From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 15 10:48:11 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:48:11 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 6 Offers
Message-ID: <WED.15.SEP.1999.114811.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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1/ From:  Amnon Meyers <amnonm at home.com>
   Subject:  Programmers/NLP and Text Analysis

2/ From: <melamed at research.westlaw.com>  (Dan Melamed)
   Subject: job in research at West Group

3/ From:  <CHayes4779 at aol.com>
   Subject:  Linguists/Computational & Russian

4/ From: Claude de Loupy <deloupy at bertin.fr>
   Subject: Bertin

5/ From: VINESSE Jerome CNET/DSM/LAN <jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: Poste au CNET

6/ From: GAZEAU Didier 096289 <GAZEAU at CARTIER.CEA.fr>
   Subjetc: CEA, stage post-doctoral
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Amnon Meyers <amnonm at home.com>
   Subject:  Programmers/NLP and Text Analysis

Southern California Programmers

A pioneering NLP-based company seeks candidates for software developer
positions.  Preference to those living in or willing to move to
Southern California (e.g., Orange County).  We offer perks such as
stock options and support for working from home.  As an early stage
startup, we seek creative and versatile software developers.

TAI builds GUI tool sets that enable users to create and maintain text
analysis applications.  Check out our website at

http://www.textanalysis.com


Requirements:

5 years of programming experience required.  Strong preference for MS
Visual C++ experience, including GUI, with Windows NT 4.0 operating
system.  Experience with web (Java, Perl, CGI), database desired.
Main platforms are PC and UNIX/Linux.  Experience with natural
language processing or document management middleware is a plus.

B.S. Computer Science, EE, or equivalent is required.  Strong written
and oral English skills are required.

Inquiries and resumes by email to amnonm at home.com .

Amnon Meyers
Chief Technology Officer
Text Analysis International, Inc.

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2/ From: <melamed at research.westlaw.com>  (Dan Melamed)
   Subject: job in research at West Group


West Group, a leading international publisher and provider of
value-added information to the legal and business communities, seeks
qualified applicants to expand its research staff.  The Computer
Science Research Department at West Group currently consists of 15
individuals and is co-located in Rochester, New York and in Eagan,
Minnesota (a suburb of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul).

The department's primary research interests include information
retrieval (including cross-language retrieval), information
extraction, text categorization, machine learning, natural language
processing, and performance evaluation.  Principal duties would
include analysis, design, coding and testing of concepts and
prototypes for retrieval, extraction, and categorization systems in
the context of very large data environments such as Westlaw.  The
department and its staff are positioned to pursue cutting-edge
research in order to impact the company's new technology-driven
applications, and thus to achieve recognition both inside and outside
the firm.

Applicants should have a graduate degree in Computer Science or
related field, with a focus in IR, IE, NLP, or ML.  Excellent UNIX,
C/C++, Java, OOA/OOD experience desirable.

West Group offers excellent growth opportunities, a competitive
salary, and comprehensive benefits.  West is an equal opportunity
employer.

Send resume in electronic form to:  Peter.Jackson @WestGroup.com

Or via conventional mail to:    	

Peter Jackson
West Group
610 Opperman Drive
D1-66F
Eagan, MN 55123

_______________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  <CHayes4779 at aol.com>
   Subject:  Linguists/Computational & Russian

Company in Fairfax, VA is looking to hire a Computational
Linguist and a Russian linguist.  30-80 hours per month, as needed. Salary
depends on qualifications and experience.  Must have US citizenship.
Security clearance preferred.  E-mail resume to <DamicoLynne at yahoo.com>


_______________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: Claude de Loupy <deloupy at bertin.fr>
   Subject: Bertin

Proposition de poste en linguistique computationnelle

La societ� Bertin Technologies, situ�e a Plaisir (78), France (pr�s de
Paris) recherche un informaticien specialis� dans le traitement
automatique de la langue. Le profil recherch� comprend, mais n'est pas
limit� � :

* approches statistiques / probabilistes et symboliques du TALN
* Recherche documentaire
* Gestion de bases de donn�es textuelles
* R�seaux Internet et Intranet

Requis :

* Doctorat en linguistique computationnelle ou dans un domaine li�
* Experience de programmation, Internet et Intranet, d�veloppement
  de syst�mes d'information
* Expertise dans le traitement d'au moins une langue en plus du
  francais
* Citoyen francais

Salaire : selon experience

Envoyez votre CV par un des moyens suivant :

* e-mail:       znaty at bertin.fr
* fax:  33 1 34 81 87 43        attn: Elie Znaty
* mail: Elie Znaty
        Bertin Technologies
        59, rue pierre Curie, BP3
        78 373 Plaisir cedex



Career Opportunity for a Computational Linguist:

Bertin technologies, located in Plaisir (78), France, (near Paris) seeks a
computational linguist.  Relevant backgrounds include, but are not
restricted to the following:

* Statistical / probabilistic and symbolic NLP approaches
* Information retrieval
* Textual Data Base management
* Internet and intranet networking

Requirements:

* Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or related field
* Work experience involving computer programming, Internet and Intranet
  information systems developement
* Expertise in at least one language in addition to French
* French citizenship

Pay: commensurate with experience.

Send your CV by one of the following methods:

* e-mail:       znaty at bertin.fr
* fax:  33 1 34 81 87 43        attn: Elie Znaty
* mail: Elie Znaty
        Bertin Technologies
        59, rue pierre Curie, BP3
        78 373 Plaisir cedex


_______________________________________________________________________________

5/ From: VINESSE Jerome CNET/DSM/LAN <jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: Poste au CNET


L'unit� de R&D langue naturelle du CNET (Centre de recherche de France
T�l�com) propose � Lannion (C�tes d'Armor, Bretagne, France) un poste
d'ing�nieur de recherche en traitement automatique du langage naturel, �
dur�e ind�termin�e. Niveau bac+5, bonnes connaissances en informatique et en
linguistique.


_______________________________________________________________________________

6/ From: GAZEAU Didier 096289 <GAZEAU at CARTIER.CEA.fr>
   Subjetc: CEA, stage post-doctoral


SUJET :

Les m�thodes de veilles strat�giques font appel � la constitution de grandes
banques d'informations multi-sources et multilingues sur un th�me g�n�rique.
L'int�r�t de telles banques d'informations r�side dans la multiplicit� des
angles de vue sous lesquels elles sont interrogeables. Les informations qui
s'y trouvent  sont l� pour r�pondre � des interrogations mais surtout pour
susciter la r�flexion et l'analyse strat�gique par les responsables.

L'alimentation de ces banques d'informations constitu�es � partir
d'informations tr�s h�t�rog�nes tant dans la forme que dans la provenance
n�cessite des traitement linguistiques performant pour ne retenir que les
informations en rapport avec le th�me suivi. Pour prendre un exemple concret
une banque d'informations sur le nucl�aire pourra �tre constitu�e � partir
d'informations provenant de sources extr�mement vari�es : pages des sites
Internet des diff�rents acteurs mondiaux (institutionnels et industriels),
revues de presse, documents en provenance de sites parlementaires,
d'organisations non gouvernementales pour ou contre l'utilisation de cette
forme d'�nergie, ... Un contr�le de la langue, un filtrage des informations

par rapport � un ou des dictionnaires de sp�cialit� sont des moyens
d'augmenter significativement le rapport signal sur bruit dans la base sans
pour autant en diminuer la richesse.

L'h�t�rog�n�it� de la banque d'informations en terme de contenu de
l'information induit pour les utilisateurs le besoin d'une aide � la
navigation � travers cette masse de donn�es. Une analyse morphosyntaxique
fine du contenu de la banque d'informations est susceptible de fournir aux
utilisateurs une cartographie des concepts qui s'y trouvent repr�sent�s.
Pour reprendre notre exemple d'une banque d'informations d�di�e au
nucl�aire, l'utilisateur doit pouvoir retrouver rapidement par ce proc�d� de
" navigation conceptuelle " sur le contenu les sous-ensembles de
d'informations relatives � des sous th�matiques particuli�res (ex : mati�res
nucl�aires, transport, entreposage-stockage, budgets, participations,
programmes, ...).

Enfin l'�tude des formes du discours dans les documents eux-m�mes doit
permettre de reconna�tre dans ces documents les �l�ments factuels et
argumentatifs. Pour cet aspect particulier de la veille strat�gique les
solutions " classiques " de recherche d'informations textuelle ou
l'utilisation de syst�mes statistiques d'infom�trie sont inop�rantes. On
peut imaginer que ce type d'approche permette dans l'avenir d'envisager
d'aborder de fa�on scientifique le probl�me de la d�tection des signaux
faibles en mati�re de veille.

La DIST a b�n�fici� dans les domaines scientifiques et techniques d�crits
ci-dessus de nombreuses ann�es d'exp�rience et de d�veloppements concrets
d'applications transverses au CEA. Des recherches ont �t� men�es sur les
deux premiers points d�velopp�s plus haut. Elles ont fait l'objet de
plusieurs th�ses et d'adaptations. Il s'agit maintenant de passer � une
phase d'assemblage des diff�rents types d'outils r�alis�s pour les
exp�rimenter dans le cadre de besoins r�els sur des banques d'informations
pr�sentant un caract�re transverse aux activit�s du CEA.

Le stage post-doctoral propos� a donc pour objectif la mise en oeuvre d'un
proc�d� de navigation conceptuelle � travers une grande banque
d'informations sur le nucl�aire destin�e au CEA, et � proposer et tester des
m�thodes d'analyse du discours en vue de la reconnaissance et  de
l'extraction de faits et de l'argumentation qui y est d�velopp�e.

Le candidat post-doc devra int�grer les r�sultats de recherche d�j� obtenus
et d�velopper les fonctionnalit�s qui restent � mettre en oeuvre. Il doit
avoir des comp�tences dans les applications du web, la recherche
d'informations, l'ing�nierie linguistique. Une bonne ma�trise de
l'informatique est n�cessaire pour reprendre et faire �voluer rapidement les
outils d�velopp�s au cours des th�ses pass�es.

