ments de d?finitions ? des fins de r?daction
5.3. R?le de l'expert dans la validation des r?sultats

6. M?diation entre terminologue et expert

Formateurs
------------------------------------------------------------------
Rute Costa - CLUNL - Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Christophe Roche - Equipe Condillac - Universit? de Savoie
Raquel Silva - CLUNL - Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Horaires
------------------------------------------------------------------
Mardi, 10 juin, de 14h30 ? 17h30
Mercredi, 11 juin, de 09h00 ? 17h00

Tarifs
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Etudiants : 80 EURO
Institutionnels : 120 EURO
Industriels : 180 EURO


http://porphyre.org/formation-toth/2014


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:25:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:25:43 +0100
Subject: Job: 3 Postes MCF en Informatique, CERI/Univ. Avignon,
 Langage/Reseaux/RO
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.102543.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 11:25:57 +0100
From: Fabrice Lef?vre
Message-ID: <530F12B5.6040107 at univ-avignon.fr>


Bonjour,

Trois postes de Ma?tre de Conf?rences en informatique (section 27) sont
mis au concours pour la campagne 2014 au Centre d'Enseignement et de
Recherche en Informatique de l'Universit? d'Avignon
(ceri.univ-avignon.fr).

Les personnes recrut?es effectueront leur recherche au sein du LIA
(lia.univ-avignon.fr).

Les profils des 3 postes, consultables sur lia.univ-avignon.fr rubrique
Emplois, couvrent les th?matiques du laboratoire :

- Informatique - Sp?cialit? langage/recherche et extraction
  d'information (Poste 0284 / Galaxie 4043)

- Informatique - Sp?cialit? r?seaux  (Poste 0334 / Galaxie 4045)

- Informatique - Sp?cialit? recherche op?rationnelle et optimisation
  (Poste 0324 / Galaxie 4044)

Contacts :

Enseignement : Corinne Fredouille corinne.fredouille at univ-avignon.fr - 
Directrice des Etudes du CERI et Fabrice Lef?vre 
fabrice.lefevre at univ-avignon.fr - Directeur du CERI

Recherche : Georges Linares georges.linares at univ-avignon.fr - Directeur
du LIA et Fabrice Lef?vre fabrice.lefevre at univ-avignon.fr - Directeur du
CERI

Cordialement,
- Fabrice Lef?vre

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:47:00 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:47:00 +0100
Subject: Appel: TALN articles longs, extension au vendredi 7 mars
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 11:41:12 +0100
From: Benoit Favre <benoit.favre at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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                         APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS

                               TALN-2014
  21e conf?rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles

                        http://www.taln2014.org
                            1-4 Juillet 2014
                               Marseille


-->     Extension de date limite de soumission
-->     Nouvelle Date : Vendredi 7 Mars 2014
                        ---------------------


CALENDRIER
==========

1. Articles longs
    - Date limite de soumission : 7 mars 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 14 avril 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 30 mai 2014

2. Articles courts
    - Date limite de soumission : 24 avril 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 22 mai 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 30 mai 2014

3. D?monstrations
    - Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2014
    - Notification aux auteurs : 10 mai 2014
    - Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 30 mai 2014

PR?SENTATION
============
Organis?e par le LPL (Laboratoire Parole et Langage) et le LIF
(Laboratoire d?Informatique Fondamentale), la conf?rence TALN
(Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles) aura lieu pour son 20?me
anniversaire ? Marseille (Facult? Saint-Charles, Universit?
d'Aix-Marseille) du 1er au 4 juillet 2014

La conf?rence TALN?2014, qui est organis?e sous l??gide de l?ATALA, se
tiendra conjointement avec la 16e ?dition des Rencontres des ?tudiants
Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues
(RECITAL?2014).

La conf?rence TALN?2014 comprendra des communications orales pr?sentant
des travaux de recherche et des prises de position, des communications
affich?es, des conf?rences invit?es et des d?monstrations.

La langue officielle de la conf?rence est le fran?ais. Les
communications en anglais sont accept?es pour les participants non
francophones.

TYPES DE COMMUNICATIONS
=======================
Deux formats de communications sont pr?vus : les articles longs (de 12 ?
14 pages) et les articles courts (de 6 ? 8 pages).

Les auteurs sont invit?s ? pr?senter deux types de communications :

  - des articles pr?sentant des travaux de recherche originaux
  - des prises de position pr?sentant un point de vue sur l??tat des
    recherches en TALN, fond?es sur une solide exp?rience du domaine

Les articles doivent pr?senter des travaux originaux, comportant un
apport substantiel par rapport ? d'autres travaux ?ventuellement d?j?
publi?s. Les traductions d'articles publi?s ailleurs dans une autre
langue ne sont pas accept?es.

Les articles longs seront pr?sent?s sous forme d?une communication
orale, les articles courts sous forme d?un poster.

Les communications pourront porter sur tous les th?mes du TAL.

CRIT?RES DE S?LECTION
=====================
Les soumissions seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du
domaine. Pour les travaux de recherche, seront consid?r?es en
particulier :

  - l?ad?quation aux th?mes de la conf?rence
  - l?importance et l?originalit? de la contribution
  - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique
  - la discussion critique des r?sultats, en particulier par rapport aux
    autres travaux du domaine
  - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche
    internationale
  - l?organisation et la clart? de la pr?sentation

Pour les prises de position, seront privil?gi?es :

  - la largeur de vue et la prise en compte de l??tat de l?art
  - l?originalit? et l?impact du point de vue pr?sent?

Les articles s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les actes de la
conf?rence.

Le comit? de programme s?lectionnera parmi les communications accept?es
un article (prix TALN) pour recommandation ? publication (dans une
version ?tendue) dans la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (revue
TAL).

MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION
=======================
Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais.

Une feuille de style LaTeX et un mod?le Word sont disponibles sur le
site web de la conf?rence : http://www.taln2014.org

COMITE D'ORGANISATION
=====================
        Philippe Blache         Fr?d?ric B?chet
        Carine Andr?            Brigitte Bigi
        S?bastien Bermond       Cyril Deniaud
        Nad?ra Bureau           Beno?t Favre
        St?phanie Desous        Jo?lle Lavaud
        Nuria Gala              Fr?d?ric Lefevre
        Gr?goire Montcheuil     Alexis Nasr
        Catherine Perrot        Klim Peshkov
        Laurent Pr?vot          Carlos Ramisch
        St?phane Rauzy          Claudia Starke

CONTACTS
========
  philippe.blache[arobas]lpl-aix.fr
  nadera.bureau[arobas]lpl-aix.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:38:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:38:31 +0100
Subject: Appel: IC 2014, dernier appel a posters et demonstrations
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.103831.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:31:53 +0100
From: Catherine Faron Zucker <faron at i3s.unice.fr>
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X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014

*Appel ? soumissions pour la session Posters et D?monstrations des*

25?mes Journ?es Francophones d'Ing?nierie des Connaissances :
/Connaissances pervasives : des utilisateurs plong?s dans des SBC et des
SBC plong?s dans le monde/

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

------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Dates importantes :*
Date limite de soumission : vendredi 28 f?vrier 2014
Date de notification aux auteurs : lundi 17 mars 2014
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La conf?rence d'Ing?nierie des Connaissances f?te cette ann?e ses 25
ans! Elle est le rendez-vous annuel de la communaut? fran?aise et
francophone qui s'int?resse aux probl?matiques li?es ? l'ing?nierie des
connaissances. Acad?miques et industriels s'y retrouvent pour ?changer
et r?fl?chir sur des probl?mes de recherche qui se posent en
acquisition, repr?sentation et gestion des connaissances.
L'essor des Sciences et Technologies de l'Information et de la 
Communication, et notamment des technologies du Web, dans l'ensemble de 
la soci?t? engendre des mutations dans les pratiques individuelles et 
collectives. L'Ing?nierie des Connaissances accompagne cette ?volution, 
en inventant les mod?les, m?thodes et outils permettant l''int?gration 
de connaissances et de raisonnements sur ces connaissances dans des 
environnements informatiques. De fait, on constate aujourd'hui une 
omnipr?sence des connaissances, en m?me temps qu'un d?cloisonnement des 
communaut?s de recherche en Intelligence Artificielle pour r?pondre aux 
probl?mes qui se posent. Ainsi, la construction des syst?mes ? base de 
connaissances fait appel ? l'Ing?nierie des Connaissances, au traitement 
automatique des langues, ? l'apprentissage automatique et ? la fouille 
de donn?es; le traitement des connaissances associe Ing?nierie des 
Connaissances avec recherche d'information, recherche op?rationnelle, 
analyse de donn?es; la mod?lisation des environnements informatiques, de 
ses acteurs humains ou logiciels, allie Ing?nierie des Connaissances et 
syst?mes multi-agents; enfin l'Ing?nierie des Connaissances touche ? des 
th?matiques classiques dans les communaut?s de l'interaction 
homme-machine et des environnements informatiques pour l'apprentissage 
humain pour placer l'utilisateur au centre des syst?mes.
En pla?ant l'utilisateur au coeur des syst?mes informatiques, 
l'Ing?nierie des Connaissances est sollicit?e pour traiter la masse de 
donn?es disponibles sur le web tout en assistant l'utilisateur pour les 
visualiser, contextualiser, expliquer, recommander, classer, pr?dire, 
approximer, s?curiser, fiabiliser, pour pallier ? leur impr?cision voire 
incoh?rence.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
*Soumissions*

/*Posters :*/
Sont concern?s des travaux en cours ou au stade de r?sultats
pr?liminaires de recherche ou appliqu?s. Les posters sont destin?s ?
provoquer la discussion au sein de la communaut? pour accompagner au
mieux le d?marrage des travaux pr?sent?s. Ils seront expos?s dans un
espace de discussion.

/*D?monstrations :*/
Une ou plusieurs s?ances de d?monstrations seront organis?es pour
permettre aux participants de pr?senter leurs d?veloppements dans un
espace de discussion. Ce peuvent ?tre des maquettes, prototypes, outils
finalis?s, mais aussi applications industrielles et op?rationnelles. Les
propositions de d?monstrations peuvent venir compl?ter une
communication.

Des r?sultats peuvent donner lieu ? une double soumission pour poster ET 
d?monstration.
La soumission d'un poster et/ou d'une d?monstration peut ?galement venir
en compl?ment d'un article (long ou court) accept? ? la conf?rence ou
d'une pr?sentation dans la session sp?ciale "Logiciels, Projets,
Industrie".

Les textes associ?s aux d?monstrations et aux posters ne devront pas
exc?der 3 pages et devront respecter les styles de documents propos?s
pour la conf?rence : http://www.irit.fr/IC2014.

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


Les articles des posters et d?monstrations accept?s seront inclus dans 
les actes d'IC 2014.

Pour les posters accept?s, le format de pr?sentation sera A0 vertical.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
La conf?rence d'Ing?nierie des connaissances est plac?e sous l'?gide du 
coll?ge IC de l'AFIA
------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
Pr?sidente du comit? de programme :*
Catherine Faron Zucker (I3S, Universit? Nice Sophia Antipolis)

*Pr?sidente du comit? d'organisation :*
Catherine Roussey, (IRSTEA)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar  1 09:53:52 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 10:53:52 +0100
Subject: Appel: CNL 2014, extended deadline 31 March 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.1.MAR.2014.105352.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 12:11:14 +0100
From: Camilo Thorne <cthorne at inf.unibz.it>
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Extended submission deadline: 31 March 2014

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

Co-located with COLING 2014

20-22 August 2014
Galway, Ireland

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

Proceedings in Springer LNCS.

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

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


Topics
------

Possible topics for CNL 2014 include:

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


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

Submission deadline (extended):  31 March 2014
Notification of acceptance:      12 May 2014
Deadline for revised papers:     9 June 2014
Workshop:                        20-22 August 2014


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

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

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


Venue
-----

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


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

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


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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 18:06:15 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 19:06:15 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension, Computer Speech and Language Special,
 Issue on Hybrid Machine Translation
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.190615.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 09:36:32 -0600
From: Marta Ruiz <martaruizcostajussa at gmail.com>
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X-url: http://ees.elsevier.com/csl

Hybrid Machine Translation focuses on combining the best properties of
different Machine Translation (MT) paradigms. Nowadays, it is very
popular to include linguistic features in Statistical Machine
Translation (SMT) systems or to modify the standard Rule-based Machine
Translation (RBMT) architecture to include statistical knowledge. Other
ways of hybridization include the system combination techniques which
may combine a rich variety of translation paradigms.

This special issue in the prestigious Computer Speech and Language
journal will cover different approaches from Hybrid Machine Translation
and take advantage of the latest and leading research to discuss the
progress in the field.

This special issue invites contributions related to (but not limited):

   1. theoretical and experimental design of hybrid MT architectures
   2. experimental results with hybrid MT systems guided by corpus-based
      or rule-based systems
   3. introduction of linguistics in corpus-based approaches
   4. rule-based systems extended or built with statistical information
   5. induction of lexical or grammatical transfer rules from corpora
   6. description of open source tools and language resources for hybrid
      MT
   7. description of computationally efficient algorithms for hybrid MT
   8. applications of hybrid MT systems
   9. hybrid methods applied to spoken language translation (SLT)
   10. hybrid evaluation methods
   11. system combination of different MT and SLT paradigms.

*Submission procedure*

Prospective authors should follow the regular guidelines of the Computer
Speech and Language Journal for electronic submission
(*http://ees.elsevier.com/csl*). During submission authors must select
"SI: Hybrid Machine Translation" as Article Type.

*Important dates: *
20th March 2014: Deadline for Submissions [EXTENDED]
1st June 2014: Notification of Resubmission
1st July 2014: Deadline for Resubmission
1st August 2014: Final Decision


*Guest Editors:*
Dr. Marta R. Costa-juss?, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore,
*martaruizcostajussa at gmail.com*
Prof. Jos? A. R. Fonollosa, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya,
Barcelona, *jose.fonollosa at upc.edu*

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 20:56:48 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:56:48 +0100
Subject: Job: Speech Linguistic Project Manager, Google Speech Research
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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 12:13:59 +0000
From: Hadrien Gelas <hadrieng at google.com>
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Speech Linguistic Project Manager - Google Speech Research

Job title:

Speech Linguistic Project Manager for French

Location:

London, UK

Linguistic Field(s):

   - Phonetics/Phonology
   - Semantics
   - Discourse Analysis

Job description:

The Speech Team at Google builds technologies to turn spoken input into
machine understandable format, or written text into spoken output. Our
technology is used to enable voice-based interactions in products like
Google Now, Voice Search, Dictation, Speech-to-Speech Translation,
Google Glass, and more.

As a Linguistic Project Manager and a native-level speaker of French,
you will oversee and manage all work related to achieving high data
quality for speech projects in your own language.

You will be part of a team based in London, managing a team of Data
Evaluators and working on a number of projects towards Speech research:
ASR, TTS, and NLP.

This includes:

   - training, managing and overseeing the work of your team
   - creating verbalisation rules, such as expanding URLs, email
     addresses, numbers
   - propose new projects to fulfill research needs for spoken languages
     around the world
   - creating annotation conventions
   - evaluating data quality
   - providing expertise on pronunciation and phonotactics
   - working with QA tools according to given guidelines and using
     in-house tools


Job requirements:

   - native-level speaker of French (with good command of the standard
     dialect) and fluent in English
   - must have attended elementary school in the country where the
     language is spoken
   - keen ear for phonetic nuances and attention to detail; knowledge of
     the language?s phonology
   - ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; should have an
     interest in current speech, mobile and online technology
   - excellent oral and written communication skills
   - good organizational skills
   - previous project management and people management experience
   - previous experience with speech/NLP-related projects a plus
   - advanced degree in Linguistics preferred; experience with
     Computational Linguistics a plus
   - also a plus: proficiency with HTML, XML, and some programming
     language; previous experience working in a Linux environment

Project duration: 6-11 months (with potential for extension)

**This is not a permanent position but a contract position.**

For immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter in
English (PDF format preferred) with "Speech Linguistic Project Manager
[French]" in the subject line.

Email Address for applications: DataOpsMan at gmail.com

Contact information: Ara Kim
Closing date: open until filled

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 18:00:29 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 19:00:29 +0100
Subject: Appel: Prague Stringology Conference 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.190029.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 08:05:54 +0100 (CET)
From: Jan.Holub at fit.cvut.cz
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                   Prague Stringology Conference 2014

               19th event of the Prague Stringology Club

                      http://www.stringology.org

                           Call for Papers

              Prague, Czech Republic, September 1-3, 2014

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* New: indexed by Scopus and Thomson Reuters

PSC 2014 is the 19th event of the Prague Stringology Club. It is an
international conference focusing on stringology and related areas. It
is organized annually by the Prague Stringology Club, a research group
in the Department of Theoretical Computer Science at the Faculty of
Information Technology of Czech Technical University in Prague. The
proceedings of recent conferences are indexed in Thomson Reuters, Scopus
and DBLP.



TOPICS:

Stringology is a part of algorithmic research that deals with the
processing of text strings. It has existed for at least thirty years and
developed into a respected subfield of its own. The last twenty years
have produced an explosion of new results. This progress is due in part
to the human genome effort, an area to which string algorithms make
important contributions. String processing extends into tree processing
that is called Arbology. The topics of the conference include but are
not limited to:

  * algorithms for pattern matching in strings, images and trees
  * data structures (automata, trees etc.) for pattern matching
    in strings, images and trees
  * coding and data compression
  * bioinformatics
  * information retrieval
  * string processing algorithms in databases
  * searching for regularities
  * natural language processing



INVITED TALK:

  * To be announced



SUBMISSION:

Authors are cordially invited to submit their full papers (PDF format,
up to 15 pages, A4 page format) by May 13, 2014. The paper should start
with the title, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, and
a one-paragraph summary of the results and ideas. The paper should be
submitted via submission server
(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psc20140).

For their final version the papers are required to be prepared using the
LaTeX style available at http://www.stringology.org/pscproc2 which has
an interface compatible to the standard LNCS style.



IMPORTANT DATES:

  * Submission of Papers: May 13, 2014
  * Notification of Acceptance: June 27, 2014
  * Early Registration: July 7, 2014
  * Final Version Due: July 7, 2014



PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

  * A. Amir, Bar Ilan University, Israel
  * G. Andrejkova, P. J. Safarik University, Slovakia
  * M. Crochemore, University of Marne-la-Vallee, France,
           and King's College London, UK 
  * S. Faro, University of Catania, Italy
  * F. Franek, McMaster University, Canada
  * J. Holub (chair), Czech Technical University in Prague,
           Czech Republic
  * C. S. Iliopoulos, King's College London, UK
  * S. Inenaga, Kyushu University, Japan
  * S. T. Klein, Bar Ilan University, Israel
  * T. Lecroq (chair), University of Rouen, France
  * B. Melichar (honorary chair), Czech Technical University in Prague,
           Czech Republic
  * Y. Pinzon, National University of Colombia, Colombia
  * M.-F. Sagot, Inria Rhone-Alpes, France
  * W. F. Smyth, McMaster University, Canada, and 
           Curtin University of Technology, Australia
  * B. W. Watson, FASTAR Group (Stellenbosch University), South Africa
  * J. Zdarek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

  * M. Balik (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague,
           Czech Republic
  * J. Holub (co-chair), Czech Technical University in Prague,
           Czech Republic
  * J. Janousek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  * B. Melichar, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  * L. Vagner, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
  * J. Zdarek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic



HISTORY:

PSC 2014 was preceded by Prague Stringology Workshops in 1996-2000 and
by Prague Stringology Conferences in 2001-2006, 2008-2013. Each year
proceedings are prepared for the conference. They are published by Czech
Technical University in Prague and are also available from the PSC web
pages. Selected papers from the later workshops were also published in a
special issue of the journal Kybernetika. Selected papers from the
2002-2006, 2008 conferences were then published in the Nordic Journal of
Computing, Journal of Automata, Languages, and Combinatorics,
International Journal of Foundations in Computer Science, and Discrete
Applied Mathematics.



LOCATION & PUBLICATION:

PSC 2014 will be held at the Department of Theoretical Computer Science
the Czech Technical University in Prague on September 1-3, 2014.  (The
precise location will be announced later.) The working language is
English. As usual, accepted papers will appear in conference proceedings
published by the Czech Technical University in Prague and distributed at
the conference. After further refereeing, selected papers will then be
published in an international journal.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 21:03:09 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 22:03:09 +0100
Subject: Conf: Colloque A l'articulation du lexique,
 de la grammaire et du discours, 3 au 5 avril 2014, Paris 3
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.220309.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:30:10 +0000
From: Ga?tane Dostie <Gaetane.Dostie at USherbrooke.ca>
Message-ID: <CF3B80D8.C630%Gaetane.Dostie at USherbrooke.ca>
X-url: http://www.univ-paris3.fr/a-l-articulation-du-lexique-de-la-grammaire-et-du


Bonjour, 

Le programme du colloque "? l'articulation du lexique, de la grammaire
et du discours : marqueurs grammaticaux et marqueurs discursifs" qui se
tiendra ? l'Universit? Paris 3 du 3 au 5 avril 2014 est maintenant en
ligne :
http://www.univ-paris3.fr/a-l-articulation-du-lexique-de-la-grammaire-et-du
-discours-marqueurs-grammaticaux-et-marqueurs-discursifs-255785.kjsp?RH=123
3068248160

La fiche d'inscription, ? compl?ter avant le 15 mars, est ?galement
disponible sur le site du colloque.

Bien cordialement,

Florence Lefeuvre (U. Paris 3)
Ga?tane Dostie (U. de Sherbrooke)



*******
Programme 

Colloque international "? l?articulation du lexique, de la grammaire et
du discours : marqueurs grammaticaux et marqueurs discursifs"
3 au 5 avril 2014

Universit? Paris 3 ? Sorbonne nouvelle
?quipe d?accueil : Clesthia (Syled EA 2290)
Salles   
Jeudi : Claude Simon, Maison de la Recherche, 4 rue des Irlandais
Vendredi et samedi : Las Vergnas, Censier, 13 rue de Santeuil, 3e ?tage


Jeudi le 3 avril 2014

Accueil 
8 h 30 ? 9 h

Mot de bienvenue
9 h ? 9 h 15
Gabriella Parussa, directrice de l??quipe Clesthia, Universit? Paris 3 ?
Sorbonne nouvelle

Pr?sidence : Catherine Schnedecker, LILPA, EA 1339, Universit? de
Strasbourg 

9 h 15 ? 10 h 15
Conf?renci?re invit?e	Mary-Annik Morel, Paris 3 ? Sorbonne nouvelle
Titre : ? R?examen des ligateurs et des ponctuants ? la lumi?re des
indices intonatifs et posturo-mimico-gestuels : intonation / regard /
texte / mains (dialogue oral spontan? en fran?ais) ?
 
10 h 15 ? 10 h 45	Anne Le Draoulec et Andr?e Borillo
CLLE-ERSS (UMR5263), CNRS & Universit? Toulouse-Le Mirail
Titre : ? "Apr?s" sur les traces de "maintenant" dans le r?le de
marqueur pragmatique ?

Pause
10 h 45 ? 11 h

11 h ? 11 h 30	Didier Bottineau, CNRS, UMR 7114 MoDyCo,
 Universit? Paris
Ouest (Nanterre)
Danh Th?nh Do-Hurinville, INALCO
Titre : ? Le marqueur discursif "rapport ?" par rapport ? "rapport" et
"par rapport ?", ?chelle de grammaticalisation et pragmaticalisation ?

11 h 30 ? 12 h	Ga?tane Dostie, CATIFQ, Universit? de Sherbrooke
Titre : ? De la libert? d?association des mots lexicaux et grammaticaux
au quasi-figement. La locution polycat?gorielle et polys?mique "c?est
?a" ?

12 h ? 12 h 30	Gilles Corminboeuf, Fonds national de la recherche suisse
et Universit? de Neuch?tel
Titre : ? "Comme ?a", marqueur d?approximation ?

D?jeuner 
12 h 30  ? 14 h

Pr?sidence : Andr?e Borillo CLLE-ERSS (UMR5263), CNRS & Universit?
Toulouse-Le Mirail

14 h ? 14 h 30	Florence Lefeuvre, Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris 3, CLESTIA
Titre : ? Une chose est s?re : un emploi de "chose" en cataphore
r?somptive ?

14 h 30 ? 15 h	G?raldine Zumwald K?ster, Universit? de Fribourg
Titre : ? Les diff?rents emplois de "c?est que" suivi d?une proposition ?

15 h ? 15 h 30	Myriam Bras, CLLE-ERSS, UMR 5263, CNRS et Universit? de
Toulouse 2-Le Mirail, Universit? de Toulouse
Catherine Schnedecker, LILPA, EA 1339, Universit? de Strasbourg
Titre : ? "Dans un (premier+second+ni?me) temps" vs "en
(premier+second+ni?me) lieu" : variations diachroniques ?

Pause 
15 h 30 ? 15 h 45  

15 h 45 ? 16 h 15	Pascal Montchaud, Universit? de Neuch?tel
Titre : ? "D?une part", "d?autre part", "d?un c?t?" et "de l?autre"
sont-ils des marqueurs discursifs ? ?

6 h 15  ? 16 h 45	Ma?t? Dupont, Universit? catholique de Louvain
Titre : ? L'environnement collocationnel de "mais" : approche
diaphasique ?

16 h 45 ? 17 h 15	Mongi Kahloul, Institut Sup?rieur des Langues
(Gab?s, Tunisie) et UMR 5191 "ICAR" (CNRS & ENS/Lyon2)
Titre : ? "D?cid?ment" : anaphoricit?, intensit? et attitude ?nonciative ?


Vendredi le 4 avril 2014

Pr?sidence : Catherine Collin, Universit? de Nantes

9 h 15 ? 10 h 15
Conf?renci?re invit?e	Liesbeth Degand, Universit? catholique de Louvain
Titre : ? R?le de la position dans la d?finition des marqueurs discursifs ?

10 h 15 ? 10 h 45	 Belinda Lavieu-Gwozdz EA4384, CIRCEFT-ESCOL,
Universit? Paris Est-Cr?teil
C?line Vaguer, Laboratoire CLLE-ERSS (CNRS UMR 5263), Universit? de
Toulouse II - Le Mirail
Titre : ? ?mergence d'un marqueur discursif : "en m?me temps" ?

10 h 45 ? 11 h 15	?lisabeth Richard et Griselda Drouet, LIDILE
(EA3874), Universit? Rennes 2
Titre : ? "En m?me temps" : un marqueur double ? De la simultan?it?
temporelle ? la contradiction ?nonciative ?

Pause
11 h 15 ? 11 h 30

11 h 30 ? 12 h	Philippe Planchon, Laboratoire FORELL, Universit? de
Poitiers
Titre ? Modalit?s d'int?gration des op?rations pr?dicatives et
?nonciatives dans la caract?risation des marqueurs d?riv?s du morph?me
"accord" ?

12 h ? 12 h 30	Guillaume Ciry, Laboratoire CALHISTE, Universit? de
Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambr?sis
Titre : ? Pour une analyse multidimensionnelle du marqueur discursif "Si
vous voulez" et de ses variantes en fran?ais actuel ?

D?jeuner
12 h 30 ? 14 h

Pr?sidence : Elisabeth Richard, Universit? Rennes 2

14 h  ? 14 h 30	C?line Corteel, EA 4521 GRAMMATICA, Universit? d?Artois
Titre : ? Le r?le de "m?me" dans les anaphores d?monstratives en ?Ce
m?me N? ?

14 h 30 ? 15 h	Estelle Moline, Universit? de Caen ? Basse-Normandie
Titre : ? "Tu fais n?importe quoi, avec n?importe qui, n?importe quand,
n?importe comment, et tu veux que ce soit de la belle ouvrage. N?importe
comment" : assertion, concession, compl?mentation verbale et marquage
discursif ? 

15 h  ? 15 h 30 Cristina Petra?, Universit? Alexandru Ioan Cuza Ia?i
Titre : ? Des classifieurs / enclosures aux marqueurs d?exemplification /
approximation : "genre", "style", "type" en fran?ais hexagonal et "mani?re
de" en fran?ais acadien ?

Pause
15 h 30 ? 15 h 45

15 h 45  ? 16 h 45
Conf?rencier invit? Pierre Larriv?e, Universit? de Caen ? Basse-Normandie
Titre : ? Entre grammaire et discours : variation synchronique, registre,
pragmatique et l?urgente documentation du vernaculaire ?

D?ner du colloque
Lieu ? pr?ciser
20 h



Samedi le 5 avril 2014

Pr?sidence : Claus D. Pusch, Albert-Ludwigs Universit?t
Fribourg-en-Brisgau

9 h 15 ? 9 h 45	H?l?ne Vassiliadou, UR 1339, LiLPa / Scolia, Universit? de
Strasbourg

Titre : ? "C?est-?-dire (que)" : des emplois propositionnels aux emplois
discursifs ?

9 h 45  ? 10 h 15   Laurence Rouanne, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Titre : ? "C?est dire" : un marqueur discursif ? ?

10 h 15 ? 10 h 45
Laure Lansari, CLILLAC-ARP EA 3967, Universit? Paris Diderot
Titre : ? "J?allais dire" : de la p?riphrase verbale au marqueur
discursif ?

Pause 
10 h 45 ? 11 h

11 h ? 11 h 30 	Sonia G?mez-Jordana, Universit? Complutense de Madrid
Titre : ? Les traces grammaticales dans les marqueurs discursifs : "?y a
comme qui dirait un probl?me" ?

11 h 30  ? 12 h 	Evelyne Saunier, Universit? Paris Descartes
Titre : ? "Au fait", "en fait", "de fait" : trois types de rep?rage
discursif ?

12 h ? 12 h 30	Denis Paillard, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle
(UMR 7110), Universit? Paris Diderot
Titre : ? Polycat?gorialit? et s?mantique discursive ?

D?jeuner
12 h 30 ? 14 h

Pr?sidence : Estelle Moline, Universit? de Caen ? Basse-Normandie

14 h ? 14 h 30 	Catherine Collin, Laboratoire linguistique de Nantes
LLING EA 3827, Universit? de Nantes
Titre : ? Marqueurs et rep?rage : l'ailleurs discursif  "Et partout
ailleurs, d'ailleurs" ?

14 h 30 ? 15 h	Fanny Lafontaine, Laboratoire Parole et Langage,
Universit? de Provence
Titre : ? "Alors que ": mot de grammaire et mot de discours ?

15 h  ? 15 h 30	Claus D. Pusch, Albert-Ludwigs Universit?t
Fribourg-en-Brisgau
Titre : ? Les usages discursifs de "bien que" en fran?ais parl? ?

Pause
15 h 30 ? 15 h 45

15 h 45? 16 h 45
Conf?renci?re invit?e	Jeanne-Marie Debaisieux, Universit? Paris 3 ?
Sorbonne Nouvelle 
Titre : ? Les conjonctions en emploi discursif : grammaticalisation ou
polyfonctionnalit? structurelle ?

Mot de cl?ture 
16 h 45

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 17:59:07 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:59:07 +0100
Subject: Appel: Call for Demos, NLDB'2014, Montpellier, France
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.185907.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 14:02:20 +0100
From: Mathieu Roche <Mathieu.Roche at lirmm.fr>
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X-url: http://www.nldb.org/

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

 2nd Call for Demos - NLDB'2014

 18-20 June 2014 - Montpellier, France

 http://www.nldb.org/

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

 The 19th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to
 Information Systems (NLDB'2014) invites submissions of demonstrations
 of state-of-the-art research or industrial prototypes related to all
 aspects of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems
 field.

 Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
 - Applications of NLP in Information Systems
 - Social Media and Web Data
 - Big Data and Natural Language
 - Semantic Web and Open Linked Data
 - Question Answering (QA)
 - Natural language and Ubiquitous Computing
 - Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling
 - NLP Applications (Opinion Mining, Information Extraction, etc.)

 Demo submissions will be handled online via the easychair conference
 management system:
 https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2014demonstratio

 Demonstration paper submissions should have 4 pages (LNCS format).
 Developers should outline the design of their system and provide
 details to allow the evaluation of its validity, quality, originality,
 and relevance to NLP in Information Systems.

 The accepted papers for demos will be included in the conference
 proceedings, to be published by Springer Verlag in the "Lecture Notes
 in Computer Science" (LNCS) Series. The demos will be presented in a
 special demonstration session. At least one of the demo submitters must
 register for the conference, and perform the demo on site.

 Invited speakers of NLDB'2014:
 - Sophia Ananiadou, University of Manchester, UK
 - Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy

 Important Dates:
 - Demo submission deadline (firm): March 13, 2014
 - Notification of acceptance: March 28, 2014
 - Camera-ready paper due: April 7, 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 20:52:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:52:31 +0100
Subject: Job: Recrutement d'un(e) MCF en Humanites numeriques,
 Universite de Lille 3
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.215231.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 17:58:10 +0100
From: St?phane Chaudiron
Message-ID: <5314B4A2.9040202 at univ-lille3.fr>
X-url: http://geriico.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/


L'universit? de Lille 3 (laboratoire GERiiCO) recrute un(e) MCF sur le
profil "Sciences de l'information et du document : Humanit?s
num?riques".

Profil recherche :

Le laboratoire GERiiCO souhaite renforcer sa dynamique dans le champ des
humanit?s num?riques. Justifiant d'une formation en sciences de
l'information et du document, le ou la candidat(e) devra d?montrer de
solides comp?tences ainsi qu'une r?elle exp?rience de recherche dans au
moins un des domaines portant sur les transformations (et la continuit?)
apport?es par la culture num?rique : le r?le des syst?mes d'organisation
des connaissances, les reconfigurations du document li?s ? la
num?risation et ? la d?mat?rialisation, la communication scientifique.

Les actions de recherche s'inscrivant de plus en plus dans un contexte
international, la pratique de l'anglais est fortement appr?ci?e.

Le profil complet du poste est accessible sur Galaxie.

Les candidat(e)s int?ress?(e)s peuvent contacter St?phane Chaudiron,
directeur du laboratoire GERiiCO, stephane.chaudiron at univ-lille3.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 18:08:37 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 19:08:37 +0100
Subject: Appel: IDEAS 2014, Web and Text Intelligence Track
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.190837.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:21:24 -0000
From: "Ricardo Campos" <ricardo.campos at inescporto.pt>
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----Apologies for cross-posting---


18th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS
2014)

http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas14/ideas14.php

07-09 July 2014, Porto, Portugal

-----Call for papers ---------

(Web and Text Intelligence Track):
http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas14/webtext.php

Web and text intelligence are related areas that have been used to
improve human computer interaction in general and in particular to
explore and analyze information available on the Internet. Both areas
benefit from knowledge, concepts and techniques from artificial
intelligence, statistics, linguistic, graph theory, among other
fields. Web and Text Mining are hot application areas for AI and source
for inspiration for new AI methods and algorithms. The growing of social
networks and Web site interactivity demands more powerful representation
for Web and its dynamics, such as Graphs and Complex Networks. Complex
Network formalisms are being applied not only for the Web but to
approach many other complex phenomena studied in AI. Known developments
are self adaptive web sites, usage monitoring, web site personalization,
social network analyses, community detection, automatic Web site
organization, information retrieval, information extraction, large
document collection mining and exploration, visualization, usability,
among others.

This special track will include relevant and novel work on methods and
theories (and their applications) that help us understand the Web and
how to build automatic tools for better exploiting its complex world,
including potentially useful techniques for exploring textual sources
and other kinds of contents.

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

- Web and text mining
- Visual Web mining
- Link mining
- Web usability
- Web automation and adaptation
- Web content mining
- Multimedia Web mining
- Recommender systems for the Web
- Focused crawling
- Community detection
- Social network mining and analysis
- Graph mining
- Complex networks
- Information Retrieval
- Information Extraction
- Ontologies in Text Mining
- Document and Text Classification
- Visual Text Mining

Important Dates:
--------------------------

- March 24, 2014: Papers submission deadline
- May 19, 2014: Notification of acceptance
- June 9, 2014: Camera-ready deadline

Proceedings:
--------------------------

The conference proceedings will be published by ACM; the ISBN assigned
by ACM to IDEAS14 is: 978-1-4503-2627-8

Organizing:
--------------------------

- Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, ISEP
- Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, ISEC
- Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

General Chair:
--------------------------

- Jorge Bernardino, CISUC-ISEC, Coimbra, Portugal

Program Co-Chairs 
--------------------------

- Ana Almeida, ISEP, Porto, Portugal
- Bipin C. Desai, Concordia University, Canada

Publicity Chair
--------------------------

- Elsa Ferreira Gomes, ISEP, Porto, Portugal

Track Organizing Committee:
--------------------------

- Al?pio Jorge, U. Porto, Portugal
- Alneu de Andrade Lopes, ICMC-USP, Brazil
- Ricardo Prud?ncio, UPFE, Brazil
- Nuno Escudeiro, ISEP-IPP, Portugal
- Ricardo Campos, I.P. Tomar, INESC TEC, Portugal
- Dimiter Dimitrov, Bulgaria
- Giorgos Papadourakis, Greece
- Helmut Dispert, Germany
- Tatjana Welzer, Slovenia
- Cesar Ferri, Spain,
- Pavel Vorobkalov, Russian Federation

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 20:54:33 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:54:33 +0100
Subject: Appel: Rules and Human Language Technology,
 RuleML 2014 Special Track
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.215433.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 12:30:50 +0100
From: L?vy Francois <francois.levy at lipn.univ-paris13.fr>
Message-Id: <BC8047C3-6564-4AAB-A845-6F8B2C639F8E at lipn.univ-paris13.fr>
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Call for Papers: Rules and Human Language Technology

RuleML 2014 Special Track: Rules and Human Language Technology

(Whole RuleML call on http://ruleml2014.vse.cz/
rules-and-human-language-technology )
(collocated with Ecai 2014 : http://www.ecai2014.org/ruleml/ )

Over the last decade, there has been enormous growth in open, web-based
distribution of textual material from business, legal, and government
communities concerning constructs such as contracts, business processes,
legal cases, regulations, policies, legislation, health services, and
citizen information sources. Unstructured or semi-structured textual
material makes up a large portion of what is now called Big Data. In
addition, there have been dramatic improvements in the effectiveness and
accuracy of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and, more broadly, Human
Language Technologies (HLT), accompanied by a significant expansion of
the HLT community itself. In parallel, there have been substantial
developments in machine-readable, knowledge-based semantic
representations. For instance, a recent RuleML-OASIS collaboration led
to LegalRuleML, which bridges between legal sources and formal rules.

Nevertheless, there is a substantial knowledge-acquisition bottleneck in
using HLT to translate from the textual content of Big Data to
machine-readable, knowledge-based semantic representations (and from
formal representations back to text). Consequently, the research and
industrial communities cannot make full use of the abundance of
information available in Big Data to scale up such representations. By
the same token, how the representations can be applied is limited. While
there have been some efforts to address the bottleneck (e.g.  controlled
languages such as Executable English, SBVR, or ACE) and advanced parsers
with semantic translation (e.g. C&C/Boxer), much more remains to be
done. The Special Track is intended to focus attention on the issues,
provide an outlet for current work, and be a forum for the exchange of
ideas.

The Special Track is relevant to a range of communities (e.g., in
Business, Law, and Government), who are concerned with translating
between human language and formal rules. For example, in the BRMS
community, there is growing interest in acquiring and maintaining rules
extracted from textual documents such as contracts, public or internal
regulations of corporations, and policy documents. Similarly, the
requirements engineering community is interested in acquiring
requirements from texts and generating rules to check the software
behavior. The concerns of the Special Track also bear on work in
decision support and process modeling communities.

Papers of interest in the Special Track will (typically) relate to the
translation of texts that are descriptive (e.g., statements of facts and
rules on facts) or prescriptive (e.g., statements of obligations or
prohibitions in laws, regulations, or policies) to or from semantic
representations.

Topics

  * Natural language interfaces for rule languages, editors, engines,
    and use cases
  * Development of language resources, e.g. terminologies, thesauri,
    ontologies, and corpora
  * Ontologies and vocabularies for business rules
  * Information retrieval and extraction from textual corpora
  * Semantic annotation of textual corpora
  * Multilingual aspects of processing texts
  * Rule-mining techniques and applications
  * Close analysis of the alignment between linguistic expressions and
    rule formalisms.
  * Automatic Classification of documents in corpora
  * Parsing of natural language expressions into machine-readable,
    knowledge-based semantic representations
  * Generation of natural language from those representations
  * Translatability of the diverse human languages to formal rules
  * Controlled languages (e.g., Executable English, ACE, SBVR, CLCE,
    RECON) as sources, targets, or intermediaries for rule acquisition
    grounded in business, legal, or government textual corpora
  * Logical formalisms for human language representation (e.g.,
    Discourse Representation Structures, the feature structures of
    phrase structure grammars, and the defeasible deontic logic of
    LegalRuleML)
  * Epistemological and computational properties of HLT target
    formalisms
  * Metrics for capturing the correspondence between text and rules
    (e.g., notions of 'isomorphism' between legal text and rules)
  * The relationship between semantic representation and interpretation.

Organisers

Francois Levy (LIPN, University of Paris, France) and Adam Wyner
(University of Aberdeen, UK)

Important Dates for RuleML (including the special tracks)

Abstract submission: March 31, 2014
Paper submission:    April 8, 2014
Notification:        May 20, 2014
Camera ready:        June 6, 2014
RuleML 2014 dates:   August 18-20, 2014

Submission guidelines

Papers must be original contributions written in English and must be
submitted at EasyChair for the special track as:

  * Full Papers (15 pages in the proceedings)
  * Short Papers (8 pages in the proceedings)

Please upload all submissions in LNCS format. To ensure high quality,
submitted papers will be carefully peer-reviewed by 3 PC members based
on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of
exposition. Accepted papers will be published in book form in the
Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series with the RuleML
main track proceedings.

Program Committee

  * Johan Bos (University of Groningen, NL)
  * Jack Conrad (Thomson Reuters, USA)
  * Enrico Francesconi (ITTIG-CNR, Florence, Italy)
  * Norbert E. Fuchs (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
  * Aldo Gangemi (LIPN, Univ. Paris 13, France)
  * Matthias Grabmair (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
  * Tobias Kuhn (Yale University, USA)
  * Yue Ma (TCS, TU-Dresden, Germany)
  * Leora Morgenstern (SAIC, Arlington, Va, USA)
  * Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, Univ. Paris 13, France)
  * Wim Peters (University of Sheffield, UK)
  * Rolf Schwitter (Macquarie University, Australia)
  * John Sowa (VivoMind Intelligence Inc., Rockville, MD. USA)
  * Daniela Tiscornia (National Research Council, Italy)
  * Giulia Venturi (ILC-CNR, Italy)
  * Amal Zouaq (DMCS, Royal Military College of Canada, Canada)
  * Paul Fodor (Stony Brook University, USA)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 20:57:46 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:57:46 +0100
Subject: Appel: SEPLN 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.215746.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 13:37:00 +0100
From: Horacio Saggion <horacio.saggion at upf.edu>
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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - XXX CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL
LANGUAG PROCESSING (SEPLN)


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


The XXX edition of the annual Conference of the Spanish Society for
Natural Language Processing will be held during the 17th, 18th, and 19th
of September 2014 at Universitat de Girona.

The main objective of the meeting is to present the latest research and
development in Natural Language Processing (NLP) carried out by the
scientific community and the industrial sector. The conference also
seeks to serve as a bridge between research and industry as well as a
forum for sharing new projects in this field.

We encourage the submission of workshops proposals, small group meetings
to bring together researchers, students and/or professionals to share
information, experience and skills on technological or professional
advances that suggest promising directions for future research.

Proposals for workshops should be sent to Horacio Saggion (
horacio.saggion at upf.edu) , indicating the following information:

- Workshop title.

- Name, affiliation, address, e-mail and phone number of workshop
  responsible.

- Name, affiliation and e-mail of other co-organizers, if any.

- Tentative program committee members

- Summary of the workshop, including objectives, topics, justification,
methodology, minimum and maximum number of participants.

- Special audio-visual, computer or hall disposition requirements.

- Indicate if the workshops you are proposing have been run before,
  where, and how many people attended.

NOTE: All aspects of scientific organization of the workshops
(scientific committee, paper selection, invited speakers, etc.) are the
sole responsibility of workshop organizers.

The SEPLN scientific Committee will make the final decision regarding
acceptance of all workshops.

Important Dates:

Proposal Submission: 24th March 2014

Workshop Acceptance/Rejection: 31st  March 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 20:58:57 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 21:58:57 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MdC Informatique,  Langage / Recherche et extraction,
 LIA (UAPV)
Message-ID: <TUE.4.MAR.2014.215857.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:15:09 +0100
From: Marc El-Beze <marc.elbeze at univ-avignon.fr>
Message-ID: <5315D1DD.9010108 at univ-avignon.fr>
X-url: http://www.univ-avignon.fr/fr/pratique/ressources-humaines/recrutement-et-concours.html

Sp?cialit? Langage / Recherche et extraction d'information

PROFIL ENSEIGNEMENT

Le candidat devra ?tre capable d'assurer son service d'enseignement en
Licence ou en Master Informatique au CERI (Centre d'Enseignement et de
Recherche en Informatique) de l'Universit? d'Avignon. Par ailleurs, il
sera conduit tr?s rapidement ? prendre des responsabilit?s
administratives dans le domaine de l'enseignement, comme notamment des
responsabilit?s d'Unit?s d'Enseignement dans un premier temps, puis des
responsabilit?s en tant que responsable d'ann?e de formation. Un
investissement fort dans le pilotage et l'animation de la structure
d'enseignement est ?galement attendu, aussi bien au niveau Licence que
Master, internes au CER, en collaboration ou avec d'autres composantes
de l'Universit?, d'autres Universit?s / Ecoles, aux niveaux national et
international. Plus particuli?rement, le candidat pourra ?tre amen? tr?s
rapidement ? prendre en charge des enseignements de niveau Master,
orient?s industrie et R&D, li?s par exemple ? l'ing?nierie des syst?mes
d'information, l'ing?nierie du document et de l'information (et plus
particuli?rement la gestion ?lectronique de documents (GED)), la fouille
de donn?es (Data et Text Mining) ou encore aux syst?mes et applications
embarqu?s.

Contacts : Corinne Fredouille corinne.fredouille at univ-avignon.fr,
Directrice des ?tudes du CERI Fabrice Lef?vre
fabrice.lefevre at univ-avignon.fr, Directeur du CERI

? L'Universit? d'Avignon a pour politique de favoriser l'?panouissement
scientifique des ma?tres de conf?rences ? primo-recrut? ? en r?duisant
leur service d'enseignement ? 150h TD la premi?re ann?e ?

