From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Mar 5 12:20:05 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:20:05 GMT Subject: Appel: ESSLLI'99 Student Session Message-ID: From: amalia at liia.u-strasbg.fr !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!! !!!Please circulate and post among students !!! !!! We apologize if you receive this message more than once. !!! =========================================================================== LAST CALL FOR PAPERS THE ESSLLI'99 STUDENT SESSION August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands Deadline : March 15th, 1999 http://www-ensais.u-strasbg.fr/LIIA/todirascu/esslli-fr.html We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99) organized by the University of Utrecht under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FOLLI) and located at the University of Utrecht in August 1999. We will welcome submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI'99 Student Session and appearance in the proceedings. ============================================================================= PURPOSE: This is going to be the fourth ESSLLI Student Session and it will provide, like the other editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own WORK IN PROGRESS and get feedback from their colleagues and fellow-students. It is desired that papers presenting creative and innovative ideas will be submitted. The ESSLLI'99 Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates - before completion of the Master Thesis as well as postgraduates - before completion of the PhD degree. We will not accept papers co-authored by non-students. As in the previous editions, the ESSLLI'99 Student Session will consist of paper presentations. The ESSLLI'99 Student Session has its own timeslot in the school's schedule: 60 minutes every day for two weeks, provided that a sufficient number of good quality papers is accepted. Each presentation will last 30 minutes (including 10 minutes of discussion). ============================================================================= REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. Papers will cover topics within the six ESSLLI subject areas (Logic, Linguistics, Computation, Logic&Linguistics, Logic&Computation, Linguistics&Computation). The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI'99 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during ESSLLI'99, together with the readers of the courses. =========================================================================== FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the paper title, not to exceed 5 pages of length exclusive of references and a separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since reviewing will be blind, the body of the abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., " We previously showed (Smith, 1991)... ") should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like " Smith (1991) previously showed...". To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), the author(s)s'affiliation and complete address(s) a short (5 lines) summary and a specification of the subject area to which the paper belongs. The subject areas considered are: Logic, Linguistics, Computation, Logic&Linguistics, Logic&Computation, and Linguistics & Computation. =========================================================================== MEDIA OF SUBMISSION AND FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS: The student authors should submit their papers electronically to: amalia at liia.u-strasbg.fr amalia at thor.infoiasi.ro For any submission a plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent separately by email, using the following format: Title: Author: <name of the first author> Address: <affiliation and address of first author> ... Author: <name of the last author> Address: <affiliation and address of last author> Short summary (5 lines): <summary> Subject area (one of): Logic | Linguistics | Computation | Logic and Linguistics | Logic and Computation | Linguistics and Computation Please always submit the identification page in a separate message. The submission should be in one of the following formats: - Self-contained Latex source (the most encouraged) - PostScript - ASCII text You can find more information about submission requirements at : http://www-ensais.u-strasbg.fr/LIIA/todirascu/esslli-fr.html ======================================================================== ESSLLI'99 STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at ESSLLI'99 Student Session, every student author has to register as a participant (http://esslli.let.uu.nl/registration.html) at ESSLLI'99. However, authors of accepted papers will be eligible for a reduced registration fee. For all information concerning ESSLLI'99 please consult the ESSLLI'99 web site: http://esslli.let.uu.nl ========================================================================= KLUWER ESSLLI'99 STUDENT SESSION BEST PAPER PRIZE : As in other editions of ESSLLI Summer Schools (1996, 1998), Kluwer Academic Publishers will offer a prize for the Student Session best paper. The prize of 1000 Dfl consists of a free choice of Kluwer books displayed during the school. ========================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission: March 15, 1999 Notifications: May 16, 1999 Final version due: June 15, 1999 ESSLLI'99 Student Session: August 9-20, 1999 =========================================================================== PROGRAMME COMMITTEE FOR THE ESSLLI'99 STUDENT SESSION: Chairwoman: Amalia Todirascu (University "Al.I.Cuza" of Iasi and ENSAIS Strasbourg) Area co-chairs: - Language and Computation: Richard Moot (University of Utrecht) - Computation: Dirk Nowotka (Turku Center for Computer Science) - Logic: Quintijn Puite (University of Utrecht) - Language: Esther Kraak (University of Utrecht) - Logic and Computation: Catherine Piliere (UHP-LORIA, Nancy) - Logic and Language: Fabien Reniers (University of Utrecht) If you have specific questions about the student session please do not hesitate to contact the chair. amalia at liia.u-strasbg.fr amalia at thor.infoiasi.ro Computer Science Department University " Al.I.Cuza " of Iasi 16, Berthelot Str. Iasi 6600 Romania and (until 30th April 1999) Laboratoire d'Informatique et d'Intelligence Artificielle Ecole Nationale SupHrieure des Arts et d'Industrie Strasbourg 24, Bd. de la Victoire 67084 Strasbourg Cedex France From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Mar 5 12:20:08 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:20:08 GMT Subject: Appel: MT Summit VII Message-ID: <FRI.5.MAR.1999.122008.GMT.> From: "Megumi Kiya" <aamt0002 at infotokyo.or.jp> ================================================================== MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII "MT in the Great Translation Era" September 13-17, 1999, Singapore 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================== MT Summit VII solicits submissions of research papers, system presentations, and user reports in the broad field of machine translation and natural language processing. Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline (Note: The date has changed since the 1st CFP.) 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline Please see the "Paper Submission" section below for the details. MT Summit VII will also have many invited presentations by researchers, users and policy makers from all parts of the world. Featured Speakers: Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University Jo Lernout, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products nv Toru Nishigaki, University of Tokyo Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University Please see the "Invited Speakers" section below for the details. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Further Information: Please visit our Web-site for up-to-date MT SUMMIT VII information: http://www.krdl.org.sg/mts99 or http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99.html By e-mail, please contact the AAMT secretariat: aamt0002 at infotokyo.or.jp ================================================================== The seventh Machine Translation Summit, organized by the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), will be held at Kent Ridge Digital Labs on the campus of National University of Singapore from 13 to 17 September 1999. Meetings of the MT Summit have been held once every two years since 1987 under the auspices of AAMT, EAMT (European Association for Machine Translation) and AMTA (Association for Machine Translation in the Americas). MT Summit VII, which is the last conference of the 20th century in the premier series of conferences on machine translation, will provide a forum for discussing the prospect of MT and related areas in the coming century. MT Summit VII will feature an expanded program including research papers, reports on users' experiences, discussions of policy issues, invited talks, panels, exhibitions, tutorials, and workshops. AAMT invites all who are interested in any aspect of machine translation - researchers, developers, providers, users, and watchers - to participate in the conference. The schedule of MT Summit VII is outlined as follows: Monday, 13 September: Tutorials Reception Tuesday, 14 September: Main conference Exhibition Wednesday, 15 September: Main conference Exhibition Banquet Thursday, 16 September: Main conference Exhibition Friday, 17 September: Workshops ----------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission MT Summit VII seeks original papers in all aspects of machine translation. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: - Methodologies for MT (rule-based, knowledge-based, analogy-based, statistics-based, etc.) - Practical MT systems (MT for professional translation, MT for the Internet, MT for localization, etc.) - Translation aids (translation memory, terminology databases, etc.) - Speech and dialogue translation - Natural language analysis and generation techniques - Dictionaries and lexicons for MT systems - Text corpora for MT and knowledge extraction from corpora - Human factors in MT and user interfaces - Evaluation techniques - Standards in text and lexicon encoding for MT - Cross-lingual information retrieval - MT and related technologies (information retrieval, text categorization, text summarization, information extraction, etc.) There will be three categories of papers: (1) Research papers: Submissions are invited for reports of significant research results in any aspect of machine translation and related areas. Such reports should include a substantial evaluative component. Papers should be in English, not longer than 5,000 words. (2) System presentations with demos: Submissions are invited for reports on the design, implementation, operation and evaluation of operational and prototype systems. Reports should be in English, not longer than 2,000 words. (3) User studies: Submissions are invited for reports on users' experiences with applying MT to some task, evaluation of MT systems, analysis of MT markets, etc. Reports should be in English, not longer than 5,000 words. All types of papers should be submitted to the address below and must be received by the indicated date. Papers should include a cover page with the following information: - paper title, - author(s)' name(s), affiliation(s), address(es), and e-mail address(es), - 200 word abstract, - for research papers: up to 5 keywords, - for system presentations with demos: the word "System presentation with demo", and the hardware, software and network requirement for the demonstration, - for user studies: the word "User study". Please mail 4 hardcopies of the paper to: MT Summit VII Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT) 3F, Shiba-Koen Sanada Bldg. 3-5-12 Shiba-Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan In addition, please submit an ASCII version of the cover page electronically to: aamt0001 at infotokyo.or.jp Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline (Note: The date has changed since the 1st CFP.) 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline ----------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers In addition to submitted paper sessions, the conference program will include a keynote speech, invited talks, regional reports, special sessions on selected topics, and panel discussions. Following is a list of invited speakers. Opening session: Representative of Singapore Government Representative of MITI of Japanese Government Keynote speech: Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (President, International Association for Machine Translation) Invited talks: Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University, USA Prof. Kay, who has been a leading scientist in computational linguistics and machine translation, will present a technological perspective of MT. Jo Lernout, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products nv, Belgium Dr. Lernout, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the field of speech and language, will present an industrial prospect of MT and related technologies. Toru Nishigaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Prof. Nishigaki, who is an interdisciplinary researcher in computer science and sociology, will give an enlightening talk on social implications of MT. Special talk (at Banquet): Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan Prof. Nagao, President of Kyoto University and the founding Presidents of IAMT (The International Association for Machine Translation) and AAMT, who is a pioneer of MT as well as a wide areas of AI, will give a talk at the Banquet which will take place on September 15th, 1999. Survey reports on MT in each area: - Asia Hemant Darbari, Center for Developemnt of Advanced Computing, India Aiping Fu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Hirosato Nomura, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Se-Young Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea - Europe Rose Lockwood, Equipe Consortium Ltd., UK - North America Elliott Macklovitch, Universite de Montreal, Canada Special sessions: ( *) Coordinator) "Controlled Language" Hiroyuki Kaji,*) Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Uus Knops, LANT nv, Belgium Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon University, USA "Localization" Virginia Cha,*) Star+Globe Technologies, Singapore Michael Anobile, Localisation Industry Standard Association, Switzerland Stanley Park, International Transformational Information Corp., Korea "MT and Speech" Key-Sun Choi,*) Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Korea Terminology Research Center for Language and Knowledge Engineering, Korea Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories and SONY Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Japan Gianni Lazzari, Instituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologia, Italy "Multilingual Information Access" Vilas Wuwongse,*) Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Thomas Baker, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Sung H. Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea "MT from the Research Perspective" Dominique Estival,*) University of Melbourne, Australia (TBA) (TBA) "Views from Users" Hirosato Nomura,*) Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (TBA) (TBA) "MT for the Next Century" Jun-ichi Tsujii,*) University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Shin-ichiro Kamei, NEC Corporation, Japan Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University, UK (TBA) From MT users (TBA) From MT users Panels: ( *) Moderator) "International Cooperation - From Funding Agencies' Point of View" Antonio Sanfilippo,*) European Commission, Luxembourg Roberto Cencioni, European Commission, Luxembourg (TBC) Lianzhong He, Development and Planning Commission of China, China (TBC) Akira Kubota, MITI, Japan Ronald Larsen, DARPA, USA Gary Strong, NSF, USA "MT Evaluation" Margaret King,*) University of Geneva, Switzerland Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Benjamin K. Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong John White, Litton PRC, USA Yusoff Zaharin, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Closing session: John Hutchins, University of East Anglia, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibition Many commercial and research systems, including a speech translation system by C-STAR Consortium (ATR, CMU, etc.), will be demonstrated in exhibit booths throughout the conference. About 30 booths will be prepared for exhibitors. Spaces will be allocated to applicants on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like to exhibit, please contact the Exhibition Coordinator Vicky (e-mail: vicky at krdl.org.sg). ----------------------------------------------------------------- About Singapore Singapore is a vibrant, sophisticated city state of 3 million people offering the best of modern facilities and comforts while retaining her heritage and culture. A progressive, cosmopolitan city, Singapore has the world's best airport - Changi International Airport - and lies at the crossroads of Asia. Known for her food and shopping, Singapore is a thriving nucleus for tourism, trade and finance. The climate in Singapore is tropical all year round with high humidity and temperatures varying between 23 degrees Celsius (74 F) in the evening to 32 degrees Celsius (90 F) during the day. Showers are sporadic and heavy but also brief and refreshing. Light summer clothing may be worn throughout the day. About the Venue Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) is a national applied research & development organization established in January 1998 through the merger of former national IT institutes - the Information Technology Institute (ITI) and the Institute of Systems Science (ISS). With a diverse team of more than 400 research scientists, KRDL's aim is to be the premier research and development organization in Asia-Pacific for information and networking technologies. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Organization Organizing Committee Honorary Chair: Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan Chair: Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Vice Chairs$B!'(B Hwee Boon Low, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Executive Committee Chair: Hirokazu Amemiya, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Vice Chair: Hideki Morimoto, Fujitsu Ltd., Japan Local Organizing Committee Chair: Hwee Boon Low, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Secretary: Victorine Chen-Toh, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Program Committee Chair: Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Vice Chair: Loong Cheong Tong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Members: Virginia Cha, Star+Globe Technologies, Singapore Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan ZhaoXiong Chen, Kezhi Co., China Key-Sun Choi, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia Zhendong Dong, Chinese Information Processing Society, China Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne, Australia Changning Huang, Tsinghua University, China Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories and SONY Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Japan Etsuo Ito, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Hiroyuki Kaji, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Shin-ichiro Kamei, NEC Corporation, Japan Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Kunio Matsui, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Se Young Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Wanchai Rivepiboon, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Trihono Sastrohartono, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, Indonesia Youlwon Seong, Language and Computer, Ltd., Korea Satoshi Shirai, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Japan Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Chew Lim Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Benjamin K. Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Yusoff Zaharin, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia International Advisors: Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN Software, Inc., USA Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA John Hutchins, University of East Anglia, UK Antonio Sanfilippo, European Commission, Luxembourg From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Mar 5 12:20:10 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:20:10 GMT Subject: Ecole: Language Engineering Message-ID: <FRI.5.MAR.1999.122010.GMT.> From: CRL SSLE <ssle at crl.nmsu.edu> The NMSU Computing Research Laboratory Presents The 1999 Summer School in Language Engineering June 28-July 9 The 1999 Summer School in Language Engineering is designed for the practical computational linguist or natural language processing specialist. The program of the school stresses practical needs of application system builders in such areas as machine translation, information retrieval and extraction and text summarization. It stresses the broad range of multilingual aspects of today's language engineering, from the support for the various writing systems to acquisition of linguistic knowledge for applications to languages that have not yet been widely studied. The summer school is organized by the Computing Research Laboratory (CRL) of New Mexico State University. The instructors, both members of CRL staff and visiting professors, are all leaders in their respective areas of expertise. The school will feature two full weeks of instruction and hands-on practical studies. The number of students in the school will be small, keeping a high instructor-to-student ratio. Registrants will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis. Preregistration and fees must be received no later than June 1. For more information, please visit our web site at: http://crl.nmsu.edu/summerschool Course Descriptions "Ecological" Issues in Language Engineering This course will cover issues related to writing systems, encodings, input and output methods; treatment of punctuation, special characters and symbols, including mark-up; processing of dates and numbers; and a variety of issues connected with managing large multilingual collections of documents featuring different mark-up styles. A number of computational tools will be introduced and used in practical exercises. Approaches to Computational Morphology After a presentation of several approaches to computational morphology, with example systems for such widely different languages as Spanish, Persian, Russian and Turkish, this course will concentrate on the engineering of state-of-the-art morphological analysis and generation systems, especially for languages other than English. Students will get hands-on experience using sophisticated development and testing tools, by building a morphological analyzer. Lexicon Acquisition for NLP I: Morphology and Syntax This course will describe the process of design and acquisition of several types of lexicons for NLP systems: lexicons supporting morphological and syntactic analysis of texts in a language, transfer lexicons for machine translation and multilingual onomastica (lexicons of proper names). A number of acquisition interfaces will be used in practical exercises. Lexicon Acquisition for NLP II: Ontological Semantics This course will present the design and acquisition of static knowledge sources to support analysis of meaning in natural language texts. In particular, it will cover designing and building ontologies, or world models, for NLP and lexicons for the support of semantic analysis of particular languages. Practical exercises will be supported by interactive acquisition interfaces. Knowledge Elicitation from Informants his course will present an environment for eliciting grammatical and lexical knowledge about a language from a user who knows that language and English but is not a trained linguist. This kind of environment is a realistic alternative to experimenting with automatic elicitation of language knowledge. It combines corpus-based, expectation-based and failure-driven acquisition of declarative knowledge about a language and is most useful for the languages for which few computational resources are available. The design of the acquisition process and system will be discussed, and the interface, Boas, will be used in practical exercises. A Survey of Language Engineering Applications This course will introduce language engineering applications such as machine translation, information retrieval and extraction, text summarization and language instruction. The tasks and techniques learned in the other courses will be put in their context and further illustrated. The following systems will be presented and available for laboratory work: the Corelli machine translation environment; the MINDS information retrieval and summarization system, the URSA cross-language information retrieval engine, the Oleada language instruction environment and translator's tool set, the Mikrokosmos machine translation system and the Expedition environment for configuring machine translation systems for low-density languages. http://crl.nmsu.edu/summerschool From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 9 13:59:43 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:59:43 GMT Subject: Jobs: 2 Offers Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.135943.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: pvanmeurs at tegic.com Subject: Computational Ling; Tegic Communications 2/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Jobs at LEEDS University ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: pvanmeurs at tegic.com Subject: Computational Ling; Tegic Communications Tegic Communications (http://www.tegic.com) is looking for a computational linguist. Description: The computational linguist will be responsible for research and development to support Tegic's text input system in a variety of languages If you are interested in working in the fast paced, exciting area of research and development of commercial software at the "cutting edge" of technology, then this is a job which will provide you with such opportunities. Tegic offers many additional benefits, including health insurance, dental, 401K plan, and (privately held) stock options. The company is located in Seattle, Washington. Required: Degree in computational linguistics with emphasis on lexicography and morphological analyzers Experience with research in computational linguistics Experience with development of commercial software products Strong programming skills Desired: Familiarity with a large number of languages (preferably Eastern European/Semitic/Asian) Familiarity with the analysis of large corpora 5+ years of experience in the field of computational linguistics Active participation in the community of computational linguistics Familiarity with C/C++, Perl, Windows NT operating system, compression algorithms helpful Background: Tegic Communications (http:/www.tegic.com) is a fast growing company which offers very competitive salaries. Tegic Communications, has developed software which allows users to enter text on wireless devices such as wireless phones or pagers in a fast and efficient manner. We have been very successful in securing licenses with most of the major cell phone manufacturers and many of the smaller companies. Unlike the "multi-tap' method in which the user has to tap the "2-ABC"-key three times to get a "c" for instance, the user can just hit the "2-ABC" key once. The software will determine which word the user is likely to be typing. In order for this to work in a variety of languages we require an understanding of how people actually use the language. For this we have developed an extensive suite of tools to analyze large amounts of text corpora. The contributions a computational linguist could make here are numerous. We are dealing with issues of corpus selection, corpus classification, performance analysis, morphological analysis and generation, word compounding, syntactical analysis, text segmentation and many more. We are offering an opportunity for the computational linguist to do research in many areas. We are looking for someone who has research experience as well as the ability to identify areas of improvement for our products and deliver a solution, all in a timely manner. We have developed our technology for a dozen languages as well as Chinese (stroke and phonetic based) and Japanese. Each language has its own challenges and we are expanding quickly into many additional languages. We are also looking into expanding into new technologies to broaden our product base. This will require identification of and research into many new opportunities, research for which we need the contributions of a skilled computational linguist. If you have any additional questions please contact me via e-mail. Pim van Meurs Manager Computational Linguistics Linguistic Research and Development Group Tegic Communications 2001 Western Ave Suite 210 Seattle WA 98121 (206) 343-7001 Phone (206) 343-7004 Fax pvanmeurs at tegic.com http://www.tegic.com ______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Jobs at LEEDS University More academic vacancies in a research-led University: Leeds University - SCHOOL OF COMPUTER STUDIES: PERMANENT posts: 2 (possibly 3) LECTURESHIPS (closing date: 26 March 1999) and RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (closing date: 11 March 1999) in Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Science Also, TEMPORARY posts: 3 Research Fellows/Computational Scientists (1-3 years) Leeds University - SCHOOL OF ENGLISH: 2 LECTURESHIPS (closing date: 12 March 1999) Leeds University and the Ministry of Education Sultanate of Oman In-service B.A. (Honours) TESOL programme PROJECT MANAGER and 10 REGIONAL TUTORS based in Oman (3 years; closing date: end March 1999) We also have several support staff posts, eg: UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICE: COMPUTING OFFICER - Unix Support (18 March) CENTRE FOR VIRTUAL WORKING SYSTEMS: COMPUTER TECHNICIAN (12 March) MOTHER AND INFANT RESEARCH UNIT: Part-time IT COORDINATOR (12 March) For details, email s.m.hartley at registry.leeds.ac.uk For these and other vacancies at Leeds University, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts/ (NB I can tell you what a great place Leeds is to live in, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/intro/city.htm - BUT I can't tell you any more about these jobs - Human Resources have the job descriptions etc.) Eric Atwell, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England EMAIL: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk TEL: (44)113-2335761 FAX: (44)113-2335468 WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 9 14:00:54 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:00:54 GMT Subject: Appel: ACL Workshops Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.140054.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Below are 1) a new ACL'99 workshop announcement on Unsupervised Learning in NLP, and 2) a slightly revised announcement for the joint EMNLP and WVLC ACL'99 workshop. These are separated by asterisks (*). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ACL-99 Workshop Unsupervised Learning in Natural Language Processing University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA June 21st, 1999 http://www.ai.sri.com/~kehler/unsup-acl-99.html Endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning (SIGNLL) WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Many of the successes achieved from using learning techniques in natural language processing (NLP) have utilized the supervised paradigm, in which models are trained from data annotated with the target concepts to be learned. For instance, the target concepts in language modeling for speech recognition are words, and thus raw text corpora suffice. The first successful part-of-speech taggers were made possible by the existence of the Brown corpus (Francis, 1964), a million-word data set which was laboriously hand-tagged a quarter of a century prior. Finally, progress in statistical parsing required the development of the Penn Treebank data set (Marcus et al. 1993), the result of many staff years of effort. While it is worthwhile to utilize annotated data when it is available, the future success of learning for natural language systems cannot depend on a paradigm requiring that large, annotated data sets be created for each new problem or application. The costs of annotation are prohibitively time and expertise intensive, and the resulting corpora are too susceptible to restriction to a particular domain, application, or genre. Thus, long-term progress in NLP is likely to be dependent on the use of unsupervised and weakly supervised learning techniques, which do not require large annotated data sets. Unsupervised learning utilizes raw, unannotated data to discover underlying structure giving rise to emergent patterns and principles. Weakly supervised learning uses supervised learning on small, annotated data sets to seed unsupervised learning using much larger, unannotated data sets. Because these techniques are capable of identifying new and unanticipated correlations in data, they have the additional advantage of being able to feed new insights back into more traditional lines of basic research. Unsupervised and weakly supervised methods have been used successfully in several areas of NLP, including acquiring verb subcategorization frames (Brent, 1993; Manning, 1993), part-of-speech tagging (Brill, 1997), word sense disambiguation (Yarowsky, 1995), and prepositional phrase attachment (Ratnaparkhi, 1998). The goal of this workshop is to discuss, promote, and present new research results (positive and negative) in the use of such methods in NLP. We encourage submissions on work applying learning to any area of language interpretation or production in which the training data does not come fully annotated with the target concepts to be learned, including: * Fully unsupervised algorithms * `Weakly supervised' learning, bootstrapping models from small sets of annotated data * `Indirectly supervised' learning, in which end-to-end task evaluation drives learning in an embedded language interpretation module * Exploratory data analysis techniques applied to linguistic data * Unsupervised adaptation of existing models in changing environments * Quantitative and qualitative comparisons of results obtained with supervised and unsupervised learning approaches Position papers on the pros and cons of supervised vs. unsupervised learning will also be considered. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions can take the form of extended abstracts or full papers, not to exceed six (6) pages. Authors of extended abstracts should note the short timespan between notification of acceptance and the final paper deadline. Up to two more pages may be allocated for the final paper depending on space constraints. Authors are requested to submit one electronic version of their papers *or* four hardcopies. Please submit hardcopies only if electronic submission is impossible. Submissions in Postscript or PDF format are strongly preferred. If possible, please conform with the traditional two-column ACL Proceedings format. Style files can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/Styfiles/Proceedings/. Email submissions should be sent to: kehler at ai.sri.com Hard copy submissions should be sent to: Andrew Kehler SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue EK272 Menlo Park, CA 94025 TIMETABLE Paper submission deadline: March 26 Notification of acceptance: April 16 Camera ready papers due: April 30 ORGANIZERS Andrew Kehler (SRI International) Andreas Stolcke (SRI International) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michael Brent (Johns Hopkins University) Eric Brill (Johns Hopkins University) Eugene Charniak (Brown University) Michael Collins (AT&T Laboratories) Moises Goldszmidt (SRI International) Andrew Kehler (SRI International) Andrew McCallum (Carnegie-Mellon University and Just Research) Ray Mooney (University of Texas, Austin) Srini Narayanan (ICSI, Berkeley) Fernando Pereira (AT&T Laboratories) David Powers (Flinders University of South Australia) Adwait Ratnaparkhi (IBM Research) Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Andreas Stolcke (SRI International) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University) *************************************************************************** Second Call For Papers (EMNLP/VLC-99) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND VERY LARGE CORPORA Sponsored by SIGDAT (ACL's Special Interest Group for Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP) June 21-22, 1999 University of Maryland In conjunction with ACL'99: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics This SIGDAT-sponsored joint conference will continue to provide a forum for new research in corpus-based and/or empirical methods in NLP. In additionto providing a general forum, the theme for this year is "Corpus-based and/or Empirical Methods in NLP for Speech, MT, IR, and other Applied Systems" A large number of systems in automatic speech recognition(ASR) and synthesis, machine translation(MT), information retrieval(IR), optical character recognition(OCR) and handwriting recognition have become commercially available in the last decade. Many of these systems use NLP technologies as an important component. Corpus-based and empirical methods in NLP have been a major trend in recent years. How useful are these techniques when applied to real systems, especially when compared to rule-based methods? Are there any new techniques to be developed in EMNLP and from VLC in order to improve the state-of-the-art of ASR, MT, IR, OCR, and other applied systems? Are there new ways to combine corpus-based and empirical methods with rule-based systems? This two-day conference aims to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the above issues, through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. The goal of the conference is to raise an awareness of what kind of new EMNLP techniques need to be developed in order to bring about the next breakthrough in speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, information retrieval and other applied systems. Scope The conference solicits paper submissions in (and not limited to) the following areas: 1) Original work in one of the following technologies and its relevance to speech, MT, or IR: (a) word sense disambiguation (b) word and term segmentation and extraction (c) alignment (d) bilingual lexicon extraction (e) POS tagging (f) statistical parsing (g) dialog models (h) others (please specify) 2) Proposals of new EMNLP technologies for speech, MT, IR, OCR, or other applied systems (please specify). 3) Comparetive evaluation of the performance of EMNLP technologies in one of the areas in (1) and that of its rule-based or knowledge-based counterpart in a speech, MT, IR, OCR or other applied system. Submission Requirements Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their work. We encourage paper submissions related to the conference theme. In particular, we encourage the authors to include in their papers, proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme. However, there will be a special session in the conference to include corpus-based and/or empirical work in all areas of natural language processing. Submission Format Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Reviewing of papers will not be blind. The submission format and word limit are the same as those for ACL this year. We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX (plus bibstyle and trivial example) or Word style files for the preparation of submissions. Six opies of full-length paper (not to exceed 3200 words exclusive of references) should be received at the following address before or on March 31, 1999. EMNLP/VLC-99 Program Committee c/o Pascale Fung Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Important Dates March 31 Submission of full-length paper April 30 Acceptance notice May 20 Camera-ready paper due June 21-22 Conference date Program Chair Pascale Fung Human Language Technology Center Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: (+852) 2358 8537 Fax: (+852) 2358 1485 Email: pascale at ee.ust.hk Program Co-Chair Joe Zhou LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier 9555 Springboro Pike Dayton, OH 45342 USA Email: joez at lexis-nexis.com Program Committee (partial list) Jiang-Shin Chang (Behavior Design Corp.) Ken Church (AT&T Labs--Research) Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University) Marti Hearst (UC-Berkeley) Huang, Changning (Tsinghua University) Pierre Isabelle (Xerox Research Europe) Lillian Lee (Cornell University) David Lewis (AT&T Research) Dan Melamed (West Law Research) Masaaki Nagata (NTT) Steve Richardson (Microsoft Research) Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs--Research) Andreas Stolcke (SRI) Ralph Weischedel (BBN) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University) From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 9 14:01:41 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:01:41 GMT Subject: Appel: TALN Workshop (Semantique et Pragmatique) Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.140141.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Myriam Bras-Grivart <bras at irit.fr> ************************************************************************* ATELIER THEMATIQUE "FONDEMENTS THEORIQUES DE LA SEMANTIQUE ET DE LA PRAGMATIQUE DANS LE TALN : l'expression du temps, de l'espace et du mouvement � travers le lexique, le discours et le dialogue" organis� dans le cadre de TALN'99 Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese (Corse) du 12 au 17 juillet 1999 ************************************************************************* 2�me APPEL � COMMUNICATION !!!! la date limite de soumission est repouss�e au 22 mars 1999 !!!! ORGANISATRICES Myriam BRAS (IRIT-Universit� Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Laure VIEU (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse) CONTACT email : bras at irit.fr, vieu at irit.fr adresse : IRIT, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 4 tel : 05 61 55 60 91 fax : 05 61 55 83 25 THEME Cet atelier a pour but de confronter les approches th�oriques actuelles de la s�mantique et de la pragmatique issues du courant de la s�mantique formelle. Le d�bat sera centr� sur le traitement du temps, de l'espace et du mouvement dans la langue, afin de susciter une discussion approfondie entre les participants et de mettre en �vidence combien la s�mantique grammaticale, la s�mantique lexicale et la pragmatique du discours et du dialogue sont imbriqu�es. On s'attachera particuli�rement � favoriser les communications discutant de la place de la s�mantique et de la pragmatique dans le TALN et de l'importance que pourront avoir les approches formelles pr�sent�es en tant que fondements th�oriques du TALN de demain. Les th�mes abord�s seront, entre autres : - s�mantique et pragmatique du discours et du dialogue - anaphore (entre phrases et entre locuteurs) - croyances et intentions - structure du discours et du dialogue (en particulier structure spatio-temporelle) - lexique de l'espace et du temps - connaissance du monde et anaphore associative - ontologies de l'espace et du temps pour le lexique et la connaissance du monde DEROULEMENT L'atelier aura lieu pendant la conf�rence TALN'99. Il comportera 4 s�ances de 1h30 reparties sur 4 jours (les 12, 13, 15 et 16 juillet 1999). Il accueillera 2 conf�rences invit�es et la pr�sentation-discussion (30 minutes) d'une dizaine de communications s�lectionn�es par le comit� de programme. COMITE DE PROGRAMME Nicholas Asher, Universit� du Texas � Austin Michel Aurnague, ERSS, Toulouse Mario Borillo, IRIT, Toulouse Joan Busquets, ERSS, Universit� de Bordeaux Jacques Moeschler, Universit� de Gen�ve Uwe Reyle, Universit� de Stuttgart Co Vet, Universit� de Groningue SOUMISSIONS Les chercheurs int�ress�s sont invit�s � soumettre un article de 12 pages maximum. (Une participation sur d�claration d'inter�t sera �galement possible.) Les d�lais �tant courts, seule la soumission �lectronique vous est propos�e. Envoyer � bras at irit.fr, vieu at irit.fr votre article de 12 pages maximum, AVANT LE 22 MARS 1999, 18H. Format des soumissions : - source LaTeX auto-suffisant (les styles non standards ou differents de ceux fournis pour taln'99 devront etre inclus dans le fichier source) ET DVI OU - source Word ET RTF ET fax de confirmation au 05 61 25 83 55 Pour les styles, vous pouvez vous reporter � : http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/styles/ La version finale sera publi�e dans les actes de l'Atelier, disponible le 12 juillet sur place. LANGUE DE L'ATELIER : Les langues officielles pour les articles et les communications sont le fran�ais et l'anglais. CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 22 mars 1999 Notification aux auteurs : 28 avril 1999 Version finale : 12 mai 1999 Atelier : 12-17 juillet 1999 INSCRIPTION L'inscription � la conf�rence TALN'99 sera demand�e pour participer � l'Atelier, sans frais d'inscription suupl�mentaire. INFORMATIONS Pour plus d'informations sur TALN'99, visitez le site: http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 9 14:02:26 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:02:26 GMT Subject: Divers: Report on linguistic annotation Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.140226.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Steven Bird <sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu> Announcing a technical report on linguistic annotation. See below for download information. Our apologies for any duplicate messages. A Formal Framework for Linguistic Annotation Steven Bird & Mark Liberman Abstract `Linguistic annotation' covers any descriptive or analytic notations applied to raw language data. The basic data may be in the form of time functions - audio, video and/or physiological recordings - or it may be textual. The added notations may include transcriptions of all sorts (from phonetic features to discourse structures), part-of-speech and sense tagging, syntactic analysis, `named entity' identification, co-reference annotation, and so on. While there are several ongoing efforts to provide formats and tools for such annotations and to publish annotated linguistic databases, the lack of widely accepted standards is becoming a critical problem. Proposed standards, to the extent they exist, have focussed on file formats. This paper focuses instead on the logical structure of linguistic annotations. We survey a wide variety of existing annotation formats and demonstrate a common conceptual core, the annotation graph. This provides a formal framework for constructing, maintaining and searching linguistic annotations, while remaining consistent with many alternative data structures and file formats. 49pp, download from: [http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cs.CL/9903003] Formats: PDF (336kb), Postscript (161kb), DVI (134kb), LaTeX (112kb) For an online survey and extensive links, visit the Linguistic Annotations Page: [http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation] @TechReport{BirdLiberman99, author={Steven Bird and Mark Liberman}, title={A Formal Framework for Linguistic Annotation}, institution={Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania}, year=1999, number={MS-CIS-99-01}, note={[xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cs.CL/9903003]} } Please send comments to: sb at ldc.upenn.edu, myl at ldc.upenn.edu Regards, Steven Bird & Mark Liberman -- Steven.Bird at ldc.upenn.edu http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb Assoc Director, LDC; Adj Assoc Prof, CIS & Linguistics Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania 3615 Market St, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2608 From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 9 14:02:59 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:02:59 GMT Subject: Appel: Colloquium of Linguistics Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.140259.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: rapp at usun1.fask.uni-mainz.de (Reinhard Rapp) Please circulate! We apologize for any cross-postings. --------------------------------------------------------- / 34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS / / / / September 7-10, 1999 / / / / University of Mainz, Germany / / / / FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS / --------------------------------------------------------- We cordially invite you to participate in the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics which will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg- Universitaet Mainz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Germersheim, from September 7 to September 10, 1999. The motto of this year's conference will be "Linguistics on the Way into the New Millennium". Continuing the tradition of the colloquium, there will be no restrictions regarding the choice of topics. The conference languages are English, German, and French. Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes which includes 10 minutes of discussion. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 1999. A volume of abstracts will be available at the conference. The proceedings with the full papers will be published after the conference with Peter Lang-Verlag. In a break with tradition, this year's conference program will be supplemented by a number of tutorials. Each tutorial comprises three hours and is intended to give a concise introduction to a specific field for audiences with a different focus of research. We are particularly happy to offer you a bus excursion to the old city of Heidelberg with a guided tour through the castle on Thursday, September 9. On the way, we will stop in Speyer, whose Cathedral (Kaiserdom) is part of the UNESCO's world cultural heritage. Please do not hesitate to bring this announcement to the attention of interested colleagues. More information can be found on our website at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ Prof. Dr. Dieter Huber Dr. Reinhard Rapp IMPORTANT DATES May 31, 1999 - Submission of abstracts - Conference registration (reduced rate) - Registration for tutorials & excursion - Hotel reservation Nov. 30, 1999 - Submission of full papers for the proceedings PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ----------------------------------------------------------- | Morning | Afternoon | Evening ---------------+-------------+--------------+-------------- Tue, Sept. 7 | Tutorials | Tutorials | Germersheim | | | Guided Tour ---------------+-------------+--------------+-------------- Wed, Sept. 8 | Opening & | Papers | Reception | Papers | | ---------------+-------------+----------------------------- Thu, Sept. 9 | Papers | Excursion to Heidelberg | | and Speyer ---------------+------------------------------------------- Fri, Sept. 10 | Papers & | (Departure) | Conference End | ----------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS ----------------------------------------------------------- Time | Tutorial | Language -------------+--------------------------------+------------ 9.00-12.30 | Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural | | Language Parsing, Part 1 | English | | 9.00-12.30 | Christian Otto: Sprachtech- | German | nologie fuer das Internet | -------------+--------------------------------+------------ 14.00-17.30 | Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural | | Language Parsing, Part 2 | English | | 14.00-17.30 | Prof. Uta Seewald-Heeg: | German | Maschinelle Uebersetzung | ----------------------------------------------------------- The Tutorials take place during the first full day of the confe- rence (Sept. 7, 1999). Therefore, the official opening is on the second day. For each tutorial, a description can be found at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ CONFERENCE SITE The Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FASK) of the University of Mainz is located in Germersheim in the south- west of Germany on the Rhine between the cities of Mannheim and Karlsruhe. It can easily be reached by car, train, and airplane. With its 2500 students, more than 1000 of whom coming from 70 different foreign countries, the faculty is known as one of the world's largest institutions dedicated to the training and edu- cation of translators and interpreters. Within walking distance from the faculty, six hotels and the student's residence are available with single rooms priced between 30 and 90 DM per night. Meals are provided by the university canteen, the cafe- teria, and by a number of restaurants (with lunch specials). The main attractions in and around Germersheim are its fortress, the German wine road, the Palatinate Forest with Hambach Castle, Speyer, Heidelberg, the Castle Park in Schwetzingen and the Old Abbey in Maulbronn. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dr. Susanne Beckmann, University of Muenster Dr. Abraham P. ten Cate, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Dr. Tadeusz Danilewicz, Gdansk University Prof. Dr. K. Dorfmueller-Karpusa, Univ. of Thessaloniki Dieter W. Halwachs, University of Graz Prof. Dr. Mikhail Kotin, State University Moscow Prof. Dr. Wim Klooster, University of Amsterdam Prof. Dr. Wilfried Kuerschner, University of Osnabrueck Dr. Reinhard Rapp, University of Mainz (Conference Chair) Prof. Dr. Hans Otto Spillmann, University of Kassel Prof. Dr. Kazimierz A. Sroka, Gdansk University Dr. Juerg Straessler, University of Bern Prof. Dr. Zygmunt Vetulani, University of Poznan Prof. Dr. Richard J. Watts, University of Bern Prof. Dr. Heinrich Weber, University of Tuebingen Dr. Ingo Warnke, University of Kassel Dr. habil. Lew Zybatow, University of Bielefeld CONFERENCE ADDRESS Please send all correspondence to the following address: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ c/o Dr. Reinhard Rapp rapp at usun2.fask.uni-mainz.de Universitaet Mainz, FASK Phone: (+49) 7274 / 508-457 D-76711 Germersheim Fax: (+49) 7274 / 508-429 Germany CONFERENCE FEE The conference fee is 100 DM for early registration (120 DM after May 31, 1999). This sum includes the registration fee and will, among other things, cover pre-conference materials, tea and coffee, the guided tour through Germersheim on Tuesday and the reception on Wednesday. It will not, however, cover meals, accomodation, proceedings, the excursion to Heidelberg (30 DM), and the tutorials (20 DM per tutorial, written documentation included). Accepted currencies are DM and Euro (exchange rate: 1 Euro = 2 DM). BANK ACCOUNT The total amount (registration fee, excursion, and tutorials) should be transferred until May 31, 1999 to the following university account (other possibilities of payment see website): Account holder: Universitaet Mainz Account number: 550 015 11 Bank code number: 550 000 00 Bank: Landeszentralbank Mainz Details of payment: 6101 28201 2300 514 (important!) 34th Colloquium of Linguistics "name of participant" REGISTRATION FORM Please fill in a printed copy of this registration form and send it to the above address together with your abstract and a copy of your bank remittance by regular mail. Surname ______________________________________________ First Name(s) ________________________________________ Title ________________________________________________ Affiliation __________________________________________ Street _______________________________________________ Code, City ___________________________________________ Country ______________________________________________ Telephone and Fax ____________________________________ e-mail _______________________________________________ [] I would like to attend the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics [] I will deliver a paper with the following title: ........... ............................................................. Presentation Language: [] German [] English [] French Field (1 = first choice, 2 = second choice): [] Theory of Linguistics [] Syntax [] Comparative Linguistics [] Semantics [] Phonology / Phonetics [] Morphology [] Diachronic Linguistics [] Text / Discourse [] Translation Theory [] Semiotics [] Computational Linguistics [] Pragmatics [] Lexicography / Lexicology [] Sociolinguistics [] Psycholinguistics [] Other: ...................... [] An abstract is enclosed (200 to 300 words, printout plus Word-, RTF-, or ASCII-file on a floppy disk) [] The abstract will be sent to you by ........................ ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Cost | Amount ------------------------+---------------------------+----------- Conference Fee | (before / after May 31) | (incl. Reception) | 100 DM / 120 DM | ------------------------+---------------------------+----------- [] Guided Tour through | free | Germersheim | | ------------------------+---------------------------+----------- [] Excursion to Heidel- | 30 DM | berg and Speyer | | ------------------------+---------------------------+----------- Morning Tutorials | | [] Parsing, Part 1 | (parallel 9.00 to 12.30) | [] Sprachtechnologie | 20 DM incl. handout | ------------------------+---------------------------+----------- Afternoon Tutorials | | [] Parsing, Part 2 | (parallel 14.00 to 17.30) | [] Masch. Uebersetzung | 20 DM incl. handout | ----------------------------------------------------+----------- Total Amount | ---------------------------------------------------------------- [] I have transferred the total amount to the account specified above. I enclose a copy of the bank remittance. [] I make my own hotel reservation (see website) [] I enclose a filled in hotel reservation form (see website) Date, signature: ............................................... From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Mar 10 13:36:36 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:36:36 GMT Subject: Appel: ELST Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.133636.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Mike Rosner <mros at cs.um.edu.mt> EACL-99, University of Bergen, 12th June 1999 POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER AND INTERNET SUPPORTED EDUCATION IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY (ELST) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 12th March 1999 _________________________________________________________________ HOME PAGE http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/celst SUBTOPICS * Computational Tools for ELST * Online Components for ELST * Specialised Tutorials for ELST * Authorware (tools supporting production of materials for ELST) * Tool Oriented Curriculum Design * Multilingual Course Delivery * Course Management Issues * Distance Education for LST PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (coordinator) Doug Arnold (Essex) Gerrit Bloothooft (Utrecht) Chris Bowerman (Sunderland) Anders Erikkson (Umea) Steven Krauwer (Utrecht) Mark Huckvale (London) Fabio Pianesi (Trento) Koenraad de Smedt (Bergen) Mark Tatham (Essex) Maria Wolters (Bonn) Felisa Verdejo (Madrid) INVITED SPEAKER: To Be Announced FORMAT REQUIREMENTS * Electronic submissions only, Postscript or Word V7 format. * Please provide a list of keywords and indicate the best fitting subtopic(s) from the above list. * Blind submissions: provide author information on a separate header page. Avoid obvious self refererences in text. * LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/eaclsub.sty (style file) http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/acl.bst (bibstyle) http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/eacl99sample-sub.tex (example) * Word users see http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/eaclsub.doc * Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. * Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). * Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. * Please submit papers to mros at cs.um.edu.mt. All submissions will be acknowledged. SCHEDULE * Submission Deadline: 12th March 1999 * Notification Date: 12th April 1999 * Camera ready copy due: 23rd April 1999 WEBSITE http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/celst CONTACT Michael Rosner e-mail: mros at cs.um.edu.mt From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Mar 10 13:37:10 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:37:10 GMT Subject: Appel: RLMG (ESSLLI Workshop) Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.133710.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: RLMG <rlmg at irisa.fr> Dear colleagues, This is the last CFP for the ESSLLI99 workshop on Resource Logics and Minimalist Grammars. Invited speakers have not yet been chosen, since this depends in part on who will be participating in ESSLLI. Details about the opportunity to submit papers for possible publication in the new electronic journal "Language and Computation" will be provided to authors with the notification of acceptance. As this last CFP comes late, please send an email to rlmg at irisa.fr if you intend to submit something which is not yet fully ready to be sent. Christian Retor� & Edward Stabler ESSLLI`99 workshop on RESOURCE LOGICS AND MINIMALIST GRAMMARS (deadline for submissions: March 15th 1999) Utrecht, 16-20 August 1999 Organizers: Christian Retor� (IRISA, Rennes) Edward Stabler (UCLA, Los Angeles) URL: http://www.irisa.fr/RLMG E-mail: rlmg at irisa.fr A workshop held as part of the 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI`99), August 9-20 1999, Utrecht Last call for papers ESSLLI`99: The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. It is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, Language and Logic. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-99 will take place at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 9-20. In its second week it will feature a worskshop on resource logics and minimalist grammars. Its aim is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work on the connection between minimalist grammars and resource logics. WORKSHOP BACKGROUND: There has been a growing interest in connections between resource-logical theories of grammar and the minimalist grammars of the transformational tradition in syntax. A good understanding of these connections will reveal substantial differences that can be debated, and the prospects also look good for identifying a valuable common ground. In particular, the rich descriptive tradition of transformational theory may become more accessible to resource-logical frameworks, and the relatively well-understood mathematical foundations of resource-logical frameworks may stimulate a more sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms of minimalist grammars. Linear logic is a neat and well studied logic from a proof theoretical perspective which is able to handle both logic for syntax (like the Lambek calculus) and logic for semantics (like intuitionistic logic), and it also appears to be a sensible framework for a logical treatment of minimalist grammars. This workshop aims to bring together PhD students and other researchers in the respective traditions to explore these developments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * applications of linear logic, multimodal categorial logic, and other resource logics to linguistic problems * formal and computational studies of minimalist and other generative grammars * studies of linguistic semantics from the perspective of either tradition * assessments of the common ground and differences among these approaches to language WORKSHOP AIMS: This workshop aims to: * provide a setting for researchers from various traditions to present and discuss recent work on resource logics and minimalist grammars * facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers working in these respective areas * foster a spirit of collaborative research CALL FOR PAPERS: Researchers in the area, including PhD students and young researchers, are invited to submit short papers (between 8 and 12 pages long) describing their thesis/research topic, approach and results. Talks will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for discussion/questions. Authors are also encouraged to submit a list of topics they would like to see discussed at the workshop. This will help to identify issues for discussion and debate. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 15, 1999 Submissions should be sent to: rlmg at irisa.fr Submissions will be accepted in the form of either PostScript or self-contained LaTex. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by May 1st 1998. The deadline for receipt of revised papers to appear in the workshop proceedings is June 1st 1998. WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will consist of five sessions of 90 minutes each held over five days. There will be either two or three presentations at each session with time for questions and discussion. It is hoped to have at least one invited paper from a senior researcher working in the field. PUBLICATION: After the workshop, authors will have the opportunity to submit papers for possible publication in the new electronic journal "Language and Computation" (http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/journals/JLaC/), which is supported by Oxford University Press. There will be more details in the next announcement. REGISTRATION: Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-99. IMPORTANT DATES: March 15th, 99: Deadline for submissions May 1st, 99: Notification of acceptance June 1st, 99: Deadline for final copy August 16th, 99: Start of workshop FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI-99 please visit the ESSLLI-99 home page at http://esslli.let.uu.nl or send an email to esslli99 at let.uu.nl . For further information on the workshop visit the site of the workshop http://www.irisa.fr/RLMG or send an email to rlmg at irisa.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Mar 10 13:37:36 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:37:36 GMT Subject: Appel: GAT'99 Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.133736.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Georges Antoniadis <antoniadis at communication.u-grenoble3.fr> DERNIER APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS =Date limite de soumission repoussee au 25 mars 1999= ------------------ ====================================================================== GAT'99 Generation Automatique de Textes Deuxieme Colloque Francophone ====================================================================== 30 Septembre et 1er Octobre 1999 Universite Stendhal - Grenoble 3 Institut de la Communication et des Medias Echirolles - FRANCE OBJECTIFS : GAT'99 est la deuxieme edition du colloque francophone sur la Generation Automatique de Textes (GAT) qui s'est tenu en octobre 1997 a Grenoble. Cette premiere edition a permis de reunir un grand nombre de chercheurs du domaine. Elle a mis en evidence la necessite de maintenir un contact entre les membres de la communaute en generation, l'importance d'echanges francophones sur le sujet et, donc, le besoin de poursuivre ce type de manifestations. GAT'99 se veut une manifestation reunissant les specialistes du domaine et des personnes interessees par le sujet en vue d'echanger leurs experiences, de presenter leurs travaux theoriques et applicatifs, de confronter les solutions apportees, de nouer des contacts... GAT'99 se propose d'etre un lieu de reflexion sur le domaine, de rencontres et d'echanges sur le sujet. Tous les aspects de la generation automatique sont concernes par ce colloque: approches theoriques et aspects applicatifs, theories et outils pour la generation, aspects linguistiques, informatiques..., prise en compte de l'utilisateur, generation monolingue ou multilingue... Tous les domaines d'application sont concernes : communication homme-machine, traduction automatique, creation de resumes, aide a la redaction... LOCALISATION : Le colloque se deroulera a l'Institut de la Communication et des Medias (ICM) a Echirolles localite situee a la proche peripherie de Grenoble. ORGANISATION DU COLLOQUE : Equipe CRISTAL-GRESEC Universite Stendhal - Grenoble 3 COMITE DE PROGRAMME : Georges ANTONIADIS (CRISTAL-GRESEC ; Grenoble 3) Laurence BALICCO (CRISTAL-GRESEC ; Grenoble 3) Jean CAELEN (CLIPS-IMAG ; Grenoble 1) Marc DYMETMAN (Centre de Recherche Rank Xerox ; Meylan) Guy LAPALME (INCOGNITO ; Universite de Montreal - Canada) Girard LIGOZAT (LIMSI ; Paris 11) Jean-Frangois NOGIER (Thomson CSF ; Bagneux) Jacques ROUAULT (CRISTAL-GRESEC ; Grenoble 3) Paul SABATIER (LIM ; Aix-Marseille 2) Eric WEHRLI (LATL ; Universite de Geneve - Suisse) Michael ZOCK (LIMSI ; Paris 11) CALENDRIER : - Date limite d'envoi : 25 mars 1999 - Reponse aux auteurs : 31 mai 1999 - Date limite de reception des versions finales : 2 juillet 1999 CONDITIONS DE SOUMISSION : - Date limite d'envoi : 25 mars 1999 - Langue de soumission : francais - Format de soumission : format papier en 3 exemplaires ou fichier RTF. - Taille de l'article : libre, mais ne depassant pas 10 pages (comptees en taille de caracteres 12, bibliographie et page de garde comprises). - La premiere page (page de garde) doit contenir : le titre de l'article, les auteurs, leur appartenance et leur adresse (avec numero de telephone et adresse electronique), un resume de 15 lignes au maximum. - Le titre de l'article (sans les auteurs) doit etre repris au debut de la deuxieme page. - Adresse d'envoi : format papier : Laurence BALICCO Equipe CRISTAL-GRESEC Universite Stendhal Institut de la Communication et des Medias BP 25 38 040 Grenoble Cedex 9 - France Tel. (33).04.76.82.68.33 Mel. Laurence.Balicco at u-grenoble3.fr format electronique : l-Gat at u-grenoble3.fr CONTACT GAT'99 : Tel. : (33).04.76.82.68.33 ou (33).04.76.82.43.97 Fax. : (33).04.76.82.43.22 Mel. : l-Gat at u-grenoble3.fr Toile : http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/Gat/ ____________________________________________________________________ Georges ANTONIADIS Dipartement Informatique Pidagogique / Equipe CRISTAL-GRESEC Universiti STENDHAL Tel: +33. (0)4 76 82 77 61 +33. (0)4 76 82 43 97 BP 25 Fax: +33. (0)4 76 82 41 26 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Georges.Antoniadis at u-grenoble3.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Mar 10 13:38:15 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:38:15 GMT Subject: Divers: FoLLI Prize Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.133815.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Christian RETORE <retore at irisa.fr> 1999 FoLLI Prize for Outstanding Dissertations in Logic, Language and Computation Every year a prize is awarded to a Ph.D.dissertation on the basis of a competition. The topic of the dissertation should fall under the heading of one of the themes dealt with at the ESSLLI Summer schools, i.e. logic, language and computation. The name of the winner(s) of the next competition will be disclosed at the FoLLI general assembly which will be held during the first week of the ESSLLI Summer School scheduled to take place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 9-20, 1999. The PRIZE The winner of the 1999 FoLLI Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Logic, Language and Computation will receive (the equivalent of) 1000 Euro's. The prize is generously sponsored by the SPINOZA Prize awarded to Prof. J.van Benthem NOMINATIONS To be eligible, candidates must have defended their Ph.D. dissertation on or after January 1, 1998 and no later than December 31, 1998. Candidates can only be nominated by their Ph.D. supervisors; according to the rules, nominations sent in by the candidate him- or herself cannot be considered. To nominate a candidate for the award, the supervisor should send a message with the following information to folli at wins.uva.nl: -the name of the candidate -title of the dissertation -subject area -an abstract of the dissertation of at most 50 lines -a brief assessment of the work of at most 10 lines -time and date of the Ph.D.defense Please use 'PhD Award Nomination' as the subject of your message! The deadline for submissions is APRIL 1, 1999. Late submissions will not be considered. The selection committee may decide not to award the prize, or it may decide to select mutiple winners, in which case the prize will be split evenly among the winners. From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Mar 10 13:39:05 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:39:05 GMT Subject: Ecole: Linguistic Institute Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.133905.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "Ivan A. Sag" <sag at csli.Stanford.EDU ***********************1999 Linguistic Institute************************ The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is proud to announce that it will host the 1999 Linguistic Institute, co-sponsored by the LSA, ACL and AAAI. The Institute will be held this summer from June 21 - July 30. Students, postdocs, faculty and non-academics who are interested in linguistics are invited to attend. We have an excellent faculty of over 80 of the top linguists in the world. Classes will be offered in the areas of COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: Intro to Computational Linguistics: Dan Jurafsky Computational Models of Spoken Language: Stephen Levinson Connectionist Models of Language Processing: Jeff Elman Corpus Linguistics: Michael Barlow The Lexicon in Computational Linguistics: Ann Copestake Machine Translation: Martin Kay Computational Linguistics and User Interfaces: Jerry Morgan Grammar Development in Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms: Erhard Hinrichs OTHER RELEVANT COURSES include: The Architecture of the Language Faculty: Ray Jackendoff The Syntax-Phonology Interface: David Odden The Architecture of Morphology: Arnold Zwicky Construction-Based Approaches to Grammar: Adele Goldberg Morphosyntax in LFG/OT: Joan Bresnan and Rachel Nordlinger Wh-Constructions: Ivan Sag and Gert Webelhuth Situation Semantics for Constraint-Based Grammar: Shalom Lappin and Carl Pollard The Syntax-Discourse Interace: Ellen Prince The Psycholinguistics of Sentence Comprehension: Susan Garnsey Current Issues in Language Production: Kathryn Bock and Gary Dell And many additional courses in the areas of: Field Methods Syntax Semantic and Pragmatics Phonology and Phonetics Historical and Indo-European Linguistics Psycholinguistics Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition African Linguistics Japanese Linguistics Korean Linguistics Native American Linguistics Semitic Linguistics South Asian Linguistics Satelite Workshops and Conferences include: Symposium on Computational Linguistics; Metaphor; Constructions; Theories of Categorization and the Acquisition of Phonology.... Tuition for students is US $1,300 for 6-weeks, or US $1,000 for 4-weeks or less. Affiliates (linguistics who already hold PhDs) should register with the LSA; 6-week affiliate fee is $1035 or $835 for 4-weeks or less. (Affiliate fees are used to sponsor LSA student fellowships). For more information and applications please visit our website at http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/linginst We hope to see you this summer! Adele Goldberg Director, 1999 Linguistic Institute 1999 Linguistic Institute, Department of Linguistics University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign 4088 FLB 707 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801 tel (217) 333-1563 e-mail linginst at cogsci.uiuc.edu From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 11 17:31:05 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:31:05 GMT Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.173105.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Keiko Horiguchi" <keiko at lsi.sel.sony.com> Subject: Machine Translation; Research Asst at Sony U.S. Labs in San Jose 2/ From: Amy Livingstone <amy at eloq.com> Subject: Multi-Language Speech Synthesis; Researcher at Eloquent Tech 3/ From: Jian Su <sujian at krdl.org.sg> Subject: NLP(Chinese/English) Researcher Engineer at KRDL, Singapore ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Keiko Horiguchi" <keiko at lsi.sel.sony.com> Subject: Machine Translation; Research Asst at Sony U.S. Labs in San Jose Job: Research Assistant in Machine Translation Sony U.S. Research Labs, San Jose Sony has openings for temporary, part-time research assistants or student summer interns for a research project on spoken language translation. We are looking for systematic, thorough, creative, results-oriented individuals who are able to work well as part of an international team. Job duties: Participate in a research project on spoken language translation between English and Japanese. Create, maintain, refine, and extend Japanese and English linguistic databases. Perform linguistic analysis, investigations, and evaluation, and document results in written form. Assist project members on related tasks. Job requirements: Native-level fluency in Japanese. Ability to communicate and work effectively in English. Excellent logical analysis skills. Ability to work in a thorough, systematic, and accurate manner. Some computer skills. Educational or job experience in a relevant field, such as computational linguistics, linguistics, or computer science. Qualifications that would be a plus: Experience in machine translation or natural language processing, especially involving Japanese. Ability to program in Perl, or C. Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant field. Contact: For further information, please contact: Keiko Horiguchi Sony U.S. Research Labs San Jose, California Tel: (408) 955-5214 Fax: (408) 955-6848 Email: keiko at lsi.sel.sony.com To apply for these openings, please submit your application materials, including resume, contacts for references, and a cover letter. _______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Amy Livingstone <amy at eloq.com> Subject: Multi-Language Speech Synthesis; Researcher at Eloquent Tech POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN MULTI-LANGUAGE SPEECH SYNTHESIS BY RULE Eloquent Technology, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) anticipates having several positions available in multi-language text-to-speech synthesis. We are looking for candidates at all levels of experience, with background in one or more of the following areas: - formant synthesis - acoustic phonetics - text processing/natural language processing - prosody Background in computer programming and/or expertise in one of the following languages will be especially useful: American English, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, Cantonese, UK English, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean. Eloquent Technology, Inc. (ETI) is a text-to-speech company which currently employs 20 people, primarily linguists and computer scientists. ETI is located in Ithaca, NY, the home of Cornell University, in the heart of the beautiful Fingerlakes region of New York State. ETI's main product is ETI-Eloquence, a text-to-speech system currently available for US and UK English, Mexican and Castilian Spanish, German, French, and Italian, with versions for other languages and dialects under development. For a description of ETI's text-to-speech technology, see the company white paper at www.eloq.com. Applicants should send cover letter and resume by e-mail to Amy Livingstone at amy at eloq.com (e-mail is preferred) or to 2389 North Triphammer Road, Ithaca, NY 14850. paper at www.eloq.com. ______________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Jian Su <sujian at krdl.org.sg> Subject: NLP(Chinese/English) Researcher Engineer at KRDL, Singapore Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL)(http://www.krdl.org.sg/) is the premier national R&D organisation spearheading the research and development of information and networking technology. With an international team of 400 research scientists and engineers, KRDL offers industry partners the technology and technical leadership to become global players in the IT market: life sciences, information, education, transportation & logistics, and electronic commerce. At KRDL, we are committed to creating new breakthrough technologies that make a significant difference in the quality of life in the information age. At KRDL, you will find a community of unique individuals who know how to work hard, and play hard. We have the world -- in our hands. KRDL - the cradle for new technologies for the digital age. SENIOR / RESEARCH ENGINEERS Ref.: KLAB/02/99 (1) Position 1 Your responsibility will include research into English & Chinese parsing and text understanding system using corpus-based approach, finite state transducer, and etc. Position 2 You will be part of the team that will design and implementation of English & Chinese parsing and text understanding system. Requirements: Master/PhD Degree in Computer Science, preferably in NLP related area; Experience in Chinese & English NLP, especially parsing and text understanding; Good C/C++ programming skill; Good communication skill and initiative. CONTACT: *********** Email: sujian at krdl.org.sg Ref.: KLAB/02/99 (2) You will assist the project leader to research and implement NLP-related projects, eg: thesaurus building and text summarization. Requirements: Degree in Computer Science Minimum 2 years experience of software development is essential while NLP-related experience is preferred In-depth knowledge about C/C++ and database technology Familiar with natural language processing technology CONTACT: *********** Email: dhji at krdl.org.sg Please contact us if you're interested in the above jobs. Or if you know someone who have related experiences, could you please forward the ad to them? From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 11 17:31:46 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:31:46 GMT Subject: Appel: Grammar Systems Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.173146.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Carlos Martin Vide <cmv at nil.fut.es> (Apologies for multiple posting.) Final Call for Papers Workshop: GRAMMAR SYSTEMS: A FORMAL LANGUAGE THEORETIC MULTI-AGENT ARCHITECTURE To be held at the 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'99), Bergen, Norway, June 12, 1999. In cooperation with the IFIP Working Group 1.2 on Descriptional Complexity. Scope: The theory of grammar systems is a recent branch of formal language theory intending to model complex distributed systems. A basic reference in the field is E. Csuhaj-Varju, J. Dassow, J. Kelemen & Gh. Paun (1994), Grammar systems: a grammatical approach to distribution and cooperation. Gordon & Breach, London. For a more recent survey, see J. Dassow, Gh. Paun & G. Rozenberg, "Grammar systems", in G. Rozenberg & A. Salomaa, eds. (1997), Handbook of formal languages, 2: 155-213. Springer, Berlin. For the most recent work, see Acta Cybernetica, 12.4 (1996), ed. E. Csuhaj-Varju; Computers and Artificial Intelligence, 15.2-3 (1996), eds. J. Kelemen & Gh. Paun; Grammars, 1.3 (1998), ed. J. Kelemen; and Gh. Paun & A. Salomaa, eds. (1999), "Grammatical models of multi-agent systems". Gordon & Breach, London. In traditional formal language theory, a language is usually generated by one grammar. In contrast, in this new framework language generation is regarded as a joint activity of several grammars working together under different strategies. In this way, for instance, the non-context-free language a^nb^nc^n is easily generated using only context-free rules suitably distributed through several machines. There are two main classes of devices of this kind: Cooperating Distributed Grammar Systems (CDGS, where, all the grammars starting from the same axiom, at each step of the derivation process one grammar rewrites the string according to a cooperation protocol) and Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems (PCGS, where, each grammar starting from its own axiom, at each step of the derivation process each grammar rewrites its own string and, at a certain moment, some communication symbol appears forcing the combination of such strings in a certain manner). Some recent derivations of the theory include eco-grammar systems, colonies and networks of language processors. Grammar systems intend to model distribution, at the same time increasing the generative capacity and decreasing the descriptional complexity. They are being preliminarily used to model natural language understanding/generation systems as well as other empirical data from artificial intelligence. Each one of the grammars is an agent and the whole is a modular architecture. This formal architecture seems potentially close to the kind of data natural language processing systems face. So far, developments in the field have mainly come from theoretical computer science, and now it's time to check these systems against natural language processing problems. The aims of the workshop are to present this new theory and to suggest trends of development in the field of natural language processing. As well, the organizers welcome contributions from theoretical as well as applied closely related areas, especially those discussing formal language theoretic-inspired models of natural language problems and those presenting other multi-agent processing systems. The workshop may be of interest to the community attending EACL'99 in search of new formal processing architectures. Programme committee: Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Jurgen Dassow (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Rudolf Freund (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario, London, Canada) Jozef Kelemen (Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic; University of Economics, Bratislava, Slovakia) Alica Kelemenova (Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic) Carlos Martin-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain) Alexandru Mateescu (University of Turku, Finland) Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, Romania) Gheorghe Paun (Romanian Academy, Bucharest) Grzegorz Rozenberg (University of Leiden, The Netherlands) Arto Salomaa (University of Turku, Finland) Detlef Wotschke (University of Frankfurt, Germany) Organizers: Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Jurgen Dassow (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Jozef Kelemen (Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic; University of Economics, Bratislava, Slovakia) Carlos Martin-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain) Gheorghe Paun (Romanian Academy, Bucharest) Contact person: Carlos Martin-Vide Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics and Language Engineering (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1 43005 Tarragona Spain Phone: +34-977-55-9543 Fax: +34-977-55-9597 E-mail: cmv at astor.urv.es, cmv at tinet.fut.es Web site: http://www.urv.es/centres/Grups/grlmc/grlmc.html Submissions: Full submissions should preferably be sent through e-mail to the contact person as postscript files. Technical instructions for camera-ready formatting will be provided to the authors of the papers selected. Proceedings will be available at the workshop. Schedule: March 26, 1999: Submission deadline April 9, 1999: Notification of acceptance April 23, 1999: Camera-ready copy June 12, 1999: Workshop From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 11 17:31:48 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:31:48 GMT Subject: Appel: NLPRS'99 Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.173148.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "nlprs99" <nlprs99 at kibs.kaist.ac.kr> Subject: CFP for NLPRS99 -|-------------------------------------|- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS NLPRS-99 5th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium Beijing, China November 5-7, 1999 "Closing the Millennium" -|-------------------------------------|- NLPRS has contributed to the promotion and circulation of research efforts in Computational Linguistics and related subjects, primarily among scholars in the Pacific Rim area. As the NLPRS culminating a millennium, NLPRS-99 would like to invite more scholars than ever before, including those beyond the Pacific boundaries, covering topics of all related areas, in order to create a memorable occasion before the next century. The papers must be original and address unpublished work on all aspects of Computational Linguistics. TOPICS The conference papers may represent technical works in all areas of computational linguistics. The following categories are illustrative only. Do not hesitate to send your papers even if you think that the area of your paper is not exactly covered by the categories below. General Categories morphology syntax discourse generation anaphora resolution lexical semantics machine translation dialogue bilingual alignment statistical parsing Linguistic Data lexical acquisition corpus analysis Applications applied NLP systems parallel implementations Thematic topics millennium view/experiences from large projects internet THEMATIC SESSION and PANEL DISCUSSION : THE MILLENNIUM: FIFTY YEARS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS NLPRS is considering organizing a millennium session and a panel discussion on the issues and thoughts of what we have achieved and what we may achieve over the fifty years of Computational Linguistics. For instance, historical landmarks with positive influence on the solutions of linguistic issues may need to be reinterpreted. What would be the implication of achievements so far? On this topic, NLPRS would like to encourage the submission of related papers. In particular, government officials and scholars who created, funded, and managed large-scale NLP projects are strongly urged to join this panel discussion. The panel meeting will provide a timely occasion to discuss successes and failures of large projects. Those who wish to join the panel discussion on the topics stated above are kindly requested to compile an email application with a brief note of the opinion statement to the following address. yshan at world.kaist.ac.kr THEMATIC SESSION : LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND THE INTERNET One of the key terms opening the next century will be the Internet. Linguistic ideas may need to be recast into internet primitives. NLPRS99 plans to organize a session devoted to related themes; papers addressing the following themes are welcome: - internet applications of NLP systems: computational models as well as case studies - general topics on group works: linguistic or non linguistic algorithms that foster group communications CONFERENCE Chair: Huang, Changning Tsinghua University, China ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chair: Cao, Youqi Chinese Information Processing Society of China, China PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Choi, Key-Sun KAIST, Korea Vice-Chairs: Yu, Shiwen Peking University, China Han, Young S. Suwon University, Korea Members: Ananiadou, Sofia European Media Laboratory, Germany Boitet, Christian CLIPS-GETA, France Bond, Francis NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Chen, Keh-Jiann Academia Sinica, Taiwan Church, Kenneth W. AT&T Labs, USA Dale, Robert Microsoft Research Institute, USA Dong, Zhendong China Information Processing Society, China Estival, Dominique Syrinx Speech Systems, Australia Hasida, Koiti Electrotechnical Lab, Japan Hausser, Roland University of Erlangen, Gemany Hideki, Kashioka ATR, Japan Hovy, Eduard USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Huang, Chu-Ren Academia Sinica, Taiwan Isahara, Hitoshi Communications Research Laboratory, Japan Joshi, Aravind K. University of Pennsylvania, USA Kando, Noriko NACSIS, Japan Kikui, Gen-ichiro NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories, Japan Kim, Yeunbae NHK, Japan Kurohashi, Sadao Kyoto University, Japan Kwon, Hyuk-Chul Pusan National University, Korea Lee, Jong-Hyeok Pohang University, Korea Leong, Munkew Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Li, Sheng Harbin Institute of Technology, China Lua, Kim-Teng National University of Singapore, Singapore Meknavin Surapan NECTEC, Thailand Mitkov, Ruslan University of Wolverhampton, UK Myaeng, Sung Hyon Chungnam National University, Korea Nishino, Fumihito Fujitsu Labs, Japan Niwa, Yoshiki ARL Hitachi, Japan Park, Seyoung ETRI, Korea Rim, Hae-Chang Korea University, Korea Sangal, Rajeev Indian Institute of Information Technology, India Seo, Jungyun Sogang University, Korea Su, Keh-Yih Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Takeda, Koichi IBM Tokyo Labs, Japan Tokunaga, Takenobu Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Tsujii, Jun'ichi University of Tokyo, Japan T'sou, Benjamin K. City University of Hong Kong Uszkoreit, Hans University of Saarbruecken, Germany Utsuro, Takehito Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Wu, Dekai HKUST Human Language Technology Center, Hong Kong Wuwongse, Vilas Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Yao, Tian-Shun Northeastern University, China Yoshimura, Kenji Fukuoka University,Japan Yusoff, Zaharin University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Zhang, Pu Beijing Language & Culture University, China Zhou, Ming Tsinghua University, China Zock, Michael Langage & Cognition LIMSI-CNRS, France PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should describe unique and completed work. When submitting papers, authors must specify the category of the presentation: regular paper, project paper, or poster paper. If a regular paper is intended for the thematic sessions, the author is asked to indicate so by choosing one of the two themes: millennium session or internet session. In particular if the paper is intended for the millennium session, the paper may length more than 3000 words constraints. SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers should not contain more than 3200 words except millennium papers. The title page must contain the title of the paper, author information, paper length in words, the thematic session (if appropriate), and up to 5 keywords. The main pages should not contain the author information. Four hard copies of the original paper must be sent directly to the following address : NLPRS-99 Submission Prof. Key-Sun Choi Department of Computer Science KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) 373-1 Kusong-dong Yusong-gu Taejon 305-701 Korea TEL +82-42-869-3565 FAX +82-42-867-3565 Hard copy submissions are strongly recommended, but for the authors who cannot make hard copy submissions, the file format must be readily browsable and printable in ps, html, or pdf. Electronic submissions should be made to the following address: nlprs99 at korterm.kaist.ac.kr IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions Deadline June 1, 1999 Notification of acceptance August 1, 1999 Camera ready paper September 1, 1999 Home page : http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/~nlprs99 From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 11 17:31:50 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:31:50 GMT Subject: Appel: HCC Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.173150.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Yorick Wilks) SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Apologies if you receive this from more than one source THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy 12-14 July, 1999 The URL was given in an outdated form last time: it is: www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio99/ The Workshops on Human-Computer Conversation in Bellagio, Italy, took place in 1997 and 1998, as small groups of experts from industry and academia met to discuss this pressing question for the future of Language Engineering, not as an academic question only, but chiefly to bring forward for discussion computer demonstrations and activities within company laboratories that were not being published or discussed. The Workshops were highly successful in these aims and we now wish to widen participation and add distinguished speakers, as well as introducing more theoretical topics, though without losing the practical emphasis. The site remains one of the finest in the world, and it promoted excellent and intimate discussions in 1997 and 1998. The emphasis this year will take note of the CE Fifth Framework calls announced under Human Language Technology and in particular the emphasis on interactivity. We also plan to emphasise (in invited talks) the issue of politeness and whether it is crucial or dispensible to conversation, as well as recent results on statistical/empirical work on dialogue corpora, and on deriving marked up dialogue corpora. All details, including previous program, program committee, accomodation and travel, details of registration (a form is attached below for the convenience of some) are on the web site. Hotels are in great demand at that time of year and intending participants should book soon. Invited speakers include (not all have yet accepted): Dr B Alabisio, Microsoft, USA Dr J Hutchens, UWA, Australia Prof. G Leech, University of Lancaster, UK Dr M Moens, University of Edinburgh, UK Dr U Reithinger, DFKI-Saarbruecken, DE Dr. T. Strzalkowski, General Electric, USA Contributions are invited on any aspect of human-computer conversation, as are demonstrations. Two page abstracts should be sent by mail or email to the address at the bottom according to the following timetable: Deadline for submission: 15 April 1999 Notice of acceptance: 15 May 1999 Camera ready paper due: 15 June 1999 The European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) havand SIGdial have endorsed the meeting and endorsement has been sought from ELSNET. 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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 11 17:31:52 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:31:52 GMT Subject: Projets: 2 announcements Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.173152.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: stephane.chaudiron at mesr.fr (stephane.chaudiron) Subject: Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les reseaux 2/ From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr> Subject: Reminder: Deadline for ELRA proposals ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: stephane.chaudiron at mesr.fr (stephane.chaudiron) Subject: Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les reseaux *****Appel � propositions � Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les r�seaux �***** Madame, Monsieur, Je vous prie de bien vouloir trouver ci-joint l'appel � propositions lanc� conjointement par la Direction de la technologie (MENRT) et le Service des Technologies et de la Soci�t� de l'Information (Secr�tariat d'�tat � l'Industrie) sur le th�me suivant : Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les r�seaux (TIM'99) La date de cl�ture de cet appel � propositions a �t� fix�e au 19 mai 1999 � 17 heures. Je vous serais reconnaissant de bien vouloir diffuser cette information aupr�s des personnes susceptibles d'�tre concern�es. Le texte de l'appel est joint en format word 6 pour Mac et RTF. [converti en texte seul -- pz] St�phane Chaudiron ================================================================ MINIST�RE DE L'�DUCATION NATIONALE, DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUP�RIEUR ET DE LA RECHERCHE (Direction de la Technologie) et MINIST�RE DE L'�CONOMIE, DES FINANCES ET DE L'INDUSTRIE SECR�TARIAT D'�TAT � L'INDUSTRIE (Service des Technologies et de la Soci�t� de l'Information) APPEL � PROPOSITIONS "Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les r�seaux" (TIM'99) 1. PR�SENTATION Acc�der � la bonne information au bon moment pour prendre la bonne d�cision est devenu l'enjeu principal auquel sont confront�es les entreprises au moment o� les risques de surinformation se multiplient, induits en particulier par la d�mat�rialisation de l'information et l'apparition de nouvelles sources d'information sur Internet. Toute organisation d�sirant maintenir un haut niveau d'innovation et de comp�titivit� doit �tre en mesure de ma�triser les flux informationnels afin de prendre dans de bonnes conditions une quelconque d�cision strat�gique. La veille technologique est, en ce sens, un �l�ment de l'intelligence �conomique n�cessaire dans le processus d'innovation et de comp�titivit� des entreprises, en particulier des PMI-PME de haute technologie, o� les effets de la mondialisation de l'�conomie s'exacerbent. Elle contribue � identifier et � faire sauter les verrous technologiques en permettant une information constante sur l'�volution des innovations (surveillance des travaux de recherche men�s dans les laboratoires et des brevets d�pos�s par les concurrents notamment). Elle contribue, pour les entreprises, � identifier les experts du domaine, notamment universitaires, afin de passer �ventuellement des accords de collaboration. Elle permet d'identifier les nouvelles technologies cl�s qui peuvent modifier, voire r�volutionner, les processus industriels de conception et fabrication. Elle permet �galement d'identifier les nouveaux entrants, concurrents potentiels � terme, ainsi que de nouveaux march�s facilitant ainsi la cr�ation d'entreprises. La ma�trise de l'information va donc bien au-del� de la simple ma�trise des outils informatiques ou d'Internet. Elle correspond � un processus complexe d'identification des sources d'information, de collecte, de traitement et de diffusion des informations pertinentes. Dans ce contexte, les r�seaux de t�l�communications, et Internet en particulier, occupent une place de plus en plus importante dans la production et la circulation de l'information � finalit� professionnelle et constituent une ressource dont la place est croissante parmi les diff�rentes sources d'information � prendre en compte dans une action de veille strat�giaque ou d'intelligence �conomique. N�anmoins, de nombreux obstacles entravent l'acc�s � l'information utile. En particulier, le probl�me du traitement de l'information multilingue, inh�rent � Internet, se pose avec d'autant plus d'insistance que le r�seau �volue naturellement vers un multilinguisme de fait. Le probl�me du traitement de l'information multilingue sur les r�seaux se d�compose en plusieurs questions : - comment acc�der en fran�ais � de l'information disponible en langue �trang�re (probl�me des interfaces multilingues) ? - comment traduire � la vol�e des documents dans le cadre d'une activit� de veille (probl�me de la traduction automatique) ? - comment un moteur de recherche sur internet peut-il identifier des documents (ou sites web) multilingues (probl�me du traitement automatique du multilinguisme au sein d'un document unique ou d'une m�me base de documents) ? - comment filtrer puis router vers les utilisateurs concern�s les informations multilingues pertinentes ? Cette liste, non exhaustive, de questions permet de cadrer le domaine des int�r�ts couvert par le pr�sent appel � propositions. L'objectif de cet appel � propositions est de soutenir l'effort de d�veloppement d'outils innovants dans ce domaine. Il pourra s'agir soit d'am�liorer des outils existants en int�grant de nouvelles fonctionnalit�s, soit de r�aliser de nouveaux outils. Suivant les cas, les projets conduiront soit � la r�alisation de prototypes avanc�s, soit � la r�alisation de produits ou de services op�rationnels. 