Renseignements aupr�s de C. FLUHR (t�l : 01 69 08 70 93, fax 01 69 08 76 95
fluhr at tabarly.saclay.cea.fr) ou D. GAZEAU (gazeau at cartier.cea.fr)


Didier GAZEAU

COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE

Direction de l'information scientifique et technique
Service d'ing�nierie de l'information et applications
Groupe environnement scientifique et technique

tel : (33)-1-69 08 36 75
fax : (33)-1-69 08 26 69
m�l : gazeau at cartier.cea.fr

_______________________________________________________________________________


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 15 10:48:39 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:48:39 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 6 (other) offers
Message-ID: <WED.15.SEP.1999.114839.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Mark Turner <mturner at htech.com>
   Subject:  Research Position in Natural Language Processing

2/ From:  <DamicoLynne at yahoo.com>
   Subject:  Computational and Russian Linguists

3/ From:  "Berman, Jules (NCI)" <bermanj at ctep.nci.nih.gov>
   Subject:  Software Development/Medical Text

4/ From:  Pfaraud at aol.com
   Subject:  Speech and Language Technologies

5/ From:  Ulrike Sperling <cicd at cicdgo.com>
   Subject:  Computational Ling: Internship in Seattle

6/ From: "Noord G.J.M. van" <vannoord at let.rug.nl>
   Subject: Job opportunities in Groningen, Netherlands
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Mark Turner <mturner at htech.com>
   Subject:  Research Position in Natural Language Processing

  Research Position in Natural Language Processing

Highland Technologies, a leader in document imaging and management, is
seeking a researcher in natural language processing.

The Research and Development group at Highland does applied research
in text extraction, retrieval, classification, mining, OCR, and
related areas.  Our work will be expanding to include relational data
mining.  Highland has access to unique corpora and welcomes your
research ideas.

Candidates should have a degree in NLP, linguistics (any specialty),
computer science, mathematics, or statistics, and have experience with
NLP or text processing in a university, government, or private
industry.

Proficiency in C, C++ and/or Java is required.  Experience with Perl,
sed, awk, and similar tools is helpful.

Highland Technologies is located in Lanham, Maryland, in the greater
Washington, D.C. area.  We offer competitive salaries, including
profit sharing, as well as a full benefits package.

Please contact:

    Mark Turner, Manager of Research and Development
    Highland Technologies, Inc.
    4303 Forbes Boulevard
    Lanham, MD  20706 USA
    e-mail: mturner at htech.com
    tel. +1.301.306.8290 ext. 290
    fax. +1.301.306.8201


_______________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  <DamicoLynne at yahoo.com>
   Subject:  Computational and Russian Linguists

Company in Fairfax, VA is looking to hire a Computational
Linguist and a Russian linguist.  30-80 hours per month, as needed. Salary
depends on qualifications and experience.  Must have US citizenship.
Security clearance preferred.  E-mail resume to <DamicoLynne at yahoo.com>

_______________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  "Berman, Jules (NCI)" <bermanj at ctep.nci.nih.gov>
   Subject:  Software Development/Medical Text


New NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program contract  proposals
have just been announced and are available at:

http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/sbircontract/allindex.htm

Attached is a contract announcement that may be of interest to you or your
company.  If you have any questions regarding this  contract proposal , they
must be referred through NCI's  SBIR  Contracting Officer:

     Mr. Joseph Bowe
     Phone: (301) 435-3810
     Fax: (301) 480-0309
     E-mail: jb166i at nih.gov


179 Encoding Surgical Pathology Data into Standard Nomenclature within
XML The Resources Development Branch of the Cancer Diagnosis Program
is seeking software development proposals to convert surgical
pathology report data into XML documents containing tagged encrypted
identifiers, tagged demographics, and tagged medical codes (UMLS or
SNOMED, or SNOMED + LOINC). The long-term goal is to convert pathology
data into a structure and format that will support queries from
standard network protocols. Applicants will develop algorithms to
parse pathology reports into fields,then sentences, then text phrases
and will match the text phrases with a coded standard
nomenclature. The parsing/matching algorithms may use term frequency
tables, grammatical rules, context sensitivity, or other algorithmic
approaches, but the proposal must explain and justify the proposed
algorithms. The proposed algorithms should provide a way of dealing
with misspellings, negations, run-on sentences, and improperly
inconsistently delimited sentences. The applicant will propose and
describe methodology to assess the accuracy of coding. Phase 1
(feasibility) will consist of the development and testing (for
accuracy) of implementations that convert the text of actual pathology
reports into medical codes. Phase 2 involves the preparation of
software to produce XML files that encapsulate the tagged coded data
as described in the following requirements. The applicant will design
a DTD (Data Type Declaration) for the XML file to include the fields
and subfields of data contained in pathology reports (e.g. surgical
pathology case number, coded patient identifier(s), date of biopsy,
demographics, clinical history, specimen type, specimen number,
diagnosis, microscopic description, comment). The software application
will be developed using a collection of textually real pathology
reports consisting of a combined total of at least 5,000 surgical
pathology reports acquired from at least two institutions with which
the applicant has formed appropriate collaborations. The reports may
be made false or anonymized by the collaborating institution so that
the software developer receives the report files in a format from
which patients cannot be identified (e.g. patient names can be encoded
via a one-way hash, and each piece of demographic information can be
translated to a false data element). The software implementation will
convert electronic files of surgical pathology reports into XML
documents wherein the original text has been converted to coded
medical terms. The accuracy of the software implementation should be
tested by comparison with a separate set of reports (at least 200)
that have been manually encoded and manually converted to XML
files. The implementation of the algorithms will be written in Perl or
Java, with well-annotated source code, and must be designed to have a
practical GUI and to permit software users to upload pathology reports
over the Internet and to view the XML output on an XML-capable web browser.


_______________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  Pfaraud at aol.com
   Subject:  Speech and Language Technologies



- ---------------------------------
THE L&H COMPANY
- ---------------------------------

At the center of a rapidly expanding worldwide market

Lernout & Hauspie ( L&H TM) is a world leader in the field of advanced speech
and language technologies, products, solutions and services.
Its core technologies include automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech,
digital speech compression, text-to-text language translation, and linguistic
components.
With more than 1,700 employees worldwide, primarily speech linguists,
scientists, and engineers, the company's research and development operations
comprise one of the most largest commercial speech and linguistics
laboratories in the world.
The company is commited to the idea that the human voice is the most natural
interface for use with virtually any device or software program, and that
globalization and growth of the internet requires real-time translation for
multiple languages.
Our goal is to provide easy-to-use technologies and products that enable
people to interact by voice with the machine that surround them, regardless
of the language they speak.

J In 1998, Revenues increased by more than 100 % for the fourth straight year.
J In early 1999, Microsoft increased its investment in L&H , adding $15
million and raising its ownership position to 7%.
J Also in early 1999, Intel has invested $30 million in L&H.

For more information, please visit Lernout & Hauspie on the World Wide Web at
www.lhs.com or www.lhsl.com .


THE TECHNOLOGIES & SOLUTIONS DIVISION :

This division provides solutions to OEMs and corporate customers, based on
L&H speech and language technologies. These can be software development kits,
user interface modules, or entire applications.

The division is organized in department for the following market : Embedded
solutions, PC/Multimedia, Automobile and Telecommunication.


THE TELECOM DEPARTMENT :

The telecom department is part of the TECHNOLOGIES & SOLUTIONS Division.

The telecom department sells dialog applications (i.e. Interactive Speech
Systems) through specific customer projects, that allow end-users to
communicate with the computer using ordinary speech devices such as
telephones.
These applications are build using L&H advanced ASR and TTS engines, and
could take place within call centers solutions. They greatly reduce costs,
increase the availibility of the call centres, raise productivity and, last
but not the least, offer a powerful service to the end user.
Applications examples : banking services, flight reservation system, stock
market, E Commerce, �


- --------------------------------------------------------------
THE JOB:  Linguiste  Departement Telecom
- --------------------------------------------------------------

VOTRE MISSION

Integre au sein de notre equipe technique, vous participez a la realisation :
- de Serveurs Vocaux Interactifs (SVI), dans le cadre de nos projets de
centre d'appels,
- en utilisant les technologies avancees de reconnaissance et de synthese
vocale du leader mondial,
- pour le compte de nos clients et partenaires,
- et sous la responsabilite d'un chef de projet.

Vous assistez le chef de projet dans la conception generale du systeme de
dialogue interactif,  et dans la definition detaillee de l'arborescence et de
l'ergonomie du dialogue.
Vous etes en charge du parametrage du moteur de reconnaissance de la voix. Ce
moteur de reconnaissance necessite un formalisme specifique (recognition
grammars) pour reconnaetre et comprendre les expressions des utilisateurs, a
chaque etape du dialogue.
Vous participez activement a la mise au point du systeme (Wizard of OZ), et
aux differentes etapes de test.
Vous menez des enquetes pour connaitre la satisfaction des utilisateurs du
systeme, et vous en analysez les resultats.

Poste base a Marne La Vallee (77) FRANCE


VOTRE PROFIL

Formation :
-  Universitaire avec specialisation en linguistique

Experiences professionnelles :
- Vous justifiez idealement d'une experience sur les technologies appliquees
au langage.
- Vous savez construire des " Recognition Grammars ", ou vous avez une
experience en programmation informatique.
- Les candidatures des debutants seront etudiees

Vous etes rigoureux, vous appreciez le travail en equipe, et vous avez le
sens de la relation client. Une competence fonctionnelle sur un metier
vertical serait un plus tres apprecie.

Langues :
- Votre langue maternelle est le francais
- Bon niveau d'anglais indispensable

Merci d'adresser votre dossier de candidature (lettre, CV, photo) a :
L&H
A l'attention de Patrice Faraud
44, avenue Georges Pompidou
92300 Levallois-Perret FRANCE
Tel : 01 41 49 98 70
Fax : 01 41 49 98 71

_______________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  Ulrike Sperling <cicd at cicdgo.com>
   Subject:  Computational Ling: Internship in Seattle

Internship in Computational Linguistics / Software Development

Company Description: World-leading Software Globalization Company based
in Seattle, represented by Center for International Career Development
(CICD)

Contact: Ulrike Sperling

Start date: Immediately

Type of Internship: Information Technology, software R & D in
Computational Linguistics

Description of Internship:
Number of internship positions: 1 - 4
Length: 9-12 months
Salary: Between US$1400-1800 per month

One of the world's largest global players in service and software
globalization needs for its Research Development department
computational linguist interns with qualifications including the
following:

- Experience with parsing methods (ATN, top-down parsers...)
- Phrase structured grammar
- Pattern matching and keyword extraction
- Tokenizing tools and their implementations in various systems
- Lexicographic applications of dictionary structures
- Language/phrase recognition
- Programming skills in PERL and C++
- CGI scripting and HTML
- Semantic encoding of nouns (selectional constraints)
- International focus, experience(s) and language(s)
- Machine Translation and Translation Memory

Internship will focus on R&D methods with development of query patterns
and natural language data processing for cutting edge information
retrieval systems (search engines and other information retrieval
systems).
..

Bringing companies into the global marketplace is an integral part of
the Company's services. Its international localization and testing
capabilities are among the most extensive in the software industry.
Testing and Certification Centers in all major markets around the world
perform linguistic and usability testing, and conduct full certification
using localized test suites on localized platforms. The Company's
expertise extends to a wide array of products including office suites,
graphics, networking, database management, programming languages,
operating systems, printers, scanners, digital photography, and
multimedia authoring tools.

