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Date:  Mon, 7 Apr 97 15:41:50 CDT
From:  Kora Singer <ksinger at midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject:  Chicago Linguistic Society 33 conference schedule

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Date:  Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:03:59 -0300
From:  Abdellatif.Saoudi at irin.univ-nantes.fr (Abdellatif Saoudi)
Subject:  RIAO'97: Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet

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Subject:  Chicago Linguistic Society 33 conference schedule


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                        ANNOUNCING:



     <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<   CLS 33   >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

                         April 17 - 19

                      University of Chicago
                           Judd Hall
                      5835 S. Kimbark Avenue
                        Chicago, Illinois

                Registration begins April 17, 8:30 a.m.



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                   **** CLS 33 Schedule ****

Please note that the Panel Sessions run parallel to the Main Session.
Speakers  with a * preceding their names are invited speakers. The
schedule may be subject to change.



  **Thursday, April 17, 1997**

Main Session                              Panel on Linguistic Ideologies

9:00   Mika Kizu, McGill U                Jason Pontius, U of Chicago
       Sluicing in Wh-in-situ             Language Codification and
       Languages                          the Perception of Otherness

9:30   Gunsoo Lee, U of Missouri-         Mary R Bachvarova, U of
       St. Louis                          Chicago
       Referentiality as a Non-Binary     Literary Use of Dialect and
       Notion                             Language in Indic,Ancient Greek,
                                          Hittite and Sumerian

10:00  Takashi Toyoshima, Cornell U       Wataru Koyama, U of Chicago
       'Long' Head Movement or Wrong      Dishonorable Honorifics:
       'Head Movement'                    Changes in Japanese Verbal
                                          Honorifics and the Linguistic
                                          and Cultural Ideologies of
                                          "Standard Average European"
                                          Speech Communities

10:30  Eun Cho, Cornell U                 David E. Tavarez, U of Chicago
       The Dual Nature of Contrastive     Naming the Holy Trinity:
       Topic and LF Movement              Linguistic Ideology and
                                          Prescriptive Reference in
                                          Classical Nahuatl

11:00  Simin Karimi, U of Arizona         H. Paul Manning, U of Chicago
       Persian Complex Predicates and LF  The Geology of Railway Embank-
       Incorporation                      ments: Oxford Welsh and the
                                          'Abnormal Sentence'.

11:30  B. Need & E. Schiller, U of Chic.  Edward A. Miner, U of Illinois,
       & Linguistics Unlimited		  Urbana-Champaign
       Ellipsis in Autolexical Theory     Kiswahili 'Illiteracy' and
					  the AK-47 in the Ugandan
					  Political Imaginary


12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH BREAK

1:00   Jennifer DeSimone, U of Cal, S.D.  Emily C. McEwan, U of Chicago
       Alternations in Korean Causatives  From 'the Rude Speech of a
                                          Barbarous People' to
                                          'Scotland's Celtic Legacy':
                                          Ideologies of Revival
                                          and Revitalization in
                                          Gaelic-English Contact

1:30   M. Broman Olsen & P. Resnik, U    Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain, U of Mich
       of Maryland                       'No Way! We Speak Standard
       Implicit Object Constructions in  German!'
       the (In)Transitivity Continuum

2:00   Hana Filip, U of Rochester        Gregory D. Anderson, U of Chic.
       Constraint Based Approach to      On the Evolution of
       Aspect Shift and Coercion         Ethnolinguistic Identity in
                                         Xakassia

2:30 - 3:00 COFFEE BREAK

3:00   -------                           *Victor Friedman, U  of Chicago
                                         One Grammar, Three Lexicons:
                                         Ideological Overtones and Under-
                                         pinnings in the Balkan Sprachbund

4:00   Grant Goodall, U of Texas,       DISCUSSION
       El Paso
       Theta-Alignment and the
       by-Phrase

4:30   Victor Sanchez-Valencia, U
       of Groningen
       Scalar Quantitative
       Implicatures and Monotonicity

5:00 - 7:00 DINNER BREAK

7:00   Costas Canakis, Princeton U      Jon F. Pressman, U of Iowa
       Pragmatics vs. Cognitive         Grammaticalization of Honorifics
       Semantics                        in Antillean French Creole

