7.572, Calls: Information retrieval, South Asian lang analysis

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Subject: 7.572, Calls: Information retrieval, South Asian lang analysis

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Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:22:20 +0200
From:  Gregory.Grefenstette at Grenoble.RXRC.Xerox.com (Gregory Grefenstette)
Subject:  Multilingual Information Retrieval Workshop

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Date:  Wed, 17 Apr 1996 18:35:43 BST
From:  kb107 at mailer.york.ac.uk (K Bali)
Subject:  Conf.: SALA XVIII

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Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:22:20 +0200
From:  Gregory.Grefenstette at Grenoble.RXRC.Xerox.com (Gregory Grefenstette)
Subject:  Multilingual Information Retrieval Workshop

Call for Participation
SIGIR'96 Workshop on
Cross-Linguistic Multilingual Information Retrieval Workshop

August 22, 1996
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Zurich, Switzerland

Workshop Description

As more and more information sources are becoming available on the
Web, the portion of internationally available non-English text is
slowing growing, and surely the numbers of non-English speaking users
is growing much faster. The problem of accessing unrestricted
information with queries expressed in a language different from the
source language of the documents will become more widespread. This
workshop aims to bring together researchers working on this problem of
cross-linguistic multilingual information retrieval.

We invite papers describing implementations of cross-linguistic
retrieval; use of bilingual dictionaries, of parallel corpora, or of
non-parallel comparable bilingual corpora applied to the retrieval
problem; or providing answers to any of the following questions: Does
automatic translation solve the problem?  Are word-to-word
correspondances sufficient? How should ambiguity in translation be
dealt with?  What kind of user interaction can help resolve
ambiguities? How can test collections be built for multilingual
information retrieval? How can retrieved documents in different
languages be scored and ranked in a comparable fashion? What unique
features are required by multilingual user interfaces?  What can be
learned from four decades of machine translation for the
cross-linguistic retrieval problem?

Workshop format

A limited number of papers will be accepted for presentation.
Accepted papers will be alloted a 20-30 minute presentation followed
by 20-30 minutes of questions and discussion.

Submission requirements

Extended abstracts (max 5 pages) in plain ascii should be e-mailed to
    grefen at xerox.fr

Final version: For the final version to be distributed to workshop
participants, a camera-ready uuencoded postscript file will be
necessary.

Dates:

Submission Deadline: June 7, 1996
Notification Date: July 1, 1996
Full paper due: July 22, 1996
Workshop date: Aug 22, 1996

Organizing Committee

Chair:  Gregory Grefenstette
        Rank Xerox Research Centre

Members:

       Paraic Sheridan
       Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)

       Alan Smeaton
       Dublin City University

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Date:  Wed, 17 Apr 1996 18:35:43 BST
From:  kb107 at mailer.york.ac.uk (K Bali)
Subject:  Conf.: SALA XVIII

The Centre of Linguistics & English,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
announces

A CALL FOR PAPERS

SALA XVII
The Eighteenth South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable
January 6-8, 1997

Panels planned  include:
~Language and Ideology

~Language, Rights and Social Justice

~Lesser Known Languages of South Asia

~Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy

~Languages in Contact

~English Language in South Asia

~English Literature in South Asia

~Neurolinguistics

~Syntax and Semantics

~Speech Sciences

Abstracts will be considered for acceptance immediately. Abstracts
(one page plus ref.s) and panel proposals should be submitted by JULY
31ST,1996 to the following members of the Organising Committee :

Coordinator: Anvita Abbi
	    Chairperson
	   Centre of Linguistics and English
	   School of Languages
	   Jawaharlal Nehru University
	   New Delhi-110 067
	   India
	   e-mail : anvita at jnuniv.ernet.in
	   Fax    : 91-11-6865886

Members:   R. S. Gupta                      School of Languages
	   Vaishna Narang             Jawaharlal Nehru University
	   Naseer Ahmad Khan           New Delhi-110067, India.

	   Peter E. Hook
	   Program in Linguistics
	   University of Michigan
	   1076 Frieze Building
	   Ann Arbor
	   Michigan 48109

	  Manjari Ohala
	  Liguistics Program
	  San Jose State University
	  San Jose, California 95192
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