_______________________________________________________________________________

6/ From: "Noord G.J.M. van" <vannoord at let.rug.nl>
   Subject: Job opportunities in Groningen, Netherlands

Research opportunities


                           Algorithms for
                        Linguistic Processing


Algorithms for Linguistic Processing is a five year PIONIER research
project in the area of computational linguistics. The project focuses
on problems of ambiguity and processing efficiency by investigating
grammar approximation and grammar specialization techniques. The
project is located at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and
starts at the end of 1999. It is funded by NWO (Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research).

The project description is available on line at:

                    http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/alp/

Within the next few months, we will be looking to fill two 3-year post-doc
positions and several 4-year Ph.D. positions:

   * 1 post-doc and 1 ph-d Lexically Sensitive Disambiguation techniques
   * 1 ph-d Empirical Aspects of Finite State Language Processing
   * 1 post-doc Formal Aspects of Finite State Language Processing
   * 1 ph-d Grammar Development for Dutch
   * 1 ph-d Linguistic Search Tool for Bare Text Corpora

Further information is available from:

Gertjan van Noord,  vannoord at let.rug.nl
Alfa-Informatica,   University of Groningen
PO Box 716, 9700 AS Groningen, Netherlands


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 15 10:55:21 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:55:21 +0100
Subject: Appel: JADT 2000
Message-ID: <WED.15.SEP.1999.115521.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: JADT 2000 <jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch>

[English version below]

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                             J A D T   2 0 0 0

  5e Journ�es Internationales d'Analyse Statistique des Donn�es Textuelles

a �t� repouss�e au

		  Vendredi 24 septembre   1999

Pour plus de renseignements, lire l'appel � soumissions ci-dessous.

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  5e Journ�es Internationales d'Analyse Statistique des Donn�es Textuelles

                               9-11 Mars 2000

                  �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne

                              Lausanne, Suisse

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Apr�s Barcelone (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), et Nice (1998), les
5e  Journ�es Internationales d'Analyse  Statistique  des  Donn�es Textuelles
auront lieu  � Lausanne (Suisse) du 9  au 11 mars 2000. Cette manifestation,
qui  gagne en  importance �  chaque �dition, est  ouverte aux  chercheurs du
vaste domaine d'�tudes qui, centr� sur  la statistique textuelle, s'�tend de
la    lexicographie  � l'analyse  du  discours   politique,  de la recherche
documentaire  �    la    recherche  en   marketing,    de  la   linguistique
computationnelle  � la  sociolinguistique,  du traitement   informatique des
donn�es   �   l'analyse de   contenu.     Apr�s  le  succ�s  des pr�c�dentes
occurrences, JADT 2000 fournira de nouveau un  forum de discussion convivial
comprenant � la fois des pr�sentations  techniques, des conf�rences invit�es
et des tables rondes.

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CALENDRIER

               Date limite de soumission : 24 Septembre 1999
                Notification aux auteurs : 15 Octobre 1999
                          Version finale : 10 D�cembre 1999
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TH�MES

Les th�mes  de la conf�rence concernent l'application  des outils et mod�les
de la statistique aux domaines suivants :

   * Analyse exploratoire de donn�es textuelles
   * Analyse du discours
   * Traitement automatique du langage
   * Analyse statistique de r�ponses � des questions ouvertes
   * Analyse bibliom�trique et statistique textuelle
   * Stylom�trie
   * Dictionnaires de fr�quences
   * Lemmatisation
   * Corpus de textes et repr�sentations textuelles
   * Classification de textes
   * Recherche documentaire
   * Hypertexte
   * Logiciels pour l'analyse lexicale et textuelle

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COMIT� DE PROGRAMME

 Monica B�cue     Univ. Polytechnique de Catalogne
 Sergio Bolasco   Univ. de Rome 'La Sapienza'
 �tienne Brunet   Univ. de Nice/Sophia-Antipolis
 Yadolah Dodge    Univ. de Neuch�tel
 Annibale Elia    Univ. de Salerno
 Benoit Habert    ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud
 R�mi Jolivet     Univ. de Lausanne
 Dominique Labb�  Univ. de Grenoble
 Ludovic Lebart   CNRS, ENST Paris
 Alain Lelu       Univ. Paris 8
 Sylvie Mellet    CNRS, Nice
 Charles Muller   Univ. de Strasbourg
 Martin Rajman    EPF Lausanne
 Max Reinert      CNRS Toulouse
 Jacques Rouault  CRISTAL Grenoble 3
 Andr� Salem      Univ. Paris 3

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COMIT� D'ORGANISATION

 Martin Rajman           EPF Lausanne
 Marie Decrauzat         EPF Lausanne
 Jean-C�dric Chappelier  EPF Lausanne

Cette conf�rence  est   organis�e    par   le   Laboratoire   d'Intelligence
Artificielle de  l'EPFL (Lausanne, Suisse)  avec  le soutient  de  EuroStat,
Quantos et la Soci�t� Fran�aise de Statistique.

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LANGUES AUTORIS�ES POUR LES PR�SENTATIONS

Les pr�sentations pourront se faire dans l'une des langues suivantes :

               Fran�ais, Anglais, Allemand, Italien, Espagnol

Toutes les  communications devront cependant comporter  un r�sum�  (�crit et
oral) en anglais.

Comme lors des   pr�c�dents  colloques, aucune  traduction  simultan�e n'est
pr�vue.

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MODALIT�S DE SOUMISSION

Les articles soumis  � cette conf�rence devront  d�crire un travail original
et novateur  ayant fait l'objet  d'une �valuation.  Toutes les contributions
devront  contenir  un �tat de  l'art   et/ou des   r�f�rences � des  travaux
ant�rieurs pertinents.  Si le travail   pr�sent� n'a pas fait  l'objet d'une
�valuation, les auteurs devront le  justifier.  Les  auteurs sont convi�s  �
inclure dans leurs papiers des propositions, discussions, argumentations sur
l'ad�quation de leur travail avec les th�mes de la conf�rence.

Les participants souhaitant soumettre un papier ou un poster doivent envoyer
au comit�  (adresse  ci-dessous) avant le  24 Septembre  1999, les  �l�ments
suivants :

   * Noms, affiliations et adresses compl�tes (+fax, email) des auteurs
   * Titre
   * Mots cl�s
   * Un r�sum� en anglais (300 mots maximum)
   * Version abr�g�e (3  pages minimum, 4 pages  maximum) de la contribution
     pr�sentant les grandes lignes du travail, les  probl�mes trait�s et les
     r�sultats obtenus
   * R�f�rences bibliographiques

Les notifications d'acceptation  seront  envoy�es aux auteurs le  15 Octobre
1999.

La version finale de la contribution (8 pages max.) devra �tre r�dig�e selon
les r�gles de  formatage    qui seront pr�cis�es ult�rieurement    et  devra
parvenir au comit� (adresse ci-dessous) au plus tard le 10 D�cembre 1999.

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PR�SENTATIONS ORALES

La   dur�e de chacune   des   pr�sentations orales ne   devra  pas  d�passer
20 minutes.

Il sera possible  d'utiliser une tablette  de r�troprojection pour pr�senter
les bases  de donn�es et  les logiciels "en  direct". Une connexion Internet
pourra �tre fournie aux orateurs qui le d�sirent.

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ACTES

La   totalit� des contributions   sera rassembl�e  et  �dit�e  sous la forme
d'actes qui   seront distribu�s  �  tous  les participants  au  d�but  de la
conf�rence.

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HEBERGEMENT

La gestion des h�bergements est prise en  compte par l'office de tourisme de
la  ville de Lausanne, � contacter  directement sous r�f�rence ORG/JADT 2000
� :
Office du tourisme -- Case postale 49 -- CH-1000 Lausanne 6 (Suisse)
T�l : + 41 21 613.73.21
Fax : + 41 21 616.86.47
Email : wandfluh at lausanne-tourisme.ch}
Web : http://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/

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CONTACT / ADRESSE

JADT 2000
Martin Rajman
EPFL
DI-LIA
IN (Ecublens)
CH-1015 Lausanne
Suisse

 T�l :  +41 21 693 27 35
 Fax :  +41 21 693 52 25
 Email: jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch
 Web :  http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000

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BULLETIN DE PR�-INSCRIPTION

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Bulletin de pr�-inscription � envoyer �

	 JADT 2000
	 Martin RAJMAN
	 EPFL
	 DI-LIA
	 IN (Ecublens)
	 CH-1015 Lausanne
	 Suisse

L'inscription d�finitive aura lieu � r�ception du payement (dont les
modalit�s sont pr�cis�es ci-dessous)

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NOM         :
PRENOM      :
INSTITUTION :
ADRESSE     :


TELEPHONE   :
FAX         :
EMAIL       :

ADRESSE DE FACTURATION (si diff�rente de la pr�c�dente) :



PARTICIPATION / SOUMISSION :
	[ ] PRESENTATION ORALE      [ ] POSTER        [ ] PAS DE PRESENTATION

DEMONSTRATION :
	      [ ] OUI		[ ] NON

LANGUE POUR LA PRESENTATION :
  [ ] FRANCAIS    [ ] ANGLAIS    [ ] ALLEMAND    [ ] ITALIEN    [ ] ESPAGNOL

INSCRIPTION :
	      [ ] ETUDIANT 	[ ] REDUIT     [ ] NORMAL
   Tarif Etudiant : 150 CHF (env.  93 Euros), Fournir une pi�ce justificative
   Tarif R�duit   : 300 CHF (env. 186 Euros), Inscription AVANT LE 10 DECEMBRE
   Tarif Normal   : 375 CHF (env. 233 Euros), Inscription APRES le 10 decembre

MODE DE PAYEMENT ENVISAGE :
     [ ] VIREMENT BANCAIRE
         au compte num�ro 0243/270'685.01X de la banque
	 UBS Lausanne - EPFL - Ecublens - CH-1015 Lausanne
	 adresse swift UBSWCHGG10A

     [ ] CARTE VISA          [ ] CARTE EUROCARD/MASTERCARD
     Num�ro :
     Expire le :
     Nom sur la carte :
     Date et Signature :


Les  frais d'inscription comprennent  :  l'inscription � la conf�rence,  les
pauses caf� et (sauf pour les �tudiants) les repas de midi et les actes.

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Please notice that submission deadline to

                             J A D T   2 0 0 0

  5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data

has been extented to

		  Friday   septembre 24th 1999

For further details, please refer to the call for papers below.