7:30   Kazue Watanabe, SUNY Buffalo     Susan Duncan, U of Chicago
       Focus, Presupposition Function,  Clues from Speech-Accompanying
       and Underspecified Meaning       Gesture to a Process of
                                        Grammaticalization Under Way

8:00   *Larry Horn, Yale U              -----
       All John's Children Are As Bald
       As the King of France:
       Existential Import and the
       Geometry of Opposition


  **Friday, April 18, 1997**

       Main Session                     Panel on Universal Grammar,
                                        Parameters and Typology

9:00   Paul Hagstrom, MIT               Craig Kopris, SUNY Buffalo
       Contextual Metrical              The Grammatical Relations
       Invisibility and Weak Vowels     Hierarchy In Split Intransitive
                                        Languages


9:30   I-Ping Wan, SUNY Buffalo         Kumiko Murasugi, Carleton U & U
       The Status of Prenuclear Glides  of Ottawa
       in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence    Is There an Ergative Parameter?
       from Speech Errors

10:00  Maria M. Carreira, Cal. State U  P. E. Hook, B. Modi, O. N. Koul,
       The Spanish Plural Marker: It    U of Mich, M.S. U of Baroda,
       Takes Two (Moras)                Central Inst. of Indian Lgs
                                        Fluid Ergativity in Gujarati and
                                        the Notion of Suspension

10:30  C. Golston & W. Kehrein, CSU     K. Lambrecht & M. Polinsky, U
       Fresno & Philipps U Marburg      Texas, Austin & USC/UCSD
       (Germany)                        Inversion, Subject
       Mazatec Syllable Structure       Incorporation, and Theticity

11:00  -----                            *Susan Steele, U of Arizona
                                        The Future of Typology

12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH BREAK

1:00   Marie-Helene Cote, MIT            -----
       Phonetic Saliency and Consonant
       Cluster Simplification

1:30   Hui-chuan (Jennifer) Huang,      Maria Polinsky, USC/UCSD
       U of Minnesota                   SO/OS Languages
       Assimilation as the Result of
       Sequence Constraint Violation:
       The Case of Warlpiri

2:00   Sung-A Kim & Scott Myers,        Mark Honegger, U of Illinois,
       U of Texas, Austin               Urbana-Champ.
       Positional Effect on Tonal       A Unified Account of Word Order
       Alternation in Chichewa:         for Configurational and Non-
       Phonological Rule vs. Phonetic   Configurational Languages
       Timing

2:30 - 3:00 COFFEE BREAK

3:00   -----                            *Edith Moravcsik, U of
                                        Wisonsin-Milw.
                                        Principles and Parameters of the
                                        Metalanguage of Linguistic
                                        Typology

4:00   Mieko Banno, U of Cal, Santa     B. Lust, S. Flynn, S. Epstein,
       Barbara                          Cornell/MIT, MIT, Harvard
       Prosodic Units in Japanese       L2 Solves the Paradox of UG in
       Discourse: Acoustic Analysis     Acquisition
       of Intonational Structure &
       Pragmatics

4:30   -----                            Benjamin Shaer, U of Stuttgart
                                        (Germany)
                                        Universal Grammar and the
                                        Parametrization of Temporal
                                        Marking

5:00 - 7:00 DINNER BREAK

7:00   -----                            *Matthew Dryer, SUNY Buffalo
                                        Why Statistical Universals are
                                        Better Than Absolute Universals

8:00   B. Saravanan, SUNY Stony Brook   DISCUSSION
       Information Content of Morpho-
       logical Operations in Tamil

8:30   Ida Toivonen, Stanford U
       The Possessive Suffixes in
       Finnish


  **Saturday, April 19, 1997**

       Main Session                     Panel on The Perception of
                                        Speech and Other Acoustic Signals

8:45                                    Panel Welcome

9:00   -----                            *Robert Fox, Jeanne Gokcen, & Sheri
                                        Wagner, Ohio State U, Lucent
                                        Technologies, Ohio State U
                                        Neurological Evidence for a Speech
                                        Module?

10:00  A. Seidl & A. Dimitriadis, U     H. Nusbaum, A. Francis, & T. Luks,
       of Pennsylvania                  U of Chicago
       The Discourse Function of        Speech Perception: A Special
       Object Marking in Swahili        Mechanism or a Specialized
                                        Cognitive Process?