2. PROC�DURE La recevabilit� des projets sera appr�ci�e en fonction des crit�res suivants : 2.1 Domaine Les projets soumis dans le cadre de cet appel � propositions doivent concerner les outils d'acc�s et de traitement automatis� de l'information multilingue sur Internet, utilisant des technologies d'ing�nierie linguistique (traitement de la langue �crite et orale). Plusieurs cat�gories d'outils sont concern�es : les moteurs de recherche d'information, les outils de filtrage et de routage, les "agents intelligents", les outils de traduction. Ces outils devront traiter au minimum deux langues, dont le fran�ais. La langue utilis�e lors de l'interrogation des moteurs de recherche ou de l'�laboration des profils devra n�cessairement �tre le fran�ais (une ou plusieurs autres langues sont �galement possibles). Sans exclure a priori aucune langue de cet appel � propositions, le choix des langues v�hiculaires dans les domaines des sciences et des techniques et des affaires sera un �l�ment important. Sans devoir r�pondre n�cessairement � l'ensemble des crit�res suivants, les applications vis�es devront notamment : - identifier automatiquement le caract�re multilingue des sources d'informations (sites et documents) ; - aider l'utilisateur dans la formulation de sa requ�te s'adressant � des sites multilingues (assistance dans la strat�gie d'interrogation, identification des langues concern�es) ; - interroger en fran�ais des sites multilingues ou contenant des documents disponibles partiellement ou totalement dans une autre langue ; - identifier et extraire automatiquement le contenu de documents multilingues ; - filtrer et router l'information multilingue en fonction des profils utilisateurs ; - traduire en fran�ais des documents ou parties de documents r�dig�s dans une autre langue ; - veiller � la lisibilit� et la compr�hension des informations multilingues retrouv�es gr�ce � une ergonomie efficace ; Nota bene : Cet appel � propositions n'a pas pour objectif la r�alisation de ressources linguistiques multilingues (dictionnaires, terminologies, corpus,...). Elles pourront cependant constituer l'un des aspects du projet si elles sont n�cessaires � sa r�alisation 2.2 Nature des projets concern�s Deux cat�gories de projets sont concern�s : - les projets qui visent � d�montrer la faisabilit� d'une approche particuli�rement innovante. Ces projets aboutiront � un d�monstrateur qui devra �tre valid� pour un domaine informationnel pr�cis. - les projets qui visent la r�alisation d'un produit ou d'un service op�rationnel, soit en am�liorant sur le plan technique, fonctionnel ou ergonomique un logiciel existant, soit en r�alisant un nouvel outil. Dans les deux cas, la coop�ration entre laboratoires de recherche publics et soci�t�s priv�es ainsi que le caract�re innovant des projets seront particuli�rement appr�ci�s. Les projets seront recevables s'ils traitent au minimum deux langues dont le fran�ais ; les efforts pour augmenter le nombre de langues trait�es, tout en assurant la faisabilit� du projet, seront �galement appr�ci�s. Pour la deuxi�me cat�gorie de projets, un plan de commercialisation sera demand�. 2.3 Dur�e des projets La dur�e de r�alisation des projets ne doit pas exc�der deux ann�es. 2.4 Organismes concern�s Les projets pourront �tre pr�sent�s par les entreprise et/ou par les centres de recherche. Les regroupements entre savoir-faire compl�mentaires seront appr�ci�s ainsi que la participation d'utilisateurs. 3. MODALIT�S PRATIQUES 3.1 S�lection des projets La s�lection des projets sera effectu�e apr�s avis donn� par un comit� d'experts nomm�s conjointement par la Direction de la Technologie et le Service des Technologies et la Soci�t� de l'Information. Les projets seront pr�sent�s selon le mod�le joint en annexe (1 fiche synth�tique et 1 dossier). Les propositions devront �tre exp�di�es sous pli recommand� avec AR en 6 exemplaires avant le 19 mai 1999 17 heures, cachet de la poste faisant foi, date de cl�ture de l'appel � propositions. Trois exemplaires seront envoy�s � : Minist�re de l'�ducation nationale, de l'enseignement sup�rieur et de la recherche Direction de la Technologie (DTA3) AAP "Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les r�seaux" 1, rue Descartes 75231 PARIS cedex 05 et trois exemplaires seront envoy�s � : Minist�re de l'�conomie, des finances et de l'industrie Secr�tariat d'�tat � l'industrie Service des Technologies et de la Soci�t� de l'Information AAP "Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les r�seaux" 3-5, rue Barbet de Jouy 75007 PARIS cedex 3.2 Financement Le Minist�re de l'�ducation nationale, de l'enseignement sup�rieur et de la recherche (Direction de la Technologie) et le Secr�tariat d'�tat � l'industrie (STSI) arr�teront, chacun pour leur part, sur proposition du comit� d'experts, la liste d�finitive des aides � octroyer dans le cadre des budgets disponibles pour cette action et selon leur proc�dure propre. FICHE SYNTHETIQUE Organisme demandeur : Partenaires : Personne � contacter : T�l�phone : Nom du projet : Description sommaire du projet (5 lignes) : Co�t total du programme : Dur�e envisag�e (en mois) : DOSSIER ORGANISME : [pour les soci�t�s, pr�ciser le capital social et l'effectif] [Adresse et coordonn�es] NOM DU PROJET : DESCRIPTION DU PROGRAMME : Ces renseignements permettront de souligner les points importants du projet et de faire ressortir les aspects innovants et originaux des travaux. 1. Origine du projet et situation actuelle [Savoir faire et r�f�rences des participants dans ce domaine] 2. Objectifs techniques [Description d�taill�e du projet] [Plan de travail] COUT TOTAL DU PROGRAMME : DUREE DU PROGRAMME : MONTANT DE L'AIDE DEMANDEE : OBJECTIFS ECONOMIQUES (s'il y a lieu) : [Place du projet dans la strat�gie de d�veloppement de l'entreprise] [Client�le potentielle] [Chiffre d'affaires attendu dans les cinq premi�res ann�es de commercialisation] [Modalit�s de commercialisation] AIDES PUBLIQUES (deux derni�res ann�es et demandes en cours) : [organisme, objet et montant de l'aide] AUTRES CONVENTIONS (pass�es au cours des 3 derni�res ann�es) : [Organisme, objet, date de notification, dur�e, montant de l'aide] PARTICIPATION A DES PROJETS EUROPEENS (deux derni�res ann�es et demandes en cours) : [Objet, date de notification, dur�e, montant de l'aide] PARTENAIRES : - Nom et forme juridique - Budget et pourcentage de participation dans le projet - Aide demand�e - Place et r�le dans le projet ================================================================ ______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr> Subject: Reminder: Deadline for ELRA proposals LAST REMINDER: CALL FOR PROPOSALS European Language Resources Association (ELRA) ELRA 1999 CALL FOR PROPOSALS ELRA COMMISSIONING PRODUCTION OF LANGUAGE RESOURCES The deadline for submissions to this call for proposals is Friday, 19 March 1999. The full version of the call is available at: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/callpr99.html Please contact Jeff Allen (Tel: +33 1 43 13 33 33 - jeff at elda.fr) for further information. E-mail submissions are preferred. Please send them to <jeff at elda.fr>. Format: Word (up through Word 97), Microsoft Project (up through Project 98), RTF, ASCII, HTML, PDF or Postscript (please note that Postscript is the least preferred). For those who wish to submit proposals by postal mail, send to: Jeff ALLEN ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Sincerely, Jeff Allen ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europienne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) (0) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) (0) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 16 15:34:16 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:34:16 GMT Subject: Appel: TMI'99 Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.153416.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Francis Bond <bond at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation TMI-99 August 23-25, 1999 Chester, UK http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/ Final Announcement and Call for Papers -------------------------------------- The eighth conference in the TMI series will take place over August 23-25, 1999 in the historic city of Chester, UK. In addition to general theoretical and methodological issues, TMI-99 will have a major theme: Modalities and MT: Where can MT be used? Submissions referring to the above theme are encouraged. However, substantial, original, and unpublished research on any other issues relevant to machine translation and multi-lingual processing are also welcome. Details on submissions and submission guidelines, along with a Latex style file, can be found on our web site <www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/>. Papers should be in English, not longer than 10 pages (around 5,000 words). Important dates Paper submissions due March 12, 1999 *** tomorrow *** Acceptance notification May 14, 1999 Final copies due July 2, 1999 Conference dates Tutorials: Aug 22, 1999 Papers and Panels: Aug 23-25, 1999 Workshops: Aug 26, 1999 Address for email submissions is <tmi at fornost.icl.kecl.ntt.co.jp>. Tutorial Program: ----------------- Two tutorials are being offered. Participants can choose either a one-day introduction to MT and translation tools, comprising of five consecutive sessions, or a half day tutorial on acquiring knowledge for MT in low density languages. * Introduction to MT and translation tools - Overview John Hutchins - Localisation Reinhard Schaeler - Translation workstations and translation memory Ian Gordon - Developments at EU translation service Dimitri Theologitis - Evaluation of MT systems Jorg Schutz * Acquisition of Knowledge about Sergei Nirenburg a Low-Density Language for Use in MT Full details of the program, including a synopsis of each tutorial, a schedule, and details of how to register, will be found at the web site: <http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/tutorials.html>. Workshops: ---------- After the conference (August 26th), we will hold two one-day workshops (in parallel). Both workshops are soliciting submissions on relevant topics. Full details of the workshops can be found on their web sites. A short description of each is given below. Workshop: Constraints on Machine Interpretation Conveners: Susanne J. Jekat (Hamburg Uni), Jan Amtrup (CRL) Email: jekat at informatik.uni-hamburg.de, jamtrup at crl.nmsu.edu Web site: http://crl.nmsu.edu/~jamtrup/tmi99/ Synopsis: The translation of spoken utterances (MI, Machine Interpreting) is one of the most challenging tasks within the field of MT. There are still several phenomena which are unknown or insufficiently described and are not accounted for in the systems currently available. These phenomena affect all stages of processing within MT systems. As a consequence, an MI system does not only contain the additional components needed to analyze and synthesize speech, but the core modules have to be adapted to the demands of speech-to-speech communication as well. The workshop ``Constraints on Machine Interpretation'' calls for contributions relevant for the translation of spoken language, including, but not limited to: Speech recognition, language recognition, speaker identification; Prosody and its use in MI systems; Analysis, transfer and generation of spoken input utterances; Architecture and design of MI systems and their user interfaces; Dialog behavior, design and analysis; Evaluation of MI systems. Workshop: Problems and Potential of English-to-German MT systems Convener: Claudia Gdaniec (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Email: cgdaniec at us.ibm.com Web site: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/cgdaniec/tmi99.html Synopsis: Many German speakers have had a chance, and a need, to taste English-German MT translation through the many products available on the market and through the growing opportunities on the Internet. Reactions have been anywhere from acceptance to disappointment to derision. This workshop is aimed at getting developers, researchers, and users together for an opportunity to present, discuss -- and ideally reach some agreement on -- the status of, and desired and possible improvements to, English-to-German MT systems. The workshop will address the many areas of MT application: heavy-duty translation of technical documentation; casual in-house and at-home translation; on-the-fly Web page translation; MT in information and knowledge management; MT in electronic commerce; Internet chat and e-mail translation. There will be presentations of positive and negative experiences with text types and linguistic quality as well as of desired priorities in terms of linguistic domains and technical requirements by users, developers, and researchers. Important dates for workshops Paper submissions due April 14, 1999 Acceptance notification June 1, 1999 Final copies due July 2, 1999 Conference Site The conference meetings will be held at Chester College, in the city of Chester UK. More information about the conference site can be found at the web site: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/. TMI-99 is supported by the European Association for Machine Translation and by Aslib, The Association for Information Management. TMI-99 Officers: Program Chair: Francis Bond, NTT CS Labs, Kyoto Local Chairs: Arturo Trujillo and Harold Somers, UMIST, Manchester General Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, NMSU, Las Cruces NM Please address any further enquiries to the program chair: Francis Bond <bond at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp> Machine Translation Research Group NTT Communication Science Laboratories 2-4 Hikari-dai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, JAPAN, 619-0237 Tel: 0774-93-5313 (+81) Fax: 0774-93-5345 (+81) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 16 15:34:17 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:34:17 GMT Subject: Appel: NLPRS'99 Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.153417.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "nlprs99" <nlprs99 at kibs.kaist.ac.kr> -|-------------------------------------|- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS NLPRS-99 5th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium Beijing, China November 5-7, 1999 "Closing the Millennium" -|-------------------------------------|- NLPRS has contributed to the promotion and circulation of research efforts in Computational Linguistics and related subjects, primarily among scholars in the Pacific Rim area. As the NLPRS culminating a millennium, NLPRS-99 would like to invite more scholars than ever before, including those beyond the Pacific boundaries, covering topics of all related areas, in order to create a memorable occasion before the next century. The papers must be original and address unpublished work on all aspects of Computational Linguistics. TOPICS The conference papers may represent technical works in all areas of computational linguistics. The following categories are illustrative only. Do not hesitate to send your papers even if you think that the area of your paper is not exactly covered by the categories below. General Categories morphology syntax discourse generation anaphora resolution lexical semantics machine translation dialogue bilingual alignment statistical parsing Linguistic Data lexical acquisition corpus analysis Applications applied NLP systems parallel implementations Thematic topics millennium view/experiences from large projects internet THEMATIC SESSION and PANEL DISCUSSION : THE MILLENNIUM: FIFTY YEARS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS NLPRS is considering organizing a millennium session and a panel discussion on the issues and thoughts of what we have achieved and what we may achieve over the fifty years of Computational Linguistics. For instance, historical landmarks with positive influence on the solutions of linguistic issues may need to be reinterpreted. What would be the implication of achievements so far? On this topic, NLPRS would like to encourage the submission of related papers. In particular, government officials and scholars who created, funded, and managed large-scale NLP projects are strongly urged to join this panel discussion. The panel meeting will provide a timely occasion to discuss successes and failures of large projects. Those who wish to join the panel discussion on the topics stated above are kindly requested to compile an email application with a brief note of the opinion statement to the following address. yshan at world.kaist.ac.kr THEMATIC SESSION : LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND THE INTERNET One of the key terms opening the next century will be the Internet. Linguistic ideas may need to be recast into internet primitives. NLPRS99 plans to organize a session devoted to related themes; papers addressing the following themes are welcome: - internet applications of NLP systems: computational models as well as case studies - general topics on group works: linguistic or non linguistic algorithms that foster group communications CONFERENCE Chair: Huang, Changning Tsinghua University, China ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chair: Cao, Youqi Chinese Information Processing Society of China, China PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Choi, Key-Sun KAIST, Korea Vice-Chairs: Yu, Shiwen Peking University, China Han, Young S. Suwon University, Korea Members: Ananiadou, Sofia European Media Laboratory, Germany Boitet, Christian CLIPS-GETA, France Bond, Francis NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Chen, Keh-Jiann Academia Sinica, Taiwan Church, Kenneth W. AT&T Labs, USA Dale, Robert Microsoft Research Institute, USA Dong, Zhendong China Information Processing Society, China Estival, Dominique Syrinx Speech Systems, Australia Hasida, Koiti Electrotechnical Lab, Japan Hausser, Roland University of Erlangen, Gemany Hideki, Kashioka ATR, Japan Hovy, Eduard USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Huang, Chu-Ren Academia Sinica, Taiwan Isahara, Hitoshi Communications Research Laboratory, Japan Joshi, Aravind K. University of Pennsylvania, USA Kando, Noriko NACSIS, Japan Kikui, Gen-ichiro NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories, Japan Kim, Yeunbae NHK, Japan Kurohashi, Sadao Kyoto University, Japan Kwon, Hyuk-Chul Pusan National University, Korea Lee, Jong-Hyeok Pohang University, Korea Leong, Munkew Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Li, Sheng Harbin Institute of Technology, China Lua, Kim-Teng National University of Singapore, Singapore Meknavin Surapan NECTEC, Thailand Mitkov, Ruslan University of Wolverhampton, UK Myaeng, Sung Hyon Chungnam National University, Korea Nishino, Fumihito Fujitsu Labs, Japan Niwa, Yoshiki ARL Hitachi, Japan Park, Seyoung ETRI, Korea Rim, Hae-Chang Korea University, Korea Sangal, Rajeev Indian Institute of Information Technology, India Seo, Jungyun Sogang University, Korea Su, Keh-Yih Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Takeda, Koichi IBM Tokyo Labs, Japan Tokunaga, Takenobu Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Tsujii, Jun'ichi University of Tokyo, Japan T'sou, Benjamin K. City University of Hong Kong Uszkoreit, Hans University of Saarbruecken, Germany Utsuro, Takehito Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Wu, Dekai HKUST Human Language Technology Center, Hong Kong Wuwongse, Vilas Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Yao, Tian-Shun Northeastern University, China Yoshimura, Kenji Fukuoka University,Japan Yusoff, Zaharin University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Zhang, Pu Beijing Language & Culture University, China Zhou, Ming Tsinghua University, China Zock, Michael Langage & Cognition LIMSI-CNRS, France PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should describe unique and completed work. When submitting papers, authors must specify the category of the presentation: regular paper, project paper, or poster paper. If a regular paper is intended for the thematic sessions, the author is asked to indicate so by choosing one of the two themes: millennium session or internet session. In particular if the paper is intended for the millennium session, the paper may length more than 3000 words constraints. SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers should not contain more than 3200 words except millennium papers. The title page must contain the title of the paper, author information, paper length in words, the thematic session (if appropriate), and up to 5 keywords. The main pages should not contain the author information. Four hard copies of the original paper must be sent directly to the following address : NLPRS-99 Submission Prof. Key-Sun Choi Department of Computer Science KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) 373-1 Kusong-dong Yusong-gu Taejon 305-701 Korea TEL +82-42-869-3565 FAX +82-42-867-3565 Hard copy submissions are strongly recommended, but for the authors who cannot make hard copy submissions, the file format must be readily browsable and printable in ps, html, or pdf. Electronic submissions should be made to the following address: nlprs99 at korterm.kaist.ac.kr IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions Deadline June 1, 1999 Notification of acceptance August 1, 1999 Camera ready paper September 1, 1999 Home page : http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/~nlprs99 From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 16 15:34:21 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:34:21 GMT Subject: Appel: Noms Propres (ATALA) Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.153421.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Denis Maurel <maurel at univ-tours.fr> 2eme appel a communication : Call for Papers: English version, see below Le traitement automatique des Noms propres Samedi 29 mai 1999 Organisateurs : Denis Maurel et Franz Guenthner L'Association pour le Traitement automatique des langues (l'Atala) organise chaque annee cinq journees d'etudes sur un theme particulier. Ces journees sont placees sous la responsabilite d'un membre de l'association et se deroule a Paris. Les communications se font en francais ou en anglais. La journee du samedi 29 mai 1999 sera consacree au Traitement automatique des Noms propres sous toutes ses formes. Nous esperons pouvoir publier tout ou partie de la journee sous forme d'actes. Nous souhaitons donc recevoir des propositions de communication sur le sujet incluant, de maniere non limitative : * La constitution de dictionnaires electroniques de noms propres * Le traitement automatique de la morphologie des noms propres * La reconnaissance et l'etiquetage automatique des noms propres dans un texte * Les aspects computationnels de la syntaxe, de la semantique ou de la pragmatique des noms propres * La recherche et l%extraction automatique d'informations a l'aide des noms propres * etc. Les propositions sont a envoyer, si possible par courrier electronique, pour la fin mars, a Denis Maurel (mailto: maurel at univ-tours.fr) sous le format Word, RTF ou texte. Sinon par courrier postal (Denis Maurel, LI/E3i, Universite de Tours, 64 avenue Jean-Portalis, 37200 Tours, France). Denis Maurel LI/E3i, Universite de Tours Franz Guenthner CIS, Universite de Munich Pour de futures informations sur cette journee: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/events/atalafr.html http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/je.html --------- 2nd call for Papers : Workshop on The Automatic Analysis of Proper Name Saturday, May 29th, 1999 Organizers: Denis Maurel and Franz Guenthner The Association pour le traitement automatique des langues (Atala) organises five meetings per year on specific topics in Natural Language Processing. These meetings are proposed and organized by members of the association and they take place in Paris. The language of the contributions is French or English. They will be a workshop on various aspects of the computational treatment of Proper name on Saturday, May 29th, 1999. We intend to publish the contribution to this workshop in the form of proceedings. Contribution are invited on the topics below as well as on other related subjects: * The construction of electronic dictionaries of proper names * The morphological analysis of proper names * The recognition and tagging of proper names in texts * Computational aspect of the syntax, semantics or pragmatics of proper names * Applications of the treatment of proper names to information retrieval, information extraction, text mining * etc. Abstracts of contributions should be sent, preferably by e-mail, by March 31st, to Denis Maurel (mailto:maurel at univ-tours.fr) in MS-Word, RTF or Ascii form. Non electronic-submission should be sent to Denis Maurel, LI/E3i, Universite de Tours, 64 avenue Jean-Portalis, 37200 Tours, France. Denis Maurel LI/E3i, Universite de Tours Franz Guenthner CIS, Universite de Munich For future postings on this workshop, please consult: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/events/atalae.html http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/je.html ____________________________________ Denis Maurel LI/E3i - Universite Francois Rabelais 64 avenue Jean-Portalis 37200 Tours France Tel. (33) 02.47.36.14.35 Telc. (33) 02.47.36.14.22 mailto:maurel at univ-tours.fr http://www.li.univ-tours.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 16 15:34:19 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:34:19 GMT Subject: Appel: MT Summit (language resources) Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.153419.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr> Dear colleagues in the field of translation technologies: As you are aware, the deadline for paper submissions to Machine Translation (MT) Summit 1999 is soon approaching. The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) would like to see if a theme session on language resources could be organized at the conference if enough papers on the topic are submitted. We would highly encourage you to consider proposing a paper on the theme of language resources/databases/corpora that are used in MT and other translation systems/applications. Some subtopics of this general theme include: - standardization of data and formats; - validation and quality control of data; - obtaining and (re)using data produced by third parties; - legal issues in the use of data produced by third parties; - reusability of data for diverse applications and purposes; - the need for corpora, lexica, and terminology resources; - corpus linguistics studies and the need for resources; - evaluation of systems using different corpora or other resources; - (minimum) amount of data needed for the development, customization, and implementation of systems; - porting systems to new areas and new languages in view of available or potential resources; - etc... According to the conference submission procedures that are indicated at http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/news.html , please mail 4 hardcopies of your papers to: MT Summit VII Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT) 3F, Shiba-Koen Sanada Bldg. 3-5-12 Shiba-Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan In addition, please submit an ASCII version of the cover page electronically to: aamt0001 at infotokyo.or.jp Important Dates: 15 April 1999 Paper submission deadline 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline Please do not submit paper proposals to ELRA. Additional information about the MT Summit 99 can be found at: http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/news.html September 13 - 17, 1999 MT Summit '99: The 7th Machine Translation Summit Singapore, Singapore Best regards, Jeff Allen and Khalid Choukri on behalf of the European Language Resources Association ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europienne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) (0) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) (0) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 18 19:00:30 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:00:30 GMT Subject: Appel: Descriptional Complexity ... Message-ID: <THU.18.MAR.1999.190030.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: reichel at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Bernd Reichel) Dear colleague, Enclosed we send you some Call for Papers for the Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" in Magdeburg (Germany), July 20-23, 1999. Note that the dates have been changed since the Workshop on Implementing Automata (WIA '99), Potsdam (Germany), July 17-19, 1999 has been shifted, too. The Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" starts five days after finishing ICALP '99 in Prague (appr. 300 km far from Magdeburg) and the day after finishing WIA '99 in Potsdam (100 km west from Magdeburg). Magdeburg founded 1200 years ago is the capital of the German state Saxony-Anhalt and is situated appr. 120 km west from Berlin at the banks of the river Elbe. Magdeburg has the oldest German gothic cathedral, is the start and end point of the Romanic Street (one of the historic main attractions of Saxony-Anhalt), is famous for its parks and gardens and is the host of the German Federal Garden Show '99 (which is part of the social program of the workshop). We invite you to participate in and to contribute to the workshop. Juergen Dassow (Magdeburg) Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% C A L L F O R P A P E R S Workshop DESCRIPTIONAL COMPLEXITY OF AUTOMATA, GRAMMARS AND RELATED STRUCTURES July 20-23, 1999, Magdeburg, Germany The Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" is being organized by the IFIP Working Group 1.2 Descriptional Complexity and the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg and will take place in Magdeburg which is the 1200 years old capital of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. Magdeburg is located 130 km west of Berlin and will be the site of the German Garden Show 1999. The aim of the workshop is to present, partly through invited lectures, the state of the art and trends in the field and to provide a forum for the exchange of new results. Program Committee: ****************** N. Blum (Bonn), J. Dassow (Magdeburg, co-chair), J. Goldstine (University Park), Gh. Paun (Bucharest), J. Seiferas (Rochester), D. Wotschke (Frankfurt, co-chair) Invited Speakers: ***************** J. Gruska (Brno) A. Kelemenova (Opava) H. Leung (Las Cruces) J. Shallit (Waterloo) S. Yu (London, Canada) and others Submissions: ************ Authors are invited to submit a draft paper of up to 10 pages in English. (If appropriate, proofs should be attached as a full paper.) Electronic submissions are encouraged and should be sent as postscript files to: dcagrs at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Submissions by mail (four copies) should be sent to: Juergen Dassow Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg Fakultaet fuer Informatik Postfach 41 20 D-39016 Magdeburg Accepted papers will be published in special issues of "Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics". Preproceedings will be distributed at the conference. Important Dates: **************** Deadline for submission: April 15, 1999 Acceptance notification: May 31, 1999 Preliminary paper for the preproceedings: June 30, 1999 Symposium (date has been changed): July 20-23, 1999 Final Version: October 30, 1999 Further Information: ******************** http://ozelot.psc.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de:8000/ifip-wg1.2/dcagrs Registration Fee: ***************** The registration fee (incl. Preproceedings and Conference Dinner) will be approximately DM 140,- (EUR 70,-). From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 18 19:00:28 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:00:28 GMT Subject: Job: 1 Offer Message-ID: <THU.18.MAR.1999.190028.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Paula Mason <paulam at cre.canon.co.uk> Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE) has a position for top quality software engineers in its Speech and Language Division. We are looking for people with a background of high academic achievement in computer science, natural language processing, electrical engineering, physics, mathematics or similar quantitative science - self-motivated people with a desire to continuously improve and excel. Applications from experienced engineers and fresh PhDs/exceptional graduates are invited for the following role: SOFTWARE ENGINEER - to develop software for applications in natural language processing, information retrieval and speech recognition. Applicants should have: - excellent software engineering and programming skills in C/C++, and ideally Java; - experience in constructing large, high quality, robust software systems for prototypes or products; - the ability to pick up new languages and skills rapidly. Commercial software experience, a relevant higher degree or expertise any of the following would be an advantage: - C++ standard template library; - databases; - information retrieval; - natural language processing. Canon has over 75,000 employees worldwide. Since its foundation, Canon has moved forward towards its objective of being the manufacturer of the best products in the world. While pursuing the pinnacle of quality, we have taken the lead in developing electronic and automation technologies to enhance the ease of use of our products. One key to Canon's success has been the spirit of meeting new technological challenges and at CRE you will have the opportunity to play a significant part in this. We offer an excellent working environment and a competitive salary and benefits package. For further details on CRE and this job opportunity, please consult our web pages at: http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/ To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter, to: Paula Mason (recruitment) Canon Research Centre Europe Limited 1 Occam Court Surrey Research Park Guildford GU2 5YJ United Kingdom fax: +44 (0) 1483 448845 email: sljobs at cre.canon.co.uk Because of British law, preference will be given to applicants who already have the right to work in the United Kingdom. From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 18 19:00:38 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:00:38 GMT Subject: Appel: Outils de Recherche ... (Colloque ACFAS) Message-ID: <THU.18.MAR.1999.190038.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~delannoy/ACFAS/description.html APPEL � COMMUNICATIONS ET � PARTICIPATION L'IMPORTANCE DES OUTILS DE RECHERCHE ET D'ANALYSE DE L'INFORMATION TEXTUELLE dans le cadre du 67e Congr�s de l'ACFAS Universit� d'Ottawa, Ontario, Canada les 10 et 11 mai 1999 Il s'agit d'un colloque interdisciplinaire sur les outils de traitement de la langue naturelle (TLN), pour : 1) faire se rencontrer les linguistes-informaticiens, des universitaires d'autres domaines, et en g�n�ral des gens dont le travail a fortement � voir avec la manipulation et l'interpr�tation des textes 2) faire le point sur le TLN, son utilit� et ses enjeux, en combinant le c�t� pratique (syst�mes, approches) et le c�t� de son application 3) donner plus de notori�t� au TLN au-del� de la communaut� de ses concepteurs, et clarifier ce dont il est capable et les services qu'il peut rendre. Il y aura des pr�sentations de syst�mes et de points de vue, des d�monstrations, des tables rondes et des s�ances de questions. La langue officielle est le fran�ais, but English is also welcome. TH�MES: M�thodes et syst�mes de TLN Outils de recherche d'information �tiquetage linguistique Lecture et aide � la lecture Analyse de discours, analyse du raisonnement Contexte, interactivit� Probl�mes de principe �pist�mologie PARTICIPANTS INVIT�S - Isma�l Biskri (U. Trois Rivi�res) : TLN, recherche d'informations - Marc Cavazza (U. Bradford, Angleterre, et Groupe S�mantique des Textes / MSH, Paris ) : TLN, s�mantique, s�miotique, multim�dia - Jean-Pierre Corriveau (U. Carleton, Ottawa) : TLN, intelligence artificielle, cognition - Jean-Fran�ois Delannoy (RES International et U. Ottawa ) : TLN, recherche d'informations, cognition - Sylvain Delisle (U. Trois Rivi�res) : TLN, recherche d'informations - Martin Laplante (RES International, Ottawa) : IA, recherche d'informations, Internet, connexionisme - Stan Matwin (SITE, U. Ottawa) : apprentissage automatique, TLN, intelligence artificielle - Vance Mendenhall (Dept de Philosophie, U. Ottawa) : philosophie du langage, �tude du raisonnement, �pist�mologie - Jean Guy Meunier (UQAM) : TLN, recherche d'informations, gestion des textes - Patricia Raymond (Institut des Langues Secondes, U Ottawa ) : th�ories de l'apprentissage des langues secondes, lecture - Arnold Smith (Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique du Canada) : interaction graphiques-langage, cognition, philosophie - Ruth Sullivan (Dept de Droit, U. Ottawa ) : interpr�tation en droit civil - Christian Vandendorpe (Dept. de Lettres Fran�aises et Centre d'�criture, U. Ottawa) : hypertextes, th�ories de la litt�rature, s�miotique INFORMATION: Jean-Fran�ois Delannoy, organisateur http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~delannoy/ACFAS/description.html delannoy at res.ca +1 (613) 238-3690 INSCRIPTION: Frais d'inscription: de 58 a 190 dollars canadiens Colette Lesage http://www.acfas.ca/congres lesage at acfas.ca +1 (514) 849-0045 ou sur place From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 18 19:00:41 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:00:41 GMT Subject: Divers: Parallel Text Processing (Biblio) Message-ID: <THU.18.MAR.1999.190041.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at lpl.univ-aix.fr> Our bibliography on Parallel Text Processing is available on the Web at http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/biblios/ptp.htm This bibliography undoubtedly contains errors and omissions. We will try to fix them with your help, and add URLs for downloads of papers that are on the Web. Your comments and help will be most welcome. Jean Vironis and Marie-Dominique Mahimon <Jean.Veronis at lpl.univ-aix.fr> <Marie-Dominique.Mahimon at lpl.univ-aix.fr> From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Mar 19 18:30:57 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:30:57 GMT Subject: Job: 1 Offer Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAR.1999.183057.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Detmar Meurers <dm at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> JOB OPENING: SYNTACTIC ANNOTATION OF TEXT CORPORA UNIVERSITY OF TUEBINGEN DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS DIVISION OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS The Division of Computational Linguistics in the Dept. of Linguistics at the University of Tuebingen, Germany has received external funding for a three-year project (April 1999 - December 2001) in Corpus Linguistics and Corpus Annotation. The project will be carried out in collaboration with the Institut fuer deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim and the Institut fuer Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart. The main goal of the research at Tuebingen is the automatic annotation of text corpora for German at the level of morpho-syntactic annotation and partial syntactic annotation. Candidates for the position should have sound knowledge of German grammar and should be familiar with the theory and implementation of finite-state automata, finite-state transducers and robust parsing techniques. Programming experience in C or C++ is highly desirable. The successful candidate would be expected to take up the position as soon as possible. The position is at the rank of "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (M.A. degree or Ph.D. degree required). The salary on the German payscale of BAT IIa; minimum of 65 000 DM per year. Applications should include CV and an outline of research experience and interests. Names and addresses of references would be helpful. Applications should be sent by mail or email to the address below. Prof. Dr. Erhard W. Hinrichs Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Abt. Computerlinguistik Eberhard-Karls Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstr. 113 D-72074 Tuebingen Germany email: eh at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de Applications received by May 5th, 1999 will receive full consideration. From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Mar 23 16:17:36 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:17:36 +0100 Subject: Q: Mac ou PC ? Conjugueur ? Son ? Message-ID: <TUE.23.MAR.1999.171736.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:41:44 -0500 From: Thierry van Steenberghe <100342.254 at compuserve.com> Message-Id: <199903181242_MC2-6E89-220D at compuserve.com> Dans le cadre d'un projet dont je m'occupe, je serais très intéressé à recevoir des informations sur les trois sujets ci-dessous: 1. Mac ou PC ? Tout le monde connaît la proportion globale ( = parts de marché) de Mac et de PC dans le monde: c'est quelque chose comme 10/90. J'aimerais pouvoir estimer la proportion de Mac et de PC (et éventuellement aussi de machines sous Unix/Linux) utilisés *dans les départements de linguistique/langue et littérature française* des universités ? Et chez les autres "travailleurs de la langue (française)" que sont les traducteurs, les journalistes, les juristes, etc. ? Oy trouver ce type d'information, si elle existe ? Et sinon, comment la récolter ? Oserais-je demander aux abonnés de cette liste qui se sentent concernés de m'indiquer leur estimation de cette donnée dans leur département ? Je tenterai de traiter les informations que je récolterai et je les partagerai avec la liste, bien entendu. 2. Conjugueur ? J'aimerais recevoir des informations sur les possibilités d'obtenir des outils linguistiques, et plus spécifiquement un conjugueur capable de traiter tous les verbes français, à intégrer dans un produit actuellement en développement. 3. Son ? De même, j'aimerais des informations sur un module de synthèse de "texte" en français (mots isolés, expressions, courtes phrases), et notamment savoir s'il est possible d'indiquer les prononciations souhaitées (en IPA ou via une transcription quelconque) et de les modifier éventuellement pour illustrer divers phénomènes, par exemple les variations régionales, etc. Merci beaucoup déjà à tous ceux qui voudront bien apporter des éléments d'information. Thierry __________________________ Thierry van Steenberghe tvs at info.ucl.ac.be t_vs at compuserve.com __________________________ From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 24 09:02:19 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:02:19 +0100 Subject: Appel: Atelier TALN'99 "Methodes Hybrides TALN/TALP" Message-ID: <WED.24.MAR.1999.100219.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> [envoi retardé du fait d'un pb matériel dans la gestion de la liste LN -- mille excuses -- pz] Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:04:08 +0100 From: Jean-Yves Antoine <Jean-Yves.Antoine at univ-ubs.fr> Message-Id: <01BE7211.5C48FBD0 at pc-valoria-10.univ-ubs.fr> X-url: http://web.iu-vannes.fr/public/IUP/recherche/TALN99/atelier.htm X-url: http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/ ----------------------------- 2 eme Appel -------------------------------- Atelier "METHODES HYBRIDES TALN / TALP POUR LE TRAITEMENT ROBUSTE DU LANGAGE" Organise dans le cadre du congres TALN'99 (12-17 Juillet 1999, Cargese ; http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/) *** PROBLEMATIQUE *** Pendant longtemps, les communautes du Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN) et du Traitement Automatique de la Parole (TAP/TALP) ont vecu dans une relative ignorance mutuelle. On constate cependant depuis quelques annees un rapprochement entre ces 2 communautes. Ainsi, l'interet de la Communication Homme-Machine (CHM) orale pour les techniques employees en TALN va croissant a mesure qu'elle cherche a ameliorer des modeles statistiques de langage qui, tout en ayant conduit au developpement des premiers systemes operationnels, presentent d'indeniables faiblesses. On observe ainsi l'apparition de modeles hybrides (modeles markoviens + regles ; modeles de dependances probabilistes) ou l'utilisation d'analyseurs de post-traitement symboliques pour la reconnaissance ou la comprehension automatique de la parole. Cette problematique revet une importance de plus en plus reconnue au sein de la communaute parole, comme en temoigne par exemple la mise en place dans le cadre du GDR I3 d'un groupe de travail sur ce theme. Parallelement, la communaute TALN s'interesse de plus en plus a la question de la robustesse, comme en temoignent plusieurs programmes d'evaluation (action GRACE par exemple). Or, on remarque que cette recherche de robustesse s'est traduite par l'integration de techniques employees a l'oral, que ce soit par exemple pour l'alignement de corpus multilingues ou pour l'etiquetage syntaxique. L'objectif de cet atelier est de permettre une reflexion sur l'utilisation conjointe des techniques issues de nos deux communautes. Les champs d'application privilegies seront, sans exclusive (la liste ci-dessous ne correspondant qu'aux usages les plus frequents de techniques hybrides en TALN ou TALP) : - la reconnaissance automatique de la parole, - la comprehension automatique de la parole, - la traduction automatique en CHM finalisee (orale ou ecrite), - l'etiquetage syntaxique, Cet atelier se deroulera sous la forme de communications orales suivies de discussions. Afin de favoriser les echanges, le temps accorde aux debats sera particulierement privilegie. Les communications pourront porter sur des aspects theoriques tels que, par exemple, l'integration de contraintes symboliques dans un modele stochastique de langage, ou au contraire decrire le developpement de techniques hybrides dans une application donnee. Une attention particuliere sera portee sur l'ouverture aux deux communautes TALN/TALP dans la presentation de ces travaux. *** COMITE D'ORGANISATION *** Jean-Yves ANTOINE (VALORIA, Universite de Bretagne Sud, Vannes) Damien GENTHIAL (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble) *** COMITE DE PROGRAMME *** R. Andre-Obrecht (IRIT, Toulouse) P. Bouillon (ISSCO, Geneve) J. Caelen (CLIPS, Grenoble) M. El Beze (LIA, Avignon) G. Perennou (IRIT, Toulouse) J.M. Pierrel (LORIA, UHP, Nancy) G. Sabah (LIMSI, Orsay) J. Siroux (IRISA, Lannion) J. Vergne (GREYC, Caen) J. Veronis (LPL, Aix-en-Provence) *** SOUMISSIONS *** --- Format des soumissions --- Les articles soumis doivent suivre les modalites de soumission de TALN'99. Ils ne depasseront pas 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, soit environ 3000 mots, figures, exemples et references compris. Il respecteront le style disponible sur le site de TALN'99 a l'URL suivante : (http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/). La langue officielle pour les articles est le frangais. Les articles devront parvenir, sous format electronique exclusivement, aux organisateurs de l'atelier. A savoir : format LaTex Mel : Damien.Genthial at imag.fr format Word (RTF) Mel : Jean-Yves.Antoine at univ-ubs.fr --- Evaluation --- Les communications seront evaluees par trois relecteurs representant necessairement les deux disciplines du TALN et du TALP. La version finale des communication acceptees sera publiee dans les actes de l'atelier. --- Dates importantes --- 24 mars : Date limite de soumission des articles (date maintenue n'abusez pas trop de notre souplesse, merci !) 28 Avril : Notification 15 mai : Version finale ======================================================= Jean-Yves ANTOINE - MCF info - Laboratoire VALORIA Redacteur en chef revue In Cognito (http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/RESEAUX/incognito/revue/infoinco.html) Organisateur atelier TALN99 (http://web.iu-vannes.fr/public/IUP/recherche/TALN99/atelier.htm) Animateur GT-I3 5.2 : http://web.iu-vannes.fr/public/IUP/recherche/texteI3.html IUP Vannes, r. Yves Mainguy, 56000 Vannes - Tel : 02 97 68 32 10 Mel : Jean-Yves.Antoine at univ-ubs.fr Toile : http://hermes.imag.fr/~antoine ======================================================= From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Thu Mar 25 10:56:38 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:56:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: EMNLP/VLC-99 Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.115638.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 18:47:36 +0800 From: Liu Xiaohu <lxiaohu at cs.ust.hk> Message-ID: <36F77148.138D at cs.ust.hk> Second Call For Papers (EMNLP/VLC-99) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND VERY LARGE CORPORA Sponsored by SIGDAT (ACL's Special Interest Group for Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP) June 21-22, 1999 University of Maryland In conjunction with ACL'99: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics This SIGDAT-sponsored joint conference will continue to provide a forum for new research in corpus-based and/or empirical methods in NLP. In addition to providing a general forum, the theme for this year is "Corpus-based and/or Empirical Methods in NLP for Speech, MT, IR, and other Applied Systems" A large number of systems in automatic speech recognition(ASR) and synthesis, machine translation(MT), information retrieval(IR), optical character recognition(OCR) and handwriting recognition have become commercially available in the last decade. Many of these systems use NLP technologies as an important component. Corpus-based and empirical methods in NLP have been a major trend in recent years. How useful are these techniques when applied to real systems, especially when compared to rule-based methods? Are there any new techniques to be developed in EMNLP and from VLC in order to improve the state-of-the-art of ASR, MT, IR, OCR, and other applied systems? Are there new ways to combine corpus-based and empirical methods with rule-based systems? This two-day conference aims to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the above issues, through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. The goal of the conference is to raise an awareness of what kind of new EMNLP techniques need to be developed in order to bring about the next breakthrough in speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, information retrieval and other applied systems. Scope The conference solicits paper submissions in (and not limited to) the following areas: 1) Original work in one of the following technologies and its relevance to speech, MT, or IR: (a) word sense disambiguation (b) word and term segmentation and extraction (c) alignment (d) bilingual lexicon extraction (e) POS tagging (f) statistical parsing (g) dialog models (h) others (please specify) 2) Proposals of new EMNLP technologies for speech, MT, IR, OCR, or other applied systems (please specify). 