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    JADT 2000 WEB SITE : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000

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                             J A D T   2 0 0 0


  5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data

                              March 9-11, 2000

                  �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne

                            Lausanne, Switzerland


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Following  Barcelona   (1990), Montpellier   (1993), Rome  (1995),  and Nice
(1998),  the 5th International Conference   on  the Statistical Analysis  of
Textual Data will be  held in Lausanne,  on March 9-11, 2000. This  biennial
conference, which has constantly been gaining in  importance since its first
occurrence, is open  to all scholars working  in the  vast field of  textual
data analysis;  ranging  from  lexicography to  the analysis   of  political
discourse,  from  documentary    research   to  marketing   research,   from
computational linguistics  to sociolinguistics, from  the processing of data
to content  analysis.  After  the  success of   the previous meetings,   the
three-day   conference in     Switzerland    will continue  to   provide   a
workshop-style forum through  technical paper  sessions, invited talks,  and
panel discussions.

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IMPORTANT DATES

                 Submission Deadline: September 24th, 1999
                        Notification: October 15th, 1999
                 Camera ready papers: December 10th, 1999
                          Conference: March 9-11, 2000

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THEMES OF INTEREST

The  themes   of  interest of  the  conference   concern the  application of
statistical models and tools in the following domains:

   * Exploratory Textual Data Analysis
   * Discourse Analysis
   * Computational Linguistics
   * Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions
   * Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis
   * Stylometry
   * Frequency Dictionaries
   * Lemmatization
   * Text Corpora and Text Encoding
   * Textual Classification
   * Information Retrieval
   * Hypertext
   * Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 Monica B�cue     Univ. Polytechnic of Catalunya
 Sergio Bolasco   Univ. of Rome 'La Sapienza'
 �tienne Brunet   Univ. of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis
 Yadolah Dodge    Univ. of Neuch�tel
 Annibale Elia    Univ. of Salerno
 Benoit Habert    ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud
 R�mi Jolivet     Univ. of Lausanne
 Dominique Labb�  Univ. of Grenoble
 Ludovic Lebart   CNRS, ENST Paris
 Alain Lelu       Univ. Paris 8
 Sylvie Mellet    CNRS, Nice
 Charles Muller   Univ. of Strasbourg
 Martin Rajman    EPF Lausanne
 Max Reinert      CNRS Toulouse
 Jacques Rouault  CRISTAL Grenoble 3
 Andr� Salem      Univ. Paris 3

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ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

 Martin Rajman           EPF Lausanne
 Marie Decrauzat         EPF Lausanne
 Jean-C�dric Chappelier  EPF Lausanne

This confernce is organized  by  the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory   of
EPFL (Lausanne,  Switzerland) with the support of   EuroStat, Quantos and la
Soci�t� Fran�aise de Statistique.

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LANGUAGES FOR THE PRESENTATIONS

Submissions, communications  and presentations  can be  made in  any  one of
these languages:

                  English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract.

As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided.

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SUBMISSION

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  the authors  to include  in their  papers proposals and
discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme of the conference.

Participants wishing to submit  a paper or present a  poster should send  to
the  program  committee  (address  below) a  short   version for   review by
September 24th, 1999, giving the following information:

   * Name of author;
   * Affiliation;
   * Full postal address with fax and/or e-mail
   * Title of the proposed paper with keywords;
   * An abstract in English (maximum 300 words)
   * A short version (3 pages min./4 pages  max.)  of the paper emphasizing
     the purpose   of the paper,   the  problem addressed and  the  results
     obtained;
   * Bibliographical references.

Notification of acceptance will be send to the  authors by October 15, 1999.
Final camera-ready papers should conform to the format that will be provided
to  the authors   and reach the    committee (address below)   no later than
December 10, 1999.

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PRESENTATIONS

Paper presentations will be limited to 20 minutes each.

An overhead projector will be available for the display of data-bases and/or
software directly  from the computer screen. Connection  to Internet will be
supplied for speakers on request.

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PROCEEDINGS

All accepted  papers will be  collected  and  issued  as proceedings to  the
participants at the start of the conference.

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HOTELS

For accomodation during the  conference, please contact the Lausanne Tourist
Office under reference ORG/JADT 2000 at:
Office du tourisme -- Case postale 49 -- CH-1000 Lausanne 6 (Switzerland)
Tel: + 41 21 613.73.21
Fax: + 41 21 616.86.47
Email: wandfluh at lausanne-tourisme.ch
Web: http://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/

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CONTACT / ADDRESS

JADT 2000
Martin Rajman
EPFL
DI-LIA
IN (Ecublens)
CH-1015 Lausanne
Suisse

 T�l :  +41 21 693 27 35
 Fax :  +41 21 693 52 25
 Email: jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch
 Web :  http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000

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PRE REGISTRATION FORM

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This pre-registration form should be returned to

	 JADT 2000
	 Martin RAJMAN
	 EPFL
	 DI-LIA
	 IN (Ecublens)
	 CH-1015 Lausanne
	 Suisse

Registration will  be effective on receipt of   payment (Details for payment
are provided bellow).

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SURNAME     :
FIRST NAME  :
AFFILIATION :
ADDRESS     :


PHONE       :
FAX         :
EMAIL       :

IVOICE ADDRESS (if different from above):



PARTICIPATION / SUBMISSION :
	[ ] PAPER      [ ] POSTER		[ ] NO PRESENTATION

DEMONSTRATION :
	      [ ] YES		[ ] NO

LANGUAGE FOR PRESENTATION :
  [ ] ENGLISH     [ ] FRENCH     [ ] GERMAN      [ ] ITALIAN    [ ] SPANISH

REGISTRATION :
	      [ ] STUDENT 	[ ] EARLY        [ ] NORMAL
   Student : 150 CHF (approx.  93 Euros), copy of the student card
   Early   : 300 CHF (approx. 186 Euros), BEFORE DECEMBER 10TH
   Normal  : 375 CHF (approx. 233 Euros), after December 10th

PAYMENT:
     [ ] BANK TRANSFER
         to account # 0243/270'685.01X at bank:
	 UBS Lausanne - EPFL - Ecublens - CH-1015 Lausanne
	 swift address UBSWCHGG10A

     [ ] VISA          [ ] EUROCARD/MASTERCARD
     Number:
     Expiration date:
     Holder's name on the card:
     Date and Signature :

Registration fees include registration  to the conference, coffee-breaks and
(except for students) lunch and proceedings.

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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 15 10:55:23 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:55:23 +0100
Subject: Appel: Information Retrieval (journal TAL)
Message-ID: <WED.15.SEP.1999.115523.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Christian Jacquemin <jacquemin at limsi.fr>
X-url: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-ri.en.html


[ENGLISH VERSION FOLLOWS]

Revue t.a.l. : Second et dernier appel � contributions

     Traitement Automatique des Langues pour la Recherche d'Information

            http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-ri.html

T.A.L. est la revue de l'Association de Traitement Automatique des LAngues
ATALA:  (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/ )


DATES IMPORTANTES
                   Intention de soumettre : maintenant

                   Date limite de soumission : 1er novembre 1999

                   Notification d'acceptation : fin 1999

                   Version finale: 15 f�vrier 2000

                   Publication: �t� 2000

ADRESSE D'ENVOI DES CONTRIBUTIONS

     jacquemin at limsi.fr

ou pour les versions papier :

     Christian Jacquemin,
     LIMSI-CNRS,
     BP 133,
     91403 ORSAY,
     FRANCE

LANGUE: fran�ais ou anglais.

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Journal T.A.L.: 2nd and Last Call for Submissions


         Information Retrieval-oriented Natural Language Processing

           http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-ri.en.html


T.A.L. is the journal of the French association for Computational Linguistic
ATALA:  (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/ )


IMPORTANT DATES
                   Intention to submit: Now

                   Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999

                   Acceptance notification: End 1999

                   Final version: February 15th, 2000

                   Publication: Summer 2000

EDITORIAL ADDRESS

     jacquemin at limsi.fr

or through hard copies at:

     Christian Jacquemin,
     LIMSI-CNRS,
     BP 133,
     91403 ORSAY,
     FRANCE

LANGUAGE: English or French


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 15 10:55:25 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:55:25 +0100
Subject: Conf: CSSP'99
Message-ID: <WED.15.SEP.1999.115525.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: cssp99 at linguist.jussieu.fr (CSSP 99)



(Sorry if you receive this information more than once)
THE PARIS SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS CONFERENCE / COLLOQUE DE SYNTAXE ET
SEMANTIQUE A PARIS

Programme

Thursday, October 7th

9h-9h10 : Opening

9h10-10h10 : Invited speaker
Eva Hajicova (Charles U., Prague) : Discourse, focus and presupposition

Thematic session

10h30-11h:  Dimitra Kolliakou (Newcastle) & Theodora Alexopoulou
(Edinburgh) : Towards a structural definition of linkhood in Greek
11h-11h30 : Hanneke van Hoof (T�bingen) : I-topicalization: contrastive
topic or multiple focus?
11h30-12h : Ron Artstein (Rutgers) : Focus below the word level
12h-12h30 :  Robert D. Van Valin (SUNY Buffalo) : Quantifier scope in Toba Batak

----------------
Thematic Session

14h-14h30 : Jacques Jayez (EHESS) & Corinne Rossari (U. Gen�ve) : The
accommodation profile of discourse markers
14h30-15h : Arthur Merin (Stuttgart) : For every BUT there is an IF

15h30-16h : Laurence Danlos (Paris 7) : Sur la cor�f�rence �v�nementielle
16h-16h30 : Ana T. Alves (Austin) & Isabel Gomez Txurruka (Austin) :
Discourse effects of same in anaphoric temporal adverbials
16h30-17h : Helen de Hoop (Utrecht) & Henri�tte de Swart (Utrecht) :
Optimal interpretations of discourse
17h-17h30 :  Massimo Poesio (Edinburgh) & Uwe Reyle (Stuttgart) : Partially
resolved interpretations

17h30-19h30 : Party

19h30-20h30 : Invited speaker  :
Oswald Ducrot (EHESS) : La concession dans les �nonc�s interrogatifs.
Approche argumentative

---------------------

Friday, October 8th

9h-10h : Invited Speaker :
Nicholas Asher (Austin) : Logics of conversation

10h30-11h : Josep Quer (U.A. Barcelone) : The quantificational force of
free choice items
11h-11h30 :  C�cile Meier (T�bingen) : A semantics for result clauses and
constructions with too
11h30-12h :  Meltem Kelepir (MIT) : Negation is free: evidence from Turkish
12h-12h30 :  Malka Rappaport Hovav (Bar Ilan) & Beth Levin (Stanford) :
Reevaluation the direct object restriction on English resultatives

-------------------------------------------------

14h-15h : Invited Speaker   :
Tanya Reinhart  (Utrecht) : Interpretation of theta-roles

15h30-16h : Martine Coene (Antwerp), Yves d'Hulst (Leiden) & Liliane
Tasmowski (Leuven) : Romance vocatives and the DP hypothesis
16h-16h30 : Kleanthes K. Grohmann (U. Maryland) : The syntax-discourse
interface of multiple Wh-constructions
16h30-17h : Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh) & Roberto Zamparelli (Edinburgh) :
The syntax and semantics of DP-internal coordination