10:30  Alexandre Kimenyi, Cal State U   Terrence M. Nearey, U of Alberta
       Ditransitive Verbs in            Modularity and Tractability in
       Kinyarwanda: The Semantics of    Speech Perception
       Double Object Verbs and the
       Dative Shift Revisited

11:00  E. Anagnostopoulou & A.          K. Landahl & E. Hamp, U of Chic.
       Alexiadou U of Tilburg & ZAS     Gravity without Levity
       Berlin
       Dative Morphology in Double
       Object Constructions

11:30  Almerindo Ojeda, U of Cal-Davis  Ho-hsien Pan, Natl. Chiao Tung U
       How to Define Number Categories: The Salience of Nasal Cues to
       A Lesson from Semitic            Perception of Taiwanese Voiced
                                        Stops and Nasals

12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH BREAK


1:00   -----                            *Peter MacNeilage, U Texas,
                                        Austin
                                        The Relation Between Speech
                                        Perception and Production in
                                        Phylogeny and Ontogeny

2:00   Ilana Mushin, SUNY Buffalo       A.J. Lotto, K.R. Kluender, L.L
       Maintaining an Epistemological   Holt, U of Wisconsin
       Stance: Direct Speech and        Animal Models of Speech
       Evidentiality in Macedonian      Perception Phenomena

2:30   COFFEE BREAK                     Dan Margoliash, U of Chicago
                                        Linkages Between Production
                                        Perception in Animals: The
                                        Motor Theory of Birdsong
                                        Perception Revisited

3:00   Holger Diessel, SUNY Buffalo     BREAK
       The Diachronic Reanalysis of
       Demonstratives in Cross-
       linguistic Perspective

3:30   Cheng Luo, Brock U               R. Hemphill, Y. Hirata, K.
       Iconicity or Economy? Polysemy   Landahl, J. Lowenstein, A.
       between Demonstratives,          Dainora, U of chicago
       Copulas and Contrastive Focus    Questioning the Continuum: The
       Markers                          Use of V[r/l] [d/g]V Evidence
                                        in Gestural theories of Speech
                                        Perception

4:00   Eve Ng, SUNY Buffalo             Douglas H. Whalen, Haskins Labs
       A Role and Reference Grammar     What Duplex Perception Tells Us
       Analysis of Mandarin de          About Speech Perception
       sentences

4:30   Haj Ross, U of North Texas       Mark Randolph, Motorala Corporation
       THERE, there                     On the Role of Phonetic
					Knowledge in Automatic Speech
					Perception


5:00 - 7:00 DINNER BREAK                DISCUSSION (5:00-6:00)
                                        DINNER (6:00-7:00)

7:00   Hisami Suzuki, Microsoft and     F.C. van der Leek, U of Amsterdam
       U of Chicago                     The Logic of HIT and STRIKE: A
       A Corpus-Based,Computational     Difference in Event Semantics
       Approach to Information
       Content of Japanese
       Comparatives

7:30   Felicia A. Lee, UCLA             T. Fretheim, W. van Dommelen, K.
       The Predicative Structure of     Borthen, U of Trondheim, Norway
       Clefts: Evidence from Zapotec    Linguistic Constraints on Relevance
                                        in Reference Resolution

8:00   *Brian Joseph, Ohio State U      -----
       On the Linguistics of
       Marginality: The Centrality
       of the Periphery

9:00   PARTY













-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:03:59 -0300
From:  Abdellatif.Saoudi at irin.univ-nantes.fr (Abdellatif Saoudi)
Subject:  RIAO'97: Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet

(Apologies if you receive this call more than once)

               Call For Participation

                     RIAO'97 CONFERENCE
           Computer-Assisted Searching on the Internet
                      June 25-27, 1997
           McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

   http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97    [note: RIAO in CAPS]




  Brief Description :
- -------------------

         Every three years the Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales
d'Information Documentaire (CID) of Paris, France, along with various
international affiliates, organizes an RIAO conference (RIAO is the
French acronym for Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval).  RIAO97
will be the fifth conference in the series.  RIAO85 was held in
Grenoble, France; RIAO88 at MIT; RIAO91 in Barcelona; and RIAO94 at
Rockefeller University in New York.