3) Comparetive evaluation of the performance of EMNLP technologies in one of the areas in (1) and that of its rule-based or knowledge-based counterpart in a speech, MT, IR, OCR or other applied system. Submission Requirements Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their work. We encourage paper submissions related to the conference theme. In particular, we encourage the authors to include in their papers, proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme. However, there will be a special session in the conference to include corpus-based and/or empirical work in all areas of natural language processing. Submission Format Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Reviewing of papers will not be blind. The submission format and word limit are the same as those for ACL this year. We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX (plus bibstyle and trivial example) or Word style files for the preparation of submissions. Six opies of full-length paper (not to exceed 3200 words exclusive of references) should be received at the following address before or on March 31, 1999. EMNLP/VLC-99 Program Committee c/o Pascale Fung Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Important Dates March 31 Submission of full-length paper April 30 Acceptance notice May 20 Camera-ready paper due June 21-22 Conference date Program Chair Pascale Fung Human Language Technology Center Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: (+852) 2358 8537 Fax: (+852) 2358 1485 Email: pascale at ee.ust.hk Program Co-Chair Joe Zhou LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier 9555 Springboro Pike Dayton, OH 45342 USA Email: joez at lexis-nexis.com Program Committee (partial list) Jiang-Shin Chang (Behavior Design Corp.) Ken Church (AT&T Labs--Research) Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University) Marti Hearst (UC-Berkeley) Huang, Changning (Tsinghua University) Pierre Isabelle (Xerox Research Europe) Lillian Lee (Cornell University) David Lewis (AT&T Research) Dan Melamed (West Group) Masaaki Nagata (NTT) Steve Richardson (Microsoft Research) Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs--Research) Andreas Stolcke (SRI) Ralph Weischedel (BBN) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University) From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Thu Mar 25 14:48:02 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:48:02 +0100 Subject: Ecole: ESSLLI99 - deadline early registration Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.154802.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:12:17 +0100 From: ESSLLI 1999 <esslli99 at let.uu.nl> Message-Id: <v04003a06b31e8714885b@[131.211.194.186]> X-url: http://esslli.let.uu.nl/ [Apologies if you receive this message more than once] ************************************************************************** 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 1999 August 9-20, 1999 Utrecht University, The Netherlands DEADLINE EARLY REGISTRATION: April 30 *************************************************************************** The ESSLLI programme offers courses, workshops, and a student session in the areas of: Language Logic Computation Logic & Language Language & Computation Logic & Computation For detailed information on courses, instructors, applications, housing, etc. please visit our web site: http://esslli.let.uu.nl/ Registration fees: STUDENTS: NLG 350 (until April 30) NLG 450 (after April 30) ACADEMIC: NLG 500 (until April 30) NLG 700 (after April 30) INDUSTRIAL: NLG 900 (until April 30) NLG 1200 (after April 30) A limited number of grants is available. Please visit our web site at: http://esslli.let.uu.nl/grants.html For more information contact us at: ESSLLI 99 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Trans 10 3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands E-mail: esslli99 at let.uu.nl Fax: +31-30-2536000 Tel: (secretary) +31-30-2536183 http://esslli.let.uu.nl From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Thu Mar 25 15:27:31 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:27:31 +0100 Subject: R: Mac ou PC ? Conjugueur ? Son ? Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.162731.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> ================================================================ 1/Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:19:03 +0100 (MET) From: fuchs at canoe.ens.fr (Catherine Fuchs) ================================================================ 2/Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:17:39 +0100 (MET) From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> ================================================================ ================================================================ 1/Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:19:03 +0100 (MET) From: fuchs at canoe.ens.fr (Catherine Fuchs) Message-Id: <v01540b04b31db4a2569d@[129.199.1.160]> Pour le conjugueur du français, mon équipe en construit un. Mais il faudrait que j'en sache plus sur les objectifs du demandeur. Catherine FUCHS Directeur de recherche au CNRS ENS 1 rue Maurice Arnoux 92120 Montrouge tél : 01 42 53 75 87 fax : 01 42 53 75 86 e-mail : Catherine.Fuchs at ens.fr ================================================================ 2/Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:17:39 +0100 (MET) From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> Message-Id: <v03102816b31edc258c48@[129.88.32.65]> X-url: http://www-clips.imag.fr/geta/christian.boitet Pour le son voir (au moins!) Prof. Eric Keller Laboratoire d'analyse informatique de la parole (LAIP) Lettres, Universite de Lausanne BFSH2, Room 4082 CH-1015 LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND Tél. +41 21 692 3020, Fax: +41 21 692 3045 ekeller at eliot.unil.ch Pr. Michel Divay IUT de Lannion Tél: 03-9648.5765 Université de Rennes 1 Fax: 03-9648.5797 BP 150 Mel: divay at iut-lannion.fr 22302 Lannion cedex Joseph Mariani / Françoise Néel LIMSI-CNRS BP133 Tel: +33-1-69 85 80 85 91403 Orsay Cedex Fax: +33-1-69 85 80 88 France Courrier-E: mariani at limsi.fr, neel at limsi.fr Pour les conjugueurs voir (au moins!) John Chandioux Experts-Conseils Inc. 1253 av. Mac Gill College tel: +1-514-877-4201 bureau 450 fax: +1-514-877-9890 Montre'al, Que'bec H3B 2Y5 Canada (27/12/95) Damien.Genthial Cél: Damien.Genthial at imag.fr TRILAN, CLIPS, IMAG-Campus, BP 53 | IUT de Valence F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 | 51, Rue B. de Laffemas, BP 2123 France | 26901 Valence Cedex Tel:+33-7651.4915 | Tel:+33-7543.7254 Fax:+33-7644.6675 | Fax:+33-7542.1872 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Boitet (Pr. Universite' Joseph Fourier) Tel: +33.4-7651-4355/4817 GETA, CLIPS, IMAG-campus, BP53 Fax: +33.4-7651-4405 385, rue de la Bibliothe`que Mel: Christian.Boitet at imag.fr 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Mobile: +33-(0)6-6005-1969 http://www-clips.imag.fr/geta/christian.boitet From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 26 17:07:29 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:07:29 +0100 Subject: Appel: INTEX Second Workshop Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.180729.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:52:33 +0100 From: "Max Silberztein" <silberz at ladl.jussieu.fr> Message-Id: <000101be76e8$42abd400$371e9d86 at DELL.univ-fcomte.fr> ************************************************************************ Second Workshop of INTEX users June, 7th and 8th, 1999 LADL, Université Paris 7 GRELIS, Université de Franche-Comté ************************************************************************ INTEX is a development environment that allows linguists to describe natural languages, starting from their alphabet and morphology to the syntactic level. INTEX provides tools to: -- edit/maintain large-coverage dictionaries of simple and compound words; -- describe the inflectional and derivational morphology of a language; -- edit/maintain large libraries of finite state grammars; -- apply these dictionaries and grammars to large texts in real time in order to parse them, refine/debug the linguistic description, retrieve information and compute statistical results, etc. Large-coverage dictionaries for INTEX are already available for English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. Bulgarian, Korean, Thai and Old French descriptions are currently under way. INTEX is used as a research tool by laboratories interested in corpus linguistics and literature studies, as well as a pedagogical tool to teach computational linguistics and French as a second language. The second Workshop of INTEX users will take place on June, 7th and 8th at: LADL, Université Paris 7, 2, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris Central Tower, 7th floor These two days will give INTEX users the opportunity to meet colleagues and confront their experience as researchers, teachers and developers. We invite INTEX users and more generally, people interested in the application of large-coverage, handcrafted lexical resources for NLP to present their work; we will organize two intensive training sessions for INTEX users and developers. ======================================================================= FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================= Send your submission (Title + 1 page Abstract) to: INTEX Second Workshop LADL, Université Paris 7, 2, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris The schedule for paper submissions: SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 30, 1999 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: May 15, 1999 ========================================================================== REGISTRATION FOR THE TUTORIALS ========================================================================== Two 3-Hour tutorials will take place on the 8th of June: 1) (INTEX users) Finite State Transducers, Applications to Texts, Construction of Dictionaries, Construction of Local Grammars, Disambiguation with INTEX, Syntactic Parsing 2) (Developers) INTEX commands, File formats, INTEX adaptation to other applications People interested by these tutorials are invited to subscribe as soon as possible. For any Information: Cedrick Fairon (fairon at ladl.jussieu.fr) University of Paris 7, Laboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL) 2, place Jussieu (Tour centrale 9eme etage), 75221 Paris Cedex tel. : 44 27 56 92, fax : 44 27 68 51 From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 26 17:12:28 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:12:28 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL'99 Call for Demos Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.181228.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 99 19:42:05 EST From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Message-Id: <CMM-RU.1.5.922408925.rasmusse at athos.rutgers.edu> X-url: http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/traum/ACLDemo/acl99demo.html Call for Proposals: ACL-99 Software Demonstrations Program [You may find it easier to read this information on the Web at http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/traum/ACLDemo/acl99demo.html] Demonstations Chair: David Traum UMIACS, University of Maryland traum at cs.umd.edu Call The ACL '99 Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program for ACL '99, to be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, June 20--26, 1999. This program is primarily to encourage the early exhibition of research prototypes, but interesting mature systems are also eligible (commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstration program, and should be arranged as part of the ACL-99 Exhibit Program). Areas of Interest We would like to encourage the submission of proposals for demonstrations of software related to any areas of computational linguistics. reas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural language processing systems, including - Dialogue systems and interfaces - Machine translation systems and translation aids - Message and narrative understanding systems. - Language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction systems * Application systems using embedded language technology components * Reusable components (parsers, generators, speech recognizers,...) * Software tools for facilitating computational linguistics research * Software for demonstrating or evaluating computational linguistics research * Aids for teaching computational linguistics concepts Format for Submission Demo Proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be sent to the Demo Chair (electronic submissions preferred). * An abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated, not to exceed two pages, including title, authors, full contact information, references and acknowledgements. * A detailed description of hardware and software requirements expected to be provided by the local organizer. Demonstrators are encouraged to be flexible in their requirements (possibly with different demos for different logistical situations). Please state what you can bring yourself and what you absolutely must have provided. We will do our best to provide equipment and resources but nothing can be guaranteed at this point beyond space and power. Please contact the demo chair at one of the addresses below for any specific questions. * A "Script Outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying narrative, and either a web address for accessing the demo or visual aids (e.g., screen-shots, snapshots, or sketches). No more than 6 pages, total. Submissions Procedure Proposals should be submitted as soon as possible, but before April 20th, to the ACL-99 Demonstrations Chair. Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to: David R. Traum UMIACS, A. V. Williams Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 USA traum at cs.umd.edu phone: +1 (301) 405-1139 fax: +1 (301) 405-6707 Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to computational linguistics, innovation, scientific contribution, presentation, and user friendliness, as well as potential logistical constraints. Other Details Further details on the timing and format for the demonstrations sessions will be determined and provided at a later date. We anticipate charging a $40 fee for presenting demos, to help defray costs. Important Dates Submission Deadline for Demo Proposal: 20 April 1999 Notification : 15 May 1999 Conference Dates: 23-26 June 1999 From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 26 17:16:14 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:16:14 +0100 Subject: Appel: Extension of Deadline of EMNLP/VLC-99 Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.181614.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:03:45 +0800 From: Liu Xiaohu <lxiaohu at cs.ust.hk> Message-ID: <36FAF911.5B4448D3 at cs.ust.hk> X-url: http://www.ee.ust.hk/~pascale/emnlpwvlc99.html Dear authors, Since some people have asked for an extension of deadline, we have decided to grant it to everyone, in order to be fair. Please note that the deadline for EMNLP/VLC-99 submission has been changed to Monday April 5th, 1999. All papers , in hardcoyp, should reach the Hong Kong address on or before that date. No further deadline extension will be granted. Please note that the style files can be downloaded from the ACL99 web site (http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99). No paper ID is required, please leave it blank in your submissions. Thank you ================================================= Final Call For Papers (http://www.ee.ust.hk/~pascale/emnlpwvlc99.html) (EMNLP/VLC-99) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND VERY LARGE CORPORA Sponsored by SIGDAT(http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html) (ACL's Special Interest Group for Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP) June 21-22, 1999 University of Maryland In conjunction with ACL'99: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (http://mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99/) This SIGDAT-sponsored joint conference will continue to provide a forum for new research in corpus-based and/or empirical methods in NLP. In addition to providing a general forum, the theme for this year is "Corpus-based and/or Empirical Methods in NLP for Speech, MT, IR, and other Applied Systems" A large number of systems in automatic speech recognition(ASR) and synthesis, machine translation(MT), information retrieval(IR), optical character recognition(OCR) and handwriting recognition have become commercially available in the last decade. Many of these systems use NLP technologies as an important component. Corpus-based and empirical methods in NLP have been a major trend in recent years. How useful are these techniques when applied to real systems, especially when compared to rule-based methods? Are there any new techniques to be developed in EMNLP and from VLC in order to improve the state-of-the-art of ASR, MT, IR, OCR, and other applied systems? Are there new ways to combine corpus-based and empirical methods with rule-based systems? This two-day conference aims to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the above issues, through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. The goal of the conference is to raise an awareness of what kind of new EMNLP techniques need to be developed in order to bring about the next breakthrough in speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, information retrieval and other applied systems. Scope The conference solicits paper submissions in (and not limited to) the following areas: 1) Original work in one of the following technologies and its relevance to speech, MT, or IR: (a) word sense disambiguation (b) word and term segmentation and extraction (c) alignment (d) bilingual lexicon extraction (e) POS tagging (f) statistical parsing (g) dialog models (h) others (please specify) 2) Proposals of new EMNLP technologies for speech, MT, IR, OCR, or other applied systems (please specify). 3) Comparetive evaluation of the performance of EMNLP technologies in one of the areas in (1) and that of its rule-based or knowledge-based counterpart in a speech, MT, IR, OCR or other applied system. Submission Requirements Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their work. We encourage paper submissions related to the conference theme. In particular, we encourage the authors to include in their papers, proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme. However, there will be a special session in the conference to include corpus-based and/or empirical work in all areas of natural language processing. Submission Format Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Reviewing of papers will not be blind. The submission format and word limit are the same as those for ACL this year. We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX (http://www.mri.mq.au/conf/acl99/style/aclsub.sty) (plus bibstyle(http://www.mri.mq.au/conf/acl99/style/acl.bst) and trivial example(http://www.mri.mq.au/conf/acl99/style/acl99sample-sub.tex)) or Word style (http://www.mri.mq.au/conf/acl99/style/aclsub.doc) files for the preparation of submissions. Paper ID is not required. Please leave it blank. Six opies of full-length paper (not to exceed 3200 words exclusive of references) should be received at the following address before or on March 31, 1999. EMNLP/VLC-99 Program Committee c/o Pascale Fung Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Important Dates March 31 Submission of full-length paper April 30 Acceptance notice May 20 Camera-ready paper due June 21-22 Conference date Program Chair Pascale Fung (http://www.ee.ust.hk/~pascale/) Human Language Technology Center Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: (+852) 2358 8537 Fax: (+852) 2358 1485 Email: pascale at ee.ust.hk Program Co-Chair Joe Zhou LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier 9555 Springboro Pike Dayton, OH 45342 USA Email: joez at lexis-nexis.com Program Committee Jiang-Shin Chang (Behavior Design Corp.) Ken Church (AT&T Labs--Research) Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University) Marti Hearst (UC-Berkeley) Huang, Changning (Tsinghua University) Pierre Isabelle (Xerox Research Europe) Lillian Lee (Cornell University) David Lewis (AT&T Research) Dan Melamed (West Group) Mehryar Mohri (AT&T Labs--Research) Masaaki Nagata (NTT) Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs--Research) Andreas Stolcke (SRI) Ralph Weischedel (BBN) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University) From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 26 17:28:05 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:28:05 +0100 Subject: Livre: New series in Natural Language Processing Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.182805.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:04:20 +0000 From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> Message-Id: <4.1.19990326130056.00abb7e0 at mail.wlv.ac.uk> X-url: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/NLP_series.htm X-url: http://www.benjamins.nl/jbp/index.html Apologies for multiple copies! New series in Natural Language Processing Call for Proposals John Benjamins Publishers is launching a new book series on Natural Language Processing as a timely response to the growing demand for NLP literature. Three general types of books will be published: Monographs - featuring (i) original leading edge research or (ii) surveys of the state-of-the art of specific NL tasks or applications. Collections (i) books focusing on a particular NLP area (e.g. emerging from successful NLP workshops or as a result of editors' calls for papers) or (ii) books which include papers covering a wide range of topics (e.g. emerging from competitive NLP conferences or as a result of proposals for books of the type “Reading In NLP”). Course books (i) general NLP course books or (ii) course books on a particular key area of NLP (e.g. Speech Processing, Computational Syntax/Parsing). Authors will be encouraged to append supplementary materials such as demonstration programs, NLP software, corpora etc. and to indicate web-sites, computational language resources etc. where appropriate. This call invites proposals from potential authors of the types of books described above. Topics The scope of the new series will be maximally comprehensive ranging from theoretical Computational Linguistics topics (Computational Syntax, Computational Semantics etc.) to highly practical Language Technology topics (speech recognition, information extraction, information retrieval etc.). The new series will cover both written language and speech; it will welcome works covering (but not limited to) areas such as: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, text understanding and generation, machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools, corpus-based language processing; written and spoken natural language interfaces, knowledge acquisition, information extraction, text summarisation, text classification, computer-aided language learning, language resources. New results in NLP based on modern alternative theories and methodologies as opposed to the mainstream techniques of symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connections as well as hybrid and multimedia approaches, will be also welcome. The series will pay special attention to current “hot topics” such as multilingual NLP, evaluation and speech. Editor/Advisory board The new series' editor is Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) and the advisory board of the series includes: - Christian Boitet (University of Grenoble) - John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton) - Eugene Charniak (Brown University, Providence) - Ed Hovy (Information Sciences Institute, USC) - Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal) - Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University) - Carlos Martin-Vide (Rovira i Virgili Un., Tarragona) - Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co. & Univ. of Edinburgh) - John Nerbonne (University of Groningen) - Nicolas Nicolov (University of Sussex, Brighton) - Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University) - Allan Ramsey (UMIST, Manchester) - Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille) - Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park) - Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei) - Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon) - Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong) - Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo) - Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill) - Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) The managing editor at John Benjamins is Kees Vaes (Email kees.vaes at benjamins.nl). Submission of proposals Interested authors should submit proposals by email (plain text or postscript files) to the series editor: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov School of Languages and European Studies University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom Telephone (44-1902) 322471 Fax (44-1902) 322739 Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk The proposals should include an outline of the book (1-2 pages), a preliminary table of contents, the target readership, related publications, how the book will differ from other similar books in the area (if applicable), time-scale and information about the prospective author (relevant experience in the field, publications etc.). Each proposal will be reviewed by members of the advisory board or additional reviewers. More information More information on the new series will be available in due course at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/NLP_series.htm Information on the new series is also available at John Benjamins' web site http://www.benjamins.nl/jbp/index.html (new projects). From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 26 17:31:20 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:31:20 +0100 Subject: R: Conjugueur ? Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.183120.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> ================================================================ 1/Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:43:59 -0500 From: Lyne Da Sylva <ldasylva at machinasapiens.com> ================================================================ 2/Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 08:44:14 +0100 From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at lpl.univ-aix.fr> ================================================================ ================================================================ 1/Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:43:59 -0500 From: Lyne Da Sylva <ldasylva at machinasapiens.com> Message-Id: <v03102800b3204fa31137@[192.168.101.92]> Machina Sapiens dispose d'une librairie de fonctions de correction, dont un conjugateur, accessibles via un API pour Mac, Windows et Linux. Elles sont extraites de leur produit vedette Le Correcteur 101. Contact Moussa Dieng Les Logiciels Machina Sapiens inc. 3535, chemin de la Reine-Marie, bureau 420, Montréal (Québec) H3V 1H8 Téléphone : (514) 733-1095 Télécopieur : (514) 733-2774 mdieng at machinasapiens.com ================================================================ 2/Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 08:44:14 +0100 From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at lpl.univ-aix.fr> Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990326084414.007a7280 at pop3.lpl.univ-aix.fr> Des conjugueurs existent dans des programmes tels que Cordial (http://www.synapse-fr.com/), dont j'avais déjà signalé la version université qui permet l'étiquetage grammatical. Il y a aussi le CD-ROM du Robert, divers programmes d'EAO (par exemple le CD "Conjugaison française" chez Sybex). Mais, évidemment, ces conjugueurs sont "empaquetés" dans les logiciels hôtes et ne peuvent pas être utilisés indépendamment (et surtout intégrés dans d'autres applications). Une petite remarque, tout de même, à l'attention de notre communauté: j'ai un document Euratom du tout début de années soixante, qui donne un algorithme complet de conjugaison des verbes français (ainsi que du reste de la morphologie flexionnelle, d'ailleurs). La technologie (au demeurant assez simple) est donc maîtrisée depuis longtemps. Près de quarante ans plus tard nous n'avons toujours pas un conjugueur standard et largement disponible, et de nombreuses équipes (dont la mienne) réécrivent périodiquement des conjugueurs et autres morphologiseurs... (cela fournit d'ailleurs des projets bien commodes pour nos étudiants). Cela ne devrait-il pas nous faire réfléchir à nos modes de fonctionnement? Quelques sites: http://members.xoom.com/francianne/conjugue.html http://www.sit.ulaval.ca/logi/conjugue/conjugue.htm http://rousseau.utsa.edu/french_class/verbs/Default.htm et bien sûr http://www-ceril.univ-mlv.fr/dyn/Conjugaison (un site français tout de même!). Jean Véronis Professeur de Linguistique et Informatique Université de Provence From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Sat Mar 27 17:13:00 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:13:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: FASSBL3 Conference - Plovdiv'99 Message-ID: <SAT.27.MAR.1999.181300.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 14:54:23 +0200 From: Dinko Georgiev <dinko at ulcc.uni-plovdiv.bg> Message-Id: <36FCD4FE.11B331E2 at ulcc.uni-plovdiv.bg> X-url: http://wglit.uni-plovdiv.bg/fassbl3 Dear Colleagues, It's announced the Third Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages Plovdiv, 24 - 26 September, 1999 The conference will be hosted by the Linguistics and Slavic Languages Department at the University of Plovdiv. Visit the site of thy conference for details: http://wglit.uni-plovdiv.bg/fassbl3 Regards, Dinko Georgiev mailto:dinko at uni-plovdiv.bg From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Mon Mar 29 07:43:25 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:43:25 +0100 Subject: Q: Controlled Language tools Message-ID: <MON.29.MAR.1999.084325.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:46:44 +0200 From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr> Message-Id: <4.0.1.19990327175525.00e02c10 at 192.168.1.1> X-url: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html I am forwarding this message to a few lists for Guy Hazell. Please contact him directly at <Guy.Hazell at asml.nl> for more details regarding his needs for the development of controlled language tools. Best, Jeff Allen Sender: Guy.Hazell at asml.nl Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:55:12 +0100 From: Guy Hazell <guy.hazell at asml.nl> Organization: ASML Subject: Tools Hello everybody, I have recently created a controlled language for my company. As a part of the further development in the use of this language within the company I am looking into the availability of tools for using the language. We are operating on the unix platform and using Framemaker as our main production tool. What I am looking for is an existing tool, or a company that may be able to develop a tool that can be a dictionary/grammar and rule checker on this platform. Has anybody any knowledge that could help me. Thanks. Guy Hazell <guy.hazell at asml.nl> ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Européenne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Mon Mar 29 15:22:37 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:22:37 +0200 Subject: R: Conjugueur ? Message-ID: <MON.29.MAR.1999.172237.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:10:28 +0200 From: "dominique dutoit" <memodata at wanadoo.fr> Message-ID: <01be79d4$c6a0b0c0$0100007f at localhost> X-url: http://www.memodata.com Bonjour, Pour ce qui est de la recherche de conjugueur, pourriez-vous ajouter que MEMODATA peut fournir, dans le contexte de certaines collaborations : - conjugaison et lemmatisation des verbes - flexion des noms et adjectifs (et lemmatisation) ---> l'ensemble pour les mots simples et pour les expressions composées Les données sont disponibles avec les modèles et les algorithmes. Les algorithmes implémentés sont disponibles au format DLL (télécharcher Dicologique 92 sur www.memodata.com par exemple), en code source C ou delphi ou java. Enfin, pour Java, ces unités appartiennent à un package Dictionary du Sémiographe. Bien cordialement. __________________________________________________________________________ NEW! Find on our web site "http://www.memodata.com" games, dictionaries, electronic books and semantics... Dominique Dutoit MEMODATA Tel: (33)02.31.35.75.21 Language Dpt fax: (33)02.31.35.75.28 17 rue Dumont d'Urville Mail :dutoit at info.unicaen.fr 14000 CAEN The INTEGRAL DICTIONARYtm DICOLOGICtm : the largest world model for linguistic computing and semantic analysis. Computational semantic with the SEMIOGRAPHtm for five languages (French, English, German, Italian, Spanish) Semantic modelization with LEXIDIOMtm. From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Mar 30 11:23:32 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:23:32 +0200 Subject: Conf: LFG99 program Message-ID: <TUE.30.MAR.1999.132332.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:12:25 PST From: Tracy Holloway King <thking at parc.xerox.com> Message-ID: <99Mar29.121225pdt."791801"@pargram.parc.xerox.com> X-url: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/ LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR ANNUAL MEETING LFG99 19-21 July, 1999 Manchester University URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/ Enquiries: LFG99 at man.ac.uk MONDAY JULY 19 9.00-9.45 Peter AUSTIN Argument Coding and Clause Linkage in Australian Aboriginal Languages 9.45-10.30 Farrell ACKERMAN Telic Object as a Proto-Patient Property of Lexical Predicates 10.30-11.15 Anna SIEWIERSKA Reduced Pronominals and Argument Prominence 11.15-11.45 BREAK 11.45-12.30 Yukiko MORIMOTO Information Packaging and Argument Reversal: An Optimality Theoretic Account of English Locative Inversion 12.30-1.15 Lunella MEREU On the Grammatical Realization of Discourse Functions in Somali 1.15-2.45 LUNCH 2.45-4.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 1 Organizer: Victoria ROSEN 4.15-4.45 BREAK 4.45-6.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 2 TUESDAY JULY 20 9.00-9.45 Tara MOHANAN and KP MOHANAN Two Forms of BE in Malayalam 9.45-10.30 Devyani SHARMA Nominal Clitics and Constructive Morphology in Hindi 10.30-11.00 BREAK 11.00-11.45 Jonas KUHN Towards a Simple Architecture for the Structure-function Mapping 11.45-12.30 Josef VAN GENABITH and Andy WAY Semi-Automatic Generation of F-Structures from Treebanks 12.30-2.00 LUNCH 2.00-3.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American Languages - part 1 Organizer: George Aaron Broadwell 3.30-4.00 BREAK 4.00-5.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American Languages - part 2 5.30-6.30 BUSINESS MEETING WEDNESDAY JULY 21 9.00-9.45 Kersti BORJARS, Erika CHISARIK, and John PAYNE On the Justification for Functional Categories in LFG 9.45-10.30 Christoph SCHWARZE Inflectional Classes in Lexical Functional Morphology -- Latin -sk- and its Evolution 10.30-11.00 BREAK 11.00-11.45 Kenji YOKOTA Light Verb Constructions in Japanese and Functional Uncertainty 11.45-12.30 Nikolas GISBORNE English Light Verbs and the (Non)necessity of Argument Structure 12.30-2.00 LUNCH 2.00-2.45 Judith BERMAN Does German Satisfy the Subject Condition? 2.45-3.30 Hanjung LEE The Domain of Grammatical Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar 3.30-4.00 BREAK 4.00-4.45 John FRY Resource-logical Event Semantics for LFG 4.45-5.30 Anette FRANK Towards Optimal Linking 5.30-6.00 CLOSING REMARKS ALTERNATES Tibor LACZKO The Anatomy of a Jolly-JokER -- A Comprehensive Analysis of a Multi-Functional Deverbal Morpheme in Hungarian Louisa SADLER Non-Distributive Features and Coordination in Welsh From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 31 15:11:48 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:11:48 +0200 Subject: Appel: MT Summit VII Workshop Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.171148.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 20:55:33 +0900 From: "Megumi Kiya" <aamt0002 at infotokyo.ne.jp> Message-Id: <01be7aa4$376bf600$0100007f at localhost> ---------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval ---------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The goal of this workshop is to explore the role of MT in the context of CLIR. Undoubtedly searching, extracting and summarising information from the Web is a major challenge demanding multilingual solutions. Despite the fact that currently much textual WWW information is in English, the situation is radically changing. In addition, there is an increased amount of users who would prefer to use sites and/or query in their native language. There are different strategies for CLIR involving document translation, query translation, use of dictionaries. The adoption of a strategy depends on the user profile, the level of user interaction intended in the search process, the targeted use of the documents retrieved and the availability of linguistic resources, among others. We invite papers on topics which link advances in Machine Translation or related technologies to CLIR. Are existing MT solutions sufficient for the information access demands of today? What type of MT linguistic analysis would be useful for CLIR? How can we identify the proper translations of query terms? How can we improve on existing techniques to improve precision and recall? A non-exhaustive list, which should serve as a starting point, follows: * Issues in query translation and query expansion * Alignment techniques for dictionary building * Level and type of linguistic MT analysis for CLIR (shallow, chunking, ...) * Type of multilingual resources (corpora, dictionaries, terminologies) used in CLIR * Role of terminology and ontologies in CLIR * Translation Memories in CLIR * Translation of index terms and descriptors * CLIR involving Asian languages (problems and challenges) Participation and Submission of Papers Participation is limited to 30 persons. Participants will be selected by the organizing committee, based on submitted papers. Participants will be expected to contribute to the workshop by either presenting a talk or taking part in the discussions. Researchers interested in participating in the workshop are invited to submit long abstracts (up to three pages) on the listed research topics. Submissions may be sent by e-mail (PostScript files) or as hardcopies (in triplicate) to the workshop organiser. In the case where you use non-Roman fonts, hardcopies are preferred. The submissions will be reviewed and the accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Participants selected for giving a talk, will have to submit a full paper (up to 8 pages) for the workshop proceedings. For more information about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Organiser. Important Dates Abstracts due by: May 31, 1999. Notification of acceptance: June 30, 1999. Camera-ready version of Final Paper due: August 2, 1999. Main MT Summit: September 13-17, 1999. Date of the Workshop: September 17,1999 Organising Committee * Sophia Ananiadou, European Media Lab, Germany * Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI, France * Yoshihiko Hayashi, NTT Cyberspace Labs, Japan * Mun Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore * Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea * Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Workshop Organiser Please send abstracts / papers to: Sophia Ananiadou European Media Lab (EML) Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 D-69118 Heidelberg Germany Fax: +49-6221-533-298 Email: Sophia.Ananiadou at eml.villa-bosch.org From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 31 15:54:23 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:54:23 +0200 Subject: Revue: The Journal of Language and Computation Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.175423.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:11:47 +0000 From: Odinaldo Rodrigues <rodrigu at dcs.kcl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <199903301751.JAA05364 at Turing.Stanford.EDU> X-url: http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/journals/jlac Dear All, This message is being sent to several lists. Apologies if you receive multiple copies. We are pleased to announce the launch of a new journal: The Journal of Language and Computation (L&C), http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/journals/jlac. L&C is an independent journal devoted to the publication of high level research papers on issues in the interface of logic, linguistics, formal grammar, and computational linguistics. It is available electronically for free from its web site at King's College, London. The articles are available in a number of different formats, including DVI, postscript and portable document format (PDF). L&C fills an important need for a journal devoted specifically to work in the emerging field of formal and computational grammar. It is committed to rapid publication of research. As an independent electronic journal, it is free of the commercial and space constraints which restrict printed journals. The same conventions which govern publication in printed journals apply to L&C, except that authors retain the copyright of their papers. All articles will be carefully refereed. A condition for acceptance in L&C is that an author agrees that he/she will not publish his/her paper elsewhere, except with acknowledgment of its original publication in L&C. At the end of our first year of publication, we will consider the possibility of distributing a hard copy of the first volume of the journal (distributed by Oxford University Press) to libraries and subscribers. The decision on whether to produce a hard copy version of the volume will depend upon availability of the necessary resources. To obtain more information, or check the first issue, please visit the web site of L&C: http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/journals/jlac Best regards, Odinaldo -- Odinaldo Rodrigues http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/rodrigu Department of Computer Science King's College - Strand London WC2R 2LS From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 31 16:00:52 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:00:52 +0200 Subject: Jobs: Lectureships, King's College, London Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.180052.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:38:35 +0100 From: Lisa Turner <lisa.turner at kcl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <l0313030ab3254e5db7a3@[137.73.70.123]> Details on vacancies for Lecturers in Computational Linguistics follow: HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY LECTURESHIPS We currently have two vacancies for Lectureships in Computational Linguistics for a fixed term for five years. One post will be appointed on the Lecturer A scale and one will be appointed on the Lecturer B scale. The post on Lecturer A scale is in computational linguistics with specialisation in formal and computational approaches to syntax, semantics, and discourse theory. The successful candidate will be able to teach courses and to supervise post graduate/research students in computational syntax and semantics, and in formal discourse theory. The post on Lecturer B scale is in computational linguistics with specialisation in logic and mathematical linguistics. The successful candidate will be able to teach courses and to supervise post graduate/research students in model theory, formal properties of grammar, and complexity theory. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in a relevant subject and demonstrate evidence of high quality research activity in the indicated areas of specialisation. The Lecturer A salary is on scale £18,789 - £23,494 inclusive and Lecturer B salary is £24,860 - £31,182 inclusive. For an application form and further details, please contact School of Humanities - Recruitment, King's College, London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, tel. 0171 873 2423, fax 0171 873 2415 or email: mary.l.collins at kcl.ac.uk The closing date for applications is 16 April 1999. Please indicate which post you are applying for and quote reference A2/AN/20/99 _____________________________ Lisa Turner Departmental Administrator Philosophy Department King's College London WC2R 2LS Tel: 0171 873 2231 Fax: 0171 873 2270 From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 31 16:02:09 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:02:09 +0200 Subject: Appel: EACL'99 Call for Exhibits Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.180209.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 99 18:59:30 EST From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <CMM-RU.1.5.922838370.rasmusse at athos.rutgers.edu> X-url: http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99/sponsor.html EACL '99 Exhibit Bergen, June 8-12, 1999 Call for sponsoring and commercial demonstrations The Ninth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics invites the participation of commercial partners at its Exhibit programme. Participation can be either through an official sponsorship or by hiring an exhibit space. Please consult the following webpage: http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99/sponsor.html Please get in touch with eacl99 at hit.uib.no before April 16, 1999. From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 31 16:02:59 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:02:59 +0200 Subject: Conf: EWNLG Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.180259.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:23:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: Patrick SAINT-DIZIER <stdizier at irit.fr> Message-Id: <199903311023.MAA16705 at chm.irit.fr> EWNLG99 European Workshop on natural language generation ================================================= Toulouse, 13, 14 May 1999 Information, Inscription form programme: www.irit.fr (sous manifestations) ========================================================== Location: Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza 7, place du Capitole 31000 Toulouse France. phone: +33 5 61 61 19 19 fax: +33 5 61 23 79 96 Dates: May 13-14 1999 Accomodation: The hotel Holiday Inn, nicely located near the town hall, in the historical part of Toulouse, stands on the 'Place du Capitole'. A special rate of 530F all taxes included per room + breakfast (buffet) is offered to participants. Please call or fax the hotel to make reservations as soon as possible. This rate being very low, NO BLOCKS of ROOMS have been pre-reserved. Identify yourself as participating to the EWNLG99 meeting, organized by 'Universite Paul Sabatier'. Check that the 530F fare is applied. To avoid additional exchange expenses, you may ask to be billed in EUROs for EEC Euro zone persons. (1 pound is about 9 Francs, 1 dollar is about 6F, 1 Mark is about 3.5 Francs) There are other, cheaper, hotels. A short list is given below. You need to contact them directly, no reduced fare has been negociated, due to the small number of participants. The conference location can be reached by foot from the other hotels. To come from the airport, a taxi is about 130F. There is also a regular bus shuttle 'Aerocar' that leaves the airport every 20mns, and stops at the railway station downtown. Then you can either go on foot to the hotel (20mns) or take the metro, 2 stations, get down at station called 'Capitole'. Bus from airport costs about 30F, takes about 25minutes. Weather is usually warm and sunny at that period. Important note: May being a very busy travelling period in France, reserve your flights as soon as possible to get cheap air fares. If you fly via Paris, don't take the train to go to Toulouse (6 hours + many strikes) prefer flying: Air France has 26 return flights from Paris Orly and 7 return flights from CDG. They are usually on schedule. Inscription fares: 700 French Francs. Since this fare is low, there is no reduced fare for students. They cover the two lunch meals (a big buffet, with hot and cold food), coffee breaks, and a copy of the proceedings. No extra proceedinds will be produced, but probably papers will be on the WEB. 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NAME: ADDRESS: E-MAIL: Dates of arrival / departure from Toulouse I will pay the amount of 700French Francs for my incsription of to the workshop, upon arrival, at the registration desk. ======================================================= PROGRAMME: Consultable a partir du 31/03 sur le site WEB de l'IRIT: www.irit.fr ======================================================== From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 31 16:06:17 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:06:17 +0200 Subject: Appel: CSSP 99 Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.180617.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:42:46 +0200 (CEST) From: cssp99 at linguist.jussieu.fr (CSSP 99) Message-Id: <v01530500b327f4bc7870@[134.157.23.51]> X-url: http://cssp99.linguist.jussieu.fr APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS COLLOQUE DE SYNTAXE ET SEMANTIQUE A PARIS CSSP 99 Université Paris 7 7-9 octobre 1999 Le Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (Université Paris 7 et CNRS, URA 1028) organise le troisième colloque de syntaxe et de sémantique à Paris, CSSP 99. L'un des objectifs de cette série de colloques est de permettre la comparaison d'analyses menées dans des cadres théoriques et formels différents. Les langues du colloque sont le français et l'anglais. Il comprendra deux sessions : Session générale. Session thématique: Structure de la phrase et structure du discours: structure informationnelle, relations de discours et connecteurs. CONFERENCIERS INVITES Nicolas Asher, Sandra Chung, Oswald Ducrot, Tanya Reinhart RESUMES Les propositions de communication (30 mn) sont à envoyer en 9 exemplaires (8 exemplaires anonymes et un exemplaire portant le nom de l'auteur, son affiliation, son adresse postale et son adresse électronique) sous la forme d'un résumé de deux pages à l'adresse suivante : Colloque de syntaxe et sémantique à Paris Université Paris 7, Linguistique, UFRL, Case 7003 Tour Centrale, 9° étage, 2 Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris-Cedex 05, France Ne pas envoyer de résumé par fax ou courrier électronique. Date limite pour la réception des résumés: 20 mai 1999 Avis d'acceptation: 15 juillet 1999 Pour information, contacter: Francis Corblin: corblin at paris7.jussieu.fr email: cssp99 at linguist.jussieu.fr www: http://cssp99.linguist.jussieu.fr COMITE D'ORGANISATION F. Corblin (Rennes 2), C. Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS-Paris 7), D. Godard (CNRS-Lille 3), J.-M. Marandin (Président, CNRS-Paris7). ---------------------------------------------------------- CSSP 99 Universite Paris 7 Linguistique UFRL, Case 7003 2 Place Jussieu 75251 Paris-Cedex 05 France email: cssp99 at linguist.jussieu.fr http://cssp99.linguist.jussieu.fr ---------------------------------------------------------- From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Mar 5 12:20:05 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:20:05 GMT Subject: Appel: ESSLLI'99 Student Session Message-ID: <FRI.5.MAR.1999.122005.GMT.> From: amalia at liia.u-strasbg.fr !!! Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science !!! !!!Please circulate and post among students !!! !!! We apologize if you receive this message more than once. !!! =========================================================================== LAST CALL FOR PAPERS THE ESSLLI'99 STUDENT SESSION August 9-20, 1999, Utrecht, The Netherlands Deadline : March 15th, 1999 http://www-ensais.u-strasbg.fr/LIIA/todirascu/esslli-fr.html We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'99) organized by the University of Utrecht under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FOLLI) and located at the University of Utrecht in August 1999. We will welcome submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI'99 Student Session and appearance in the proceedings. ============================================================================= PURPOSE: This is going to be the fourth ESSLLI Student Session and it will provide, like the other editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own WORK IN PROGRESS and get feedback from their colleagues and fellow-students. It is desired that papers presenting creative and innovative ideas will be submitted. The ESSLLI'99 Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates - before completion of the Master Thesis as well as postgraduates - before completion of the PhD degree. We will not accept papers co-authored by non-students. As in the previous editions, the ESSLLI'99 Student Session will consist of paper presentations. The ESSLLI'99 Student Session has its own timeslot in the school's schedule: 60 minutes every day for two weeks, provided that a sufficient number of good quality papers is accepted. Each presentation will last 30 minutes (including 10 minutes of discussion). ============================================================================= REQUIREMENTS: The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress that demonstrates insight, creativity, and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. Papers will cover topics within the six ESSLLI subject areas (Logic, Linguistics, Computation, Logic&Linguistics, Logic&Computation, Linguistics&Computation). The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI'99 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during ESSLLI'99, together with the readers of the courses. =========================================================================== FORMAT OF SUBMISSION: Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the paper title, not to exceed 5 pages of length exclusive of references and a separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since reviewing will be blind, the body of the abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., " We previously showed (Smith, 1991)... ") should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like " Smith (1991) previously showed...". To identify each paper, a separate identification page should be supplied containing the paper's title, the name(s) of the author(s), the author(s)s'affiliation and complete address(s) a short (5 lines) summary and a specification of the subject area to which the paper belongs. The subject areas considered are: Logic, Linguistics, Computation, Logic&Linguistics, Logic&Computation, and Linguistics & Computation. =========================================================================== MEDIA OF SUBMISSION AND FORMATTING REQUIREMENTS: The student authors should submit their papers electronically to: amalia at liia.u-strasbg.fr amalia at thor.infoiasi.ro For any submission a plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent separately by email, using the following format: Title: <title> Author: <name of the first author> Address: <affiliation and address of first author> ... Author: <name of the last author> Address: <affiliation and address of last author> Short summary (5 lines): <summary> Subject area (one of): Logic | Linguistics | Computation | Logic and Linguistics | Logic and Computation | Linguistics and Computation Please always submit the identification page in a separate message. The submission should be in one of the following formats: - Self-contained Latex source (the most encouraged) - PostScript - ASCII text You can find more information about submission requirements at : http://www-ensais.u-strasbg.fr/LIIA/todirascu/esslli-fr.html ======================================================================== ESSLLI'99 STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION: In order to present a paper at ESSLLI'99 Student Session, every student author has to register as a participant (http://esslli.let.uu.nl/registration.html) at ESSLLI'99. However, authors of accepted papers will be eligible for a reduced registration fee. For all information concerning ESSLLI'99 please consult the ESSLLI'99 web site: http://esslli.let.uu.nl ========================================================================= KLUWER ESSLLI'99 STUDENT SESSION BEST PAPER PRIZE : As in other editions of ESSLLI Summer Schools (1996, 1998), Kluwer Academic Publishers will offer a prize for the Student Session best paper. The prize of 1000 Dfl consists of a free choice of Kluwer books displayed during the school. ========================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for submission: March 15, 1999 Notifications: May 16, 1999 Final version due: June 15, 1999 ESSLLI'99 Student Session: August 9-20, 1999 =========================================================================== PROGRAMME COMMITTEE FOR THE ESSLLI'99 STUDENT SESSION: Chairwoman: Amalia Todirascu (University "Al.I.Cuza" of Iasi and ENSAIS Strasbourg) Area co-chairs: - Language and Computation: Richard Moot (University of Utrecht) - Computation: Dirk Nowotka (Turku Center for Computer Science) - Logic: Quintijn Puite (University of Utrecht) - Language: Esther Kraak (University of Utrecht) - Logic and Computation: Catherine Piliere (UHP-LORIA, Nancy) - Logic and Language: Fabien Reniers (University of Utrecht) If you have specific questions about the student session please do not hesitate to contact the chair. amalia at liia.u-strasbg.fr amalia at thor.infoiasi.ro Computer Science Department University " Al.I.Cuza " of Iasi 16, Berthelot Str. Iasi 6600 Romania and (until 30th April 1999) Laboratoire d'Informatique et d'Intelligence Artificielle Ecole Nationale SupHrieure des Arts et d'Industrie Strasbourg 24, Bd. de la Victoire 67084 Strasbourg Cedex France From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Mar 5 12:20:08 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:20:08 GMT Subject: Appel: MT Summit VII Message-ID: <FRI.5.MAR.1999.122008.GMT.> From: "Megumi Kiya" <aamt0002 at infotokyo.or.jp> ================================================================== MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT VII "MT in the Great Translation Era" September 13-17, 1999, Singapore 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================================== MT Summit VII solicits submissions of research papers, system presentations, and user reports in the broad field of machine translation and natural language processing. Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline (Note: The date has changed since the 1st CFP.) 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline Please see the "Paper Submission" section below for the details. MT Summit VII will also have many invited presentations by researchers, users and policy makers from all parts of the world. Featured Speakers: Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University Jo Lernout, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products nv Toru Nishigaki, University of Tokyo Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University Please see the "Invited Speakers" section below for the details. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Further Information: Please visit our Web-site for up-to-date MT SUMMIT VII information: http://www.krdl.org.sg/mts99 or http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/mts99.html By e-mail, please contact the AAMT secretariat: aamt0002 at infotokyo.or.jp ================================================================== The seventh Machine Translation Summit, organized by the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), will be held at Kent Ridge Digital Labs on the campus of National University of Singapore from 13 to 17 September 1999. Meetings of the MT Summit have been held once every two years since 1987 under the auspices of AAMT, EAMT (European Association for Machine Translation) and AMTA (Association for Machine Translation in the Americas). MT Summit VII, which is the last conference of the 20th century in the premier series of conferences on machine translation, will provide a forum for discussing the prospect of MT and related areas in the coming century. MT Summit VII will feature an expanded program including research papers, reports on users' experiences, discussions of policy issues, invited talks, panels, exhibitions, tutorials, and workshops. AAMT invites all who are interested in any aspect of machine translation - researchers, developers, providers, users, and watchers - to participate in the conference. The schedule of MT Summit VII is outlined as follows: Monday, 13 September: Tutorials Reception Tuesday, 14 September: Main conference Exhibition Wednesday, 15 September: Main conference Exhibition Banquet Thursday, 16 September: Main conference Exhibition Friday, 17 September: Workshops ----------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission MT Summit VII seeks original papers in all aspects of machine translation. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: - Methodologies for MT (rule-based, knowledge-based, analogy-based, statistics-based, etc.) - Practical MT systems (MT for professional translation, MT for the Internet, MT for localization, etc.) - Translation aids (translation memory, terminology databases, etc.) - Speech and dialogue translation - Natural language analysis and generation techniques - Dictionaries and lexicons for MT systems - Text corpora for MT and knowledge extraction from corpora - Human factors in MT and user interfaces - Evaluation techniques - Standards in text and lexicon encoding for MT - Cross-lingual information retrieval - MT and related technologies (information retrieval, text categorization, text summarization, information extraction, etc.) There will be three categories of papers: (1) Research papers: Submissions are invited for reports of significant research results in any aspect of machine translation and related areas. Such reports should include a substantial evaluative component. Papers should be in English, not longer than 5,000 words. (2) System presentations with demos: Submissions are invited for reports on the design, implementation, operation and evaluation of operational and prototype systems. Reports should be in English, not longer than 2,000 words. (3) User studies: Submissions are invited for reports on users' experiences with applying MT to some task, evaluation of MT systems, analysis of MT markets, etc. Reports should be in English, not longer than 5,000 words. All types of papers should be submitted to the address below and must be received by the indicated date. Papers should include a cover page with the following information: - paper title, - author(s)' name(s), affiliation(s), address(es), and e-mail address(es), - 200 word abstract, - for research papers: up to 5 keywords, - for system presentations with demos: the word "System presentation with demo", and the hardware, software and network requirement for the demonstration, - for user studies: the word "User study". Please mail 4 hardcopies of the paper to: MT Summit VII Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT) 3F, Shiba-Koen Sanada Bldg. 3-5-12 Shiba-Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan In addition, please submit an ASCII version of the cover page electronically to: aamt0001 at infotokyo.or.jp Important Dates: 30 April 1999 Paper submission deadline (Note: The date has changed since the 1st CFP.) 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline ----------------------------------------------------------------- Invited Speakers In addition to submitted paper sessions, the conference program will include a keynote speech, invited talks, regional reports, special sessions on selected topics, and panel discussions. Following is a list of invited speakers. Opening session: Representative of Singapore Government Representative of MITI of Japanese Government Keynote speech: Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (President, International Association for Machine Translation) Invited talks: Martin Kay, Xerox PARC and Stanford University, USA Prof. Kay, who has been a leading scientist in computational linguistics and machine translation, will present a technological perspective of MT. Jo Lernout, Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products nv, Belgium Dr. Lernout, one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the field of speech and language, will present an industrial prospect of MT and related technologies. Toru Nishigaki, University of Tokyo, Japan Prof. Nishigaki, who is an interdisciplinary researcher in computer science and sociology, will give an enlightening talk on social implications of MT. Special talk (at Banquet): Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan Prof. Nagao, President of Kyoto University and the founding Presidents of IAMT (The International Association for Machine Translation) and AAMT, who is a pioneer of MT as well as a wide areas of AI, will give a talk at the Banquet which will take place on September 15th, 1999. Survey reports on MT in each area: - Asia Hemant Darbari, Center for Developemnt of Advanced Computing, India Aiping Fu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Hirosato Nomura, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Se-Young Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea - Europe Rose Lockwood, Equipe Consortium Ltd., UK - North America Elliott Macklovitch, Universite de Montreal, Canada Special sessions: ( *) Coordinator) "Controlled Language" Hiroyuki Kaji,*) Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Uus Knops, LANT nv, Belgium Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon University, USA "Localization" Virginia Cha,*) Star+Globe Technologies, Singapore Michael Anobile, Localisation Industry Standard Association, Switzerland Stanley Park, International Transformational Information Corp., Korea "MT and Speech" Key-Sun Choi,*) Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Korea Terminology Research Center for Language and Knowledge Engineering, Korea Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories and SONY Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Japan Gianni Lazzari, Instituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologia, Italy "Multilingual Information Access" Vilas Wuwongse,*) Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Thomas Baker, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Sung H. Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea "MT from the Research Perspective" Dominique Estival,*) University of Melbourne, Australia (TBA) (TBA) "Views from Users" Hirosato Nomura,*) Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (TBA) (TBA) "MT for the Next Century" Jun-ichi Tsujii,*) University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Shin-ichiro Kamei, NEC Corporation, Japan Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Yorick Wilks, Sheffield University, UK (TBA) From MT users (TBA) From MT users Panels: ( *) Moderator) "International Cooperation - From Funding Agencies' Point of View" Antonio Sanfilippo,*) European Commission, Luxembourg Roberto Cencioni, European Commission, Luxembourg (TBC) Lianzhong He, Development and Planning Commission of China, China (TBC) Akira Kubota, MITI, Japan Ronald Larsen, DARPA, USA Gary Strong, NSF, USA "MT Evaluation" Margaret King,*) University of Geneva, Switzerland Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Benjamin K. Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong John White, Litton PRC, USA Yusoff Zaharin, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Closing session: John Hutchins, University of East Anglia, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------- Exhibition Many commercial and research systems, including a speech translation system by C-STAR Consortium (ATR, CMU, etc.), will be demonstrated in exhibit booths throughout the conference. About 30 booths will be prepared for exhibitors. Spaces will be allocated to applicants on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like to exhibit, please contact the Exhibition Coordinator Vicky (e-mail: vicky at krdl.org.sg). ----------------------------------------------------------------- About Singapore Singapore is a vibrant, sophisticated city state of 3 million people offering the best of modern facilities and comforts while retaining her heritage and culture. A progressive, cosmopolitan city, Singapore has the world's best airport - Changi International Airport - and lies at the crossroads of Asia. Known for her food and shopping, Singapore is a thriving nucleus for tourism, trade and finance. The climate in Singapore is tropical all year round with high humidity and temperatures varying between 23 degrees Celsius (74 F) in the evening to 32 degrees Celsius (90 F) during the day. Showers are sporadic and heavy but also brief and refreshing. Light summer clothing may be worn throughout the day. About the Venue Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL) is a national applied research & development organization established in January 1998 through the merger of former national IT institutes - the Information Technology Institute (ITI) and the Institute of Systems Science (ISS). With a diverse team of more than 400 research scientists, KRDL's aim is to be the premier research and development organization in Asia-Pacific for information and networking technologies. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Organization Organizing Committee Honorary Chair: Makoto Nagao, Kyoto University, Japan Chair: Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Vice Chairs$B!'(B Hwee Boon Low, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Executive Committee Chair: Hirokazu Amemiya, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Vice Chair: Hideki Morimoto, Fujitsu Ltd., Japan Local Organizing Committee Chair: Hwee Boon Low, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Secretary: Victorine Chen-Toh, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Program Committee Chair: Jun-ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan, and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK Vice Chair: Loong Cheong Tong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Members: Virginia Cha, Star+Globe Technologies, Singapore Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan ZhaoXiong Chen, Kezhi Co., China Key-Sun Choi, Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Australia Zhendong Dong, Chinese Information Processing Society, China Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne, Australia Changning Huang, Tsinghua University, China Hitoshi Iida, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories and SONY Computer Science Laboratories Inc., Japan Etsuo Ito, Toshiba Corporation, Japan Hiroyuki Kaji, Hitachi, Ltd., Japan Shin-ichiro Kamei, NEC Corporation, Japan Asanee Kawtrakul, Kasetsart University, Thailand Kunio Matsui, Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan Se Young Park, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea Wanchai Rivepiboon, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Trihono Sastrohartono, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, Indonesia Youlwon Seong, Language and Computer, Ltd., Korea Satoshi Shirai, ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Japan Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Chew Lim Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore Benjamin K. Tsou, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Yusoff Zaharin, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia International Advisors: Laurie Gerber, SYSTRAN Software, Inc., USA Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA John Hutchins, University of East Anglia, UK Antonio Sanfilippo, European Commission, Luxembourg From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Mar 5 12:20:10 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:20:10 GMT Subject: Ecole: Language Engineering Message-ID: <FRI.5.MAR.1999.122010.GMT.> From: CRL SSLE <ssle at crl.nmsu.edu> The NMSU Computing Research Laboratory Presents The 1999 Summer School in Language Engineering June 28-July 9 The 1999 Summer School in Language Engineering is designed for the practical computational linguist or natural language processing specialist. The program of the school stresses practical needs of application system builders in such areas as machine translation, information retrieval and extraction and text summarization. It stresses the broad range of multilingual aspects of today's language engineering, from the support for the various writing systems to acquisition of linguistic knowledge for applications to languages that have not yet been widely studied. The summer school is organized by the Computing Research Laboratory (CRL) of New Mexico State University. The instructors, both members of CRL staff and visiting professors, are all leaders in their respective areas of expertise. The school will feature two full weeks of instruction and hands-on practical studies. The number of students in the school will be small, keeping a high instructor-to-student ratio. Registrants will be accepted on a first-come first-served basis. Preregistration and fees must be received no later than June 1. For more information, please visit our web site at: http://crl.nmsu.edu/summerschool Course Descriptions "Ecological" Issues in Language Engineering This course will cover issues related to writing systems, encodings, input and output methods; treatment of punctuation, special characters and symbols, including mark-up; processing of dates and numbers; and a variety of issues connected with managing large multilingual collections of documents featuring different mark-up styles. A number of computational tools will be introduced and used in practical exercises. Approaches to Computational Morphology After a presentation of several approaches to computational morphology, with example systems for such widely different languages as Spanish, Persian, Russian and Turkish, this course will concentrate on the engineering of state-of-the-art morphological analysis and generation systems, especially for languages other than English. Students will get hands-on experience using sophisticated development and testing tools, by building a morphological analyzer. Lexicon Acquisition for NLP I: Morphology and Syntax This course will describe the process of design and acquisition of several types of lexicons for NLP systems: lexicons supporting morphological and syntactic analysis of texts in a language, transfer lexicons for machine translation and multilingual onomastica (lexicons of proper names). A number of acquisition interfaces will be used in practical exercises. Lexicon Acquisition for NLP II: Ontological Semantics This course will present the design and acquisition of static knowledge sources to support analysis of meaning in natural language texts. In particular, it will cover designing and building ontologies, or world models, for NLP and lexicons for the support of semantic analysis of particular languages. Practical exercises will be supported by interactive acquisition interfaces. Knowledge Elicitation from Informants his course will present an environment for eliciting grammatical and lexical knowledge about a language from a user who knows that language and English but is not a trained linguist. This kind of environment is a realistic alternative to experimenting with automatic elicitation of language knowledge. It combines corpus-based, expectation-based and failure-driven acquisition of declarative knowledge about a language and is most useful for the languages for which few computational resources are available. The design of the acquisition process and system will be discussed, and the interface, Boas, will be used in practical exercises. A Survey of Language Engineering Applications This course will introduce language engineering applications such as machine translation, information retrieval and extraction, text summarization and language instruction. The tasks and techniques learned in the other courses will be put in their context and further illustrated. The following systems will be presented and available for laboratory work: the Corelli machine translation environment; the MINDS information retrieval and summarization system, the URSA cross-language information retrieval engine, the Oleada language instruction environment and translator's tool set, the Mikrokosmos machine translation system and the Expedition environment for configuring machine translation systems for low-density languages. http://crl.nmsu.edu/summerschool From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 9 13:59:43 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 13:59:43 GMT Subject: Jobs: 2 Offers Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.135943.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: pvanmeurs at tegic.com Subject: Computational Ling; Tegic Communications 2/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Jobs at LEEDS University ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: pvanmeurs at tegic.com Subject: Computational Ling; Tegic Communications Tegic Communications (http://www.tegic.com) is looking for a computational linguist. Description: The computational linguist will be responsible for research and development to support Tegic's text input system in a variety of languages If you are interested in working in the fast paced, exciting area of research and development of commercial software at the "cutting edge" of technology, then this is a job which will provide you with such opportunities. Tegic offers many additional benefits, including health insurance, dental, 401K plan, and (privately held) stock options. The company is located in Seattle, Washington. Required: Degree in computational linguistics with emphasis on lexicography and morphological analyzers Experience with research in computational linguistics Experience with development of commercial software products Strong programming skills Desired: Familiarity with a large number of languages (preferably Eastern European/Semitic/Asian) Familiarity with the analysis of large corpora 5+ years of experience in the field of computational linguistics Active participation in the community of computational linguistics Familiarity with C/C++, Perl, Windows NT operating system, compression algorithms helpful Background: Tegic Communications (http:/www.tegic.com) is a fast growing company which offers very competitive salaries. Tegic Communications, has developed software which allows users to enter text on wireless devices such as wireless phones or pagers in a fast and efficient manner. We have been very successful in securing licenses with most of the major cell phone manufacturers and many of the smaller companies. Unlike the "multi-tap' method in which the user has to tap the "2-ABC"-key three times to get a "c" for instance, the user can just hit the "2-ABC" key once. The software will determine which word the user is likely to be typing. In order for this to work in a variety of languages we require an understanding of how people actually use the language. For this we have developed an extensive suite of tools to analyze large amounts of text corpora. The contributions a computational linguist could make here are numerous. We are dealing with issues of corpus selection, corpus classification, performance analysis, morphological analysis and generation, word compounding, syntactical analysis, text segmentation and many more. We are offering an opportunity for the computational linguist to do research in many areas. We are looking for someone who has research experience as well as the ability to identify areas of improvement for our products and deliver a solution, all in a timely manner. We have developed our technology for a dozen languages as well as Chinese (stroke and phonetic based) and Japanese. Each language has its own challenges and we are expanding quickly into many additional languages. We are also looking into expanding into new technologies to broaden our product base. This will require identification of and research into many new opportunities, research for which we need the contributions of a skilled computational linguist. If you have any additional questions please contact me via e-mail. Pim van Meurs Manager Computational Linguistics Linguistic Research and Development Group Tegic Communications 2001 Western Ave Suite 210 Seattle WA 98121 (206) 343-7001 Phone (206) 343-7004 Fax pvanmeurs at tegic.com http://www.tegic.com ______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Jobs at LEEDS University More academic vacancies in a research-led University: Leeds University - SCHOOL OF COMPUTER STUDIES: PERMANENT posts: 2 (possibly 3) LECTURESHIPS (closing date: 26 March 1999) and RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP (closing date: 11 March 1999) in Interdisciplinary Research in Computer Science Also, TEMPORARY posts: 3 Research Fellows/Computational Scientists (1-3 years) Leeds University - SCHOOL OF ENGLISH: 2 LECTURESHIPS (closing date: 12 March 1999) Leeds University and the Ministry of Education Sultanate of Oman In-service B.A. (Honours) TESOL programme PROJECT MANAGER and 10 REGIONAL TUTORS based in Oman (3 years; closing date: end March 1999) We also have several support staff posts, eg: UNIVERSITY COMPUTING SERVICE: COMPUTING OFFICER - Unix Support (18 March) CENTRE FOR VIRTUAL WORKING SYSTEMS: COMPUTER TECHNICIAN (12 March) MOTHER AND INFANT RESEARCH UNIT: Part-time IT COORDINATOR (12 March) For details, email s.m.hartley at registry.leeds.ac.uk For these and other vacancies at Leeds University, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts/ (NB I can tell you what a great place Leeds is to live in, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/intro/city.htm - BUT I can't tell you any more about these jobs - Human Resources have the job descriptions etc.) Eric Atwell, Centre for Computer Analysis of Language And Speech School of Computer Studies, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England EMAIL: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk TEL: (44)113-2335761 FAX: (44)113-2335468 WWW: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/scs/public/staff/eric.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 9 14:00:54 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:00:54 GMT Subject: Appel: ACL Workshops Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.140054.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Below are 1) a new ACL'99 workshop announcement on Unsupervised Learning in NLP, and 2) a slightly revised announcement for the joint EMNLP and WVLC ACL'99 workshop. These are separated by asterisks (*). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ACL-99 Workshop Unsupervised Learning in Natural Language Processing University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA June 21st, 1999 http://www.ai.sri.com/~kehler/unsup-acl-99.html Endorsed by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning (SIGNLL) WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Many of the successes achieved from using learning techniques in natural language processing (NLP) have utilized the supervised paradigm, in which models are trained from data annotated with the target concepts to be learned. For instance, the target concepts in language modeling for speech recognition are words, and thus raw text corpora suffice. The first successful part-of-speech taggers were made possible by the existence of the Brown corpus (Francis, 1964), a million-word data set which was laboriously hand-tagged a quarter of a century prior. Finally, progress in statistical parsing required the development of the Penn Treebank data set (Marcus et al. 1993), the result of many staff years of effort. While it is worthwhile to utilize annotated data when it is available, the future success of learning for natural language systems cannot depend on a paradigm requiring that large, annotated data sets be created for each new problem or application. The costs of annotation are prohibitively time and expertise intensive, and the resulting corpora are too susceptible to restriction to a particular domain, application, or genre. Thus, long-term progress in NLP is likely to be dependent on the use of unsupervised and weakly supervised learning techniques, which do not require large annotated data sets. Unsupervised learning utilizes raw, unannotated data to discover underlying structure giving rise to emergent patterns and principles. Weakly supervised learning uses supervised learning on small, annotated data sets to seed unsupervised learning using much larger, unannotated data sets. Because these techniques are capable of identifying new and unanticipated correlations in data, they have the additional advantage of being able to feed new insights back into more traditional lines of basic research. Unsupervised and weakly supervised methods have been used successfully in several areas of NLP, including acquiring verb subcategorization frames (Brent, 1993; Manning, 1993), part-of-speech tagging (Brill, 1997), word sense disambiguation (Yarowsky, 1995), and prepositional phrase attachment (Ratnaparkhi, 1998). The goal of this workshop is to discuss, promote, and present new research results (positive and negative) in the use of such methods in NLP. We encourage submissions on work applying learning to any area of language interpretation or production in which the training data does not come fully annotated with the target concepts to be learned, including: * Fully unsupervised algorithms * `Weakly supervised' learning, bootstrapping models from small sets of annotated data * `Indirectly supervised' learning, in which end-to-end task evaluation drives learning in an embedded language interpretation module * Exploratory data analysis techniques applied to linguistic data * Unsupervised adaptation of existing models in changing environments * Quantitative and qualitative comparisons of results obtained with supervised and unsupervised learning approaches Position papers on the pros and cons of supervised vs. unsupervised learning will also be considered. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions can take the form of extended abstracts or full papers, not to exceed six (6) pages. Authors of extended abstracts should note the short timespan between notification of acceptance and the final paper deadline. Up to two more pages may be allocated for the final paper depending on space constraints. Authors are requested to submit one electronic version of their papers *or* four hardcopies. Please submit hardcopies only if electronic submission is impossible. Submissions in Postscript or PDF format are strongly preferred. If possible, please conform with the traditional two-column ACL Proceedings format. Style files can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.cs.columbia.edu/acl-l/Styfiles/Proceedings/. Email submissions should be sent to: kehler at ai.sri.com Hard copy submissions should be sent to: Andrew Kehler SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue EK272 Menlo Park, CA 94025 TIMETABLE Paper submission deadline: March 26 Notification of acceptance: April 16 Camera ready papers due: April 30 ORGANIZERS Andrew Kehler (SRI International) Andreas Stolcke (SRI International) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michael Brent (Johns Hopkins University) Eric Brill (Johns Hopkins University) Eugene Charniak (Brown University) Michael Collins (AT&T Laboratories) Moises Goldszmidt (SRI International) Andrew Kehler (SRI International) Andrew McCallum (Carnegie-Mellon University and Just Research) Ray Mooney (University of Texas, Austin) Srini Narayanan (ICSI, Berkeley) Fernando Pereira (AT&T Laboratories) David Powers (Flinders University of South Australia) Adwait Ratnaparkhi (IBM Research) Dan Roth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Andreas Stolcke (SRI International) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University) *************************************************************************** Second Call For Papers (EMNLP/VLC-99) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND VERY LARGE CORPORA Sponsored by SIGDAT (ACL's Special Interest Group for Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP) June 21-22, 1999 University of Maryland In conjunction with ACL'99: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics This SIGDAT-sponsored joint conference will continue to provide a forum for new research in corpus-based and/or empirical methods in NLP. In additionto providing a general forum, the theme for this year is "Corpus-based and/or Empirical Methods in NLP for Speech, MT, IR, and other Applied Systems" A large number of systems in automatic speech recognition(ASR) and synthesis, machine translation(MT), information retrieval(IR), optical character recognition(OCR) and handwriting recognition have become commercially available in the last decade. Many of these systems use NLP technologies as an important component. Corpus-based and empirical methods in NLP have been a major trend in recent years. How useful are these techniques when applied to real systems, especially when compared to rule-based methods? Are there any new techniques to be developed in EMNLP and from VLC in order to improve the state-of-the-art of ASR, MT, IR, OCR, and other applied systems? Are there new ways to combine corpus-based and empirical methods with rule-based systems? This two-day conference aims to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the above issues, through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. The goal of the conference is to raise an awareness of what kind of new EMNLP techniques need to be developed in order to bring about the next breakthrough in speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, information retrieval and other applied systems. Scope The conference solicits paper submissions in (and not limited to) the following areas: 1) Original work in one of the following technologies and its relevance to speech, MT, or IR: (a) word sense disambiguation (b) word and term segmentation and extraction (c) alignment (d) bilingual lexicon extraction (e) POS tagging (f) statistical parsing (g) dialog models (h) others (please specify) 2) Proposals of new EMNLP technologies for speech, MT, IR, OCR, or other applied systems (please specify). 3) Comparetive evaluation of the performance of EMNLP technologies in one of the areas in (1) and that of its rule-based or knowledge-based counterpart in a speech, MT, IR, OCR or other applied system. Submission Requirements Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their work. We encourage paper submissions related to the conference theme. In particular, we encourage the authors to include in their papers, proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme. However, there will be a special session in the conference to include corpus-based and/or empirical work in all areas of natural language processing. Submission Format Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Reviewing of papers will not be blind. The submission format and word limit are the same as those for ACL this year. We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX (plus bibstyle and trivial example) or Word style files for the preparation of submissions. Six opies of full-length paper (not to exceed 3200 words exclusive of references) should be received at the following address before or on March 31, 1999. EMNLP/VLC-99 Program Committee c/o Pascale Fung Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Important Dates March 31 Submission of full-length paper April 30 Acceptance notice May 20 Camera-ready paper due June 21-22 Conference date Program Chair Pascale Fung Human Language Technology Center Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: (+852) 2358 8537 Fax: (+852) 2358 1485 Email: pascale at ee.ust.hk Program Co-Chair Joe Zhou LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier 9555 Springboro Pike Dayton, OH 45342 USA Email: joez at lexis-nexis.com Program Committee (partial list) Jiang-Shin Chang (Behavior Design Corp.) Ken Church (AT&T Labs--Research) Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University) Marti Hearst (UC-Berkeley) Huang, Changning (Tsinghua University) Pierre Isabelle (Xerox Research Europe) Lillian Lee (Cornell University) David Lewis (AT&T Research) Dan Melamed (West Law Research) Masaaki Nagata (NTT) Steve Richardson (Microsoft Research) Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs--Research) Andreas Stolcke (SRI) Ralph Weischedel (BBN) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University) From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 9 14:01:41 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:01:41 GMT Subject: Appel: TALN Workshop (Semantique et Pragmatique) Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.140141.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Myriam Bras-Grivart <bras at irit.fr> ************************************************************************* ATELIER THEMATIQUE "FONDEMENTS THEORIQUES DE LA SEMANTIQUE ET DE LA PRAGMATIQUE DANS LE TALN : l'expression du temps, de l'espace et du mouvement ? travers le lexique, le discours et le dialogue" organis? dans le cadre de TALN'99 Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese (Corse) du 12 au 17 juillet 1999 ************************************************************************* 2?me APPEL ? COMMUNICATION !!!! la date limite de soumission est repouss?e au 22 mars 1999 !!!! ORGANISATRICES Myriam BRAS (IRIT-Universit? Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Laure VIEU (IRIT-CNRS, Toulouse) CONTACT email : bras at irit.fr, vieu at irit.fr adresse : IRIT, UPS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 4 tel : 05 61 55 60 91 fax : 05 61 55 83 25 THEME Cet atelier a pour but de confronter les approches th?oriques actuelles de la s?mantique et de la pragmatique issues du courant de la s?mantique formelle. Le d?bat sera centr? sur le traitement du temps, de l'espace et du mouvement dans la langue, afin de susciter une discussion approfondie entre les participants et de mettre en ?vidence combien la s?mantique grammaticale, la s?mantique lexicale et la pragmatique du discours et du dialogue sont imbriqu?es. On s'attachera particuli?rement ? favoriser les communications discutant de la place de la s?mantique et de la pragmatique dans le TALN et de l'importance que pourront avoir les approches formelles pr?sent?es en tant que fondements th?oriques du TALN de demain. Les th?mes abord?s seront, entre autres : - s?mantique et pragmatique du discours et du dialogue - anaphore (entre phrases et entre locuteurs) - croyances et intentions - structure du discours et du dialogue (en particulier structure spatio-temporelle) - lexique de l'espace et du temps - connaissance du monde et anaphore associative - ontologies de l'espace et du temps pour le lexique et la connaissance du monde DEROULEMENT L'atelier aura lieu pendant la conf?rence TALN'99. Il comportera 4 s?ances de 1h30 reparties sur 4 jours (les 12, 13, 15 et 16 juillet 1999). Il accueillera 2 conf?rences invit?es et la pr?sentation-discussion (30 minutes) d'une dizaine de communications s?lectionn?es par le comit? de programme. COMITE DE PROGRAMME Nicholas Asher, Universit? du Texas ? Austin Michel Aurnague, ERSS, Toulouse Mario Borillo, IRIT, Toulouse Joan Busquets, ERSS, Universit? de Bordeaux Jacques Moeschler, Universit? de Gen?ve Uwe Reyle, Universit? de Stuttgart Co Vet, Universit? de Groningue SOUMISSIONS Les chercheurs int?ress?s sont invit?s ? soumettre un article de 12 pages maximum. (Une participation sur d?claration d'inter?t sera ?galement possible.) Les d?lais ?tant courts, seule la soumission ?lectronique vous est propos?e. Envoyer ? bras at irit.fr, vieu at irit.fr votre article de 12 pages maximum, AVANT LE 22 MARS 1999, 18H. Format des soumissions : - source LaTeX auto-suffisant (les styles non standards ou differents de ceux fournis pour taln'99 devront etre inclus dans le fichier source) ET DVI OU - source Word ET RTF ET fax de confirmation au 05 61 25 83 55 Pour les styles, vous pouvez vous reporter ? : http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/styles/ La version finale sera publi?e dans les actes de l'Atelier, disponible le 12 juillet sur place. LANGUE DE L'ATELIER : Les langues officielles pour les articles et les communications sont le fran?ais et l'anglais. CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 22 mars 1999 Notification aux auteurs : 28 avril 1999 Version finale : 12 mai 1999 Atelier : 12-17 juillet 1999 INSCRIPTION L'inscription ? la conf?rence TALN'99 sera demand?e pour participer ? l'Atelier, sans frais d'inscription suupl?mentaire. INFORMATIONS Pour plus d'informations sur TALN'99, visitez le site: http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 9 14:02:26 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:02:26 GMT Subject: Divers: Report on linguistic annotation Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.140226.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Steven Bird <sb at unagi.cis.upenn.edu> Announcing a technical report on linguistic annotation. See below for download information. Our apologies for any duplicate messages. A Formal Framework for Linguistic Annotation Steven Bird & Mark Liberman Abstract `Linguistic annotation' covers any descriptive or analytic notations applied to raw language data. The basic data may be in the form of time functions - audio, video and/or physiological recordings - or it may be textual. The added notations may include transcriptions of all sorts (from phonetic features to discourse structures), part-of-speech and sense tagging, syntactic analysis, `named entity' identification, co-reference annotation, and so on. While there are several ongoing efforts to provide formats and tools for such annotations and to publish annotated linguistic databases, the lack of widely accepted standards is becoming a critical problem. Proposed standards, to the extent they exist, have focussed on file formats. This paper focuses instead on the logical structure of linguistic annotations. We survey a wide variety of existing annotation formats and demonstrate a common conceptual core, the annotation graph. This provides a formal framework for constructing, maintaining and searching linguistic annotations, while remaining consistent with many alternative data structures and file formats. 49pp, download from: [http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cs.CL/9903003] Formats: PDF (336kb), Postscript (161kb), DVI (134kb), LaTeX (112kb) For an online survey and extensive links, visit the Linguistic Annotations Page: [http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation] @TechReport{BirdLiberman99, author={Steven Bird and Mark Liberman}, title={A Formal Framework for Linguistic Annotation}, institution={Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania}, year=1999, number={MS-CIS-99-01}, note={[xxx.lanl.gov/abs/cs.CL/9903003]} } Please send comments to: sb at ldc.upenn.edu, myl at ldc.upenn.edu Regards, Steven Bird & Mark Liberman -- Steven.Bird at ldc.upenn.edu http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb Assoc Director, LDC; Adj Assoc Prof, CIS & Linguistics Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania 3615 Market St, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2608 From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 9 14:02:59 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:02:59 GMT Subject: Appel: Colloquium of Linguistics Message-ID: <TUE.9.MAR.1999.140259.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: rapp at usun1.fask.uni-mainz.de (Reinhard Rapp) Please circulate! We apologize for any cross-postings. --------------------------------------------------------- / 34th COLLOQUIUM OF LINGUISTICS / / / / September 7-10, 1999 / / / / University of Mainz, Germany / / / / FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS / --------------------------------------------------------- We cordially invite you to participate in the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics which will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg- Universitaet Mainz, Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Germersheim, from September 7 to September 10, 1999. The motto of this year's conference will be "Linguistics on the Way into the New Millennium". Continuing the tradition of the colloquium, there will be no restrictions regarding the choice of topics. The conference languages are English, German, and French. Presentations should not exceed 30 minutes which includes 10 minutes of discussion. The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 1999. A volume of abstracts will be available at the conference. The proceedings with the full papers will be published after the conference with Peter Lang-Verlag. In a break with tradition, this year's conference program will be supplemented by a number of tutorials. Each tutorial comprises three hours and is intended to give a concise introduction to a specific field for audiences with a different focus of research. We are particularly happy to offer you a bus excursion to the old city of Heidelberg with a guided tour through the castle on Thursday, September 9. On the way, we will stop in Speyer, whose Cathedral (Kaiserdom) is part of the UNESCO's world cultural heritage. Please do not hesitate to bring this announcement to the attention of interested colleagues. More information can be found on our website at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ Prof. Dr. Dieter Huber Dr. Reinhard Rapp IMPORTANT DATES May 31, 1999 - Submission of abstracts - Conference registration (reduced rate) - Registration for tutorials & excursion - Hotel reservation Nov. 30, 1999 - Submission of full papers for the proceedings PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ----------------------------------------------------------- | Morning | Afternoon | Evening ---------------+-------------+--------------+-------------- Tue, Sept. 7 | Tutorials | Tutorials | Germersheim | | | Guided Tour ---------------+-------------+--------------+-------------- Wed, Sept. 8 | Opening & | Papers | Reception | Papers | | ---------------+-------------+----------------------------- Thu, Sept. 9 | Papers | Excursion to Heidelberg | | and Speyer ---------------+------------------------------------------- Fri, Sept. 10 | Papers & | (Departure) | Conference End | ----------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS ----------------------------------------------------------- Time | Tutorial | Language -------------+--------------------------------+------------ 9.00-12.30 | Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural | | Language Parsing, Part 1 | English | | 9.00-12.30 | Christian Otto: Sprachtech- | German | nologie fuer das Internet | -------------+--------------------------------+------------ 14.00-17.30 | Prof. Peter Hellwig: Natural | | Language Parsing, Part 2 | English | | 14.00-17.30 | Prof. Uta Seewald-Heeg: | German | Maschinelle Uebersetzung | ----------------------------------------------------------- The Tutorials take place during the first full day of the confe- rence (Sept. 7, 1999). Therefore, the official opening is on the second day. For each tutorial, a description can be found at http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ CONFERENCE SITE The Faculty of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies (FASK) of the University of Mainz is located in Germersheim in the south- west of Germany on the Rhine between the cities of Mannheim and Karlsruhe. It can easily be reached by car, train, and airplane. With its 2500 students, more than 1000 of whom coming from 70 different foreign countries, the faculty is known as one of the world's largest institutions dedicated to the training and edu- cation of translators and interpreters. Within walking distance from the faculty, six hotels and the student's residence are available with single rooms priced between 30 and 90 DM per night. Meals are provided by the university canteen, the cafe- teria, and by a number of restaurants (with lunch specials). The main attractions in and around Germersheim are its fortress, the German wine road, the Palatinate Forest with Hambach Castle, Speyer, Heidelberg, the Castle Park in Schwetzingen and the Old Abbey in Maulbronn. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dr. Susanne Beckmann, University of Muenster Dr. Abraham P. ten Cate, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Dr. Tadeusz Danilewicz, Gdansk University Prof. Dr. K. Dorfmueller-Karpusa, Univ. of Thessaloniki Dieter W. Halwachs, University of Graz Prof. Dr. Mikhail Kotin, State University Moscow Prof. Dr. Wim Klooster, University of Amsterdam Prof. Dr. Wilfried Kuerschner, University of Osnabrueck Dr. Reinhard Rapp, University of Mainz (Conference Chair) Prof. Dr. Hans Otto Spillmann, University of Kassel Prof. Dr. Kazimierz A. Sroka, Gdansk University Dr. Juerg Straessler, University of Bern Prof. Dr. Zygmunt Vetulani, University of Poznan Prof. Dr. Richard J. Watts, University of Bern Prof. Dr. Heinrich Weber, University of Tuebingen Dr. Ingo Warnke, University of Kassel Dr. habil. Lew Zybatow, University of Bielefeld CONFERENCE ADDRESS Please send all correspondence to the following address: 34th Colloquium of Linguistics http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/lk/ c/o Dr. Reinhard Rapp rapp at usun2.fask.uni-mainz.de Universitaet Mainz, FASK Phone: (+49) 7274 / 508-457 D-76711 Germersheim Fax: (+49) 7274 / 508-429 Germany CONFERENCE FEE The conference fee is 100 DM for early registration (120 DM after May 31, 1999). This sum includes the registration fee and will, among other things, cover pre-conference materials, tea and coffee, the guided tour through Germersheim on Tuesday and the reception on Wednesday. It will not, however, cover meals, accomodation, proceedings, the excursion to Heidelberg (30 DM), and the tutorials (20 DM per tutorial, written documentation included). Accepted currencies are DM and Euro (exchange rate: 1 Euro = 2 DM). BANK ACCOUNT The total amount (registration fee, excursion, and tutorials) should be transferred until May 31, 1999 to the following university account (other possibilities of payment see website): Account holder: Universitaet Mainz Account number: 550 015 11 Bank code number: 550 000 00 Bank: Landeszentralbank Mainz Details of payment: 6101 28201 2300 514 (important!) 34th Colloquium of Linguistics "name of participant" REGISTRATION FORM Please fill in a printed copy of this registration form and send it to the above address together with your abstract and a copy of your bank remittance by regular mail. Surname ______________________________________________ First Name(s) ________________________________________ Title ________________________________________________ Affiliation __________________________________________ Street _______________________________________________ Code, City ___________________________________________ Country ______________________________________________ Telephone and Fax ____________________________________ e-mail _______________________________________________ [] I would like to attend the 34th Colloquium of Linguistics [] I will deliver a paper with the following title: ........... ............................................................. Presentation Language: [] German [] English [] French Field (1 = first choice, 2 = second choice): [] Theory of Linguistics [] Syntax [] Comparative Linguistics [] Semantics [] Phonology / Phonetics [] Morphology [] Diachronic Linguistics [] Text / Discourse [] Translation Theory [] Semiotics [] Computational Linguistics [] Pragmatics [] Lexicography / Lexicology [] Sociolinguistics [] Psycholinguistics [] Other: ...................... [] An abstract is enclosed (200 to 300 words, printout plus Word-, RTF-, or ASCII-file on a floppy disk) [] The abstract will be sent to you by ........................ ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Cost | Amount ------------------------+---------------------------+----------- Conference Fee | (before / after May 31) | (incl. Reception) | 100 DM / 120 DM | ------------------------+---------------------------+----------- [] Guided Tour through | free | Germersheim | | ------------------------+---------------------------+----------- [] Excursion to Heidel- | 30 DM | berg and Speyer | | ------------------------+---------------------------+----------- Morning Tutorials | | [] Parsing, Part 1 | (parallel 9.00 to 12.30) | [] Sprachtechnologie | 20 DM incl. handout | ------------------------+---------------------------+----------- Afternoon Tutorials | | [] Parsing, Part 2 | (parallel 14.00 to 17.30) | [] Masch. Uebersetzung | 20 DM incl. handout | ----------------------------------------------------+----------- Total Amount | ---------------------------------------------------------------- [] I have transferred the total amount to the account specified above. I enclose a copy of the bank remittance. [] I make my own hotel reservation (see website) [] I enclose a filled in hotel reservation form (see website) Date, signature: ............................................... From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Mar 10 13:36:36 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:36:36 GMT Subject: Appel: ELST Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.133636.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Mike Rosner <mros at cs.um.edu.mt> EACL-99, University of Bergen, 12th June 1999 POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON COMPUTER AND INTERNET SUPPORTED EDUCATION IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY (ELST) FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 12th March 1999 _________________________________________________________________ HOME PAGE http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/celst SUBTOPICS * Computational Tools for ELST * Online Components for ELST * Specialised Tutorials for ELST * Authorware (tools supporting production of materials for ELST) * Tool Oriented Curriculum Design * Multilingual Course Delivery * Course Management Issues * Distance Education for LST PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Michael Rosner, University of Malta, Malta (coordinator) Doug Arnold (Essex) Gerrit Bloothooft (Utrecht) Chris Bowerman (Sunderland) Anders Erikkson (Umea) Steven Krauwer (Utrecht) Mark Huckvale (London) Fabio Pianesi (Trento) Koenraad de Smedt (Bergen) Mark Tatham (Essex) Maria Wolters (Bonn) Felisa Verdejo (Madrid) INVITED SPEAKER: To Be Announced FORMAT REQUIREMENTS * Electronic submissions only, Postscript or Word V7 format. * Please provide a list of keywords and indicate the best fitting subtopic(s) from the above list. * Blind submissions: provide author information on a separate header page. Avoid obvious self refererences in text. * LaTeX users are encouraged to use the style file provided by ACL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/eaclsub.sty (style file) http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/acl.bst (bibstyle) http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/eacl99sample-sub.tex (example) * Word users see http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/eacl99/style/eaclsub.doc * Maximum length is 8 pages including figures and references. * Please use A4 or US letter format and set margins so that the text lies within a rectangle of 6.5 x 9 inches (16.5 x 23 cm). * Use classical fonts such as Times Roman or Computer Modern, 11 to 12 points for text, 14 to 16 points for headings and title. * Please submit papers to mros at cs.um.edu.mt. All submissions will be acknowledged. SCHEDULE * Submission Deadline: 12th March 1999 * Notification Date: 12th April 1999 * Camera ready copy due: 23rd April 1999 WEBSITE http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/celst CONTACT Michael Rosner e-mail: mros at cs.um.edu.mt From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Mar 10 13:37:10 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:37:10 GMT Subject: Appel: RLMG (ESSLLI Workshop) Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.133710.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: RLMG <rlmg at irisa.fr> Dear colleagues, This is the last CFP for the ESSLLI99 workshop on Resource Logics and Minimalist Grammars. Invited speakers have not yet been chosen, since this depends in part on who will be participating in ESSLLI. Details about the opportunity to submit papers for possible publication in the new electronic journal "Language and Computation" will be provided to authors with the notification of acceptance. As this last CFP comes late, please send an email to rlmg at irisa.fr if you intend to submit something which is not yet fully ready to be sent. Christian Retor? & Edward Stabler ESSLLI`99 workshop on RESOURCE LOGICS AND MINIMALIST GRAMMARS (deadline for submissions: March 15th 1999) Utrecht, 16-20 August 1999 Organizers: Christian Retor? (IRISA, Rennes) Edward Stabler (UCLA, Los Angeles) URL: http://www.irisa.fr/RLMG E-mail: rlmg at irisa.fr A workshop held as part of the 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI`99), August 9-20 1999, Utrecht Last call for papers ESSLLI`99: The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. It is organized under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: Logic, Computation, Language, Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, Language and Logic. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-99 will take place at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 9-20. In its second week it will feature a worskshop on resource logics and minimalist grammars. Its aim is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work on the connection between minimalist grammars and resource logics. WORKSHOP BACKGROUND: There has been a growing interest in connections between resource-logical theories of grammar and the minimalist grammars of the transformational tradition in syntax. A good understanding of these connections will reveal substantial differences that can be debated, and the prospects also look good for identifying a valuable common ground. In particular, the rich descriptive tradition of transformational theory may become more accessible to resource-logical frameworks, and the relatively well-understood mathematical foundations of resource-logical frameworks may stimulate a more sophisticated understanding of the mechanisms of minimalist grammars. Linear logic is a neat and well studied logic from a proof theoretical perspective which is able to handle both logic for syntax (like the Lambek calculus) and logic for semantics (like intuitionistic logic), and it also appears to be a sensible framework for a logical treatment of minimalist grammars. This workshop aims to bring together PhD students and other researchers in the respective traditions to explore these developments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * applications of linear logic, multimodal categorial logic, and other resource logics to linguistic problems * formal and computational studies of minimalist and other generative grammars * studies of linguistic semantics from the perspective of either tradition * assessments of the common ground and differences among these approaches to language WORKSHOP AIMS: This workshop aims to: * provide a setting for researchers from various traditions to present and discuss recent work on resource logics and minimalist grammars * facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers working in these respective areas * foster a spirit of collaborative research CALL FOR PAPERS: Researchers in the area, including PhD students and young researchers, are invited to submit short papers (between 8 and 12 pages long) describing their thesis/research topic, approach and results. Talks will be 20 minutes long, with 10 minutes for discussion/questions. Authors are also encouraged to submit a list of topics they would like to see discussed at the workshop. This will help to identify issues for discussion and debate. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 15, 1999 Submissions should be sent to: rlmg at irisa.fr Submissions will be accepted in the form of either PostScript or self-contained LaTex. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by May 1st 1998. The deadline for receipt of revised papers to appear in the workshop proceedings is June 1st 1998. WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will consist of five sessions of 90 minutes each held over five days. There will be either two or three presentations at each session with time for questions and discussion. It is hoped to have at least one invited paper from a senior researcher working in the field. PUBLICATION: After the workshop, authors will have the opportunity to submit papers for possible publication in the new electronic journal "Language and Computation" (http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/journals/JLaC/), which is supported by Oxford University Press. There will be more details in the next announcement. REGISTRATION: Workshop contributors will be required to register for ESSLLI-99. IMPORTANT DATES: March 15th, 99: Deadline for submissions May 1st, 99: Notification of acceptance June 1st, 99: Deadline for final copy August 16th, 99: Start of workshop FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information about ESSLLI-99 please visit the ESSLLI-99 home page at http://esslli.let.uu.nl or send an email to esslli99 at let.uu.nl . For further information on the workshop visit the site of the workshop http://www.irisa.fr/RLMG or send an email to rlmg at irisa.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Mar 10 13:37:36 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:37:36 GMT Subject: Appel: GAT'99 Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.133736.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Georges Antoniadis <antoniadis at communication.u-grenoble3.fr> DERNIER APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS =Date limite de soumission repoussee au 25 mars 1999= ------------------ ====================================================================== GAT'99 Generation Automatique de Textes Deuxieme Colloque Francophone ====================================================================== 30 Septembre et 1er Octobre 1999 Universite Stendhal - Grenoble 3 Institut de la Communication et des Medias Echirolles - FRANCE OBJECTIFS : GAT'99 est la deuxieme edition du colloque francophone sur la Generation Automatique de Textes (GAT) qui s'est tenu en octobre 1997 a Grenoble. Cette premiere edition a permis de reunir un grand nombre de chercheurs du domaine. Elle a mis en evidence la necessite de maintenir un contact entre les membres de la communaute en generation, l'importance d'echanges francophones sur le sujet et, donc, le besoin de poursuivre ce type de manifestations. GAT'99 se veut une manifestation reunissant les specialistes du domaine et des personnes interessees par le sujet en vue d'echanger leurs experiences, de presenter leurs travaux theoriques et applicatifs, de confronter les solutions apportees, de nouer des contacts... GAT'99 se propose d'etre un lieu de reflexion sur le domaine, de rencontres et d'echanges sur le sujet. Tous les aspects de la generation automatique sont concernes par ce colloque: approches theoriques et aspects applicatifs, theories et outils pour la generation, aspects linguistiques, informatiques..., prise en compte de l'utilisateur, generation monolingue ou multilingue... Tous les domaines d'application sont concernes : communication homme-machine, traduction automatique, creation de resumes, aide a la redaction... LOCALISATION : Le colloque se deroulera a l'Institut de la Communication et des Medias (ICM) a Echirolles localite situee a la proche peripherie de Grenoble. ORGANISATION DU COLLOQUE : Equipe CRISTAL-GRESEC Universite Stendhal - Grenoble 3 COMITE DE PROGRAMME : Georges ANTONIADIS (CRISTAL-GRESEC ; Grenoble 3) Laurence BALICCO (CRISTAL-GRESEC ; Grenoble 3) Jean CAELEN (CLIPS-IMAG ; Grenoble 1) Marc DYMETMAN (Centre de Recherche Rank Xerox ; Meylan) Guy LAPALME (INCOGNITO ; Universite de Montreal - Canada) Girard LIGOZAT (LIMSI ; Paris 11) Jean-Frangois NOGIER (Thomson CSF ; Bagneux) Jacques ROUAULT (CRISTAL-GRESEC ; Grenoble 3) Paul SABATIER (LIM ; Aix-Marseille 2) Eric WEHRLI (LATL ; Universite de Geneve - Suisse) Michael ZOCK (LIMSI ; Paris 11) CALENDRIER : - Date limite d'envoi : 25 mars 1999 - Reponse aux auteurs : 31 mai 1999 - Date limite de reception des versions finales : 2 juillet 1999 CONDITIONS DE SOUMISSION : - Date limite d'envoi : 25 mars 1999 - Langue de soumission : francais - Format de soumission : format papier en 3 exemplaires ou fichier RTF. - Taille de l'article : libre, mais ne depassant pas 10 pages (comptees en taille de caracteres 12, bibliographie et page de garde comprises). - La premiere page (page de garde) doit contenir : le titre de l'article, les auteurs, leur appartenance et leur adresse (avec numero de telephone et adresse electronique), un resume de 15 lignes au maximum. - Le titre de l'article (sans les auteurs) doit etre repris au debut de la deuxieme page. - Adresse d'envoi : format papier : Laurence BALICCO Equipe CRISTAL-GRESEC Universite Stendhal Institut de la Communication et des Medias BP 25 38 040 Grenoble Cedex 9 - France Tel. (33).04.76.82.68.33 Mel. Laurence.Balicco at u-grenoble3.fr format electronique : l-Gat at u-grenoble3.fr CONTACT GAT'99 : Tel. : (33).04.76.82.68.33 ou (33).04.76.82.43.97 Fax. : (33).04.76.82.43.22 Mel. : l-Gat at u-grenoble3.fr Toile : http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/Gat/ ____________________________________________________________________ Georges ANTONIADIS Dipartement Informatique Pidagogique / Equipe CRISTAL-GRESEC Universiti STENDHAL Tel: +33. (0)4 76 82 77 61 +33. (0)4 76 82 43 97 BP 25 Fax: +33. (0)4 76 82 41 26 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Georges.Antoniadis at u-grenoble3.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Mar 10 13:38:15 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:38:15 GMT Subject: Divers: FoLLI Prize Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.133815.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Christian RETORE <retore at irisa.fr> 1999 FoLLI Prize for Outstanding Dissertations in Logic, Language and Computation Every year a prize is awarded to a Ph.D.dissertation on the basis of a competition. The topic of the dissertation should fall under the heading of one of the themes dealt with at the ESSLLI Summer schools, i.e. logic, language and computation. The name of the winner(s) of the next competition will be disclosed at the FoLLI general assembly which will be held during the first week of the ESSLLI Summer School scheduled to take place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 9-20, 1999. The PRIZE The winner of the 1999 FoLLI Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in Logic, Language and Computation will receive (the equivalent of) 1000 Euro's. The prize is generously sponsored by the SPINOZA Prize awarded to Prof. J.van Benthem NOMINATIONS To be eligible, candidates must have defended their Ph.D. dissertation on or after January 1, 1998 and no later than December 31, 1998. Candidates can only be nominated by their Ph.D. supervisors; according to the rules, nominations sent in by the candidate him- or herself cannot be considered. To nominate a candidate for the award, the supervisor should send a message with the following information to folli at wins.uva.nl: -the name of the candidate -title of the dissertation -subject area -an abstract of the dissertation of at most 50 lines -a brief assessment of the work of at most 10 lines -time and date of the Ph.D.defense Please use 'PhD Award Nomination' as the subject of your message! The deadline for submissions is APRIL 1, 1999. Late submissions will not be considered. The selection committee may decide not to award the prize, or it may decide to select mutiple winners, in which case the prize will be split evenly among the winners. From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Mar 10 13:39:05 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 13:39:05 GMT Subject: Ecole: Linguistic Institute Message-ID: <WED.10.MAR.1999.133905.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "Ivan A. Sag" <sag at csli.Stanford.EDU ***********************1999 Linguistic Institute************************ The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is proud to announce that it will host the 1999 Linguistic Institute, co-sponsored by the LSA, ACL and AAAI. The Institute will be held this summer from June 21 - July 30. Students, postdocs, faculty and non-academics who are interested in linguistics are invited to attend. We have an excellent faculty of over 80 of the top linguists in the world. Classes will be offered in the areas of COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: Intro to Computational Linguistics: Dan Jurafsky Computational Models of Spoken Language: Stephen Levinson Connectionist Models of Language Processing: Jeff Elman Corpus Linguistics: Michael Barlow The Lexicon in Computational Linguistics: Ann Copestake Machine Translation: Martin Kay Computational Linguistics and User Interfaces: Jerry Morgan Grammar Development in Constraint-Based Grammar Formalisms: Erhard Hinrichs OTHER RELEVANT COURSES include: The Architecture of the Language Faculty: Ray Jackendoff The Syntax-Phonology Interface: David Odden The Architecture of Morphology: Arnold Zwicky Construction-Based Approaches to Grammar: Adele Goldberg Morphosyntax in LFG/OT: Joan Bresnan and Rachel Nordlinger Wh-Constructions: Ivan Sag and Gert Webelhuth Situation Semantics for Constraint-Based Grammar: Shalom Lappin and Carl Pollard The Syntax-Discourse Interace: Ellen Prince The Psycholinguistics of Sentence Comprehension: Susan Garnsey Current Issues in Language Production: Kathryn Bock and Gary Dell And many additional courses in the areas of: Field Methods Syntax Semantic and Pragmatics Phonology and Phonetics Historical and Indo-European Linguistics Psycholinguistics Sociolinguistics and Second Language Acquisition African Linguistics Japanese Linguistics Korean Linguistics Native American Linguistics Semitic Linguistics South Asian Linguistics Satelite Workshops and Conferences include: Symposium on Computational Linguistics; Metaphor; Constructions; Theories of Categorization and the Acquisition of Phonology.... Tuition for students is US $1,300 for 6-weeks, or US $1,000 for 4-weeks or less. Affiliates (linguistics who already hold PhDs) should register with the LSA; 6-week affiliate fee is $1035 or $835 for 4-weeks or less. (Affiliate fees are used to sponsor LSA student fellowships). For more information and applications please visit our website at http://www.beckman.uiuc.edu/linginst We hope to see you this summer! Adele Goldberg Director, 1999 Linguistic Institute 1999 Linguistic Institute, Department of Linguistics University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign 4088 FLB 707 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801 tel (217) 333-1563 e-mail linginst at cogsci.uiuc.edu From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 11 17:31:05 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:31:05 GMT Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.173105.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Keiko Horiguchi" <keiko at lsi.sel.sony.com> Subject: Machine Translation; Research Asst at Sony U.S. Labs in San Jose 2/ From: Amy Livingstone <amy at eloq.com> Subject: Multi-Language Speech Synthesis; Researcher at Eloquent Tech 3/ From: Jian Su <sujian at krdl.org.sg> Subject: NLP(Chinese/English) Researcher Engineer at KRDL, Singapore ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Keiko Horiguchi" <keiko at lsi.sel.sony.com> Subject: Machine Translation; Research Asst at Sony U.S. Labs in San Jose Job: Research Assistant in Machine Translation Sony U.S. Research Labs, San Jose Sony has openings for temporary, part-time research assistants or student summer interns for a research project on spoken language translation. We are looking for systematic, thorough, creative, results-oriented individuals who are able to work well as part of an international team. Job duties: Participate in a research project on spoken language translation between English and Japanese. Create, maintain, refine, and extend Japanese and English linguistic databases. Perform linguistic analysis, investigations, and evaluation, and document results in written form. Assist project members on related tasks. Job requirements: Native-level fluency in Japanese. Ability to communicate and work effectively in English. Excellent logical analysis skills. Ability to work in a thorough, systematic, and accurate manner. Some computer skills. Educational or job experience in a relevant field, such as computational linguistics, linguistics, or computer science. Qualifications that would be a plus: Experience in machine translation or natural language processing, especially involving Japanese. Ability to program in Perl, or C. Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant field. Contact: For further information, please contact: Keiko Horiguchi Sony U.S. Research Labs San Jose, California Tel: (408) 955-5214 Fax: (408) 955-6848 Email: keiko at lsi.sel.sony.com To apply for these openings, please submit your application materials, including resume, contacts for references, and a cover letter. _______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Amy Livingstone <amy at eloq.com> Subject: Multi-Language Speech Synthesis; Researcher at Eloquent Tech POSITIONS AVAILABLE IN MULTI-LANGUAGE SPEECH SYNTHESIS BY RULE Eloquent Technology, Inc. (Ithaca, New York) anticipates having several positions available in multi-language text-to-speech synthesis. We are looking for candidates at all levels of experience, with background in one or more of the following areas: - formant synthesis - acoustic phonetics - text processing/natural language processing - prosody Background in computer programming and/or expertise in one of the following languages will be especially useful: American English, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish, Cantonese, UK English, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean. Eloquent Technology, Inc. (ETI) is a text-to-speech company which currently employs 20 people, primarily linguists and computer scientists. ETI is located in Ithaca, NY, the home of Cornell University, in the heart of the beautiful Fingerlakes region of New York State. ETI's main product is ETI-Eloquence, a text-to-speech system currently available for US and UK English, Mexican and Castilian Spanish, German, French, and Italian, with versions for other languages and dialects under development. For a description of ETI's text-to-speech technology, see the company white paper at www.eloq.com. Applicants should send cover letter and resume by e-mail to Amy Livingstone at amy at eloq.com (e-mail is preferred) or to 2389 North Triphammer Road, Ithaca, NY 14850. paper at www.eloq.com. ______________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Jian Su <sujian at krdl.org.sg> Subject: NLP(Chinese/English) Researcher Engineer at KRDL, Singapore Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL)(http://www.krdl.org.sg/) is the premier national R&D organisation spearheading the research and development of information and networking technology. With an international team of 400 research scientists and engineers, KRDL offers industry partners the technology and technical leadership to become global players in the IT market: life sciences, information, education, transportation & logistics, and electronic commerce. At KRDL, we are committed to creating new breakthrough technologies that make a significant difference in the quality of life in the information age. At KRDL, you will find a community of unique individuals who know how to work hard, and play hard. We have the world -- in our hands. KRDL - the cradle for new technologies for the digital age. SENIOR / RESEARCH ENGINEERS Ref.: KLAB/02/99 (1) Position 1 Your responsibility will include research into English & Chinese parsing and text understanding system using corpus-based approach, finite state transducer, and etc. Position 2 You will be part of the team that will design and implementation of English & Chinese parsing and text understanding system. Requirements: Master/PhD Degree in Computer Science, preferably in NLP related area; Experience in Chinese & English NLP, especially parsing and text understanding; Good C/C++ programming skill; Good communication skill and initiative. CONTACT: *********** Email: sujian at krdl.org.sg Ref.: KLAB/02/99 (2) You will assist the project leader to research and implement NLP-related projects, eg: thesaurus building and text summarization. Requirements: Degree in Computer Science Minimum 2 years experience of software development is essential while NLP-related experience is preferred In-depth knowledge about C/C++ and database technology Familiar with natural language processing technology CONTACT: *********** Email: dhji at krdl.org.sg Please contact us if you're interested in the above jobs. Or if you know someone who have related experiences, could you please forward the ad to them? From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 11 17:31:46 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:31:46 GMT Subject: Appel: Grammar Systems Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.173146.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Carlos Martin Vide <cmv at nil.fut.es> (Apologies for multiple posting.) Final Call for Papers Workshop: GRAMMAR SYSTEMS: A FORMAL LANGUAGE THEORETIC MULTI-AGENT ARCHITECTURE To be held at the 9th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'99), Bergen, Norway, June 12, 1999. In cooperation with the IFIP Working Group 1.2 on Descriptional Complexity. Scope: The theory of grammar systems is a recent branch of formal language theory intending to model complex distributed systems. A basic reference in the field is E. Csuhaj-Varju, J. Dassow, J. Kelemen & Gh. Paun (1994), Grammar systems: a grammatical approach to distribution and cooperation. Gordon & Breach, London. For a more recent survey, see J. Dassow, Gh. Paun & G. Rozenberg, "Grammar systems", in G. Rozenberg & A. Salomaa, eds. (1997), Handbook of formal languages, 2: 155-213. Springer, Berlin. For the most recent work, see Acta Cybernetica, 12.4 (1996), ed. E. Csuhaj-Varju; Computers and Artificial Intelligence, 15.2-3 (1996), eds. J. Kelemen & Gh. Paun; Grammars, 1.3 (1998), ed. J. Kelemen; and Gh. Paun & A. Salomaa, eds. (1999), "Grammatical models of multi-agent systems". Gordon & Breach, London. In traditional formal language theory, a language is usually generated by one grammar. In contrast, in this new framework language generation is regarded as a joint activity of several grammars working together under different strategies. In this way, for instance, the non-context-free language a^nb^nc^n is easily generated using only context-free rules suitably distributed through several machines. There are two main classes of devices of this kind: Cooperating Distributed Grammar Systems (CDGS, where, all the grammars starting from the same axiom, at each step of the derivation process one grammar rewrites the string according to a cooperation protocol) and Parallel Communicating Grammar Systems (PCGS, where, each grammar starting from its own axiom, at each step of the derivation process each grammar rewrites its own string and, at a certain moment, some communication symbol appears forcing the combination of such strings in a certain manner). Some recent derivations of the theory include eco-grammar systems, colonies and networks of language processors. Grammar systems intend to model distribution, at the same time increasing the generative capacity and decreasing the descriptional complexity. They are being preliminarily used to model natural language understanding/generation systems as well as other empirical data from artificial intelligence. Each one of the grammars is an agent and the whole is a modular architecture. This formal architecture seems potentially close to the kind of data natural language processing systems face. So far, developments in the field have mainly come from theoretical computer science, and now it's time to check these systems against natural language processing problems. The aims of the workshop are to present this new theory and to suggest trends of development in the field of natural language processing. As well, the organizers welcome contributions from theoretical as well as applied closely related areas, especially those discussing formal language theoretic-inspired models of natural language problems and those presenting other multi-agent processing systems. The workshop may be of interest to the community attending EACL'99 in search of new formal processing architectures. Programme committee: Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Jurgen Dassow (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Rudolf Freund (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario, London, Canada) Jozef Kelemen (Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic; University of Economics, Bratislava, Slovakia) Alica Kelemenova (Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic) Carlos Martin-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain) Alexandru Mateescu (University of Turku, Finland) Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, Romania) Gheorghe Paun (Romanian Academy, Bucharest) Grzegorz Rozenberg (University of Leiden, The Netherlands) Arto Salomaa (University of Turku, Finland) Detlef Wotschke (University of Frankfurt, Germany) Organizers: Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) Jurgen Dassow (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Jozef Kelemen (Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic; University of Economics, Bratislava, Slovakia) Carlos Martin-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain) Gheorghe Paun (Romanian Academy, Bucharest) Contact person: Carlos Martin-Vide Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics and Language Engineering (GRLMC) Rovira i Virgili University Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1 43005 Tarragona Spain Phone: +34-977-55-9543 Fax: +34-977-55-9597 E-mail: cmv at astor.urv.es, cmv at tinet.fut.es Web site: http://www.urv.es/centres/Grups/grlmc/grlmc.html Submissions: Full submissions should preferably be sent through e-mail to the contact person as postscript files. Technical instructions for camera-ready formatting will be provided to the authors of the papers selected. Proceedings will be available at the workshop. Schedule: March 26, 1999: Submission deadline April 9, 1999: Notification of acceptance April 23, 1999: Camera-ready copy June 12, 1999: Workshop From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 11 17:31:48 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:31:48 GMT Subject: Appel: NLPRS'99 Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.173148.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "nlprs99" <nlprs99 at kibs.kaist.ac.kr> Subject: CFP for NLPRS99 -|-------------------------------------|- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS NLPRS-99 5th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium Beijing, China November 5-7, 1999 "Closing the Millennium" -|-------------------------------------|- NLPRS has contributed to the promotion and circulation of research efforts in Computational Linguistics and related subjects, primarily among scholars in the Pacific Rim area. As the NLPRS culminating a millennium, NLPRS-99 would like to invite more scholars than ever before, including those beyond the Pacific boundaries, covering topics of all related areas, in order to create a memorable occasion before the next century. The papers must be original and address unpublished work on all aspects of Computational Linguistics. TOPICS The conference papers may represent technical works in all areas of computational linguistics. The following categories are illustrative only. Do not hesitate to send your papers even if you think that the area of your paper is not exactly covered by the categories below. General Categories morphology syntax discourse generation anaphora resolution lexical semantics machine translation dialogue bilingual alignment statistical parsing Linguistic Data lexical acquisition corpus analysis Applications applied NLP systems parallel implementations Thematic topics millennium view/experiences from large projects internet THEMATIC SESSION and PANEL DISCUSSION : THE MILLENNIUM: FIFTY YEARS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS NLPRS is considering organizing a millennium session and a panel discussion on the issues and thoughts of what we have achieved and what we may achieve over the fifty years of Computational Linguistics. For instance, historical landmarks with positive influence on the solutions of linguistic issues may need to be reinterpreted. What would be the implication of achievements so far? On this topic, NLPRS would like to encourage the submission of related papers. In particular, government officials and scholars who created, funded, and managed large-scale NLP projects are strongly urged to join this panel discussion. The panel meeting will provide a timely occasion to discuss successes and failures of large projects. Those who wish to join the panel discussion on the topics stated above are kindly requested to compile an email application with a brief note of the opinion statement to the following address. yshan at world.kaist.ac.kr THEMATIC SESSION : LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND THE INTERNET One of the key terms opening the next century will be the Internet. Linguistic ideas may need to be recast into internet primitives. NLPRS99 plans to organize a session devoted to related themes; papers addressing the following themes are welcome: - internet applications of NLP systems: computational models as well as case studies - general topics on group works: linguistic or non linguistic algorithms that foster group communications CONFERENCE Chair: Huang, Changning Tsinghua University, China ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chair: Cao, Youqi Chinese Information Processing Society of China, China PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Choi, Key-Sun KAIST, Korea Vice-Chairs: Yu, Shiwen Peking University, China Han, Young S. Suwon University, Korea Members: Ananiadou, Sofia European Media Laboratory, Germany Boitet, Christian CLIPS-GETA, France Bond, Francis NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Chen, Keh-Jiann Academia Sinica, Taiwan Church, Kenneth W. AT&T Labs, USA Dale, Robert Microsoft Research Institute, USA Dong, Zhendong China Information Processing Society, China Estival, Dominique Syrinx Speech Systems, Australia Hasida, Koiti Electrotechnical Lab, Japan Hausser, Roland University of Erlangen, Gemany Hideki, Kashioka ATR, Japan Hovy, Eduard USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Huang, Chu-Ren Academia Sinica, Taiwan Isahara, Hitoshi Communications Research Laboratory, Japan Joshi, Aravind K. University of Pennsylvania, USA Kando, Noriko NACSIS, Japan Kikui, Gen-ichiro NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories, Japan Kim, Yeunbae NHK, Japan Kurohashi, Sadao Kyoto University, Japan Kwon, Hyuk-Chul Pusan National University, Korea Lee, Jong-Hyeok Pohang University, Korea Leong, Munkew Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Li, Sheng Harbin Institute of Technology, China Lua, Kim-Teng National University of Singapore, Singapore Meknavin Surapan NECTEC, Thailand Mitkov, Ruslan University of Wolverhampton, UK Myaeng, Sung Hyon Chungnam National University, Korea Nishino, Fumihito Fujitsu Labs, Japan Niwa, Yoshiki ARL Hitachi, Japan Park, Seyoung ETRI, Korea Rim, Hae-Chang Korea University, Korea Sangal, Rajeev Indian Institute of Information Technology, India Seo, Jungyun Sogang University, Korea Su, Keh-Yih Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Takeda, Koichi IBM Tokyo Labs, Japan Tokunaga, Takenobu Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Tsujii, Jun'ichi University of Tokyo, Japan T'sou, Benjamin K. City University of Hong Kong Uszkoreit, Hans University of Saarbruecken, Germany Utsuro, Takehito Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Wu, Dekai HKUST Human Language Technology Center, Hong Kong Wuwongse, Vilas Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Yao, Tian-Shun Northeastern University, China Yoshimura, Kenji Fukuoka University,Japan Yusoff, Zaharin University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Zhang, Pu Beijing Language & Culture University, China Zhou, Ming Tsinghua University, China Zock, Michael Langage & Cognition LIMSI-CNRS, France PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should describe unique and completed work. When submitting papers, authors must specify the category of the presentation: regular paper, project paper, or poster paper. If a regular paper is intended for the thematic sessions, the author is asked to indicate so by choosing one of the two themes: millennium session or internet session. In particular if the paper is intended for the millennium session, the paper may length more than 3000 words constraints. SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers should not contain more than 3200 words except millennium papers. The title page must contain the title of the paper, author information, paper length in words, the thematic session (if appropriate), and up to 5 keywords. The main pages should not contain the author information. Four hard copies of the original paper must be sent directly to the following address : NLPRS-99 Submission Prof. Key-Sun Choi Department of Computer Science KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) 373-1 Kusong-dong Yusong-gu Taejon 305-701 Korea TEL +82-42-869-3565 FAX +82-42-867-3565 Hard copy submissions are strongly recommended, but for the authors who cannot make hard copy submissions, the file format must be readily browsable and printable in ps, html, or pdf. Electronic submissions should be made to the following address: nlprs99 at korterm.kaist.ac.kr IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions Deadline June 1, 1999 Notification of acceptance August 1, 1999 Camera ready paper September 1, 1999 Home page : http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/~nlprs99 From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 11 17:31:50 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:31:50 GMT Subject: Appel: HCC Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.173150.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk (Yorick Wilks) SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Apologies if you receive this from more than one source THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy 12-14 July, 1999 The URL was given in an outdated form last time: it is: www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio99/ The Workshops on Human-Computer Conversation in Bellagio, Italy, took place in 1997 and 1998, as small groups of experts from industry and academia met to discuss this pressing question for the future of Language Engineering, not as an academic question only, but chiefly to bring forward for discussion computer demonstrations and activities within company laboratories that were not being published or discussed. The Workshops were highly successful in these aims and we now wish to widen participation and add distinguished speakers, as well as introducing more theoretical topics, though without losing the practical emphasis. The site remains one of the finest in the world, and it promoted excellent and intimate discussions in 1997 and 1998. The emphasis this year will take note of the CE Fifth Framework calls announced under Human Language Technology and in particular the emphasis on interactivity. We also plan to emphasise (in invited talks) the issue of politeness and whether it is crucial or dispensible to conversation, as well as recent results on statistical/empirical work on dialogue corpora, and on deriving marked up dialogue corpora. All details, including previous program, program committee, accomodation and travel, details of registration (a form is attached below for the convenience of some) are on the web site. Hotels are in great demand at that time of year and intending participants should book soon. Invited speakers include (not all have yet accepted): Dr B Alabisio, Microsoft, USA Dr J Hutchens, UWA, Australia Prof. G Leech, University of Lancaster, UK Dr M Moens, University of Edinburgh, UK Dr U Reithinger, DFKI-Saarbruecken, DE Dr. T. Strzalkowski, General Electric, USA Contributions are invited on any aspect of human-computer conversation, as are demonstrations. Two page abstracts should be sent by mail or email to the address at the bottom according to the following timetable: Deadline for submission: 15 April 1999 Notice of acceptance: 15 May 1999 Camera ready paper due: 15 June 1999 The European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) havand SIGdial have endorsed the meeting and endorsement has been sought from ELSNET. 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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 11 17:31:52 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:31:52 GMT Subject: Projets: 2 announcements Message-ID: <THU.11.MAR.1999.173152.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: stephane.chaudiron at mesr.fr (stephane.chaudiron) Subject: Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les reseaux 2/ From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr> Subject: Reminder: Deadline for ELRA proposals ______________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: stephane.chaudiron at mesr.fr (stephane.chaudiron) Subject: Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les reseaux *****Appel ? propositions ? Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les r?seaux ?***** Madame, Monsieur, Je vous prie de bien vouloir trouver ci-joint l'appel ? propositions lanc? conjointement par la Direction de la technologie (MENRT) et le Service des Technologies et de la Soci?t? de l'Information (Secr?tariat d'?tat ? l'Industrie) sur le th?me suivant : Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les r?seaux (TIM'99) La date de cl?ture de cet appel ? propositions a ?t? fix?e au 19 mai 1999 ? 17 heures. Je vous serais reconnaissant de bien vouloir diffuser cette information aupr?s des personnes susceptibles d'?tre concern?es. Le texte de l'appel est joint en format word 6 pour Mac et RTF. [converti en texte seul -- pz] St?phane Chaudiron ================================================================ MINIST?RE DE L'?DUCATION NATIONALE, DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUP?RIEUR ET DE LA RECHERCHE (Direction de la Technologie) et MINIST?RE DE L'?CONOMIE, DES FINANCES ET DE L'INDUSTRIE SECR?TARIAT D'?TAT ? L'INDUSTRIE (Service des Technologies et de la Soci?t? de l'Information) APPEL ? PROPOSITIONS "Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les r?seaux" (TIM'99) 1. PR?SENTATION Acc?der ? la bonne information au bon moment pour prendre la bonne d?cision est devenu l'enjeu principal auquel sont confront?es les entreprises au moment o? les risques de surinformation se multiplient, induits en particulier par la d?mat?rialisation de l'information et l'apparition de nouvelles sources d'information sur Internet. Toute organisation d?sirant maintenir un haut niveau d'innovation et de comp?titivit? doit ?tre en mesure de ma?triser les flux informationnels afin de prendre dans de bonnes conditions une quelconque d?cision strat?gique. La veille technologique est, en ce sens, un ?l?ment de l'intelligence ?conomique n?cessaire dans le processus d'innovation et de comp?titivit? des entreprises, en particulier des PMI-PME de haute technologie, o? les effets de la mondialisation de l'?conomie s'exacerbent. Elle contribue ? identifier et ? faire sauter les verrous technologiques en permettant une information constante sur l'?volution des innovations (surveillance des travaux de recherche men?s dans les laboratoires et des brevets d?pos?s par les concurrents notamment). Elle contribue, pour les entreprises, ? identifier les experts du domaine, notamment universitaires, afin de passer ?ventuellement des accords de collaboration. Elle permet d'identifier les nouvelles technologies cl?s qui peuvent modifier, voire r?volutionner, les processus industriels de conception et fabrication. Elle permet ?galement d'identifier les nouveaux entrants, concurrents potentiels ? terme, ainsi que de nouveaux march?s facilitant ainsi la cr?ation d'entreprises. La ma?trise de l'information va donc bien au-del? de la simple ma?trise des outils informatiques ou d'Internet. Elle correspond ? un processus complexe d'identification des sources d'information, de collecte, de traitement et de diffusion des informations pertinentes. Dans ce contexte, les r?seaux de t?l?communications, et Internet en particulier, occupent une place de plus en plus importante dans la production et la circulation de l'information ? finalit? professionnelle et constituent une ressource dont la place est croissante parmi les diff?rentes sources d'information ? prendre en compte dans une action de veille strat?giaque ou d'intelligence ?conomique. N?anmoins, de nombreux obstacles entravent l'acc?s ? l'information utile. En particulier, le probl?me du traitement de l'information multilingue, inh?rent ? Internet, se pose avec d'autant plus d'insistance que le r?seau ?volue naturellement vers un multilinguisme de fait. Le probl?me du traitement de l'information multilingue sur les r?seaux se d?compose en plusieurs questions : - comment acc?der en fran?ais ? de l'information disponible en langue ?trang?re (probl?me des interfaces multilingues) ? - comment traduire ? la vol?e des documents dans le cadre d'une activit? de veille (probl?me de la traduction automatique) ? - comment un moteur de recherche sur internet peut-il identifier des documents (ou sites web) multilingues (probl?me du traitement automatique du multilinguisme au sein d'un document unique ou d'une m?me base de documents) ? - comment filtrer puis router vers les utilisateurs concern?s les informations multilingues pertinentes ? Cette liste, non exhaustive, de questions permet de cadrer le domaine des int?r?ts couvert par le pr?sent appel ? propositions. L'objectif de cet appel ? propositions est de soutenir l'effort de d?veloppement d'outils innovants dans ce domaine. Il pourra s'agir soit d'am?liorer des outils existants en int?grant de nouvelles fonctionnalit?s, soit de r?aliser de nouveaux outils. Suivant les cas, les projets conduiront soit ? la r?alisation de prototypes avanc?s, soit ? la r?alisation de produits ou de services op?rationnels. 