PROFIL RECHERCHE Recherche et Extraction d'information

Le ma?tre de conf?rences recrut? int?grera la th?matique Langage du LIA
(Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon), notamment en contribuant ? ses
activit?s en Recherche et Extraction d'Information. Seront privil?gi?s
les sujets centraux de cette th?matique, en particulier le traitement
automatique du langage ?crit et oral, la fouille de texte, la recherche
et l'extraction de contenus s?mantiques, l'indexation et
l'enrichissement de larges volumes d'informations extraites du web
(donn?es ouvertes, wikipedia, presse, r?seaux sociaux, forums ou blogs,
collections multim?dia...),, avec des approches ind?pendantes de la
langue et du domaine, faisant appel ? des m?thodes num?riques et ?
l'exploitation de ressources linguistiques (notamment pour la d?tection
d'opinions, le r?sum? automatique de documents, les syst?mes de
recommandation fond?s sur le contenu, les syst?mes de
questions-r?ponses...). Les candidats devront montrer leur capacit? ?
formaliser des probl?mes sous-jacents et ? proposer des solutions
originales, applicables ? diff?rents objets linguistiques : documents
textuels structur?s et non structur?s, dialogues oraux ou ?crits,
parole, audio, multim?dia... Un int?r?t particulier sera accord? ? la
capacit? de s'engager dans des campagnes d'?valuations nationales ou
internationales, ?ventuellement de participer ? leur organisation. Enfin
l'aptitude ? s'investir dans les projets pluri-disciplinaires de la
F?d?ration de Recherche (FR) Agorantic, centr?e sur les sciences du Web,
sera fortement appr?ci?e. Dans ce cadre, les crit?res recherche qui
seront employ?s pour ?valuer les candidatures sont : - publications au
meilleur niveau - rayonnement international et mobilit? - capacit? ?
s'investir dans une activit? contractuelle - animation de la communaut?
scientifique - ad?quation aux comp?tences scientifiques et
technologiques sp?cifiques cit?es dans le profil

Contacts : Georges Linares georges.linares at uiv-avignon.fr - Directeur du 
LIA Fabrice Lef?vre fabrice.lefevre at univ-avignon.fr - Directeur du CERI

AUTRES INFORMATIONS

Aucune d?rogation ? l'obligation de r?sidence ne sera accord?e. Poste 
?galement ouvert aux personnes b?n?ficiant de la reconnaissance de la 
qualit? de travailleur handicap?. Pour faciliter la lecture du document, 
le masculin g?n?rique se r?f?re aussi bien aux femmes qu'aux hommes.

Le dossier de candidature doit ?tre transmis : 1) d?mat?rialis? ? 
l'adresse ?lectronique suivante : recrut27mcf0284 at univ-avignon.fr 
(rappeler le n? du poste dans l'objet de votre courriel) 2) 1 seul 
exemplaire en version ? papier ?, ? l'adresse suivante :

Universit? d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse DRH

Case 4 - Recrutement Enseignants-Chercheurs

74, rue Louis Pasteur -- 84029 AVIGNON cedex 1

(le n? du poste doit ?tre rappel? sur l'enveloppe)

Cl?ture des candidatures le mardi 1er avril 2014 -- Tout dossier,
?lectronique ou papier, re?u apr?s cette date sera d?clar? irrecevable.
Toutes les informations relatives ? cette campagne sont disponibles sur
le site de l'universit? ? l'adresse suivante :
http://www.univ-avignon.fr/fr/pratique/ressources-humaines/recrutement-et-concours.html


Pour tout renseignement d'ordre administratif sur la constitution de 
votre dossier, vous pouvez contacter la Direction des Ressources Humaines :

Muriel Maubr? -- 04 90 16 25 36 -- muriel.maubre at univ-avignon.fr 

Delphine Aumelas -- 04 90 16 25 38 -- delphine.aumelas at univ-avignon.fr

UNIVERSITE D'AVIGNON R?f?rence GALAXIE : 4043

Num?ro dans le SI local : 0284 R?f?rence GESUP :

Corps : Ma?tre de conf?rences Section 1 : 27-Informatique

Profil : Informatique - Sp?cialit? langage/recherche et extraction 
d'information

Implantation du poste : 0840685N - UNIVERSITE D'AVIGNON

Localisation : AVIGNON CAMPUS AGROPARC

Code postal de la localisation : 84000

Etat du poste : Vacant

Adresse d'envoi du dossier :

DRH - CASE 4 -
74 RUE LOUIS PASTEUR 84029 - AVIGNON CEDEX 1

Contact administratif : N? de t?l?phone : 04 90 16 25 36, 04 90 16 25 38

N? de Fax : 04 90 16 25 50

Email : drh at univ-avignon.fr

MURIEL MAUBRE RESPONSABLE BUREAU ENSEIGNANTS TITU

Date de prise de fonction : 01/09/2014

Enseignements : Composante ou UFR : R?f?rence UFR : UFR ip STS (SCIENCES
TECHNOLOGIES ET SANTE Profil recherche :

Laboratoire: EA4128 - LABORATOIRE D'INFORMATIQUE D'AVIGNON - LIA

Dossier Papier OUI Dossier num?rique physique (CD,DVD, cl? USB) NON

Dossier transmis par courrier ?lectronique OUI

e-mail gestionnaire recrut27mcf0284 at univ-avignon.fr 
<mailto:recrut27mcf0284 at univ-avignon.fr>

N? POSTE : 0284 CORPS ACTUEL (MCF ou PR) :

MCF CORPS DEMANDE A LA PUBLICATION (MCF ou PR) : MCF SECTION CNU 
DEMANDEE A LA PUBLICATION : 27?me section

ARTICLE DE REFERENCE : 26 I -- 1? ETAT DU POSTE : Vacant

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar  4 18:02:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 19:02:06 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden,
 26=?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9330_?=April 2014
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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:28:33 +0100
From: peter ljungl?f <peter.ljunglof at heatherleaf.se>
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X-url: http://eacl2014.org/


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

EACL 2014
The 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics
Gothenburg, Sweden
26?30 April 2014
http://eacl2014.org/


The 14th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for
Computational Linguistics covers research in all aspects of automated
natural language processing, including but not limited to the following
areas:

- computational and cognitive models of language acquisition and
  language processing 
- information retrieval and question answering
- generation and summarization
- language resources and evaluation
- machine learning methods and algorithms for natural language
  processing
- machine translation and multilingual systems
- phonetics, phonology, morphology, word segmentation, tagging, and
  chunking
- pragmatics, discourse, and dialogue
- semantics, textual entailment
- social media, sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- spoken language processing and language modeling
- syntax, parsing, grammar formalisms, and grammar induction
- text mining and natural language processing applications

Apart from regular paper sessions and poster sessions, EACL 2014 will
contain workshops, tutorials, invited speakers and several social
events.


REGISTRATION

EACL 2014 registration is open! All information ca be found at the
following web page:

    http://eacl2014.org/registration

Early registration deadline is 3 March 2014.
Late registration deadline is 24 April 2014.
Online registration will not be available after 24 April, you can
however register on-site at the conference.


EACL WORKSHOPS

The following workshops will be held during 26?27 April. 

- CAtoCL: Workshop on Computational Approaches to Causality in Language
- CLFL: 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature
- CVSC: 2nd Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their
  Compositionality
- CogACLL: Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language
  Learning
- DM: Dialogue in Motion
- HaCaT: Workshop on Humans and Computer-assisted Translation
- HyTra: 3rd Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation
- LASM: 5th Workshop on Language Analysis for Social Media
- LaTeCH: 8th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage,
  Social Sciences, and Humanities
- Louhi: 5th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and
  Information Analysis
- MWE: 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions
- PITR: 3rd Workshop on Predicting and Improving Text Readability for
  Target Reader Populations
- TTNLS: Type Theory and Natural Language Semantics
- WaC-9: 9th Web as Corpus workshop

For details, see: http://eacl2014.org/workshops


EACL TUTORIALS

The following workshops will be given during 26?27 April. 

- Computational modelling of metaphor, by Ekaterina Shutova and Tony
  Veale
- Natural language processing for social media, by Kalina Bontcheva and
  Leon Derczynski
- Recent advances in dependency parsing, by Ryan McDonald and Joakim
  Nivre
- Describing images in natural language, by Julia Hockenmaier
- Structured sparsity in natural language processing: Models, algorithms
- and applications, by Andr? F. T. Martins, M?rio A. T. Figueiredo, Noah
- A. Smith, and Dani Yogatama
- Building models to reveal how natural speech is represented in the
  brain, by Alexander Huth

For details, see: http://eacl2014.org/tutorials


INVITED SPEAKERS

During the main conference, 28?30 April, we will have the following
three invited speakers.

- Simon King, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Ulrike von Luxburg, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

For details, see: http://eacl2014.org/invited-speakers


MAIN PROGRAM

Apart from the above, the main program will contain regular paper
sessions, poster sessions, software demonstrations, as well as several
social events. For details, see http://eacl2014.org/program

A list of all accepted papers can be found here:
http://eacl2014.org/accepted-papers

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:41:48 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Analyse automatique de documents multimedias (Jean
 Carrive, INA), 18 mars 2014, INALCO, Paris
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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:35:08 +0100
From: Mathieu Valette <mvalette at inalco.fr>
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L'Equipe de Recherche Textes, Informatique, Multilinguisme (ERTIM) de
l'INALCO a le plaisir de vous inviter ? son prochain s?minaire de
recherche :

Analyse automatique de documents multim?dias
Jean Carrive, Institut National de l?Audiovisuel

Le s?minaire aura lieu mardi 18 mars 2014, de 10h30 ? 12h30 ? l'INALCO
Recherche, 2 rue de Lille 75007 Paris (Salons d'honneur ? escalier C,
deuxi?me ?tage).

Acc?s : Stations de m?tro Saint Germain-des-Pr?s (ligne 4), Rue du Bac
(ligne 12), Palais Royal-Mus?e du Louvre (ligne 1), Mus?e d'Orsay (RER
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:35:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:35:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: CIAA 2014, Extended deadline
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.213520.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 07:59:43 +0100 (CET)
From: Denis Maurel <denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr>
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* PAPER SUBMISSION EXTENDED March 16, 2014 * 
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C A L L F O R P A P E R S 


CIAA 2014?Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata 

The 19th International CIAA 2014 will take place in Giessen, Germany,
from July 30?August 2, 2014. The conference is organized by the Institut
f?r Informatik of the Justus-Liebig-Universit?t Giessen. Special thanks
go to the invited speakers

Javier Esparza (Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany) 
Friedrich Otto (Universit?t Kassel, Germany) 
Giovanni Pighizzini (Universit? degli studi di Milano, Italy) 
Georgios Sirakoulis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece) 

for accepting our invitation to present their recent results at CIAA
2014.

Authors are invited to submit a paper (no more than 12 pages in LNCS
style) presenting original research concerning the topics of the
conference by

*** March 16, 2014 (extended deadline; strict). *** 

For the topics, the submission instructions, and further information, 
please see the website at 

http://www.informatik.uni-giessen.de/ciaa2014/ 

The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series. As in previous years, extended versions
of selected papers from the proceedings will appear in a special issue
of the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS).

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:38:28 +0100
Subject: Conf: LREC 2014 Workshop, Language Technology Service Platforms,
 May 31, 2014, Reykjavik
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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:28:05 +0100
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[Apologies for multiple postings]

LREC 2014 Workshop Language Technology Service Platforms: Synergies, 
Standards, Sharing - May 31, 2014, Reykjavik
Contact: lrec-infra at lrec-conf.org

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Motivation and background
Increasingly, Human Language Technology (HLT) requires sophisticated
infrastructures to support research, development, innovation,
collaboration and deployment as services ready for production use. To
address this need, several supporting infrastructures have been
established over the past few years, and others are being built or
planned.  The LREC 2014 Workshop on Language Technology Service
Platforms brings together major infrastructural/coordination initiatives
from all over the world. The overall goal is to explore means by which
these and other infrastructure projects can best collaborate and
interoperate in order to avoid duplication of effort, fragmentation, and
above all, to facilitate the use and reuse of technologies and resources
distributed throughout the world.

Focus
Web services are an increasingly common means to provide access to
language technologies and resources. These services typically work in
combination with repositories of language resources and workflow
managers. This development brings with it its own set of issues in
relation to collaboration and interoperability, including:
interoperability of input to and output from language technologies 
deployed as web services;
means to provide services for evaluation/replicability of results and 
iterative development;
means to support multi-site collaborative work;
licensing and cataloguing of language technologies and resources;
sharing and access mechanisms to language technologies and resources;
quality assessment and sustainability of language technologies and 
resources.

Aims
This workshop aims to foster discussion on these (and related) issues in
order to arrive at a set of concrete plans for future collaboration and
cooperation as well as immediate next steps.
General discussions will focus on the following questions: How can the
various infrastructures collaborate, in both the near and long-term
future? What are the steps needed in order to share both language
technologies and resources? How can the projects and initiatives
(including not only those involved in the workshop, but also others)
join forces in order to eventually create a global infrastructure for
Human Language Technologies?

The goal is to leave the workshop with a resolution that 1. lists all 
active infrastructure and platform initiatives, 2. describes the 
consensus of all initiatives involved in the workshop, 3. outlines the 
requirements for collaboration and 4. proposes solutions.

Researchers and technologists interested in platforms, services, sharing
of language resources etc. are encouraged to participate in the workshop
in order to make sure that their voice is heard. As described above, the
consensus and outcome of the workshop will be put down in writing in a
short resolution document meant to be used by the whole community for
public relation and dissemination purposes, especially with regard to
discussions with journalists, administrators, politicians and funding
agencies.

Preliminary program plan
The first session will provide short introductions to the 
infrastructural/coordination initiatives involved in the organisation.
In order to outline some concrete next steps for the immediate future, 
there will be sessions devoted to surveying two to four currently 
implemented solutions to crucial problems, with an eye toward assessing 
and comparing the various solutions in order to determine immediate 
action items. These sessions will address topics such as:
interoperability and the use of standards, for example, syntax and 
semantics used to exchange information between web services and/or 
technologies that may not have been developed at the same site (i.e., 
that do not necessarily utilize the same formats, categories, etc.)
implemented means to provide evaluation/replicability and means to 
enable multi-site collaboration
licensing for data and tools shared over networks and services.

Contribute to an overview of the Language Resources and Technologies 
landscape!
In order to facilitate the discussion we ask workshop participants to
answer the following questions and to send their answers to the
organisers (see Contact mail below) at the beginning of May. A summary
of the responses will be provided at the workshop to inform and to focus
the discussion.

(1) Access -- How do you make information about your tools and/or 
    resources available to the world? How and where do you find
    information on tools and resources you would like to use?
(2) Obstacles to Data and Technology Exchange -- What do you see as the
    major obstacle(s) to the exchange of data between technologies?
(3) Data or Technology Gaps -- Are there tools, technologies or
    resources that do not exist at this time that are required to answer
    your research or development questions?
(4) Interoperability and Standards -- What syntax and semantics do you
    use to exchange information between web services and/or tools that
    may not have been developed at the same site (i.e., do not
    necessarily utilize the same formats, categories, etc.)?
(5) Evaluation -- What have you implemented to provide
    evaluation/replicability?
(6) Licensing -- How are you handling licensing for data shared over
    networks and services?
(7) Collaboration -- How would you propose to promote collaboration
    among the various infrastructure projects located around the world?

We also welcome any additional comments or views that you wish to
express.

We look forward to welcoming you in Reykjavik!

Organising Initiatives
COCOSDA
ELRA -- European Language Resource Association
FLaReNet
Language Applications (LAPPS) Grid
Language Grid
META-NET
MLi -- Towards a MultiLingual Data & Services infrastructure
MUSE FP7 -- ClowdFlows initiative
Research Data Alliance

Organisers
Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Italy and ELRA, France)
Khalid Choukri (ELRA, France)
Christopher Cieri (LDC, USA)
Tomaz( Erjavec (Joz(ef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA)
Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Oleksandr Kolomiyets (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS and IMMI, France)
Yohei Murakami (Kyoto University, Japan)
Satoshi Nakamura (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Senja Pollak (Joz(ef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)
Georg Rehm (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
Herman Stehouwer (Max Planck, Germany)
Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
Andrejs Vasil,jevs (Tilde, Latvia)
Peter Wittenburg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The
Netherlands)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:44:41 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:44:41 +0100
Subject: Appel: TIPA n=?UTF-8?Q?=C2=B030=2C_?=Extension date de soumission
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214441.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:36:23 +0100
From: Jo?lle Lavaud <joelle.lavaud at lpl-aix.fr>
Message-ID: <53174477.8030203 at lpl-aix.fr>
X-url: http://tipa.revues.org/222
X-url: http://tipa.revues.org/

TIPA 30 - Extension de la date de soumission au 20 mars 2014

****************************
APPEL ? CONTRIBUTIONS

Revue TIPA : Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage

http://tipa.revues.org/


Le 30^?me num?ro de la revue TIPA est ? para?tre en d?cembre 2014, sur
le th?me

LES PRO?MINENCES ? L'ORAL

Editeur invit? : Sophie Herment, Laboratoire Parole et Langage,
Aix-Marseille Universit?

Poursuivant la tradition de la revue TIPA, le 30^?me num?ro rassemblera
des travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage. Des
articles traitant des pro?minences ? l'oral feront l'objet de ce num?ro.

Nous accepterons des soumissions dans diff?rents domaines 
linguistiques : prosodie, phon?tique, phonologie, syntaxe, morphologie, 
pragmatique, dialectologie, diachronie.

Le terme pro?minences englobe des acceptions diff?rentes qui, nous 
l'esp?rons, seront trait?es dans les diverses contributions. A l'oral, 
les pro?minences peuvent aller de l'emphase ou la focalisation, aux 
entit?s m?triques comme les syllabes fortes par exemple, en passant par 
les accents m?lodiques, etc.

Des articles traitant des interfaces pourront faire l'objet de 
soumissions : comment les pro?minences syntaxiques sont-elles r?alis?es 
? l'oral ? Comment la structure informationnelle est-elle reli?e ? la 
pro?minence ? Certains constituants morphologiques sont-ils plus 
pro?minents que d'autres ? Etc.

Nous accueillerons des ?tudes se r?clamant de diff?rentes perspectives : 
des approches fond?es sur l'analyse de corpus, des approches plus 
th?oriques, en linguistique, psycholinguistique, neurolinguistique, 
sociolinguistique, des ?tudes sur le traitement automatique du langage, 
sur l'apprentissage des langues (premi?re ou seconde)...

Tous ces aspects sont loin d'?tre exhaustifs et d'autres approches 
permettant d'apporter un ?clairage sur le th?me du num?ro 30 de TIPA 
seront bien entendu envisag?es.

La langue de publication sera soit le fran?ais, soit l'anglais. Chaque 
article contiendra un r?sum? de 2 pages dans l'autre langue, afin que 
les papiers en fran?ais soient plus accessibles aux lecteurs qui lisent 
l'anglais et inversement.

_Dates ? retenir_

Prolong?e jusqu'au 20 mars : date limite pour soumission des r?sum?s

30 mars : notification d'acceptation

30 juin : r?ception des articles

D?cembre : publication.

_Instructions pour les auteurs_

Merci d'envoyer 2 fichiers ? : tipa at lpl-aix.fr

- l'un en .doc contenant le titre, le nom et l'affiliation de l'auteur 
  (des auteurs).

- l'autre anonyme en .pdf, ne d?passant pas une page A4 (en times 12)
  contenant : le titre; ? page d'introduction au sujet de la recherche
  et au cadre th?orique/m?thodologique ; ? page donnant les r?sultats ou
  conclusions principaux. Une courte bibliographie(5 ou 6 titres parmi
  lesquels les auteurs ne devront pas appara?tre plus de deux fois)
  pourra venir compl?ter la page de r?sum?.

Pour davantage de d?tails, les auteurs pourront suivre ce lien :

http://tipa.revues.org/222


************************************************************************
TIPA 30 - Deadline Extended : March 20, 2014

CALL FOR PAPERS

TIPA: Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage
http://tipa.revues.org/

The 30^th issue of the TIPA journal is to appear in December 2014, on 
the following topic:

PROMINENCES and SPOKEN LANGUAGE

Invited editor: Sophie Herment, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, 
Aix-Marseille Universit?

Following the TIPA tradition, the 30th issue of the journal will gather
interdisciplinary works on speech and language. Articles dealing with
prominences and spoken language will be welcome.

We invite submissions based on various backgrounds and linguistic 
fields: prosody, phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, pragmatics, 
dialectology, diachrony.

The term prominence encompasses many different meanings which will 
hopefully be dealt with in the various contributions. In spoken 
language, prominences can range from emphasis, focalisation, pitch 
accents, metric entities such as strong syllables or strong feet, etc.

Articles dealing with interfaces will also be of great interest: how are
syntactic prominences realized in the spoken language? How is
information structure related to prominence? Are certain morphological
constituents more prominent than others? etc.

Papers building on different perspectives will be considered: 
corpus-based approaches, theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, 
neurolinguistics, automatic language processing, sociolinguistics, 
language teaching...

These aspects are by no means exhaustive, and all related issues or 
approaches that can shed light on the topic will be considered.

The language of publication will be either English or French. Each 
article should contain a detailed two-page abstract in the other 
language, in order to make papers in French more accessible to 
English-speaking readers, and vice versa, thus insuring a larger 
audience for all the articles.

_Important dates:_

March 20, 2014  (Extension): deadline for abstract submission

March 30: notification of acceptance

June 30: deadline for submission of articles

December: publication.

_Submission guidelines:_

Please send your proposal in 2 files to: tipa at lpl-aix.fr

- one in .doc containing the title, name and affiliation of the author(s).

- the other anonymous in .pdf: it should not be longer than one A4 page 
(in times 12) and contain: the title; ? page introducing the subject of 
the research and the theoretical / methodological framework; ? page 
accounting for the main results. This one-page abstract can be followed 
by a short bibliography (5 or 6 titles; the author(s) of the proposal 
should not appear more than twice).

Instructions for authors can be found at
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/index.php?id=27

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:45:56 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:45:56 +0100
Subject: Appel: TSD 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214556.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 00:42:37 +0100
From: TSD 2014 <xrambous at aurora.fi.muni.cz>
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      *********************************************************
		   TSD 2014 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
      *********************************************************

   Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
                               (TSD 2014)
               Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014
                     http://www.tsdconference.org/

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

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

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

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

TSD SERIES

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


TOPICS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

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

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

The registration fee is not fixed yet, but we can anticipate that
it will be similar to that of previous years, e.g. in 2012:

    Student: Early payment (by May 31) - 10000 CZK (approx. EUR 365)
    Full participant: Early payment (by May 31) - 12000 CZK (approx. EUR
    440)

The fee has a "all in one" form, to keep equality between participants.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

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

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

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

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the
papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.  Authors
using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS
template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings
Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format.  For this service a
service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically.

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

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

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

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


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

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


ADDRESS

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

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


LOCATION

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

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

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

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


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:36:16 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:36:16 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL 2014 Tutorial in Natural Language Processing for
 Social Media
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.213616.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 11:32:47 +0100
From: peter ljungl?f <peter.ljunglof at heatherleaf.se>
Message-Id: <5B733E16-5291-44CC-BFFB-95DADA4136A1 at heatherleaf.se>
X-url: http://eacl2014.org/tutorial-social-media


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

   EACL Tutorial in Natural Language Processing for Social Media


   Gothenburg, Sweden, 26 April 2014 

   http://eacl2014.org/tutorial-social-media


There is an increasing need to interpret and act upon information from
large-volume, social media streams, such as Twitter, Facebook, and forum
posts. However, NLP methods face difficulties when processing social
media text. We call for participation in an intermediate-to-advanced
level tutorial, discussing the state of the art in processing social
media text.

Key points of the tutorial include:
- Characterisation of language in social media, and why it is difficult
  to process
- In-depth examination of multiple approaches to core NLP tasks on
  social media text
- Discussion of corpus collection and the use of crowdsourcing for
  annotation
- Practical, legal and ethical aspects of gathering and distributing
  social media data and metadata
- Current and future applications of social media information

The tutorial takes a detailed view of key NLP tasks (corpus annotation,
linguistic pre-processing, information extraction and opinion mining) of
social media content. After a short introduction to the challenges of
processing social media, we will cover key NLP algorithms adapted to
processing such content, discuss available evaluation datasets and
outline remaining challenges.

The core of the tutorial will present NLP techniques tailored to social
media, specifically: language identification, tokenisation,
normalisation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, entity
linking, event recognition, opinion mining, and text summarisation.

Since the lack of human-annotated NLP corpora of social media content is
another major challenge, this tutorial will cover also crowdsourcing
approaches used to collect training and evaluation data (including
paid-for crowdsourcing with CrowdFlower, also combined with
expert-sourcing and games with a purpose). We will also discuss briefly
practical and ethical considerations, arising from gathering and mining
social media content.

The last part of the tutorial will address applications, including
summarisation of social media content, user modelling (geo-location,
age, gender, and personality identification), media monitoring and
information visualisation (for e.g. detecting bushfires, predicting
virus outbreaks), and using social media to predict economical and
political outcomes (e.g. stock price movements, voting intentions).


  Web address: http://eacl2014.org/tutorial-social-media

Registration is to be made online via the EACL main registration site:
http://eacl2014.org/registration

This tutorial is supported by the CHIST-ERA project uComp (www.ucomp.eu)
and also by the EU FP7 project Pheme (www.pheme.eu).


Hope to see you in G?teborg!

Leon Derczynski and Kalina Bontcheva

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:39:37 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:39:37 +0100
Subject: Job: Senior Technical Engineer / Scientist (Software team
 Manager), ELDA
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.213937.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:35:44 +0100
From: ELRA ELDA Information <info at elda.org>
Message-ID: <5319D940.50907 at elda.org>
X-url: http://www.elda.org/article289.html

[Apologies for multiple postings]

The European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a company
specialized in Human Language Technologies within an international
context, acting as the distribution agency of the European Language
Resources Association (ELRA), is currently seeking to fill an immediate
vacancy for *Senior Technical Engineer/Scientist (Software team
Manager)* position.

Under the supervision of the CEO, the responsibilities of the Senior
Technical Engineer/Scientist include managing of a small development
team, designing/specifying tools and software components for Language
Resources, production frameworks and platforms, carrying out quality
control and assessment. He/she will be in charge of renovating the
current language resources production workflows. This yields excellent
opportunities for young, creative, and motivated candidates wishing to
participate actively to the Language Engineering field. He/she will be
in charge of conducting the activities related to language resources and
Natural Language Processing technologies. The task will mostly consist
in managing language resources production projects and co-ordinating
ELDA's participation in R&D projects while being also hands-on whenever
required by the development team.

Profile :

     Good knowledge of Linux and open source software
     Proficiency in Python, Django, PhP, Perl, CSS
     Proficiency in Django-CMS is a plus
     Good knowledge of e-commerce development (Python/Django-oriented)
     Proficiency in French and English
     Dynamic and communicative, flexible to combine and work on
     different tasks
     Experience with technology transfer projects, industrial
     projects,collaborative projects within the European Commission or
     other international frameworks
     Good knowledge of the Language Technology area is a plus
     Ability to work independently and as part of a team, in particular
     the ability to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team
     Citizenship of (or residency papers) a European Union country
     Applications will be considered until the position is filled. The
     position is based in Paris.

Salary : Commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed
above together with a curriculum vitae to :

Khalid Choukri
ELRA / ELDA
9, rue des Cordli?res
75013 Paris
FRANCE
Fax : 01 43 13 33 30
Mail : job at elda.org


Please check out our other vacant positions:

  * Project Manager in Speech and Multimodal
    http://www.elda.org/article289.html
  * Junior Technical Engineer / Scientist (Project Manager)
    http://www.elda.org/article292.html

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:48:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:48:19 +0100
Subject: Appel: AiML 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214819.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:34:40 +0000
From: Agi Kurucz <agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk>
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*** Apologies for cross-postings ****

AiML-2014:  CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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

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

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

- history of modal logic
- philosophy of modal logic
- applications of modal logic
- computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of
  modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming, model
  checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics)
- theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives
  on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity,
  correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics,
  modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory of
  modal logic)
- specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics,
  modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process
  logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based
  systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar
  formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and
  temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural
  logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics)

Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

              http://www.collegepublications.co.uk

in a volume to be made available at the conference.

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

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

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

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts of full papers submission deadline: 14 March 2014
Full papers submission deadline: 21 March 2014
Full papers acceptance notification: 2 May 2014
Short presentations submission deadline:  12 May 2014
Short presentations acceptance notification:  2 June 2014
Final version of full papers and short presentations due: 9 June 2014
Conference: 5-8 August, 2014.

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

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

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

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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:40:47 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:40:47 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF TAL, 27/7e, INALCO (Paris)
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214047.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 14:32:18 +0100
From: Mathieu Valette <mvalette at inalco.fr>
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Un poste de Ma?tre de Conf?rences en TAL (CNU 27e/7e) est ouvert au
concours en 2014 ? l'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations
Orientales (INALCO, Paris) pour une prise de fonction ? la rentr?e
2014-2015.
Le poste est rattach? au d?partement Textes, Informatique,
Multilinguisme (TIM) et ? l'Equipe de Recherche Textes, Informatique,
Multilinguisme (EA 2520 ERTIM)

https://www.inalco.fr/IMG/pdf/MCF_578_Traitement_automatique_des_langues.pdf

PROFIL ENSEIGNEMENT 
La personne recrut?e devra faire ?tat de connaissances tant en
linguistique qu?en informatique. Une exp?rience du multilinguisme
(traitement de donn?es multilingues ou ?laboration d?outils destin?s ?
ce traitement) et la connaissance d?une ou plusieurs langues enseign?es
? l?INALCO sera un atout. Elle aura ? enseigner ? tous les niveaux du
cursus (Licence Traitement Num?rique Multilingue, Master Ing?nierie
Linguistique) des mati?res relevant de domaines formels telles que
l?algorithmique, la programmation ou les statistiques, et associant
linguistique et informatique (traitement de corpus, fouille de textes,
constitution de ressources).

Il est ? noter que le contexte acad?mique impose de savoir enseigner des
disciplines techniques ? des ?tudiants en langue et linguistique
g?n?rale ayant peu ou pas de connaissances informatiques, tout en
sachant valoriser leurs comp?tences linguistiques vari?es.

D?partement d?enseignement : TIM (Textes, Informatique, Multilinguisme)

Le TIM (Textes, Informatique, Multilinguisme) est un d?partement
d?enseignement prenant en charge une formation de la deuxi?me ann?e de
Licence au Doctorat. Il offre une formation en traitement automatique
des langues et ing?nierie linguistique avec comme d?bouch?s privil?gi?s
les m?tiers de l?ing?nierie multilingue (fouille de textes, veille,
recherche d?information, traductique, etc.). Le master (deux parcours
professionnels, un parcours recherche) est co- habilit? avec les
universit?s Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle et Paris Ouest Nanterre la
D?fense. Les ?tudiants de la formation sont, pour la plupart, issus des
fili?res d?enseignements des langues de l?INALCO (plus de 90 langues
enseign?es).

Lieux d?exercice :
INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins 75013 PARIS (cours de Licence) 
INALCO-Recherche, 2 rue de Lille 75007 PARIS (cours de Master)

Equipe p?dagogique : sept permanents et une vingtaine d'intervenants
ext?rieurs. 
Nom directrice d?partement : Marie-Anne MOREAUX
Email directrice d?pt. : marie-anne.moreaux at inalco.fr

PROFIL RECHERCHE

La personne recrut?e devra d?velopper son activit? scientifique en
fouille de textes multilingues, au moyen de m?thodes statistiques ou
d?apprentissage automatique (machine learning). Elle devra articuler ses
recherches avec celle des autres membres de l??quipe, notamment dans la
perspective d??tablir un dialogue entre TAL et sciences du langage
mettant ainsi ? profit l?environnement linguistique hors norme de
l?INALCO. Les candidats sont invit?s ? prendre contact avec le directeur
du laboratoire.

Laboratoire de rattachement : ERTIM (EA 2520)

La personne recrut?e devra imp?rativement s?int?grer dans l??quipe ERTIM
(EA 2520). L?ERTIM (anciennement CRIM) est un centre de recherche en
ing?nierie linguistique qui se focalise depuis plusieurs ann?es sur la
fouille de textes multilingues, l'extraction de donn?es linguistiques
(terminologies, lexiques) et le filtrage de documents. Son projet
scientifique s?articule autour des th?mes suivants : (i) la recherche en
linguistique pour les applications en traitement automatique des langues
; (ii) le d?veloppement de m?thodologie pour l?ing?nierie des documents
num?riques multilingues ; (iii) la production de ressources
multilingues.

Lieu d?exercice :
INALCO Recherche, 2 rue de Lille 75007 PARIS

Nom directeur labo : Mathieu VALETTE
E-mail directeur labo : mvalette at inalco.fr 
URL labo : http://www.er-tim.fr/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:42:58 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:42:58 +0100
Subject: Appel: Extended deadlinen Arabic natural dialect processing,
 Workshop at ICCTIM2014
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214258.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:17:22 +0100
From: smaili <Kamel.Smaili at loria.fr>
Message-ID: <531731F2.20802 at loria.fr>
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The submission deadline has been extended to *March 20, 2014*

* Workshop at **ICCTIM2014**, Dubai, april 10, 2014 *

http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/icctim2014/workshops/

Title : Arabic natural dialect processing

Summary

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the language of more than 250 million
persons. It is used mainly in writing and in formal
speech. Unfortunately, most of Arab people, do not use MSA in their
daily conversations; the result is that different Arabic dialects are
spoken through more than twenty countries.In fact, MSA is not acquired
as a mother tongue, but rather it is learned as a second language at
school and through exposure to formal broadcast programs (such as the
daily news), religious practice, and newspaper. Spoken Arabic is often
referred to as colloquial Arabic, dialects, or vernaculars. It's a mixed
form, which has many variations, and often a dominating influence from
local languages (from before the introduction of Arabic) and from
languages of the countries which occupied the Arabic region. Differences
between the various variants of spoken Arabic can be large enough to
make them incomprehensible to Arabic people coming from different
regions.

Hence, regarding the large differences between such spoken languages, we
can consider them as disparate languages or more exactly as different
dialects depending on the geographical place in which they are
practiced: Morocco, Algeria, Egypt,... Because in general, they are not
written therefore, corpora are not available. Everyone knows the
importance of such corporawhen we would like to mine texts or to develop
some applications as speech recognition or machine translation which are
based on statistical models. The only existing corpora but not yet
explored are those used in social networks which cannot be used easily
due to the multiplicity of formats, the number of foreign words, the
mixture between dialects and French or English and so on.


This workshop is an opportunity for the NLP community to focus on this
challenging topic and encourage them to develop new resource Arabic
dialect,Arabic dialect corpora processing tools and help in highlighting
the difficulties of processing Arabic dialects especially those which
use so many foreign words adapted lexically and grammatically to
Arabic. The workshop topics include but not limited to:

1. Collecting Arabic dialect corpora

2. Diacritization of Arabic dialects

3. Mining Arabic social networks

4. Language modelling

5. Arabic dialect morphology

6. Development of mobile Arabic dialects applications: speech
    recognition, machine translation, ...

7. Tagging Arabic dialects corpora

8. Maghreb Arabic dialects versus Orient Arabic dialects: Linguistic
    study.

Format and duration: a full day workshop will held on April 10,
2014. The language of the workshop is English and submissions should be
with respect to ICCTIM2014 paper submission instructions. All papers
will be peer reviewed.Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF
format as soon as possible and before March 20, 2014.

When you submit by using the OpenConf management system, please select
others in the proposed topics and in keywords, enter Arabic dialect.

In all the cases, when you submit, please send an email to the chairman
of the workshop:smaili at loria.fr


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:49:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:49:42 +0100
Subject: Appel: IDEAS 2014, Data Preparation for Data Mining Track
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214942.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:55:49 +0000
From: Paulo Oliveira <pjo at isep.ipp.pt>
Message-Id: <8B843F68-FEF4-4096-A5C7-18FBB7F1E7DE at isep.ipp.pt>
X-url: http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas14/dataprepmine.php

(Please accept my apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP)

Data Preparation for Data Mining Track of the 
18th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium 
(IDEAS 2014)
July 7-9, 2014, Porto, Portugal
http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas14/dataprepmine.php
 
(accepted papers will be included in the IDEAS14 proceedings and
published by ACM)
 
-----Call for Papers ---------

Current technological developments allow the collection of huge amounts
of data that can be used to support decision-making processes. However,
this is only possible if data can be transformed into knowledge.
 
Various kind of data mining algorithms are used to extract data
patterns.  Tasks for pattern extraction include classification (rules or
trees), regression, clustering, association, sequence modeling,
dependency, and so forth. However, much work in the field of data mining
was built on the existence of data with quality, and real-world data is
often incomplete, noisy, or inconsistent, representing an obstacle for
efficient data analysis/mining. Other challenges include big data
(number of features/examples, efficiency, parallel processing), curse of
dimensionality, or the use of domain knowledge. Although most mining
algorithms have some procedures for dealing with dirty data, they lack
for robustness. Furthermore, low-quality data will lead to low-quality
data analysis/mining results (Garbage in, garbage out). Data preparation
techniques, when applied before mining, can substantially improve the
overall quality of the data and consequently improve the mining results
and/or the time required for the actual mining process. Thus, the
development of data preparation techniques is both a challenging and a
critical task. This special session on Data Preparation for Data Mining
will address practical techniques and methodologies of data preparation
for data-mining applications.
 
Topics of Interest:
--------------------------
   - Data collecting
   - Data integration
   - Data reduction
   - Data cleaning
   - Detection of outliers
   - Data/Information quality
   - Data profiling
   - Data enrichment
   - Feature selection and transformation
   - Data summarization
   - Data discretization
   - Data encoding
   - Sampling
   - Data preparation on regression/classification
   - Data preparation on segmentation/clustering
   - Data preparation on association rules
   - Data preparation on text mining
   - Data preparation on web mining
   - Data preparation on visual data mining
   - Data preparation on temporal and spatial data mining
   - Data preparation on multimedia mining (audio/video)
 
Important Dates:
--------------------------
   - March 24, 2014: Papers submission deadline
   - May 19, 2014: Notification of acceptance
   - June 9, 2014: Camera-ready deadline
  
 Track Organizing Committee:
--------------------------
   - Pedro Henriques, University of Minho, Portugal
   - F?tima Rodrigues, Institute of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto,
     Portugal
   - Paulo Oliveira, Institute of Engineering - Polytechnic of Porto,
     Portugal
   - Alberto Freitas, Faculty of Medicine- University of Porto, Portugal

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar  7 20:46:38 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 21:46:38 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: LIMSI, Diana McCarthy, 1 avril 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.7.MAR.2014.214638.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 15:17:51 +0100
From: Marianna Apidianaki <marianna at limsi.fr>
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Chers coll?gues,

Diana McCarthy (Universit? de Cambridge), chercheuse invit?e au
LIMSI-CNRS dans le cadre du r?seau Digiteo, donnera un s?minaire le **
mardi 1 avril ? 11h30**.


Titre : Modelling Lexical Ambiguity in Computers, With and Without Word
Senses

R?sum? :

In Computational Linguistics, there is a growing body of work that
models word meaning from corpus data without recourse to a hand-crafted
inventory. This has several advantages, including focusing computers on
meanings which are attested in the data, but there is still the issue of
whether word usages are best clustered into word senses or whether some
other representation is better. In this talk I will describe a few
projects using topic models and vector space models acquired from corpus
data for representing word meaning. I will demonstrate how these models
can be used both with and without an explicit representation of word
sense. In applications such as novel sense detection for lexicography,
representation of word sense is necessary, while for similarity
judgements a more dynamic representation outperforms the
alternatives. Linguists have advocated that a clear cut division into
senses is not appropriate for all words, and that there is a spectrum of
behaviour from clear cut cases of ambiguity to vague words with
inter-related meanings. I will end with a brief introduction to current
work which aims to identify empirically where on this spectrum a given
lemma is.


Le s?minaire aura lieu en salle de conf?rences du b?timent 508, au
LIMSI. 
Pour venir au LIMSI, voir les informations sur :
http://www.limsi.fr/Pratique/acces/index.fr.html

Bien cordialement,
Marianna Apidianaki

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:18:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:18:10 +0100
Subject: Appel: Organisation de la Plate-Forme IA de l'AFIA 2015 (repondre
 avant le 28/3/14)
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.221810.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:45:35 +0100
From: Secretaire AFIA <secretaire at afia.asso.fr>
Message-Id: <A0FF1B93-18A0-442E-92C8-F247C207C2FB at afia.asso.fr>
X-url: http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=146


--- Merci de relayer ce message aupr?s des personnes int?ress?es ---

L'AFIA recherche un organisateur pour sa Plate-forme de l'Intelligence
Artificielle 2015 (p?riode : entre le 29 juin et le 10 juillet, montant
d'inscription max : 300 euros pour un ?v?nement de 5 jours, h?bergement
maximum de 4 conf?rences en parall?le, nombre de participants envisag?s
: 300).

Si vous ?tes int?ress?s par l'organisation d'un tel ?v?nement, merci de
contacter le bureau de l'AFIA (bureau AT afia.asso.fr) pour plus de
sp?cifications sachant que la date limite pour une r?ponse consolid?e
est fix?e au 28 mars 2014.

Pour avoir plus d'information, consulter :
http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=146

le CA de l'AFIA

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:08:11 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:08:11 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL 2014 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational
 Language Learning, April 26, 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.220811.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 23:13:49 +0100
From: Thierry Poibeau <thierry.poibeau at ens.fr>
Message-Id: <2F7B75E6-F69A-4C6C-9051-A2F9CD704574 at ens.fr>
X-url: https://sites.google.com/site/cognitivews2014/


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

               April 26, 2014
             Gothenburg, Sweden

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

Invited Speakers:
Philippe Blache, Aix-Marseille Universit? (France)
Alexander Clark, King?s College, London (UK)

Endorsed by the Special Interest Group of the ACL on Natural Language
Learning (SIGNLL)

Registration: http://eacl2014.org/registration

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

The Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Learning
(CogACLL) is the fifth edition of related workshops that was first held
at ACL 2007 in Prague, EACL 2009 in Athens, EACL 2012 in Avignon and as
a standalone event in Paris 2013.

The workshop is targeted at anyone interested in the relevance of
computational techniques for understanding first, second and bilingual
language acquisition and change or loss in normal and pathological
conditions. The human ability to acquire and process language has long
attracted interest and generated much debate due to the apparent ease
with which such a complex and dynamic system is learnt and used on the
face of ambiguity, noise and uncertainty. This subject raises many
questions ranging from the nature vs. nurture debate of how much needs
to be innate and how much needs to be learned for acquisition to be
successful, to the mechanisms involved in this process (general vs
specific) and their representations in the human brain. There are also
developmental issues related to the different stages consistently found
during acquisition (e.g. one word vs. two words) and possible
organizations of this knowledge. These have been discussed in the
context of first and second language acquisition and bilingualism, with
cross linguistic studies shedding light on the influence of the language
and the environment.  The past decades have seen a massive expansion in
the application of statistical and machine learning methods to natural
language processing (NLP). This work has yielded impressive results in
numerous speech and language processing tasks, including e.g. speech
recognition, morphological analysis, parsing, lexical acquisition,
semantic interpretation, and dialogue management.  The good results have
generally been viewed as engineering achievements. Recently researchers
have begun to investigate the relevance of computational learning
methods for research on human language acquisition and change. The use
of computational modeling is a relatively recent trend boosted by
advances in machine learning techniques, and the availability of
resources like corpora of child and child-directed sentences, and data
from psycholinguistic tasks by normal and pathological groups.


WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

9:30  - 9:40: Opening and Introduction

9:40  - 10:30: Invited talk

"Challenging incrementality in human language processing: two operations
for a cognitive architecture" Philippe Blache


10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30: Session 1: Phonology, morphology and word segmentation

11:00 - 11:20
"A Brazilian Portuguese Phonological-prosodic Algorithm Applied to
Deviant Language Acquisition: A Case Study" 
Vera Vasil?vski, M?rcio Jos? Araujo and Helena Ferro Blasi

11:20 - 11:40
"Bayesian inference as a cross-linguistic word segmentation strategy:
Always learning useful things" 
Lawrence Phillips and Lisa Pearl

11:40 - 12:00
"Learning the hyperparameters to learn morphology" 
Stella Frank

12:00 - 12:30
"An explicit statistical model of learning lexical segmentation using
multiple cues" 
?a?r? ??ltekin and John Nerbonne

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:50: Invited Talk

"Distributional Learning as a Theory of Language Acquisition"
Alexander Clark

14:50 - 15:20: Session 2: Lexical acquisition and language evolution

14:50 - 15:20
"A multi-modal corpus for the evaluation of computational models for
(grounded) language acquisition processes"
Judith Gaspers, Maximilian Panzner, Andre Lemme, Philipp Cimiano,
Katharina J. Rohlfing and Sebastian Wrede

15:20 - 15:45: Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:05

"Towards a computational model of grammaticalization and lexical
diversity" 
Christian Bentz and Paula Buttery

16:05 - 16:25
"How well can a corpus-derived co-occurrence network simulate human
associative behavior?" 
Gemma Bel Enguix, Reinhard Rapp and Michael Zock

16:25 - 16:45
"Agent-based modeling of language evolution" 
Torvald Lekvam, Bj?rn Gamb?ck and Lars Bungum

16:45 - 17:15: Session 3: Second language acquisition

16:45 - 17:15
"Missing Generalizations: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to L2
Written Production" 
Daniel Wiechmann and Elma Kerz

17:15 - 17:30: Closing


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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


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WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT

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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:28:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:28:42 +0100
Subject: Appel: Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.222842.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:14:49 +0100
From: retore <christian.retore at labri.fr>
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LACL 2014
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
                  IRIT, Toulouse, France
		18-20 June 2014
                 http://www.irit.fr/LACL2014/
Co-located with the CSLP 2014,
8-th International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language
Processing
http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2014

17-18 June 2014
                 http://www.

             SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
PRESENTATION

LACL'2014 is the 8th international conference on logical and formal
methods in computational linguistics. This conference addresses the use
of type theoretic, proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for
describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the
implementation of natural language processing software relying on such
models. It will be held at IRIT, Toulouse, France, from 18 to 20 June
2014 (with support from IRIT, Universit? Paul Sabatier et INP de
Toulouse)

Scope: 

Computer scientists, linguists, mathematicians and philosophers are
invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in
computational linguistics and natural language processing, in natural
language analysis, generation or acquisition.

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

  * logical foundation of syntactic formalisms
        o categorial grammars
        o minimalist grammars
        o dependency grammars
        o tree adjoining grammars
        o model theoretic syntax
        o formal language theory for natural language processing
        o data-driven approaches
  * logics for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and
    dialog
        o discourse theories
        o Montague semantics
        o compositionality
        o dynamic logics
        o game semantics
        o situation semantics
        o generative lexicon
        o categorical semantics
  * applications of these models to natural language processing
        o software for natural language analysis
        o software for acquiring linguistic resources
        o software for natural language generation
        o software for information extraction
        o inference tasks
        o evaluation
        o scalability


SUBMISSIONS and PROCEEDINGS*

Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by
Springer (see authors instructions at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)
and may consist of up to 12 pages of content (including figures,
bibliography, possible appendices). In exceptional cases by prior
agreement
with program committee a paper up to 16 pages may be considered.
It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at
the meeting by one of its authors.

Submission is exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format,
through the EasyChair system. The submission site is
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacl2014

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published as a
volume of the FoLLI subline of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) by Springer (http://www.springer.com/lncs).