         RIAO conferences have the special feature of incorporating
both scientific papers and innovative product demonstrations.  Both
the product demonstrations and the scientific papers (which are often
accompanied by prototype system demonstrations) are subject to a
rigorous selection process.  The mix of scientific expertise and
state-of-the-art industrial development lends itself to a critical
examination of both aspects, stimulating both new product development,
ecnouraging sponsorship of start-ups, as well as initiating lines of
further, critical research investigations.

RIAO97 focuses on new problems in information retrieval, filtering,
and dissemination resulting from the recent profusion and extensions
of networks.  In particular, RIAO97 brings together search specialists
and web-based media specialists to consider how searching can best be
accomplished in the context of the proliferation of web sites, content
formats, browsing modalities, amount of data accessible, and number of
user accesses.


               ------------------------------------------
                        FINAL PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE


                               GENERAL SESSION
                                June 25, 1997
               ------------------------------------------

9:00-9:15 a.m   WELCOMING STATEMENT
                Dr B. Robaire
                Vice Principal, Research
                McGill University, Canada

9:15-9:30 a.m   RIAO97' Introduction
                J. Thuiller
                Professor at the College de France
                President of the C.I.D.

9:30-10:00 a.m  Invited Speaker
                GILS Projet
                N. Brodie
                National Library of Ottawa, Canada
                ---------------------------------
                SESSION 1: INFORMATION DISCOVERY
                ---------------------------------
Chairman: L. Devroye, McGill University

10:00-10:25 a.m "The Do-I-Care Agent: Effective Social Discovery and
                Filtering on the Web"
                M.S. Ackerman, B. Starr,  M. Pazzani
                University of California, USA

10:25-10:50 a.m "Mining Information In Order To Extract Hidden And
                Strategical Information"
                T.Dkaki, B. Dousset, J. Mothe
                Universite P. Sabatier, Toulouse, France

10:50-11:20 a.m Break and Demonstrations
                ----------------------------------------------------------
                SESSION 2:  VISUALISATION TOOLS FOR INFORMATION NAVIGATION
                ----------------------------------------------------------
Chairman: S. Tohme, ENST France

11:20-11:45 a.m "Design Issues for World Wide Web Navigation Visualisation
                Tools"
                A. Cockburn,  S. Jones
                University of Canterbury, University of Waikato, New Zealand

11:45-12:10 a.m "Footprints: History-Rich Web Browsing"
                A. Wexelblat, P. Maes
                Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

12:10-12:35 p.m "Using terminological base for Term-based information
                 retrieval"
                J-Y Nie, Universite de Montreal, Canada

12:35-2:05 p.m  LUNCH
                ------------------------------------------------
                SESSION 3:  AUTOMATIC ABSTRACTING, REPOSITORIES
                ------------------------------------------------
Chairman: G. Grefenstette, Rank Xerox Research Centre

2:05-2:30 p.m   "Development of a Document Summarization System for
                Effective Information Services"
                D. H. Jang, S. H. Myaeng
                Chungnam National University, Taejon, Korea

2:30-2:55 p.m   "Automatic summarization on the Web? RAFI: A system for
                summarizing using indicating fragments"
                A. Lehmam, Universite de Nancy II, France

2:55-3:20 p.m   "Towards Sophisticated Wrapping of Web-based Information
                Repositories"
                B. Chidlovskii, U. M. Borghoff, P.Y. Chevalier
                Rank Xerox Research Centre, France

3:20-3:45 p.m  "Annotating the World Wide Web using Natural Language"
                B. Katz, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA

3:45-4:15 p.m   Break and Demonstrations
                ---------------------------------------------------------
                SESSION 4:  LINGUISTIC APPROACH FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
                ---------------------------------------------------------
Chairman:  R. Cencioni, European Community

4:15-4:40 p.m   "IRENA: Information Retrieval Engine based on Natural
                Language Analysis"
                A.T. Arampatzis ,T. Tsoris,  C.H.A. Koster.
                Patras, Greece and Netherlands

4:40-5:05 p.m   "The Effect of Syntactic Phrase Indexing on Retrieval
                Performance for Dutch Texts"
                R. Pohlmann , W. Kraaij
                Utrecht University, TNO-TPD, Netherlands