---------------------

Saturday, October 9th

9h-10h : Invited Speaker :
Sandra Chung (UCSC) : Restriction versus saturation

10h30-11h : James Mc Closkey (UCSC) : On the expression of existence in Irish
11h-11h30 : Robert D. Levine (Ohio State), Thomas E. Hukari (U. Victoria),
Michael Calcagno (T�bingen): Unbounded dependencies : a unified class
11h30-12h : Robert D. Levine (Ohio State): Tough complementation and
clausal transparency
12h-12h30 : Alan Munn (Michigan) : Extraction domains and the semantics of
variables


Alternates

Jean-Pierre Koenig (SUNY Buffalo), Gail Mauner (SUNY Buffalo) & Breton
Bienvenue (SUNY Buffalo) : Arguments for adjuncts
Petra Sleeman (Amsterdam) : Adjectival agreement within DP without feature
movement
Monika Kozlowska (Gen�ve) : Ensuite et la narration dans le discours
George Tsoulas (York) & Artemis Alexiadou (T�bingen) : Scrambling and
extraposition : a case for cyclic spell-out

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Registration Form / Fiche d'Inscription

Name / Nom :
Affiliation :
e-mail address / courriel :

Will attend the conference / Participera � la conf�rence

Fees / Tarif (including party / r�ception comprise) : FF 250 - Students /
Etudiants : FF 150,
to be paid on registration in Paris / payables lors de la conf�rence

Please send this completed form via e-mail or post to / Renvoyez-nous cette
fiche compl�t�e par courrier �lectronique ou postal � :

cssp99 at linguist.jussieu.fr      CSSP99
        URA 1028
        Tour Centrale 9�me Etage
        Universit� Paris 7
        2 place Jussieu
        75251 Paris cedex 05

Practical Information / Informations pratiques

The Conference takes place in Paris 7th University / La conf�rence a lieu �
l'Universit� Paris 7
Metro station : Jussieu
For more information, see our Web page starting Tuesday, September 14th /
Pour plus d'informations, reportez-vous � notree page Web � partir du mardi
14 septembre:
http://www.cssp99.linguist.jussieu.fr

----------------------------------------------------------
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
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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 15 10:55:28 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:55:28 +0100
Subject: Appel: Proper nouns (journal TAL)
Message-ID: <WED.15.SEP.1999.115528.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Denis Maurel <maurel at univ-tours.fr>


Call for Papers: English version, see below

Appel a publication :
*********************

		Le traitement automatique des Noms propres

			Revue TAL
			      numero 2000-3

		Editeurs : Denis Maurel et Franz Guenthner

Voir l'URL:

http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-noms-propres.html


Date limite de soumission : 1er novembre 1999

Denis Maurel
LI/E3i, Universite de Tours

Franz Guenthner
CIS, Universite de Munich

____________________________________________________________________________

Call for papers
***************

		Journal TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues)

	  Special issue on proper nouns in natural language processing

		Editors : Denis Maurel and Franz Guenthner

The Association pour le traitement automatique des langues (Atala)
(Association for language processing) organized a meeting on the treatment
of all forms of proper nouns in language processing on Saturday 29th May
1999.

Some papers from presentations given at the meeting will be published in the
journal TAL issue 2000-3. In addition, we would like to invite papers from
other researchers working on any aspect of the automated treatment of proper
nouns. 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

* Linguistic analysis of proper nouns

* Applications of the treatment of proper names to information retrieval,
information extraction, text mining

* etc.

FORMAT
------
The paper should be formatted following the journal guidelines. These are
spelled out at the end of a volume or at:

	http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/normes.html

Papers can be submitted in English and French. They not exceed 30 pages in
double interline in Helvetica 12. We accept RTF or LaTeX + postscript. The
latex style is avalaible at:

	http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/tal.html

Please send your text, by electronic mail, for the end of October to Denis
Maurel (mailto:maurel at univ-tours.fr).

CALENDAR
--------
Submission deadline :   November 1st 1999
Notification to authors : Jannuary 1999
Final version due : May, 1st 2000

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
-------------------
Chief editors:			A. Abeille (Universite Paris 7)
				Ph. Blache (LPL, CNRS)
				B. Habert (ENS Fontenay-Saint Cloud)
Autres
members of Editorial       	J. Anis (Universite Paris 10)
Committee:     			D. Clement (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)
                              	A. Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail)
				Ch. Dalessandro (LIMSI, Paris)
				M. El-Beze (Universit� d'Avignon)
				C. Gardent (Universitaet des Saarlandes)
				Ch. Jacquemin (IRIN, Nantes)
				J-L. Lebrave (CNRS, ITEM)
				B. Victorri (ELSAP, Caen)
				E. Tzoukermann (Bell Labs)
				P. Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6)
Scientific Committee:           M. Borillo (CNRS, P. Sabatier, Toulouse)
		                R. Carre (ENST, Paris)
				J-P. Descles (Universit� Paris IV)
				C. Fuchs (CNRS, ENS Paris)
				M. Gross (LADL, Paris 7)
				F. Rastier (Paris 4)
				W. von Hahn (Univ Hambourg)
				Y. Wilks (Sheffield Univ)
				A. Zaenen (Xerox Grenoble)
Sub-Editor:       		Jeanine Mary (UFRL Paris 7)



Denis Maurel
LI/E3i, Universite de Tours

Franz Guenthner
CIS, Universite de Munich


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Sep 17 17:49:10 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:49:10 +0100
Subject: Q: Prolog
Message-ID: <FRI.17.SEP.1999.184910.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:57:17 +0200
From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990917135717.007c1570 at up.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/


Bonjour,

Nous allons probablement enseigner Prolog cette année dans mon service, et
je suis à la recherche d'un Prolog freeware pour Windows.

Qui a des suggestions (et un avis qualitatif/pédagogique)?

Merci!

Jean Véronis, Professeur de Linguistique et Informatique

Directeur du Centre Informatique pour les Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Université de Provence
29 av. Robert Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France

tel: +33 (0) 4 42 95 31 35
fax: +33 (0) 4 42 95 34 95
email: veronis at up.univ-mrs.fr

http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Sep 20 12:19:24 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:19:24 +0100
Subject: Appel: RIAO-2000
Message-ID: <MON.20.SEP.1999.131924.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at biomath.jussieu.fr>



This message is posted to several lists. We apologize if you receive
multiple copies.
			
				RIAO 2000

		Content-Based Multimedia Information Access

				College de France

				Paris, France

				April 12-14, 2000


			Preliminary Announcement

			_______________

Organized by:

Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire
(C.I.D., France)
&
Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S., USA)


With the collaboration of AII, ASIS, ELRA, Elsnet, ESCA, Francil
(preliminary list)
_______________


Introduction

The RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur =
Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval)
International Conference is held every 3 years. Sites for the conference
have been Grenoble (1985), Boston
(1988), Barcelona (1991), New York (1994) and Montreal (1997). Paris will
host the next RIAO conference in
Spring 2000. The conference is organized by the Centre de Hautes Etudes
Internationales d'Informatique
Documentaire (C.I.D.) and the Center for the Advanced Study of Information
Systems (C.A.S.I.S.).

The theme of the conference is "Content-Based Multimedia Information
Access". The conference scope will
range from the traditional processing of text documents to the rapidly
growing field of automatic indexing and
retrieval of images and speech and, more generally, to all processing of
audio-visual and multimedia information
on various supports, including the net. The conference is of interest for
several scientific communities, including
Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing,  Spoken Language
Processing, Computer Vision, Human-
Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. RIAO 2000 will, thereby, serve
as a forum for synergetic initiatives
and forward-looking applications.

The Scientific Committee will select the papers and the Application
Committee will select the innovative
applications and products to be presented at the conference. In order to
support the multi-disciplinary goals of
the conference, these international committees include representatives of
different scientific communities.

RIAO 2000 will present recent scientific research advances, demonstrations
of prototypes resulting from this
research as well as the most innovative products now appearing on the
market. A worldwide Call for Papers is
addressed to researchers engaged in academic or industrial research. The
associated Call for Applications is
addressed to companies and public organizations developing or marketing
hardware or software related to the
conference topics.


RIAO 2000 Conference Topics:
Under the theme "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access", the
following topics are among those
included for the Communications and for Innovative Application Demonstrations:

Document processing:
	Hypertextual and Hypermedia documents
	Human-Computer Interaction for document handling
	Textual and voice-based annotation creation and retrieval
	Digital libraries
	AI techniques for document generation and consultation
	Multimodal and transmodal human-machine communication

Information Retrieval:
	Information retrieval systems and methods
	Document search over the internet
	Text Mining
	Information and document routing/profiling/alerting
	Document classification

Spoken Language Processing:
	Voice-based document segmentation and transcription
	Voice-based document indexing and retrieval
	Identification of language of speaker
	Speaker recognition
	Audio Mining
	Non-verbal sound processing (music, noise...)

Natural Language Processing:
	Information extraction
	NLP techniques for document processing
	Terminology extraction and analysis
	Automatic thesaurus construction
	Multilingual and crosslingual document handling
	Machine translation of documents
	Automatic summarization
	Identification of language of text

Image processing:
	Automatic indexing and retrieval of visual documents
	Computer graphics for document generation and consultation
	Segmentation and indexing of visual data
	Face, gaze and expression recognition
	Character recognition in visual documents
	Image Mining
	Video indexing and retrieval

System architecture:
	Multi-agent architecture, search agents
	Intelligent agents, Androids and Avatars

Usage and best practice:
	Socio-economics of information retrieval
	Quantitative, qualitative and comparative evaluation
	Coding standards and Quality of Services
	Security and privacy
	Cognitive aspects, Human Factors and Ergonomics
	Legal aspects of multimedia document handling
	Multimedia and multimodal resources

Applications:

	Computer-aided information access for the handicapped
	Multimedia systems for medical applications
	Image Guided Surgery and Augmented Reality
	Medical documents archiving and retrieval
	Transmodal information access systems
	Telephone-based, nomad and in-vehicle systems
	Intelligent systems for call-center reporting
	Customized customer support (Aerospace product manuals...)
	Strategic and technology watch & Business Intelligence
	Real-Time information access for financial markets
	Information access for decision aid systems
	Multimodal Geographical Information Systems
	Television and Radio Broadcast Archiving and Browsing...



Call for Papers



The papers will be reviewed by the International Scientific Committee.