/*/ Instructions for submissions to CSLP 2014 are given at the site of
the workshop.

Invited speakers:

Prof. Zhaohui Luo, Computer Science Department, Royal Holloway,
University of London, U.K.

Prof. Michael Moortgat, Department of Language, Literature and
Communication, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Prof. Reinhard Muskens, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University,
the Netherlands

PREVIOUS EDITIONS

A selection of the 1995 articles appeared in a special issue of the
Journal of Logic, Language and Information (7:4, 1998). The
proceedings of the international conferences LACL'96 ,LACL'97,
LACL'98, LACL'2001, LACL'2005 LACL'2011 appeared in the series Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (volumes 1328, 1582, 2014,
2099, 3492, 6736), and the proceedings of LACL 2012 in Lacture Notes
in Computer Science (volume 7351) published by Springer. 



IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2014
Camera ready copies due: April 15, 2014
Conference dates: June 18-20, 2014

INSCRIPTION FEES

Exact amount can be fixed only after the organizers will have better
estimation of the number of participants. We expect to keep it at the
level of approximately 300 euros (for LACL only) and 100 euros (for
workshop only) with usual reduced rates for students and participation
in both events.

CONTACTS

soloviev at irit.fr and
asher at irit.fr
(co-chairs of LACL 2014)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:27:32 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:27:32 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2015, First Call for Proposals
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.222732.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:40:33 +0000 (GMT)
From: Achim Jung <A.Jung at cs.bham.ac.uk>
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(Apologies for multiple postings.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

CATEGORIES 
==========

Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via:

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

and include all of the following:

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

b. General proposal information: Title, category

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

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

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

Chair: Achim Jung (Birmingham)

Language and Computation:
        Aurelie Herbelot (Cambridge)
        Stefan M?ller (Berlin)
Language and Logic:
        Edgar Onea (G?ttingen)
        Galit Weidman-Sassoon (Bar-Ilan)
Logic and Computation:
        Hubie Chen (Donostia-San Sebasti?n)
        Stephan Kreutzer (Berlin)

Queries
=======

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:11:41 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:11:41 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste MCF 27, Aix-Marseille, LSIS,
 Systemes d'information (Recherche d'information, TAL...)
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.221141.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:16:03 +0100
From: Patrice Bellot <patrice.bellot at lsis.org>
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Bonjour,

un poste de Ma?tre de conf?rences en Informatique (R?f?rence GALAXIE
157) est mis au concours au sein d'Aix-Marseille Universit?, Facult?
d'Economie-Gestion (FEG), et du laboratoire LSIS (CNRS UMR 7296),
Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Syst?mes.

Profil Recherche (laboratoire LSIS, UMR CNRS) : 
--------------------------------------------------------
L?enseignant(e) recrut?(e) peut contribuer au renforcement de plusieurs
?quipes du LSIS parmi lesquelles l'?quipe DIMAG (Data, Information &
content MAnagement Group) dont les recherches s?articulent autour de
trois th?mes qui appr?hendent les SI ? diff?rents niveaux: Conception de
Syst?mes d?Information D?cisionnels et Adaptatifs, Recherche et
Extraction d?Information, Fouille et Int?gration de Donn?es. Pour
l'?quipe DIMAG (13 enseignants-chercheurs, 19 doctorants), la priorit?
sera donn?e aux candidat(e)s ayant de solides comp?tences en Recherche
d'Information (mod?les num?riques, mod?les s?mantiques, application de
la RI aux domaines de la sant? et/ou des Humanit?s...), en apprentissage
automatique appliqu? ? la fouille de textes et de donn?es et en
Traitement Automatique des Langues sur de tr?s grands corpus. La
participation du(de la) candidat(e) ? une campagne d'?valuation de type
TREC/CLEF/INEX sera un plus. Si la personne recrut?e est rattach?e ?
l'?quipe DIMAG, elle pourra ?tre amen?e ? participer aux projets
scientifiques de l'Equipement d'Excellence (Equipex) OpenEdition.org.

Profil Enseignement (facult? Economie-Gestion) : 
--------------------------------------------------------
Les enseignements ? prendre en charge pour ce poste rel?vent
essentiellement du domaine des Syst?mes d?Information et des domaines de
base de l?informatique. Au niveau Master (Master MIAGE), les besoins
concernent notamment les aspects m?thodologiques et techniques li?s aux
Syst?mes d?Information, ? l?Informatique de Gestion, au domaine de la
Business Intelligence, ou encore ? la mod?lisation des processus m?tiers
(BPM). Une comp?tence concernant les ERP serait un plus.

Liens utiles :
--------------------------------------------------------
Aix-Marseille Universit? : http://www.univ-amu.fr

Master MIAGE : http://formations.univ-amu.fr/ME5BIG.html

Laboratoire LSIS : http://www.lsis.org
Equipe-projet DIMAG : http://www.lsis.org/spip.php?id_rubrique=291
Equipex OpenEdition : http://www.openedition.org / http://lab.hypotheses.org

Notice pour le d?p?t des dossiers :
   http://drh.univ-amu.fr/public_content/session-synchronisee-2014
Composition du comit? de s?lection :
   http://drh.univ-amu.fr/public_content/mcf-sections-25-a-69

Contacts :
--------------------------------------------------------
Enseignement : jean.caussanel at univ-amu.fr (directeur D?partement MIAGE)
Recherche : patrice.bellot at univ-amu.fr (pr?sident du comit? de
            s?lection, repr?sentant du laboratoire)


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 20:54:19 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 21:54:19 +0100
Subject: Ecole: SSTiC 2014, March 15, 4th registration deadline
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Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 11:58:10 +0100
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2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING

SSTiC 2014

Tarragona, Spain

July 7-11, 2014

Organized by
Rovira i Virgili University

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

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--- March 15, 4th registration deadline ---

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AIM:

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

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

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

ADDRESSED TO:

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

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

REGIME:

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

VENUE:

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

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

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

COURSES AND PROFESSORS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

REGISTRATION:

It has to be done at

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

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

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

FEES:

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

ACCOMMODATION:

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

CERTIFICATE:

Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance.

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat 

POSTAL ADDRESS:

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

Phone: +34 977 559 543
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

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

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:26:16 +0100
Subject: Conf: Workshop Fouille d'opinions dans le Web social, 10 avril
 2014, Lyon
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 12:00:52 +0100
From: Caroline Brun <Caroline.Brun at xrce.xerox.com>
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[ APPEL A PARTICIPATION ]

WORKSHOP Fouille d?opinion dans le Web social

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter au Workshop "Fouille d?opinion
dans le Web social", organis?e le jeudi 10 avril ? l?ISH de Lyon (espace
Marc Bloch / salle Bizet). Le d?tail de la journ?e est pr?cis?
ci-dessous.
  
Si vous souhaitez assister ? cette journ?e, la participation est
gratuite. Toutefois, dans un souci d'organisation, il est n?cessaire de
vous inscrire en remplissant le formulaire que vous trouverez ?
l?adresse url suivante
:http://perso.univ-st-etienne.fr/mapi9921/forum_wi2
  
Au plaisir de vous voir le 10 avril,
  
Caroline Brun
Julien Velcin
  
##Supports :
Projet Web Intelligence de la r?gion Rh?ne-Alpes, ARC6
  
##Organisateurs :
C. Brun (Xerox Research Center Europe, Grenoble)
J. Velcin (Universit? Lyon 2, Laboratoire ERIC, Lyon)

##Site web :
http://mediamining.univ-lyon2.fr/velcin/fows   

##Date et lieu :
jeudi 10 avril 2014, Institut des Sciences de l?Homme de Lyon (espace
Marc Bloch / Salle Bizet)

##Inscription (obligatoire) :
http://perso.univ-st-etienne.fr/mapi9921/forum_wi2

##Contexte et objectifs :

Le Web social a vu une explosion des donn?es g?n?r?es par les individus
: r?seaux sociaux (Facebook, Google+, Linked'in), blogs et micro-blogs
(MySpace, Twitter), discussions en lignes (forums). Il y a aujourd'hui
un int?r?t crucial ? d?velopper de nouveaux outils afin d'exploiter
intelligemment cette source inestimable d'information. Dans cette
journ?e th?matique, nous nous int?ressons en particulier ? l'analyse des
donn?es li?es ? l'opinion ou aux sentiments exprim?s par les internautes
au sein de ces r?seaux d'information. L'exploitation de ces donn?es a
permis, r?cemment, d'obtenir des r?sultats remarquables dans le domaine
du marketing (recommandation de produits), de la politique (pr?vision de
sondages), menant vers de nombreuses applications : personnalisation des
services, marketing, veille d'information, gestion de la e-reputation,
gestion de la relation clients, etc.

Cette journ?e, organis?e dans le cadre du projet WI de la r?gion
Rh?ne-Alpes (http://web-intelligence-rhone-alpes.org) et de l?ARC6
(http://www.arc6-tic.rhonealpes.fr), ?galement soutenue par le p?le
d?excellence Imaginove, a trois objectifs :

1) Pr?senter quelques avanc?es r?centes en mati?re de fouille des
   donn?es d?opinion et de sentiments issues du Web.

2) Croiser les regards en invitant des chercheurs issus de diff?rents
   horizons (acad?miques, industriels, informaticiens, linguistes).

3) Partager l?exp?rience acquise sur diff?rents projets de recherche
   (sur les donn?es, et notamment leur annotation, les algorithmes
   employ?s, les r?sultats obtenus et esp?r?s, la nature des consortiums
   d?ploy?s).


##Programme :

(les r?sum?s des conf?rences invit?es sont pr?cis?s un peu plus loin.)

9h : accueil caf?
9h15 : introduction de la journ?e (J. Velcin / C. Brun)
9h45 : conf?rencier invit? n?1 (B. Daille)
10h45 : pause th?/caf?
11h : conf?rencier invit? n?2 (M. Roche)
12h : 2 communications courtes
- D?tection automatique d'?v?nements et d'opinion publique ? partir de
  Twitter (H. E. Dridi et G. Lapalme)
- Le langage figuratif dans le web social : cas de l'ironie et du
  sarcasme (J. Karoui, N. Aussenac Gilles, F. Benamara and
  L. H. Belguith)
12h40 : pause d?jeuner (repas non pris en charge pour les participants)
14h : conf?rencier invit? n?3 (L. Dini)
15h : 2 communications courtes
- Classification des utilisateurs selon leurs orientations politiques
  (Y. Meguebli, F. Popineau and B.-L. Doan)
- Analyse d'opinions par apprentissage supervis? et connaissances a
  priori (M. Dermouche, L. Khouas, J. Velcin and S. Loudcher)
15h40 : pause
16h : conf?rencier invit? n?4 (M. Valette)
17h : fin de la journ?e
  
##Conf?renciers invit?s :

- B?atrice Daille, LINA, Universit? de Nantes (http://bdaille.com)

R?sum?
Avec l'essor du web, les opinions exprim?es sur internet sont devenues
des donn?es strat?giques qu'il faut pouvoir suivre en temps r?el et
caract?riser finement. Dans le cadre du projet ANR Blogoscopie, nous
avons d?velopp? l'outil Apopsis charg? de d?tecter les opinions
exprim?es localement dans les blogs quelle que soit la th?matique et de
les cat?goriser en fonction de leur orientation positive ou
n?gative. Cet outil s'appuie sur une grammaire de l'opinion incluant des
?tiquettes s?mantiques refl?tant les diff?rentes cat?gories d'opinions
?mises. Cette grammaire a ?t? ?labor?e ? partir de deux ressources
linguistiques : un corpus de r?f?rence annot? et un lexique de
l'opinion. Apopis est pr?cis pour la d?tection et l'orientation des
opinions ?valuatives mais la vari?t? des expressions ?valuatives reste
un frein ? une d?tection exhaustive. Apopsis permet aussi la d?tection
des opinions ?mises sur les tweets en temps r?el pour un sujet choisi
par l'utilisateur au travers d'une interface web.

- Luca Dini, Pr?sident de Holmes Semantic Solution
  (http://www.ho2s.com/fr)

R?sum?
L'insoutenable l?g?ret? des jugements de l'utilisateur. Au cours des
derni?res ann?es, nous avons observ? deux tendances parall?les dans la
recherche en linguistique computationnelle et le d?veloppement du
commerce ?lectronique. Du c?t? de la recherche, il y a eu un int?r?t
croissant pour les algorithmes et les approches qui sont en mesure de
capter la polarit? des opinions exprim?es par les utilisateurs sur les
produits, les institutions et les services. De l'autre c?t?, presque
tous les grands sites de commerce ?lectronique et d'agr?gation de
contenu offrent d?sormais aux utilisateurs la possibilit? d'?crire des
commentaires et d'exprimer leur appr?ciation via un score num?rique
(g?n?ralement repr?sent?e sous la forme d'un nombre d'?toiles). Cette
pr?sentation d?crira une exp?rience ? grande ?chelle visant ? d?tecter
la fiabilit? des utilisateurs lors de la conversion de leurs opinions
?crites sur le produit en un score num?rique (nombre d'?toiles). Nous
allons montrer que, en raison d'un certain nombre de facteurs, un tel
jugement est tr?s peu fiable et que, confront? ? un "gold standard"
uniforme, il offre une pr?cision inf?rieure ? un syst?me de pointe
sp?cialis? dans la d?tection d'opinions.

- Mathieu Roche, CIRAD, TETIS Lab, Montpellier
  (http://www2.lirmm.fr/~mroche)

R?sum?
L'analyse de sentiment est un domaine de recherche en d?veloppement
constant ces derni?res ann?es. Les analyses propos?es reposent souvent
sur l'utilisation d'un vocabulaire d'opinion adapt? au domaine
d'?tude. Cette pr?sentation d?crira deux types de m?thodes non
supervis?es afin de construire un vocabulaire d'opinion d?di?. Celles-ci
s'appuient sur la combinaison d'approches de fouille de textes et/ou de
fouille du Web. Les avantages et les limites de ces approches seront
discut?s dans le cadre de cette pr?sentation. Une partie de ces m?thodes
sont int?gr?es au projet SENTERRITOIRE (projet soutenu par la MSH-M,
[2011-2014]) dont l'objectif est de proposer un environnement
d?cisionnel fond? sur une analyse automatique des textes li?s ?
l'am?nagement du territoire. Le projet se concentre, dans un premier
temps, sur l'extraction automatique des descripteurs g?ospatiaux. Ces
derniers sont par la suite enrichis par des informations caract?risant
plus largement le concept de "territoire" afin d'analyser
automatiquement l'utilisation de ces concepts dans les textes, et les
perceptions qu'ils v?hiculent.

- Mathieu Valette, INALCO, ?quipe ERTIM, Paris
  (http://mathieu.valette.free.fr)

R?sum?
La fouille d'opinion et l'analyse des sentiments reposent sur
l'identification de marques linguistiques de la subjectivit?. Selon une
lecture positiviste r?pandue, celle-ci serait en effet fond?e sur des
valeurs, par opposition aux faits objectifs traditionnellement
privil?gi?s en extraction de connaissances. Mais la plupart des m?thodes
de d?tection de la subjectivit? reposent, par imitation, sur
l'?tablissement de lexiques axiologiques qui constituent des bases de
connaissances que l'on projette ensuite sur les documents trait?s. Notre
propos est d'envisager l'expression des opinions et des sentiments ?
partir d'une caract?risation globale des textes qui, ? des fins
exp?rimentales, s'affranchisse le plus possible des lexiques pr??tablis,
pour se focaliser sur l'identification de descripteurs
alternatifs. Parmi ces descripteurs, on s'int?ressera plus
particuli?rement ? la caract?risation des genres textuels (par exemple,
le pamphlet est d?volu ? la critique n?gative) et au positionnement
?nonciatif des auteurs (par exemple, expression de la temporalit? v?cue,
aspectualit?, r?les et interactions des acteurs).

##Contacts :
caroline.brun at xrce.xerox.com
julien.velcin at univ-lyon2.fr

# LES FORUMS WEB INTELLIGENCE
Les forums web Intelligence sont des occasions de rencontres et
d'?changes entre chercheurs, industriels et associations/collectivit?s,
int?ress?s par le th?me du Web, de son d?veloppement et de son usage, en
lien avec les techniques d'intelligence artificielle. Outre la synergie
triangulaire entre acad?miques, industriels et
associations/collectivit?s, les forums sont ?galement des opportunit?s
pour sensibiliser les ?tudiants ? la recherche, et pour permettre ? des
doctorants de s'ins?rer dans la communaut? scientifique et d'y
contribuer progressivement.

##Les dates ? retenir :
- 27 mars, Lyon, Manufacture des Tabacs (amphi Malraux) : Environnement
  cloud et multi-clouds

- 10 avril , Lyon (ISH) : Fouille d?opinion dans le Web social
- 19 juin, Futur du Web

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:17:40 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:17:40 +0100
Subject: Job: Chercheur postdoctoral,
 Preferences sur l'ordre des complements du verbe en ancien
 francais
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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:36:54 +0100
From: Benoit Crabb? <benoit.crabbe at gmail.com>
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Chercheur postdoctoral : Pr?f?rences sur l?ordre des compl?ments du
verbe en ancien fran?ais

Contacts: Sophie Pr?vost, Lattice - Beno?t Crabb?, ALPAGE
Adresses des responsables: sophie.prevost_at_ens.fr,
                           benoit.crabbe_at_linguist.jussieu.fr
Universit?s: Universit? Paris 7 et Lattice (CNRS ? ENS/Paris 3)
Niveau: Chercheur postdoctorant
Dur?e: 12 mois, ?  partir de septembre 2014
Salaire: 24 000 ? net / an
Sp?cialit?s: Syntaxe de l?ancien fran?ais, corpus annot?s, statistiques
Date limite de candidature: 1er mai  2014
Adresse pour la candidature: sophie.prevost_at_ens.fr
R?f?rence de candidature: EFL-WO3

Description

Ce poste est offert par l?axe ? Experimental Grammar in a cross
linguistic perspective ?, du projet Labex  ? Empirical foundations of
linguistics ? (www.labex-efl.org/)
Le sujet porte sur l'?tude de l'ordre des mots en ancien fran?ais, et
plus sp?cifiquement de l'ordre des compl?ments de verbes ditransitifs.
Il s'agit d'identifier et d'?tudier les diff?rentes propri?t?s
influen?ant l?ordre relatif des compl?ments du verbe et ce dans une
perspective comparative (date, genre, forme des textes). Les r?sultats
obtenus seront mis en perspective avec les acquis sur l?ordre du sujet
et du compl?ment en ancien fran?ais (Marchello-Nizia 1995). Ils devront
aussi ?tre compar?s avec les r?sultats quantitatifs obtenus quant ?
l?agencement respectif des compl?ments des verbes ditransitifs  en
fran?ais moderne (cf Thuilier, 2012a et 2012b) et en anglais moderne
(Bresnan et Ford 2010).
Cette perspective comparative apportera un nouvel ?clairage sur
l??volution de la langue fran?aise.
Le candidat devra avoir des comp?tences en syntaxe de l?ancien fran?ais,
annotation de corpus, et en statistiques.
Il devra mener une ?tude quantitative et statistique du corpus annot?
d?ancien fran?ais SRCMF (http://srcmf.org/).
Le candidat devra faire preuve d?un potentiel de recherche exceptionnel.
Une bonne connaissance du fran?ais sera un atout suppl?mentaire. 
Il devra avoir soutenu son doctorat avant le 1er d?cembre 2014.
Pour candidater, envoyer: 
- un CV (avec liste de publications)
- le nom de deux r?f?rents (avec adresse mail)
- site web o? l?on peut trouver les publications.


R?f?rences

Bresnan, J. and Ford, M., 2010. ? Predicting Syntax: Processing Dative
Constructions in American and Australian Varieties of English ?,
Language 86 (1): 186-213. 
Marchello-Nizia, C., 1995. L??volution du fran?ais : ordre des mots,
d?monstratifs, accent tonique, Paris : Armand Colin
Thulier, J., 2012a. ? Lemme verbal et classe s?mantique dans
l?ordonnancement des compl?ments postverbaux ?, Neveu & al. (eds.) Actes
du 3?me Congr?s Mondial de Linguistique Fran?aise 2012 (CMLF 2012),
2451-2469.
Thuilier, J., 2012b. ? Contraintes pr?f?rentielles et ordre des mots en
fran?ais ?.  Th?se de doctorat Universit? Paris Diderot.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:23:12 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:23:12 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL 2014, Tutorial on Computational modelling of metaphor,
 Gothenburg, Sweden, 26 April 2014
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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:20:16 +0100
From: peter ljungl?f <peter.ljunglof at heatherleaf.se>
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

EACL 2014 Tutorial on Computational modelling of metaphor  

Gothenburg, Sweden, 26 April
http://eacl2014.org/tutorial-metaphor

Instructors: Ekaterina Shutova and Tony Veale

 TUTORIAL DESCRIPTION

Metaphor processing is a rapidly growing area in NLP.  Characteristic to
all areas of human activity (from the ordinary to the poetic or the
scientific) and, thus, to all types of discourse, metaphor poses an
important problem for NLP systems. Its ubiquity in language has been
established in a number of corpus studies and the role it plays in human
reasoning has been confirmed in psychological experiments. This makes
metaphor an important research area for computational and cognitive
linguistics, and its automatic identification and interpretation
indispensable for any semantics-oriented NLP application.

Computational work on metaphor in NLP and AI ignited in the 1970s and
gained momentum in the 1980s, providing a wealth of ideas on the form,
structure and mechanisms of the phenomenon. The last decade has
witnessed a technological leap in natural language computation, as
manually crafted rules have gradually given way to more robust
corpus-based statistical methods. This is also the case for metaphor
research. In the recent years, the problem of metaphor modeling has been
steadily gaining interest within the NLP community, with a growing
number of approaches exploiting statistical techniques. Compared to more
traditional approaches based on hand-coded resources, these more recent
methods boast of a wider coverage, as well as greater efficiency and
robustness. However, even the statistical metaphor processing approaches
largely focus on a limited domain or a subset of conceptual
phenomena. At the same time, recent work on computational lexical
semantics and lexical acquisition techniques, as well as a wide range of
NLP methods applying machine learning to open-domain semantic tasks,
opens many new avenues for creation of large-scale robust tools for the
recognition and interpretation of metaphor.

Despite a growing recognition of the importance of metaphor to the
semantic and affective processing of language, and despite the
availability of new NLP tools that enable us to take metaphor processing
to the next level, educational initiatives for introducing the NLP
community to this fascinating area of research have been relatively few
in number. Our proposed tutorial thus addresses this gap, by aiming to:

introduce a CL audience to the main linguistic, conceptual and cognitive
properties of metaphor;

cover the history of metaphor modelling and the state-of-the-art
approaches to metaphor identification and interpretation

analyse the trends in computational metaphor research and compare
different types of approaches, aiming to identify the most promising
system features and techniques in metaphor modelling

discuss potential applications of metaphor processing in wider NLP

relate the problem of metaphor modelling to that of other types of
figurative language


The tutorial is targeted both at participants who are new to the field
and need a comprehensive overview of metaphor processing techniques and
applications, as well as at experienced scientists who want to stay up
to date on the recent advances in metaphor research.


TUTORIAL OUTLINE

Introduction: Linguistic, cognitive and cultural properties of metaphor
Linguistic metaphor
Conceptual metaphor
Metaphorical inference
Extended metaphor / metaphor in discourse
Conventional and novel metaphor
Metaphor in corpora and lexical resources

Computational approaches to metaphor identification
Knowledge-based methods
Lexical resource-based methods
Metaphor and selectional preferences
Metaphor and abstractness
Metaphor and cultural stereotypes
Word similarity and association-based methods
Supervised learning for metaphor identification
Weakly-supervised and unsupervised methods

Computational approaches to metaphor interpretation
Knowledge-based methods
Metaphor interpretation by explanation (SlipNet)
Metaphor interpretation as paraphrasing (supervised and unsupervised)
Challenges in metaphor generation

Applications of metaphor processing systems
Metaphor in machine translation 
Metaphor in opinion mining
Metaphor in information retrieval
Metaphor in educational applications
Metaphor in social science
Metaphor in psychology

Metaphor and other types of figurative language
Metaphor and blending
Metaphor and simile
Metaphor and analogy
Metaphor and irony



We look forward to seeing you at the tutorial!

Katia and Tony

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:19:14 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:19:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier IC&Sante, Report de la date de soumission au 16/03
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.221914.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:48:54 +0100
From: Sandra Bringay <Sandra.Bringay at lirmm.fr>
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X-url: http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/16

Atelier Ing?nierie des connaissances et Sant?
https://www.lirmm.fr/ic-sante/

En association avec les 25?mes Journ?es francophones d'Ing?nierie des
Connaissances, Clermont Ferrand, du 12 au 16 mai 2014
(http://www.irit.fr/IC2014)

Au cours des derni?res ann?es, le nombre de donn?es m?dicales n'a cess?
d'augmenter suite ? l?informatisation croissante des professionnels de
sant?. Ces donn?es restent trop souvent sous-exploit?es. Les m?thodes
d?ing?nierie des connaissances proposent des solutions pertinentes pour
traiter toute la richesse potentielle de ces bases, m?me si des
questions d'?thique, de mise en place de solutions, d'acquisition et de
s?curit? restent pos?es. L?atelier sera l?occasion de d?battre des
verrous li?s ? la mod?lisation, la structuration, l'extraction, la
recherche et la fouille de donn?es de sant? de tous types. L?atelier
permettra de pr?senter des activit?s de recherche innovantes, des
m?thodes, des technologies et des d?monstrateurs d?velopp?s aussi bien
dans le monde acad?mique, dans les laboratoires affili?s aux structures
de sant? et par des industriels impliqu?s dans le domaine de
l'ing?nierie de connaissances.

L?objectif de cet atelier est d?offrir un cadre d??change entre les
chercheurs, les industriels et les utilisateurs int?ress?s par les
derni?res avanc?es scientifiques du domaine de l?ing?nierie des
connaissances en Sant?. On s'int?ressera par exemple aux th?mes :

* Terminologies et Ontologies m?dicales : Interop?rabilit? des syst?mes
  d'information en sant?, indexation terminologique de la litt?rature
  m?dicale, de dossiers m?dicaux de patients et de r?cits cliniques,
  annotations de documents, formalismes de repr?sentation, alignement
  d'ontologies.

* Usage du Web 2.0 en sant? : R?seaux collaboratifs des praticiens de
  sant?, patients et famille, r?seaux bibliographiques dans le domaine
  m?dical, annotation sociale de ressources m?dicale 

* Traitement d'informations multimodales : Traitement du texte, image et
  son, classification et int?gration de contenus m?dicaux multimodaux,
  multi-sources

* Extraction de connaissances ? partir de contenus m?dicaux :
  Anonymisation, extraction d'entit?s nomm?es, de variable et/ou
  indicateurs pathologiques, recherche de corr?lations, fouille de
  donn?es m?dicales

* Syst?mes d'information en sant? : Repr?sentation, traitement et acc?s
  aux informations et des connaissances en sant?, Syst?mes d'information
  d?cisionnels de sant?, Gestion des dossiers m?dicaux de patients,
  Personnalisation et sant?.

Nous faisons appel aux chercheurs et aux experts du domaine pour qu?ils
pr?sentent leurs travaux. Nous encourageons ?galement les jeunes
chercheurs et les industriels int?ress?s par ces questions ? participer
? cette manifestation et ? se faire conna?tre. Chaque soumission fera
l?objet d?une ?valuation par plusieurs re-lecteurs du comit? de
programme. L?atelier est ouvert ? la pr?sentation de travaux de
diff?rents stades d'avancement.

Site web de l'atelier : 
--------------------------
https://www.lirmm.fr/ic-sante/

Soumissions :
--------------------------
Les textes (soumission et version finale) doivent ?tre r?dig?s en
fran?ais (en anglais pour les non francophones), de fa?on anonyme, sur 6
pages maximum en incluant toutes les r?f?rences et les figures, au
format de la conf?rence Ing?nierie des connaissances
(http://www.irit.fr/IC2014/node/16). 
Les articles sont ? envoyer via le site
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsant2014


Dates importantes :
--------------------------
* Date limite de soumission : 10 mars 2014 -> Report 16 mars 2014
* R?ponse aux auteurs : 31 mars 2014
* Versions d?finitives des contributions : 14 avril 2014

Organisatrices :
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* Sandra Bringay, LIRMM-UM3, http://www.lirmm.fr/~bringay/
* Nathalie Souf, IRIT-UPS, http://www.irit.fr/~Nathalie.Souf
* Lynda Tamine-Lechani, IRIT-UPS, http://www.irit.fr/~Lynda.Tamine-Lechani/

Comit? de programme :
-------------------------------
J?rome Az?, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Audrey Baneyx, Sciences Politiques, Paris 
Catherine Berrut, LIG, Grenoble 
Sandra Bringay, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Jean Charlet, AP-HP & INSERM U1142, Paris 
Adrien Coulet, LORIA, Nancy 
Olivier Cure, LIGM, Paris 
Cedrick Fairon, Universit? de Louvain 
Natalia Grabar, STL, Lille 
Brigitte Grau, LIMSI, Paris 
Marie-Christine Jaulent, INSERM U1142, Paris 
Cl?ment Jonquet, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Vanda Luengo, LIG, Grenoble 
Fleur Mougin, ERIAS - ISPED, Universit? de Bordeaux 
Pascal Poncelet, LIRMM, Montpellier 
Mathieu Roche, CIRAD, Montpellier 
Lina Soualmia, LITIS, Rouen 
Nathalie Souf, IRIT, Toulouse 
Lynda Tamine Lechani IRIT, Toulouse 
Maguelonne Teisseire, IRSTEA, Montpellier 
Mouna Torjmen Khemakhem, Universit? de Sfax, Tunisie 
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, Paris 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:21:46 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:21:46 +0100
Subject: Appel: WASSA 2014 @ACL 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.222146.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:48:35 +0100
From: Alexandra Balahur Dobrescu <alexandra.balahur-dobrescu at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Message-id: <531DECE3.2080501 at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
X-url: http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/


Apologies for cross-postings.
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5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and 
Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)
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http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/
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*******************************************************
BACKGROUND
*******************************************************

Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as
subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP),
has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks
was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that
made it possible for people all over the world to share, comment or
consult content on any given topic. In this context, opinions,
sentiments and emotions expressed in Social Media texts have been shown
to have a high influence on the social and economic behaviour worldwide.
SSA systems are highly relevant to many real-world applications (e.g.
marketing, eGovernance, business intelligent, social analysis) and also
to many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) -- information
extraction, question answering, textual entailment, to name just a few.
The importance of this field has been proven by the high number of
approaches proposed in research in the past decade, as well as by the
interest that it raised from other disciplines (Economics, Sociology,
Psychology) and the applications that were created using its technology.
In spite of the growing body of research in the area in the past years,
dealing with affective phenomena in text has proven to be a complex,
interdisciplinary problem that remains far from being solved. Its
challenges include the need to address the issue from different
perspectives and at different levels, depending on the characteristics
of the textual genre, the language(s) treated and the final application
for which the analysis is done.

*******************************************************
ENVISAGED SCOPE OF WASSA 2014
*******************************************************

The aim of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity,
Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014) is to continue the line
of the previous editions, bringing together researchers in Computational
Linguistics working on Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis and
researchers working on interdisciplinary aspects of affect computation
from text. Additionally, starting with WASSA 2013, we extended the focus
to Social Media phenomena and the impact of affect-related phenomena in
this context.  In this new proposed edition, we would like to encourage
the submission of long and short research and demo papers including, but
not restricted to the following topics related to subjectivity and
sentiment analysis:

- Resources for subjectivity, sentiment and social media analysis;
  (semi-)automatic corpora generation and annotation
- Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and
  summarization
- Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis techniques
- Data linking through social networks based on affect-related NLP
  methods
- Impact of affective data from social media
- Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models
- Online reputation management
- Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment 
  analysis
- Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis
- Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective language
- Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task
- Use of Semantic Web technologies for subjectivity and sentiment 
  analysis
- Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis
- Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluations subjectivity and sentiment 
  analysis
- Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks
- Classification of stance in dialogues
- Applications of sentiment and social media analysis systems


In addition, in the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis
systems have been proposed and showcased in the past years, we feel
there is a growing need to make users familiar with these systems and
have them employed for building an end application.  To this aim, we
would like to organize a "Hackathon" (please see details below).

*******************************************************
SENTIMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS HACKATHON
*******************************************************

In the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis systems have
been proposed and showcased in the past years, we feel there is a
growing need to make other researchers and users familiar with these
systems and have them employ them for building an end application.
The Hackathon word stands for "Hacking Marathon", and its purpose is to
introduce some.
The activity will be open to all the people who will sign up for the
workshop.
We plan to organize a half a day session, in the first half presenting
the participating systems and their use and creating teams for
"application" development and leaving the second half of the day for
working on the systems and presenting the results. We plan to give the
participants the possibility to vote on the best application created and
reward the winner with a gadget.

*******************************************************
ORGANIZERS
*******************************************************

Alexandra Balahur
  European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
alexandra.balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu

Erik van der Goot
  European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Erik.van-der-Goot at jrc.ec.europa.eu

Ralf Steinberger
  European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Ralf.Steinberger at jrc.ec.europa.eu

Andr?s Montoyo
  University of Alicante, DLSI, Ap. De Correos 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain
montoyo at dlsi.ua.es

*******************************************************
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
*******************************************************

- Khurshid Ahmad -- Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR Pisa, Italy
- Erik Cambria -- University of Stirling, U.K.
- Jos? Carlos Cortizo - European University Madrid, Spain
- Michael Gamon -- Microsoft, U.S.A.
- Jes?s M. Hermida - University of Alicante, Spain
- Veronique Hoste - University of Ghent, Belgium
- Mijail Kabadjov -- University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Zornitsa Kozareva - Information Sciences Institute California, U.S.A.
- Rada Mihalcea - University of North Texas, U.S.A.
- Saif Mohammad - National Research Council, Canada
- Karo Moilanen -- Google
- Rafael Mu?oz - University of Alicante, Spain
- G?nter Neumann - DFKI, Germany
- Alena Neviarouskaia -- University of Tokyo, Japan
- Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Viktor Pekar - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Paolo Rosso - Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
- Josef Steinberger -- EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
- Ralf Steinberger - EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
- Veselin Stoyanov -- John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
- Maite Taboada -  Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Mike Thelwall - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Jos? Antonio Troyano - University of Seville, Spain
- Dan Tufis - RACAI, Romania
- Alfonso Ure?a -- University of Ja?n, Spain
- Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Marilyn Walker - University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
- Janyce Wiebe - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
- Michael Wiegand -- Saarland University, Germany
- Theresa Wilson -- John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
- Taras Zagibalov -  Brantwatch, U.K.


*******************************************************
IMPORTANT DATES
*******************************************************

-    Paper submission deadline:  March 21, 2014
-    Notification of acceptance: April 11, 2014
-    Camera-ready deadline: April 29, 2014
-    Workshop to take part at ACL 2014: June 27, 2014

*******************************************************
SUBMISSIONS
*******************************************************

We encourage the submission of long, short and demo papers (especially
describing systems participating in the hackathon)
Long papers for WASSA 2014 must not exceed eight (8) pages without
references. Short papers must not exceed five (5) pages without
references. Papers for WASSA should be submitted using the ACL 2014
Style Files, available at:
Reviewing for WASSA 2014 will be double blind: reviewers will not be 
presented with the identity of paper authors. Authors should avoid 
writing anything that makes their identity obvious in the text.
Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously 
have been formally published.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACL WASSA proceedings. The best 
papers will be chosen for a special issue of an ISI- indexed journal. 
Previous special issues of WASSA were/are in the process of being 
published in the Decision Support Systems, Computer Speech and Language 
and Information Processing and Management journals (Elsevier).
To submit a paper, please access: https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/WASSA/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 11 21:14:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 22:14:18 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL 2014,
 Tutorial on Recent Advances in Dependency Parsing, Gothenburg,
 Sweden, 27 April 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.11.MAR.2014.221418.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:14:43 +0100
From: peter ljungl?f <peter.ljunglof at heatherleaf.se>
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

   EACL 2014 Tutorial: Recent Advances in Dependency Parsing
   Ryan McDonald, Joakim Nivre
   Gothenburg, Sweden, Sunday 27 April 2014
   http://eacl2014.org/tutorial-dependency-parsing


Syntactic parsing is a fundamental problem in natural language
processing which has been tackled using a wide variety of approaches.
In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in parsers that make
use of dependency structures, which offer a simple and transparent
encoding of predicate-argument structure and can be derived accurately
and efficiency using parsers trained on annotated corpora. Thanks to
their simplicity, transparency and efficiency, dependency parsers are in
widespread use for applications such as information extraction, question
answering, machine translation, language modeling, semantic role
labeling, and textual entailment.

This tutorial will focus on advances in dependency parsing that are not
covered in textbooks or previous tutorials, which means roughly work
from 2008 and onwards. However, in order to make the material accessible
to participants without a background in dependency parsing, we will
spend roughly the first quarter of the tutorial going over basic
concepts and techniques in the field, including the theoretical
foundations of dependency grammar and basic definitions of
representations, tasks, and evaluation metrics. After reviewing the
basic concepts, we will introduce the two dominant paradigms in early
work on data-driven dependency parsing -- global, exhaustive,
graph-based parsing and local, greedy, transition-based parsing -- and
review the contrastive error analysis presented in McDonald and Nivre
(2007), which highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of the two models
and set the challenge to improve both graph-based and transition-based
methods. This provides a basis for understanding many of the later
developments covered in the tutorial. The rest of the tutorial will be
divided into two main parts, covering advances in graph-based parsing
and related approaches, on the one hand, and advances based on
transition-based parsing, on the other. We will finish off with a
synthesizing conclusion and outlook for the future.

Research on graph-based dependency parsing in recent years has to a
large extent been driven by the wish to make efficient use of
higher-order models, thereby overcoming the limitations of strictly
local feature representations found in early models. As a consequence,
there has been developments towards specialized exact inference and
approximate inference methods, the latter especially for non-projective
parsing. In addition, there has been work on trying to find exact
dynamic programming solutions for restricted subsets of non-projective
structures, often referred to as mildly non-projective dependency trees.

Recent work on transition-based dependency parsing has focused on two
lines of research, often in combination. The first line has been
concerned with improving the search techniques through the use of beam
search, dynamic programming, and easy-first inference, thereby
overcoming the limitations of greedy left-to-right search. The second
line has been to improve the learning methods by moving to global
structured learning and or imitation learning with exploration, thereby
countering the negative effects of local classifier learning.  In
addition, there has been work on joint morphological and syntactic
analysis.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:17:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:17:06 +0100
Subject: ATALA: Adhesion 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.141706.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 23:20:39 +0100
From: "Antoniadis" <georges.antoniadis at u-grenoble3.fr>
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Chers membres de la liste LN, 

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


La publication de la revue num?rique TAL, 

Les journ?es d'?tude de l'Atala avec acc?s gratuit, 

Les conf?rences annuelles TALN et RECITAL avec r?duction pour les
adh?rents,

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

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


sont autant d'activit?s men?es b?n?volement par les membres de
l'association.


Ces activit?s de diffusion scientifique sont toutefois co?teuses et les
rares subventions publiques ne suffisent pas ? tout financer. Nous
comptons donc sur l'esprit associatif des adh?rents et sur leurs
cotisations pour maintenir le dynamisme et la qualit? scientifique du
travail de l'association.


Nous vous rappelons le tarif des adh?sions pour l'ann?e 2014 : 

20 ? : ?tudiants/ch?meurs (joindre un justificatif ou une copie de
       carte)

40 ? : Individuels (paiement par ch?que ou CB personnels) 

60 ? : Professionnels (paiement par bon de commande, ch?que ou CB
       professionnels)

200 ? : Institutionnels (adh?sion de soutien) 


Vous pouvez d?s ? pr?sent adh?rer ou renouveler votre adh?sion
directement en ligne, et r?gler par Carte Bleue en vous rendant ?
l'adresse : <http://www.atala.org/adhesion>
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Bien ? vous 


Pour le Conseil d'Administration de l'ATALA

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:28:29 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:28:29 +0100
Subject: Journee: AFIA - ATALA, Langue,
 apprentissage automatique et fouille de donnees, Paris, 25 mars
 2014
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:32:11 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
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APPEL ? PARTICIPATION --- merci de diffuser largement

LANGUE, APPRENTISSAGE AUTOMATIQUE ET FOUILLE DE DONN?ES

Cette journ?e regroupe des interventions qui pr?sentent un ?tat de l'art
ou un tutoriel sur les th?matiques de l'apprentissage et de la fouille
de donn?es en relation avec le traitement automatique des langues. Pour
tous publics : ?tudiants, chercheurs, ing?nieurs, etc.

   Journ?e commune AFIA - ATALA
   http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Journ?e+commune+AFIA+-+ATALA+2014

   25 mars 2014
   Auditorium de l'INALCO, Paris 13e
   Adresse : https://www.inalco.fr/ina_gabarit_rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=2770

INSCRIPTION ? LA JOURN?E

La journ?e est soutenue par l'AFIA et l'ATALA, la participation ? la
journ?e est libre et gratuite.  Pour des raisons de logistique, nous
vous demandons n?anmoins de vous inscrire :

     https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cDThoom7k-UBHhvc0ulGfuzr6B6pAoEDI6IvmDpsvGk/viewform

PROGRAMME

============================================================
8h45 Introduction
   Pr?sentation de l'AFIA (Yves Demazeau, pr?sident de l'AFIA)
   Pr?sentation de l'ATALA (Patrick Paroubek, pr?sident de l'ATALA)
   Pr?sentation de la journ?e (Pierre Zweigenbaum et Brigitte Grau)

9h15
     M?thodes statistiques en traitement des langues :
     ?tat des lieux et perspectives
     Fran?ois Yvon (LIMSI)

10h00 pause

10h30 Apprendre des repr?sentations continues/distribu?es de mots et de
      documents
      Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI), Benjamin Piwovarski (LIP6)

11h30 Apprentissage automatique symbolique pour le TAL : int?r?ts et
      limites
      Isabelle Tellier (LATTICE)

12h15-13h45 repas libre

13h45 Fouille de donn?es pour le TAL
      Peggy Cellier (IRISA), Damien Nouvel (LIMSI), Thierry Charnois
      (LIPN)

14h45 Analyse syntaxique en d?pendances avec des approches
      discriminantes
      Alexis Nasr (LIF)

15h30 pause

16h00 Tutoriel : CRF lin?aire
     Thomas Lavergne (LIMSI)

16h45 cl?ture
============================================================

COORDINATEURS DE LA JOURN?E

Pierre Zweigenbaum & Brigitte Grau (LIMSI, Orsay)

COMIT? DE PROGRAMME

Alexandre Allauzen (LIMSI, Orsay)
Massih-Reza Amini (LIG, Grenoble)
Patrice Bellot (LSIS, Marseille)
Thierry Charnois (LIPN, Villetaneuse)
Vincent Claveau (IRISA, Rennes)
Bruno Cr?milleux (GREYC, Caen)
Pascal Denis (INRIA, Lille)
Ga?l Dias (GREYC, Caen)
Olivier Ferret (CEA, Palaiseau)
Patrick Gallinari (LIP6, Paris)
?ric Gaussier (LIG, Grenoble)
Brigitte Grau (LIMSI, Orsay)
Alexis Nasr (LIF, Marseille)
Mathieu Roche (CIRAD, Montpellier)
Isabelle Tellier (LATTICE, Paris)
Juan-Manuel Torres-Moreno (LIA, Avignon)
Yannick Toussaint (LORIA, Nancy)
Mathieu Valette (INALCO, Paris)
Tim Van de Cruys (IRIT, Toulouse)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI, Orsay)

Plus de d?tails sur :
   http://www.afia.asso.fr/tiki-index.php?page=Journ?e+commune+AFIA+-+ATALA+2014

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:39:52 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:39:52 +0100
Subject: Appel: Call for System Demonstrations, COLING 2014
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:59:26 +0000
From: John Judge <jjudge at computing.dcu.ie>
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********** Apologies for cross-posting **********

COLING 2014 Call for System Demonstrations
The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August
23 - 29, 2014, Dublin, Ireland

http://www.coling-2014.org

Important dates
19 May 2014: Paper submission deadline
23 June 2014: Author notification
7 July 2014: Camera-ready paper submission deadline


The COLING 2014 Demonstration Programme Committee invites proposals for
system demonstrations. The demonstration programme is part of the main
conference programme and aims at showcasing working systems that apply a
wide range of conference topics. The session will provide opportunities
to exchange ideas gained from implementing NLP systems, and to obtain
feedback from expert users.

COLING 2014 will be held in Dublin, Ireland from 23-29 August 2014.

The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s. It is
held every two years and regularly attracts more than 700 delegates. The
conference has developed into one of the premier Natural Language
Processing (NLP) conferences worldwide and is a major international
event for the presentation of new research results and for the
demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of
Computational Linguistics and NLP.

Topics of interest
COLING 2014 solicits demonstrations on original and unpublished research
on the following topics, including, but not limited to:

- pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon;
- cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language
  processing;
- models of communication by language;
- lexical semantics and ontologies;
- word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
- parsing, both syntactic and deep;
- generation and summarisation;
- paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering;
- speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding;
- multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
- information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge base
  linking;
- machine learning for natural language;
- modelling of discourse and dialogue;
- sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media;
- multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
- applications, tools and language resources;
- system evaluation methodology and metrics.


Submissions
The submissions should address the following questions:
- What is the problem the proposed system addresses?
- Why is the system important and what is its impact?
- What is the novelty of the used approach/technology?
- Who is the target audience?
- How does the system work?
- How does it compare with existing systems?
- How is the system licenced?

The maximum submission length is 4 pages (including references). Papers
shall be submitted in English and must conform to the official COLING
2014 style guidelines available on the conference website. The
anonymisation of submissions is optional. If authors choose to remain
anonymous, it is their responsibility to take every measure to conceal
potentially identifying information.
http://www.coling-2014.org/instructions-for-authors.php

Submission and reviewing will be managed in the START system:
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/demos/

The only accepted format for submissions is PDF. Accepted papers will
appear in the conference proceedings in a dedicated volume for
demonstration systems.