2. PROC?DURE La recevabilit? des projets sera appr?ci?e en fonction des crit?res suivants : 2.1 Domaine Les projets soumis dans le cadre de cet appel ? propositions doivent concerner les outils d'acc?s et de traitement automatis? de l'information multilingue sur Internet, utilisant des technologies d'ing?nierie linguistique (traitement de la langue ?crite et orale). Plusieurs cat?gories d'outils sont concern?es : les moteurs de recherche d'information, les outils de filtrage et de routage, les "agents intelligents", les outils de traduction. Ces outils devront traiter au minimum deux langues, dont le fran?ais. La langue utilis?e lors de l'interrogation des moteurs de recherche ou de l'?laboration des profils devra n?cessairement ?tre le fran?ais (une ou plusieurs autres langues sont ?galement possibles). Sans exclure a priori aucune langue de cet appel ? propositions, le choix des langues v?hiculaires dans les domaines des sciences et des techniques et des affaires sera un ?l?ment important. Sans devoir r?pondre n?cessairement ? l'ensemble des crit?res suivants, les applications vis?es devront notamment : - identifier automatiquement le caract?re multilingue des sources d'informations (sites et documents) ; - aider l'utilisateur dans la formulation de sa requ?te s'adressant ? des sites multilingues (assistance dans la strat?gie d'interrogation, identification des langues concern?es) ; - interroger en fran?ais des sites multilingues ou contenant des documents disponibles partiellement ou totalement dans une autre langue ; - identifier et extraire automatiquement le contenu de documents multilingues ; - filtrer et router l'information multilingue en fonction des profils utilisateurs ; - traduire en fran?ais des documents ou parties de documents r?dig?s dans une autre langue ; - veiller ? la lisibilit? et la compr?hension des informations multilingues retrouv?es gr?ce ? une ergonomie efficace ; Nota bene : Cet appel ? propositions n'a pas pour objectif la r?alisation de ressources linguistiques multilingues (dictionnaires, terminologies, corpus,...). Elles pourront cependant constituer l'un des aspects du projet si elles sont n?cessaires ? sa r?alisation 2.2 Nature des projets concern?s Deux cat?gories de projets sont concern?s : - les projets qui visent ? d?montrer la faisabilit? d'une approche particuli?rement innovante. Ces projets aboutiront ? un d?monstrateur qui devra ?tre valid? pour un domaine informationnel pr?cis. - les projets qui visent la r?alisation d'un produit ou d'un service op?rationnel, soit en am?liorant sur le plan technique, fonctionnel ou ergonomique un logiciel existant, soit en r?alisant un nouvel outil. Dans les deux cas, la coop?ration entre laboratoires de recherche publics et soci?t?s priv?es ainsi que le caract?re innovant des projets seront particuli?rement appr?ci?s. Les projets seront recevables s'ils traitent au minimum deux langues dont le fran?ais ; les efforts pour augmenter le nombre de langues trait?es, tout en assurant la faisabilit? du projet, seront ?galement appr?ci?s. Pour la deuxi?me cat?gorie de projets, un plan de commercialisation sera demand?. 2.3 Dur?e des projets La dur?e de r?alisation des projets ne doit pas exc?der deux ann?es. 2.4 Organismes concern?s Les projets pourront ?tre pr?sent?s par les entreprise et/ou par les centres de recherche. Les regroupements entre savoir-faire compl?mentaires seront appr?ci?s ainsi que la participation d'utilisateurs. 3. MODALIT?S PRATIQUES 3.1 S?lection des projets La s?lection des projets sera effectu?e apr?s avis donn? par un comit? d'experts nomm?s conjointement par la Direction de la Technologie et le Service des Technologies et la Soci?t? de l'Information. Les projets seront pr?sent?s selon le mod?le joint en annexe (1 fiche synth?tique et 1 dossier). Les propositions devront ?tre exp?di?es sous pli recommand? avec AR en 6 exemplaires avant le 19 mai 1999 17 heures, cachet de la poste faisant foi, date de cl?ture de l'appel ? propositions. Trois exemplaires seront envoy?s ? : Minist?re de l'?ducation nationale, de l'enseignement sup?rieur et de la recherche Direction de la Technologie (DTA3) AAP "Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les r?seaux" 1, rue Descartes 75231 PARIS cedex 05 et trois exemplaires seront envoy?s ? : Minist?re de l'?conomie, des finances et de l'industrie Secr?tariat d'?tat ? l'industrie Service des Technologies et de la Soci?t? de l'Information AAP "Traitement de l'information multilingue sur les r?seaux" 3-5, rue Barbet de Jouy 75007 PARIS cedex 3.2 Financement Le Minist?re de l'?ducation nationale, de l'enseignement sup?rieur et de la recherche (Direction de la Technologie) et le Secr?tariat d'?tat ? l'industrie (STSI) arr?teront, chacun pour leur part, sur proposition du comit? d'experts, la liste d?finitive des aides ? octroyer dans le cadre des budgets disponibles pour cette action et selon leur proc?dure propre. FICHE SYNTHETIQUE Organisme demandeur : Partenaires : Personne ? contacter : T?l?phone : Nom du projet : Description sommaire du projet (5 lignes) : Co?t total du programme : Dur?e envisag?e (en mois) : DOSSIER ORGANISME : [pour les soci?t?s, pr?ciser le capital social et l'effectif] [Adresse et coordonn?es] NOM DU PROJET : DESCRIPTION DU PROGRAMME : Ces renseignements permettront de souligner les points importants du projet et de faire ressortir les aspects innovants et originaux des travaux. 1. Origine du projet et situation actuelle [Savoir faire et r?f?rences des participants dans ce domaine] 2. Objectifs techniques [Description d?taill?e du projet] [Plan de travail] COUT TOTAL DU PROGRAMME : DUREE DU PROGRAMME : MONTANT DE L'AIDE DEMANDEE : OBJECTIFS ECONOMIQUES (s'il y a lieu) : [Place du projet dans la strat?gie de d?veloppement de l'entreprise] [Client?le potentielle] [Chiffre d'affaires attendu dans les cinq premi?res ann?es de commercialisation] [Modalit?s de commercialisation] AIDES PUBLIQUES (deux derni?res ann?es et demandes en cours) : [organisme, objet et montant de l'aide] AUTRES CONVENTIONS (pass?es au cours des 3 derni?res ann?es) : [Organisme, objet, date de notification, dur?e, montant de l'aide] PARTICIPATION A DES PROJETS EUROPEENS (deux derni?res ann?es et demandes en cours) : [Objet, date de notification, dur?e, montant de l'aide] PARTENAIRES : - Nom et forme juridique - Budget et pourcentage de participation dans le projet - Aide demand?e - Place et r?le dans le projet ================================================================ ______________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr> Subject: Reminder: Deadline for ELRA proposals LAST REMINDER: CALL FOR PROPOSALS European Language Resources Association (ELRA) ELRA 1999 CALL FOR PROPOSALS ELRA COMMISSIONING PRODUCTION OF LANGUAGE RESOURCES The deadline for submissions to this call for proposals is Friday, 19 March 1999. The full version of the call is available at: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/callpr99.html Please contact Jeff Allen (Tel: +33 1 43 13 33 33 - jeff at elda.fr) for further information. E-mail submissions are preferred. Please send them to <jeff at elda.fr>. Format: Word (up through Word 97), Microsoft Project (up through Project 98), RTF, ASCII, HTML, PDF or Postscript (please note that Postscript is the least preferred). For those who wish to submit proposals by postal mail, send to: Jeff ALLEN ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Sincerely, Jeff Allen ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europienne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) (0) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) (0) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 16 15:34:16 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:34:16 GMT Subject: Appel: TMI'99 Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.153416.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Francis Bond <bond at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8th International Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation TMI-99 August 23-25, 1999 Chester, UK http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/ Final Announcement and Call for Papers -------------------------------------- The eighth conference in the TMI series will take place over August 23-25, 1999 in the historic city of Chester, UK. In addition to general theoretical and methodological issues, TMI-99 will have a major theme: Modalities and MT: Where can MT be used? Submissions referring to the above theme are encouraged. However, substantial, original, and unpublished research on any other issues relevant to machine translation and multi-lingual processing are also welcome. Details on submissions and submission guidelines, along with a Latex style file, can be found on our web site <www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/>. Papers should be in English, not longer than 10 pages (around 5,000 words). Important dates Paper submissions due March 12, 1999 *** tomorrow *** Acceptance notification May 14, 1999 Final copies due July 2, 1999 Conference dates Tutorials: Aug 22, 1999 Papers and Panels: Aug 23-25, 1999 Workshops: Aug 26, 1999 Address for email submissions is <tmi at fornost.icl.kecl.ntt.co.jp>. Tutorial Program: ----------------- Two tutorials are being offered. Participants can choose either a one-day introduction to MT and translation tools, comprising of five consecutive sessions, or a half day tutorial on acquiring knowledge for MT in low density languages. * Introduction to MT and translation tools - Overview John Hutchins - Localisation Reinhard Schaeler - Translation workstations and translation memory Ian Gordon - Developments at EU translation service Dimitri Theologitis - Evaluation of MT systems Jorg Schutz * Acquisition of Knowledge about Sergei Nirenburg a Low-Density Language for Use in MT Full details of the program, including a synopsis of each tutorial, a schedule, and details of how to register, will be found at the web site: <http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/tutorials.html>. Workshops: ---------- After the conference (August 26th), we will hold two one-day workshops (in parallel). Both workshops are soliciting submissions on relevant topics. Full details of the workshops can be found on their web sites. A short description of each is given below. Workshop: Constraints on Machine Interpretation Conveners: Susanne J. Jekat (Hamburg Uni), Jan Amtrup (CRL) Email: jekat at informatik.uni-hamburg.de, jamtrup at crl.nmsu.edu Web site: http://crl.nmsu.edu/~jamtrup/tmi99/ Synopsis: The translation of spoken utterances (MI, Machine Interpreting) is one of the most challenging tasks within the field of MT. There are still several phenomena which are unknown or insufficiently described and are not accounted for in the systems currently available. These phenomena affect all stages of processing within MT systems. As a consequence, an MI system does not only contain the additional components needed to analyze and synthesize speech, but the core modules have to be adapted to the demands of speech-to-speech communication as well. The workshop ``Constraints on Machine Interpretation'' calls for contributions relevant for the translation of spoken language, including, but not limited to: Speech recognition, language recognition, speaker identification; Prosody and its use in MI systems; Analysis, transfer and generation of spoken input utterances; Architecture and design of MI systems and their user interfaces; Dialog behavior, design and analysis; Evaluation of MI systems. Workshop: Problems and Potential of English-to-German MT systems Convener: Claudia Gdaniec (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) Email: cgdaniec at us.ibm.com Web site: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/cgdaniec/tmi99.html Synopsis: Many German speakers have had a chance, and a need, to taste English-German MT translation through the many products available on the market and through the growing opportunities on the Internet. Reactions have been anywhere from acceptance to disappointment to derision. This workshop is aimed at getting developers, researchers, and users together for an opportunity to present, discuss -- and ideally reach some agreement on -- the status of, and desired and possible improvements to, English-to-German MT systems. The workshop will address the many areas of MT application: heavy-duty translation of technical documentation; casual in-house and at-home translation; on-the-fly Web page translation; MT in information and knowledge management; MT in electronic commerce; Internet chat and e-mail translation. There will be presentations of positive and negative experiences with text types and linguistic quality as well as of desired priorities in terms of linguistic domains and technical requirements by users, developers, and researchers. Important dates for workshops Paper submissions due April 14, 1999 Acceptance notification June 1, 1999 Final copies due July 2, 1999 Conference Site The conference meetings will be held at Chester College, in the city of Chester UK. More information about the conference site can be found at the web site: http://www.ccl.umist.ac.uk/events/tmi99/. TMI-99 is supported by the European Association for Machine Translation and by Aslib, The Association for Information Management. TMI-99 Officers: Program Chair: Francis Bond, NTT CS Labs, Kyoto Local Chairs: Arturo Trujillo and Harold Somers, UMIST, Manchester General Chair: Sergei Nirenburg, NMSU, Las Cruces NM Please address any further enquiries to the program chair: Francis Bond <bond at cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp> Machine Translation Research Group NTT Communication Science Laboratories 2-4 Hikari-dai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, JAPAN, 619-0237 Tel: 0774-93-5313 (+81) Fax: 0774-93-5345 (+81) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 16 15:34:17 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:34:17 GMT Subject: Appel: NLPRS'99 Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.153417.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "nlprs99" <nlprs99 at kibs.kaist.ac.kr> -|-------------------------------------|- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS NLPRS-99 5th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium Beijing, China November 5-7, 1999 "Closing the Millennium" -|-------------------------------------|- NLPRS has contributed to the promotion and circulation of research efforts in Computational Linguistics and related subjects, primarily among scholars in the Pacific Rim area. As the NLPRS culminating a millennium, NLPRS-99 would like to invite more scholars than ever before, including those beyond the Pacific boundaries, covering topics of all related areas, in order to create a memorable occasion before the next century. The papers must be original and address unpublished work on all aspects of Computational Linguistics. TOPICS The conference papers may represent technical works in all areas of computational linguistics. The following categories are illustrative only. Do not hesitate to send your papers even if you think that the area of your paper is not exactly covered by the categories below. General Categories morphology syntax discourse generation anaphora resolution lexical semantics machine translation dialogue bilingual alignment statistical parsing Linguistic Data lexical acquisition corpus analysis Applications applied NLP systems parallel implementations Thematic topics millennium view/experiences from large projects internet THEMATIC SESSION and PANEL DISCUSSION : THE MILLENNIUM: FIFTY YEARS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS NLPRS is considering organizing a millennium session and a panel discussion on the issues and thoughts of what we have achieved and what we may achieve over the fifty years of Computational Linguistics. For instance, historical landmarks with positive influence on the solutions of linguistic issues may need to be reinterpreted. What would be the implication of achievements so far? On this topic, NLPRS would like to encourage the submission of related papers. In particular, government officials and scholars who created, funded, and managed large-scale NLP projects are strongly urged to join this panel discussion. The panel meeting will provide a timely occasion to discuss successes and failures of large projects. Those who wish to join the panel discussion on the topics stated above are kindly requested to compile an email application with a brief note of the opinion statement to the following address. yshan at world.kaist.ac.kr THEMATIC SESSION : LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND THE INTERNET One of the key terms opening the next century will be the Internet. Linguistic ideas may need to be recast into internet primitives. NLPRS99 plans to organize a session devoted to related themes; papers addressing the following themes are welcome: - internet applications of NLP systems: computational models as well as case studies - general topics on group works: linguistic or non linguistic algorithms that foster group communications CONFERENCE Chair: Huang, Changning Tsinghua University, China ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Chair: Cao, Youqi Chinese Information Processing Society of China, China PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair: Choi, Key-Sun KAIST, Korea Vice-Chairs: Yu, Shiwen Peking University, China Han, Young S. Suwon University, Korea Members: Ananiadou, Sofia European Media Laboratory, Germany Boitet, Christian CLIPS-GETA, France Bond, Francis NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Japan Chen, Keh-Jiann Academia Sinica, Taiwan Church, Kenneth W. AT&T Labs, USA Dale, Robert Microsoft Research Institute, USA Dong, Zhendong China Information Processing Society, China Estival, Dominique Syrinx Speech Systems, Australia Hasida, Koiti Electrotechnical Lab, Japan Hausser, Roland University of Erlangen, Gemany Hideki, Kashioka ATR, Japan Hovy, Eduard USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Huang, Chu-Ren Academia Sinica, Taiwan Isahara, Hitoshi Communications Research Laboratory, Japan Joshi, Aravind K. University of Pennsylvania, USA Kando, Noriko NACSIS, Japan Kikui, Gen-ichiro NTT Information and Communication Systems Laboratories, Japan Kim, Yeunbae NHK, Japan Kurohashi, Sadao Kyoto University, Japan Kwon, Hyuk-Chul Pusan National University, Korea Lee, Jong-Hyeok Pohang University, Korea Leong, Munkew Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Li, Sheng Harbin Institute of Technology, China Lua, Kim-Teng National University of Singapore, Singapore Meknavin Surapan NECTEC, Thailand Mitkov, Ruslan University of Wolverhampton, UK Myaeng, Sung Hyon Chungnam National University, Korea Nishino, Fumihito Fujitsu Labs, Japan Niwa, Yoshiki ARL Hitachi, Japan Park, Seyoung ETRI, Korea Rim, Hae-Chang Korea University, Korea Sangal, Rajeev Indian Institute of Information Technology, India Seo, Jungyun Sogang University, Korea Su, Keh-Yih Behavior Design Corporation, Taiwan Takeda, Koichi IBM Tokyo Labs, Japan Tokunaga, Takenobu Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Tsujii, Jun'ichi University of Tokyo, Japan T'sou, Benjamin K. City University of Hong Kong Uszkoreit, Hans University of Saarbruecken, Germany Utsuro, Takehito Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Wu, Dekai HKUST Human Language Technology Center, Hong Kong Wuwongse, Vilas Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand Yao, Tian-Shun Northeastern University, China Yoshimura, Kenji Fukuoka University,Japan Yusoff, Zaharin University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia Zhang, Pu Beijing Language & Culture University, China Zhou, Ming Tsinghua University, China Zock, Michael Langage & Cognition LIMSI-CNRS, France PAPER SUBMISSION Papers should describe unique and completed work. When submitting papers, authors must specify the category of the presentation: regular paper, project paper, or poster paper. If a regular paper is intended for the thematic sessions, the author is asked to indicate so by choosing one of the two themes: millennium session or internet session. In particular if the paper is intended for the millennium session, the paper may length more than 3000 words constraints. SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers should not contain more than 3200 words except millennium papers. The title page must contain the title of the paper, author information, paper length in words, the thematic session (if appropriate), and up to 5 keywords. The main pages should not contain the author information. Four hard copies of the original paper must be sent directly to the following address : NLPRS-99 Submission Prof. Key-Sun Choi Department of Computer Science KAIST(Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) 373-1 Kusong-dong Yusong-gu Taejon 305-701 Korea TEL +82-42-869-3565 FAX +82-42-867-3565 Hard copy submissions are strongly recommended, but for the authors who cannot make hard copy submissions, the file format must be readily browsable and printable in ps, html, or pdf. Electronic submissions should be made to the following address: nlprs99 at korterm.kaist.ac.kr IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions Deadline June 1, 1999 Notification of acceptance August 1, 1999 Camera ready paper September 1, 1999 Home page : http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/~nlprs99 From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 16 15:34:21 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:34:21 GMT Subject: Appel: Noms Propres (ATALA) Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.153421.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Denis Maurel <maurel at univ-tours.fr> 2eme appel a communication : Call for Papers: English version, see below Le traitement automatique des Noms propres Samedi 29 mai 1999 Organisateurs : Denis Maurel et Franz Guenthner L'Association pour le Traitement automatique des langues (l'Atala) organise chaque annee cinq journees d'etudes sur un theme particulier. Ces journees sont placees sous la responsabilite d'un membre de l'association et se deroule a Paris. Les communications se font en francais ou en anglais. La journee du samedi 29 mai 1999 sera consacree au Traitement automatique des Noms propres sous toutes ses formes. Nous esperons pouvoir publier tout ou partie de la journee sous forme d'actes. Nous souhaitons donc recevoir des propositions de communication sur le sujet incluant, de maniere non limitative : * La constitution de dictionnaires electroniques de noms propres * Le traitement automatique de la morphologie des noms propres * La reconnaissance et l'etiquetage automatique des noms propres dans un texte * Les aspects computationnels de la syntaxe, de la semantique ou de la pragmatique des noms propres * La recherche et l%extraction automatique d'informations a l'aide des noms propres * etc. Les propositions sont a envoyer, si possible par courrier electronique, pour la fin mars, a Denis Maurel (mailto: maurel at univ-tours.fr) sous le format Word, RTF ou texte. Sinon par courrier postal (Denis Maurel, LI/E3i, Universite de Tours, 64 avenue Jean-Portalis, 37200 Tours, France). Denis Maurel LI/E3i, Universite de Tours Franz Guenthner CIS, Universite de Munich Pour de futures informations sur cette journee: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/events/atalafr.html http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/je.html --------- 2nd call for Papers : Workshop on The Automatic Analysis of Proper Name Saturday, May 29th, 1999 Organizers: Denis Maurel and Franz Guenthner The Association pour le traitement automatique des langues (Atala) organises five meetings per year on specific topics in Natural Language Processing. These meetings are proposed and organized by members of the association and they take place in Paris. The language of the contributions is French or English. They will be a workshop on various aspects of the computational treatment of Proper name on Saturday, May 29th, 1999. We intend to publish the contribution to this workshop in the form of proceedings. Contribution are invited on the topics below as well as on other related subjects: * The construction of electronic dictionaries of proper names * The morphological analysis of proper names * The recognition and tagging of proper names in texts * Computational aspect of the syntax, semantics or pragmatics of proper names * Applications of the treatment of proper names to information retrieval, information extraction, text mining * etc. Abstracts of contributions should be sent, preferably by e-mail, by March 31st, to Denis Maurel (mailto:maurel at univ-tours.fr) in MS-Word, RTF or Ascii form. Non electronic-submission should be sent to Denis Maurel, LI/E3i, Universite de Tours, 64 avenue Jean-Portalis, 37200 Tours, France. Denis Maurel LI/E3i, Universite de Tours Franz Guenthner CIS, Universite de Munich For future postings on this workshop, please consult: http://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/events/atalae.html http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/je/je.html ____________________________________ Denis Maurel LI/E3i - Universite Francois Rabelais 64 avenue Jean-Portalis 37200 Tours France Tel. (33) 02.47.36.14.35 Telc. (33) 02.47.36.14.22 mailto:maurel at univ-tours.fr http://www.li.univ-tours.fr From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Mar 16 15:34:19 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:34:19 GMT Subject: Appel: MT Summit (language resources) Message-ID: <TUE.16.MAR.1999.153419.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr> Dear colleagues in the field of translation technologies: As you are aware, the deadline for paper submissions to Machine Translation (MT) Summit 1999 is soon approaching. The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) would like to see if a theme session on language resources could be organized at the conference if enough papers on the topic are submitted. We would highly encourage you to consider proposing a paper on the theme of language resources/databases/corpora that are used in MT and other translation systems/applications. Some subtopics of this general theme include: - standardization of data and formats; - validation and quality control of data; - obtaining and (re)using data produced by third parties; - legal issues in the use of data produced by third parties; - reusability of data for diverse applications and purposes; - the need for corpora, lexica, and terminology resources; - corpus linguistics studies and the need for resources; - evaluation of systems using different corpora or other resources; - (minimum) amount of data needed for the development, customization, and implementation of systems; - porting systems to new areas and new languages in view of available or potential resources; - etc... According to the conference submission procedures that are indicated at http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/news.html , please mail 4 hardcopies of your papers to: MT Summit VII Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT) 3F, Shiba-Koen Sanada Bldg. 3-5-12 Shiba-Koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan In addition, please submit an ASCII version of the cover page electronically to: aamt0001 at infotokyo.or.jp Important Dates: 15 April 1999 Paper submission deadline 30 May 1999 Notifications 15 July 1999 Final camera-ready copy deadline Please do not submit paper proposals to ELRA. Additional information about the MT Summit 99 can be found at: http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/news.html September 13 - 17, 1999 MT Summit '99: The 7th Machine Translation Summit Singapore, Singapore Best regards, Jeff Allen and Khalid Choukri on behalf of the European Language Resources Association ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europienne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) (0) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) (0) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 18 19:00:30 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:00:30 GMT Subject: Appel: Descriptional Complexity ... Message-ID: <THU.18.MAR.1999.190030.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: reichel at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de (Bernd Reichel) Dear colleague, Enclosed we send you some Call for Papers for the Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" in Magdeburg (Germany), July 20-23, 1999. Note that the dates have been changed since the Workshop on Implementing Automata (WIA '99), Potsdam (Germany), July 17-19, 1999 has been shifted, too. The Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" starts five days after finishing ICALP '99 in Prague (appr. 300 km far from Magdeburg) and the day after finishing WIA '99 in Potsdam (100 km west from Magdeburg). Magdeburg founded 1200 years ago is the capital of the German state Saxony-Anhalt and is situated appr. 120 km west from Berlin at the banks of the river Elbe. Magdeburg has the oldest German gothic cathedral, is the start and end point of the Romanic Street (one of the historic main attractions of Saxony-Anhalt), is famous for its parks and gardens and is the host of the German Federal Garden Show '99 (which is part of the social program of the workshop). We invite you to participate in and to contribute to the workshop. Juergen Dassow (Magdeburg) Detlef Wotschke (Frankfurt) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% C A L L F O R P A P E R S Workshop DESCRIPTIONAL COMPLEXITY OF AUTOMATA, GRAMMARS AND RELATED STRUCTURES July 20-23, 1999, Magdeburg, Germany The Workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars and Related Structures" is being organized by the IFIP Working Group 1.2 Descriptional Complexity and the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg and will take place in Magdeburg which is the 1200 years old capital of the German state Saxony-Anhalt. Magdeburg is located 130 km west of Berlin and will be the site of the German Garden Show 1999. The aim of the workshop is to present, partly through invited lectures, the state of the art and trends in the field and to provide a forum for the exchange of new results. Program Committee: ****************** N. Blum (Bonn), J. Dassow (Magdeburg, co-chair), J. Goldstine (University Park), Gh. Paun (Bucharest), J. Seiferas (Rochester), D. Wotschke (Frankfurt, co-chair) Invited Speakers: ***************** J. Gruska (Brno) A. Kelemenova (Opava) H. Leung (Las Cruces) J. Shallit (Waterloo) S. Yu (London, Canada) and others Submissions: ************ Authors are invited to submit a draft paper of up to 10 pages in English. (If appropriate, proofs should be attached as a full paper.) Electronic submissions are encouraged and should be sent as postscript files to: dcagrs at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Submissions by mail (four copies) should be sent to: Juergen Dassow Otto-von-Guericke-Universitaet Magdeburg Fakultaet fuer Informatik Postfach 41 20 D-39016 Magdeburg Accepted papers will be published in special issues of "Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics". Preproceedings will be distributed at the conference. Important Dates: **************** Deadline for submission: April 15, 1999 Acceptance notification: May 31, 1999 Preliminary paper for the preproceedings: June 30, 1999 Symposium (date has been changed): July 20-23, 1999 Final Version: October 30, 1999 Further Information: ******************** http://ozelot.psc.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de:8000/ifip-wg1.2/dcagrs Registration Fee: ***************** The registration fee (incl. Preproceedings and Conference Dinner) will be approximately DM 140,- (EUR 70,-). From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 18 19:00:28 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:00:28 GMT Subject: Job: 1 Offer Message-ID: <THU.18.MAR.1999.190028.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Paula Mason <paulam at cre.canon.co.uk> Canon Research Centre Europe (CRE) has a position for top quality software engineers in its Speech and Language Division. We are looking for people with a background of high academic achievement in computer science, natural language processing, electrical engineering, physics, mathematics or similar quantitative science - self-motivated people with a desire to continuously improve and excel. Applications from experienced engineers and fresh PhDs/exceptional graduates are invited for the following role: SOFTWARE ENGINEER - to develop software for applications in natural language processing, information retrieval and speech recognition. Applicants should have: - excellent software engineering and programming skills in C/C++, and ideally Java; - experience in constructing large, high quality, robust software systems for prototypes or products; - the ability to pick up new languages and skills rapidly. Commercial software experience, a relevant higher degree or expertise any of the following would be an advantage: - C++ standard template library; - databases; - information retrieval; - natural language processing. Canon has over 75,000 employees worldwide. Since its foundation, Canon has moved forward towards its objective of being the manufacturer of the best products in the world. While pursuing the pinnacle of quality, we have taken the lead in developing electronic and automation technologies to enhance the ease of use of our products. One key to Canon's success has been the spirit of meeting new technological challenges and at CRE you will have the opportunity to play a significant part in this. We offer an excellent working environment and a competitive salary and benefits package. For further details on CRE and this job opportunity, please consult our web pages at: http://www.cre.canon.co.uk/ To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter, to: Paula Mason (recruitment) Canon Research Centre Europe Limited 1 Occam Court Surrey Research Park Guildford GU2 5YJ United Kingdom fax: +44 (0) 1483 448845 email: sljobs at cre.canon.co.uk Because of British law, preference will be given to applicants who already have the right to work in the United Kingdom. From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 18 19:00:38 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:00:38 GMT Subject: Appel: Outils de Recherche ... (Colloque ACFAS) Message-ID: <THU.18.MAR.1999.190038.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~delannoy/ACFAS/description.html APPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS ET ? PARTICIPATION L'IMPORTANCE DES OUTILS DE RECHERCHE ET D'ANALYSE DE L'INFORMATION TEXTUELLE dans le cadre du 67e Congr?s de l'ACFAS Universit? d'Ottawa, Ontario, Canada les 10 et 11 mai 1999 Il s'agit d'un colloque interdisciplinaire sur les outils de traitement de la langue naturelle (TLN), pour : 1) faire se rencontrer les linguistes-informaticiens, des universitaires d'autres domaines, et en g?n?ral des gens dont le travail a fortement ? voir avec la manipulation et l'interpr?tation des textes 2) faire le point sur le TLN, son utilit? et ses enjeux, en combinant le c?t? pratique (syst?mes, approches) et le c?t? de son application 3) donner plus de notori?t? au TLN au-del? de la communaut? de ses concepteurs, et clarifier ce dont il est capable et les services qu'il peut rendre. Il y aura des pr?sentations de syst?mes et de points de vue, des d?monstrations, des tables rondes et des s?ances de questions. La langue officielle est le fran?ais, but English is also welcome. TH?MES: M?thodes et syst?mes de TLN Outils de recherche d'information ?tiquetage linguistique Lecture et aide ? la lecture Analyse de discours, analyse du raisonnement Contexte, interactivit? Probl?mes de principe ?pist?mologie PARTICIPANTS INVIT?S - Isma?l Biskri (U. Trois Rivi?res) : TLN, recherche d'informations - Marc Cavazza (U. Bradford, Angleterre, et Groupe S?mantique des Textes / MSH, Paris ) : TLN, s?mantique, s?miotique, multim?dia - Jean-Pierre Corriveau (U. Carleton, Ottawa) : TLN, intelligence artificielle, cognition - Jean-Fran?ois Delannoy (RES International et U. Ottawa ) : TLN, recherche d'informations, cognition - Sylvain Delisle (U. Trois Rivi?res) : TLN, recherche d'informations - Martin Laplante (RES International, Ottawa) : IA, recherche d'informations, Internet, connexionisme - Stan Matwin (SITE, U. Ottawa) : apprentissage automatique, TLN, intelligence artificielle - Vance Mendenhall (Dept de Philosophie, U. Ottawa) : philosophie du langage, ?tude du raisonnement, ?pist?mologie - Jean Guy Meunier (UQAM) : TLN, recherche d'informations, gestion des textes - Patricia Raymond (Institut des Langues Secondes, U Ottawa ) : th?ories de l'apprentissage des langues secondes, lecture - Arnold Smith (Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique du Canada) : interaction graphiques-langage, cognition, philosophie - Ruth Sullivan (Dept de Droit, U. Ottawa ) : interpr?tation en droit civil - Christian Vandendorpe (Dept. de Lettres Fran?aises et Centre d'?criture, U. Ottawa) : hypertextes, th?ories de la litt?rature, s?miotique INFORMATION: Jean-Fran?ois Delannoy, organisateur http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~delannoy/ACFAS/description.html delannoy at res.ca +1 (613) 238-3690 INSCRIPTION: Frais d'inscription: de 58 a 190 dollars canadiens Colette Lesage http://www.acfas.ca/congres lesage at acfas.ca +1 (514) 849-0045 ou sur place From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 18 19:00:41 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:00:41 GMT Subject: Divers: Parallel Text Processing (Biblio) Message-ID: <THU.18.MAR.1999.190041.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at lpl.univ-aix.fr> Our bibliography on Parallel Text Processing is available on the Web at http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/biblios/ptp.htm This bibliography undoubtedly contains errors and omissions. We will try to fix them with your help, and add URLs for downloads of papers that are on the Web. Your comments and help will be most welcome. Jean Vironis and Marie-Dominique Mahimon <Jean.Veronis at lpl.univ-aix.fr> <Marie-Dominique.Mahimon at lpl.univ-aix.fr> From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr Fri Mar 19 18:30:57 1999 From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 18:30:57 GMT Subject: Job: 1 Offer Message-ID: <FRI.19.MAR.1999.183057.GMT.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Detmar Meurers <dm at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> JOB OPENING: SYNTACTIC ANNOTATION OF TEXT CORPORA UNIVERSITY OF TUEBINGEN DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS DIVISION OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS The Division of Computational Linguistics in the Dept. of Linguistics at the University of Tuebingen, Germany has received external funding for a three-year project (April 1999 - December 2001) in Corpus Linguistics and Corpus Annotation. The project will be carried out in collaboration with the Institut fuer deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim and the Institut fuer Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart. The main goal of the research at Tuebingen is the automatic annotation of text corpora for German at the level of morpho-syntactic annotation and partial syntactic annotation. Candidates for the position should have sound knowledge of German grammar and should be familiar with the theory and implementation of finite-state automata, finite-state transducers and robust parsing techniques. Programming experience in C or C++ is highly desirable. The successful candidate would be expected to take up the position as soon as possible. The position is at the rank of "Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter" (M.A. degree or Ph.D. degree required). The salary on the German payscale of BAT IIa; minimum of 65 000 DM per year. Applications should include CV and an outline of research experience and interests. Names and addresses of references would be helpful. Applications should be sent by mail or email to the address below. Prof. Dr. Erhard W. Hinrichs Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft Abt. Computerlinguistik Eberhard-Karls Universitaet Tuebingen Wilhelmstr. 113 D-72074 Tuebingen Germany email: eh at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de Applications received by May 5th, 1999 will receive full consideration. From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Mar 23 16:17:36 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 17:17:36 +0100 Subject: Q: Mac ou PC ? Conjugueur ? Son ? Message-ID: <TUE.23.MAR.1999.171736.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:41:44 -0500 From: Thierry van Steenberghe <100342.254 at compuserve.com> Message-Id: <199903181242_MC2-6E89-220D at compuserve.com> Dans le cadre d'un projet dont je m'occupe, je serais tr?s int?ress? ? recevoir des informations sur les trois sujets ci-dessous: 1. Mac ou PC ? Tout le monde conna?t la proportion globale ( = parts de march?) de Mac et de PC dans le monde: c'est quelque chose comme 10/90. J'aimerais pouvoir estimer la proportion de Mac et de PC (et ?ventuellement aussi de machines sous Unix/Linux) utilis?s *dans les d?partements de linguistique/langue et litt?rature fran?aise* des universit?s ? Et chez les autres "travailleurs de la langue (fran?aise)" que sont les traducteurs, les journalistes, les juristes, etc. ? Oy trouver ce type d'information, si elle existe ? Et sinon, comment la r?colter ? Oserais-je demander aux abonn?s de cette liste qui se sentent concern?s de m'indiquer leur estimation de cette donn?e dans leur d?partement ? Je tenterai de traiter les informations que je r?colterai et je les partagerai avec la liste, bien entendu. 2. Conjugueur ? J'aimerais recevoir des informations sur les possibilit?s d'obtenir des outils linguistiques, et plus sp?cifiquement un conjugueur capable de traiter tous les verbes fran?ais, ? int?grer dans un produit actuellement en d?veloppement. 3. Son ? De m?me, j'aimerais des informations sur un module de synth?se de "texte" en fran?ais (mots isol?s, expressions, courtes phrases), et notamment savoir s'il est possible d'indiquer les prononciations souhait?es (en IPA ou via une transcription quelconque) et de les modifier ?ventuellement pour illustrer divers ph?nom?nes, par exemple les variations r?gionales, etc. Merci beaucoup d?j? ? tous ceux qui voudront bien apporter des ?l?ments d'information. Thierry __________________________ Thierry van Steenberghe tvs at info.ucl.ac.be t_vs at compuserve.com __________________________ From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 24 09:02:19 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 10:02:19 +0100 Subject: Appel: Atelier TALN'99 "Methodes Hybrides TALN/TALP" Message-ID: <WED.24.MAR.1999.100219.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> [envoi retard? du fait d'un pb mat?riel dans la gestion de la liste LN -- mille excuses -- pz] Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 14:04:08 +0100 From: Jean-Yves Antoine <Jean-Yves.Antoine at univ-ubs.fr> Message-Id: <01BE7211.5C48FBD0 at pc-valoria-10.univ-ubs.fr> X-url: http://web.iu-vannes.fr/public/IUP/recherche/TALN99/atelier.htm X-url: http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/ ----------------------------- 2 eme Appel -------------------------------- Atelier "METHODES HYBRIDES TALN / TALP POUR LE TRAITEMENT ROBUSTE DU LANGAGE" Organise dans le cadre du congres TALN'99 (12-17 Juillet 1999, Cargese ; http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/) *** PROBLEMATIQUE *** Pendant longtemps, les communautes du Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN) et du Traitement Automatique de la Parole (TAP/TALP) ont vecu dans une relative ignorance mutuelle. On constate cependant depuis quelques annees un rapprochement entre ces 2 communautes. Ainsi, l'interet de la Communication Homme-Machine (CHM) orale pour les techniques employees en TALN va croissant a mesure qu'elle cherche a ameliorer des modeles statistiques de langage qui, tout en ayant conduit au developpement des premiers systemes operationnels, presentent d'indeniables faiblesses. On observe ainsi l'apparition de modeles hybrides (modeles markoviens + regles ; modeles de dependances probabilistes) ou l'utilisation d'analyseurs de post-traitement symboliques pour la reconnaissance ou la comprehension automatique de la parole. Cette problematique revet une importance de plus en plus reconnue au sein de la communaute parole, comme en temoigne par exemple la mise en place dans le cadre du GDR I3 d'un groupe de travail sur ce theme. Parallelement, la communaute TALN s'interesse de plus en plus a la question de la robustesse, comme en temoignent plusieurs programmes d'evaluation (action GRACE par exemple). Or, on remarque que cette recherche de robustesse s'est traduite par l'integration de techniques employees a l'oral, que ce soit par exemple pour l'alignement de corpus multilingues ou pour l'etiquetage syntaxique. L'objectif de cet atelier est de permettre une reflexion sur l'utilisation conjointe des techniques issues de nos deux communautes. Les champs d'application privilegies seront, sans exclusive (la liste ci-dessous ne correspondant qu'aux usages les plus frequents de techniques hybrides en TALN ou TALP) : - la reconnaissance automatique de la parole, - la comprehension automatique de la parole, - la traduction automatique en CHM finalisee (orale ou ecrite), - l'etiquetage syntaxique, Cet atelier se deroulera sous la forme de communications orales suivies de discussions. Afin de favoriser les echanges, le temps accorde aux debats sera particulierement privilegie. Les communications pourront porter sur des aspects theoriques tels que, par exemple, l'integration de contraintes symboliques dans un modele stochastique de langage, ou au contraire decrire le developpement de techniques hybrides dans une application donnee. Une attention particuliere sera portee sur l'ouverture aux deux communautes TALN/TALP dans la presentation de ces travaux. *** COMITE D'ORGANISATION *** Jean-Yves ANTOINE (VALORIA, Universite de Bretagne Sud, Vannes) Damien GENTHIAL (CLIPS-IMAG, Grenoble) *** COMITE DE PROGRAMME *** R. Andre-Obrecht (IRIT, Toulouse) P. Bouillon (ISSCO, Geneve) J. Caelen (CLIPS, Grenoble) M. El Beze (LIA, Avignon) G. Perennou (IRIT, Toulouse) J.M. Pierrel (LORIA, UHP, Nancy) G. Sabah (LIMSI, Orsay) J. Siroux (IRISA, Lannion) J. Vergne (GREYC, Caen) J. Veronis (LPL, Aix-en-Provence) *** SOUMISSIONS *** --- Format des soumissions --- Les articles soumis doivent suivre les modalites de soumission de TALN'99. Ils ne depasseront pas 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, soit environ 3000 mots, figures, exemples et references compris. Il respecteront le style disponible sur le site de TALN'99 a l'URL suivante : (http://talana.linguist.jussieu.fr/taln99/). La langue officielle pour les articles est le frangais. Les articles devront parvenir, sous format electronique exclusivement, aux organisateurs de l'atelier. A savoir : format LaTex Mel : Damien.Genthial at imag.fr format Word (RTF) Mel : Jean-Yves.Antoine at univ-ubs.fr --- Evaluation --- Les communications seront evaluees par trois relecteurs representant necessairement les deux disciplines du TALN et du TALP. La version finale des communication acceptees sera publiee dans les actes de l'atelier. --- Dates importantes --- 24 mars : Date limite de soumission des articles (date maintenue n'abusez pas trop de notre souplesse, merci !) 28 Avril : Notification 15 mai : Version finale ======================================================= Jean-Yves ANTOINE - MCF info - Laboratoire VALORIA Redacteur en chef revue In Cognito (http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/RESEAUX/incognito/revue/infoinco.html) Organisateur atelier TALN99 (http://web.iu-vannes.fr/public/IUP/recherche/TALN99/atelier.htm) Animateur GT-I3 5.2 : http://web.iu-vannes.fr/public/IUP/recherche/texteI3.html IUP Vannes, r. Yves Mainguy, 56000 Vannes - Tel : 02 97 68 32 10 Mel : Jean-Yves.Antoine at univ-ubs.fr Toile : http://hermes.imag.fr/~antoine ======================================================= From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Thu Mar 25 10:56:38 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:56:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: EMNLP/VLC-99 Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.115638.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 18:47:36 +0800 From: Liu Xiaohu <lxiaohu at cs.ust.hk> Message-ID: <36F77148.138D at cs.ust.hk> Second Call For Papers (EMNLP/VLC-99) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND VERY LARGE CORPORA Sponsored by SIGDAT (ACL's Special Interest Group for Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP) June 21-22, 1999 University of Maryland In conjunction with ACL'99: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics This SIGDAT-sponsored joint conference will continue to provide a forum for new research in corpus-based and/or empirical methods in NLP. In addition to providing a general forum, the theme for this year is "Corpus-based and/or Empirical Methods in NLP for Speech, MT, IR, and other Applied Systems" A large number of systems in automatic speech recognition(ASR) and synthesis, machine translation(MT), information retrieval(IR), optical character recognition(OCR) and handwriting recognition have become commercially available in the last decade. Many of these systems use NLP technologies as an important component. Corpus-based and empirical methods in NLP have been a major trend in recent years. How useful are these techniques when applied to real systems, especially when compared to rule-based methods? Are there any new techniques to be developed in EMNLP and from VLC in order to improve the state-of-the-art of ASR, MT, IR, OCR, and other applied systems? Are there new ways to combine corpus-based and empirical methods with rule-based systems? This two-day conference aims to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the above issues, through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. The goal of the conference is to raise an awareness of what kind of new EMNLP techniques need to be developed in order to bring about the next breakthrough in speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, information retrieval and other applied systems. Scope The conference solicits paper submissions in (and not limited to) the following areas: 1) Original work in one of the following technologies and its relevance to speech, MT, or IR: (a) word sense disambiguation (b) word and term segmentation and extraction (c) alignment (d) bilingual lexicon extraction (e) POS tagging (f) statistical parsing (g) dialog models (h) others (please specify) 2) Proposals of new EMNLP technologies for speech, MT, IR, OCR, or other applied systems (please specify). 