RIAO 2000 International Scientific Committee :

Co-Chairs : Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) and Donna Harman (NIST, USA)

Jean-Claude Bassano (University of Orleans, France)
Alain Berthoz (LPPA, College de France, France)
Patrick Bouthemy (IRISA/INRIA, France)
George Carayannis (ILSP, Greece)
Francine Chen (Xerox, USA)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusets, USA)
Franciska de Jong (University of Twente,The Netherlands)
Susan Dumais (Microsoft, USA)
David Evans (CMU and Claritech, USA)
Christian Fluhr (CEA, France)
Hiroya Fujisaki (Science University of Tokyo, Japan)
Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Edouard Geoffrois (DGA/CTA, France)
Jean-Paul Haton (LORIA, France)
Alex Hauptman (CMU, USA)
Ulrich Heid (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Roland Hjerppe (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Mun Kew Leong ( Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore)
Judith Klavans (Columbia University, USA)
Wessel Kraaij (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands)
Francis Kubala (BBN, USA)
Gianni Lazzari (IRST, Italy)
Alain Leger (CNET- France Telecom, France)
R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Richard Marcus (MIT, USA)
Mark Maybury (MITRE, USA)
Frank Nack (GMD IPSI, Germany)
Klaus Netter (DFKI, Germany)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)
Douglas Oard (University of Maryland, USA)
Dragutin Petkovic (IBM, USA)
Georges Quenot (CLIPS, France)
K. J. Ray Liu (University of Maryland, USA)
Ze'ev Rivlin (Natural Speech Communication, Israel)
Arnold Smeulders (ISIS, UvA, The Netherlands)
Karen Sparck Jones (University of Cambridge, UK)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Lucent technologies, USA)
Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia)
Phil Woodland (CUED, UK)



Call for Applications



Tools and products related to the conference topics are sought for
demonstration at special conference sessions.
Applications and products will be selected by the International Application
Committee, on the basis of their
innovation, utility, and present and future marketability.


RIAO 2000 International Application Committee :

Chair: Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox, France) and Pascal Faudemay (LIP6,
France)

Marie-Francoise Clergeau (College de France, France)
Daniel Confland (Jouve, France)
Max Copperman (Kanisa, USA)
Giorgio Dimino (RAI, Italy)
Michael Horowitz (Claritech, USA)
Hitoshi Iida (Sony Speech & Language Laboratory, Japan)
Hans-Joachim Novak (IBM, Germany)
Norbert Paquel (Canope, France)
Sylvie Regnier-Prost (Aerospatiale-Matra, France)
Remi Ronfard (INA, France)
Antonio Sanfilippo (EC, Luxembourg)
Laurent Schmitt (INIST-CNRS, France)
Vera Semenova (Sciper/Analit, Russia)
Joop Van Gent (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands)




The RIAO 2000 Conference is organized by:

Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaires (C.I.D.)

36 bis rue Ballu
75009 Paris France
Tel: (33 / 0) 1 42 85 04 75
Fax: (33 / 0) 1 48 78 49 61 or 1 45 26 84 45

and

Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S.)

Co / C. Constantin
575 Madison Avenue
25th floor
New York N.Y. 10022 USA

Contacts:

Email: riao2000 at limsi.fr

Web: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO


Organizing and Coordinating Committee:

Agnes Beriot (CID, France)
Peter Brodnitz (CASIS, USA)
Jean-Louis Darc (France-Pologne, France)
Jean-Jacques Guilbart (College de France, France)
Nicolas Masson (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Jean Perriere (CID, France)
Sharyn Rozart (CASIS, USA)
Anne Tabutiaux (Recherche et Diffusion Scientifique, France)
Tony Venables (ECAS, Belgium)


Calendar:

? Preliminary announcement: July 1999
? Call for Papers & Demonstrations: September 15, 1999
? Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999
? Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1999
? Submission of complete papers: January 15, 2000
? Final Program: January 25, 2000
? Conference: April 12-14, 2000



If you're interested in participating in the conference, or if you intend
to submit a paper, a prototype or an
application demo, or if you wish to know more about the conference when the
information will be available,
please fill in the Attendance Intention Form below, and send it to
"riao2000 at limsi.fr" ASAP.


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Attendance Intention Form:

Name :

Position:

Organization:

Mail address:



Telephone:

Fax:

EMAIL:

Web site:


I wish to participate in the RIAO 2000 Conference:

I wish to submit a paper (topic):

I wish to submit a prototype demo (topic):

I wish to submit an innovative product or application demo (topic):

I would like to have more information about RIAO 2000, when it will be
available:


Please, email this Attendance Intention Form to "riao2000 at limsi.fr" ASAP.
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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Sep 20 12:19:26 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:19:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: ICCI2000
Message-ID: <MON.20.SEP.1999.131926.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: almulla at sci.kuniv.edu.kw (Almulla M)

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   The Tenth International Conference on Computing and Information
              ICCI '2000, Kuwait, November 18-21, 2000

          Home Page: http://mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~icci2000
    North America Mirror Site: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icci-00/

                     organized and sponsored by
  Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait


Keynote Speaker (*): Tim Berners-Lee, the Father of the World Wide Web

======================================================================

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

ICCI  '2000 will provide   an international forum for researchers  and
practitioners  to present  new  results in research,  development, and
applications in   computing    and  information. Since    1989,   ICCI
conferences  have   attracted  participants  from  over   40 different
countries.   ICCI '2000 will   consist  of four streams  ranging  from
theoretical computer  science to  applied   software systems. It  will
provide   a     unique  opportunity   for     cross-fertilization  and
interdisciplinary information exchange.

     Stream A: Theory. Data Theory and Logic. Information and Coding
     Theory. Algorithms. Theory of Computation.
     Chair: Monty Newborn, newborn at opus.cs.mcgill.ca

     Stream B: Distribution and Parallelism. Distributed Computing and
     Communications. Concurrency and Parallelism.
     Chair: Albert Zomaya, zomaya at ee.uwa.edu.au

     Stream C: Systems and Development. Database Systems. Software
     Engineering and CASE Methodologies. Expert Systems.
     Chair: Hans Loeper, Loeper at mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw

     Stream D: Data and Knowledge Engineering. AI Methodologies.  User
     Interfaces.  Data Mining.  Approximate Reasoning.
     Chair: Susan Craw, smc at scms.rgu.ac.uk

     Stream E: Networking and Internet. Information Exploration on the
     World Wide Web. Mobile Computing.
     Chair: Richard Lai, lai at cs.latrobe.edu.au

Papers for any of the above streams are welcome.  All submitted papers
will  be reviewed  on  the  basis  of technical correctness,  quality,
relevance,  originality, significance, and  clarity.   Accepted papers
are expected   to be  published in the    conference proceedings by an
international   publisher.  A selected  number  of  ICCI 2000 accepted
papers will  be  expanded and revised  for possible  inclusion in  the
"Journal of Computing  and Information" and "Knowledge and Information
Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag.

Proposals for tutorials,  workshops   and  panel sessions are     also
invited.  All  paper  submissions (by   e-mail  or in   hardcopy)  and
proposals for  panels, workshops and tutorials  should  be sent to the
Program Committee Chair at the following address.

     Xindong Wu (xwu at kais.mines.edu)
     Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
     Colorado School of Mines
     1500 Illinois Street
     Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
     Phone: +1-303-273-3874
     Fax: +1-303-273-3875

Please  reply to this  email with your  name and email  now to receive
more information in due time.

Important Dates

 =====================================================================
 January 15, 2000        Proposals for panels, tutorials and workshops
 March 1, 2000                  Paper submissions
 May 1, 2000                    Acceptance notices
 July 1, 2000                   Final camera-readies
 November 18-21, 2000           Conference
 =====================================================================

Organization

     General Chair: Waldemar W. Koczkodaj,
     Laurentian University, Canada.
     E-mail: icci at nickel.laurentian.ca;
     URL: http://www.cs.laurentian.ca/faculty/wkoczkodaj.html

     Organizing Committee Chair: Mohammed Almulla,
     Kuwait University, Kuwait.
     E-mail: almulla at mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw;
     URL: http://www.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~almulla/

     Program Committee Chair: Xindong Wu,
     Colorado School of Mines, USA.
     E-mail: xwu at kais.mines.edu;
     URL: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/

General inquiries should be sent to the Organizing Committee Chair at

     Mohammed Almulla
     Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
     Kuwait University
     P.O.Box 5969
     Safat, 13060, Kuwait
     Telephone: (965) 481-1188 Ext. 5303 or 5624
     Fax: (965) 481-7201
     E-mail: almulla at mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw

------------------------------------------------------------------------
(*) pending confirmation


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Sep 20 12:19:28 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:19:28 +0100
Subject: Book: 2 announcements
Message-ID: <MON.20.SEP.1999.131928.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Techniques in Speech Acoustics

2/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Techniques in Speech Acoustics


**** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK ****



                     KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
               TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                            Volume 8
            Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V�ronis


                 Techniques in Speech Acoustics

                               by

                       Jonathan Harrington
                         Steve Cassidy

            Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre
              Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia


"Techniques in Speech Acoustics" provides an introduction to the acoustic
analysis and characteristics of speech sounds. The first part of the book
covers aspects of the source-filter decomposition of speech, spectrographic
analysis, the acoustic theory of speech production and acoustic phonetic
cues. The second part is based on computational techniques for analysing
the acoustic speech signal including digital time and frequency analyses,
formant synthesis, and the linear predictive coding of speech. There is
also an introductory chapter on the classification of acoustic speech
signals which is relevant to aspects of automatic speech and talker
recognition. Included with the book is a CD-ROM containing extensive speech
corpora, the EMU speech analysis tools, extensions to the X-LISP-STAT
programming language that are adapted to speech analysis, and numerous
exercises that are linked to the major themes of the book and which can be
run on Windows-95 and UNIX platforms.

The book and CD-ROM are intended for use as teaching materials on
undergraduate and postgraduate speech acoustics and experimental phonetics
courses; they are also aimed at researchers from phonetics, linguistics,
computer science, psychology and engineering who wish to gain an
understanding of the basis of speech acoustics and its application to
fields such as speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0
July 1999, 336 pp.
NLG 250.00 / USD 150.00 / GBP 88.00

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Contents

Preface.

Vowel and Consonant Transcriptions.
Contents of the CD-Rom.

1. The Scope of Speech Acoustics.
2. The Physics of Speech.
3. The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production.
4. Segmental and Prosodic Cues.
5. Time-Domain Analysis.
6. Frequency-Domain Analysis.
7. Digital Formant Synthesis.
8. Linear Prediction of Speech.
9. Classification of Speech Data.

References.