Demonstration chairs
Lamia Tounsi, CNGL, Dublin City University, Ireland
Rafal Rak, NaCTeM, University of Manchester, UK


Programme Committee
Michiel Bacchiani, Google Inc.
Kay Berkling, Cooperative State University, Karlsruhe
Ann Bies, Linguistic Data Consortium
William Black, University of Manchester
Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University
Chris Brew, Nuance Communications
Aoife Cahill, Educational Testing Service
Vittorio Castelli, IBM
Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, IBM
L?a Deleris, IBM
Martin Emms, Trinity College Dublin
Guillaume Gravier, IRISA & INRIA Rennes
Keith Hall, Google Research
Derrick Higgins, Educational Testing Service
Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo
Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universit?t Berlin
Daxin Jiang, Microsoft STC-A
John Kelleher, Trinity College Dublin
Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd
BalaKrishna Kolluru, Toshiba
Seamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin
Saturnino Luz, Trinity College Dublin
Nitin Madnani, Educational Testing Service
Hilary McDonald, Trinity College Dublin
Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Peter Mika, Yahoo Labs
Tony O'Dowd, KantanMT
Florian Pinel, IBM
Johann Roturier, Symantec
Andrew Rowley, University of Manchester
Fr?d?rique Segond, Viseo Research
Swapna Somasundaran, Educational Testing Services
Tomoki Toda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Xinglong Wang, Brandwatch
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:18:00 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:18:00 +0100
Subject: Appel: JFIM 2014, Fes, date limite 31 mars 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.141800.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:35:18 +0100
From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at limsi.fr>
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JFIM 2014 - Premier appel : merci de diffuser largement

============================================================
15e Journ?es Francophones d'Informatique M?dicale
11-13 juin 2014
F?s, Maroc
http://imia.limsi.fr/jfim2014/ (en travaux)
============================================================

DATES IMPORTANTES
      31 mars 2014	Date limite de soumission
      30 avril 2014	Notification aux auteurs
       15 mai 2014	Retour des communications finalis?es
       12-13 juin 2014	Conf?rence

APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS

La quinzi?me ?dition des Journ?es francophones d'informatique m?dicale
se tiendra ? la Facult? de m?decine de F?s, au Maroc, les 12 et 13 Juin
2014. Ces 15e JFIM seront organis?es par la Soci?t? Marocaine
d?Informatique M?dicale (SMIM) et auront lieu ? la suite du Congr?s
National d?Informatique M?dicale (CNIM) qui se tiendra les 11 et 12
juin. Le comit? scientifique des JFIM est plac? sous l??gide du SIG
francophone de l?IMIA, en collaboration avec les autres soci?t?s
francophones d?informatique m?dicale.

TH?MES

Connaissances et informations m?dicales
     Ontologies ; standards ; terminologies
     Fouille de donn?es et de textes ; traitement automatique des
     langues
     Imagerie et simulation
     Aide ? la d?cision et guides de bonnes pratiques
     Diagnostic ; traitement ; pronostic ; stratification des risques

Syst?mes d'information en sant?
     D?veloppement et ?valuation des syst?mes d'information cliniques
     Infrastructures et syst?mes d'information de sant? r?gionaux et
     nationaux

Facteurs humains
Enseignement et formation en informatique
Qualit?, caract?re priv? et s?curit? de l'information
?valuation des syst?mes et de leur utilisabilit? cognitive
Questions ?thiques et mesures r?glementaires en informatique

SOUMISSIONS

Les participants sont invit?s ? proposer un article long (de 8 ? 12
pages hors r?f?rences), un article court (4 ? 6 pages hors r?f?rences)
ou le r?sum? d'une affiche (r?sum? d'une page hors r?f?rences).  Le
comit? scientifique se r?serve le droit de convertir une proposition
d'une cat?gorie ? une autre. Seuls les articles seront publi?s.

Les propositions doivent ?tre soumises au format PDF ? l'adresse
     https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jfim2014
     (les feuilles de style seront fournies sous peu)

PUBLICATION

Les actes de la conf?rences seront publi?s dans la s?rie CEUR.org
(ISSN 1613-0073) ? acc?s ouvert et gratuit.

COMIT? SCIENTIFIQUE
(en cours de compl?tion)
Pr?sidents : Pierre Zweigenbaum et Cheick Oumar Bagayoko
(co-pr?sidents du SIG francophone de l'IMIA)

COMIT? D'ORGANISATION
(en cours de compl?tion)
Mohammed Bennani Othmani (Casablanca, Maroc, pr?sident de la SMIMS)
Chakib Nejjari (F?s, Maroc)
Zineb Sehrier (F?s, Maroc)

JFIM : http://imia.limsi.fr/jfim2014/
CNIM : http://www.smims.ma/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:18:39 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:18:39 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste de professeur, Humanites Numeriques,
 Universite Stendhal Grenoble 3, 1er septembre 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.141839.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:47:31 +0100
From: Agn?s Tutin <agnes.tutin at u-grenoble3.fr>
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Bonjour,

Un poste de professeur en Humanit?s Num?riques sera ? pourvoir ?
l'Universit? Stendhal au 1er septembre 2014 (sections 7-27).  Cf. profil
sur :
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ListesPostesPublies/ANTEE/2014_1/0381840U/FOPC_0381840U_4083.pdf

Bien ? vous

Agn?s Tutin
Universit? Stendhal

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:40:41 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:40:41 +0100
Subject: Job: Viseo, Offre CDI recherche en data Mining
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.144041.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:56:31 +0000
From: Frederique Segond <fsegond at objetdirect.com>
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X-url: http://www.viseo.net/
X-url: http://www.viseo.net/viseo-recherche-et-developpement

Viseo http://www.viseo.net/ the French leader in information systems is
looking for an exceptional researcher in the field of data mining with
strong skills in machine learning and statistics at their research and
development centre located in Grenoble, France
http://www.viseo.net/viseo-recherche-et-developpement.

Desired Skills and Experience

Candidates must have:

A PhD in Data Ming, Machine Learning or related subject Development
Experience in an 'OO' language; C, C++, C#, Java ???

good publications and research records

Good team spirit

interest in technology transfer

knowledge of Semantic Web is a plus

Good English and French skills are a plus



For more information or applications contact: fsegond at viseo.net

Dr Fr?d?rique SEGOND


Responsable Centre de Recherche
Research Centre Manager
http://www.viseo.net/viseo-recherche-et-developpement

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:20:02 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:20:02 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Alpage, James Pustejovsky, 2 seances (28 mars et 4
 avril), Computational Models of Events
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.142002.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 10:18:37 +0100
From: Marie Candito <marie.candito at gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAKCM-9F7x2uNHKAOZLaR9irf-Q=YzKoSrXAk2SNa=q8qOeft9w at mail.gmail.com>


************* S?minaire de l'?quipe Alpage *********

Il s'agit du s?minaire de recherche en linguistique informatique
organis? par l'?quipe Alpage, ?quipe mixte INRIA - Paris Diderot,
sp?cialis?e en traitement automatique des langues.

James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, professeur invit? ? Alpage),
donnera 2 s?ances li?es :

- vendredi 28 mars
- vendredi 4 avril

de 11h ? 12h15,

Attention : lieu inhabituel :

salle 265E
*B?timent Halle aux Farines*
10 rue Fran?oise Dolto
75013 Paris

Toute personne int?ress?e est la bienvenue.

*********************************************************
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University :

Computational Models of Events (Two Lectures)

Abstract :

The notion of event has long been central for both modeling the
semantics of natural language as well as reasoning in goal-driven tasks
in artificial intelligence. This talk examines developments in
computational models for events, bringing together recent work from the
areas of semantics, logic, computer science, and computational
linguistics. The goal is to look at event structure from a unifying
perspective, enabled by a new synthesis of how these disciplines have
approached the problem. This entails examining the structure of events
at all levels impacted by linguistic expressions: (a) predicate
decomposition and subatomic event structure; (b) atomic events and the
mapping to syntax; (c) events in discourse structure; and (d) causation
in the macro-event structure of narratives and scripts.

This talk outlines a unified theory of event structure. The demands on
such a theory require it to both facilitate the systematic mapping from
semantic forms to syntactic representations and support event-based
inferences in texts. What emerges is a framework that represents a
situation and its participants in terms of subevents, modeled
dynamically through time and space. In addition, the theory must
identify events as part of larger scenarios and scripts. The course
covers recent work in this direction and models unifiying these
representational levels for event-based reasoning.

Common to all traditions is the view that events are the means by which
we model situations and changes in our world. We first examine the
subatomic structure of events from the perspective of hybrid modal
logic, using dynamic and linear temporal logics as our means of encoding
change.  Then, we look at the properties of atomic event structure, and
the effects of discourse relations on temporal inferencing.  Next, we
examine the problem of identifying where events happens, which is
critical for any deep causal reasoning involving events and their
participants.  We will develop a procedure for "event localization",
which is the process of identifying the spatial extent of an event,
activity, or situation.  Finally, we examine events above the level of
the sentence and local discourse. That is, we study how events are
structured within larger narratives and scripts, reflecting
conventionalized patterns of behavior and causal and coherence relations
within texts and discourse.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:43:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:43:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: First Joint Workshop SPMRL-SANCL 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.144320.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 18:09:06 +0100
From: Djam? Seddah <djame.seddah at inria.fr>
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First Joint Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically Rich
Languages and Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Languages (SPMRL-SANCL
2014)

ENDORSED BY SIGPARSE

Co-located with Coling 2014, August 23/24 in Dublin, Ireland

SPMRL-SANCL 2014 will feature a shared task on semi-supervised parsing
morphologically rich languages.

Outline

Statistical parsing of morphologically-rich languages has repeatedly
been shown to exhibit non-trivial challenges including, among others,
sparse lexica in the face of rich inflectional systems, parsing
deficiency in the face of free word order and treebank annotation
idiosyncrasies in the face of morphosyntactic interactions.

Similar problems arise for parsing non-canonical languages. Besides
technical issues such as lexical sparseness and ad-hoc structures, we
also face theoretical problems including constructions that do not, or
very seldomly occur in standard language, such as verbless sentences or
complex hashtags.

The first joint SPMRL-SANCL workshop addresses both the challenge of
parsing MRLs and NCLs. It provides a forum for research addressing the
often overlapping issues of both fields with the goal of identifying
cross-cutting issues in the annotation and parsing methodology for such
languages.

Areas of interest

The areas of interest of the SPMRL-SANCL workshop include, but are not
limited to, the following list of topics:

- applying cutting-edge parsing techniques to new languages and domains

- strengths and weaknesses of current parsing techniques when applied to
  morphologically-rich and/or non-canonical language

- insights and techniques that are targeted at improving parsing quality
  for morphologically-rich and/or non-canonical language

- using insights from parsing and associated processing problems to
  motivate decisions in the creation of new syntactically annotated
  corpora

- annotation and parsing of data from domains and genres that are not
  yet covered for many languages

- discussing the role of parsing in higher-level NLP applications
  involving MRLs and NCLs, e.g. syntax-enhanced MT and semantic
  analysis.


Shared Task

The workshop will also host the second shared task on parsing
morphologically rich language (see
http://spmrl.org/spmrl2014-sharedtask.html).  The first shared task was
held in conjunction with SPMRL 2013.  It helped show that carefully
engineered approaches can help to push the envelope on languages such as
Hungarian, Basque, Hebrew and Polish, where the shared task results for
constituency parsing are the best current known for those languages. The
task embodied a focus on realistic scenarios (no gold tokenization, no
gold part-of-speech or morphology), as well as meaningful evaluation
measures, including a cross-framework evaluation that permits
comparisons between constituent and dependency parsing models.

The second installment of the Shared Task will feature a similar range
of languages. Moreover, it will also consider a semi-supervised scenario
where larger quantities of in-domain text are available. These unlabeled
data are aimed to be used for self-training, co-training, lexical
acquisition, generating word clusters, word embeddings and so on. A
separate call for the Shared Task is forthcoming.

Special Track on Syntactic Analysis of Non-Canonical Language

In addition to regular paper submissions, we solicit poster submissions
addressing the syntactic analysis of frequent phenomena of non-canonical
language, which are difficult to annotate and parse using conventional
annotation schemes. Cases in point are the representation of verbless
utterances in a dependency scheme, the pros and cons of different
representations of disfluencies for statistical parsing, or the analysis
of complex hashtags which incorporate and merge different syntactic
arguments into one token. The posters should focus, in more detail, on
one more of these issues.

More details on the submission categories for the poster session can be
found below and at: http://spmrl.org/sancl-posters2014.html

Important Dates

  --------------------- -----------------------
  Submission deadline   May 2, 2014
  Author Notification   June 6, 2014
  Camera ready copy     June 27, 2014
  Workshop              August (23/24?), 2014
  --------------------- -----------------------

How to Submit

We solicit the following submission categories:
- long papers (up to 11 pages excluding references)
- short papers (up to 6 pages excluding references)
- abstracts (500 words excluding examples/references, for SANCL poster
  topics)
- shared task paper submissions (deadline/format will be disclosed
  later)

Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial and
completed research addressing a topic relevant to either SANCL or SPMRL.

Short papers are suited for presenting work in progress, position papers
or short, focused contributions relevant to either SANCL or SPMRL
(including the poster session topics described above and, in more
detail, here).

Both long and short papers should present original, unpublished
research. They will be peer reviewed and will be presented as either an
oral talk or as a poster at the workshop. Long/short papers will be
included in the proceedings. Abstract submissions are most appropriate
for presenting an idea for an analysis for one or more of the poster
topics. In contrast to long/short paper submissions, abstract
submissions do not need to back up their ideas with experimental
results. Abstract submission will receive a yes/no review and will not
be included in the proceedings.

Submissions will be accepted until May, 2 , 2014, (11:59 p.m. PST) in
PDF format via the START system and must be formatted using the Coling
2014 formatting instructions:
http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php

Organizers

Workshop

- Yoav Goldberg (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
- Yuval Marton (Microsoft Inc., US)
- Ines Rehbein (Potsdam University, Germany)
- Yannick Versley (Heidelberg University, Germany)
- ?zlem ?etino?lu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Joel Tetreault (Yahoo! Labs, US)

SANCL Special Track

- Ines Rehbein (Potsdam University, Germany)
- ?zlem ?etino?lu (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
- Djam? Seddah (Universit? Paris Sorbonne & INRIA's Alpage Project,
  France)
- Joel Tetreault (Yahoo! Labs, US)

Shared task

- Sandra K?bler (Indiana University, US)
- Djam? Seddah (Universit? Paris Sorbonne & INRIA's Alpage Project,
  France)
- Reut Tsarfaty (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Program committee

- Bernd Bohnet (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Marie Candito (University of Paris 7, France)
- Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service Inc., US)
- Jinho D. Choi (University of Massachusetts Amherst, US)
- Grzegorz Chrupala (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
- G?l?en Cebiro?lu Eryi?it (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
- Markus Dickinson (Indiana University, US)
- Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum, Germany)
- Jacob Eisenstein (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)
- Richard Farkas (University of Szeged, Hungary)
- Jennifer Foster (Dublin City University, Ireland)
- Josef van Genabith (DFKI, Germany)
- Koldo Gojenola (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
- Spence Green (Stanford University, US)
- Samar Husain (Potsdam University, Germany)
- Sandra K?bler (Indiana University, US)
- Joseph Le Roux (Universit? Paris-Nord, France)
- John Lee (City University of Hong Kong, China)
- Wolfgang Maier (University of D?sseldorf, Germany)
- Takuya Matsuzaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- David McClosky (IBM Research, US)
- Detmar Meurers (University of T?bingen, Germany)
- Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar)
- Adam Przepiorkowski (ICS PAS, Poland)
- Owen Rambow (Columbia University, US)
- Kenji Sagae (University of Southern California, US)
- Benoit Sagot (Inria, France)
- Djam? Seddah (Univ. Paris Sorbonne, France)
- Wolfgang Seeker (IMS Stuttgart, Germany)
- Anders Soogard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Reut Tsarfaty (Uppsala University, Sweden)
- Lamia Tounsi (Dublin City University, Ireland)
- Daniel Zeman (Charles University, Czechia)

Contact

For general questions about the workshop, please email
- spmrl.sancl at gmail.com. 
  For specific questions about the shared task,
  please email the shared task organizers 
- spmrl.sharedtask at gmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:33:23 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:33:23 +0100
Subject: Appel: WoLLIC 2014
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:17:48 -0300
From: Ruy de Queiroz <ruy at cin.ufpe.br>
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DEADLINE APPROACHING!


[Please circulate. Apologies for any cross-postings.]


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


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

ORGANISATION
Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de
Chile, Chile
Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

HOSTED BY
Department of Informatics, Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Mar?a,
Chile


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

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

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

INVITED SPEAKERS
Ver?nica Becher (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki)
Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg)
Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University)
Luca Vigano (Universit? di Verona)
Thomas Wilke (Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel)

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

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

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ulrich Kohlenbach (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt) - Chair
Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)
Eric Allender (Rutgers University)
Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile)
Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University)
Stefano Berardi (Universit? di Torino)
Julian Bradfield (University of Edinburgh)
Xavier Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes de Chile)
Olivier Danvy (University of Aarhus)
Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA)
Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld)
Michiel van Lambalgen (University of Amsterdam)
Klaus Meer (Technische Universit?t Cottbus)
George Metcalfe (University of Bern)
Dale Miller (INRIA/LIX)
Russell Miller (City University of New York)
Sara Negri (University of Helsinki)
Grigory Olkhovikov (Urals State University)
Nicole Schweikardt (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University Nijmegen)

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

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Pablo Barcel? (Universidad de Chile) (Local chair)
Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco)
Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair)
Juan Reutter (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile)
Cristi?n Riveros (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile)

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

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


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:35:00 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:35:00 +0100
Subject: Appel: PolTAL 2014 (9th International Conference on Natural
 Language Processing), Warsaw, 17-19 September 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.143500.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 22:41:02 +0100
From: Adam Przepiorkowski <adamp at ipipan.waw.pl>
Message-ID: <87txb3m6xd.fsf at bach.ipipan.waw.pl>
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Registration is now open ? and submissions are welcome until 30 March
2014 ? for:

                              PolTAL 2014
      9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing

                             Warsaw, Poland
                          17?19 September 2014
                      http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl/

PolTAL 2014 is the ninth in the series of the TAL conferences, following
JapTAL 2012 (Kanazawa, Japan), IceTAL 2010 (Reykjav?k, Iceland), GoTAL
2008 (Gothenburg, Sweden), FinTAL 2006 (Turku, Finland), EsTAL 2004
(Alicante, Spain), PorTAL 2002 (Faro, Portugal), VexTAL 1999 (Venice,
Italy) and FracTAL 1997 (Besan?on, France).

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

The conference is organised and hosted by the Institute of Computer
Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.


PROCEEDINGS:

PolTAL 2014 proceedings will appear in the Springer LNCS/LNAI series, as
in case of previous TAL conferences.
 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

- Johan Bos, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge, UK
- Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK


SCOPE:

Papers are invited on recent, substantial, original and unpublished
research on all aspects of computational linguistics and natural
language and speech processing, including, but not limited to:

- word segmentation, tagging and chunking,
- syntax, parsing and grammar formalisms,
- lexical semantics and word sense disambiguation,
- compositional semantics and semantic parsing,
- distributional and model-theoretic approaches to semantics,
- pragmatics, discourse and dialogue,
- linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language,
- language resources and tools,
- lexicon, lexical databases and ontologies,
- corpus linguistics and corpus-based language modelling,
- information retrieval, question answering and information extraction,
- generation and summarisation,
- machine translation, translation aids and multilingual systems,
- dialogue systems and multimodal systems,

as well as:

- phonetics, phonology and morphology,
- speech recognition and speech synthesis,
- simulation and visualisation,
- knowledge acquisition and representation,
- text and speech interfaces,
- text and speech classification,
- systems evaluation.

 
SUBMISSIONS:

We welcome submissions both from the academia and the industry on any
topic that is of interest to the NLP community, particularly encouraging
research emphasising multidisciplinary and linguistic aspects of
Computational Linguistics.

All submissions will be reviewed by at least three programme committee
members. The submissions will be judged on relevance, originality,
technical quality and presentation. Papers can be submitted in two
categories:

- full papers (up to 12 pages), describing substantial research with
  well-evaluated results,
- short papers (up to 5 pages), typically describing ongoing research
  and preliminary results.

At the conference, full papers will be presented as talks and short
papers will be presented as posters.

Submissions should be made via EasyChair, at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=poltal2014.  They should be
formatted according to LNCS specifications at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0. We strongly
encourage the use of LaTeX2e:

- direct link to the LNCS package:
  ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip,
- direct link to the default author instructions:
  ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/instruct/authors/typeinst.zip.

Submissions must be anonymous. Page limits include bibliography,
appendices, if any, etc.  All submissions should be in the PDF format.


IMPORTANT DATES:

- January 2014: submission open
- March 2014: registration open

- 30 March 2014: SUBMISSION DEADLINE

- 10 May 2014: acceptance notifications sent out
- 1 June 2014: deadline for early-bird registration
- 1 June 2014: camera-ready papers ready
- 17?19 September 2014: PolTAL 2014


REGISTRATION:

Is open at: http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/registration/.  Note
that early-bird registration is possible until 1 June 2014.


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

- Tilman Becker, DFKI, Germany
- Chris Biemann, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt, Germany
- Igor Boguslavsky, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Spain, and
  Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of
  Sciences, Russia
- Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Johan Bos, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Ant?nio Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Caroline Brun, Xerox Corporation, France
- Miriam Butt, University of Konstanz, Germany
- Nick Campbell, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Sylviane Cardey, University of Franche-Comt?, France
- Robin Cooper, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Ann Copestake, University of Cambridge, UK
- Walter Daelemans, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Markus Dickinson, Indiana University, USA
- Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA
- Dan Flickinger, Stanford University, USA
- Mikel L. Forcada, University of Alicante, Spain
- Filip Ginter, University of Turku, Finland
- Jonathan Ginzburg, Universit? Paris Diderot, France
- Thomas Hain, University of Sheffield, UK
- Janne Bondi Johannessen, University of Oslo, Norway
- Laura Kallmeyer, Heinrich-Heine-Universit?t D?sseldorf, Germany
- Ron Kaplan, Nuance Communications, USA
- Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University, Germany
- Kimmo Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Sandra K?bler, Indiana University, USA
- Krister Lind?n, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Krzysztof Marasek, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information
  Technology, Poland
- G?za N?meth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
- Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
- Pierre Nugues, University of Lund, Sweden
- Guy Perrier, INRIA Lorraine, France
- Maciej Piasecki, Wroc?aw University of Technology, Poland
- Adam Przepi?rkowski, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of
  Sciences, Poland (chair)
- Aarne Ranta, Chalmers University and University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Agata Savary, Universit? Fran?ois Rabelais Tours, France
- Sabine Schulte im Walde, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Koenraad de Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway
- Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK
- Sebastian St?ker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Izabella Thomas, University of Franche-Comt?, France
- Reut Tsarfaty, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- Martin Volk, University of Zurich, Switzerland


CONTACT ? Organising Committee chairs:

- Maciej Ogrodniczuk
- Adam Przepi?rkowski

Contact e-mail address: poltal at chopin.ipipan.waw.pl.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:31:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:31:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: CogALex-4,
 pre-COLING workshop with a shared task devoted to the 'lexical
 access-problem'
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.143155.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:25:29 +0800
From: Michael Zock <Michael.Zock at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <53207C69.9090109 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
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Apologies for multiple postings
Please distribute to colleagues

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

1st Call for Papers

4th WORKSHOP ON COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF THE LEXICON (CogALex)
together with a shared task concerning the ?lexical access-problem?

Pre-conference workshop at COLING 2014 (August 23d, Dublin, Ireland)

Submission deadline: May 25, 2014


Invited speaker: Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)

For more information, see :
http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-webpage/index.html
(Beware though that this page is still under construction)

==============================================================
GOAL

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers involved in the
construction and application of electronic dictionaries to discuss
modifications of existing resources in line with the users' needs,
thereby fully exploiting the advantages of the digital form. Given the
breadth of the questions, we welcome reports on work from many
perspectives, including but not limited to: computational lexicography,
psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, language learning and
ergonomics.


MOTIVATION

The way we look at dictionaries (their creation and use) has changed
dramatically over the past 30 years. While being considered as an
appendix to grammar in the past, by now they have moved to centre
stage. Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP which can be conducted
without them. Also, rather than being static entities (data-base view),
dictionaries are now viewed as dynamic networks, i.e. graphs, whose
nodes and links (connection strengths) may change over
time. Interestingly, properties concerning topology, clustering and
evolution known from other disciplines (society, economy, human brain)
also apply to dictionaries: everything is linked, hence accessible, and
everything is evolving. Given these similarities, one may wonder what we
can learn from these disciplines.

In this 4th edition of the CogALex workshop we therefore also invite
scientists working in these fields, with the goal to broaden the
picture, i.e. to gain a better understanding concerning the mental
lexicon and to integrate these findings into our dictionaries in order
to support navigation. Given recent advances in neurosciences, it
appears timely to seek inspiration from neuroscientists studying the
human brain. There is also a lot to be learned from other fields
studying graphs and networks, even if their object of study is something
else than language, for example biology, economy or society.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources and
electronic dictionaries. To perform the groundwork for the next
generation of such resources we invite researchers involved in the
building of such tools.  The idea is to discuss modifications of
existing resources by taking the users? needs and knowledge states into
account, and to capitalize on the advantages of the digital media. For
this workshop we solicit papers including but not limited to the
following topics, each of which can be considered from various points of
view: linguistics, neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip of the tongue
problem, associations), network related sciences (sociology, economy,
biology), mathematics (vector-based approaches, graph theory,
small-world problem), etc.


1) Analysis of the conceptual input of a dictionary user

  - What does a language producer start from (bag of words)?

  - What is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message and
    looking for a word?

  - What does it take to bridge the gap between this input and the
    desired output (target word)?


2) The meaning of words

  - Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed)
  - Meaning representation (concept based, primitives)
  - Revelation of hidden information (distributional semantics, latent
    semantics, vector-based approaches: LSA/HAL)
  - Neural models, neurosemantics, neurocomputational theories of
    content representation.


3) Structure of the lexicon

  - Discovering structures in the lexicon: formal and semantic point of
    view (clustering, topical structure)
  - Creative ways of getting access to and using word associations
    (reading between the lines, subliminal communication);
  - Evolution, i.e. dynamic aspects of the lexicon (changes of weights)
  - Neural models of the mental lexicon (distribution of information
    concerning words, organisation of words)


4) Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes

  - Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and
    indexes (crowd-sourcing, serious games, etc.)
  - Impact and use of social networks (Facebook, Twitter) for building
    dictionaries, for organizing and indexing the data (clustering of
    words), and for allowing to track navigational strategies, etc.
  - (Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g. synonym,
    hypernym, meronym, association, collocation, ...)
  - Use of corpora and patterns (data-mining) for getting access to
    words, their uses, combinations and associations


5) Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies, interface issues,...)

  - Search based on sound, meaning or associations
  - Search (simple query vs multiple words)
  - Context-dependent search (modification of users? goals during search)
  - Recovery
  - Navigation (frequent navigational patterns or search strategies used
    by people)
  - Interface problems, data-visualisation

6) Dictionary applications

  - Methods supporting vocabulary learning (for example, creation of
    data-bases showing words in various contexts)
  - Tools for supporting Human translation


IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for paper submissions: May 25, 2014
Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014
Camera-ready papers due: July 7, 2014
Workshop date: August 23, 2014


SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should follow the COLING main conference formatting details
(http:// www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php) and should be
submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/WS-1/ (you must register first).

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submission must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding six (6) pages
(references included). Characteristics of short papers include: a small,
focused contribution; work in progress; a negative result; a piece of
opinion; an interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must
describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without
exceeding twelve (12) pages (references included).

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

For further details see:
http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-webpage/index.html

SHARED TASK

We invite participation in a shared task devoted to the problem of
lexical access in language production, with the aim of providing a
quantitative comparison between different systems.

Motivation of shared task

The quality of a dictionary depends not only on coverage, but also on
the accessibility of the information. That is, a crucial point is
dictionary access. Access strategies vary with the task (text
understanding vs. text production) and the knowledge available at the
very moment of consultation (words, concepts, speech sounds). Unlike
readers who look for meanings, writers start from them, searching for
the corresponding words. While paper dictionaries are static, permitting
only limited strategies for accessing information, their electronic
counterparts promise dynamic, proactive search via multiple criteria
(meaning, sound, related words) and via diverse access
routes. Navigation takes place in a huge conceptual lexical space, and
the results are displayable in a multitude of forms (e.g. as trees, as
lists, as graphs, or sorted alphabetically, by topic, by frequency).

To bring some structure into this multitude of possibilities, the shared
task will concentrate on a crucial subtask, namely multiword
association.? we will organize a novel type of shared task which will
allow quantitative comparisons between different systems. The task
chosen is multiword association.

What we mean by this in the context of this workshop is the
following. Suppose, we were looking for a word expressing the following
ideas: ?superior dark coffee made of beans from Arabia?, but could not
remember the intended word mocha. Since people always remember something
concerning the elusive word, it would be nice to have a system accepting
this kind of input, to propose then a number of candidates for the
target word. Given the above example, we might enter dark, coffee,
beans, and Arabia, and the system would be supposed to come up with
lists of associated words such as mocha, espresso, or cappuccino.


Procedure

The participants will receive lists of five given words (primes) such as
'circus', 'funny', 'nose', 'fool', and 'fun' and are supposed to compute
the word which is most closely associated to all of them. In this case,
the word 'clown' would be the expected answer. Here are some more
examples:

given words: gin, drink, scotch, bottle, soda
expected answer: whisky

given words: wheel, driver, bus, drive, lorry
expected answer: car

given words: neck, animal, zoo, long, tall
expected answer: giraffe

given words: holiday, work, sun, summer, abroad
expected answer: vacation

given words: home, garden, door, boat, chimney
expected answer: house

given words: blue, cloud, stars, night, high
expected answer: sky

We will provide a training set of 2000 sets of five input words
(multiword stimuli), together with the expected target words
(associative response). The participants will have several weeks to
train their systems on this data. After the the training phase, we will
release a test set containing another 2000 sets of five input words, but
without providing the expected target words.

Participants will have five days to run their systems on the test data,
thereby predicting the target words. For each system, we will compare
the results to the expected target words and compute an accuracy. The
participants will be invited to submit a paper describing their approach
and the results.

For the participating systems, we will distinguish two categories: (1)
Unrestricted systems. They can use any kind of data to compute their
results.  (2) Restricted systems: These systems are only allowed to draw
on the freely available ukWaC corpus (comprising 2 billion words) in
order to extract information on word associations. Participants are
allowed to compete in either category or in both.


Schedule for Shared Task

  - Training Data Release: March 25, 2014
  - Test Data Release: May 5, 2014
  - Final Results: May 9, 2014
  - Deadline for Paper Submission: May 25, 2014
  - Reviewers' feedback: June, 15, 2014
  - Camera-Ready Version: July 7, 2014
  - Workshop date: August 23, 2014

All data releases to be found on the workshop website.


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

  - Bel Enguix, Gemma(LIF-CNRS, France) and (GRLMC, Tarragona, Spain)
  - Chang, Jason(National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
  - Cook, Paul(University of Melbourne, Australia)
  - Cristea, Dan(University A.I.Cuza, Iasi, Romania)
  - De Deyne, Simon(Experimental Psychology, Leuven, Belgium) and
    (Adelaide, Australia)
  - De Melo, Gerard(IIIS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
  - Ferret, Olivier(CEA LIST, Gif sur Yvette, France)
  - Fontenelle, Thierry(CDT, Luxemburg)
  - Gala, Nuria(LIF-CNRS, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France)
  - Granger, Sylviane(Universit? Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
  - Grefenstette, Gregory (Inria, Saclay, France)
  - Hirst, Graeme(University of Toronto, Canada)
  - Hovy, Eduard(CMU, Pittsburgh, USA)
  - Hsieh, Shu-Kai(National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
  - Huang, Chu-Ren(Hongkong Polytechnic University, China)
  - Joyce, Terry(Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan)
  - Lapalme, Guy(RALI, University of Montreal, Canada)
  - Lenci, Alessandro(CNR, university of Pisa, Italy)
  - L'Homme, Marie Claude(University of Montreal, Canada)
  - Mihalcea, Rada(University of Texas, USA)
  - Navigli, Roberto(Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy)
  - Pirrelli, Vito(ILC, Pisa, Italy)
  - Polgu?re, Alain(ATILF-CNRS, Nancy, France)
  - Rapp, Reinhard(LIF-CNRS, France) and (Mainz, Germany)
  - Rosso, Paolo(NLEL, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain)
  - Schwab, Didier(LIG-GETALP, Grenoble, France)
  - Serasset, Gilles(IMAG, Grenoble, France)
  - Sharoff, Serge(University of Leeds, UK)
  - Su, Jun-Ming(University of Tainan, Taiwan)
  - Tiberius, Carole(Institute for Dutch Lexicology, The Netherlands)
  - Tokunaga, Takenobu(TITECH, Tokyo, Japan)
  - Tufis, Dan(RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
  - Valitutti, Alessandro(Helsinki Institute of Information Technology,
    Finland)
  - Wandmacher, Tonio(IRT SystemX, Saclay, France)
  - Zock, Michael(LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), currently (University of
    Tainan, Taiwan)



WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS and CONTACT PERSONS

  - Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), michael.zock AT
    lif.univ-mrs.fr
  - Reinhard Rapp (University of Aix Marseille (France) and Mainz
    (Germany), reinhardrapp AT gmx.de
  - Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong),
    churen.huang AT inet.polyu.edu.hk


For more details see:

http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/cogalex-webpage/index.html
(again, this page is still under construction)


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:25:08 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:25:08 +0100
Subject: Stage: 2 Traineeship positions at the EC's 'Joint Research
 Centre' (JRC), Terminology discovery
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.142508.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:02:53 +0100
From: Ralf Steinberger <ralf.steinberger at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Message-id: <003801cf3dfb$c36b2ba0$4a4182e0$@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
X-url: http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR
X-url: http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR

The European Commission?s Joint Research Centre (JRC) is looking to fill
two traineeship positions in the field of:
 
 
Terminology discovery over time in the field of disaster risk
management.
 
 
If you are interested, please follow the instructions provided at
http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR
<http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR> &site=IPR (Code:
2014-IPR-G-000-2974 - ISPRA).
 
Generic URL: http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=TR&site=IPR

Job description:
http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showprj.php?type=T&id=2203

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

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

Starting date: around September 2014

Duration: 5 months each

Remuneration: Up to approximately 1000 Euro per month.

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

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

JRC-EMM Publications:
http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html
                
 
 
DESSCRIPTION OF THE FORESEEN ACTIVITY:
 
The Europe Media Monitor (EMM) group at the European Commission?s Joint
Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra, Italy, is looking for two trainees to
work on a project to automatically explore the development of
terminology in the field of ?Disaster Risk Management? (DRM). The
purpose is to give the international stakeholders in that field
(e.g. the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction UN-ISDR)
concrete and countable evidence of new concepts (terms) emerging in
their field, of changing concepts and of shifts in interest over
time. The study will include both scientific publications and texts
produced by national and international governmental organisations
working in that field.
 
This first exploratory study will exclusively concern English language
text in the field of Disaster Risk Management, but other languages and
subject areas will be considered in case the outcome of this exploratory
study is deemed concrete and useful. This work may lead to a scientific
publication co-authored by the project contributors.
 
A scenario to reach this goal of terminology discovery might consist of
the following steps:
 
(1) Manual or semi-automatic selection and collection of freely
    available documents covering the sub-areas of the life cycle of
    Disaster Risk Management (Prevention and mitigation; Preparedness;
    Response; Recovery and reconstruction);

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
The foreseen traineeship duration is five months, starting around 1
September 2014. The working language in the EMM team is English.
 
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
 
The task is foreseen to be carried out jointly by two trainees who, in
combination, possess the skills or satisfy the criteria listed
below. The combination of a more linguistically inclined person and a
programmer could be fruitful.
 
- Mature student or post-graduate in any of the following fields (or
  similar): computational linguistics, computer science, library
  sciences, machine learning;
- Knowledge of ? and experience with ? freely available Language
  Technology tools (e.g. for terminology extraction, term weighting,
  categorisation);
- Experience with document format conversion (PDF, HTML, MS-Word etc. to
  text);
- Sufficient programming experience to autonomously implement all
  necessary steps (Java preferred);
- Knowledge of statistical methods for term weighing (e.g. chi-square,
  TF.IDF) and for automatic categorisation;
- Linguistic sensitivity and an interest for terminology extraction
  (what is a term?; relationships between terms); 
- Ability to present the project outcome in a format suitable for DRM
  specialists who may not be so knowledgeable of Information Technology
  (presentation; reporting; visualisation?). 
- Ability to work autonomously;
- Team worker;
- Good working knowledge of English plus the ability to communicate in
  at least one other official EU language.

 
In your application, please state your interests and please provide
clear information on your skill set, by elaborating on the
above-mentioned list. Should you apply as a ready-made team, please
nevertheless clearly state your personal skills and strengths.
 
THE JRC TEAM:
 
The Joint Research Centre (JRC; http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/jrc/) is the
scientific-technical arm of the European Commission. The approximately
2200 JRC employees working in Ispra are from all EU countries and there
are also some non-EU visitors. The working environment is multilingual,
multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary. The JRC?s Europe Media Monitor
(EMM) team (http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=179) carries out research
and development in the field of text mining (Language Technology;
Computational Linguistics) for the purposes of media monitoring. EMM
gathers an average of almost 200,000 online news articles per day in
over 70 languages and analyses them to help its large international user
community understand and use this enormous amount of media
information. EMM is publicly accessible via
http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html. The JRC is also known for having
distributed large quantities of parallel linguistic resources
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=61), including JRC-Acquis, DGT-Acquis,
JRC-Names, the Translation Memories DGT-TM, ECDC-TM and EAC-TM
(http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?id=61), and more.
 
Ralf Steinberger <http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/RS.html>  
European Commission - Joint Research Centre (JRC)
21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
URL ? Applications:  <http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html> http://emm.newsbrief.eu/overview.html 
URL ? Resources: http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?id=61  
URL ? Publications: http://langtech.jrc.ec.europa.eu/JRC_Publications.html 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:38:35 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:38:35 +0100
Subject: Habilitation: Agata Savary,
 Representation and Processing of Composition
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.143835.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:29:31 +0100
From: Agata Savary <agata.savary at univ-tours.fr>
Message-ID: <5321B2BB.3000700 at univ-tours.fr>
X-url: http://www.info.univ-tours.fr/~savary/

Bonjour,

J'ai le plaisir de vous inviter ? ma soutenance d'Habilitation ? Diriger
des Recherches intitul?e "Representation and Processing of Composition, 
Variation and Approximation in Language Resources and Tools".
La soutenance aura lieu le *jeudi 27 mars 2014 ? 15 heures* ? l'*amphi
3* de l'antenne universitaire de Blois (3 place Jean-Jaur?s, 41000
Blois).

Le jury est compos? de :

Anne ABEILL?, Professeur des universit?s, Universit? Paris 7, France
Jean-Yves ANTOINE, Professeur des universit?s, Universit? Fran?ois
   Rabelais Tours, France
B?atrice DAILLE, Professeur des universit?s, Universit? de Nantes,
   France
Jan HAJIC(, Professeur, Charles University in Prague, R?publique Tch?que
Denis MAUREL, Professeur des universit?s, Universit? Fran?ois Rabelais
   Tours, France
Agnieszka MYKOWIECKA, Charg?e de recherche, HDR, Acad?mie polonaise de
   sciences, Varsovie, Pologne
Joachim NIEHREN, Directeur de recherche, Institut national de recherche
   en informatique et en automatique, Lille, France

Un plan d'acc?s ? l'antenne universitaire est accessible ? l'adresse:
http://iut-blois.univ-tours.fr/informations-pratiques/informations-pratiques-92416.kjsp?RH=IUTBLOIS_FR

La soutenance sera suivie d'un pot en salle 401 auquel vous ?tes
cordialement convi?s.

Au plaisir de vous accueillir ? cet ?v?nement,

Agata Savary

========
R?sum?:

In my habilitation dissertation, meant to validate my capacity of and
maturity for directing research activities, I present a panorama of
several topics in computational linguistics, linguistics and computer
science.
Over the past decade, I was notably concerned with the phenomena of
compositionality and variability of linguistic objects. I illustrate the
advantages of a compositional approach to the language in the domain of
emotion detection and I explain how some linguistic objects, most
prominently multi-word expressions, defy the compositionality
principles. I demonstrate that the complex properties of MWEs, notably
variability, are partially regular and partially idiosyncratic. This
fact places the MWEs on the frontiers between different levels of
linguistic processing, such as lexicon and syntax.
I show the highly heterogeneous nature of MWEs by citing their two
existing taxonomies.  After an extensive state-of-the art study of MWE
description and processing, I summarize Multiflex, a formalism and a
tool for lexical high-quality morphosyntactic description of MWUs.  It
uses a graph-based approach in which the inflection of a MWU is
expressed in function of the morphology of its components, and of
morphosyntactic transformation patterns. Due to unification the
inflection paradigms are represented compactly. Orthographic,
inflectional and syntactic variants are treated within the same
framework. The proposal is multilingual: it has been tested on six
European languages of three different origins (Germanic, Romance and
Slavic), I believe that many others can also be successfully
covered. Multiflex proves interoperable. It adapts to different
morphological language models, token boundary definitions, and
underlying modules for the morphology of single words. It has been
applied to the creation and enrichment of linguistic resources, as well
as to morphosyntactic analysis and generation. It can be integrated into
other NLP applications requiring the conflation of different surface
realizations of the same concept.
Another chapter of my activity concerns named entities, most of which
are particular types of MWEs. Their rich semantic load turned them into
a hot topic in the NLP community, which is documented in my state-of-the
art survey. I present the main assumptions, processes and results issued
from large annotation tasks at two levels (for named entities and for
coreference), parts of the National Corpus of Polish construction. I
have also contributed to the development of both rule-based and
probabilistic named entity recognition tools, and to an automated
enrichment of Prolexbase, a large multilingual database of proper names,
from open sources.  With respect to multi-word expressions, named
entities and coreference mentions, I pay a special attention to nested
structures. This problem sheds new light on the treatment of complex
linguistic units in NLP. When these units start being modeled as trees
(or, more generally, as acyclic graphs) rather than as flat sequences of
tokens, long-distance dependencies, discontinuities, overlapping and
other frequent linguistic properties become easier to represent. This
calls for more complex processing methods which control larger contexts
than what usually happens in sequential processing. Thus, both named
entity recognition and coreference resolution comes very close to
parsing, and named entities or mentions with their nested structures are
analogous to multi-word expressions with embedded complements.

My parallel activity concerns finite-state methods for natural language
and XML processing.  My main contribution in this field, co-authored
with 2 colleagues, is the first full-fledged method for tree-to-language
correction, and more precisely for correcting XML documents with respect
to a DTD. We have also produced interesting results in incremental
finite-state algorithmics, particularly relevant to data evolution
contexts such as dynamic vocabularies or user updates.  Multilinguality
is the leitmotif of my research. I have applied my methods to several
natural languages, most importantly to Polish, Serbian, English and
French. I have been among the initiators of a highly multilingual
European scientific network dedicated to parsing and multi- word
expressions. I have used multilingual linguistic data in experimental
studies. I believe that it is particularly worthwhile to design NLP
solutions taking declension-rich (e.g. Slavic) languages into account,
since this leads to more universal solutions, at least as far as nominal
constructions (MWUs, NEs, mentions) are concerned. For instance, when
Multiflex had been developed with Polish in mind it could be applied as
such to French, English, Serbian and Greek.  Also, a French-Serbian
collaboration led to substantial modifications in morphological modeling
in Prolexbase in its early development stages. This allowed for its
later application to Polish with very few adaptations of the existing
model. Other researchers also stress the advantages of NLP studies on
highly inflected languages since their morphology encodes much more
syntactic information than is the case e.g. in English.
In this dissertation I am also supposed to demonstrate my ability of
playing an active role in shaping the scientific landscape, on a local,
national and international scale. I describe my: (i) various scientific
collaborations and supervision activities, (ii) roles in over 10
regional, national and international projects, (iii) responsibilities in
collective bodies such as program and organizing committees of
conferences and workshops, PhD juries, and the National University
Council (CNU), (iv) activity as an evaluator and a reviewer of European
collaborative projects.  The issues addressed in this dissertation open
interesting scientific perspectives, in which a special impact is put on
links among various domains and communities. These perspectives include:
(i) integrating fine-grained language data into the linked open data,
(ii) deep parsing of multi-word expressions, (iii) modeling multi-word
expression identification in a treebank as a tree-to-language correction
problem, and (iv) a taxonomy and an experimental benchmark for
tree-to-language correction approaches.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 14 13:36:44 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:36:44 +0100
Subject: Appel: AiML 2014, Deadline Extension to 9 April 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.14.MAR.2014.143644.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:07:32 +0000
From: Agi Kurucz <agi.kurucz at kcl.ac.uk>
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*** Apologies for cross-postings ****

***** DEADLINE EXTENSION *****  AiML-2014 **************

In response to a number of requests for extension, the
deadline for submitting both abstracts and full papers has
been *** EXTENDED*** to 9 April 2014

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

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

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

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

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

- history of modal logic
- philosophy of modal logic
- applications of modal logic
- computational aspects of modal logic (complexity and decidability of
  modal and temporal logics, modal and temporal logic programming, model
  checking, model generation, theorem proving for modal logics)
- theoretical aspects of modal logic (algebraic/categorical perspectives
  on modal logic, coalgebraic modal logic, completeness and canonicity,
  correspondence and duality theory, many-dimensional modal logics,
  modal fixed point logics, model theory of modal logic, proof theory of
  modal logic)
- specific instances and variations of modal logic (description logics,
  modal logics over non-boolean bases, dynamic logics and other process
  logics, epistemic and deontic logics, modal logics for agent-based
  systems, modal logic and game theory, modal logic and grammar
  formalisms, provability and interpretability logics, spatial and
  temporal logics, hybrid logic, intuitionistic logic, substructural
  logics, computationally light fragments of all such logics)

Papers on related subjects will also be considered.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

              http://www.collegepublications.co.uk

in a volume to be made available at the conference.

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

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

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

IMPORTANT DATES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:15:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:15:42 +0100
Subject: Appel: revue TAL, Note de lecture (BRETONNEL)
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.221542.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:29:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Denis Maurel <denis.maurel at univ-tours.fr>
Message-ID: <1778593860.98647.1395073751667.JavaMail.zimbra at univ-tours.fr>

La revue TAL publie r?guli?rement des notes de lecture. 

Nous recherchons un coll?gue souhaitant lire le livre: 

"Kevin BRETONNEL COHEN, Dina DEMNER-FUSHMAN. Biomedical Natural Language
Processing. John Benjamins publishing company. 2013. 160 pages."

et pr?t ? en faire un compte-rendu pour la revue TAL (cet ouvrage sera
envoy? gracieusement en ?change du service rendu).

Cette note de lecture doit ?tre r?dig?e en fran?ais (trois pages
maximum, au format de la revue) et envoy?e en juin 2014.

D'autres compte-rendu sont possibles si vous avez lu r?cemment un
ouvrage qui vous a int?ress? et si vous ?tes pr?t ? partager votre
lecture avec la communaut?...

Denis Maurel 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:33:20 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:33:20 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014 Final Call for Posters,
 Deadline Extension 23 March 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.213320.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:50:52 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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** apologies for cross-posting **

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

** Deadline Extension:
**     Sunday 23 March 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Poster and Demo Chairs:
- Raphael Troncy (Multimedia Department, EURECOM, FR)
- Eva Blomqvist (Department of Computer and Information Science,
  Linkoping University, SE)
		
The poster track of ESWC 2014 will provide an opportunity for presenting
late-breaking results, on-going research projects, and speculative or
innovative work in progress. Posters are intended to provide authors and
participants with the ability to connect with each other and to engage
in discussions about the work.