5:05-5:30 p.m   "Using Simulated Annealing to Understand Natural Language
                Texts"
                S.A. Laribi, G. Desrocques, A. Laribi, J.C. Bassano
                Universite d'Orleans, France. Geneva Univeristy, Switzerland

5:30-5:55 p.m   "An Analysis of Statistical and Syntactic Phrases"
                M. Mitra, C. Buckley, A. Singhal, C. Cardie
                Cornell University, USA
                -----------------------------------
                        June 26, 1997
                SESSION 5:  MULTILINGUAL APPROACH
                ----------------------------------
Chairman: C. Fluhr, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique. France

9:00-9:25 a.m  "Multi-Language Text Indexing for Internet Retrieval"
                M.Wechsler, P. Sheridan, P. Schauble
                Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

9:25-9:50 a.m   "Adaptative Filtering of Multilingual Document Streams"
                D.W. Oard, University of Maryland, USA

9:50-10:15 a.m  "A domain Specific Lexicon Acquisition Tool for
                Cross-Language Information Retrieval"
                D. Hiemstra, F. de Jong, W. Kraaij
                CTIT, Twente University, Netherlands

10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations


                ----------------------------
                SESSION 6:  IRS ARCHITECTURE
                ----------------------------
Chairman: R. Marcus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)

10:45-11:10 a.m "EAGLE: An Extensible Architecture for General Linguistic
                Engineering"
                B. Baldwin , C. Doran,  J.C. Reynar

11:10-11:35 a.m "Information Retrieval On The Word Wide Web using a Decision
                Making System"
                F. Corvaisier, A. Mille, J.M. Pinon, INSA, Lyon, France

11:35-12:00 a.m "A Multiagent Architecture for Information Retrieval on the
                World-Wide Web"
                V.N. Gudivada, S.P. Tolety
                Wayne State University, University of Missouri. USA

12:00-1:30 p.m  LUNCH
                ---------------------------------
                SESSION 7: INFORMATION EXTRACTION
                ---------------------------------

Chairman: C. Jacquemin, Universite de Nantes. France

1:30-2:45 p.m   Panel
                        TREC in Many Languages
                        * TREC-5: English
                           D. Harman
                           National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
                        * TREC-5: Spanish and Chinese
                           A. Smeaton
                           Dublin City University, Ireland
                        *The Amaryllis Project
                           C. Fluhr
                           Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France


2:45-3:10 p.m   "Integrated text categorisation and information extraction
                using pattern matching and linguistic processing"
                 W. J. Black, L. Gilardoni, F. Rinaldi, R Dressel
                 UMIST, UK. Quinary Spa, Italy

3:10-3:35 p.m   "On-Line Resource Discovery using Natural Language"
                O.R. Zaine , A. Fall, S. Rochefort, V. Dahl, P. Tarau
                Simon Fraser University, Canada

3:35-4:00 p.m  "Coupling information retrieval and information extraction:
                A new text technology for gathering information from the web"
                R. Gaizauskas, A.M. Robertson
                University of Sheffield, UK

4:00-4:30 p.m   Break and Demonstrations
                ----------------------------------------
                SESSION 8:  DOCUMENT / RELEVANCE RANKING
                ----------------------------------------
Chairman: D.J. Harman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.

4:30-4:55 p.m   "Summarizing Similarities and differences Among Related
                Documents"
                I. Mani , E. Bloedorn
                The MITRE Corporation, USA

4:55-5:20 p.m   "Relevance Ranking for One to Three Term Queries"
                C.L.A. Clarke , G.V. Cormack, E.A. Tudhope
                University of Toronto. Canada

5:20-5:45 p.m   "Space Optimizations for Total Ranking"
                D.R. Cutting, J.O. Pedersen
                Excite Inc., USA

5:45-6:10 p.m   "A Similarity-Based Agent for Internet Searching"
                T.G. Rose, P. J. Wyard, Canon, UK
                -------------------------------
                        June 27, 1997
                SESSION 9: IRS ARCHITECTURE- II
                -------------------------------
Chairman: U. Heid, Stuttgart University, Germany

9:00-9:25 a.m   "ARACHNID: Adaptive Retrieval Agents Choosing
                Heuristic Neighborhoods for Information Discovery"
                F. Menczer , R.K. Belew
                University of California, USA

9:25-9:50 a.m   "Cobra: A new approach to IR System design"
                T. Mills, K. Moody, K. Rodden
                University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. UK

9:50-10:15 a.m  "Interactive Image Retrieval by Means of Abductive Inference"
                A. Muller, A. Everts
                GMD. Germany

10:15-10:45 a.m Break and Demonstrations
                ---------------------------------
                SESSION 10:  QUERY REFORMULATION
                ---------------------------------
Chairman: J.C. Bassano, Universite d'Orleans France.

