9.441, Calls: Translingual Information, Language Conflict
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Subject: 9.441, Calls: Translingual Information, Language Conflict
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:19:22 -0500
From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
Subject: ACL/COLING WORKSHOP on TRANSLINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:56:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Joseph <bjoseph at ling.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Language Conflict Conference
-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:19:22 -0500
From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
Subject: ACL/COLING WORKSHOP on TRANSLINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
!!!! SUBMISSION DEADLINE MARCH 23 !!!!
COLING-ACL998
Workshop on
TRANSLINGUAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
CURRENT LEVELS AND FUTURE ABILITIES
August 16, 1998 (following ACL/COLING-98)
University of Montreal, Montreal (Quebec, Canada)
CALL FOR PAPERS
DESCRIPTION
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The development of natural language applications which handle
multi-lingual and multi-modal information is the next major challenge
facing the field of computational linguistics. Over the past 50 years,
a variety of language-related capabilities has been developed in areas
such as machine translation, information retrieval, and speech
recognition, together with core capabilities such as information
extraction, summarization, parsing, generation, multimedia planning
and integration, statistics-based methods, ontologies, lexicon
construction and lexical representations, and grammar. The next few
years will require the extension of these technologies to encompass
multi-lingual and multi-modal information.
Extending current technologies will require integration of the various
capabilities into multi-functional natural language systems. However,
there is today no clear vision of how these technologies could or
should be assembled into a coherent framework. What would be involved
in connecting a speech recognition system to an information retrieval
engine, and then using machine translation and summarization software
to process the retrieved text? How can traditional parsing and
generation be enhanced with statistical techniques? What would be the
effect of carefully crafted lexicons on traditional information
retrieval?
This workshop is a follow-on to an NSF-sponsored workshop held in
conjunction with the First International Conference on Language
Resources and Evaluation in Granada, Spain (May 1998), at which an
international panel of invited experts will consider these questions
in an attempt to identify the most effective future directions of
computational linguistics research--especially in the context of the
need to handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information. The
follow-on ACL workshop is intended to open the discussion to the
computational inguistics community as a whole. The workshop will
include ample time for discussion. A report summarizing the
discussions at Granada will be available before the ACL workshop.
TOPICS
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The workshop will focus on the following fundamental questions:
1. What is the current level of capability in each of the major areas
of
the field dealing with language and related media of human
communication?
2. How can (some of) these functions be integrated in the near future,
and what kind of systems will result?
3. What are the major considerations for extending these functions to
handle multi-lingual and multi-modal information, particularly in
integrated systems of the type envisioned in (2)?
In particular, we will consider these questions in relation to the
following areas:
o multi-lingual resources (lexicons, ontologies, corpora, etc.)
o information retrieval, especially cross-lingual and cross-modal
o machine translation
o automated (cross-lingual) summarization and information
extraction
o multimedia communication, in conjunction with text
o evaluation and assessment techniques for each of these areas
o methods and techniques (both statistics-based and linguistics-
based) of pre-parsing, parsing, generation, information
acquisition, etc.
We invite submissions which report on work in these areas. All papers
should clearly identify how the work addresses the issues and
questions outlined above.
SUBMISSIONS
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Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Authors should submit six
(6) copies of the full-length paper (3500-5000 words).
Submissions should be sent to:
Nancy Ide
Department of Computer Science
Vassar College
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520
USA
Style files and templates for preparing submissions can be found at
http://coling-acl98.iro.umontreal.ca/Styles.html
The official language of the conference is English.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
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Submission Deadline: March 23, 1998
Notification Date: May 15, 1998
Camera ready copy due: June 15, 1998
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
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Charles Fillmore University of California Berkeley,
USA
Robert Frederking Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ulrich Heid University of Stuttgart, Germany
Eduard Hovy Information Sciences Institute, USA
Nancy Ide Vassar College, USA
Lauri Karttunen (tentative) Rank Xerox Research, France
Kimmo Koskenniemi University of Helsinki, Finland
Mun Kew Leong National University of Singapore
Joseph Mariani LIMSI/CNRS, France
Mark Maybury The Mitre Corporation, USA
Sergei Nirenburg New Mexico State University, USA
Akitoshi Okumura NEC, Japan
Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, USA
James Pustejovsky Brandeis University, USA
Peter Schaueble ETH, Switzerland
Oliviero Stock IRST, Italy
Felisa Verdejo UNED, Spain
Piek Vossen University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Wolfgang Wahlster DFKI, Germany
ORGANIZERS
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Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
INFORMATION
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Information on the workshop can be found at
http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/translingual.html
Inquiries may be addressed to the organizers:
Robert Frederking <ref at nl.cs.cmu.edu>
Eduard Hovy <hovy at isi.edu>
Nancy Ide <ide at cs.vassar.edu>
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 15:56:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Joseph <bjoseph at ling.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Language Conflict Conference
ANNOUNCING: an Interdisciplinary Conference
"When Languages Collide: Sociocultural and Geopolitical Implications
Of Language Conflict and Language Coexistence"
November 13-15, 1998
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Rationale for Conference: To discuss issues relating to language or dialect
hegemony within societies including, but not limited to, language planning,
designation of national or official languages, orthographic reform, dialect
and language prestige, language endangerment and death, minority language
status, gender or race-based linguistic hegemony, and the spread of English
as the international language of science, business, etc., and the reaction
of non-English speaking peoples to this. In other words, we seek a
discussion of all areas in which conflict or disputes arise as the result of
competition between different languages or between dialects within a single
language. Moreover, our interest is in the social, political, historical,
and linguistic dimensions of these issues, with a broad geographic coverage
that is global in scope.
Conference Themes: State-imposed linguistic unity and its implications; the
linguistic legacy of colonialism; international languages, their positive
and negative consequences; contentious issues regarding national or local
languages; race-, ethnic-, gender-, and class-based dialects under siege by
the dominant linguistic paradigm; diglossia; orthographies in competition;
conflicting romanizations of languages.
Featured Plenary Speakers:
Joshua Fishman, Stanford University
Victor A. Friedman, University of Chicago
Featured Panelists:
S. Robert Ramsey, University of Maryland, College Park
Yona Sabar, University of California at Los Angeles
Lachman Kubchandani, Center for Communication Studies, Pune (India)
Other invited speakers may be added in the next few weeks.
Call for Papers: Please send five copies of a one-page anonymous abstract
(no more than 500 words) with a second page allowable for references and
data, together with a 3"x 5" file card with your name, title of paper,
address (plus summer address, if different), phone number, fax, and e-mail
address by May 15, 1998 to:
Office of International Studies For more information, call:
Attn: Language Conference 614-292-8770
300 Oxley Hall or write to:
1712 Neil Avenue wolf.5 at osu.edu
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1219
We anticipate publishing selected papers from the conference with a major
university press.
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