9.512, Calls: ELRA, ESCA
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Subject: 9.512, Calls: ELRA, ESCA
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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 15:21:26 -0700 (MST)
From: Svetlana Sheremetyeva <lana at crl.nmsu.edu>
Subject: Minimizing the Effort for Language Resource Acquisition
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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 11:48:26 +0100
From: Marie Helene Casanova <casanova at lpl.univ-aix.fr>
Subject: Speech Sounds of Spontaneous Speech
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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 15:21:26 -0700 (MST)
From: Svetlana Sheremetyeva <lana at crl.nmsu.edu>
Subject: Minimizing the Effort for Language Resource Acquisition
Call for Participation
A Workshop on Minimizing the Effort
for Language Resource Acquisition
Granada, Spain, 26 May, 1998
in conjunction with
The First International Conference
on Language Resources and Evaluation
Granada, Spain, 28-30, May 1998
(see http://ceres.ugr.es/~rubio/elra.html for details and how to
register)
The workshop will be devoted to ANY TECHNOLOGICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE
FACET OF ECONOMY OF ACQUISITION EFFORT.
Tentative program:
(Svetlana Sheremetyeva, Organizer)
0. Introduction. S. Sheremetyeva
Full papers:
1. Reusing Swedish Language Processing Resources in SVENSK
F.Olsson, B.Gamback and M.Eriksson
2. A Cost-Effective Approach to Multilingual Lexicon Acquisition
E.Viegas, S.Nirenburg, B.Onyshkevych and V.Raskin
3. Speeding-up the Building of New Ontologies using Bilingual
Dictionaries
L.Griot
4. Matching Resource Acquisition Work to Needs of an Application
S.Nirenburg and R.Zajac
5. Minimization Strategies in NeuroTran
N.Koncar, S.Pawlowski, D.Sipka and V.Sipka
6. Refining a Bi-Lingual MRD using A Corpus Based Tool.
J.Cowie
General Discussion.
Workshop Scope and Aims
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An applied NLP system must produce adequate results and must be
made deployable within reasonable time. Gathering and acquiring
language resources to build an application system is very
time-consuming, and it is imperative to find ways of speeding up
acquisition of high quality, useful static knowledge sources such as a
variety of grammars, lexicons, corpora, etc. Viability of avoiding
massive resource acquisition, if possible, must also be carefully
considered.
Resource acquisition should include methods, based both on sound
theoretical principles and practical experience, of deciding, among
other things, on the amount of knowledge one *really* needs for a
given application. Increasing the size of knowledge sources or their
number and variety does not necessarily lead to a commensurate
improvement of output quality in an application, though a correlation
between the two certainly exists, but it definitely needs to much
increased costs.
No matter how large the acquired resources are and how many of them
have been acquired, there will always remain a residue of language
processing problems which can be tackled only by foregoing the
requirement of full automation and involving expensive semi-automatic
or even manual acquisition. It becomes imperative, therefore, to
assess when the static knowledge source acquisition is NO LONGER
PROFITABLE. Thus, in a system for interactive authoring and automatic
generation of patent claim texts, the lexical knowledge base can be
restricted to a lexicon of domain-related verbs marked for
subcategorization (as the nominals are provided interactively by the
author).
The technological issues to be discussed at the conference include,
BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
- minimization of effort in acquiring monolingual and multilingual
text corpora;
- minimization of effort in acquiring computational lexicons,
including phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic and
other (including application-specific) information;
- minimization of effort in acquisition of resources for the support of
corpus-based language engineering methods;
- minimization of effort in acquiring grammatical coverage of
languages and sublanguages ;
- methods of determining levels of reusability of existing language
resources;
- balancing the needs of the application and the grain size of
language description;
- minimization of effort through balancing automatic and interactive
methods of knowledge acquisition;
- evaluation of potential utility of resources to applications;
Program Committee:
Svetlana Sheremetyeva, NMSU CRL, USA (Chair)
Eduard Hovy, USC ISI, USA
Bernardo Magnini, IRST, Italy
Sergei Nirenburg, NMSU CRL, USA
Victor Raskin, Purdue University, USA
Frederique Segonde, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
Leo Wanner, University of Stuttgart, Germany
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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 11:48:26 +0100
From: Marie Helene Casanova <casanova at lpl.univ-aix.fr>
Subject: Speech Sounds of Spontaneous Speech
THE ESCA WORKSHOP SPOSS
The deadline for submissions to the SPoSS workshop is April the 15th.
Please, send submissions at the adress given below.
Authors will be notified of paper acceptance by May the 31st.
You are invited to participate in the ESCA workshop on the Speech
Sounds of Spontaneous Speech. The workshop will emphasize on the
production and perception of assimilatory and reduction processes in
various languages and dialects.
If you would like to present at this workshop, please submit a paper
describing original research and results.
Five copies of the abstract (in English) should be sent to :
SPoSS
Laboratoire Parole et Langage
Universite de Provence
29, avenue R. Schuman
13621 Aix en Provence
FRANCE
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ORGANISATION COMMITTEE :
Danielle DUEZ, LPL,
Marie-Helene CASANOVA, LPL,
Martin BROUSSEAU, LPL,
Bernard TESTON, LPL,
Annie RIVAL,LPL,
INVITED SPEAKERS :
* Anne CUTLER (Max Planck Institute)
"Variable Representations and the Recognition of Spoken Words"
*Klaus KOHLER (University of Kiel)
"The Phonetic Representation of Words in Utterance Phonology"
*Bjorn LINDBLOM (University of Stockholm)
"Untitled"
*Jacqueline VAISSIERE (Universite de Paris III)
"Untitled"
THEMES :
- Articulatory and acoustic analysis of spontaneous-speech processes
- Spontaneous-speech processes in relation to prosodic information
- Perception of reduction and assimilatory processes and context
effects
- Reduction and assimilatory processes : comparison between read speech
and spontaneous speech
- Reduction and assimilatory processes : comparison between languages
- Modelling of spontaneous-speech processes
- Sound changes in light of spontaneous speech processes
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Danielle DUEZ
e-mail : duez at lpl.univ-aix.fr
Fax :33 + 04 42 59 50 96
Tel :33 + 04 42 95 36 23
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