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

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

* Submission Guidelines *

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

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

* Important Dates *

Submission Deadline: March 23, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2014
Camera-Ready Paper: April 25, 2014

* Important Notes *

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

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


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:01:59 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:01:59 +0100
Subject: Appel: Special issue of ACM TACCESS On Speech and Language
 Interaction for Daily Assistive Technology
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.220159.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:09:09 +0100
From: Fran?ois Portet <Francois.Portet at imag.fr>
Message-ID: <532329A5.6040700 at imag.fr>
X-url: http://www.acm.org/pubs/sim_submissions.html).
X-url: http://www.rit.edu/gccis/taccess/.
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X-url: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taccess,


*Third Call for Papers - Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Accessible
Computing (TACCESS) On Speech and Language Interaction for Daily
Assistive Technology *

/Guest Editors: Fran?ois Portet, Frank Rudzicz, Jan Alexandersson, Heidi
Christensen/

Assistive technologies (AT) allow individuals with disabilities to do
things that would otherwise be difficult or impossible. Many assistive
technologies involve providing universal access, such as modifications
to televisions or telephones to make them accessible to those with
vision or hearing impairments. An important sub-discipline within this
community is Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), which has
its focus on communication technologies for those with impairments that
interfere with some aspect of human communication, including spoken or
written modalities. Another important sub-discipline is Ambient Assisted
Living (AAL) which facilitates independent living; these technologies
break down the barriers faced by people with physical or cognitive
impairments and support their relatives and caregivers. These
technologies are expected to improve quality-of-life of users and
promote independence, accessibility, learning, and social connectivity.

Speech and natural language processing (NLP) can be used in AT/AAC in a
variety of ways including, improving the intelligibility of
unintelligible speech, and providing communicative assistance for frail
individuals or those with severe motor impairments. The range of
applications and technologies in AAL that can rely on speech and NLP
technologies is very large, and the number of individuals actively
working within these research communities is growing, as evidenced by
the successful INTERSPEECH 2013 satellite workshop on Speech and
Language Processing for Assistive Technologies (SLPAT). In particular,
one of the greatest challenges in AAL is to design smart spaces (e.g.,
at home, work, hospital) and intelligent companions that anticipate user
needs and enable them to interact with and in their daily environment
and provide ways to communicate with others. This technology can benefit
each of visually-, physically-, speech- or cognitively- impaired
persons.

Topics of interest for submission to this special issue include (but are
not limited to):

- Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces designed for people
  with physical or cognitive impairments

- Applications of speech and NLP technology (automatic speech
  recognition, synthesis, dialogue, natural language generation) for AT
  applications

- Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AT applications

- Long-term adaptation of speech/NLP based AT system to user's change

- User studies, overview of speech/NLP technology for AT: understanding
  the user's needs and future speech and language based technologies.

- Understanding, modeling and recognition of aged or disordered speech

- Speech analysis and diagnosis: automatic recognition and detection of
  speech pathologies and speech capability loss

- Speech-based distress recognition

- Automated processing of symbol languages, sign language and nonverbal
  communication including translation systems.

- Text and audio processing for improved comprehension and
  intelligibility, e.g., sentence simplification or text-to-speech

- Evaluation methodology of systems and components in the lab and in the
  wild.

- Resources; corpora and annotation schemes

- Other topics in AAC, AAL, and AT

*Submission process*

Contributions must not have been previously published or be under
consideration for publication elsewhere, although substantial extensions
of conference or workshop papers will be considered. as long as they
adhere to ACM's minimum standards regarding prior publication
(http://www.acm.org/pubs/sim_submissions.html). Studies involving
experimentations with real target users will be appreciated. All
submissions have to be prepared according to the Guide for Authors as
published in the Journal website at http://www.rit.edu/gccis/taccess/.

Submissions should follow the journal's suggested writing format
(http://www.gccis.rit.edu/taccess/authors.html) and should be submitted
through Manuscript Central http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taccess,
indicating that the paper is intended for the Special Issue. All papers
will be subject to the peer review process and final decisions regarding
publication will be based on this review.

*Important dates:*

- Full paper submission: 31^st March 2014

- Response to authors: 30^th June 2014

- Revised submission deadline: 31^st August 2014

- Notification of acceptance: 31^st October 2014

- Final manuscripts due: 30^th November 2014

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:31:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:31:42 +0100
Subject: Job: Postdoctorat Terminologie/Linguistique,
 Atilf projet Termith (debut septembre 2014)
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.213142.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:26:33 +0100 (CET)
From: Laurence Kister <laurence.kister at univ-lorraine.fr>
Message-ID: <446898991.1838606.1394807193812.JavaMail.root at univ-lorraine.fr>
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Atilf - UMR 7118 CNRS/Universit? de Lorraine ? Nancy 

Extraction et ?dition terminologique 
Construction d?une onto-terminologie 
	
Projet TermITH 
TERMinologie et Indexation de Textes en sciences Humaines 
ANR Contint (Contenus num?riques et interactions) 
	
Post-doctorat 
	
Responsables : 
Laurence Kister ? Evelyne Jacquey 	
Date de d?but du contrat et dur?e : 
Septembre 2014 ? 12 mois 
	
Mission 
La mission s?articule autour de : 
- la structuration et la hi?rarchisation des concepts sp?cifiques aux
  sciences du langage en une onto-terminologie 
- la r?daction de d?finitions terminologiques pour les termes
  correspondant aux concepts 

Les candidats termes ? organiser et ? d?finir sont issus de diff?rentes
ressources terminologiques et/ou textuelles : 
- r?f?rentiel linguistique de l?Inist 
- Thesaulangue (thesaurus con?u et maintenu par le centre de
  documentation de l?Atilf) 
- candidats termes extraits automatiquement de textes int?graux (textes
  du corpus Scientext et s?lection de textes de sciences du langage
  fournis par Open Edition) 
- termes extraits de ressources encyclop?diques de type dictionnaires de
  sp?cialit? et terminologies disponibles 
- GTN ? gros tas de notions (O. Tremblay, 2009, Th?se)
  http://olst.ling.umontreal.ca/pdf/OphelieTremblayThese2009.pdf 

Les concepts ? organiser en fonction des relations qu?ils entretiennent
les uns avec les autres feront l?objet d?une d?finition
terminologique. La r?daction de ces d?finitions s?inspirera du cadre
formel du GTN et s?appuiera sur : 
- des dictionnaires de sp?cialit? 
- des terminologies existantes 
- des indices extraits des contextes d?occurrences des termes dans les
  textes : 
- lexicaux (lex?mes sp?cifiques issus du calcul de sp?cificit? de Lafon
  (1980) tel ceux impl?ment?s dans le logiciel TXM ou lexico3) 
- s?mantiques issus des d?finitions lexicographiques des lex?mes
  contenus dans les contextes d?occurrence des termes 
- des r?f?rentiels cat?goris?s s?mantiquement con?u par l?Inist
  (scenario 3 du projet TermITH) 	

Contexte scientifique 

TermITH s?int?resse ? l'indexation automatique de textes scientifiques
en SHS. Il proc?de ? la d?tection, la d?sambigu?sation et la
qualification de candidats termes en analysant leurs formes
linguistiques dans les textes. Nous nous situons dans une approche
allant du texte (r?alisations linguistiques de termes dans les textes)
aux termes (objet conceptuels) comme, parmi d?autres, (Daille 1994),
(Toussaint et al. 2001), (Bourigault et Slozdian 1999) et (Bourigault et
al. 2001). Les travaux men?s se situent dans le champ de l'extraction
terminologique ? partir de textes int?graux appartenant ? diff?rents
domaines des SHS : la m?thodologie est mise au point ? partir de textes
en sciences du langage , puis test?e sur des textes de sciences de
l?information et de la communication, d?arch?ologie, de psychologie et
de chimie verte. 

Acc?der aux r?alisations linguistiques des termes dans les textes
suppose de les reconna?tre comme telles. Parmi les travaux qui abordent
cette probl?matique, une premi?re partie s'appuie sur l'utilisation
d'extracteurs automatiques de candidats termes ensuite valid?s par des
experts des diff?rents domaines de sp?cialit?s : Acabit (Daille 1994 ;
2003), Yatea (Aubin et Hamon 2006), TermoStat (Drouin 2003) ou encore la
plate-forme TTC-TermSuite (Daille et al. , 2011). D'autres travaux
s'int?ressent ? la validation, ? l'extraction et aux relations qui
s??tablissent entre les termes contenus dans les textes en adoptant une
perspective distributionnelle pour identifier les r?alisations
linguistiques de termes. Les travaux de Daille (2003), Toussaint et
al. (1998), Namer et Zweigenbaum (2004) ou L'Homme (2004a) utilisent des
connaissances relevant de la morphologie d?rivationnelle ou
constructionnelle. Les travaux de Baneyx et al. (2005), Jacques et
Aussenac-Gilles (2006), Aussenac-Gilles et Condamines (2009), Kister et
Jacquey (2012), Manser (2012), Jacquey et al. (2013), P?rinet et Hamon
(2013) d?tectent et exploitent des patrons lexico-syntaxiques pour
l'identification des relations entre (r?alisations linguistiques de)
termes. Enfin, les travaux de Grabar et Zweigenbaum (2004), Claveau et
L'Homme (2005), Poibeau (2005) ou Condamines et P?ry-Woodley (2007)
reposent sur l'utilisation de structures s?mantiques, textuelles ou
discursives. 

Notre objectif est l?analyse des contextes d'occurrences des candidats
termes afin de s?lectionner automatiquement celles qui rel?vent d'un
usage terminologique et de rejeter les autres. Ainsi, nous proc?dons ?
un type particulier de d?sambigu?sation s?mantique que nous appelons
d?sambigu?sation terminologique . Comme l?a montr? L'Homme (2004b), m?me
si le terme, en tant qu'?tiquette de concept dans une terminologie
donn?e avec une application d?finie, n'est pas ambigu, ses r?alisations
linguistiques peuvent l'?tre. Ceci est particuli?rement valable lorsque
les termes sont des candidats termes extraits automatiquement par une
plate-forme d'extraction terminologique. Ce ph?nom?ne se manifeste aussi
lorsque les termes dont on observe les occurrences en texte int?gral
apparaissent dans des thesauri ou des r?f?rentiels terminologiques. Les
ambigu?t?s peuvent ?tre diverses : 

- ambigu?t? avec le lexique ou la phras?ologie transdisciplinaire :
  argument, corpus, d?finition, ?nonc?, exemple, objet, r?f?rence

[+termino] En chemin, nous avons soulign? la grande flexibilit? des SN
d?finis pluriel, qui en fait le lieu possible d'une n?gociation de la
r?f?rence et de la d?signation (Figures et r?f?rence plurielle en corpus
journalistique - Lecolle M. (2000). Cahiers de grammaire (25))

[-termino] Les auteurs font r?f?rence ? [...] (Validation d'une
m?thodologie pour l'?tude des marqueurs de la segmentation dans un grand
corpus de texte - Pi?rard S. et Begsten Y. (2007). TAL(47/2))

- ambigu?t? avec un autre domaine de sp?cialit? : patient

[+termino] [...] ou plus rarement, ? des r?les argumentaux (agent,
patient, objet,...) [...] (Les relations s?mantiques : du linguistique
au formel - Aussenac-Gilles N. et S?gu?la P. (2000). Cahiers de
grammaire (25))

[-termino] es patients c?r?brol?s?s [...] (Nouveaux habits de la
lexicographie sp?cialis?e : Int?gration de la m?taphorique dans le
dictionnaire du football - Leroyer P. et Moller B. (2004). EURALEX)

- ambigu?t? avec un emploi lexical ou phras?ologique de langue g?n?rale :
  argument, d?finition, ?nonc?, expression, objet

[+termino] [...] les expressions du type le jour suivant. (Validation
d'une m?thodologie pour l'?tude des marqueurs de la segmentation dans un
grand corpus de texte - Pi?rard S. et Begsten Y. (2007). TAL(47/2))

[-termino] L'expression de telle ou telle relation [...] (Variabilit?
des outils de TAL et genre textuel : cas des patrons lexico-syntaxiques
- Jacques M.-P. et Aussenac-Gilles N. (2006). TAL (47))

Comme le montrent ces quelques exemples de r?alisations linguistiques de
candidats termes, c'est le contexte au sens large qui nous permet de
s?lectionner les occurrences relevant d'un emploi terminologique. 

Un autre objectif de TermITH est de contribuer ? la mise ? jour des
ressources terminologiques disponibles dans les domaines concern?s par
le projet. Les sciences du langage constituent le domaine sur lequel la
m?thodologie de l?ensemble du projet est mise au point et c?est tout
naturellement sur ce domaine que porte le sujet du post-doctorat (voir
description de la mission). Les ressources terminologiques de r?f?rences
sont Thesaulangue et le vocabulaire de la linguistique de
l?Inist. L?optimisation et l?enrichissement des ressources b?n?ficieront
des r?sultats de deux des t?ches du projet TermITH : 
- la d?tection et la d?sambigu?sation des r?alisations linguistiques des
  termes dans les textes de sciences du langage 
- la mise en ?uvre de scenarii d?utilisation par l?Inist pour ?valuer la
  qualit? des termes extraits des textes en vue de l?alimentation et la
  mise ? jour des ressources terminologiques 


R?f?rences 
Aubin S. et Hamon T. (2006) Improving Term Extraction with
Terminological Resources. In Advances in Natural Language Processin, 5th
International Conference on NLP, FinTA . 

Aussenac-Gilles N., Condamines A. (2009). Marqueurs de relations, genre
textuel, structures syntaxiques. In Minel, J.-L. (Ed.), Filtrage
s?mantique , 115-149. Paris: Hermes/Lavoisier. 

Baneyx A., Malais? V., Charlet J., Zweigenbaum P. et Bachimont
B. (2005). Synergie entre analyse distributionnelle et patrons
lexico-syntaxiques pour la construction d'ontologies
diff?rentielles. Dans Actes de la conf?rence TIA ,
12p. http://estime.spim.jussieu.fr/~jc/Files/BaneyxTIA2005.pdf [page
consult?e le 3 mars 2014] 

Bourigault D., Jacquemin C. et L'Homme M.C. (2001). Recent Advances in
Computationnal Terminology . John Benjamins :Amsterdam. 

Bourigault D.et Slozdian M. (1999). Pour une terminologie
textuelle. Revue Terminologies Nouvelles 19 (Actes de la conf?rence TIA
), 29-32. http://www.rifal.org/cahiers/rint19/rint19.pdf [page consult?e
le 3 mars 2014] 

Claveau V. et L'Homme M.C. (2005). Apprentissage par analogie pour la
structuration de terminologies - utilisation compar?e de ressources
endog?nes et exog?nes. Dans Actes de la conf?rence TIA-2005 , 12
p. http://www.irisa.fr/texmex/people/claveau/publis/Claveau-LHomme-tia05.pdf
[page consult?e le 3 mars 2014] 

Condamines A et P?ry-Woodley M.P. (2007). Linguistic markers of semantic
and textual relations. In Alamargot, D., Terrier, P. & Cellier,
J.-M. (Eds.), Written documents in the workplace. Studies in Writing
. 3-16. Amsterdam: Elsevier. 

Daille B. (1994). Approche mixte pour l?extraction de terminologie :
statistique lexicale et filtres linguistiques, Th?se en informatique
fondamentale, Universit? Paris 7. 

Daille B. (2003). Conceptual structuring through term variations. In
Proceedings of the ACL2003 Workshop on Multiword Expressions : Analysis,
Acquisition and Treatment , Bond E., Kohonen A. Carthy D.M. et
Villalencio A. (eds), 9-16. 

Drouin P. (2003). Term extraction using technical corpora as a point of
leverage. In Terminology 9(1), 99-117. 

Grabar N et Zweigenbaum P. (2004). Lexically-based terminology
structuring. In Terminology , 10(1), 23-54. 

Jacques M-P.et Aussenac-Gilles N. (2006). Variabilit? des performances
des outils de TAL et genre textuel. Cas des patrons
lexico-syntaxiques. Dans : Traitement Automatique des Langues , 47(1),
11-32. 

http://www.atala.org/Variabilite-des-performances-des [page consult?e le
3 mars 2014] 

L'Homme M.C. (2004a). Adjectifs d?riv?s s?mantiques dans la
structuration de terminologies. Dans Actes de la conf?rende
Terminologie, ontologie et repr?sentation des connaissances , Universit?
Jean-Moulin Lyon-3, 22-23 janvier,
6p. http://olst.ling.umontreal.ca/pdf/lhomme-lyon2003.pdf [page
consult?e le 3 mars 2014] 

L?Homme M.C. (2004b). La terminologie : principes et techniques ,
Montr?al : Presses de l'Universit? de Montr?al. 

Manser M. (2012). ?tat de l?art sur l?acquisition de relations
s?mantiques entre termes : contextualisation des relations de
synonymie. Dans Actes de la conf?rence JEP-RECITA ,
163-175. http://aclweb.org/anthology//F/F12/F12-3013.pdf [page consult?e
le 3 mars 2014] 

Namer F. et Zweigenbaum P. (2004). Acquiring meaning for French medical
terminology: contribution of morphosemantics. In Marius Fieschi, Enrico
Coiera, and Yu-Chuan Jack Li, editors, Proceedings 10th World Congress
on Medical Informatics , volume 107 of Studies in Health Technology and
Informatics , 535-539, Amsterdam, IOS
Press. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15360870?dopt=Abstract [page
consult?e le 3 mars 2014] 

P?rinet A.et Hamon H. (2013). Hybrid acquisition of semantic relations
based on context normalization in distributional analysis. Dans Actes de
la conf?rence TIA ,
113-120. https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/tia2013/Proceedings/actesTIA2013.pdf
[page consult?e le 3 mars 2014] 

Poibeau T. (2005). Parcours interpr?tatifs et terminologie. Dans Actes
TIA, Rouen. 

Toussaint Y., Namer F., Daille B., Jacquemin C., Royaut? J.et Hathout
N. (1998). Une approche linguistique et statistique pour l'analyse de
l'information en corpus. Dans Actes de la conf?rence TALN , ATALA,
Paris, France. 

Profil recherch? 

- Terminologue 
- Linguiste : S?mantique lexicale, Lexicologie 

Conditions de recrutement en post-doctorat 
- ?tre titulaire d?une th?se depuis moins de 2 ans 
- ne pas avoir soutenu sa th?se dans le labo qui propose le
  post-doctorat 
	
Pour en savoir plus sur l?Atilf 

    * http://www.atilf.fr 

Pour en savoir plus sur TermiTH 

    * http://www.atilf.fr/ressources/termith/index.php 
    * http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/suivi-bilan/sciences-et-technologies-de-l-information-et-de-la-communication/contenus-numeriques-et-interactions/fiche-projet-contint/?tx_lwmsuivibilan_pi2[CODE]=ANR-12-CORD-0029 

Salaire mensuel 2 500 ? brut soit environ 2000 ? net 
Lieu de travail 
Atilf UMR 7118 CNRS/Universit? de Lorraine 
BP 30687 
44, avenue de la lib?ration 
54063 Nancy Cedex 


Candidature souhait?e pour le 10 mai 2014 

Adresser une lettre de motivation accompagn?e d?un CV d?taill? ?
Laurence Kister et Evelyne Jacquey 
laurence.kister at univ-lorraine.fr et evelyne.jacquey at atilf.fr 

Pour toute demande d?information compl?mentaire : mail ou t?l?phone 
Laurence Kister : 03 54 50 53 43 (lundi et vendredi) 
Evelyne Jacquey : 03 54 50 52 94 

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:42:05 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:42:05 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Final Call for Challenge, Deadline Extension,
 Semantic Publishing
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:01:37 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
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X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemPub
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemPub
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/index.php/SemPub/Task3


** apologies for cross-posting **

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

** Deadline Extension:
**     Friday 21 March 2014 - 23:59 Central European Time

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite Paris-Sorbonne, FR)
Challenge Chairs:
- Angelo Di Iorio (Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
  University of Bologna, IT)
- Christoph Lange (Enterprise Information Systems, University of Bonn /
  Fraunhofer IAIS, DE)


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

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

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

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

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


TARGET AUDIENCE

The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia.


TASKS

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


= Extraction Tasks =

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


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

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


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

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


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

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

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

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

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


EVALUATION

= Extraction Tasks 1 and 2 =

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

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


= In-use Task 3 =

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

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

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


FEEDBACK AND DISCUSSION

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


JUDGING AND PRIZES

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

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

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

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

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

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

 
HOW TO PARTICIPATE

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

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


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

All papers submissions should be provided via EasyChair:

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


MAILING LIST

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

* December 3, 2013: Publication of the full description of the
  extraction tasks 1 and 2, rules and queries; publication of the
  training/testing dataset 
* January 31, 2014, 23:59 CET: Deadline for making remarks to the task 1
  and 2 training/testing datasets
* February 5, 2014: Publication of the final task 1 and 2
  training/testing datasets
* EXTENDED to March 18, 2014, 23:59 CET: Abstract submission (task 3
  only)
* EXTENDED to March 18, 2014: Publication of the task 1 and 2 evaluation
  dataset
* EXTENDED to March 21, 2014, 23:59 CET: Submission due
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: Demo at ESWC-14, and winner selection


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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

We are inviting further members.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:19:14 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:19:14 +0100
Subject: Conf: LREC 2014, Deadline Extension for Early-Bird Registration,
 May 26-31 2014, Reykjavik, Iceland
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:25:13 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:25:13 +0100
Subject: Appel: workshops, PROPOR 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.222513.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:09:52 +0000
From: Vera Lucia Strube de Lima <vera.strube at pucrs.br>
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==============================
Second Call for Workshop Proposals (deadline extended)
===========================
P R O P O R 2014
October 6-8, 2014
Sao Carlos - SP, Brazil
http://nilc.icmc.usp.br/propor2014/

The PROPOR 2014 organizing committee invites proposals for the Workshops
to be held in conjunction with the main conference in S?o Carlos.

The PROPOR-2014 organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to
be held in conjunction with the conference. The overall purpose of a
workshop is to provide participants with the opportunity to present and
discuss novel research ideas on active and emerging topics of
computational processing of Portuguese.

Workshops can take on a number of forms including (but not limited to)
being organized around emerging research areas, challenge problems and
industrial applications. The organizers of approved workshops are
required to announce the workshop and call for papers, gather
submissions, conduct the reviewing process and decide upon the final
workshop program. They must also prepare a set of workshop proceedings
to be distributed with the registration materials at the conference or
in an electronic version. They may choose to form organizing or program
committees for assistance in these tasks.

Important Dates
April 7, 2014:  Workshop proposals due (extended)
April 14, 2014:  Notification of decision
May 14, 2014:  Workshop web pages available and linked to the main
               site. Workshop CFP published.
October 6-8, 2014: PROPOR 2014 Workshops (electronic proceedings due for
        online publication)

Proposal Details
Proposals should be submitted via e-mail to propor at propor.org. They
should be no more than three pages in length and must include the
following:
* Description of the workshop: title, abstract, objectives, goals,
  relevance, and expected outcome
* Motivation why a PROPOR workshop on this topic is needed
* Description of the target audience
* List of core committed program committee members (at least 2 to 3
  members)
* Preliminary list of invited speakers (if any)
* For workshops previously held at PROPOR or other conferences details
  on venue, attendance and number of submissions from previous years.
* For new workshops a list of potential attendees/submissions and/or a
  justification of the expected attendees and submissions.
* Relevant experience of the organizing committee
* Duration of the workshop (full day or half day)
* Contact information (address, email, and phone) for all organizers
* Designation of a contact person

The workshop organizers are responsible for:
* Creating and distributing a call-for-papers, call-for-participation
  and any other relevant advertising. The calls should make it clear
  that at least one author of any accepted paper must attend the event
  and that papers will be withdrawn if no such participation is secured
  with the payment of the workshop dues. The call should clearly
  describe the review and selection process. Finally, the calls must be
  framed to encourage as broad a participation as possible.
* Creating and publishing (in a timely manner) a web site with all the
  relevant information pertaining to the workshop.
* Provide an extended abstract for the conference program
* Review and select papers submitted
* Schedule the presentations within the workshop
* It should be noted that the conference organization does not budget
  for free registration, accommodation or travel expenses for the
  workshop organizers or their invited speakers. The workshop organizers
  should therefore secure any source of funding / sponsorship deemed
  necessary for their invited speakers.
* Prepare electronic proceedings volumes by mid-September 2014.

Questions
Please contact our Workshop Chair for questions (e-mail
propor at propor.org)
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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:39:05 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Final Call for Challenge [Deadline Extension],
 Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender Systems
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:53:47 +0100 (CET)
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** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Final Call for Challenge: Linked Open Data-enabled Recommender
Systems ====

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

** Deadline Extension:
**     Friday 21 March 2014 - 23:59 Central European Time

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite
  Paris-Sorbonne, FR)
Challenge Chairs:
- Tommaso Di Noia (Polytechnic University of Bari, IT)
- Ivan Cantador (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ES)


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

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

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

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

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


TARGET AUDIENCE

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

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


TASKS

* Task 1: Rating prediction in cold-start situations

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

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

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

Recommendation approaches will be evaluated on the evaluation set by
means of metrics that measure the differences between real and estimated
ratings, namely the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE).


* Task 2: Top-N recommendation from binary user feedback

This task deals with the top-N recommendation problem, in which a system
is requested to find and recommend a limited set of N items that best
match a user profile, instead of correctly predict the ratings for all
available items.

Similarly to Task 1, in order to favor the proposal of content-based,
LOD-enabled recommendation approaches, and limit the use of
collaborative filtering approaches, this task aims to generate ranked
lists of items for which no graded ratings are available, but only
binary ones. Also in this case, the DBbook dataset is used.

In this task, the accuracy of recommendation approaches will be
evaluated on an evaluation set using the F-measure.


*  Task 3: Diversity

A very interesting aspect of content-based recommender systems, and then
of LOD-enabled ones, is giving the possibility to evaluate the diversity
of recommended items in a straight way. This is a very popular topic in
content-based recommender systems, which usually suffer from
over-specialization.

In this task, the evaluation will be made by considering a combination
of both accuracy (F-measure) of the recommendation list and the
diversity (Intra-List Diversity) of items belonging to it. Also for this
task, the DBbook dataset is used.

Given the domain of books, diversity with respect to the two properties
http://dbpedia.org/ontology/author and http://purl.org/dc/terms/subject
will be considered.


DATASET

* DBbook dataset

This dataset relies on user data and preferences retrieved from the
Web. The books available in the dataset have been mapped to their
corresponding DBpedia URIs. The mapping contains 8170 DBpedia URIs.

These mappings can be used to extract semantic features from DBpedia or
other LOD repositories to be exploited by the recommendation approaches
proposed in the challenge.
The dataset is split in a training set and an evaluation set. In the
former, user ratings are provided to train a system while in the latter,
ratings have been removed, and they will be used in the eventual
evaluation step.

The mapping file is available at:
http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/2014challenge/DBbook_Items_DBpedia_mapping.tsv.zip 

It contains a tab-separated values file where each line has the
following format: DBbook_ItemID \t name \t DBpedia_URI.

We suggest to extract a semantic descriptions for all the items present
in this mapping file by starting from the DBpedia URIs.

The training sets are available at:


* Task 1: http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/2014challenge/DBbook_train_ratings.zip 

The archive contains a tab-separated values file containing the training
data and a README describing its content. Each line in the file is
composed by: userID \t itemID \t rating. The ratings are in scale
0-5. The training set contains 75559 ratings. There are 6181 users and
6166 items which have been rated by at least one user.


* Task 2 and Task 3:  http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/2014challenge/DBbook_train_binary.zip 

The archive contains a tab-separated values file containing the training
data and a README describing its content. Each line in the file is
composed by: userID \t itemID \t rating. The ratings are in binary
scale. 1 means that the item is relevant for the user, 0 means
irrelevant. The training set contains 72372 ratings. There are 6181
users and 6733 items which have been rated by at least one user.


ADDITIONAL DATASETS

Although not used in the challenge, two additional rating datasets
linked to DBpedia are provided, namely the well known MovieLens10M
dataset and the Last.fm dataset published at HetRec'11 workshop.

http://sisinflab.poliba.it/semanticweb/lod/recsys/datasets/ 

We encourage participants to use these datasets for testing the
developed recommendation approaches on several domains.


JUDGING AND PRIZES

After a first round of reviews, the Program Committee and the chairs
will select a number of submissions that will have to satisfy the
challenge requirements, and will have to be presented at the
conference. Submissions accepted for presentation will receive
constructive reviews from the Program Committee, and will be included in
post-proceedings. All accepted submissions will have a slot in a poster
session dedicated to the challenge. In addition, the winners will
present their work in a special slot of the main program of ESWC'14, and
will be invited to submit a paper to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal
special issue.

For each task we will select:
* the best performing tool, given to the paper which will get the
  highest score in the evaluation
* the most original approach, selected by the Challenge Program
  Committee with the reviewing process

An amount of 700 Euro has already been secured for the final prize. We
are currently working on securing further funding.

Winners will be selected only for tasks with at least 3 participants. In
any case, all submissions will be reviewed and, if accepted, published
at ESWC post-proceedings.


HOW TO PARTICIPATE

1.  Make your result submission
* Register your group using the registration web form available at:
  http://193.204.59.20:8181/eswc2014lodrecsys/signup.html
* Choose one or more tasks among Task 1, Task 2 and Task 3
* Build your recommender system using the provided training data.
* Evaluate your approach by submitting your results using the evaluation
  service.
* Your final score will be the one computed with respect to the last
  result submission made before March 7, 2014, 23:59 CET.

2. Submit your paper
The following information has to be provided:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should contain the details of the system, including
  why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features
  or functions the system provides, what design choices were made, and
  what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how
  participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be
  submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture
  Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
  (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not
  exceeding 5 pages in length.

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair: 

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges 


MAILING LIST

We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in
order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the
challenge.

https://lists.sti2.org/mailman/listinfo/eswc2014-recsys-challenge 


IMPORTANT DATES

* EXTENDED to March 14, 2014, 23:59 CET: Result submission due
* EXTENDED to March 21, 2014, 23:59 CET: Paper submission due
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: The Challenge takes place at ESWC'14


EVALUATION COORDINATOR

* Vito Claudio Ostuni (Polytechnic University of Bari, IT)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed)

* Pablo Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
* Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
* Marco de Gemmis, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
* Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany
* Andreas Hotho, Universitat Wurzburg, Germany
* Dietmar Jannach, TU Dortmund University, Germany
* Pasquale Lops, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
* Valentina Maccatrozzo, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* Roberto Mirizzi, Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy
* Alexandre Passant, seevl.fm, Ireland
* Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
* Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
* David Vallet, NICTA, Australia
* Manolis Wallace, University of Peloponnese, Greece
* Markus Zanker, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria
* Tao Ye, Pandora Internet Radio, USA


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:20:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:20:55 +0100
Subject: Journee: Journee Commune TAL & IA, 25 mars 2014, INALCO Paris
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.222055.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:21:36 +0100
From: Secretaire AFIA <secretaire at afia.asso.fr>
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------ Merci de diffuser cette annonce aupr?s de vos coll?gues et
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L'Association Fran?aise d?Intelligence Artificielle (AFIA) organise avec
l'Association pour le traitement automatique des langues (ATALA) une 2e
journ?e Commune TAL&IA (Traitement Automatique des Langues et
Intelligence Artificielle).

Le traitement automatique des langues (TAL), visant ? r?aliser des
t?ches relevant de la cognition humaine, a de longue date des liens avec
l'intelligence artificielle (IA). L'objectif de cette journ?e est de
renforcer les liens qui existent entre ces deux domaines, avec un accent
sur deux th?matiques particuli?rement actives :
- D'une part, l'apprentissage automatique a pris une large part dans les
  travaux en TAL, comme en t?moignent les articles publi?s dans les
  grandes conf?rences du domaine ou des ouvrages de synth?se comme le
  livre de Gaussier et Yvon (2011, 2012). Il s'agit surtout
  d'apprentissage supervis?, avec un regain d'int?r?t pour
  l'apprentissage non supervis? et l'exploitation de grands corpus non
  annot?s.
- D'autre part, la fouille de donn?es est souvent employ?e pour explorer
  les corpus et acqu?rir des connaissances linguistiques et autres
  ressources pour le TAL ; elle est par ailleurs utilisatrice de TAL
  dans le cadre de la fouille de textes ? vis?e applicative.

L'une comme l'autre peuvent aider ? relever le d?fi des donn?es
textuelles massives qui forment une part importante des ? big data ? et,
de fa?on tout aussi pertinente, ? mettre au point des m?thodes qui font
avancer le domaine.

Cette journ?e regroupe des interventions qui pr?sentent un ?tat de l'art
ou un tutoriel sur les th?matiques de l'apprentissage et de la fouille
de donn?es en relation avec le traitement automatique des langues. Le
public vis? inclut les ?tudiants, chercheurs et ing?nieurs qui
s'int?ressent ? ces th?matiques et aimeraient s'y initier ou en acqu?rir
une meilleure connaissance.

Date : 25 mars 2014
Lieu : Auditorium de l'INALCO, Paris 13e
Programme et d?tails: 
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Inscription ? la journ?e
La journ?e est soutenue par l'AFIA et l'ATALA, la participation ? la
journ?e est libre et gratuite.
Pour des raisons de logistique, nous vous demandons n?anmoins de vous
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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:10:49 +0100
Subject: Appel: TSD 2014
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:51:26 +0100
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      *********************************************************
		   TSD 2014 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
      *********************************************************

   Seventeenth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE
                               (TSD 2014)
               Brno, Czech Republic, 8-12 September 2014
                     http://www.tsdconference.org/

THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE:

    March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers

The submission will be closed during the next working day after the
deadline - for individual extension requirements please contact the
organizers (tsd2014 at tsdconference.org).

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

    Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA
    Bernardo Magnini, FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
    Salim Roukos, IBM, USA


The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk
University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of
West Bohemia, Pilsen.  The conference is supported by International
Speech Communication Association.

Venue: Brno, Czech Republic


TSD SERIES

TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers
in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world.
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series.  TSD Proceedings
are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation
Index.  Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases
such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.


TOPICS

Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):

    Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual,
    text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation,
    specialized lexicons, dictionaries)

    Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional
    speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words,
    alternative way of feature extraction, new models for
    acoustic and language modelling)

    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech
    (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and
    disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis,
    credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization,
    authorship attribution)

    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high
    fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)

    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information
    extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web,
    knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense
    disambiguation, plagiarism detection)

    Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing
    (machine translation, natural language understanding,
    question-answering strategies, assistive technologies)

    Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
    question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
    dialogues)

    Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial
    animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions
    and personality modelling)

Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly
encouraged.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

    Hynek Hermansky, USA (general chair)
    Eneko Agirre, Spain
    Genevieve Baudoin, France
    Paul Cook, Australia
    Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic
    Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia
    Karina Evgrafova, Russia
    Darja Fiser, Slovenia
    Radovan Garabik, Slovakia
    Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico
    Louise Guthrie, GB
    Jan Hajic, Czech Republic
    Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic
    Yannis Haralambous, France
    Ludwig Hitzenberger, Germany
    Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic
    Ales Horak, Czech Republic
    Eduard Hovy, USA
    Maria Khokhlova, Russia
    Daniil Kocharov, Russia
    Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic
    Valia Kordoni, Germany
    Steven Krauwer, The Netherlands
    Siegfried Kunzmann, Germany
    Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia
    Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic
    Diana McCarthy, United Kingdom
    France Mihelic, Slovenia
    Hermann Ney, Germany
    Elmar Noeth, Germany
    Karel Oliva, Czech Republic
    Karel Pala, Czech Republic
    Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia
    Fabio Pianesi, Italy
    Maciej Piasecki, Poland
    Adam Przepiorkowski, Poland
    Josef Psutka, Czech Republic
    James Pustejovsky, USA
    German Rigau, Spain
    Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands
    Anna Rumshisky, USA
    Milan Rusko, Slovakia
    Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine
    Pavel Skrelin, Russia
    Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic
    Petr Sojka, Czech Republic
    Stefan Steidl, Germany
    Georg Stemmer, Germany
    Marko Tadic, Croatia
    Tamas Varadi, Hungary
    Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland
    Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands
    Yorick Wilks, GB
    Marcin Wolinski, Poland
    Victor Zakharov, Russia


FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral
presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be
presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for
additional informal interactions.


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be
presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the
presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the
reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the
on-line form accessible from the conference website.

Papers submitted to TSD 2014 must not be under review by any other
conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be
previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors'
names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the
author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...",
should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously
showed (Smith, 1991) ...".  Papers that do not conform to the
requirements above are subject to be rejected without review.

The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or
LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the
papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes.  Authors
using a WORD compatible software for the final version must use the LNCS
template for WORD and within the submit process ask the Proceedings
Editors to convert the paper to LaTeX format.  For this service a
service-and-license fee of CZK 2000 will be levied automatically.

The paper format for review has to be either PDF or PostScript file with
all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters
will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and
electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format
see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings, Sample
File typeinst.zip).

Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software
or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference.  The
presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding
one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference
proceedings.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 22 2014 ............ Submission of full papers
May 15 2014 .............. Notification of acceptance
May 31 2014 .............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
August 3 2014 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts
August 10 2014 ........... Notification of acceptance for
                           demonstrations sent to the authors
September 8-12 2014 ...... Conference date

Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review
process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is
necessary.

The accepted conference contributions will be published in proceedings
that will be made available to participants at the time of the
conference.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the conference is English.


ACCOMMODATION

The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the
4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the
accommodation will be available at the conference website.


ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be
addressed to
    
    Ales Horak, TSD 2014
    Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University
    Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
    phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63
    fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20
    email: tsd2014 at tsdconference.org

The official TSD 2014 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/


LOCATION

Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population
of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair
center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the
south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of
cultural, natural, and technical sights.  South Moravia is a traditional
wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six
universities it forms a cultural center of the region.

Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, Moscow, and
Eindhoven, and by trains or buses from Prague (200 km) or Vienna (130
km).

For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may
also be of interest.  Local ones include: Brno Castle now called
Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the
Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian
Margraves, Church of St.  James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul,
Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat
designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important
buildings of between-war Czech architecture.

For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha
Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors
(Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz),
Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle,
Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one
of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the
UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:44:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:44:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Final Call for Challenge,
 Deadline Extension: Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.214455.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:09:49 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20140314171009.40A47159564 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemSA
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemSA
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org


Message-Id: <20140314171009.40A47159564 at vina.cines.fr>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:09:49 +0100 (CET)

** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Final Call for Challenge: Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis ====
Challenge Website: http://challenges.2014.eswc-conferences.org/SemSA
Call Web page: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-SemSA

** Deadline Extension:
**     Friday 21 March 2014 - 23:59 Central European Time

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Challenge Coordinator: Milan Stankovic (Sepage & Universite
   Paris-Sorbonne, FR)
Challenge Chairs:
- Erik Cambria (National University of Singapore, SG)
- Diego Reforgiato (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)


MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES

Mining opinions and sentiments from natural language is an extremely
difficult task as it involves a deep understanding of most of the
explicit and implicit, regular and irregular, syntactical and semantic
rules proper of a language. Existing approaches mainly rely on parts of
text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed such as
polarity terms, affect words and their co-occurrence
frequencies. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed
implicitly through latent semantics, which make purely syntactical
approaches ineffective. To this end, concept-level sentiment analysis
aims to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of text and provide novel
approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis that allow a more
efficient passage from (unstructured) textual information to
(structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain.

Concept-level sentiment analysis focuses on a semantic analysis of text
through the use of web ontologies or semantic networks, which allow the
aggregation of conceptual and affective information associated with
natural language opinions. By relying on large semantic knowledge bases,
concept-level sentiment analysis steps away from blind use of keywords
and word co-occurrence count, but rather relies on the implicit features
associated with natural language concepts.

This Challenge focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion
of novel approaches to concept-level sentiment analysis. Participants
will have to design a concept-level opinion-mining engine that exploits
common-sense knowledge bases, e.g., SenticNet, and/or Linked Data and
Semantic Web ontologies, e.g., DBPedia, to perform multi-domain
sentiment analysis. The main motivation for the Challenge, in
particular, is to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of natural
language text and provide novel concept-level tools and techniques that
allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) natural language to
(structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain.

Systems must have a semantics flavor (e.g., by making use of Linked Data
or known semantic networks within their core functionalities) and
authors need to show how the introduction of semantics can be used to
obtain valuable information, functionality or performance. Existing
natural language processing methods or statistical approaches can be
used too as long as the semantics plays a main role within the core
approach (engines based merely on syntax/word-count will be excluded
from the competition).


TARGET AUDIENCE

The Challenge is open to everyone from industry and academia.


TASKS

The Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge is defined in terms of
different tasks. The first task is elementary whereas the others are
more advanced. The input units of each task are sentences. Sentences are
assumed to be in grammatically correct American English and have to be
processed according to the input format specified at
http://sentic.net/challenge/sentence.

* Elementary Task: Polarity Detection The main goal of the task is
  polarity detection. The proposed systems will be assessed according to
  precision, recall and F-measure of detected binary polarity values
  (1=positive; 0=negative) for each input sentence of the evaluation
  dataset, following the same format as in
  http://sentic.net/challenge/task0. The problem of subjectivity
  detection is not addressed within this Challenge, hence participants
  can assume that there will be no neutral sentences. Participants are
  encouraged to use the Sentic API or further develop and apply sentic
  computing tools.

* Advanced Task #1: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis The output of this
  task will be a set of aspects of the reviewed product and a binary
  polarity value associated to each of such aspects, in the format
  specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task1. So, for example, while
  for the Elementary task an overall polarity (positive or negative) is
  expected for a review about a mobile phone, this task requires a set
  of aspects (such as 'speaker', 'touchscreen', 'camera', etc.) and a
  polarity value (positive OR negative) associated with each of such
  aspects. Systems will be assessed according to both aspect extraction
  and aspect polarity detection.

* Advanced Task #2: Semantic Parsing As suggested by the title, the
  Challenge focuses on sentiment analysis at concept-level. This means
  that the proposed systems are not supposed to work at word/syntax
  level but rather work with concepts/semantics. Hence, this task will
  evaluate the capability of the proposed systems to deconstruct natural
  language text into concepts, following the same format as in
  http://sentic.net/challenge/task2. SenticNet will be taken as a
  reference to test the efficiency of the proposed parsers, but
  extracted concepts won't necessary have to match SenticNet
  concepts. The proposed systems, for example, are supposed to be able
  to extract a multi-word expression like 'buy christmas present' from
  sentences such as 'Today I bought a lot of very nice Christmas
  presents'. The number of extracted concepts per sentence will be
  assessed through precision, recall and F-measure against the
  evaluation dataset.

* Advanced Task #3: Topic Spotting Input sentences will be about four
  different domains, namely: books, DVDs, electronics, and kitchen
  appliances. This task focuses on the automatic classification of
  sentences into one of such domains, in the format specified at
  http://sentic.net/challenge/task3. All sentences are assumed to belong
  to only one of the above-mentioned domains. The proposed systems are
  supposed to exploit the extracted concepts to infer which domain each
  sentence belongs to. Classification accuracy will be evaluated in
  terms of precision, recall and F-measure against the evaluation
  dataset.


EVALUATION DATASET

Systems will be evaluated against a testing dataset which will be
revealed and released after the first-round of evaluation during the
Conference. The dataset will be made public on the challenge
website. Participants are suggested to train and/or test their own
systems using the Blitzer Dataset. The testing dataset will be
constructed in the same way and from the same sources as the Blitzer
dataset.


EVALUATION

The evaluation will be performed by the members of the Program
Committee. For systems that can be tuned with different parameters,
please indicate a range of up to 4 sets of settings. Settings with the
best F-measures will be considered for judgment. For each system,
reviewers will give a numerical score within the range [1-10] and
details motivating their choice. The scores will be given to the
following aspects:
1. Use of common-sense knowledge and semantics;
2. Precision, recall, and F-measure wrt the selected task;
3. Computational time;
4. Innovative nature of the approach.


JUDGING AND PRIZES

After a first round of review, the Program Committee and the chairs will
select a number of submissions confirming to the challenge requirements
that will be invited to present their work. Submissions accepted for
presentation will be included in post-proceedings and will receive
constructive reviews from the Program Committee. All accepted
submissions will have a slot in a poster session dedicated to the
challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special
slot of the main program of ESWC and will be invited to submit a paper
to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal special issue.

For the Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge there will be two
awards for each task:
* Quantitative: the system with the highest average score in items 1-3
  above;
* Innovative: the system with the highest score in item 4 above.

There will be a board of judges at the conference who will evaluate
again the systems in more detail. The judges will then meet in private
to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. It may happen that
the same system runs for both the awards. Winners will be selected only
for tasks with at least 3 participants. In any case all submissions will
be reviewed and, if accepted, published in ESWC post-proceedings. An
amount of 700 euros has already been secured for the first task for what
the first point of the evaluation aspects is concerned. We are currently
working on securing further funding.


HOW TO PARTICIPATE

The following information has to be provided:
* Abstract: no more than 200 words.
* Description: It should contain the details of the system, including
  why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features
  or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and
  what lessons were learned. The description should also summarize how
  participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be
  submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer's Lecture
  Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series
  (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors), and not
  exceeding 5 pages in length.
* Web Access: The application can either be accessible via the web or
  downloadable. If the application is not publicly accessible, password
  must be provided. A short set of instructions on how to use the
  application should be provided as well.

All submissions should be provided via EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014-challenges


MAILING LIST

We invite the potential participants to subscribe to our mailing list in
order to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the
challenge.

https://lists.sti2.org/mailman/listinfo/eswc2014-semsa-challenge


IMPORTANT DATES

* EXTENDED to March 21, 2014, 23:59 CET: Submission due
* April 9, 2014, 23:59 CET: Notification of acceptance
* May 27-29, 2014: The Challenge takes place at ESWC-14


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA)
* Cheng Xiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
* Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas (USA)
* Ping Chen, University of Houston-Downtown (USA)
* Yongzheng Zhang, LinkedIn Inc. (USA)
* Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, Amazon Inc. (USA)
* Rui Xia, Nanjing University of Science and Technology (China)
* Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University (Japan)
* Amir Hussain, University of Stirling (UK)
* Alexander Gelbukh, National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico)
* Bjoern Schuller, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
* Amitava Das, Samsung Research India (India)
* Dipankar Das, National Institute of Technology (India)
* Carlo Strapparava, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy)
* Stefano Squartini, Marche Polytechnic University (Italy)
* Cristina Bosco, University of Torino (Italy)
* Paolo Rosso, Technical University of Valencia (Spain)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:48:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:48:06 +0100
Subject: Job: Open Position for Graduate Fellowship in Semantic Web
 Technologies, CNR-STLAB
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.214806.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:51:30 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20140317095150.D4ACC15955F at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://bit.ly/1grbiBH


Message-Id: <20140317095150.D4ACC15955F at vina.cines.fr>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:51:30 +0100 (CET)

TITLE: Open Position for Graduate Fellowship in Semantic Web
Technologies at CNR-STLAB

Important notice: send by March 30th to stlab-recruitment at cnr.it your
CV, a motivational statement, and the contact of at least one referee
(or a recommendation letter). 