---------------------------------------------------------------------

                            PREVIOUS VOLUMES


   Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
             Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996

   Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
             Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997

   Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
             Thierry Dutoit
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997

   Volume 4: Exploring textual data
             Ludovic Lebart, Andr� Salem and Lisette Berry
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997

   Volume 5: Time Map Phonology:
             Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition
             Julie Carson-Berndsen
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997

   Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
             Lexical Knowledge Bases

   Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
             Tomek Strzalkowski
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999


Check the series Web page for order information:

   http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB


---------------------------------------------------------------------


2/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging


**** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK ****



                     KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
               TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                            Volume 9
             Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V�ronis


                  Syntactic Wordclass Tagging

                           edited by
                        Hans van Halteren

                  Dept. of Language and Speech
             University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands


This book provides an in-depth discussion of the field of syntactic
wordclass tagging, i.e. the annotation of the words in a text with tags
indicating their syntactic properties. Represented are the viewpoints of
the two main groups who take an interest in tagging: the users of tagged
text and the developers of tagging software.

The book starts out by examining the field foremost from the user's point
of view. After a brief historical overview, the nature and uses of tagging
are discussed and current practice is described. Here the user will find
what tagging is and the software developer what it is the user wants.

The book then switches to the other point of view and continues with a
detailed explanation of the most common computational techniques for
automatically tagging large amounts of text. Here the software developer
finds information needed for the implementation of a tagger while the user
gains insight into the possibilities and impossibilities of automatic
tagging and how computer-provided tags should be interpreted.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1
August 1999, 300 pp.
NLG 280.00 / USD 149.00 / GBP 93.00

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Contents and Contributors

Preface.
Contributing Authors.

Part I: The User's View.

1. Orientation; A. Voutilainen.
2. A Short History of Tagging; A. Voutilainen.
3. The Use of Tagging; G. Leech, N. Smith.
4. Tagsets; J. Cloeren.
5. Standards for Tagsets; G. Leech, A. Wilson.
6. Performance of Taggers; H. van Halteren.
7. Selection and Operation of Taggers; H. van Halteren.

Part II: The Implementer's View.

8. Automatic Taggers: An Introduction; H. van Halteren, A. Voutilainen.
9. Tokenization; G. Grefenstette.
10. Lexicons for Tagging; A. Schiller, L. Karttunen.
11. Standardization in the Lexicon; M. Monachini, N. Calzolari.
12. Morphological Analysis; K. Oflazer.
13. Tagging Unknown Words; E. Brill.
14. Hand-Crafted Rules; A. Voutilainen.
15. Corpus-Based Rules; E. Brill.
16. Hidden Markov Models; M. El-Beze, B. Merialdo.
17. Machine Learning Approaches; W. Daelemans.

Appendix A: Example tagsets.
References.
Index

---------------------------------------------------------------------

                            PREVIOUS VOLUMES


   Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
             Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996

   Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
             Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997

   Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
             Thierry Dutoit
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997

   Volume 4: Exploring textual data
             Ludovic Lebart, Andr� Salem and Lisette Berry
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997

   Volume 5: Time Map Phonology:
             Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition
             Julie Carson-Berndsen
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997

   Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
             Lexical Knowledge Bases

   Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
             Tomek Strzalkowski
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999

   Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics
             Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999


Check the series Web page for order information:

   http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB


---------------------------------------------------------------------


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Sep 20 12:19:34 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:19:34 +0100
Subject: Conf: CIL
Message-ID: <MON.20.SEP.1999.131934.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Jacqueline Lecarme" <jl at cra.cnrs.fr>



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             PROGRAMME DU COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL DE LINGUISTIQUE
                                     DE
                 L'INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES DE LYON

                             12-15 OCTOBRE 1999

  L'ECONOMIE DANS LES STRUCTURES, LES COMPUTATIONS ET L'UTILISATION DU LANGAGE



SESSIONS

                                  SEMANTIQUE

                            Mardi 12 Octobre 1999

Matin:

Chierchia, Genaro (University of Milan): Les implicatures scalaires, un
ph�nom�ne de polarit�

Dayal, Veneeta (Rutgers University): Le d�terminant d�fini et ses
contreparties silencieuses

Sauerland, Uli (Kanda Gaigo University, Japon): Sup�riorit� et Mont�e de
Quantifieur: un argument bas� sur le liage invers�

Apr�s midi :

Asher, Nicolas (University of Austin): Principes d��conomie dans
l�interpr�tation du discours

Shlenker, Philippe (MIT): Uniformit� s�mantique

Reinhart, Tanya (University of Tel Aviv): Le co�t pour le traitement du
langage d'un calcul bas� sur un ensemble de r�f�rence.

Alternate:

Monz, Christof (University of Amsterdam): Une d�sambiguation paresseuse
bas�e sur la d�duction.

                        MORPHOLOGIE/PHONOLOGIE

                        Mercredi 13 Octobre 1999


Matin:

Halle, Morris (MIT): Sur les consid�rations d'�conomie en phonologie.

Bonet, Eulalia (Universitat Autonoma Barcelona): De la phonologie des
clitiques catalans: approche d�rivationnelle ou non-d�rivationnelle.

Marantz, Alec (MIT): Les composants de la d�rivation.

Apr�s-midi

Vergneau, Jean Roger (ISC/USC): TBA

Peter F. Dominey (ISC): Un mod�le r�ductif de l�assignation des r�les
th�matiques en syntaxe.

Alternate:

Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry, Louis-Jean Boe, Nathalie Vall�e,
Marie-Agn�s Cathiard (ICP): Economie et Phonologie dans la th�orie de la
dispersion- focalisation perceptuelle et la th�orie de la perception
pour le contr�le de l�action.



                           PRAGMATIQUE

                      Jeudi 14 Octobre 1999


Matin :

Sperber, Dan (CREA, CNRS Paris): Economie et pragmatique.

Maillat, Didier (Lincoln College Oxford): Pour une pragmatique
minimaliste des pr�positions directionnelles.

Moeschler, Jacques (Universit� de Gen�ve): Economie et optimalit�
pragmatique: le cas des inf�rences directionnelles.

Apr�s midi :

Noveck, A.Ira (ISC): Comment rendre compte des implicatures
conversationnelles.

Blakemore, Diane (University of Salford): De l�interpr�tation des
�nonc�s conjoints.

Matsui, Tomoko (Christian University, Japan): Deux visions sur
l��conomie dans l�assignation de la r�f�rence: Centrage et
Pertinence.

Alternate:

Saussure, Louis de (Universit� de Gen�ve): Une approche proc�durale des
temps verbaux : L�exemple des temps du pass� en fran�ais.



                                SYNTAXE

                       Vendredi 15 Octobre 1999


Matin :

Rizzi, Luiggi (Universit� de Sienne): De quelques questions dans la
th�orie de la localit�.

Newmeyer, Frederic (University of Washington): Economie Grammaticale
versus Economie de traitement: Comment capturer les g�n�ralisations
typologiques

Williams, Edwin (Princeton University): L'�conomie comme conservation de
la forme

Apr�s midi

Kitagawa, Yoshihisa (Indiana University): Economie et S�lection Lexicale

Rezac, Milan (University of Toronto): L�Economie des relations
cible/but: le calcul de l�Equidistance

Collins, Christopher (Cornell University): Eliminer les �tiquettes

Alternate:

Moro, Andrea (University San Raffaele, Milano): Antisym�trie faible: une
application �conome de l�Axiome de Correspondance Lin�aire

Informations:

http://www.isc.cnrs.fr

Contacts:

deprez at isc.cnrs.fr (Viviane Deprez)
reboul at isc.cnrs.fr  (Anne Reboul)

Courrier:

Viviane Deprez
Institut des Sciences Cognitives
67 Blvd Pinel
69675 Bron Cedex


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Sep 20 12:19:56 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:19:56 +0100
Subject: Conf: GAT'99
Message-ID: <MON.20.SEP.1999.131956.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Georges Antoniadis <antoniadis at communication.u-grenoble3.fr>


==========================================================



                                 DERNIER APPEL A PARTICIPATION

                      ====================================================
                                              GAT'99
                                 Generation Automatique de Textes
                                   Deuxieme Colloque Francophone
                      =====================================================

                                 30 septembre et 1 octobre 1999

                                 Universite Stendhal - Grenoble 3
                            Institut de la Communication et des Medias
                                        38130 Echirolles
                                            FRANCE


OBJECTIFS :
Bien que la generation automatique de textes soit un domaine relativement
ancien  et actuellement en plein essor, les manifestations scientifiques
specifiques sont  plutot rares. Parmi les quelques conferences consacrees au
sujet, force est de  constater que les manifestations francophones sont
actuellement quasi  inexistantes. Un des objectifs de cette deuxieme edition
du colloque en generation  automatique de textes est de combler cette
lacune.

 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 peripherie de Grenoble.

ORGANISATION DU COLLOQUE :
Equipe CRISTAL-GRESEC
Universite Stendhal - Grenoble 3
Colloque organise avec le concours de la ville de Grenoble

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)
Gerard LIGOZAT (LIMSI ; Paris 11)
Jean-Francois NOGIER (Thomson CSF ; Bagneux)
Jacques ROUAULT (CRISTAL-GRESEC ; Grenoble 3)
Paul SABATIER (LIM ; CNRS)
Eric WEHRLI (LATL ; Universite de Geneve - Suisse)
Michael ZOCK (LIMSI ; Paris 11)


PROGRAMME PREVISIONNEL DU COLLOQUE

                            Jeudi 30 Septembre 1999

10h00 : Accueil des partcipants - Cafe
10h30 : Ouverture du colloque, bienvenue
11h00 : Conference invitee: Evelyne Viegas, New Mexico State University :
Le choix lexical en generation multilingue : du bon usage de la semantique
computationnelle.

12h00-14h00 : Repas

14h-17h30 Session presidee par Jean Caelen

14h00 : K. Chevreau, J. Coch : Generation multilingue de bulletins
meteorologiques : le logiciel multimeteo.
14h30 : M. Ellouze, A. Ben Hamadou : Reutilisation du langage dans une
generation de resumes de documents scientifiques basee sur des schemas.
15h00 : L. Balicco, S. Pouchot : Extraction de donnees d'un corpus en langue
naturelle en vue de l'amelioration d'un systeme de generation automatique de
textes.

15h30-16h00 : Pause cafe

16h00 : S. Pogodalla : Generation a l'aide de reseaux de preuves
semantiques.
16h30 : P.-A. Buvet : Determination et generation automatique.
17h00 : M. Frei : Polysemie causale et dilation semantique en GAT.

Soiree repas avec animation musicale: a partir de 20h "Chez le Pere Gras"

                              Vendredi 1er Octobre 1999

9h-12h30 Session presidee par Jacques Rouault

09h00 : Conference invitee: Frederic Meunier, Thomson - France,
Contraintes et choix industriels pour l'elaboration des systemes de
generation automatique de textes.
10h00 : E. Ben Meftah : Generateur multilingue de resumes de documents.

10h30-11h00 : Pause cafe

11h00 : J. Lavid, J. Arus : Signification experientielle en anglais et
espagnol : une specification pour la generation automatique et multilingue
de textes.
11h30 : T. Etchegoyen, J. Mengon, A. Vandeventer, T. Wehrle :  Une approche
efficace a la generation multilingue. Le systeme GBGen.
12h00 : F. Meunier, R. Reyes : Plate-forme de developpement de generateurs
multilingues.