10:45-11:10 a.m "Query modification based on relevance backpropagation"
                M. Boughanem, C. Soule-Dupuy
                MSI, Universite de Limoges, France

11:10-11:35 a.m "Query ReFormulation on the Internet: Empirical Data and the
                Hyperindex Search Engine"
                P.D. Bruza , S. Dennis
                Queensland University of Technology, Australia

11:35-12:00 a.m SQLET:  Short Query Linguistic Expansion Techniques:
                Palliating One or Two-word Queries by Providing Intermediate
                Structure to WWW Pages
                G. Grefenstette
                Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France

12:00-1:30 p.m  LUNCH
                ---------------------------------
                SESSION 11: INFORMATION FILTERING
                ---------------------------------
Chairman:  V. Semenova, ANALIT, Moscow

1:30-1:55 p.m   "Probabilistic Learning for Information Filtering"
                G. Amati , F. Crestani, F. Ubaldini, S. de Nardis
                Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Universita di Padova, Universita di
                Roma, Italy

1:55-2:20 p.m   "Using Syntactic Information in Document Filtering: A
                Comparative Study of Part-of-speech Tagging and Supertagging"
                R. Chandrasekar , B. Srinivas
                University of Pennsylvania, USA

2:20-2:45 p.m   "Querying Hierarchical Text and Acyclic Hypertext  with
                Generalized Context-Free Grammars"
                Y. Marcoux, M. Sevigny
                Universite de Montreal, Canada

2:45-3:15 p.m   Break and Demonstrations
                -------------------------------------
                SESSION 12: INFORMATION EXTRACTION II
                -------------------------------------
Chairman: J.P. Haton, Universite Henri-Poincare, Nancy I, France

3:15-3:40 p.m   "A probabilistic model of Passage Categorization"
                M. Iwayama, T. Tokunaga
                Advanced Research Laboratory, Japan

3:40-4:05 p.m   "Knowledge Discovery From Natural Language Texts"
                U. Hahn, K. Schnattinger
                Freiburg University, Germany

4:05-4:30 p.m   "Extraction of Index Words from Manuals"
                H. Nakagawa
                Yokohama National University, Japan

                --------------------------------
                SESSION 13:  JUDICIAL PROBLEMS
                --------------------------------
Chairman: J. Perriere, C.I.D. France

4:30-4:55 p.m   "Limits of Using Data"
                Maitre Feral-Schuhl
                Ordre Des Avocats du Barreau de Paris, France.

4:55-5:20 p.m   "Data Security"
                 Maitre G. Arendt
                 President of Computer Commission of the International
                 Union of Lawyers, Luxemburg


5:20-5:45 p.m   "Security Concerns On The Intranet"
                Maitre Landry
                Montreal, Canada.
                Union Internationale des Avocats.


5:45-6:15 p.m   Conclusions


Cooperation program between France and Quebec
Linguistic and knowledge engineering

                ---------------------------
                        Special Session
                Cooperation program between France and Quebec
                Linguistic and knowledge engineering

                Thursday 26th June 1997
                Presentation languages:  French and English
                ---------------------------------------------

Chairman:  Stephane Chaudiron, Program Coordinator for France (Ministry for
Education and Research, DISTNB)

9.00 a.m:  Presentation of the program, Antoine Mynard, Attache pour
           la Science et la Technologie
9.15 a.m:  Tools for Lexicographers: Applications of Explanatory
           and Combinatorial Lexicography, Alain Polguere (Department of
           linguistics and translation - University of Montreal), Gilles
           Serasset (GETA-CLIPS,IMAG, University Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I)
9.45 a.m:  Automatic Processing Of Synonymy, Gaston Gross (Laboratoire
           de linguistique et informatique-UMR 195, University Paris 13),
           Andre Clas (GRESLET, University of Montreal).
10.15 a.m: The Semantics of Spatial Expressions and the Voronoi Model, Agnes
           Gryl(LIMSI, University of Paris Sud), Geoffrey Edwards (Centre de
           Recherche en geomatique, University Laval).
10.45 a.m: Emergentist Classifiers and Computationnally Enhanced Cognition:
           Applications to Text Analysis and Diagnosis, Vincent Rialle
           (Laboratoire TIMC, IMAG, University Joseph Fourier), Jean-Guy
           Meunier (Laboratoire d'analyse cognitive de l'information, University
           of Quebec in Montreal).