The official procedure for being admitted to the selection is described
on the official application post (see below) and the deadline is April
9th.

Topic: Theories and methods for knowledge extraction and representation
  at a web scale and their application to cultural heritage and
  eGovernment.
Type of Grant: Graduate Fellowship
Employer: Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies of CNR
Salary: EUR 19.367,00 (nineteen-thousand-three-hundred-sixtyseven/00)
  net of expenses in charge of CNR.
Starting from: April 2014
Duration: 12 months
Location: Rome, Italy
Official application deadline: 27 February, 2014
Link to the official application post: http://bit.ly/1grbiBH
Contact person (administrative issues): stefania.capotosti at istc.cnr.it
Scientific responsible: Dr. Valentina Presutti 

Type of Grant: Graduate Fellowship

There will be a public selection procedure, based on qualifications and
an interview, for the assignment of n. 1 (one) - Graduate Fellowship in
order to conduct research related to the Scientific Area Information
Sciences AND Computer Sciences at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences
and Technologies, CNR, in the scope of the projects: eGovernment,
Digital Libraries and Hermes, under the scientific responsibility of
Dr. Valentina Presutti.

To the selection may apply individuals who, whatever their nationality
or age, are in possession of the following requirements at the date of
expiry of the deadline for submission of applications:
a) Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Literature and
   Philosophy in accordance with the legislation in force before DM
   509/99 or Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Linguistics or
   Science of Language (or equivalent) in accordance with the
   regulations referred to in DM 509/99 or Master's Degree in Computer
   Science, Engineering Linguistics or Science of Language (or
   equivalent) in accordance with the regulations referred to in DM
   270/04, with professional resume suitable for the conduct of research
   according to the specifications given in the following points (the
   candidate is in charge, penalty of exclusion, of demonstrating
   equiparation of graduation diplomas);
b) All qualifications obtained abroad (bachelor's degree, doctorate, and
   any other qualification) shall be previously recognized in Italy in
   accordance with current legislation (information on the website of
   the Ministry of University and Scientific Research: www.miur.it). The
   equivalence of those diplomas obtained abroad who have not already
   been recognized in Italy with the expected formal procedure above,
   will be evaluated, with the only purpose of the present selection, by
   the Examining Committee constituted according to art. 6, paragraph 1
   of the Regulations;
c) Documented experience of research, development and application of
   semantic technologies. In particular, it is required expertise in at
   least one of the following areas: ontology design and open data,
   knowledge representation, and natural language processing;
d) Excellent knowledge of OWL, RDF, and SPARQL;
e) Knowledge of mobile application development platforms;
f) Knowledge and documented experience of Java development; preference
   will be given to candidates that know also other programming
   languages;
g) English proficiency.

THE ENGLISH CALL ON THE WEB-SITE DOES NOT HAVE LEGAL VALUE IN ITSELF,
AND THUS DOES NOT SUPERSEDE THE ITALIAN VERSION OF THE CALL ANNOUNCEMENT
(BANDO).


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:34:16 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:34:16 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Final Call for Demos,
 Deadline Extension 23 March 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.213416.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:15:59 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20140314161619.DC80177C59 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-demos
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org


** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Final Call for Demos ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/important-dates/call-demos

** Deadline Extension:
**     Sunday 23 March 2014 - 23:59 Hawaii Time

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Poster and Demo Chairs:
- Raphael Troncy (Multimedia Department, EURECOM, FR)
- Eva Blomqvist (Department of Computer and Information Science,
  Linkoping University, SE)

The demonstrations track of the ESWC 2014 complements the overall
program of the conference with demonstrations of real-world,
applied-and-tested advances of semantic technologies. In addition to
papers and posters presenting latest theoretical achievements, the ESWC
2014 is seeking demonstrations of novel applications of semantics in
various sectors, including: eGovernment, eEnvironment, eMobility and
smart cities, eHealth, Life Sciences, Sensor networks and RDF Stream
Processing, Linked Science, Media and entertainment, Telecommunications,
Cultural heritage, Financial services, Energy and utilities,
Manufacturing, Digital libraries, Cloud applications, Personal
Information Management, Decision support, Emergency and crisis
management etc.

The demonstrations track is an opportunity for researchers and
practitioners to present their innovative prototypes, practical
developments, on-going projects, lessons learned and late-breaking
results, relevant for the topics of interest of the main conference and
the research and poster tracks.

Submissions to the demonstrations track should make clear what will be
demonstrated, and in particular point out what makes the demonstration a
novel showcase. A video of the demo should be provided if a link to the
demonstrator is not available. Submission should also specify:

* What is the research background and application context of the
  demonstration, and what makes this a novel showcase for semantic
  technologies.
* What is the key technology used, and how does the demonstrated system,
  application or infrastructure relate to pre-existing work.
* What exactly will be demonstrated? What exactly will a visitor of the
  demonstration learn?

* Submission Guidelines *

Submissions to the demonstrations track must be in the form of a textual
description of the demonstration to be given at the conference (which
may include screenshots and must include either a link to the online
demo or a video presenting it). The submissions must be at most 5 pages
long including reference list (Springer LNCS style) and submitted as
PDF. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to the
Semantic Web area, originality, potential significance, topicality and
clarity. Papers that exceed the given page length or do not follow the
LNCS guidelines will be rejected without a review.

Submissions should be uploaded using the Easychair system:
	https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014pd

* Important Dates *

Submission Deadline: March 23, 2014 (23:59 Hawaii Time)
Notification of Acceptance: April 10, 2014
Camera-Ready Paper: April 25, 2014

* Important Notice *

Demonstrator papers will appear in supplementary post-conference
proceedings to be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series.

Participants with an accepted demo paper must register for the
conference and present their system during the Demo Session. A space for
demonstration will be allocated for each participant. Participants
should use their own laptop for the demos. The organizers should be
contacted well in advance of the conference in case of any special
requirement.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:57:02 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:57:02 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: LDI, Programme Mars 2014, Universite Paris 13
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.215702.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:37:18 +0100
From: BUVET Pierre_Andr?
Message-ID: <5323222E.1010808 at ldi.univ-paris13.fr>


les s?minaires du LDI ont lieu le lundi de 10h ? 12h dans la salle de
r?union du laboratoire (au bout du couloir E niveau 0 de l'ufr LSHS de
l'Universit? Paris 13 PSC)

programme pour les 3 semaines ? venir :

Iris Eshkol (Universit? d'Orl?ans)  17 mars 2014  Titre :  " Annotation 
des corpus "non standards"
Fabrice Issac (Universit? Paris 13 PSC) 24 mars 2014 Titre : "La 
linguiste outill?e"
Jan Goes (Universit? d'Artois)   31 mars 2014 Titre : " Linguistique et 
didactique "

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 20:52:52 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:52:52 +0100
Subject: Appel: COLING 2014 Update, Invited Speakers, Social Programme,
 Call for Papers and More
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:11:28 +0000
From: John Judge <jjudge at computing.dcu.ie>
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********** Apologies for cross-posting **********

COLING 2014
http://www.coling-2014.org

Dublin, Ireland, 23-29 August, 2014

With St Patrick?s Day upon us many great landmarks around the world are
turning green to honour the Patron Saint of Ireland and to shine a
spotlight on the Emerald Isle. We?re very proud to host COLING here in
Ireland this year so to mark the occasion we?re happy to share with you
some highlights of this year?s event.

Invited speakers

The Programme Committee and Scientific Advisory Board have been working
hard to ensure a varied and interesting range of invited talks for this
year?s event. This work has proven quite fruitful and we?re pleased to
announce Martin Kay (Stanford University), Qun Liu (CNGL) and Ted Gibson
(MIT) as invited speakers for this year?s conference. The invited
speaker programme is not complete yet, so be sure to keep an eye out for
future announcements

Social Programme Announced
In addition to the scientific programme, we have put a lot of effort
into arranging a wide and varied social programme for our delegates. The
Gala Dinner will take place on Tuesday August 26th in the Guinness
Storehouse at the world famous St. James? Gate Guinness Brewery. This is
the most visited tourist attraction in Ireland, and offers our delegates
an opportunity to visit this truly unique site which is internationally
renowned and to enjoy some Irish hospitality. For more information see
http://www.coling-2014.org/banquet.php .

An excursion day on the Wednesday of the conference is something of a 
COLING tradition and this year is no exception. With so many sights and 
attractions to see in Dublin and the surrounding areas deciding on a 
single trip was impossible. So for this year?s excursion day we?ve been 
creative. Delegates have a choice of 4 different destinations catering 
for lovers of history, culture, scenery and the city. Then all the 
excursions converge in the historical Dining Hall of Trinity College 
(which was founded by Queen Elizabeth I) in the heart of the city centre 
for lunch. After lunch delegates have time to explore the streets of 
Dublin; Grafton Street, Dublin?s main shopping area is right beside 
Trinity College and other popular attractions close by are Dublin 
Castle, the National Gallery, the Natural History Museum & Temple Bar. 
For more information see http://www.coling-2014.org/excursion.php .

Registration Opening Next Week
COLING registration will be opening next week. Be sure to register early 
to avail of our Early Bird rates. Registration for the main conference 
as well as all Workshops and Tutorials will be done through a single 
site. For more information see 
http://www.coling-2014.org/registration.php and follow @Coling2014 on 
Twitter for updates.

Call for Papers:

The first call for papers for the main conference is open for another 
week. The deadline for paper submission is Friday March 21st at 23.59 
UTC -12. This is a hard deadline, no extension will be offered. Papers 
should be prepared using the paper templates available here 
http://www.coling-2014.org/doc/coling2014.zip. For more information and 
instructions for authors see the call for papers here 
http://www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php.

Sponsorship and Promotion Opportunities

With the tremendous impact and growth of COLING over many years, we have 
set out a comprehensive offering of corporate sponsorship and support 
opportunities for industry participants. The COLING 2014 organising 
committee is committed to working in close partnership with corporate 
supporters to maximise the benefits of sponsorship and provide 
opportunities for sponsors to engage appropriately with COLING 
delegates. With this in mind, if you wish to explore additional options 
for support or means of engagement with the COLING 2014 community please 
feel free to contact sponsorship at coling-2014.org.


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:28:38 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:28:38 +0100
Subject: Job: Offre de stage Developpeur Web
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.222838.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:59:58 +0100
From: Ammar Mahdhaoui <ammar.mahdhaoui at techlimed.com>
Message-ID: <53287B8E.3010600 at techlimed.com>


*Bonjour,*

*Organisation :* ce stage est organis? par l'Universit?/?cole
d'ing?nieur en collaboration avec TECHLIMED R&D. L'?tudiant sera
accompagn? par l'?quipe de TECHLIMED R&D et ses experts en traitement
d'informations. En collaboration ?troite avec un d?veloppeur senior,
vous serez en charge de la maintenance et du co-d?veloppement des
diff?rentes applications composant la future plate-forme (en particulier
un portail web).

Techlimed**est un ?diteur de logiciel NLP (linguistique et informatique)
sp?cialis? dans le traitement automatique de la langue arabe. Prim?e
notamment par Os?o / Minist?re de la Recherche, pour le caract?re
innovant de sa technologie, Techlimed est une startup d?veloppant des
solutions orient?es recherche et veille d'information. Notre soci?t? a
une activit? internationale, avec des partenaires et clients en Europe,
au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient.

*Contexte :***De nombreuses applications de TAL n?cessitent de grandes
quantit?s de donn?es annot?es manuellement. La production de ces donn?es
est co?teuse. D'autre part, la nature et la qualit? des annotations ?
produire d?pendent tr?s largement des besoins en terme d'exploitations
futures du corpus. Pour faciliter la production de tels corpus,
plusieurs outils r?cents ont ?t? d?velopp?s parmi lesquels on peut citer
: l'application Web 2.0 System EasyRef d?velopp? pour annoter des corpus
syntaxiques et ACOLAD, plateforme open-source d?velopp? pour l'?dition
collaborative de corpus de d?pendances. Ces outils tentent de r?soudre
de nombreux probl?mes li?s ? la cr?ation et l'annotation de corpus, en
particulier l'aspect collaboratif.

*Missions* :

Aux cot?s du Chef de projet et de son ?quipe, vous serez en charge de la 
conception et la r?alisation d'une plateforme collaborative d'annotation 
et d'analyse syntaxique. Vous participez ?galement au d?veloppement 
d'applications et sites web :

  * Conception technique

  * D?veloppement

*Profil* :

  * Minimum Bac+3

  * Vous ?tes autonome

  * Vous aimez travailler en ?quipe

  * Vous vous adaptez rapidement ? de nouveaux langages et technologies

  * Vous ?tes curieux et portez un int?r?t aux derni?res tendances du
    m?tier

*Comp?tences demand?es :*

  * Ma?trise du langage PHP

  * Connaissance de HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JavaScript, AJAX

  * Connaissance de SQL sur les bases de donn?es MySQL

  * Connaissance du CMF Drupal serait un plus



/*Contact : jobs at techlimed.com*/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:14:11 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:14:11 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESSLLI 2014 Student Session
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:23:57 +0100
From: Ronald de Haan <dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at>
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Please forward to students. Apologies for the multiple messages.

*Final Call for Papers*
*ESSLLI 2014 STUDENT SESSION*

Held during the 26th European Summer School in Logic, Language and
Information

T?bingen, Germany, August 11-22, 2014

*Deadline for submissions: April 1st, 2014*
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essllistus2014


*ABOUT:*
The Student Session of the 26th European Summer School in Logic,
Language, and Information (ESSLLI) will take place in T?bingen, Germany
on August 11-22, 2014. We invite submissions of original, unpublished
work from students in any area at the intersection of Logic & Language,
Language & Computation, or Logic & Computation. Submissions will be
reviewed by several experts in the field, and accepted papers will be
presented orally or as posters and will appear in the student session
proceedings by Springer. This is an excellent opportunity to receive
valuable feedback from expert readers and to present your work to a
diverse audience.


*SEPARATE POSTER SESSION:*
Note that there are two separate kinds of submissions, one for the oral
presentations and one for the posters. This means that papers can be
directly submitted as posters. Reviewing and ranking will be done
separately. We particularly encourage submissions for posters, as they
offer an excellent opportunity to present research in progress.


*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:*
All authors must be students, and submissions may be singly or jointly
authored. Submissions should not be longer than 8 pages for an oral
presentation and 4 pages for a poster presentation (including examples
and references). Submissions must be anonymous, without any identifying
information. More detailed guidelines regarding submission can be found
on the Student Session website:
http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/drm/dehaan/stus2014/ .


*FURTHER INFORMATION:*
Please direct inquiries about submission procedures or other matters
relating to the Student Session to dehaan at kr.tuwien.ac.at.

ESSLLI 2014 will feature a wide range of foundational and advanced
courses and workshops in all areas of Logic, Language, and
Computation. For further information, including registration information
and course listings, and for general inquiries about ESSLLI 2014, please
consult the main ESSLLI 2014 page: http://www.esslli2014.info/.


Kind regards,

The ESSLLI 2014 Student Session Organization Committee


Chair:
- Ronald de Haan (Technische Universit?t Wien)

LoCo (Logic and Computation) co-chairs:
- Zo? Christoff (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- Ayb?ke ?zg?n (Universit? de Lorraine)

LoLa (Logic and Language) co-chairs:
- Philip Schulz (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
- Thomas Brochhagen (Universit?t D?sseldorf)

LaCo (Language and Computation) co-chairs:
- Miriam Kaeshammer (Universit?t D?sseldorf)
- Ramon Ziai (Universit?t T?bingen)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:31:28 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:31:28 +0100
Subject: Job: Poste de MC en Traitement Automatique des Langues
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.223128.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:25:55 +0100 (CET)
From: sylviane cardey <sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr>
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Un poste de Ma?tre de Conf?rences en Traitement Automatique des Langues
est mis au concours pour la campagne 2014 au Centre de recherche en
linguistique et traitement automatique des langues L. Tesniere a
l'Universite de Franche-Comte a Besancon.

Le profil enseignement est TAL et pour la recherche TAL et modelisation.

http://www.univ-fcomte.fr/index.php?id=article_13725_1_1&itemracine=137&global_id_item=137
poste 0169 


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:04:41 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:04:41 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension,
 ESWC'14 Challenge on Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis
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Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 07:59:02 -0500 (EST)
From: feeds <feeds at sentic.net>
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Apologies for cross-posting,

The submission deadline of the ESWC'14 Challenge on Concept-Level
Sentiment Analysis (http://sentic.net/challenge) has been extended to
31st March. The Challenge will be held in Crete, Greece, on 25th May
2014 at the European Semantic Web Conference. The Challenge is open to
everyone from industry and academia.

RATIONALE
Mining opinions and sentiments from natural language, however, is an
extremely difficult task as it involves a deep understanding of most of
the explicit and implicit, regular and irregular, syntactical and
semantic rules proper of a language. Existing approaches mainly rely on
parts of text in which opinions and sentiments are explicitly expressed
such as polarity terms, affect words and their co-occurrence
frequencies. However, opinions and sentiments are often conveyed
implicitly through latent semantics, which make purely syntactical
approaches ineffective. To this end, concept-level sentiment analysis
aims to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of text and provide novel
approaches to opinion mining and sentiment analysis that allow a more
efficient passage from (unstructured) textual information to
(structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain.

Concept-level sentiment analysis focuses on a semantic analysis of text
through the use of web ontologies or semantic networks, which allow the
aggregation of conceptual and affective information associated with
natural language opinions.  By relying on large semantic knowledge
bases, concept- level sentiment analysis steps away from blind use of
keywords and word co- occurrence count, but rather relies on the
implicit features associated with natural language concepts.  Unlike
purely syntactical techniques, concept- based approaches are able to
detect also sentiments that are expressed in a subtle manner, e.g.,
through the analysis of concepts that do not explicitly convey any
emotion, but which are implicitly linked to other concepts that do so.

The Challenge focuses on the introduction, presentation, and discussion
of novel approaches to concept-level sentiment analysis. Participants
will have to design a concept-level opinion-mining engine that exploits
common-sense knowledge bases, e.g., SenticNet, and/or Linked Data and
Semantic Web ontologies, e.g., DBPedia, to perform multi-domain
sentiment analysis. The main motivation for the Challenge, in
particular, is to go beyond a mere word-level analysis of natural
language text and provide novel concept-level tools and techniques that
allow a more efficient passage from (unstructured) natural language to
(structured) machine-processable data, in potentially any domain.

Systems must have a semantics flavor (e.g., by making use of Linked Data
or known semantic networks within their core functionalities) and
authors need to show how the introduction of semantics can be used to
obtain valuable information, functionality or performance. Existing
natural language processing methods or statistical approaches can be
used too as long as the semantics plays a main role within the core
approach (engines based merely on syntax/word-count will be excluded
from the competition).

TASKS
The Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge is defined in terms of
different tasks. The first task is elementary whereas the others are
more advanced. The input units of each task are sentences. Sentences are
assumed to be in grammatically correct American English and have to be
processed according to the input format specified at
http://sentic.net/challenge/sentence.

Elementary Task: Polarity Detection
The main goal of the Challenge is polarity detection. The proposed
systems will be assessed according to precision, recall and F-measure of
detected binary polarity values (1=positive; 0=negative) for each input
sentence of the evaluation dataset, following the same format
asinhttp://sentic.net/challenge/task0. The problem of subjectivity
detection is not addressed within this Challenge, hence participants can
assume that there will be no neutral sentences. Participants are
encouraged to use the Sentic API or further develop and apply sentic
computing tools.

Advanced Task #1: Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
The output of this task will be a set of aspects of the reviewed product
and a binary polarity value associated to each of such aspects, in the
format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task1. So, for example,
while for the Elementary Task an overall polarity (positive or negative)
is expected for a review about a mobile phone, this task requires a set
of aspects (such as ?speaker?, ?touchscreen?, ?camera?, etc.) and a
polarity value (positive OR negative) associated with each of such
aspects. Systems will be assessed according to both aspect extraction
and aspect polarity detection.

Advanced Task #2: Semantic Parsing
As suggested by the title, the Challenge focuses on sentiment analysis
at concept-level. This means that the proposed systems are not supposed
to work at word/syntax level but rather work with
concepts/semantics. Hence, this task will evaluate the capability of the
proposed systems to deconstruct natural language text into concepts,
following the same format as in
http://sentic.net/challenge/task2. SenticNet will be taken as a
reference to test the efficiency of the proposed parsers, but extracted
concepts won't necessary have to match SenticNet concepts. The proposed
systems, for example, are supposed to be able to extract a multi-word
expression like ?buy christmas present? from sentences such as ?Today I
bought a lot of very nice Christmas presents?. The number of extracted
concepts per sentence will be assessed through precision, recall and
F-measure against the evaluation dataset.

Advanced Task #3: Topic Spotting
Input sentences will be about four different domains, namely: books,
DVDs, electronics, and kitchen appliances. This task focuses on the
automatic classification of sentences into one of such domains, in the
format specified at http://sentic.net/challenge/task3. All sentences are
assumed to belong to only one of the above-mentioned domains. The
proposed systems are supposed to exploit the extracted concepts to infer
which domain each sentence belongs to.  Classification accuracy will be
evaluated in terms of precision, recall and F-measure against the
evaluation dataset.

EVALUATION
Systems will be evaluated against a testing dataset which will be
revealed and released after the first-round of evaluation during the
Conference. Participants are suggested to train and/or test their own
systems using the Blitzer Dataset.  The testing dataset will be
constructed in the same way and from the same sources as the Blitzer
dataset.

The evaluation will be performed by the members of the Program
Committee. For systems that can be tuned with different parameters,
please indicate a range of up to 4 sets of settings. Settings with the
best F-measures will be considered for judgment. For each system,
reviewers will give a numerical score within the range [1-10] and
details motivating their choice. The scores will be given to the
following aspects:
1. Use of common-sense knowledge and semantics;
2. Precision, recall, and F-measure wrt the selected task;
3. Computational time;
4. Innovative nature of the approach.

JUDGING AND PRIZES
After a first round of review, the Program Committee and the chairs will
select a number of submissions confirming to the challenge requirements
that will be invited to present their work. Submissions accepted for
presentation will be included in post-proceedings and will receive
constructive reviews from the Program Committee. All accepted
submissions will have a slot in a poster session dedicated to the
challenge. In addition, the winners will present their work in a special
slot of the main program of ESWC and will be invited to submit a paper
to a dedicated Semantic Web Journal special issue.

For the Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis Challenge there will be two
awards for each task:
- Quantitative: the system with the highest average score in items 1-3
  above;
- Innovative: the system with the highest score in item 4 above.

There will be a board of judges at the conference who will evaluate
again the systems in more detail. The judges will then meet in private
to discuss the entries and to determine the winners. It may happen that
the same system runs for both the awards. An amount of ?700 has already
been secured for the first task, for what the first point of the
evaluation aspects is concerned. We are currently working on securing
further funding.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The following information has to be provided via EasyChair:
- Abstract: no more than 200 words.
- Description: It should contain the details of the system, including
  why the system is innovative, how it uses Semantic Web, which features
  or functions the system provides, what design choices were made and
  what lessons were learned.  The description should also summarize how
  participants have addressed the evaluation tasks. Papers must be
  submitted in PDF format, following the style of the Springer?s Lecture
  Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, and not exceeding 5 pages in
  length.
- Web Access: The application can either be accessible via the web or
  downloadable. If the application is not publicly accessible, password
  must be provided. A short set of instructions on how to use the
  application should be provided as well.

Please share comments and questions with the challenge mailing list. The
organizers will assist you for any potential issues that could be
raised.

TIMEFRAME
- March 31, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Submission
- April 9, 2014, 23:59 (Hawaii time): Notification of acceptance
- May 27-29, 2014: Challenge days

CHALLENGE CHAIRS
- Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
- Diego Reforgiato, CNR STLAB Laboratory (Italy)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:13:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:13:06 +0100
Subject: Appel: SEPLN 2014
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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:50:37 +0100
From: "BURGA DIAZ, ALICIA" <alicia.burga at upf.edu>
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2nd CALL FOR PAPERS:

30th CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY

FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE
PROCESSING (SEPLN 2014)
September 17-19, 2014
Universitat de Girona
http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/es/index.html

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INTRODUCTION
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The 30th edition of the Annual Conference of the Spanish Society for
Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place in Universitat de
Girona, Girona, Spain on 17-19 September 2014.  We also expect to
organize associated workshops.

The huge amount of information available in digital format and in
different languages calls for systems to enable us to access this vast
library in an increasingly more structured way.

In this same area, there is a renewed interest in improving information
accessibility and information exploitation in multilingual environments.
Many of the formal foundations for dealing appropriately with these
necessities have been, and are still being established in the area of
Natural Language Processing and its many branches: Information
extraction and retrieval, Questions answering systems, Machine
translation, Automatic analysis of textual content, Text summarization,
Text generation, and Speech recognition and synthesis.

The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for discussion and
communication where the latest research work and developments in the
field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) can be presented by
scientific and business communities. The conference also aims at
exposing new possibilities of real applications and R&D projects in this
field.

Moreover, as in previous editions, there is the intention of identifying
future guidelines or paths for basic research and foreseen software
applications, in order to compare them against the market
needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum in
helping new professionals to become active members in this field.

TOPICS
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Researchers and companies are encouraged to send communications, project
abstracts or demonstrations related to any language technology topic
including but not limited to the following:

* Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language.
* Machine learning in NLP.
* Computational lexicography and terminology.
* Corpus linguistics.
* Development of linguistic resources and tools.
* Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis.
* Semantics, pragmatics and discourse.
* Lexical ambiguity resolution.
* Monolingual and multilingual text generation.
* Machine translation.
* Speech synthesis and recognition.
* Dialogue systems.
* Audio indexing.
* Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval.
* Question answering systems.
* Evaluation of NLP systems.
* Automatic textual content analysis.
* Sentiment analysis and opinion mining.
* Plagiarism detection.
* Negation and speculation processing.
* Text mining in blogosphere and social networks.
* Text summarization.
* Image retrieval.
* NLP in biomedical domain.

* NLP-based generation of teaching resources.
* NLP for languages with limited resources.
* NLP industrial applications.


CONTACT
--------------

All information related to the conference can be found in the web:

http://www.taln.upf.edu/pages/sepln2014/en/index.html


STRUCTURE OF THE CONFERENCE
--------------------------------------------------

The conference will last three days, and will consist of sessions
devoted to presenting papers, posters, tutorials, ongoing research
projects and prototype or product demonstrations connected with topics
addressed in the conference. Besides, we expect to organize associated
workshops.


SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS
-------------------------------------------------

Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or application-oriented
proposals related to NLP. The proposals must include the following
sections:

* The title of the communication.

* An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words) and a list of
  keywords.

* The paper can be written in Spanish or English. Its overall maximum
  length will be 8 pages, including references.

* The documents must not include headers or footers.

* Papers should NOT include the names of the authors.

The papers proposed will be reviewed at least by three reviewers, and
can be accepted to be presented either as posters or as communications,
depending on the program necessities. However, no distinction will be
made between communications and posters in the printed version of the
SEPLN journal.

*** IMPORTANT NOTE ON CAMERA READY ****

The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted
together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the
reviewers were implemented in the final version.

**********************************************

Please, send your proposals using the following link::

http://www.sepln.org/myreview-sepln53/

The format of the SEPLN journal must be followed:

http://www.sepln.org/?page_id=1285&lang=en

In addition, all proposals will have to comply with the following
requirements, depending on whether they pare papers, demos or projects.

PROJECTS AND DEMOS
----------------------------------

As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give
oral presentations of R&D projects and demos of systems or tools related
to the NLP field. For oral presentations on R&D projects to be accepted,
the following information must be included:

* Project title.
* Name, affiliation, address, e-mail and phone number of the project
  director.
* Funding institutions.
* Groups participating in the project.
* Abstract (4 pages maximum, including references).


For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is
mandatory:

* Demo title.
* Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors.
* Abstract (4 pages maximum, including references).
* Time estimation for the whole presentation.

**** SEE NOTE ON CAMERA READY ABOVE ****


IMPORTANT DATES
----------------------------

Deadline for full papers, demos, and projects: 10th April 2014

Notifications: 26th May 2014
Camera Ready: 7th June 2014


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:06:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:06:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: Logical Aspect of Computational Linguistics,
 deadline extension, March 24, 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.220655.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:26:54 +0100
From: retore <christian.retore at labri.fr>
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X-url: http://www.irit.fr/LACL2014/


LACL 2014
Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics
IRIT, Toulouse, France
18-20 June 2014
http://www.irit.fr/LACL2014/
Co-located with the CSLP 2014,
8-th International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Language
Processing
http://control.ruc.dk/CSLP2014

17-18 June 2014

THIRD CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS AND DEADLINE EXTENSION (to 24.03)


PRESENTATION

LACL'2014 is the 8th international conference on logical and formal
methods in computational linguistics. This conference addresses the use
of type theoretic, proof theoretic and model theoretic methods for
describing natural language syntax and semantics, as well as the
implementation of natural language processing software relying on such
models. It will be held at IRIT, Toulouse, France, from 18 to 20 June
2014 (with support from IRIT, Universit? Paul Sabatier et INP de
Toulouse)

Scope:

Computer scientists, linguists, mathematicians and philosophers are
invited to present their work on the use of logical methods in
computational linguistics and natural language processing, in natural
language analysis, generation or acquisition.

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not
limited to:

   * logical foundation of syntactic formalisms
         o categorial grammars
         o minimalist grammars
         o dependency grammars
         o tree adjoining grammars
         o model theoretic syntax
         o formal language theory for natural language processing
         o data-driven approaches
   * logics for semantics of lexical items, sentences, discourse and
         dialog
         o discourse theories
         o Montague semantics
         o compositionality
         o dynamic logics
         o game semantics
         o situation semantics
         o generative lexicon
         o categorical semantics
   * applications of these models to natural language processing
         o software for natural language analysis
         o software for acquiring linguistic resources
         o software for natural language generation
         o software for information extraction
         o inference tasks
         o evaluation
         o scalability


SUBMISSIONS and PROCEEDINGS*

Articles should be written in the LaTeX format of LNCS by
Springer (see authors instructions at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0)
and may consist of up to 12 pages of content (including figures, bibliography, possible appendices). In exceptional cases by prior agreement
with program committee a paper up to 16 pages may be considered.
It is expected that each accepted paper be presented at
the meeting by one of its authors.

Submission is exclusively admitted electronically, in PDF format, through the EasyChair system. The submission site is
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacl2014

PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published as a
volume of the FoLLI subline of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) by Springer (http://www.springer.com/lncs).

/*/ Instructions for submissions to CSLP 2014 are given at the site of the workshop.

Invited speakers:

Prof. Zhaohui Luo, Computer Science Department, Royal Holloway,
University of London, U.K.

Prof. Michael Moortgat, Department of Language, Literature and
Communication, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Prof. Reinhard Muskens, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University,
the Netherlands

PREVIOUS EDITIONS

A selection of the 1995 articles appeared in a special issue of the
Journal of Logic, Language and Information (7:4, 1998). The
proceedings of the international conferences LACL'96 ,LACL'97,
LACL'98, LACL'2001, LACL'2005 LACL'2011 appeared in the series Lecture
Notes in Artificial Intelligence (volumes 1328, 1582, 2014,
2099, 3492, 6736), and the proceedings of LACL 2012 in Lacture Notes
in Computer Science (volume 7351) published by Springer.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission deadline: March 24, 2014
Notification of acceptance: April 5, 2014
Camera ready copies due: April 15, 2014
Conference dates: June 18-20, 2014

INSCRIPTION FEES

Exact amount can be fixed only after the organizers will have better
estimation of the number of participants. We expect to keep it at the
level of approximately 300 euros (for LACL only) and 100 euros (for
workshop only) with usual reduced rates for students and participation
in both events.

CONTACTS

soloviev at irit.fr and
asher at irit.fr
(co-chairs of LACL 2014)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Tue Mar 18 21:08:22 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 22:08:22 +0100
Subject: Appel: KI 2014
Message-ID: <TUE.18.MAR.2014.220822.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 18:59:02 +1100
From: Michael Thielscher <mit at cse.unsw.edu.au>
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**** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this
     call ****

======================================================================

  KI 2014 - The 37th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence
               Stuttgart, September 22--26, 2014

====================================================================== 

		  	     www.ki2014.de

KI 2014 is the 37th edition of the German Conference on Artificial
Intelligence, which traditionally brings together academic and
industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing a premier forum
for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications of
intelligent system technology.  The technical program of KI 2014 will
comprise paper and poster presentations and a variety of workshops and
tutorials.  KI 2014 will be co-located with Informatik 2014 (Annual
Conference of the German Informatics Society) and MATES 2014 (The 12th
German Conference on Multi- Agent System Technologies). The conference
invites original research papers from all areas of AI, its fundamentals,
its algorithms, its history and its applications.

You are invited to submit original research and application papers on
all aspects of AI research, including but not limited to the following:

- Agent-based and multiagent systems 
- AI applications and innovations 
- Cognitive modeling 
- Commonsense reasoning 
- Computer vision 
- Constraint satisfaction, search, and optimization 
- Evolutionary computation 
- Game playing and interactive entertainment 
- Information retrieval, integration, and extraction 
- Knowledge acquisition and ontologies 
- Knowledge representation and reasoning 
- Machine learning and data mining 
- Multidisciplinary AI 
- Natural language processing 
- Planning and scheduling
- Robotics - Uncertainty in AI 
- Web and information systems

We especially welcome application papers that provide novel insights on
the interplay of AI and the real world, as well as papers that bring
useful computational technologies from other areas of computer science
into AI.

======== Important Dates ========

Workshop/Tutorial submission: March 15 
Full/Short Paper submission:  May 1 
Acceptance notification:      June 23 
Final version due:            July 4 
KI Workshops and Conference:  September 22-26

======== Workshops, Tutorials, Doctoral Consortium ========

Together with the main conference, we plan to organize a small number of
high-quality workshops and tutorials. We especially encourage workshops
organized by AI Special Interest Groups (GI-Fachgruppen), workshops that
bring together researchers from different disciplines, and workshops
that highlight emerging topics of AI research. Tutorials should target a
large percentage of conference participants, including graduate students
as well as experienced researchers, and practitioners.

The technical program of KI2014 is also complemented by a doctoral
consortium that invites participation by PhD students at any stage and
from any subject area within AI. The KI doctoral consortium is organized
as a joint event with the doctoral program of Informatik 2014, and
includes a mentoring program, a PhD workshop, and poster presentations.

For details on submitting workshop and tutorials and for applying to the
doctoral consortium, please see the KI2014 web page.

======== Submission ========

Submitted papers, which have to be in English, must not exceed 12 pages
in Springer LNCS style for full technical contributions and 6 pages for
short papers. Full technical papers are expected to report on new
research that makes a substantial technical contribution to the
field. Short papers are also included in the main proceedings and can
report on new research or other issues of interest to the AI community.
Examples of work suitable for short paper submissions include: novel
ideas whose scope is not large enough for a full paper: important
implementation techniques; novel interesting benchmark problems; short
experimental studies; interesting applications that are not yet
completely solved or analyzed; position or challenge papers; etc.  Short
paper submissions are especially invited for software demonstration or
PhD work in progress.  Submission will be through the Easychair
conference management system :

	http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ki2014

Papers will be subject to blind peer review. All papers will be reviewed
based on the standard criteria of relevance, significance of results,
originality of ideas, soundness, and quality of the presentation. All
accepted papers will be published in the main conference proceedings,
and will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each
accepted paper must register for the conference and present the
contribution.  The KI 2014 proceedings will be published by Springer as
a volume of the LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series.

======== Main Organizers ========

Program Chairs
* Carsten Lutz (Universit?t Bremen) 
* Michael Thielscher (University of New South Wales)

Workshop and Tutorial Chair 
* Frieder Stolzenburg (Hochschule Harz)

Doctoral Consortium Chair 
* Markus Kr?tzsch (TU Dresden)

For enquiries, please contact ki2014 at easychair.org.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 15:54:33 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:54:33 +0100
Subject: Livre: Challenges Of Discourse Processing,
 The case of technical Documents
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date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:36:33 +0100
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CHALLENGES of DISCOURSE PROCESSING: the case of technical Documents
Patrick Saint-Dizier
Cambridge, Mars 2014.
Collaborateurs: Juyeon Kang, Mathilde Janier, Camille Albert.
180 pages.

Couvre: 
l'art d'?crire des docs techniques (guidelines), l'explication dans le
discours technique, TextCoop et Dislog et l'analyse du discours en
logique. Impl?mentation d'analyseurs du discours.  Analyse des
exigences. Le projet LELIE: analyse et pr?vention des risques par
l'analyse des documents techniques.

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:53:28 +0100
Subject: Appel: RECITAL 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.22.MAR.2014.155328.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 08:48:55 +0100
From: Nuria Gala <Nuria.Gala at lif.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-ID: <53294BE7.3060300 at lif.univ-mrs.fr>


RECITAL 2014 : Troisi?me appel ? communications
----------------------------------------------

RECITAL 2014
16?me Rencontre des ?tudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le
Traitement Automatique des Langues.

Facult? Saint Charles, Aix Marseille Universit? (Marseille), du 1er au 4
juillet 2014.


Dates importantes
-----------------

- Date limite de soumission : samedi 5 avril 2014
- Notification aux auteurs : samedi 3 mai 2014
- Version d?finitive : samedi 17 mai 2014


Pr?sentation
------------

RECITAL 2014, la conf?rence annuelle des jeunes chercheurs associ?e ?
TALN, se d?roulera ? Marseille du 1er au 4 juillet 2014. RECITAL offre
aux jeunes chercheurs en Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL)
l'occasion de pr?senter leurs travaux et de comparer leurs
approches. Elle est r?serv?e aux ?tudiants (master et doctorat) et aux
jeunes chercheurs ayant obtenu leur doctorat depuis moins d'un an.

Fort du succ?s des ann?es pr?c?dentes, nous encourageons la soumission
de travaux m?me pr?liminaires, de projets de th?se, et de travaux des
premiers mois de recherche (?tat de l'art, premi?res pistes,
etc.). L'objectif premier de RECITAL est de soutenir les travaux des
jeunes chercheurs en TAL et de faciliter leur int?gration dans notre
communaut?. A ce titre, nous visons :

- des relectures p?dagogiques : les auteurs doivent pouvoir comprendre
  les erreurs qu'ils ont pu commettre afin de pouvoir les corriger et
  am?liorer la qualit? de leur travail;

- des relectures positives : il n'est jamais n?cessaire de d?courager un
  jeune chercheur, les ma?tres-mots devront encourager/guider;

- l'?change direct : les relectures seront communiqu?es sign?es, donc
  non-anonymes, aux auteurs. Libre ? eux (ou mieux, aux relecteurs)
  d'aller informellement discuter ensemble lors de la conf?rence.

Le prix du meilleur papier RECITAL sera d?cern? lors de la c?r?monie de
cl?ture.


Th?mes principaux
-----------------

Les communications pourront porter sur les th?mes habituels du TAL :

- Analyse et g?n?ration dans les domaines suivants :
  + Phon?tique
  + Phonologie
  + Morphologie
  + Syntaxe
  + S?mantique
- Analyse et g?n?ration dans les domaines suivants :
  + Phon?tique
  + Phonologie
  + Morphologie
  + Syntaxe
  + S?mantique
  + Discours
- D?veloppement de ressources linguistiques pour le TAL :
  + Bases de donn?es comportant des informations morphologiques,
    syntaxiques, s?mantiques, et/ou phonologiques
  + Grammaires
  + Lexiques
  + Ontologies
  + Linguistique de corpus
- Applications du TAL :
  + Analyse de sentiments ou d'opinions
  + Cat?gorisation ou classification automatique
  + D?sambigu?sation lexicale
  + Dialogue homme-machine en langage naturel
  + Enseignement assist? par ordinateur
  + Indexation automatique
  + Recherche et extraction d'information
  + R?sum? automatique
  + R?solution d'anaphores
  + Syst?mes de question-r?ponse
  + Traduction automatique
  + Web s?mantique
- Approches :
  + Linguistiques formelles destin?es ? soutenir les traitements
    automatiques
  + Symboliques
  + Logiques
  + Statistiques
  + Bas?es sur l'apprentissage automatique

Cette liste n'est pas exhaustive et l'ad?quation d'une proposition de
communication ? la conf?rence sera jug?e par le comit? de programme.


Crit?res de s?lection
---------------------

Les auteurs doivent ?tre des ?tudiant(e)s ou bien des jeunes docteur(e)s
ayant soutenu leur th?se depuis moins d'un an. Les publications avec des
chercheurs confirm?s (ce qui inclus les directeurs de th?ses) doivent
?tre soumises ? TALN et non ? RECITAL.

Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux,
n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications ant?rieures. Les soumissions
seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du domaine. Seront
consid?r?es en particulier:

- La correction du contenu scientifique et technique
- La situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche
  internationale
- L'organisation et la clart? de la pr?sentation
- L'ad?quation aux th?mes de la conf?rence

Les articles s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les actes de la
conf?rence.  Suivant l'avis du comit? de programme, les pr?sentations se
feront soit sous forme orale soit sous forme de poster.


Modalit?s de Soumission
-----------------------

Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais. Les articles
doivent faire de 8 ? 14 pages. Une feuille de style LaTeX, un mod?le
Word et un mod?le LibreOffice seront disponibles sur le site web de la
conf?rence (www.taln2014.org).

Contact : nuria.gala(arobase)lif.univ-mrs.fr et/ou 
klim.peshkov(arobase)lpl-aix.fr

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:17:36 +0100
Subject: Appel: WACAI 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.22.MAR.2014.161736.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:45:13 +0100
From: Magalie Ochs <magalie.ochs at telecom-paristech.fr>
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*Appel ? Contributions : Workshop francophone Affect, Compagnon
Artificiel, Interaction (WACAI) 2014 ? 30 juin, 1er juillet ? Rouen *

http://wacai14.litislab.fr/

L?objectif du workshop WACAI 2014 est de r?unir les recherches et
d?veloppements en cours autour des /Agents Conversationnels Anim?s
(ACA)/ et des/robots sociaux/. Cette rencontre est plus particuli?rement
centr?e sur l??tude, la mod?lisation, le d?veloppement et l??valuation
de l?interaction de syst?mes interactifs avec leurs partenaires (humains
ou artefactuels). A l?interface entre sciences de l?ing?nieur et
sciences humaines et sociales, l?ambition de WACAI est d?appr?hender
l?interaction personne-syst?me dans toute sa complexit? (biologique,
linguistique, sociale, culturelle et ?motionnelle).

Apr?s les pr?c?dentes ?ditions bi-annuelles du workshop WACA, organis?es
successivement ? Grenoble (2005), ? Toulouse (2006), ? Paris (2008), ?
Lille (2010) et WACAI ? Grenoble (2012), cette nouvelle ?dition se
d?roulera ? Rouen le 30 Juin et 1er Juillet 2014.

Les contributions attendues (en fran?ais ou en anglais) sont de trois
ordres :

- des articles scientifiques (max 6 pages) ;

- des revues de questions ou des ?tats de l?art (max 8 pages), notamment
  sur les liens entre les probl?matiques communes et les sp?cificit?s
  des communaut?s ACA et robotique ;

- des descriptions de r?alisations ou d?exp?rimentations en cours (2
  pages);

sur les domaines de l'/Informatique Affective/, le /Traitement des
//Signaux Sociaux/, les /Agents Conversationnels Anim?s/ et les /Robots
Sociaux/.

*Dates importantes*

***Soumission des articles : 23 Avril 2014****
Notification aux auteurs : 14 Mai 2014
Version finale : 28 Mai 2014

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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:11:41 +0100
Subject: Cursus: European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL)
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:35:56 +0100
From: Bertram Fronhoefer <Bertram.Fronhoefer at tu-dresden.de>
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         ======================================================
           European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL)
         ======================================================
                       http://www.epcl-study.eu/

                         CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The European PhD Program in Computational Logic (EPCL) is run jointly by
four of the leading European universities in the field:

- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Italy),
- Technische Universit?t Dresden (Germany),
- Technische Universit?t Wien (Austria), and
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal).

Further international universities, research organizations and
enterprises that contribute to Computational Logic or apply results from
it are involved as associated partners: The Simon Fraser University
(Canada), the Universidad de Chile, the NICTA (National ICT Australia),
as well as several companies.

The program involves three years of PhD study in at least two of the
European partner universities. It leads to a joint doctoral degree
issued by the partner universities at which the studies have been
physically performed.  The language of the program is English.
Financial support is available in the form of positions and
scholarships. A foundation track and an application-oriented track match
with career perspectives in university research as well as in industrial
research.

Necessary requirements for participation in EPCL are: A Master's degree
in Computer Science or Mathematics, or an equivalent degree; the proof
of adequate knowledge of English; and substantial knowledge in the areas
Foundations of Logics, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and
Declarative Programming.

The program starts annually in the winter term. Applications for 2014
have to be electronically submitted on the Webpage
http://www.epcl-study.eu/ before the

               =========================================
                 Application Deadline on 30 April 2014
               =========================================


If you have enquiries, please do not hesitate to contact the coordinator
of the program

Prof. Steffen H?lldobler
Technische Universit?t Dresden
Fakult?t Informatik
International Center for Computational Logic
Email: sh at iccl.tu-dresden.de
Phone: +49 (351) 463 38340

EPCL is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research (BMBF) within the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
program International Doctorates in Germany (IPID).

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 14:57:26 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:57:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension, WASSA 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.22.MAR.2014.155726.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:09:23 +0100
From: Alexandra Balahur Dobrescu <alexandra.balahur-dobrescu at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Message-id: <53299703.4080505 at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
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/Due to several requests, the deadline has been extended to March 30th./

_______________________________________________________________

5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and
Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)
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http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/
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*******************************************************
BACKGROUND
*******************************************************

Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as
subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP),
has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks
was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that
made it possible for people all over the world to share, comment or
consult content on any given topic. In this context, opinions,
sentiments and emotions expressed in Social Media texts have been shown
to have a high influence on the social and economic behaviour worldwide.
SSA systems are highly relevant to many real-world applications (e.g.
marketing, eGovernance, business intelligent, social analysis) and also
to many tasks in Natural Language Processing (NLP) -- information
extraction, question answering, textual entailment, to name just a few.
The importance of this field has been proven by the high number of
approaches proposed in research in the past decade, as well as by the
interest that it raised from other disciplines (Economics, Sociology,
Psychology) and the applications that were created using its technology.
In spite of the growing body of research in the area in the past years,
dealing with affective phenomena in text has proven to be a complex,
interdisciplinary problem that remains far from being solved. Its
challenges include the need to address the issue from different
perspectives and at different levels, depending on the characteristics
of the textual genre, the language(s) treated and the final application
for which the analysis is done.