3) Comparetive evaluation of the performance of EMNLP technologies in one of the areas in (1) and that of its rule-based or knowledge-based counterpart in a speech, MT, IR, OCR or other applied system. Submission Requirements Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their work. We encourage paper submissions related to the conference theme. In particular, we encourage the authors to include in their papers, proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme. However, there will be a special session in the conference to include corpus-based and/or empirical work in all areas of natural language processing. Submission Format Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Reviewing of papers will not be blind. The submission format and word limit are the same as those for ACL this year. We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX (plus bibstyle and trivial example) or Word style files for the preparation of submissions. Six opies of full-length paper (not to exceed 3200 words exclusive of references) should be received at the following address before or on March 31, 1999. EMNLP/VLC-99 Program Committee c/o Pascale Fung Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Important Dates March 31 Submission of full-length paper April 30 Acceptance notice May 20 Camera-ready paper due June 21-22 Conference date Program Chair Pascale Fung Human Language Technology Center Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: (+852) 2358 8537 Fax: (+852) 2358 1485 Email: pascale at ee.ust.hk Program Co-Chair Joe Zhou LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier 9555 Springboro Pike Dayton, OH 45342 USA Email: joez at lexis-nexis.com Program Committee (partial list) Jiang-Shin Chang (Behavior Design Corp.) Ken Church (AT&T Labs--Research) Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University) Marti Hearst (UC-Berkeley) Huang, Changning (Tsinghua University) Pierre Isabelle (Xerox Research Europe) Lillian Lee (Cornell University) David Lewis (AT&T Research) Dan Melamed (West Group) Masaaki Nagata (NTT) Steve Richardson (Microsoft Research) Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs--Research) Andreas Stolcke (SRI) Ralph Weischedel (BBN) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University) From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Thu Mar 25 14:48:02 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:48:02 +0100 Subject: Ecole: ESSLLI99 - deadline early registration Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.154802.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:12:17 +0100 From: ESSLLI 1999 <esslli99 at let.uu.nl> Message-Id: <v04003a06b31e8714885b@[131.211.194.186]> X-url: http://esslli.let.uu.nl/ [Apologies if you receive this message more than once] ************************************************************************** 11th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 1999 August 9-20, 1999 Utrecht University, The Netherlands DEADLINE EARLY REGISTRATION: April 30 *************************************************************************** The ESSLLI programme offers courses, workshops, and a student session in the areas of: Language Logic Computation Logic & Language Language & Computation Logic & Computation For detailed information on courses, instructors, applications, housing, etc. please visit our web site: http://esslli.let.uu.nl/ Registration fees: STUDENTS: NLG 350 (until April 30) NLG 450 (after April 30) ACADEMIC: NLG 500 (until April 30) NLG 700 (after April 30) INDUSTRIAL: NLG 900 (until April 30) NLG 1200 (after April 30) A limited number of grants is available. Please visit our web site at: http://esslli.let.uu.nl/grants.html For more information contact us at: ESSLLI 99 Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS Trans 10 3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands E-mail: esslli99 at let.uu.nl Fax: +31-30-2536000 Tel: (secretary) +31-30-2536183 http://esslli.let.uu.nl From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Thu Mar 25 15:27:31 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 16:27:31 +0100 Subject: R: Mac ou PC ? Conjugueur ? Son ? Message-ID: <THU.25.MAR.1999.162731.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> ================================================================ 1/Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:19:03 +0100 (MET) From: fuchs at canoe.ens.fr (Catherine Fuchs) ================================================================ 2/Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:17:39 +0100 (MET) From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> ================================================================ ================================================================ 1/Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:19:03 +0100 (MET) From: fuchs at canoe.ens.fr (Catherine Fuchs) Message-Id: <v01540b04b31db4a2569d@[129.199.1.160]> Pour le conjugueur du fran?ais, mon ?quipe en construit un. Mais il faudrait que j'en sache plus sur les objectifs du demandeur. Catherine FUCHS Directeur de recherche au CNRS ENS 1 rue Maurice Arnoux 92120 Montrouge t?l : 01 42 53 75 87 fax : 01 42 53 75 86 e-mail : Catherine.Fuchs at ens.fr ================================================================ 2/Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 18:17:39 +0100 (MET) From: Christian Boitet <Christian.Boitet at imag.fr> Message-Id: <v03102816b31edc258c48@[129.88.32.65]> X-url: http://www-clips.imag.fr/geta/christian.boitet Pour le son voir (au moins!) Prof. Eric Keller Laboratoire d'analyse informatique de la parole (LAIP) Lettres, Universite de Lausanne BFSH2, Room 4082 CH-1015 LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND T?l. +41 21 692 3020, Fax: +41 21 692 3045 ekeller at eliot.unil.ch Pr. Michel Divay IUT de Lannion T?l: 03-9648.5765 Universit? de Rennes 1 Fax: 03-9648.5797 BP 150 Mel: divay at iut-lannion.fr 22302 Lannion cedex Joseph Mariani / Fran?oise N?el LIMSI-CNRS BP133 Tel: +33-1-69 85 80 85 91403 Orsay Cedex Fax: +33-1-69 85 80 88 France Courrier-E: mariani at limsi.fr, neel at limsi.fr Pour les conjugueurs voir (au moins!) John Chandioux Experts-Conseils Inc. 1253 av. Mac Gill College tel: +1-514-877-4201 bureau 450 fax: +1-514-877-9890 Montre'al, Que'bec H3B 2Y5 Canada (27/12/95) Damien.Genthial C?l: Damien.Genthial at imag.fr TRILAN, CLIPS, IMAG-Campus, BP 53 | IUT de Valence F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9 | 51, Rue B. de Laffemas, BP 2123 France | 26901 Valence Cedex Tel:+33-7651.4915 | Tel:+33-7543.7254 Fax:+33-7644.6675 | Fax:+33-7542.1872 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Boitet (Pr. Universite' Joseph Fourier) Tel: +33.4-7651-4355/4817 GETA, CLIPS, IMAG-campus, BP53 Fax: +33.4-7651-4405 385, rue de la Bibliothe`que Mel: Christian.Boitet at imag.fr 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France Mobile: +33-(0)6-6005-1969 http://www-clips.imag.fr/geta/christian.boitet From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 26 17:07:29 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:07:29 +0100 Subject: Appel: INTEX Second Workshop Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.180729.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:52:33 +0100 From: "Max Silberztein" <silberz at ladl.jussieu.fr> Message-Id: <000101be76e8$42abd400$371e9d86 at DELL.univ-fcomte.fr> ************************************************************************ Second Workshop of INTEX users June, 7th and 8th, 1999 LADL, Universit? Paris 7 GRELIS, Universit? de Franche-Comt? ************************************************************************ INTEX is a development environment that allows linguists to describe natural languages, starting from their alphabet and morphology to the syntactic level. INTEX provides tools to: -- edit/maintain large-coverage dictionaries of simple and compound words; -- describe the inflectional and derivational morphology of a language; -- edit/maintain large libraries of finite state grammars; -- apply these dictionaries and grammars to large texts in real time in order to parse them, refine/debug the linguistic description, retrieve information and compute statistical results, etc. Large-coverage dictionaries for INTEX are already available for English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. Bulgarian, Korean, Thai and Old French descriptions are currently under way. INTEX is used as a research tool by laboratories interested in corpus linguistics and literature studies, as well as a pedagogical tool to teach computational linguistics and French as a second language. The second Workshop of INTEX users will take place on June, 7th and 8th at: LADL, Universit? Paris 7, 2, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris Central Tower, 7th floor These two days will give INTEX users the opportunity to meet colleagues and confront their experience as researchers, teachers and developers. We invite INTEX users and more generally, people interested in the application of large-coverage, handcrafted lexical resources for NLP to present their work; we will organize two intensive training sessions for INTEX users and developers. ======================================================================= FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================= Send your submission (Title + 1 page Abstract) to: INTEX Second Workshop LADL, Universit? Paris 7, 2, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris The schedule for paper submissions: SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 30, 1999 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: May 15, 1999 ========================================================================== REGISTRATION FOR THE TUTORIALS ========================================================================== Two 3-Hour tutorials will take place on the 8th of June: 1) (INTEX users) Finite State Transducers, Applications to Texts, Construction of Dictionaries, Construction of Local Grammars, Disambiguation with INTEX, Syntactic Parsing 2) (Developers) INTEX commands, File formats, INTEX adaptation to other applications People interested by these tutorials are invited to subscribe as soon as possible. For any Information: Cedrick Fairon (fairon at ladl.jussieu.fr) University of Paris 7, Laboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique (LADL) 2, place Jussieu (Tour centrale 9eme etage), 75221 Paris Cedex tel. : 44 27 56 92, fax : 44 27 68 51 From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 26 17:12:28 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:12:28 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL'99 Call for Demos Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.181228.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 99 19:42:05 EST From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Message-Id: <CMM-RU.1.5.922408925.rasmusse at athos.rutgers.edu> X-url: http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/traum/ACLDemo/acl99demo.html Call for Proposals: ACL-99 Software Demonstrations Program [You may find it easier to read this information on the Web at http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/traum/ACLDemo/acl99demo.html] Demonstations Chair: David Traum UMIACS, University of Maryland traum at cs.umd.edu Call The ACL '99 Program Committee invites proposals for the Demonstrations Program for ACL '99, to be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, June 20--26, 1999. This program is primarily to encourage the early exhibition of research prototypes, but interesting mature systems are also eligible (commercial sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstration program, and should be arranged as part of the ACL-99 Exhibit Program). Areas of Interest We would like to encourage the submission of proposals for demonstrations of software related to any areas of computational linguistics. reas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural language processing systems, including - Dialogue systems and interfaces - Machine translation systems and translation aids - Message and narrative understanding systems. - Language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction systems * Application systems using embedded language technology components * Reusable components (parsers, generators, speech recognizers,...) * Software tools for facilitating computational linguistics research * Software for demonstrating or evaluating computational linguistics research * Aids for teaching computational linguistics concepts Format for Submission Demo Proposals consist of the following parts, which should all be sent to the Demo Chair (electronic submissions preferred). * An abstract of the technical content to be demonstrated, not to exceed two pages, including title, authors, full contact information, references and acknowledgements. * A detailed description of hardware and software requirements expected to be provided by the local organizer. Demonstrators are encouraged to be flexible in their requirements (possibly with different demos for different logistical situations). Please state what you can bring yourself and what you absolutely must have provided. We will do our best to provide equipment and resources but nothing can be guaranteed at this point beyond space and power. Please contact the demo chair at one of the addresses below for any specific questions. * A "Script Outline" of the demo presentation, including accompanying narrative, and either a web address for accessing the demo or visual aids (e.g., screen-shots, snapshots, or sketches). No more than 6 pages, total. Submissions Procedure Proposals should be submitted as soon as possible, but before April 20th, to the ACL-99 Demonstrations Chair. Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to: David R. Traum UMIACS, A. V. Williams Building University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 USA traum at cs.umd.edu phone: +1 (301) 405-1139 fax: +1 (301) 405-6707 Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance to computational linguistics, innovation, scientific contribution, presentation, and user friendliness, as well as potential logistical constraints. Other Details Further details on the timing and format for the demonstrations sessions will be determined and provided at a later date. We anticipate charging a $40 fee for presenting demos, to help defray costs. Important Dates Submission Deadline for Demo Proposal: 20 April 1999 Notification : 15 May 1999 Conference Dates: 23-26 June 1999 From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 26 17:16:14 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:16:14 +0100 Subject: Appel: Extension of Deadline of EMNLP/VLC-99 Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.181614.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 11:03:45 +0800 From: Liu Xiaohu <lxiaohu at cs.ust.hk> Message-ID: <36FAF911.5B4448D3 at cs.ust.hk> X-url: http://www.ee.ust.hk/~pascale/emnlpwvlc99.html Dear authors, Since some people have asked for an extension of deadline, we have decided to grant it to everyone, in order to be fair. Please note that the deadline for EMNLP/VLC-99 submission has been changed to Monday April 5th, 1999. All papers , in hardcoyp, should reach the Hong Kong address on or before that date. No further deadline extension will be granted. Please note that the style files can be downloaded from the ACL99 web site (http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99). No paper ID is required, please leave it blank in your submissions. Thank you ================================================= Final Call For Papers (http://www.ee.ust.hk/~pascale/emnlpwvlc99.html) (EMNLP/VLC-99) JOINT SIGDAT CONFERENCE ON EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND VERY LARGE CORPORA Sponsored by SIGDAT(http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~yarowsky/sigdat.html) (ACL's Special Interest Group for Linguistic Data and Corpus-based Approaches to NLP) June 21-22, 1999 University of Maryland In conjunction with ACL'99: the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (http://mri.mq.edu.au/conf/acl99/) This SIGDAT-sponsored joint conference will continue to provide a forum for new research in corpus-based and/or empirical methods in NLP. In addition to providing a general forum, the theme for this year is "Corpus-based and/or Empirical Methods in NLP for Speech, MT, IR, and other Applied Systems" A large number of systems in automatic speech recognition(ASR) and synthesis, machine translation(MT), information retrieval(IR), optical character recognition(OCR) and handwriting recognition have become commercially available in the last decade. Many of these systems use NLP technologies as an important component. Corpus-based and empirical methods in NLP have been a major trend in recent years. How useful are these techniques when applied to real systems, especially when compared to rule-based methods? Are there any new techniques to be developed in EMNLP and from VLC in order to improve the state-of-the-art of ASR, MT, IR, OCR, and other applied systems? Are there new ways to combine corpus-based and empirical methods with rule-based systems? This two-day conference aims to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners to discuss the above issues, through technical paper sessions, invited talks, and panel discussions. The goal of the conference is to raise an awareness of what kind of new EMNLP techniques need to be developed in order to bring about the next breakthrough in speech recognition and synthesis, machine translation, information retrieval and other applied systems. Scope The conference solicits paper submissions in (and not limited to) the following areas: 1) Original work in one of the following technologies and its relevance to speech, MT, or IR: (a) word sense disambiguation (b) word and term segmentation and extraction (c) alignment (d) bilingual lexicon extraction (e) POS tagging (f) statistical parsing (g) dialog models (h) others (please specify) 2) Proposals of new EMNLP technologies for speech, MT, IR, OCR, or other applied systems (please specify). 3) Comparetive evaluation of the performance of EMNLP technologies in one of the areas in (1) and that of its rule-based or knowledge-based counterpart in a speech, MT, IR, OCR or other applied system. Submission Requirements Submissions should be limited to original, evaluated work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous work. The authors should provide explicit explanation when there is no evaluation in their work. We encourage paper submissions related to the conference theme. In particular, we encourage the authors to include in their papers, proposals and discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme. However, there will be a special session in the conference to include corpus-based and/or empirical work in all areas of natural language processing. Submission Format Only hard-copy submissions will be accepted. Reviewing of papers will not be blind. The submission format and word limit are the same as those for ACL this year. We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX (http://www.mri.mq.au/conf/acl99/style/aclsub.sty) (plus bibstyle(http://www.mri.mq.au/conf/acl99/style/acl.bst) and trivial example(http://www.mri.mq.au/conf/acl99/style/acl99sample-sub.tex)) or Word style (http://www.mri.mq.au/conf/acl99/style/aclsub.doc) files for the preparation of submissions. Paper ID is not required. Please leave it blank. Six opies of full-length paper (not to exceed 3200 words exclusive of references) should be received at the following address before or on March 31, 1999. EMNLP/VLC-99 Program Committee c/o Pascale Fung Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Important Dates March 31 Submission of full-length paper April 30 Acceptance notice May 20 Camera-ready paper due June 21-22 Conference date Program Chair Pascale Fung (http://www.ee.ust.hk/~pascale/) Human Language Technology Center Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University of Science and Tehnology (HKUST) Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Tel: (+852) 2358 8537 Fax: (+852) 2358 1485 Email: pascale at ee.ust.hk Program Co-Chair Joe Zhou LEXIS-NEXIS, a Division of Reed Elsevier 9555 Springboro Pike Dayton, OH 45342 USA Email: joez at lexis-nexis.com Program Committee Jiang-Shin Chang (Behavior Design Corp.) Ken Church (AT&T Labs--Research) Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University) Marti Hearst (UC-Berkeley) Huang, Changning (Tsinghua University) Pierre Isabelle (Xerox Research Europe) Lillian Lee (Cornell University) David Lewis (AT&T Research) Dan Melamed (West Group) Mehryar Mohri (AT&T Labs--Research) Masaaki Nagata (NTT) Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs--Research) Andreas Stolcke (SRI) Ralph Weischedel (BBN) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) David Yarowsky (Johns Hopkins University) From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 26 17:28:05 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:28:05 +0100 Subject: Livre: New series in Natural Language Processing Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.182805.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 13:04:20 +0000 From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> Message-Id: <4.1.19990326130056.00abb7e0 at mail.wlv.ac.uk> X-url: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/NLP_series.htm X-url: http://www.benjamins.nl/jbp/index.html Apologies for multiple copies! New series in Natural Language Processing Call for Proposals John Benjamins Publishers is launching a new book series on Natural Language Processing as a timely response to the growing demand for NLP literature. Three general types of books will be published: Monographs - featuring (i) original leading edge research or (ii) surveys of the state-of-the art of specific NL tasks or applications. Collections (i) books focusing on a particular NLP area (e.g. emerging from successful NLP workshops or as a result of editors' calls for papers) or (ii) books which include papers covering a wide range of topics (e.g. emerging from competitive NLP conferences or as a result of proposals for books of the type ?Reading In NLP?). Course books (i) general NLP course books or (ii) course books on a particular key area of NLP (e.g. Speech Processing, Computational Syntax/Parsing). Authors will be encouraged to append supplementary materials such as demonstration programs, NLP software, corpora etc. and to indicate web-sites, computational language resources etc. where appropriate. This call invites proposals from potential authors of the types of books described above. Topics The scope of the new series will be maximally comprehensive ranging from theoretical Computational Linguistics topics (Computational Syntax, Computational Semantics etc.) to highly practical Language Technology topics (speech recognition, information extraction, information retrieval etc.). The new series will cover both written language and speech; it will welcome works covering (but not limited to) areas such as: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse, pragmatics, dialogue, text understanding and generation, machine translation, machine-aided translation, translation aids and tools, corpus-based language processing; written and spoken natural language interfaces, knowledge acquisition, information extraction, text summarisation, text classification, computer-aided language learning, language resources. New results in NLP based on modern alternative theories and methodologies as opposed to the mainstream techniques of symbolic NLP such as analogy-based, statistical, connections as well as hybrid and multimedia approaches, will be also welcome. The series will pay special attention to current ?hot topics? such as multilingual NLP, evaluation and speech. Editor/Advisory board The new series' editor is Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) and the advisory board of the series includes: - Christian Boitet (University of Grenoble) - John Carroll (University of Sussex, Brighton) - Eugene Charniak (Brown University, Providence) - Ed Hovy (Information Sciences Institute, USC) - Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal) - Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster University) - Carlos Martin-Vide (Rovira i Virgili Un., Tarragona) - Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co. & Univ. of Edinburgh) - John Nerbonne (University of Groningen) - Nicolas Nicolov (University of Sussex, Brighton) - Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University) - Allan Ramsey (UMIST, Manchester) - Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille) - Richard Sproat (AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park) - Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei) - Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon) - Benjamin Tsou (City University of Hong Kong) - Jun-ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo) - Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill) - Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield) The managing editor at John Benjamins is Kees Vaes (Email kees.vaes at benjamins.nl). Submission of proposals Interested authors should submit proposals by email (plain text or postscript files) to the series editor: Prof. Ruslan Mitkov School of Languages and European Studies University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom Telephone (44-1902) 322471 Fax (44-1902) 322739 Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk The proposals should include an outline of the book (1-2 pages), a preliminary table of contents, the target readership, related publications, how the book will differ from other similar books in the area (if applicable), time-scale and information about the prospective author (relevant experience in the field, publications etc.). Each proposal will be reviewed by members of the advisory board or additional reviewers. More information More information on the new series will be available in due course at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~le1825/NLP_series.htm Information on the new series is also available at John Benjamins' web site http://www.benjamins.nl/jbp/index.html (new projects). From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 26 17:31:20 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:31:20 +0100 Subject: R: Conjugueur ? Message-ID: <FRI.26.MAR.1999.183120.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> ================================================================ 1/Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:43:59 -0500 From: Lyne Da Sylva <ldasylva at machinasapiens.com> ================================================================ 2/Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 08:44:14 +0100 From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at lpl.univ-aix.fr> ================================================================ ================================================================ 1/Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:43:59 -0500 From: Lyne Da Sylva <ldasylva at machinasapiens.com> Message-Id: <v03102800b3204fa31137@[192.168.101.92]> Machina Sapiens dispose d'une librairie de fonctions de correction, dont un conjugateur, accessibles via un API pour Mac, Windows et Linux. Elles sont extraites de leur produit vedette Le Correcteur 101. Contact Moussa Dieng Les Logiciels Machina Sapiens inc. 3535, chemin de la Reine-Marie, bureau 420, Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3V 1H8 T?l?phone : (514) 733-1095 T?l?copieur : (514) 733-2774 mdieng at machinasapiens.com ================================================================ 2/Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 08:44:14 +0100 From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at lpl.univ-aix.fr> Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990326084414.007a7280 at pop3.lpl.univ-aix.fr> Des conjugueurs existent dans des programmes tels que Cordial (http://www.synapse-fr.com/), dont j'avais d?j? signal? la version universit? qui permet l'?tiquetage grammatical. Il y a aussi le CD-ROM du Robert, divers programmes d'EAO (par exemple le CD "Conjugaison fran?aise" chez Sybex). Mais, ?videmment, ces conjugueurs sont "empaquet?s" dans les logiciels h?tes et ne peuvent pas ?tre utilis?s ind?pendamment (et surtout int?gr?s dans d'autres applications). Une petite remarque, tout de m?me, ? l'attention de notre communaut?: j'ai un document Euratom du tout d?but de ann?es soixante, qui donne un algorithme complet de conjugaison des verbes fran?ais (ainsi que du reste de la morphologie flexionnelle, d'ailleurs). La technologie (au demeurant assez simple) est donc ma?tris?e depuis longtemps. Pr?s de quarante ans plus tard nous n'avons toujours pas un conjugueur standard et largement disponible, et de nombreuses ?quipes (dont la mienne) r??crivent p?riodiquement des conjugueurs et autres morphologiseurs... (cela fournit d'ailleurs des projets bien commodes pour nos ?tudiants). Cela ne devrait-il pas nous faire r?fl?chir ? nos modes de fonctionnement? Quelques sites: http://members.xoom.com/francianne/conjugue.html http://www.sit.ulaval.ca/logi/conjugue/conjugue.htm http://rousseau.utsa.edu/french_class/verbs/Default.htm et bien s?r http://www-ceril.univ-mlv.fr/dyn/Conjugaison (un site fran?ais tout de m?me!). Jean V?ronis Professeur de Linguistique et Informatique Universit? de Provence From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Sat Mar 27 17:13:00 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:13:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: FASSBL3 Conference - Plovdiv'99 Message-ID: <SAT.27.MAR.1999.181300.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 14:54:23 +0200 From: Dinko Georgiev <dinko at ulcc.uni-plovdiv.bg> Message-Id: <36FCD4FE.11B331E2 at ulcc.uni-plovdiv.bg> X-url: http://wglit.uni-plovdiv.bg/fassbl3 Dear Colleagues, It's announced the Third Conference on Formal Approaches to South Slavic and Balkan Languages Plovdiv, 24 - 26 September, 1999 The conference will be hosted by the Linguistics and Slavic Languages Department at the University of Plovdiv. Visit the site of thy conference for details: http://wglit.uni-plovdiv.bg/fassbl3 Regards, Dinko Georgiev mailto:dinko at uni-plovdiv.bg From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Mon Mar 29 07:43:25 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 08:43:25 +0100 Subject: Q: Controlled Language tools Message-ID: <MON.29.MAR.1999.084325.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 18:46:44 +0200 From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr> Message-Id: <4.0.1.19990327175525.00e02c10 at 192.168.1.1> X-url: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html I am forwarding this message to a few lists for Guy Hazell. Please contact him directly at <Guy.Hazell at asml.nl> for more details regarding his needs for the development of controlled language tools. Best, Jeff Allen Sender: Guy.Hazell at asml.nl Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:55:12 +0100 From: Guy Hazell <guy.hazell at asml.nl> Organization: ASML Subject: Tools Hello everybody, I have recently created a controlled language for my company. As a part of the further development in the use of this language within the company I am looking into the availability of tools for using the language. We are operating on the unix platform and using Framemaker as our main production tool. What I am looking for is an existing tool, or a company that may be able to develop a tool that can be a dictionary/grammar and rule checker on this platform. Has anybody any knowledge that could help me. Thanks. Guy Hazell <guy.hazell at asml.nl> ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europ?enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Mon Mar 29 15:22:37 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 17:22:37 +0200 Subject: R: Conjugueur ? Message-ID: <MON.29.MAR.1999.172237.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:10:28 +0200 From: "dominique dutoit" <memodata at wanadoo.fr> Message-ID: <01be79d4$c6a0b0c0$0100007f at localhost> X-url: http://www.memodata.com Bonjour, Pour ce qui est de la recherche de conjugueur, pourriez-vous ajouter que MEMODATA peut fournir, dans le contexte de certaines collaborations : - conjugaison et lemmatisation des verbes - flexion des noms et adjectifs (et lemmatisation) ---> l'ensemble pour les mots simples et pour les expressions compos?es Les donn?es sont disponibles avec les mod?les et les algorithmes. Les algorithmes impl?ment?s sont disponibles au format DLL (t?l?charcher Dicologique 92 sur www.memodata.com par exemple), en code source C ou delphi ou java. Enfin, pour Java, ces unit?s appartiennent ? un package Dictionary du S?miographe. Bien cordialement. __________________________________________________________________________ NEW! Find on our web site "http://www.memodata.com" games, dictionaries, electronic books and semantics... Dominique Dutoit MEMODATA Tel: (33)02.31.35.75.21 Language Dpt fax: (33)02.31.35.75.28 17 rue Dumont d'Urville Mail :dutoit at info.unicaen.fr 14000 CAEN The INTEGRAL DICTIONARYtm DICOLOGICtm : the largest world model for linguistic computing and semantic analysis. Computational semantic with the SEMIOGRAPHtm for five languages (French, English, German, Italian, Spanish) Semantic modelization with LEXIDIOMtm. From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Mar 30 11:23:32 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:23:32 +0200 Subject: Conf: LFG99 program Message-ID: <TUE.30.MAR.1999.132332.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 11:12:25 PST From: Tracy Holloway King <thking at parc.xerox.com> Message-ID: <99Mar29.121225pdt."791801"@pargram.parc.xerox.com> X-url: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/ LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR ANNUAL MEETING LFG99 19-21 July, 1999 Manchester University URL: http://lings.ln.man.ac.uk/html/LFG/ Enquiries: LFG99 at man.ac.uk MONDAY JULY 19 9.00-9.45 Peter AUSTIN Argument Coding and Clause Linkage in Australian Aboriginal Languages 9.45-10.30 Farrell ACKERMAN Telic Object as a Proto-Patient Property of Lexical Predicates 10.30-11.15 Anna SIEWIERSKA Reduced Pronominals and Argument Prominence 11.15-11.45 BREAK 11.45-12.30 Yukiko MORIMOTO Information Packaging and Argument Reversal: An Optimality Theoretic Account of English Locative Inversion 12.30-1.15 Lunella MEREU On the Grammatical Realization of Discourse Functions in Somali 1.15-2.45 LUNCH 2.45-4.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 1 Organizer: Victoria ROSEN 4.15-4.45 BREAK 4.45-6.15 WORKSHOP Grammar Writing in LFG - part 2 TUESDAY JULY 20 9.00-9.45 Tara MOHANAN and KP MOHANAN Two Forms of BE in Malayalam 9.45-10.30 Devyani SHARMA Nominal Clitics and Constructive Morphology in Hindi 10.30-11.00 BREAK 11.00-11.45 Jonas KUHN Towards a Simple Architecture for the Structure-function Mapping 11.45-12.30 Josef VAN GENABITH and Andy WAY Semi-Automatic Generation of F-Structures from Treebanks 12.30-2.00 LUNCH 2.00-3.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American Languages - part 1 Organizer: George Aaron Broadwell 3.30-4.00 BREAK 4.00-5.30 WORKSHOP Structure and Representation in Native American Languages - part 2 5.30-6.30 BUSINESS MEETING WEDNESDAY JULY 21 9.00-9.45 Kersti BORJARS, Erika CHISARIK, and John PAYNE On the Justification for Functional Categories in LFG 9.45-10.30 Christoph SCHWARZE Inflectional Classes in Lexical Functional Morphology -- Latin -sk- and its Evolution 10.30-11.00 BREAK 11.00-11.45 Kenji YOKOTA Light Verb Constructions in Japanese and Functional Uncertainty 11.45-12.30 Nikolas GISBORNE English Light Verbs and the (Non)necessity of Argument Structure 12.30-2.00 LUNCH 2.00-2.45 Judith BERMAN Does German Satisfy the Subject Condition? 2.45-3.30 Hanjung LEE The Domain of Grammatical Case in Lexical-Functional Grammar 3.30-4.00 BREAK 4.00-4.45 John FRY Resource-logical Event Semantics for LFG 4.45-5.30 Anette FRANK Towards Optimal Linking 5.30-6.00 CLOSING REMARKS ALTERNATES Tibor LACZKO The Anatomy of a Jolly-JokER -- A Comprehensive Analysis of a Multi-Functional Deverbal Morpheme in Hungarian Louisa SADLER Non-Distributive Features and Coordination in Welsh From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 31 15:11:48 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:11:48 +0200 Subject: Appel: MT Summit VII Workshop Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.171148.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 20:55:33 +0900 From: "Megumi Kiya" <aamt0002 at infotokyo.ne.jp> Message-Id: <01be7aa4$376bf600$0100007f at localhost> ---------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Machine Translation for Cross Language Information Retrieval ---------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The goal of this workshop is to explore the role of MT in the context of CLIR. Undoubtedly searching, extracting and summarising information from the Web is a major challenge demanding multilingual solutions. Despite the fact that currently much textual WWW information is in English, the situation is radically changing. In addition, there is an increased amount of users who would prefer to use sites and/or query in their native language. There are different strategies for CLIR involving document translation, query translation, use of dictionaries. The adoption of a strategy depends on the user profile, the level of user interaction intended in the search process, the targeted use of the documents retrieved and the availability of linguistic resources, among others. We invite papers on topics which link advances in Machine Translation or related technologies to CLIR. Are existing MT solutions sufficient for the information access demands of today? What type of MT linguistic analysis would be useful for CLIR? How can we identify the proper translations of query terms? How can we improve on existing techniques to improve precision and recall? A non-exhaustive list, which should serve as a starting point, follows: * Issues in query translation and query expansion * Alignment techniques for dictionary building * Level and type of linguistic MT analysis for CLIR (shallow, chunking, ...) * Type of multilingual resources (corpora, dictionaries, terminologies) used in CLIR * Role of terminology and ontologies in CLIR * Translation Memories in CLIR * Translation of index terms and descriptors * CLIR involving Asian languages (problems and challenges) Participation and Submission of Papers Participation is limited to 30 persons. Participants will be selected by the organizing committee, based on submitted papers. Participants will be expected to contribute to the workshop by either presenting a talk or taking part in the discussions. Researchers interested in participating in the workshop are invited to submit long abstracts (up to three pages) on the listed research topics. Submissions may be sent by e-mail (PostScript files) or as hardcopies (in triplicate) to the workshop organiser. In the case where you use non-Roman fonts, hardcopies are preferred. The submissions will be reviewed and the accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Participants selected for giving a talk, will have to submit a full paper (up to 8 pages) for the workshop proceedings. For more information about the workshop, please contact the Workshop Organiser. Important Dates Abstracts due by: May 31, 1999. Notification of acceptance: June 30, 1999. Camera-ready version of Final Paper due: August 2, 1999. Main MT Summit: September 13-17, 1999. Date of the Workshop: September 17,1999 Organising Committee * Sophia Ananiadou, European Media Lab, Germany * Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI, France * Yoshihiko Hayashi, NTT Cyberspace Labs, Japan * Mun Kew Leong, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore * Sung Hyon Myaeng, Chungnam National University, Korea * Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Workshop Organiser Please send abstracts / papers to: Sophia Ananiadou European Media Lab (EML) Villa Bosch, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33 D-69118 Heidelberg Germany Fax: +49-6221-533-298 Email: Sophia.Ananiadou at eml.villa-bosch.org From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 31 15:54:23 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 17:54:23 +0200 Subject: Revue: The Journal of Language and Computation Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.175423.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:11:47 +0000 From: Odinaldo Rodrigues <rodrigu at dcs.kcl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <199903301751.JAA05364 at Turing.Stanford.EDU> X-url: http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/journals/jlac Dear All, This message is being sent to several lists. Apologies if you receive multiple copies. We are pleased to announce the launch of a new journal: The Journal of Language and Computation (L&C), http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/journals/jlac. L&C is an independent journal devoted to the publication of high level research papers on issues in the interface of logic, linguistics, formal grammar, and computational linguistics. It is available electronically for free from its web site at King's College, London. The articles are available in a number of different formats, including DVI, postscript and portable document format (PDF). L&C fills an important need for a journal devoted specifically to work in the emerging field of formal and computational grammar. It is committed to rapid publication of research. As an independent electronic journal, it is free of the commercial and space constraints which restrict printed journals. The same conventions which govern publication in printed journals apply to L&C, except that authors retain the copyright of their papers. All articles will be carefully refereed. A condition for acceptance in L&C is that an author agrees that he/she will not publish his/her paper elsewhere, except with acknowledgment of its original publication in L&C. At the end of our first year of publication, we will consider the possibility of distributing a hard copy of the first volume of the journal (distributed by Oxford University Press) to libraries and subscribers. The decision on whether to produce a hard copy version of the volume will depend upon availability of the necessary resources. To obtain more information, or check the first issue, please visit the web site of L&C: http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/journals/jlac Best regards, Odinaldo -- Odinaldo Rodrigues http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/rodrigu Department of Computer Science King's College - Strand London WC2R 2LS From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 31 16:00:52 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:00:52 +0200 Subject: Jobs: Lectureships, King's College, London Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.180052.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:38:35 +0100 From: Lisa Turner <lisa.turner at kcl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <l0313030ab3254e5db7a3@[137.73.70.123]> Details on vacancies for Lecturers in Computational Linguistics follow: HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY LECTURESHIPS We currently have two vacancies for Lectureships in Computational Linguistics for a fixed term for five years. One post will be appointed on the Lecturer A scale and one will be appointed on the Lecturer B scale. The post on Lecturer A scale is in computational linguistics with specialisation in formal and computational approaches to syntax, semantics, and discourse theory. The successful candidate will be able to teach courses and to supervise post graduate/research students in computational syntax and semantics, and in formal discourse theory. The post on Lecturer B scale is in computational linguistics with specialisation in logic and mathematical linguistics. The successful candidate will be able to teach courses and to supervise post graduate/research students in model theory, formal properties of grammar, and complexity theory. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in a relevant subject and demonstrate evidence of high quality research activity in the indicated areas of specialisation. The Lecturer A salary is on scale ?18,789 - ?23,494 inclusive and Lecturer B salary is ?24,860 - ?31,182 inclusive. For an application form and further details, please contact School of Humanities - Recruitment, King's College, London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, tel. 0171 873 2423, fax 0171 873 2415 or email: mary.l.collins at kcl.ac.uk The closing date for applications is 16 April 1999. Please indicate which post you are applying for and quote reference A2/AN/20/99 _____________________________ Lisa Turner Departmental Administrator Philosophy Department King's College London WC2R 2LS Tel: 0171 873 2231 Fax: 0171 873 2270 From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 31 16:02:09 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:02:09 +0200 Subject: Appel: EACL'99 Call for Exhibits Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.180209.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 99 18:59:30 EST From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <CMM-RU.1.5.922838370.rasmusse at athos.rutgers.edu> X-url: http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99/sponsor.html EACL '99 Exhibit Bergen, June 8-12, 1999 Call for sponsoring and commercial demonstrations The Ninth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics invites the participation of commercial partners at its Exhibit programme. Participation can be either through an official sponsorship or by hiring an exhibit space. Please consult the following webpage: http://www.hit.uib.no/eacl99/sponsor.html Please get in touch with eacl99 at hit.uib.no before April 16, 1999. From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 31 16:02:59 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:02:59 +0200 Subject: Conf: EWNLG Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.180259.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 12:23:34 +0200 (MET DST) From: Patrick SAINT-DIZIER <stdizier at irit.fr> Message-Id: <199903311023.MAA16705 at chm.irit.fr> EWNLG99 European Workshop on natural language generation ================================================= Toulouse, 13, 14 May 1999 Information, Inscription form programme: www.irit.fr (sous manifestations) ========================================================== Location: Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza 7, place du Capitole 31000 Toulouse France. phone: +33 5 61 61 19 19 fax: +33 5 61 23 79 96 Dates: May 13-14 1999 Accomodation: The hotel Holiday Inn, nicely located near the town hall, in the historical part of Toulouse, stands on the 'Place du Capitole'. A special rate of 530F all taxes included per room + breakfast (buffet) is offered to participants. Please call or fax the hotel to make reservations as soon as possible. This rate being very low, NO BLOCKS of ROOMS have been pre-reserved. Identify yourself as participating to the EWNLG99 meeting, organized by 'Universite Paul Sabatier'. Check that the 530F fare is applied. To avoid additional exchange expenses, you may ask to be billed in EUROs for EEC Euro zone persons. (1 pound is about 9 Francs, 1 dollar is about 6F, 1 Mark is about 3.5 Francs) There are other, cheaper, hotels. A short list is given below. You need to contact them directly, no reduced fare has been negociated, due to the small number of participants. The conference location can be reached by foot from the other hotels. To come from the airport, a taxi is about 130F. There is also a regular bus shuttle 'Aerocar' that leaves the airport every 20mns, and stops at the railway station downtown. Then you can either go on foot to the hotel (20mns) or take the metro, 2 stations, get down at station called 'Capitole'. Bus from airport costs about 30F, takes about 25minutes. Weather is usually warm and sunny at that period. Important note: May being a very busy travelling period in France, reserve your flights as soon as possible to get cheap air fares. If you fly via Paris, don't take the train to go to Toulouse (6 hours + many strikes) prefer flying: Air France has 26 return flights from Paris Orly and 7 return flights from CDG. They are usually on schedule. Inscription fares: 700 French Francs. Since this fare is low, there is no reduced fare for students. They cover the two lunch meals (a big buffet, with hot and cold food), coffee breaks, and a copy of the proceedings. No extra proceedinds will be produced, but probably papers will be on the WEB. To avoid taxations and management expenses deducted by the university, which are about 53%, the payment mode will only be in cash upon arrival. You therefore save about 750F per inscription. Receipts will of course be issued on demand. Additional hotels 2* (costs between 250 and 350 Francs): Albert 1er phone: +33 5 61 21 17 91, fax +33 5 61 21 09 64 8, rue Rivals IBIS centre phone: +33 5 61 63 61 63, fax: +33 5 61 63 07 46 2, rue Claire Pauilhac Ours Blanc phone: +33 5 61 23 14 55, fax: +33 61 23 62 34 25, place Victor Hugo =================================================XXX====== INSCRIPTION FORM ================= EWNLG99 (return this portion by e-mail to stdizier at irit.fr, an ACK will be then issued). !! TO BE RETURNED no LATER than APRIL 15th.!! NAME: ADDRESS: E-MAIL: Dates of arrival / departure from Toulouse I will pay the amount of 700French Francs for my incsription of to the workshop, upon arrival, at the registration desk. ======================================================= PROGRAMME: Consultable a partir du 31/03 sur le site WEB de l'IRIT: www.irit.fr ======================================================== From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 31 16:06:17 1999 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:06:17 +0200 Subject: Appel: CSSP 99 Message-ID: <WED.31.MAR.1999.180617.0200.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:42:46 +0200 (CEST) From: cssp99 at linguist.jussieu.fr (CSSP 99) Message-Id: <v01530500b327f4bc7870@[134.157.23.51]> X-url: http://cssp99.linguist.jussieu.fr APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS COLLOQUE DE SYNTAXE ET SEMANTIQUE A PARIS CSSP 99 Universit? Paris 7 7-9 octobre 1999 Le Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (Universit? Paris 7 et CNRS, URA 1028) organise le troisi?me colloque de syntaxe et de s?mantique ? Paris, CSSP 99. L'un des objectifs de cette s?rie de colloques est de permettre la comparaison d'analyses men?es dans des cadres th?oriques et formels diff?rents. Les langues du colloque sont le fran?ais et l'anglais. Il comprendra deux sessions : Session g?n?rale. Session th?matique: Structure de la phrase et structure du discours: structure informationnelle, relations de discours et connecteurs. CONFERENCIERS INVITES Nicolas Asher, Sandra Chung, Oswald Ducrot, Tanya Reinhart RESUMES Les propositions de communication (30 mn) sont ? envoyer en 9 exemplaires (8 exemplaires anonymes et un exemplaire portant le nom de l'auteur, son affiliation, son adresse postale et son adresse ?lectronique) sous la forme d'un r?sum? de deux pages ? l'adresse suivante : Colloque de syntaxe et s?mantique ? Paris Universit? Paris 7, Linguistique, UFRL, Case 7003 Tour Centrale, 9? ?tage, 2 Place Jussieu, 75251 Paris-Cedex 05, France Ne pas envoyer de r?sum? par fax ou courrier ?lectronique. Date limite pour la r?ception des r?sum?s: 20 mai 1999 Avis d'acceptation: 15 juillet 1999 Pour information, contacter: Francis Corblin: corblin at paris7.jussieu.fr email: cssp99 at linguist.jussieu.fr www: http://cssp99.linguist.jussieu.fr COMITE D'ORGANISATION F. Corblin (Rennes 2), C. Dobrovie-Sorin (CNRS-Paris 7), D. Godard (CNRS-Lille 3), J.-M. Marandin (Pr?sident, CNRS-Paris7). ---------------------------------------------------------- CSSP 99 Universite Paris 7 Linguistique UFRL, Case 7003 2 Place Jussieu 75251 Paris-Cedex 05 France email: cssp99 at linguist.jussieu.fr http://cssp99.linguist.jussieu.fr ----------------------------------------------------------