10.45 a.m - 11.00 a.m     Coffee break

Chairman:  Claude Fleury, program coordinator for Quebec,
           Ministere des relations internationales du Quebec
11.00 a.m: Connecting "What to say?" and "How to say it?" Components
           in a Text Generation System, Laurence Danlos (TALANA, University
           Paris 7) et Guy Lapalme (DIRO, University of Montreal).

11.30 a.m: Recycling the Results of Robust Parsers to Identify Term Variants,
           Benoit Habert (ENS Fontenay), Suzanne Bertrand-Gastaldy (University
           of Montreal), Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN), Fernande Dupuis (UQAM),
           Elie Naulleau (ENS Fontenay et DER/EDF), Monique Lemieux (UQAM).

12.00 p.m: The Integration of French Language Processing and Users Features
           in an Information Retrieval System, Jean-Pierre Chevallet
           (CLIPS-IMAG, University Joseph Fourier) Jian-Yun Nie (University
           of Montreal).

12.30 p.m:  Text retrieval and filtering using conceptual-based clustering
            metho", Jacques Guizol (Laboratoire d'informatique de Marseille,
            University of Mediterranee) Ruben Gonzalez Rubio (University
            of Sherbrooke).

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                CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
                ------------------------
Registration via the WWW at
                http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97
or by e-mail: riao97 at irin.univ-nantes.fr
or by fax at the CID: (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45
or by surface mail:
        CID, 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France
        CID, c/o Constantin and co., 575 Madison Ave, 25th Floor, NY, NY
        10022, USA
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                Registration Fees
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(before June 1, 1997): US$ 475 or CA$ 650 or 415 ECUS
(from June 1, 1997):   US$ 530 or CA$ 725 or 460 ECUS

Students (presenting valid Student ID):
(before June 1, 1997): US$ 315 or CA$ 435 or 275 ECUS
(from June 1, 1997):   US$ 390 or CA$ 530 or 340 ECUS

Registration fees can be made by bank transfer:

in US dollars:
        CID/CASIS No: 02 050 25 061 2
        Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre,
        89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France
or
        CASIS No: 15 39 90 34
        City Bank,
        460 Park Avenue and 57th Street, NY, NY 10022 USA

in Canadian dollars:
        CID No: 035 500 65 48 1
        Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre,
        89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France

in ECUs:
        CID No: 055 500 65 48 1
        Banque Societe Generale, Agence Montmartre,
        89 rue de Clichy, 75009 Paris, France

For Credit Card payments, only VISA Card can be accepted in writing or
by faxing request to C.I.D. 36 bis rue Ballu, 75009 Paris, France,
fax (33) 01 48 78 49 61 or (33) 01 45 26 84 45.

Registration includes access to all presentations and sessions,
including the Working Group,Thursday morning, June 26th, and a copy of
the proceedings. On-Site Registration will take place on Tuesday June
24 from 5 pm, and on Wednesday June 25, from 8 am on.

Telephones accepting credit cards are available throughout the University.
Lunches can be taken at the University Cafeteria, 3840 McTavish Street.
Lunch tickets will be available at the Registration Desk for $10 (Canadian)
per ticket.

McGill University is located in the center of Montreal and numerous
other restaurants are available nearby.
An optional visit and dinner will be organized for RIAO'97 participants
June 26th at 7 p.m.


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                AIRFARE AND HOTELS
                --------------------
Reductions in air fare will be possible for flights leaving from
France. Contact the CID before June 1, 1997.
A block of rooms have been reserved at several hotels in Montreal
at a special rate for RIAO97 participants.
When you make your reservation, please indicate that you are a participant
of RIAO97 Conference. In most cases, rooms will only be held at a special
rate until one month before the conference.

For more information: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/RIAO97

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