*******************************************************
ENVISAGED SCOPE OF WASSA 2014
*******************************************************

The aim of the 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity,
Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014) is to continue the line
of the previous editions, bringing together researchers in Computational
Linguistics working on Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis and
researchers working on interdisciplinary aspects of affect computation
from text. Additionally, starting with WASSA 2013, we extended the focus
to Social Media phenomena and the impact of affect-related phenomena in
this context.  In this new proposed edition, we would like to encourage
the submission of long and short research and demo papers including, but
not restricted to the following topics related to subjectivity and
sentiment analysis:

- Resources for subjectivity, sentiment and social media analysis; 
  (semi-)automatic corpora generation and annotation
- Opinion retrieval, extraction, categorization, aggregation and 
  summarization
- Trend detection in social media using subjectivity and sentiment 
  analysis techniques
- Data linking through social networks based on affect-related NLP
  methods
- Impact of affective data from social media
- Mass opinion estimation based on NLP and statistical models
- Online reputation management
- Topic and sentiment studies and applications of topic-sentiment
  analysis
- Domain, topic and genre dependency of sentiment analysis
- Ambiguity issues and word sense disambiguation of subjective language
- Pragmatic analysis of the opinion mining task
- Use of Semantic Web technologies for subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis
- Improvement of NLP tasks using subjectivity and/or sentiment analysis
- Intrinsic and extrinsic evaluations subjectivity and sentiment
  analysis
- Subjectivity, sentiment and emotion detection in social networks
- Classification of stance in dialogues
- Applications of sentiment and social media analysis systems


In addition, in the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis
systems have been proposed and showcased in the past years, we feel
there is a growing need to make users familiar with these systems and
have them employed for building an end application.  To this aim, we
would like to organize a "Hackathon" (please see details below).

*******************************************************
SENTIMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS HACKATHON
*******************************************************

In the light of the fact that different sentiment analysis systems have 
been proposed and showcased in the past years, we feel there is a 
growing need to make other researchers and users familiar with these 
systems and have them employ them for building an end application.
The Hackathon word stands for "Hacking Marathon", and its purpose is to 
introduce some.
The activity will be open to all the people who will sign up for the 
workshop.
We plan to organize a half a day session, in the first half presenting 
the participating systems and their use and creating teams for 
"application" development and leaving the second half of the day for 
working on the systems and presenting the results. We plan to give the 
participants the possibility to vote on the best application created and 
reward the winner with a gadget.

*******************************************************
ORGANIZERS
*******************************************************

Alexandra Balahur
  European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
alexandra.balahur at jrc.ec.europa.eu

Erik van der Goot
  European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Erik.van-der-Goot at jrc.ec.europa.eu

Ralf Steinberger
  European Commission Joint Research Centre
Via E. Fermi 2749, T.P. 267, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Ralf.Steinberger at jrc.ec.europa.eu

Andr?s Montoyo
  University of Alicante, DLSI, Ap. De Correos 99, 03080 Alicante, Spain
montoyo at dlsi.ua.es

*******************************************************
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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- Khurshid Ahmad -- Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR Pisa, Italy
- Erik Cambria -- University of Stirling, U.K.
- Jos? Carlos Cortizo - European University Madrid, Spain
- Michael Gamon -- Microsoft, U.S.A.
- Jes?s M. Hermida - University of Alicante, Spain
- Veronique Hoste - University of Ghent, Belgium
- Mijail Kabadjov -- University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Zornitsa Kozareva - Information Sciences Institute California, U.S.A.
- Rada Mihalcea - University of North Texas, U.S.A.
- Saif Mohammad - National Research Council, Canada
- Karo Moilanen -- Google
- Rafael Mu?oz - University of Alicante, Spain
- G?nter Neumann - DFKI, Germany
- Alena Neviarouskaia -- University of Tokyo, Japan
- Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Viktor Pekar - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Paolo Rosso - Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
- Josef Steinberger -- EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
- Ralf Steinberger - EC- Joint Research Centre, Italy
- Veselin Stoyanov -- John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
- Maite Taboada -  Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Mike Thelwall - University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
- Jos? Antonio Troyano - University of Seville, Spain
- Dan Tufis - RACAI, Romania
- Alfonso Ure?a -- University of Ja?n, Spain
- Piek Vossen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Marilyn Walker - University of California Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
- Janyce Wiebe - University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
- Michael Wiegand -- Saarland University, Germany
- Theresa Wilson -- John Hopkins University, U.S.A.
- Taras Zagibalov -  Brantwatch, U.K.


*******************************************************
IMPORTANT DATES
*******************************************************

- EXTENDED Paper submission deadline :  March 30, 2014
- Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2014
- Camera-ready deadline: April 29, 2014
- Workshop to take part at ACL 2014: June 27, 2014

*******************************************************
SUBMISSIONS
*******************************************************

We encourage the submission of long, short and demo papers (especially
describing systems participating in the hackathon)
Long papers for WASSA 2014 must not exceed eight (8) pages without 
references. Short papers must not exceed five (5) pages without 
references. Papers for WASSA should be submitted using the ACL 2014 
Style Files, available at:
Reviewing for WASSA 2014 will be double blind: reviewers will not be 
presented with the identity of paper authors. Authors should avoid 
writing anything that makes their identity obvious in the text.
Submissions should be original, and in particular should not previously 
have been formally published.
Accepted papers will be published in the ACL WASSA proceedings. The best
papers will be chosen for a special issue of an ISI- indexed journal.
Previous special issues of WASSA were/are in the process of being 
published in the Decision Support Systems, Computer Speech and Language 
and Information Processing and Management journals (Elsevier).
To submit a paper, please access: https://www.softconf.com/acl2014/WASSA/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 15:09:12 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:09:12 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Session 3, Data,
 Digital methods and mapping social complexity, 27/03/2014, ENSCI
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:08:02 +0100
From: "Data, digital methods and mapping social complexity Seminar" <contact at digitalmethods-seminar.org>
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*27.03.14 // Session 3: Digitized archives and distant reading // 
14:30-17:30 @ ENSCI (http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/venue/)*


The growing digitization of our textual and literary heritage has
convinced many academics and observers of higher education that we are
currently experiencing a renaissance in the Humanities. Some scholars
argue that this mass of data is profoundly changing the methodological
toolbox of a field whose scholarship is traditionally based on close
reading and interpretation of texts. Digitization has rendered novels,
plays, poems and historical texts open to forms of statistical analysis
and visualization methods previously unavailable to these objects. As a
result, this "digital turn" is creating a vivid debate within the
Humanities about the effects that the use of algorithms might have on
the interpretation, understanding and teaching of literature and
history.

*[14h30-15h45]*Nous commencerons ce s?minaire en discutant 
collectivement des articles list?s ci-dessous. Ces lectures comment?es, 
pr?sent?es par Kari de Pryck 
(http://www.medialab.sciences-po.fr/people/kari-de-pryck/) et Audrey 
Baneyx (http://www.medialab.sciences-po.fr/people/audrey-baneyx/), nous 
permettrons de nous faire une id?e des sujets abord?s au cours de cette 
s?ance. Cela repr?sente une quarantaine de pages au total.

  * Mayaffre, D. (2010), Vers une herm?neutique mat?rielle num?rique.
    Corpus textuels, Logom?trie et Langage politique, manuscrit pour
    l'habilitation ? diriger des recherches, Universit? de Nice. (Lien
    vers le texte int?gral
    (http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00655380/) / T?l?chargement des
    extraits qui seront discut?s
    (http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/HDR-Mayaffre-extraits.pdf)).
  * Cinquin, S. (2011), Utiliser la lexicom?trie en histoire (1) :
    panorama historiographique, Devenir historien-ne. (Lien
    (http://devhist.hypotheses.org/898)).
  * Michel, J.-B., et al. (2011). Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using
    Millions of Digitized Books. Science, 331(6014), 176--182. (Lien
    (http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3279742/reload=0;jsessionid=Djr8Ax8ZjJUypm5m9Me2.10)).
  * Diski, J. (2011). Short Cuts. London Review of Books. (Lien
    (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n02/jenny-diski/short-cuts)).
  * Jockers, M. (2012). Computing and Visualizing the 19th-Century
    Literary Genome, Presentation at DH2012 Hamburg. (Lien
    (http://www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de/conference/programme/abstracts/computing-and-visualizing-the-19th-century-literary-genome/).)
  * Fitzpatrick, K., Galloway, A.R. & English, J.F. (2013), Franco
    Moretti's "Distant Reading": A Symposium, Los Angeles Review of
    Books. (Lien
    (https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/franco-morettis-distant-reading-a-symposium)).

*[15h45-16h00]*Pause

*[16h00-17h30]* *Claire Lemercier 
(http://www.cso.edu/cv_equipe.asp?per_id=168)*, chercheuse au Centre de
Sociologie des Organisations (CSO) de Sciences Po, viendra ensuite
discuter de l'impact des outils num?riques sur ses propres recherches au
cours d'une pr?sentation intitul?e *"Les grands corpus en ligne
changeront-ils la bo?te ? outils de l'historien.ne ?"*Cette intervention
tentera de remettre en perspective les changements en cours, li?s ? la
num?risation massive de corpus vari?s, avec la premi?re p?riode d'?ge
d'or proclam? de la quantification en histoire et dans les humanit?s,
aujourd'hui souvent oubli?e. Cet ?ge d'or avait ?t? suivi d'un rejet
assez massif et n'avait pas r?ellement modifi? la bo?te ? outils de la
plupart des historien.ne.s. Peut-il en aller autrement aujourd'hui, et ?
quelles conditions ? Quelques pistes seront pr?sent?es ? partir d'une
exp?rience de chercheuse ayant parfois sollicit? de grands corpus, et de
formatrice ayant souvent accompagn? des coll?gues ou ?tudiants dans une
r?flexion ? ce sujet. Le propos sera ancr? dans les sp?cificit?s de
l'histoire comme communaut? disciplinaire, mais pens? pour appeler
r?ponses ou comparaisons de la part de sp?cialistes d'autres
disciplines, notamment de la litt?rature ou de l'informatique.

Le s?minaire est libre d'acc?s. Si vous ?tes int?ress?s et souhaitez
participer ? cette session, merci de vous inscrireici
(http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/inscription/).

Le comit? d'organisation

Notre site web : http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/
L'annonce de cette s?ance : 
http://digitalmethods-seminar.org/27-03-14-dm3-digitized-archives-and-distant-reading-1430-1800-ensci/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 15:23:03 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:23:03 +0100
Subject: Seminaire: Alexandre d'Aspremont, Traces digitales, 27 mars 2014,
 Universite de Paris Est Marne la Vallee
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 20:09:16 +0100
From: Nicolas Turenne <nturenne.inra at yahoo.fr>
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[d?sol? pour les r?ceptions multiples]

Chers coll?gues,

Dans le cadre de la dix-septi?me s?ance du s?minaire 'traces digitales'
du groupe CorText, nous avons le plaisir d'accueillir Alexandre
d'Aspremont (INRIA-ENS) qui nous parlera nous parlera d'apprentissage
automatique.
Cette matin?e aura lieu le jeudi 27 mars de 10h ? 11h30, dans la salle
de r?union C219 du Latts (Universit? Paris-Est Marne la Vall?e - rue
Galil?e, b?timent du Bois de l?Etang - 2?me ?tage - aile C). Voir
http://www.inra-ifris.org/axes-de-recherche-thematique/groupe-plateforme-cortext/seminaire-de-l-axe-traces-digitales-groupe-cortext.html



Alexandre d'Aspremont ( directeur de recherches, INRIA-ENS projet SIERRA
- apprentissage statistique)

Relaxations convexes pour l'ordonnancement de donn?es ADN.

R?sum? : La s?riation cherche ? reconstruire un ordre lin?aire entre un
s?rie de variables, en utilisant des donn?es de similarit? entre ces
variables. Ce probl?me a des applications directes en arch?ologie et en
assemblage de s?quences ADN par exemple.  Nous montrons l'?quivalence
entre le probl?me de s?riation et un probl?me combinatoire quadratique
sur les permutations (2-SUM). Nous proposons une relaxation convexe de
2-SUM qui am?liore la robustesse des solutions dans le cas ou les
donn?es sont bruit?es. Cette relaxation nous permet ?galement d'inclure
des contraintes structurelles sur la solution, pour r?soudre des
probl?mes de s?riation semi-supervis?s.

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Sat Mar 22 15:00:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:00:06 +0100
Subject: Stage: Translitteration des noms propres pour l'extraction
 d'entites nommees, IRT SystemX
Message-ID: <SAT.22.MAR.2014.160006.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 13:50:19 +0000
From: SEMMAR Nasredine 202247 <nasredine.semmar at cea.fr>
Message-ID: <50CC12289F0C854FBFF134F270030CD71C4DF460 at EXDAG0-B2.intra.cea.fr>

Proposition de stage : Translitt?ration des noms propres pour
l?extraction d?entit?s nomm?es

Lieu du stage : IRT SystemX, 8 avenue de la Vauve, 91190 Palaiseau

CONTEXTE :

L?IRT SystemX est un institut de R&D th?matique interdisciplinaire
rassemblant les comp?tences de l?industrie et de la recherche publique
dans une logique de co-investissement public-priv? : Alstom, Bull,
Campus Paris-Saclay, INRIA, Institut Mines Telecom, Kalray, OVH,
Renault, Sherpa, Systematic Paris-Region en sont les fondateurs. Les IRT
s?inscrivent dans le cadre du Programme Investissements d?Avenir.

Au sein de SYSTEMX, vous serez int?gr? dans l??quipe de l?un des projets
de recherche : Int?gration Multim?dia Multilingue (IMM).

Le projet IMM r?unit des acteurs du monde acad?mique (CEA, CNRS-LIMSI,
INRIA, LNE, UPMC-LIP6), des industriels (Bertin Technologie, CapGemini,
Exalead, OVH, Systran, Temis, Vecsys, Vocapia) et des utilisateurs de
r?f?rence dans le domaine de l'analyse de contenus non structur?s
(texte, vid?o).

L'objectif du projet IMM est de d?velopper de nouvelles fonctions ou
capacit?s pour des composants n?cessaires pour des applications de
veille sur les sources ouvertes (moteur de recherche, de transcription
de la parole, de traduction...), de concevoir des environnements
d'ex?cution et d?int?gration de ces composants et de relever un certain
nombre de d?fis comme par exemple r?duire le temps d'adaptation ? un
contexte nouveau (sources, domaine, langue).

SUJET DE STAGE :

La translitt?ration consiste ? substituer ? chaque graph?me d?un syst?me
d??criture, un autre graph?me ou un groupe de graph?mes d?un autre
syst?me d??criture, ind?pendamment de la prononciation.

La translitt?ration connait un essor important en raison du caract?re de
plus en plus multilingue du Web. De nombreuses approches ont ?t?
propos?es pour d?velopper des syst?mes de translitt?ration mais la
majorit? des syst?mes actuels ne prennent pas en compte la complexit?
des probl?mes de la transcription et de la translitt?ration, lesquels
touchent autant ? l?oralit? qu?? la scripturalit? des syst?mes
linguistiques impliqu?s.

L?objectif de ce stage est de concevoir et de d?velopper un outil de
translitt?ration automatique de noms propres de l?arabe vers le script
latin et se d?roulera selon les ?tapes suivantes :

- Etude, analyse et ?valuation de l?existant. Cette ?tape permet
  d?identifier l?approche ? explorer.

- Impl?mentation d?un outil automatique de translitt?ration de noms
  propres de l?arabe vers le latin.

- Evaluation des r?sultats pour une g?n?ralisation ? d?autres alphabets.

Vos missions :

- Faire un ?tat de l?art dans le domaine : approches existantes et
  outils disponibles.

- Choix de l?approche et conception de l?outil de translit?ration des
  noms propres de l?arabe vers le script latin.

- R?aliser une ?valuation des r?sultats.

Le profil recherch? :

- Niveau : BAC+4 ou BAC +5, en Informatique ou Informatique Linguistique
  (Ing?nieur ou Master) pour un stage de 4 ? 6 mois.

Vos Comp?tences sont :

Obligatoires :

- Informatique : ma?trise d?un langage de programmation (C++, Java,
  Perl, Python).

- Technologies d?apprentissage.

Optionnelles :

- Technologies d?apprentissage : clustering, HMM.

- Traitement automatique des langues.

- La connaissance de la langue arabe est un plus.

BIBLIOGRAPHIE :

- ALGHAMDI M. (2005). Alghorithms for Romanizing Arabic names. Journal
  of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences,Volume 17,
  Riyadh, 105-128.

- AL-ONAIZAN Y., KNIGHT K. (2002). Translating named entities using
  monolingual and bilingual resources. Proceedings of the 40th ACL
  Conference, USA.

- JIANG L., ZHOU M., CHIEN L. F., NIU C. (2007). Named entity
  translation with web mining and transliteration. Proceedings of the
  20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
  1629-1634.

- TAO T., YOON S. Y., FISTER A., SPROAT R., ZHAI C. (2006). Unsupervised
  named entity transliteration using temporal and phonetic
  correlation. Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in
  Natural Language Processing (EMNLP?06), 250-257.

- YASER A. O., KNIGHT K. (2002). Translating named entities using
  monolingual and bilingual resources. Proceedings of the 40th Annual
  Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL?02),
  400-408.

CONDITIONS DE CANDIDATURE :

Contact et envoi des candidatures (CV d?taill? et lettre de motivation):

Nasredine SEMMAR, 01 69 08 01 46, nasredine.semmar at cea.fr

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:02:19 +0100
Subject: Appel: COLING 2014, Call for System Demonstrations
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 02:17:54 +0000
From: ??? <sbpark at sejong.knu.ac.kr>
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********** Apologies for cross-posting **********

COLING 2014 Call for System Demonstrations
The 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, August
23 - 29, 2014, Dublin, Ireland

http://www.coling-2014.org

Important dates
19 May 2014: Paper submission deadline
23 June 2014: Author notification
7 July 2014: Camera-ready paper submission deadline

The COLING 2014 Demonstration Programme Committee invites proposals for
system demonstrations. The demonstration programme is part of the main
conference programme and aims at showcasing working systems that apply a
wide range of conference topics. The session will provide opportunities
to exchange ideas gained from implementing NLP systems, and to obtain
feedback from expert users.

COLING 2014 will be held in Dublin, Ireland from 23-29 August 2014.

The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s. It is
held every two years and regularly attracts more than 700 delegates. The
conference has developed into one of the premier Natural Language
Processing (NLP) conferences worldwide and is a major international
event for the presentation of new research results and for the
demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of
Computational Linguistics and NLP.

Topics of interest
COLING 2014 solicits demonstrations on original and unpublished research
on the following topics, including, but not limited to:

- pragmatics, semantics, syntax, grammars and the lexicon;
- cognitive, mathematical and computational models of language
  processing;
- models of communication by language;
- lexical semantics and ontologies;
- word segmentation, tagging and chunking;
- parsing, both syntactic and deep;
- generation and summarisation;
- paraphrasing, textual entailment and question answering;
- speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding;
- multimodal and natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
- information retrieval, information extraction and knowledge base
  linking;
- machine learning for natural language;
- modelling of discourse and dialogue;
- sentiment analysis, opinion mining and social media;
- multilingual processing, machine translation and translation aids;
- applications, tools and language resources;
- system evaluation methodology and metrics.


Submissions
The submissions should address the following questions:
- What is the problem the proposed system addresses?
- Why is the system important and what is its impact?
- What is the novelty of the used approach/technology?
- Who is the target audience?
- How does the system work?
- How does it compare with existing systems?
- How is the system licenced?

The maximum submission length is 4 pages (including references). Papers
shall be submitted in English and must conform to the official COLING
2014 style guidelines available on the conference website. The
anonymisation of submissions is optional. If authors choose to remain
anonymous, it is their responsibility to take every measure to conceal
potentially identifying information.
http://www.coling-2014.org/instructions-for-authors.php

Submission and reviewing will be managed in the START system:
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/demos/

The only accepted format for submissions is PDF. Accepted papers will
appear in the conference proceedings in a dedicated volume for
demonstration systems.


Demonstration chairs
Lamia Tounsi, CNGL, Dublin City University, Ireland
Rafal Rak, NaCTeM, University of Manchester, UK


Programme Committee
Michiel Bacchiani, Google Inc.
Kay Berkling, Cooperative State University, Karlsruhe
Ann Bies, Linguistic Data Consortium
William Black, University of Manchester
Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University
Chris Brew, Nuance Communications
Aoife Cahill, Educational Testing Service
Vittorio Castelli, IBM
Md. Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, IBM
L?a Deleris, IBM
Martin Emms, Trinity College Dublin
Guillaume Gravier, IRISA & INRIA Rennes
Keith Hall, Google Research
Derrick Higgins, Educational Testing Service
Keikichi Hirose, University of Tokyo
Frank Hopfgartner, Technische Universit?t Berlin
Daxin Jiang, Microsoft STC-A
John Kelleher, Trinity College Dublin
Adam Kilgarriff, Lexical Computing Ltd
BalaKrishna Kolluru, Toshiba
Seamus Lawless, Trinity College Dublin
Saturnino Luz, Trinity College Dublin
Nitin Madnani, Educational Testing Service
Hilary McDonald, Trinity College Dublin
Helen Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Peter Mika, Yahoo Labs
Tony O'Dowd, KantanMT
Florian Pinel, IBM
Johann Roturier, Symantec
Andrew Rowley, University of Manchester
Fr?d?rique Segond, Viseo Research
Swapna Somasundaran, Educational Testing Services
Tomoki Toda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Xinglong Wang, Brandwatch
Jason Williams, Microsoft Research

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:14:52 +0100
Subject: Job: annotateurs Fran=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A7ais_?=et Allemand, ELDA
Message-ID: <SAT.22.MAR.2014.161452.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:09:40 +0100
From: Leixa j?r?my <leixa at elda.org>
Message-ID: <532B12C4.10908 at elda.org>
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################################
Annotateur (H/F) en langue Fran?aise

ELDA (Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency,
http://www.elda.org/) a pour activit?s principales la distribution et la
production de ressources linguistiques, ainsi que l'?valuation de
technologies de la langue.

Dans le cadre de ses activit?s de production, ELDA offre plusieurs
postes d'annotateur (H/F) ? plein-temps.

_Mission_ :__

Il s'agit d'annoter des documents textuels de types microblogs (tweets)
afin d'en extraire les opinions et les sentiments. Le travail sera
effectu? via un logiciel et selon des conventions d'annotation
sp?cifiques. La formation au logiciel et aux conventions sera assur?e
par l'employeur.

_Profil recherch?_ :__

  * Fran?ais langue maternelle
  * Bonne ma?trise de l'outil informatique
  * Capacit? ? int?grer des r?gles (d'annotation) et ? les suivre
    scrupuleusement et avec constance
  * Une premi?re exp?rience d'annotation serait un plus


_Dur?e_ : Plein-temps, pour une dur?e de 1 mois et demi (extensible ? 2).

_Lieu_ : la mission s'effectuera au sein des locaux d'ELDA (Paris 13e)

_Salaire_ : selon profil et performances.

Les candidatures (CV, lettre de motivation) doivent ?tre adress?es ?
leixa at elda.org et ? chomicha at elda.org .
############################

################################
Annotateur (H/F) en langue Allemande

ELDA (Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency,
http://www.elda.org/) a pour activit?s principales la distribution et la
production de ressources linguistiques, ainsi que l'?valuation de
technologies de la langue.

Dans le cadre de ses activit?s de production, ELDA offre plusieurs 
postes d'annotateur (H/F) ? plein-temps.

_Mission_ :__

Il s'agit d'annoter des documents textuels de types microblogs (tweets) 
afin d'en extraire les opinions et les sentiments. Le travail sera 
effectu? via un logiciel et selon des conventions d'annotation 
sp?cifiques. La formation au logiciel et aux conventions sera assur?e 
par l'employeur.

_Profil recherch?_ :__

  * Allemand langue maternelle
  * Bonne ma?trise de l'outil informatique
  * Capacit? ? int?grer des r?gles (d'annotation) et ? les suivre
    scrupuleusement et avec constance
  * Une premi?re exp?rience d'annotation serait un plus


_Dur?e_ : Plein-temps, pour une dur?e de 1 mois et demi (extensible ? 2).

_Lieu_ : la mission s'effectuera au sein des locaux d'ELDA (Paris 13e)

_Salaire_ : selon profil et performances.

Les candidatures (CV, lettre de motivation) doivent ?tre adress?es ?
leixa at elda.org et ? chomicha at elda.org .  
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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:03:52 +0100
Subject: Appel: WoLLIC 2014
Message-ID: <SAT.22.MAR.2014.160352.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:46:40 -0300
From: Ruy de Queiroz <ruy at cin.ufpe.br>
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DEADLINE APPROACHING!

[Please circulate. Apologies for any cross-postings.]


WoLLIC 2014
21st Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
September 1st to 4th, 2014
Valparaiso, Chile


SCIENTIFIC SPONSORSHIP
Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL)
The Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI)
Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL)
European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL)
Sociedade Brasileira de Computa??o (SBC)
Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL)

ORGANISATION
Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Department of Computer Science, Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de
Chile, Chile
Centro de Inform?tica, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

HOSTED BY
Department of Informatics, Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Mar?a,
Chile


CALL FOR PAPERS
WoLLIC is an annual international forum on inter-disciplinary research
involving formal logic, computing and programming theory, and natural
language and reasoning. Each meeting includes invited talks and
tutorials as well as contributed papers. The twentieth WoLLIC will be
held at the Universidad T?cnica Federico Santa Mar?a, from September 1st
to 4th, 2014.  It is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic
(ASL), the Interest Group in Pure and Applied Logics (IGPL), the The
Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), the European
Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European
Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), the Sociedade Brasileira
de Computa??o (SBC), and the Sociedade Brasileira de L?gica (SBL).

PAPER SUBMISSION
Contributions are invited on all pertinent subjects, with particular
interest in cross-disciplinary topics. Typical but not exclusive areas
of interest are: foundations of computing and programming; novel
computation models and paradigms; broad notions of proof and belief;
proof mining, type theory, effective learnability; formal methods in
software and hardware development; logical approach to natural language
and reasoning; logics of programs, actions and resources; foundational
aspects of information organization, search, flow, sharing, and
protection. Proposed contributions should be in English, and consist of
a scholarly exposition accessible to the non-specialist, including
motivation, background, and comparison with related works. They must not
exceed 10 pages (in font 10 or higher), with up to 5 additional pages
for references and technical appendices. The paper's main results must
not be published or submitted for publication in refereed venues,
including journals and other scientific meetings. It is expected that
each accepted paper be presented at the meeting by one of its
authors. Papers must be submitted electronically at the WoLLIC 2014
EasyChair website. (Please go to
http://wollic.org/wollic2014/instructions.html for instructions.) A
title and single-paragraph abstract should be submitted by Mar 24, 2014,
and the full paper by Mar 28, 2014 (firm date). Notifications are
expected by May 2, 2014, and final papers for the proceedings will be
due by May 15, 2014 (firm date).

PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings of WoLLIC 2014, including both invited and contributed
papers, will be published in advance of the meeting as a volume in
Springer's LNCS series. In addition, abstracts will be published in the
Conference Report section of the Logic Journal of the IGPL, and selected
contributions will be published as a special post-conference WoLLIC 2014
issue of a scientific journal (to be confirmed).

INVITED SPEAKERS
Ver?nica Becher (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Juha Kontinen (University of Helsinki)
Aarne Ranta (University of Gothenburg)
Kazushige Terui (Kyoto University)
Luca Vigano (Universit? di Verona)
Thomas Wilke (Christian-Albrechts-Universit?t zu Kiel)

STUDENT GRANTS
ASL sponsorship of WoLLIC 2014 will permit ASL student members to apply
for a modest travel grant (deadline: May 1st, 2014). See
http://www.aslonline.org/studenttravelawards.html for details.

IMPORTANT DATES
Mar 24, 2014: Paper title and abstract deadline
Mar 28, 2014: Full paper deadline
May 2, 2014: Author notification
May 15, 2014: Final version deadline (firm)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Ulrich Kohlenbach (Technische Universit?t Darmstadt) - Chair
Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)
Eric Allender (Rutgers University)
Marcelo Arenas (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile)
Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University)
Stefano Berardi (Universit? di Torino)
Julian Bradfield (University of Edinburgh)
Xavier Caicedo (Universidad de los Andes, Bogot?)
Olivier Danvy (University of Aarhus)
Hans van Ditmarsch (LORIA)
Marcus Kracht (University of Bielefeld)
Michiel van Lambalgen (University of Amsterdam)
Klaus Meer (Technische Universit?t Cottbus)
George Metcalfe (University of Bern)
Dale Miller (INRIA/LIX)
Russell Miller (City University of New York)
Sara Negri (University of Helsinki)
Grigory Olkhovikov (Urals State University)
Nicole Schweikardt (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main)
Sebastiaan Terwijn (Radboud University Nijmegen)

STEERING COMMITTEE
Samson Abramksy, Johan van Benthem, Anuj Dawar, Joe Halpern, Wilfrid
Hodges, Daniel Leivant, Leonid Libkin, Angus Macintyre, Grigori Mints,
Luke Ong, Hiroakira Ono, Ruy de Queiroz.

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Pablo Barcel? (Universidad de Chile) (Local chair)
Anjolina G. de Oliveira (U Fed Pernambuco)
Ruy de Queiroz (U Fed Pernambuco) (co-chair)
Juan Reutter (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile)
Cristi?n Riveros (Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile)

FURTHER INFORMATION
Contact one of the Co-Chairs of the Organising Committee.

WEB PAGE
http://wollic.org/wollic2014/

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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 16:24:55 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL workshop, Computational Linguistics for Literature,
 April 27, 2014, Gothenburg
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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 10:05:27 -0400
From: Stan Szpakowicz <szpak at eecs.uottawa.ca>
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The Third Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Literature,
co-located with EACL in Gothenburg, invites all and sundry for a day of
NLP with a difference. Join us on April 27 to hear two exciting invited
talks and eight intriguing presentations. You will meet digital poetics
and encounter a particular view of digital humanities. You will find out
how to turn a novel into a piece of music, how to recreate a social
network in a piece of prose, and much more.

https://sites.google.com/site/clfl2014a/

Come one, come all!

Anna, Anna, Sta


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:14:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:14:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: CogALex-IV, Workshop co-located with Coling
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.221418.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:42:49 +0800
From: zock <zock at free.fr>
Message-ID: <533195E9.3030201 at free.fr>
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Apologies for multiple postings. Please distribute to colleagues.

Please note that the url of the CogALex website (announced beginning
march) has changed.

The one mentioned in this message is the correct one (sorry for causing
any inconvenience)

---------------------------------------------

1st Call for Papers

4th Workshop on? Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex)
together with a shared task concerning the 'lexical access-problem'

Pre-conference workshop at COLING 2014 (August 23d, Dublin, Ireland)

Submission deadline: May 25, 2014

Invited speaker : Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)

http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/CogALex-IV/cogalex-webpage/
index.html


GOAL

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers involved in the
construction and application of electronic dictionaries to discuss
modifications of existing resources in line with the users' needs,
thereby fully exploiting the advantages of the digital form. Given the
breadth of the questions, we welcome reports on work from many
perspectives, including but not limited to: computational lexicography,
psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, language learning and
ergonomics.

MOTIVATION

The way we look at dictionaries (their creation and use) has changed
dramatically over the past 30 years. While being considered as an
appendix to grammar in the past, by now they have moved to centre
stage. Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP which can be conducted
without them. Also, rather than being static entities (data-base view),
dictionaries are now viewed as dynamic networks, i.e. graphs, whose
nodes and links (connection strengths) may change over
time. Interestingly, properties concerning topology, clustering and
evolution known from other disciplines (society, economy, human brain)
also apply to dictionaries: everything is linked, hence accessible, and
everything is evolving. Given these similarities, one may wonder what we
can learn from these disciplines.

In this 4th edition of the CogALex workshop we therefore also invite
scientists working in these fields, with the goal to broaden the
picture, i.e. to gain a better understanding concerning the mental
lexicon and to integrate these findings into our dictionaries in order
to support navigation. Given recent advances in neurosciences, it
appears timely to seek inspiration from neuroscientists studying the
human brain. There is also a lot to be learned from other fields
studying graphs and networks, even if their object of study is something
else than language, for example biology, economy or society.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

This workshop is about possible enhancements of lexical resources and
electronic dictionaries. To perform the groundwork for the next
generation of such resources we invite researchers involved in the
building of such tools.  The idea is to discuss modifications of
existing resources by taking the users? needs and knowledge states into
account, and to capitalize on the advantages of the digital media. For
this workshop we solicit papers including but not limited to the
following topics, each of which can be considered from various points of
view: linguistics, neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip of the tongue
problem, associations), network related sciences (sociology, economy,
biology), mathematics (vector-based approaches, graph theory,
small-world problem), etc.

1) Analysis of the conceptual input of a dictionary user

* What does a language producer start from (bag of words)?
* What is in the authors' minds when they are generating a message and
  looking for a word?
* What does it take to bridge the gap between this input and the desired
  output (target word)?

2) The meaning of words

* Lexical representation (holistic, decomposed)
* Meaning representation (concept based, primitives)
* Revelation of hidden information (distributional semantics, latent
  semantics, vector-based approaches: LSA/HAL)
* Neural models, neurosemantics, neurocomputational theories of content
  representation.

3) Structure of the lexicon

* Discovering structures in the lexicon: formal and semantic point of
  view (clustering, topical structure)

* Creative ways of getting access to and using word associations
  (reading between the lines, subliminal communication);

* Evolution, i.e. dynamic aspects of the lexicon (changes of weights)

* Neural models of the mental lexicon (distribution of information
  concerning words, organisation of words)

4) Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes

* Manual, automatic or collaborative building of dictionaries and
  indexes (crowd-sourcing, serious games, etc.)
* Impact and use of social networks (Facebook, Twitter) for building
  dictionaries, for organizing and indexing the data (clustering of
  words), and for allowing to track navigational strategies, etc.
* (Semi-) automatic induction of the link type (e.g. synonym, hypernym,
  meronym, association, collocation, ...)
* Use of corpora and patterns (data-mining) for getting access to words,
  their uses, combinations and associations

5) Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies, interface issues,...)

* Search based on sound, meaning or associations
* Search (simple query vs multiple words)
* Context-dependent search (modification of users? goals during search)
* Recovery
* Navigation (frequent navigational patterns or search strategies used
  by people)
* Interface problems, data-visualisation

6) Dictionary applications

* Methods supporting vocabulary learning (for example, creation of
  data-bases showing words in various contexts)
* Tools for supporting Human translation

IMPORTANT DATES

* Deadline for paper submissions: May 25, 2014
* Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2014
* Camera-ready papers due : July 7, 2014
* Worskhop date: August 23, 2014

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should follow the COLING main conference formatting details
(http:// www.coling-2014.org/call-for-papers.php) and should be
submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at
https://www.softconf.com/coling2014/WS-1/ (you must register first).

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submission must
describe original and unpublished work without exceeding six (6) pages
(references included). Characteristics of short papers include: a small,
focused contribution; work in progress; a negative result; a piece of
opinion; an interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must
describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without
exceeding twelve (12) pages (references included).

Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the
authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop
proceedings.

For further details see:
http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/CogALex-IV/cogalex-webpage/index.html


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

* Bel Enguix, Gemma (LIF-CNRS, France)
* Chang, Jason (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
* Cook, Paul (University of Melbourne, Australia)
* Cristea, Dan (University A.I.Cuza, Iasi, Romania)
* De Deyne, Simon (Experimental Psychology, Leuven, Belgium) and
  (Adelaide, Australia)
* De Melo, Gerard (IIIS, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
* Ferret, Olivier (CEA LIST, Gif sur Yvette, France)
* Fontenelle, Thierry (CDT, Luxemburg)
* Gala, Nuria (LIF-CNRS, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France)
* Granger, Sylviane (Universit? Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
* Grefenstette, Gregory (Inria, Saclay, France)
* Hirst, Graeme (University of Toronto, Canada)
* Hovy, Eduard (CMU, Pittsburgh, USA)
* Hsieh, Shu-Kai (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
* Huang, Chu-Ren (Hongkong Polytechnic University, China)
* Joyce, Terry (Tama University, Kanagawa-ken, Japan)
* Lapalme, Guy (RALI, University of Montreal, Canada)
* Lenci, Alessandro (CNR, university of Pisa, Italy)
* L'Homme, Marie Claude (University of Montreal, Canada)
* Mihalcea, Rada (University of Texas, USA)
* Navigli, Roberto (Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy)
* Pirrelli, Vito (ILC, Pisa, Italy)
* Polgu?re, Alain (ATILF-CNRS, Nancy, France)
* Rapp, Reinhard (LIF-CNRS, France) and (Mainz, Germany)
* Rosso, Paolo (NLEL, Universitat Polit?cnica de Val?ncia, Spain)
* Schwab, Didier (LIG-GETALP, Grenoble, France)
* Serasset, Gilles (IMAG, Grenoble, France)
* Sharoff, Serge (University of Leeds, UK)
* Su, Jun-Ming (University of Tainan, Taiwan)
* Tiberius, Carole (Institute for Dutch Lexicology, The Netherlands)
* Tokunaga, Takenobu (TITECH, Tokyo, Japan)
* Tufis, Dan (RACAI, Bucharest, Romania)
* Valitutti, Alessandro (Helsinki Institute of Information Technology, Finland)
* Wandmacher, Tonio (IRT SystemX, Saclay, France)
* Zock, Michael (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), currently (University of Tainan,
Taiwan)


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS and CONTACT PERSONS

* Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), michael.zock AT
  lif.univ-mrs.fr
* Reinhard Rapp (University of Aix Marseille (France) and Mainz (Germany),
  reinhardrapp AT gmx.de
* Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong),
  churen.huang AT inet.polyu.edu.hk


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From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:16:16 +0100
Subject: Appel: Shared task on the 'lexical access problem',
 CogALex-IV Workshop
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.221616.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:48:41 +0800
From: zock <zock at free.fr>
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SHARED TASK ON THE LEXICAL ACCESS PROBLEM (COMPUTING ASSOCIATIONS WHEN
GIVEN MULTIPLE STIMULI)

In the framework of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon
(CogALex) to be held at COLING 2014, we invite participation in a shared
task devoted to the problem of lexical access in language production,
with the aim of providing a quantitative comparison between different
systems.

MOTIVATION

The quality of a dictionary depends not only on coverage, but also on
the accessibility of the information. That is a crucial point is
dictionary access.  Access strategies vary with the task (text
understanding vs. text production) and the knowledge available at the
very moment of consultation (words, concepts, speech sounds). Unlike
readers who look for meanings, writers start from them, searching for
the corresponding words. While paper dictionaries are static, permitting
only limited strategies for accessing information, their electronic
counterparts promise dynamic, proactive search via multiple criteria
(meaning, sound, related words) and via diverse access
routes. Navigation takes place in a huge conceptual lexical space, and
the results are displayable in a multitude of forms (e.g. as trees, as
lists, as graphs, or sorted alphabetically, by topic, by frequency).

To bring some structure into this multitude of possibilities, the shared
task will concentrate on a crucial subtask, namely multiword
association.? What we mean by this in the context of this workshop is
the following. Suppose, we were looking for a word expressing the
following ideas: 'superior dark coffee made of beans from Arabia', but
could not remember the intended word 'mocha' due to the
tip-of-the-tongue problem. Since people always remember something
concerning the elusive word, it would be nice to have a system accepting
this kind of input, to propose then a number of candidates for the
target word.  Given the above example, we might enter 'dark', 'coffee',
'beans', and 'Arabia', and the system would be supposed to come up with
one or several associated words such as 'mocha', 'espresso', or
'cappuccino'.

?
TASK DEFINITION

The participants will receive lists of five given words (primes) such as
'circus', 'funny', 'nose', 'fool', and 'fun' and are supposed to compute
the word which is most closely associated to all of them. In this case,
the word 'clown' would be the expected response. Here are some more
examples:

 given words: gin, drink, scotch, bottle, soda
 target word: whisky

 given words: wheel, driver, bus, drive, lorry
 target word: car

 given words: neck, animal, zoo, long, tall
 target word: giraffe

 given words: holiday, work, sun, summer, abroad
 target word: vacation

 given words: home, garden, door, boat, chimney
 target word: house

 given words: blue, cloud, stars, night, high
 target word: sky

We will provide a training set of 2000 sets of five input words
(multiword stimuli), together with the expected target words
(associative responses). The participants will have about five weeks to
train their systems on this data.  After the training phase, we will
release a test set containing another 2000 sets of five input words, but
without providing the expected target words.

Participants will have five days to run their systems on the test data,
thereby predicting the target words. For each system, we will compare
the results to the expected target words and compute an accuracy. The
participants will be invited to submit a paper describing their approach
and their results.

For the participating systems, we will distinguish two categories:

(1) Unrestricted systems. They can use any kind of data to compute their
    results.

(2) Restricted systems: These systems are only allowed to draw on the
    freely available ukWaC corpus in order to extract information on
    word associations.  The ukWaC corpus comprises about 2 billion words
    and is can be downloaded from
    http://wacky.sslmit.unibo.it/doku.php?id=corpora.

Participants are allowed to compete in either category or in both.


VENUE

The shared task will take place as part of the CogALex workshop which is
co-located with COLING 2014 (Dublin). The workshop date is August 23,
2014.  Shared task participants who wish to have a paper published in
the workshop proceedings will be required to present their work at the
workshop.


SHARED TASK SCHEDULE

Training data release: March 27, 2014
Test data release: May 5, 2014
Final results due: May 9, 2014
Deadline for paper submission: May 25, 2014
Reviewers' feedback: June, 15, 2014
Camera-ready version: July 7, 2014
Workshop date: August 23, 2014


FURTHER INFORMATION

CogALex workshop website: http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/CogALex-IV/cogalex-webpage/index.html
Data releases: To be found on the above workshop website from the dates
given in the schedule.
Registration for the shared task: Send e-mail to Michael Zock, with
Reinhard Rapp in copy.

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Michael Zock (LIF-CNRS, Marseille, France), michael.zock AT
lif.univ-mrs.fr
Reinhard Rapp (University of Aix Marseille (France) and Mainz (Germany),
reinhardrapp AT gmx.de
Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong),
churen.huang AT inet.polyu.edu.hk

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:42:11 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:42:11 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL 2014 Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014),
 April 26-27, 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 23:40:40 +0100
From: Agata Savary <agata.savary at univ-tours.fr>
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(apologies for multiple posts)
               ==========================================
                         Call for Participation
               ==========================================
         The 10th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014)

     Workshop at EACL 2014 (Gothenburg, Sweden), April 26-27, 2014

Endorsed by the
Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (SIGLEX)
SIGLEX's Multiword Expressions Section (SIGLEX-MWE), and
PARSEME, European IC1207 COST Action

Invited Speakers:
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute (Qatar)
Ekaterina Shutova, ICSI, UC Berkeley (USA)
One more invited speaker: TBC

Workshop website:http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwe2014/?

Registration:http://eacl2014.org/registration
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The Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2014) is the tenth
anniversary edition of related workshops which have been held almost
every year since 2003 in conjunction with ACL, EACL, NAACL, COLING and
LREC.

The workshop provides an important venue for interaction, sharing of
resources and tools and collaboration efforts for advancing the
computational treatment of Multiword Expressions (MWEs). The workshop is
targeted at anyone working on a variety of languages and MWE types.

MWEs include idioms (storm in a teacup, sweep under the rug), fixed
phrases (in vitro, by and large, rock'n roll), noun compounds (olive
oil, laser printer), compound verbs (take a nap, bring about), among
others. These, while easily mastered by native speakers, are a key issue
and a current weakness for natural language parsing and generation, as
well as real-life applications depending on some degree of semantic
interpretation, such as machine translation, just to name a prominent
one among many. However, thanks to the joint efforts of researchers from
several fields working on MWEs, significant progress has been made in
recent years, especially concerning the construction of large-scale
language resources. For instance, there is a large number of recent
papers that focus on acquisition of MWEs from corpora, and others that
describe a variety of techniques to find paraphrases for MWEs. Current
methods use a plethora of tools such as association measures, machine
learning, syntactic patterns, web queries, etc.

This year's tenth anniversary edition of the MWE workshop is also
supported by the IC1207 COST action PARSEME dedicated to Parsing and
Multiword Expressions. This European initiative, which started in 2013,
gathers 29 European COST member countries, one COST cooperating state
and 3 non-COST institutions from the USA and Brazil. Its objective is to
increase and enhance the information and communication technology
support of the European multilingual heritage by bringing about a
substantial progress in the understanding and modelling of MWEs within
advanced multilingual NLP techniques, notably deep parsing.

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME

Saturday, April 26, 2014

8:45--9:00 Opening Remarks

09:00-10:00 Oral Session 1: Detection and Extraction of MWEs

9:00--9:30 Breaking Bad: Extraction of Verb-Particle Constructions from
a Parallel Subtitles Corpus
Aaron Smith

9:30--10:00 A Supervised Model for Extraction of Multiword Expressions,
Based on Statistical Context Features
Meghdad Farahmand and Ronaldo Martins

10:00-10:30 Oral Session 2: PARSEME I -- Parsing MWEs

10:00--10:30 VPCTagger: Detecting Verb-Particle Constructions With
Syntax-Based Methods
Istv?n Nagy T. and Veronika Vincze

10:30--11:00 Coffee Break

11:00--12:00 Invited Talk 1: Preslav Nakov - Title "The Web as an
Implicit
Training Set: Application to Noun Compounds Syntax and Semantics"

12:00-12:30 Oral Session 2: PARSEME I -- Parsing MWEs (continued)

12:00--12:30 The Relevance of Collocations for Parsing
Eric Wehrli

12:30--14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Oral Session 3: Short papers -- PARSEME II

14:00--14:20 Parsing Modern Greek verb MWEs with LFG/XLE grammars Niki
Samaridi and Stella Markantonatou

14:20--14:40 Evaluation of a Substitution Method for Idiom
Transformation in Statistical Machine Translation
Giancarlo Salton, Robert Ross and John Kelleher

14:40--15:00 Encoding MWEs in a conceptual lexicon
Aggeliki Fotopoulou, Stella Markantonatou and Voula Giouli

15:00--15:30 Poster Booster Session (4 minutes per poster)

German Compounds and Statistical Machine Translation. Can they get
along?
Carla Parra Escart?n, Stephan Peitz and Hermann Ney

Extracting MWEs from Italian corpora: A case study for refining
thePOS-pattern methodology
Sara Castagnoli, Malvina Nissim and Francesca Masini

Mickey Mouse is not a Phrase: Improving Relevance in E-Commerce with
Multiword Expressions
Prathyusha Senthil Kumar, Vamsi Salaka, Tracy Holloway King and Brian
Johnson

Encoding of Compounds in Swedish FrameNet
Karin Friberg Heppin and Miriam R L Petruck

Extraction of Nominal Multiword Expressions in French
Marie Dubremetz and Joakim Nivre

Towards an Empirical Subcategorization of Multiword Expressions
Luigi Squillante

Contexts, Patterns, Interrelations - New Ways of Presenting Multi-word
Expressions
Kathrin Steyer and Annelen Brunner

Detecting change and emergence for multiword expressions
Martin Emms and Arun Jayapal

An Approach to Take Multi-Word Expressions
Claire Bonial, Meredith Green, Jenette Preciado and Martha Palmer

15:30--16:00 Coffee Break

16:00--17:30 Poster Session

Sunday, April 27, 2014

9:30--10:30 Invited Talk 2: TBA

10:30--11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Oral Session 5: Short papers -- MWEs in multilingual
applications

11:00--11:20 Paraphrasing Swedish Compound Nouns in Machine Translation
Edvin Ullman and Joakim Nivre

11:20--11:40 Feature Norms of German Noun Compounds
Stephen Roller and Sabine Schulte im Walde

11:40--12:00 Identifying collocations using cross-lingual association
measures Lis Pereira, Elga Strafella, Kevin Duh and Yuji Matsumoto

12:00-12:30 Oral Session 6: Issues in lexicon construction and Machine
Translation

12:00--12:30 Unsupervised Construction of a Lexicon and a Repository of
Variation Patterns for Arabic Modal Multiword Expressions
Rania Al-Sabbagh, Roxana Girju and Jana diesner

12:30--14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Oral Session 6: Issues in lexicon construction and Machine
Translation (continued)

14:00--14:30 Issues in Translating Verb-Particle Constructions from
German to English
Nina Schottm?ller and Joakim Nivre

14:30--15:30 Invited Talk 3: Ekaterina Shutova - Title: "Statistical
modelling of metaphor"

15:30--15:45 Closing remarks

Program Committee

I?aki Alegria, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Dimitra Anastasiou, University of Bremen (Germany)
Doug Arnold, University of Essex (UK)
Eleftherios Avramidis, DFKI GmbH (Germany)
Tim Baldwin, University of Melbourne (Australia)
N?ria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
Chris Biemann, Technische Universit?t Darmstadt (Germany)
Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Ant?nio Branco, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Miriam Butt, Universit?t Konstanz (Germany)
Aoife Cahill, ETS (USA)
Ken Church, IBM Research (USA)
Matthieu Constant, Universit? Paris-Est Marne-la-Vall?e (France) Paul
Cook, University of Melbourne (Australia)
B?atrice Daille, Nantes University (France)
Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen (Norway)
Ga?l Dias, University of Caen Basse-Normandie (France)
G?ls,en Eryig(it, Istanbul Technical University (Turkey)
Tomaz( Erjavec, Joz(ef Stefan Institute (Slovenia)
Joaquim Ferreira da Silva, New University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Roxana Girju, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Chikara Hashimoto, National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (Japan)
Ulrich Heid, Universit?t Hildesheim (Germany)
Kyo Kageura, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Ioannis Korkontzelos, University of Manchester (UK)
Brigitte Krenn, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
(Austria)
Cvetana Krstev, University of Belgrade (Serbia)
Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, The Ohio State University (USA)
Takuya Matsuzaki, National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute (Qatar)
Malvina Nissim, University of Bologna (Italy)
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Diarmuid ? S?aghdha, University of Cambridge (UK)
Jan Odijk, University of Utrecht (The Netherlands)
Yannick Parmentier, Universit? d'Orl?ans (France)
Pavel Pecina, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
Scott Piao, Lancaster University (UK)
Adam Przepi?rkowski, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of
Sciences (Poland)
Victoria Ros?n, University of Bergen (Norway)
Carlos Ramisch, Aix-Marseille University (France)
Manfred Sailer, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Magali Sanches Duran, University of S?o Paulo (Brazil)
Violeta Seretan, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Ekaterina Shutova, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
Jan S(najder, University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Pavel Stran(?k, Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
Sara Stymne, Uppsala University (Sweden)
Stan Szpakowicz, University of Ottawa (Canada)
Beata Trawinski, Institut f?r Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim (Germany)
Yulia Tsvetkov, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
Yuancheng Tu, Microsoft (USA)
Ruben Urizar, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Gertjan van Noord, University of Groningen (The Netherlands)
Aline Villavicencio, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Veronika Vincze, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary)
Martin Volk, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Tom Wasow, Stanford University (USA)
Shuly Wintner, University of Haifa (Israel)
Dekai Wu, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (Hong Kong)

Workshop Organizers
Valia Kordoni (Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany)
Markus Egg (Humboldt Universit?t zu Berlin, Germany)
Agata Savary, special track organizer (Universit? Fran?ois Rabelais Tours,
France)
Eric Wehrli, special track organizer (Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland)
Stefan Evert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany)

Contact
For any inquiries regarding the workshop please send an email to
mweworkshop.eacl2014 at gmail.com

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:55:31 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:55:31 +0100
Subject: Job: Offre d'emploi LNE,
 Poste d'Ingenieur/ docteur Traitement Automatique de l'information
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.215531.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:18:11 +0100
From: "Pasquier Audrey" <audrey.pasquier at lne.fr>
Message-ID: <70C622AB7EA16E4EA1CE5596C9F1BDEB0105043B at TMSG.intra.lne>
X-url: http://www.lne.fr/


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:31:04 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:31:04 +0100
Subject: Appel: SLSP 2014
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.213104.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 21:44:40 +0100
From: "GRLMC" <grlmc at urv.cat>
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2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL LANGUAGE AND SPEECH
PROCESSING

SLSP 2014

Grenoble, France

October 14-16, 2014

Organised by:

?quipe GETALP
Laboratoire d?Informatique de Grenoble

Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University

http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/

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AIMS:

SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying
excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are
currently in use in computational language or speech processing. It aims
at attracting contributions from both fields. Though there exist large,
well-known conferences and workshops hosting contributions to any of
these areas, SLSP is a more focused meeting where synergies between
subdomains and people will hopefully happen. In SLSP 2014, significant
room will be reserved to young scholars at the beginning of their career
and particular focus will be put on methodology.

VENUE:

SLSP 2014 will take place in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps.

SCOPE:

The conference invites submissions discussing the employment of
statistical methods (including machine learning) within language and
speech processing.
The list below is indicative and not exhaustive:

phonology, phonetics, prosody, morphology
syntax, semantics
discourse, dialogue, pragmatics
statistical models for natural language processing
supervised, unsupervised and semi-supervised machine learning methods
applied to natural language, including speech
statistical methods, including biologically-inspired methods
similarity
alignment
language resources
part-of-speech tagging
parsing
semantic role labelling
natural language generation
anaphora and coreference resolution
speech recognition 
speaker identification/verification
speech transcription
speech synthesis
machine translation
translation technology
text summarisation
information retrieval
text categorisation
information extraction
term extraction
spelling correction
text and web mining
opinion mining and sentiment analysis
spoken dialogue systems
author identification, plagiarism and spam filtering

STRUCTURE:

SLSP 2014 will consist of:

invited talks
invited tutorials
peer-reviewed contributions

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Claire Gardent (LORIA, Nancy, FR), Grammar Based Sentence Generation and
Statistical Error Mining
Roger K. Moore (Sheffield, UK), Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look
Outside?
Martti Vainio (Helsinki, FI), Phonetics and Machine Learning:
Hierarchical Modelling of Prosody in Statistical Speech Synthesis

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK)
Srinivas Bangalore (Florham Park, US)
Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde, DK)
Herv? Bourlard (Martigny, CH)
Bill Byrne (Cambridge, UK)
Nick Campbell (Dublin, IE)
David Chiang (Marina del Rey, US)
Kenneth W. Church (Yorktown Heights, US)
Walter Daelemans (Antwerpen, BE)
Thierry Dutoit (Mons, BE)
Alexander Gelbukh (Mexico City, MX)
James Glass (Cambridge, US)
Ralph Grishman (New York, US)
Sanda Harabagiu (Dallas, US)
Xiaodong He (Redmond, US)
Hynek Hermansky (Baltimore, US)
Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi, JP)
Lori Lamel (Orsay, FR)
Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang, KR)
Haizhou Li (Singapore, SG)
Daniel Marcu (Los Angeles, US)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, ES, chair)
Manuel Montes-y-G?mez (Puebla, MX)
Satoshi Nakamura (Nara, JP)
Shrikanth S. Narayanan (Los Angeles, US)
Vincent Ng (Dallas, US)
Joakim Nivre (Uppsala, SE)
Elmar N?th (Erlangen, DE)
Maurizio Omologo (Trento, IT)
Mari Ostendorf (Seattle, US)
Barbara H. Partee (Amherst, US)
Gerald Penn (Toronto, CA)
Massimo Poesio (Colchester, UK)
James Pustejovsky (Waltham, US)
Ga?l Richard (Paris, FR)
German Rigau (San Sebasti?n, ES)
Paolo Rosso (Valencia, ES)
Yoshinori Sagisaka (Tokyo, JP)
Bj?rn W. Schuller (London, UK)
Satoshi Sekine (New York, US)
Richard Sproat (New York, US)
Mark Steedman (Edinburgh, UK)
Jian Su (Singapore, SG)
Marc Swerts (Tilburg, NL)
Jun'ichi Tsujii (Beijing, CN)
Gertjan van Noord (Groningen, NL)
Renata Vieira (Porto Alegre, BR)
Dekai Wu (Hong Kong, HK)
Feiyu Xu (Berlin, DE)
Roman Yangarber (Helsinki, FI)
Geoffrey Zweig (Redmond, US)

ORGANISING COMMITTEE:

Laurent Besacier (Grenoble, co-chair)
Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona)
Benjamin Lecouteux (Grenoble)
Carlos Mart?n-Vide (Tarragona, co-chair)
Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona)

SUBMISSIONS:

Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English
presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed
12 single-spaced pages (including eventual appendices) and should be
prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's
LNAI/LNCS series (see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

Submissions have to be uploaded to:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slsp2014

PUBLICATIONS:

A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNAI/LNCS series
will be available by the time of the conference.

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the
conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.

REGISTRATION:

The period for registration is open from January 16, 2014 to October 14,
2014. The registration form can be found at:

http://grammars.grlmc.com/slsp2014/Registration.php

DEADLINES:

Paper submission: May 7, 2014 (23:59h, CET)
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: June 18, 2014
Final version of the paper for the LNAI/LNCS proceedings: June 25, 2014
Early registration: July 2, 2014
Late registration: September 30, 2014
Submission to the post-conference journal special issue: January 16, 2015

QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:

florentinalilica.voicu at urv.cat

POSTAL ADDRESS:

SLSP 2014
Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC)
Rovira i Virgili University
Av. Catalunya, 35
43002 Tarragona, Spain

Phone: +34 977 559 543
Fax: +34 977 558 386

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

Departament d?Economia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya
Laboratoire d?Informatique de Grenoble
Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:45:14 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:45:14 +0100
Subject: Appel: SenticNet, ICML14 workshop on sentiment analysis
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.214514.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 04:49:50 -0500 (EST)
From: feeds <feeds at sentic.net>
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Apologies for cross-posting,

Submissions are invited for MASALA (Machine-learning Approaches to
Sentiment Analysis and Learning Algorithms), an ICML14 workshop
exploring the new frontiers of big data computing for opinion mining
through machine-learning techniques and sentiment learning methods. For
more information, please visit: http://sentic.net/masala

RATIONALE
The distillation of knowledge from social media is an extremely
difficult task as the content of today's Web, while perfectly suitable
for human consumption, remains hardly accessible to machines. The
opportunity to capture the opinions of the general public about social
events, political movements, company strategies, marketing campaigns,
and product preferences has raised growing interest both within the
scientific community, leading to many exciting open challenges, as well
as in the business world, due to the remarkable benefits to be had from
marketing and financial market prediction.

Statistical NLP has been the mainstream NLP research direction since
late 1990s.  It relies on language models based on popular
machine-learning algorithms such as maximum-likelihood, expectation
maximization, conditional random fields, and support vector machines. By
feeding a large training corpus of annotated texts to a machine-learning
algorithm, it is possible for the system to not only learn the valence
of keywords, but also to take into account the valence of other
arbitrary keywords, punctuation, and word co-occurrence
frequencies. However, standard statistical methods are generally
semantically weak if they merely focus on lexical co-occurrence elements
with little predictive value individually.

Endogenous NLP, instead, involves the use of machine-learning techniques
to perform semantic analysis of a corpus by building structures that
approximate concepts from a large set of documents. It does not involve
prior semantic understanding of documents; instead, it relies only on
the endogenous knowledge of these (rather than on external knowledge
bases). The advantages of this approach over the knowledge engineering
approach are effectiveness, considerable savings in terms of expert
manpower, and straightforward portability to different
domains. Endogenous NLP includes methods based either on lexical
semantics, which focuses on the meanings of individual words (e.g., LSA,
LDA, and MapReduce), or compositional semantics, which looks at the
meanings of sentences and longer utterances (e.g., HMM, association rule
learning, and probabilistic generative models).

TOPICS
MASALA aims to provide an international forum for researchers in the
field of machine learning for opinion mining and sentiment analysis to
share information on their latest investigations in social information
retrieval and their applications both in academic research areas and
industrial sectors. The broader context of the workshop comprehends
opinion mining, social media marketing, information retrieval, and
natural language processing. Topics of interest include but are not
limited to:

- Endogenous NLP for sentiment analysis
- Sentiment learning algorithms
- Big social data analysis
- Opinion retrieval, extraction, classification, tracking and summarization
- Domain specific sentiment analysis and model adaptation
- Emotion detection
- Sentiment pattern mining
- Concept-level sentiment analysis
- Biologically-inspired opinion mining
- Social-network motivated methods for natural language processing
- Topic modeling for aspect-based sentiment analysis
- Learning to rank for social media
- Content-based and social-based recommendation
- Multimodal sentiment analysis
- Content-, concept-, and context-based sentiment analysis

TIMEFRAME
- April 20th, 2014: Submission deadline
- May 11th, 2014: Notification of acceptance
- May 18th, 2014: Final manuscripts due
- June 25th, 2014: Workshop date

ORGANIZERS
- Yunqing Xia, Tsinghua University (China)
- Erik Cambria, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
- Newton Howard, MIT Media Laboratory (USA)


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:51:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:51:50 +0100
Subject: Appel: ESWC 2014, Call for EU Project Networking
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.215150.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:31:56 +0100 (CET)
From: speroni at cs.unibo.it
Message-Id: <20140324153219.6ABAC1595A4 at vina.cines.fr>
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/program/eu-project-networking
X-url: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org

** apologies for cross-posting **

==== Call for EU Project Networking ====
http://2014.eswc-conferences.org/program/eu-project-networking

11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2014
Dates: May 25 - 29, 2014
Venue: Anissaras, Crete, Greece
Hashtag: #eswc2014
Feed: @eswc_conf
Site: http://2014.eswc-conferences.org
General Chair: Valentina Presutti (STLab, ISTC-CNR, IT)
Project Networking Session Chairs:
- Alessio Iabichella (STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy)
- Sergio Consoli (STLab, ISTC-CNR, Italy)

The EU project networking track of the ESWC2014 will provide an
opportunity for
* Knowledge sharing among EU projects
* Presentation and discussion of project results with ESWC participants
* Networking with officials from the European Commission

The project networking track is intended to provide EU projects with the
ability to connect with each other and engage in discussions about their
respective research and development, establish opportunities for
knowledge and technology sharing, and identify complementary activities
and goals which can form the basis for future collaborations, research
proposals, researcher exchange or joint participation at events or in
initiatives. EC officials will be present for related discussions.


* SUBMISSION *

Projects willing to participate at the session must submit a 2-page
extended abstract (PDF, Springer LNCS style). The abstract should
introduce the EU funded R&D project, briefly describe its R&D activities
and goals, outline what the project would show / demonstrate in the
session and specify what the project expects to gain from networking
with other projects (what it offers, what it is looking for).

Submissions will be evaluated by a separate Program Committee. There
will be a limited number of places for EU projects in the networking
space. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to
ESWC2014, tangible innovation and uniqueness in the R&D activities and a
clear goal to benefit from networking with other projects.

Submission will be through the Easychair system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eswc2014euprojects


* IMPORTANT DATES *

Abstract submission deadline          April 9th, 2014, 23:59 Hawaii Time
Notification of acceptance/rejection  April 15th, 2014
EU Project Networking Session         May 27th, 2014 


* IMPORTANT NOTICE *

Projects accepted for participation in the project networking track must
register at least one representative for the conference and be present
with their demo and poster.


From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:27:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:27:30 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier Web Intelligence @ RFIA 2014 (date limite 23/4)
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.222730.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:08:50 +0100
From: Olivier Boissier <Olivier.Boissier at emse.fr>
Message-Id: <CC05A388-D30C-499D-A880-74B3E1AA6F85 at emse.fr>
X-url: http://rfia2014.univ-rouen.fr/content/soumissions


- Merci de diffuser cette annonce aupr?s de vos coll?gues et contacts -

Appel ? Contributions

Atelier Web Intelligence

RFIA 2014 ? Rouen ? 30 juin et 1er juillet 2014

https://sites.google.com/site/wirfia2014/

 
L?objectif de l?atelier Web Intelligence est de faire le point sur les
mod?les et techniques de l?Intelligence Artificielle en lien avec le
d?veloppement du Web.
 
Le Web constitue en effet un espace d?information et de services,
intrins?quement ouvert et d?centralis?, qui connait une formidable
multiplication des donn?es, des services et des connaissances
disponibles, en m?me temps qu'une extension dans le monde physique (web
des objets) et dans les r?seaux sociaux de ses utilisateurs (web
social). Dans une soci?t? qui ?volue vers le ? tout num?rique ?, un
enjeu majeur est de pouvoir utiliser le web comme support ? la
communication et ? l??change d?information, ? la cr?ation et ? la
composition personnalis?es de multiples services accessibles par tous et
de n?importe o?. Cela concerne donc les entreprises, les organisations
locales, r?gionales et gouvernementales et, de plus en plus, le grand
public, les utilisateurs ?tant consid?r?s individuellement ou en tant
que membres de communaut?s.
 
Il s?agit donc dans cet atelier de pr?senter les recherches et
d?veloppements en cours, de rassembler les communaut?s de l'Intelligence
Artificielle contribuant aux diff?rentes facettes de cette probl?matique
large et soulevant de nombreux d?fis tant au niveau des usages que des
technologies.

Contributions
 
Les contributions attendues (en fran?ais ou en anglais) peuvent ?tre :
- des articles scientifiques (max 6 pages) ;
- des descriptions de r?alisations ou d?exp?rimentations en cours (2
  pages);
 
Les formats de soumissions respecteront le format indiqu? sur :
http://rfia2014.univ-rouen.fr/content/soumissions
 
Les articles doivent ?tre soumis en version pdf et envoy?s ?
wi-rfia-14 at emse.fr
 
Dates importantes
Soumission des articles : 23 Avril 2014
Notification aux auteurs : 14 Mai 2014
Version finale : 28 Mai 2014
 
Organisateurs :
 
Olivier Boissier, Institut Henri Fayol, ENS Mines Saint-Etienne
Catherine Faron Zucker, Universit? Nice Sophia Antipolis, laboratoire
I3S
Serge Garlatti, Telecom Bretagne
Thomas Guyet, Agrocampus-Ouest/IRISA
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:19:30 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:19:30 +0100
Subject: Appel: EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing &
 Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.221930.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:07:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Wajdi Zaghouani <wajdiuqam at yahoo.com>
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=======================================================

First Call for Papers and Participation
EMNLP Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing
Including Shared Task on Automatic Arabic Error Correction

Apologies for multiple postings
Please distribute to colleagues

=======================================================

First Call for Papers and Participation

Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop
collocated with EMNLP 2014, Doha, Qatar

Workshop date: Saturday October 25, 2014
Paper submission deadline: July 26, 2014
Shared task registration deadline: July 1, 2014

=======================================================

====================
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
====================

There has been a lot of progress in the last 15 years in the area of
Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP). Many Arabic NLP (or Arabic
NLP-related) workshops and conferences have taken place, both in the
Arab World and in association with international conferences, e.g., the
conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools (MEDAR-2009,
NEMLAR-2004), the workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic
Languages (LREC 2010, EACL 2009, ACL 2007, ACL 2005, ACL 2002, ACL
1998), the workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based
Languages (MTSummit XII 2009, LSA 2007, COLING 2004), the International
Symposium on Computer and Arabic Language (ISCAL 2009, ISCAL 2007), the
Colloque International sur le Traitement Automatique de la Langue Arabe
(CITALA 2007), the International Symposium on Processing of Arabic
(Tunisia 2002), the workshop on Arabic Language Resources and Evaluation
(LREC 2002), and the workshop on Arabic Language Processing (ACL -2001),
among others. This workshop proposal follows in the footsteps of these
efforts to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their
ongoing work. This workshop is timely given the continued rise in
research projects focusing on Arabic NLP in the Arab World and the West.

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to,
the following:

* Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation,
  tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking,
  parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect
  modeling, etc.

* Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech
  synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive
  technologies, social media, etc.

* Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, specialized databases etc.

Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work.
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the
Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, or
mixed. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors
should be willing to discuss the details of their work.  Submissions are
expected to be 8 pages long plus 2 pages for references.  Associated
with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic text error correction
(details below).

===========
SHARED TASK
===========

As part of the Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop at EMNLP 2014
(to be held in Doha, Qatar), 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 provided input will be provided in Arabic script and in a
standard Romanization scheme, and will be annotated for part-of-speech
(in three different granularities), clitics (which appear in 20% of
Arabic words), lemmas, English glosses, and dependency tree relations.
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. An XML format will be used to encode all of this
information.  A participating system then returns a corrected version of
the Arabic text that is one sentence per line in an XML format.  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, which includes common preprocessed
input and corrected output. 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.  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.

===============
IMPORTANT DATES
===============

Shared task registration period: April8, 2014 through July 1, 2014
Shared task test release:  July 7, 2014
Shared task system output collection: July 18, 2014
Submission deadline (Workshop and shared task papers): July 26, 2014
Author notification: August 26, 2014
Camera Ready: September 15, 2014
Workshop:October 25, 2014 

==========
ORGANIZERS
==========

Program Co-chairs
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Stephan Vogel, Qatar Computing Research Institute

Publication Co-chairs
Nadi Tomeh, Paris 13 University
Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar

Website Committee
Kareem Darwish, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Noura Farra, Columbia University 

Shared Task Committee
Behrang Mohit, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Alla Rozovskaya, Columbia University
Wajdi Zaghouani, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar 
Ossama Obeid, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
Nizar Habash, Columbia University (advisory)

Program Committee Members 
(TBA in Second Call)

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:23:06 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:23:06 +0100
Subject: Appel: Atelier Applications Pratiques de l'intelligence
 Artificielle @ RFIA 2014 (date limite 23/4)
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.222306.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:08:41 +0100
From: Secretaire AFIA <secretaire at afia.asso.fr>
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- Merci de diffuser cette annonce aupr?s de vos coll?gues et contacts -

Appel ? Contributions
 
Atelier Applications Pratiques de l'Intelligence Artificielle
 
RFIA 2014 ? Rouen ? 30 juin et 1er juillet 2014
 
 
Les recherches en Intelligence Artificielle (IA) donnent lieu depuis de
nombreuses ann?es ? de belles applications qui sont maintenant d?ploy?es
surtout dans le domaine industriel mais pas uniquement. Le succ?s de ces
applications est tel qu?il n??tonne plus. Les mod?les et technologies de
l?IA sont parfois int?gr?s ? un tel point aux autres composants
informatiques que ces ?l?ments fondamentaux ne sont plus visibles aux
utilisateurs et que les concepteurs les passent sous silence.
 
Cet atelier a pour objectif de ? d?senfouir ? les ?l?ments d?IA des
applications o? ils sont int?gr?s et souhaite faire le point sur leurs
avanc?es. L?objectif est de proposer aux chercheurs, acad?miques,
industriels et autres, un lieu d??change o? ils puissent partager leurs
exp?riences, d?battre des diff?rents verrous qu?ils rencontrent et des
m?thodes qu?ils mettent en ?uvre, pour enrichir le potentiel applicatif
des mod?les et outils de l?IA, en mettant en valeur l?IA de ces
applications.
 
Contributions
 
Les contributions attendues  (en fran?ais ou en anglais) peuvent ?tre :
- des articles scientifiques (max 6 pages) ;
- des descriptions de r?alisations ou d?exp?rimentations en cours (2
  pages);
 
Les formats de soumissions respecteront le format indiqu? sur :
http://rfia2014.univ-rouen.fr/content/soumissions
 
Les articles devront ?tre envoy?s en version pdf ? Yves.Demazeau at imag.fr
 
Dates importantes
 
Soumission des articles : 23 Avril 2014
Notification aux auteurs : 14 Mai 2014
Version finale : 28 Mai 2014
 
Organisateurs :
 
Karell Bertet, L3I, Universit? de La Rochelle, Limousin Poitou-Charentes
Yves Demazeau, LIG, CNRS, Grenoble Alpes
Sylvie Despr?s, LIMICS, Universit? de Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cit?
Philippe Mathieu, LIFL, Universit? de Lille 1, Universit? Lille Nord de
France

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:05:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:05:42 +0100
Subject: Ressources: ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:20:04 +0100
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Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement.

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ELRA - Language Resources Catalogue - Update
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We are happy to announce that 1 new Evaluation Package is now available
in our catalogue.

*ELRA-E0042 CLEFeHealth 2013 Evaluation Package*
The CLEFeHealth 2013 Task 3 Evaluation Package contains data used for
the User-centred health information retrieval Shared task at the
CLEFeHealth Lab conducted in 2013. Task 3 aimed at evaluating
information retrieval to address questions patients may have when
reading clinical reports.
For more information, see: 
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For more information on the catalogue, please contact Val?rie Mapelli 
mailto:mapelli at elda.org

Visit our On-line Catalogue: http://catalog.elra.info
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:33:43 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:33:43 +0100
Subject: Appel: Revue Discours, numero Varia
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.213343.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:44:53 +0100
From: Benjamin Fagard <benjamin.fagard at ens.fr>
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Ch?re coll?gue, cher coll?gue,

je me permets de vous envoyer ci-dessous l'appel ? soumissions pour le
prochain num?ro de la revue Discours (http://discours.revues.org/). Le
num?ro 15 de la revue Discours est un num?ro varia, visant ? ouvrir la
perspective de son champ d??tude aux approches multimodales sur le
discours (voir ci-dessous). Des propositions de contributions sont
n?anmoins accept?es sur tous les aspects th?matiques de la revue.

Bien cordialement,

Benjamin Fagard, pour le comit? ?ditorial

ps: mes excuses pour les doublons ?ventuels



                  *Appel ? soumissions ? Discours 15*

Date limite: 23 juin 2014

Coordination ?ditoriale : Catherine Bolly & Benjamin Fagard

Le num?ro 15 de la revue /Discours /est un num?ro varia, visant ? ouvrir
la perspective de son champ d??tude aux approches multimodales sur le
discours. Des propositions de contributions sont n?anmoins accept?es sur
tous les aspects th?matiques de la revue.

Dans ce num?ro, nous accueillons avec un int?r?t particulier les
contributions visant ? faire avancer les connaissances sur les
th?matiques suivantes :

- Interaction discours, prosodie, posture, expressions faciales et/ou
  gestes

- D?finition multimodale de l?objet ? discours ?

- Unit?s discursives et unit?s gestuelles

- Marqueurs d?attitude et d?interaction (en discours et/ou en
  gestualit?)

- Structuration du discours (en langue vocale et/ou en langue des
  signes)

- Rapport gain/co?t cognitif lors de la production de gestes (mode
  verbal, mode non-verbal et/ou langue des signes)

- Traitement automatique des unit?s posturales, mimiques et gestuelles
  (d?tection, segmentation, annotation, ?eye-tracking?, capture de
  mouvement, etc.)

Nous privil?gions les ?tudes sur corpus et les ?tudes bas?es sur
l?analyse de donn?es (notamment linguistiques et/ou gestuelles)
authentiques.


/Discours/ est une revue ?lectronique internationale et
interdisciplinaire (linguistique, psycholinguistique et informatique)
qui publie deux num?ros par an et occasionnellement des num?ros
th?matiques. Elle est un lieu d'?change et de confrontation des donn?es,
des analyses et des th?ories visant la description, la compr?hension, la
formalisation et le traitement informatique de l'organisation des
textes.

CALENDRIER

* Soumission: 23 juin 2014 ? discours at revues.org

* D?cision finale du comit? : Octobre 2014

* Publication en ligne : D?cembre 2014

MODALIT?S

* Chaque soumission est ?valu?e par deux experts (comit? scientifique
  international)

* Langue : fran?ais ou anglais

Description compl?te des instructions pour la soumission ? l'adresse
http://discours.revues.org/206

Site: http://discours.revues.org/

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:59:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:59:18 +0100
Subject: Cursus: The European Master's Program in Computational Logic,
 Application until 31 May 2014
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.215918.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:52:13 +0100
From: Tobias Philipp <tobias.philipp at tu-dresden.de>
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Dear all,

I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that applications for the
European Master's Program in Computational Logic are still possible
UNTIL 31 May 2014.  A limited number of small scholarships is available.

More details are given below.

Please spread this information as wide as possible among friends and
colleagues, at your old universities and the places, where you currently
live and work.

Many thanks -- Steffen

************************************************************************
The European Master's Program in Computational Logic

We are glad to announce to you the possibility to join our European
Master's Program of Computational Logic. This program is offered jointly
at the Free-University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy, the Technische
Universit?t Dresden in Germany, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in
Portugal and the Technische Universit?t Wien in Austria. Within this
program you have the choice to study at two /three of the four European
universities. In addition, you can do your project work at the National
ICT of Australia (NICTA). You will graduate with a MSc in Computer
Science and obtain a joint degree. Information on the universities and
the program including the application procedure is provided here:

http://www.emcl-study.eu/home.html

Language of instruction is English. Tuition fees are 3.000 EUR (for
non-European students) and 1.000 (for European students) per year.

A limited number of small scholarships is available.
(see:
http://www.emcl-study.eu/fileadmin/emcl_booklet_tree/mss_jc_scholarship_scheme.html).

Do not hesitate to contact us  if you have any further questions.

Kind regards -- Steffen H?lldobler

Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoelldobler
International Center for Computational Logic
Technische Universit?t Dresden
01062 Dresden, Germany

phone: [+49](351)46 33 83 40
fax: [+49](351)46 33 83 42
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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 20:48:15 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:48:15 +0100
Subject: Sujet de these: Bourse de these cartographie musicale flechee
 "handicap", Avignon
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.214815.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:10:24 +0100
From: Marc El-Beze <marc.elbeze at univ-avignon.fr>
Message-ID: <533012A0.1060908 at univ-avignon.fr>
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Pour cette offre de th?se veuillez contacter rapidement
Didier Josselin (didier.josselin at univ-avignon.fr)


-------- Message original --------
Sujet: 	Bourse de th?se cartographie musicale fl?ch?e "handicap"
Date : 	Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:04:31 +0100
De : 	Didier JOSSELIN <didier.josselin at univ-avignon.fr>
R?pondre ? : 	didier.josselin at univ-avignon.fr
Organisation : 	CNRS
Pour : 	Marc El beze <marc.elbeze at univ-avignon.fr>, Corinne Fredouille 
<corinne.fredouille at univ-avignon.fr>



Bonjour,
Comme je sais que vous avez travaill? tous les deux sur des aspects
audition et orthophonie, je voulais savoir si vous pouviez diffuser ce
projet de th?se dans vos listes car je suis ? la recherche d'un(e)
doctorant(e) sur ce sujet sur un fl?chage de bourses minist?res
"handicap". Notre ?tablissement pourrait ais?ment accueillir ce(tte)
th?sard(e).
La dead-line est serr?e : il faudrait que la connection se fasse avant
la fin de la semaine. Pour l'instant je n'ai trouv? personne.
Merci de votre aide.
Amiti?s.
Didier.


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Wed Mar 26 21:02:42 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:02:42 +0100
Subject: Appel: Deadline Extension, 28 April 2014,
 Special issue of ACM TACCESS On Speech and Language Interaction
 for Daily Assistive Technology
Message-ID: <WED.26.MAR.2014.220242.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:07:14 +0100
From: Fran?ois Portet <Francois.Portet at imag.fr>
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*Deadline extension - Special Issue of ACM Transactions on Accessible
Computing (TACCESS) on Speech and Language Interaction for Daily
Assistive Technology (SLPAT)*

/Guest Editors: Fran?ois Portet, Frank Rudzicz, Jan Alexandersson, Heidi
Christensen/

Please note that to accommodate other recent calls for papers, we are
extending the deadline for full paper submission to the ACM Transactions
on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) Special Issue on Speech and Language
Interaction for Daily Assistive Technology. We are also adjusting the
response to authors deadline. The new dates are as follows:

  * Full paper submission: *28th April 2014***
  * Response to authors: 14th July 2014
  * Revised submission deadline: 31st August 2014
  * Notification of acceptance: 31st October 2014
  * Final manuscripts due: 30th November 2014

*Submission process*

o Contributions must not have been previously published or be under
  consideration for publication elsewhere, although substantial
  extensions of conference or workshop papers will be considered. as
  long as they adhere to ACM's minimum standards regarding prior
  publication (http://www.acm.org/pubs/sim_submissions.html). Studies
  involving experimentations with real target users will be
  appreciated. All submissions have to be prepared according to the
  Guide for Authors as published in the Journal website at
  http://www.rit.edu/gccis/taccess/.

o Submissions should follow the journal's suggested writing format
  (http://www.gccis.rit.edu/taccess/authors.html) and should be
  submitted through Manuscript Central
  http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/taccess , indicating that the paper is
  intended for the Special Issue (tick a box in one of the page during
  the submission process). All papers will be subject to the peer review
  process and final decisions regarding publication will be based on
  this review.

*Topics of interest for submission to this special issue include (but
are not limited to):*

- Speech, natural language and multimodal interfaces designed for people
  with physical or cognitive impairments

- Applications of speech and NLP technology (automatic speech
  recognition, synthesis, dialogue, natural language generation) for AT
  applications

- Novel modeling and machine learning approaches for AT applications

- Long-term adaptation of speech/NLP based AT system to user's change

- User studies, overview of speech/NLP technology for AT: understanding
  the user's needs and future speech and language based technologies-

- Understanding, modeling and recognition of aged or disordered speech

- Speech analysis and diagnosis: automatic recognition and detection of
  speech pathologies and speech capability loss

- Speech-based distress recognition

- Automated processing of symbol languages, sign language and nonverbal
  communication including translation systems-

- Text and audio processing for improved comprehension and
  intelligibility, e- g- , sentence simplification or text-to-speech

- Evaluation methodology of systems and components in the lab and in the
  wild-

- Resources; corpora and annotation schemes

- Other topics in AAC, AAL, and AT

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:23:10 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:23:10 +0100
Subject: Appel: Demo, TALN2014
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.212310.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:43:11 +0100
From: Gr?goire de Montcheuil
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APPEL ? D?MONSTRATIONS
----------------------

TALN-2014
21e conf?rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles
Marseille du 1-4 Juillet 2014.
http://www.taln2014.org


CALENDRIER
----------
- Date limite de soumission : 15 mai 2014
- Notification aux auteurs : 20 mai 2014
- Date limite de soumission des versions d?finitives : 30 mai 2014


PR?SENTATION
------------
Organis?e par le LPL (Laboratoire Parole et Langage) et le LIF
(Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale), la conf?rence TALN
(Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles) aura lieu pour son 20?me
anniversaire ? Marseille (Facult? Saint-Charles, Universit?
d'Aix-Marseille) du 1er au 4 juillet 2014

La conf?rence TALN'2014, qui est organis?e sous l'?gide de l'ATALA, se
tiendra conjointement avec la 16e ?dition des Rencontres des ?tudiants
Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues
(RECITAL'2014).

La conf?rence TALN'2014 comprendra des communications orales pr?sentant
des travaux de recherche et des prises de position, des communications
affich?es, des conf?rences invit?es et des d?monstrations.

La langue officielle de la conf?rence est le fran?ais. Les
communications en anglais sont accept?es pour les participants non
francophones.

ORGANISATION
------------
Les organisateurs ont le plaisir d'inviter les participants ? pr?senter
des d?monstrations de logiciels et/ou de prototypes qui s'appuient sur
des m?thodes de Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel. Dans ce
cadre, les professionnels de l'industrie peuvent faire acte de
candidature pour pr?senter leur logiciel au cours de cette
session. L'objet de cette derni?re est d'offrir un cadre d'interaction
entre les milieux industriel et acad?mique sur les questions inh?rentes
au TALN.

La session D?monstrations, accueillera des pr?sentations sous les formes
suivantes (selon les besoins et disponibilit?s) :
- stand d'exposant ;
- affiche de pr?sentation ;
- d?monstration de produits logiciels.

Pour participer, les candidats devront envoyer un r?sum? de une ? deux
pages au format de la conf?rence sur le site EasyChair de celle-ci.

Les participants seront choisis par le comit? d'organisation,
ind?pendamment du processus de s?lection scientifique habituel. Les
crit?res de s?lection s'appuieront sur la pertinence des outils au
regard des th?matiques affich?es par les conf?rences TALN et RECITAL.

Les articles s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les actes de la
conf?rence.

MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION
-----------------------
Les articles seront r?dig?s en fran?ais pour les francophones, en
anglais pour ceux qui ne ma?trisent pas le fran?ais.

Une feuille de style LaTeX et un mod?le Word sont disponibles sur le
site web de la conf?rence (http://www.taln2014.org).

Contacts : demo at taln2014.org

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:14:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:14:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: Colloque Crealscience,
 Les etats anciens de langues a l'heure du numerique
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.211455.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:38:09 +0100
From: Fabrice Issac LDI <fabrice at ldi.univ-paris13.fr>
Message-ID: <5333F181.2080203 at ldi.univ-paris13.fr>

Appel Colloque international. Les ?tats anciens de langues ? l'heure du
num?rique
------------------------------------------------------------------------
20-21 novembre 2014
Universit? Paris-Sorbonne et Universit? Paris 13 Nord

Comit? scientifique?:
- Peter Blumenthal,  
- Christiane Marchello-Nizia,  
- Salah Mejri, 
- Michel Molin, 
- Jean Pruvost,?
- Olivier Soutet

Les ?tudes sur les ?tats anciens des langues ont b?n?fici?, comme
beaucoup d'autres disciplines, de l'apport des outils et m?thodes issus
du num?rique. Il existe maintenant de nombreux corpus, lexiques, outils
d'aide ? l'?dition, outils d'analyse, ... adapt?s ? ces probl?matiques.

Le programme ANR Cr?alscience s'inscrit dans cette
perspective. Associant m?thodologies dictionnairiques et informatiques
avec pour cadre le fran?ais m?di?val (XIIe-XVe si?cle), ce projet a pour
ambition de donner un inventaire des cr?ations terminologiques.

La rencontre internationale que nous organisons a pour objectif de
r?unir des chercheurs autour de ce type de projet. Il s'agit aussi de
croiser les connaissances et de favoriser les ?changes
interdisciplinaires entre chercheurs de communaut?s scientifiques
diff?rentes.

Les communications devront combiner au moins deux des trois aspects
ci-dessous :
- informatique
- dictionnairique / lexicographie
- anciennes langues (latin, grec, langues europ?ennes du Moyen ?ge)

Communications :
Les communications auront deux formes : orales ou affich?es (poster).
Les auteurs devront fournir un r?sum? de 5000 signes avec une
bibliographie pour le 30 juin 2014 au comit? d?organisation. Les
propositions seront ?valu?es par deux experts du comit? scientifique.
Le comit? d?organisation informera les auteurs de sa d?cision
d?acceptation et du classement de la communication (communication orale
ou affich?e).
Les r?sum?s des communications accept?es feront l'objet de publication
dans des actes distribu?s en d?but de colloque en version papier et
?lectronique. Une session poster est ?galement pr?vue.
La publication des actes se fera apr?s le colloque. Les propositions
seront envoy?es ? l'adresse suivante :

    colloque2014crealscience.fr

Comit? d'organisation :
- Jo?lle Ducos : joelle.ducos at paris-sorbonne.fr
- Fabrice Issac : fabrice at ldi.univ-paris13.fr
- Xavier-Laurent Salvador : xavier-laurent.salvador at univ-paris13.fr

Calendrier :
- 30/06/2014 r?ception des propositions
- 15/09/2014 Notification aux auteurs
- 11/2014 colloque

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:21:37 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:21:37 +0100
Subject: Conf: EACL Workshop,
 Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality,
 Gothenburg, Sweden, April 27, 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.212137.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:47:16 +0100
From: Alexandre Allauzen <allauzen at limsi.fr>
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
************************************************************************
Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality
(2nd edition)

Co-located with EACL 2014, Gothenburg, Sweden
April 27, 2014
https://sites.google.com/site/cvscworkshop2014
************************************************************************


INVITED TALK:
Geoffrey Zweig: Encoding Antonymy in Continuous Space Models
Ivan Titov: Inducing Cross-Lingual Semantic Representations of Words,
Phrases, Sentences and Events
Phil Blunsom: Generating from distributed representations: translating
in a continuous space

PANEL DISCUSSION: Christopher Manning and the invited speakers


PROGRAM:

9:30 - 9:40 Opening Remarks

9:40 - 10:30 Inducing Cross-Lingual Semantic Representations of Words,
Phrases, Sentences and Events
Ivan Titov (Invited Talk)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:20 Post-hoc Manipulations of Vector Space Models with
Application to Semantic Role Labeling
Jenna Kanerva and Filip Ginter

11:20 - 11:40 Distributional Composition using Higher-Order Dependency
Vectors 
Julie Weeds, David Weir and Jeremy Reffin 

11:40 - 12:00 A
Systematic Study of Semantic Vector Space Model Parameters 
Douwe Kiela and Stephen Clark

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:50 Encoding Antonymy in Continuous Space Models
Geoffrey Zweig (Invited Talk)

14:50 - 15:10 Extractive Summarization using Continuous Vector Space
Models
Mikael K?geb?ck, Olof Mogren, Nina Tahmasebi and Devdatt Dubhashi

15:10 - 15:30 Investigating the Contribution of Distributional Semantic
Information for Dialogue Act Classification
Dmitrijs Milajevs and Matthew Purver

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:50 Generating from distributed representations: translating
in a continuous space
Phil Blunsom (Invited Talk)

16:50 - 17:50 Panel Discussion with Chris Manning, Phil Blunsom, Ivan
Titov and Geoffrey Zweig

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:25:17 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:25:17 +0100
Subject: Appel: PolTAL 2014, Extended submission deadline to 5 April 2014
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.212517.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:41:52 +0100
From: "Maciej Ogrodniczuk" <maciej.ogrodniczuk at gmail.com>
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Submission deadline for PolTAL 2014 - 9th International Conference on
Natural Language Processing - has been extended: we accept submissions
as long as it is 5 April 2014 anywhere on the planet.

Please find complete conference information at http://poltal.ipipan.waw.pl/.

Looking forward to seeing you in Warsaw,
Adam Przepi?rkowski and Maciej Ogrodniczuk
Conference Chairs


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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:33:55 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:33:55 +0100
Subject: Sujet de these: Deux bourses, Langage et Cognition, Labex BLRI
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.213355.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:51:25 +0100
From: Nad?ra Bureau <nadera.bureau at lpl-aix.fr>
Message-ID: <00a001cf4a9d$937df4a0$ba79dde0$@bureau at lpl-aix.fr>
X-url: http://147.94.196.238/index.html

 

Le Labex Brain and Language Research Institute (BLRI) financera ? la
rentr?e 2014

deux bourses de th?ses dans le p?rim?tre du Labex

(voir : http://147.94.196.238/index.html)

- Approche neuro-computationnelle du langage

- Le Langage en tant qu'action interactive

- Pathologies du langage 

- Le langage dans sa matrice cognitive

- Dynamique c?r?brale du langage

Les candidats int?ress?s devront trouver un directeur de th?se au sein
du BLRI (http://147.94.196.238/pages/membre.html) et ?laborer avec elle
ou lui un projet de th?se. Le dossier de candidature doit comporter :

- la description scientifique du projet (< 5 pages) : Titre, r?sum?,
  contexte, m?thodologie/exp?riences envisag?es, r?sultats attendus,
  calendrier pr?visionnel

- un argumentaire montrant la pertinence du projet pour le BLRI

- un CV d?taill?

- une lettre de motivation

Date limite des candidatures : 20 Mai 2014 

Pr?-s?lection des candidats ? auditionner le 5 Juin 2014
Auditions des candidats retenus : 18 Juin 2014

D?marrage : 1er septembre 2014 

Bourse : 1 684.93? brut mensuel (1 368? net) contrat de 3 ans

Contact administratif : nadera.bureau at blri.fr

Pour tout renseignement compl?mentaire : Johannes.Ziegler at univ-amu.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:35:50 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:35:50 +0100
Subject: Job: Post-Doc, Langage et cognition, Labex BLRI
Message-ID: <FRI.28.MAR.2014.213550.0100.HAMON@LIMSI.FR>

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:02:39 +0100
From: Nad?ra Bureau <nadera.bureau at lpl-aix.fr>
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Recrutement de 1 Post-docs

Le "Brain and Language Research Institute" est un "Laboratoire
d'Excellence" faisant partie d'Aix-Marseille Universit?. Il f?d?re 6
Laboratoires de haut niveau dans le domaine des sciences du Langage, des
neurosciences, de la psychologie cognitive, de la m?decine et des
sciences de l'informatique. Le BLRI a diff?rents programmes de recherche
interdisciplinaires sur la production et la perception du langage et de
ses corr?lats c?r?braux.

Le post doc sera recrut? pour une dur?e d'un an. Les candidatures seront
s?lectionn?es ? partir des sujets de recherche ci-dessous.

- Approche neuro-computationnelle du langage

- Le Langage en tant qu'action interactive

- Pathologies du langage 

- Le langage dans sa matrice cognitive

- Dynamique c?r?brale du langage

Location : Dans le p?rim?tre du Labex

Les candidats doivent envoyer un CV d?taill? et leur projet de recherche
de 3 pages.

Les demandes peuvent ?tre soumises ? tout moment

. Dur?e : 1 an

. Salaire : 1 950 ? net par mois 

Les dossiers de candidature sont ? envoyer ? contact at blri.fr

Pour tout renseignement compl?mentaire : Johannes.Ziegler at univ-amu.fr

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From hamon at LIMSI.FR  Fri Mar 28 20:38:18 2014
From: hamon at LIMSI.FR (Thierry Hamon)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 21:38:18 +0100
Subject: Appel: IDEAS 2014 (Web and Text Intelligence Track),
 Extended Deadline, April 7, 2014
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Web and Text Intelligence Track of the 

18th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS
2014)

07-09 July 2014, Porto, Portugal

http://confsys.encs.concordia.ca/IDEAS/ideas14/webtext.php

(accepted articles published by ACM)

-----Call for papers ---------

Topics of Interest:
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- Web and text mining
- Visual Web mining
- Link mining
- Web usability
- Web automation and adaptation
- Web content mining
- Multimedia Web mining
- Recommender systems for the Web
- Focused crawling
- Community detection
- Social network mining and analysis
- Graph mining
- Complex networks
- Information Retrieval
- Information Extraction
- Ontologies in Text Mining
- Document and Text Classification
- Visual Text Mining

Important Dates:
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- April 7, 2014: Papers submission deadline 
- May 19, 2014: Notification of acceptance 
- June 22, 2014: Camera-ready deadline

Track Organizing Committee:
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- Al?pio Jorge, U. Porto, Portugal 
- Alneu de Andrade Lopes, ICMC-USP, Brazil 
- Ricardo Prud?ncio, UPFE, Brazil 
- Nuno Escudeiro, ISEP-IPP, Portugal 
- Ricardo Campos, I.P. Tomar, INESC TEC, Portugal 

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