12h30-14h00 : Repas

14h-17h Session presidee par Paul Sabatier

14h00 : C. Luc, M. Mojahid, J. Virbel : Connaissances structurelles et
modeles necessaires a la generation de textes formates.
14h30 : F. Sannier, V. Auberge : Vers la phonetisation des formes flechies
du francais.

15h00-15h30 : Pause Cafe

15h30 : Table ronde : Y a-t-il une dualite generation /reconnaissance?
Participants : M. Dymetman, F. Meunier, P. Sabatier, E. Viegas, E. Wehrli
Le debat permettra entre autres d'evoquer : les theories et les
outils communs,  les differences de methodologie, etc.

ACCUEIL ET INSCRIPTION
-----------------------
Le nombre de places etant limite, il est important de s'inscrire au  plus
tot (et en tout cas avant le 24 septembre 1999).
Les reservations d'hotel doivent etre faites directement par les
participants (une liste d'hotels se trouve sur le serveur Web de GAT'99 :
http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/gat/ , ou peut etre envoyee sur simple demande).

Le bulletin d'inscription (en fin de message) et le reglement des droits
d'inscription doivent etre envoyes a:
                   Monique BOIS
                   ICM - GAT'99
                   Universite Stendhal-Grenoble 3, BP 25
                   F-38040 Grenoble Cedex 9, FRANCE
                   Tel : (+33) 04 76 82 43 77
                   Fax : (+33) 04 76 82 43 22
                   Mel : bois at u-grenoble3.fr
                   http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/gat/

Localisation
-----------------
               Institut de Communication et des Medias
                           Avenue de 8 mai 45
                       38130 Echirolles - France

Acces   - Depuis l'aeroport de Lyon-Satolas :
                   . Navette (1h10mn) vers Grenoble (terminus gare SNCF)
                     puis Tram ligne A (Echirolles),  arret "La Rampe" (juste
                     devant l'ICM)

              - Depuis la gare, c'est a 45 minutes par le Tram ligne A
                  (Echirolles), arret "La Rampe" (juste devant l'ICM)

              - En voiture : suivre la direction "Rocade sud", sortir
                 a la sortie no7 (Echirolles centre) et prendre la diirection
                 Echirolles-centre. Au premier feu apres le pont tourner a
                 gauche, puis au premier feu a droite. Vous etes sur le
                 parking de l'ICM.


BULLETIN D'INSCRIPTION


RENSEIGNEMENTS
----------------------------

NOM : ...................................................................
PRENOM : ...........................................................
ORGANISME : .....................................................
ADRESSE : ..........................................................
............................................................................

TELEPHONE : .....................................................
FAX : ......................................................................
E-MAIL : ................................................................


Droits d'inscription
--------------------------

Tarif normal : 600 F
Tarif etudiant : 400 F (joindre un justificatif)

Les droits d'inscription comprennent les actes de la
conference ainsi que les pauses cafes et les repas de midi.

Une soiree avec animation musicale est prevue jeudi soir au restaurant "Chez
le Pere Gras"  sur la colline de la Bastille avec vue panoramique sur
Grenoble. Montee possible en telepherique (bulles).
La participation a cette soiree s'eleve a 160 FF, ce prix incluant :
l'apperif, le diner, les boissons et le cafe.

Vous pouvez regler les frais d'inscription et la participation a la soiree:
    - par cheque a l'ordre de l'Agent Comptable de Stendhal-Grenoble 3
    - par bon de commande
Toute inscription par courrier electronique devra etre confirmee par  un
courrier accompagne du reglement.

Vous trouverez toutes les informations concernant GAT'99 sous:
http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/gat/
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
Georges ANTONIADIS
D�partement Informatique P�dagogique / Equipe CRISTAL-GRESEC
Universit� 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Tue Sep 21 17:36:14 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:36:14 +0100
Subject: R: Prolog
Message-ID: <TUE.21.SEP.1999.183614.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

[avalanche de réponses !!  -- pz]

  ________________________________________________________________
  1/Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:08:37 -0400
  From: Laurence Capus <capus at ift.ulaval.ca>

  2/Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:39:54 -0400 (EDT)
  From: Grégory Perrat <perratg at mail.com>

  3/Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:02:57 +0200
  From: Nicolas <optimus at multimania.com>

  4/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 07:48:23 +0200 (MET DST)
  From: Henri.Zingle at unice.fr (Zinglé Henri)

  5/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:51:15 +0200 (MET DST)
  From: Marc Guyomard <Marc.Guyomard at enssat.fr>

  6/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:34:48 +0200
  From: Piet Mertens <Piet.Mertens at arts.kuleuven.ac.be>

  7/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:39:05 +0100
  From: Laurent.Trilling at imag.fr (Laurent Trilling)

  8/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:37:29 +0000 (GMT)
  From: Serge Rosmorduc <rosmord at iut.univ-paris8.fr>
  ________________________________________________________________


________________________________________________________________
1/Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:08:37 -0400
From: Laurence Capus <capus at ift.ulaval.ca>
Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990917160837.00806b20 at auguste.ift.ulaval.ca>
X-url: http://swi.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/download.html


J'enseigne Prolog dans un cours d'intelligence artificielle et nous
disposons de WinProlog 4 de la société LPA. Bien sur, il n'est pas gratuit
mais de leur site internet on peut telecharger une version d'utilisation
gratuite de 28 jours.
http://www.lpa.co.uk/

Mes étudiants ont trouvé des Prolog freeware pour Windows aux adresses
suivantes mais je n'ai pas eu encore le temps de les tester vraiment.
 - Pie Prolog
http://www.pdc.dk/vipexamples/winapps/pie.htm
 - Strawberry Prolog 1.02 pour Windows 95/NT
http://www.dobrev.com/download.html
 - SWI Prolog
http://swi.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/download.html

Laurence Capus
Departement d'informatique
Universite Laval
Ste-Foy (QC) - CANADA
capus at ift.ulaval.ca

________________________________________________________________
2/Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:39:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Grégory Perrat <perratg at mail.com>
Message-Id: <382759269.937600794099.JavaMail.root at web02.pub01>
X-url: http://www.hio.hen.nl/faq/SWI-Prolog.html


SWI-Prolog est le Prolog gratuit le plus
connu pour Windows (et d'autres plateformes),
assez proche de Quintus-Prolog.
Il est surtout destiné à l'enseignement, mais
n'est pas forcément de qualité inférieure aux
Prolog commerciaux.
C'est un Prolog de type Edimbourg,
qui est utilisé dans la plupart des
universités anglaises qui enseignent le Prolog.

Voir :
http://www.hio.hen.nl/faq/SWI-Prolog.html

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________________________________________________________________
3/Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:02:57 +0200
From: Nicolas <optimus at multimania.com>
Message-ID: <37E2BA91.E6DBCEF7 at multimania.com>


Bonjour,
très bonne décision l'enseignement de Prolog! Je le préfère de loin à LISP.
C'est plus intuitif.  Et c'est d'une grande souplesse et d'un grand intérêt
pédégogique.
Par contre, je vous conseille d'aller lentement au début car rare sont les
personnes à comprendre d'emblée la programmation récursive, et surtout à
penser récursivement.

J'utilise le Prolog SWI, freeware fait par une faculté à Amsterdam. Il fatt
utiliser un éditeur externe pour saisir les lignes de code. Mais il est d'un
très bon niveau car tjrs doté des dernières inovations, étant la version test
proposée aux universitaires pour éprouver ses capacités!

Vous le trouverez facilement en tapant SWI dans Yahoo ou excite.com
Je n'ai pas les URL en tête. Si vous ne le trouvez pas, je vous l'enverrai par
mail en fichier joint, il n'est pas très gros. Il fonctionne très bien sous
windows. Il existe aussi en version DOS et Linux.

Il existe le Prolog Strawberry qui est plus axé sur windows et avec lequel
il est aisé de créer des environnements fenétrés pour ses applications. Mais
il faut être quand même bien habitué à l aprogrammation Prolog. Donc ne pas le
proposer de suite. Aussi Freeware.

Enfin, si vous pouviez payer la licence de LPA Prolog qui dispose d'une
superbe interface graphique avec éditeur et console. Ce n'est pas trop cher
pour une fac. La licence tourne autour de qq centaines de francs et encore...

    Si vous ne trouvez pas ces logiciels, faites le moi savoir, je
m'arrangerai alors pour retrouver les URLs! De toute façon, si je remet la
main dessus je vous les enverrai.

    Bonne continuation dans l'enseignement de ce fabuleux langage! Un peu
étrange au début, je sais qu'il en a découragé plus d'un. Il faut une approche
lente dans les premiers temps. Et peut-être donner quelques notions de
récursivité mathématique pour les raisonnements (en ce qui concerne les
clauses, les faits, les règles...)

    En tout cas, c après entrainement, un langage qui permet de définir assez
aisément des règles de grammaires. Et la facilité de programmation d'automates
permet de ne pas être arrêté par de la programmtion trop lourde.

    J'espère vous avoir été utile et clair! N'hésitez pas à me recontacter
pour tout pb!

Cordialement

Nicolas

________________________________________________________________
4/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 07:48:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Henri.Zingle at unice.fr (Zinglé Henri)
Message-Id: <199909200548.HAA01412 at naxos.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.pdc.dk/


Il y a une version Education de VISUAL PROLOG (PDC) tres bon marché.
Renseignements sur
http://www.pdc.dk/
H. Zingle

Pr. H. Zinglé
LILLA-Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
98, bd Edouard Herriot - BP 209
F-06204 Nice Cedex3
Tél./Fax +33 93375439

________________________________________________________________
5/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:51:15 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Marc Guyomard <Marc.Guyomard at enssat.fr>
Message-Id: <v03007800b40ba4ffa783@[192.54.188.94]>
X-url: ftp://ftp.swi.psy.uva.nl/pub/SWI-Prolog/

Bonjour,

J'ai entendu beaucoup de bien de SWI-Prolog (certains l'ulisent dans
l'equipe), de l'université d'Amsterdam :

ftp://ftp.swi.psy.uva.nl/pub/SWI-Prolog/


C'est un prolog compilé (Wam), dote d'une interface avec C.


Cordialement.

____________________________________________________________________________
Marc Guyomard
Enssat/IRISA (Cordial)
Université de Rennes I
Technopole Anticipa
6, rue de Kerampont
22305 Lannion Cedex
France

>From overseas :
Tel :
     (33) 2-96-46-50-30 (Enssat)
     (33) 2-96-46-66-29 (Direct)
Fax :(33) 2-96-37-01-99

De France :
Tel :
     02-96-46-50-30 (Enssat)
     02-96-46-66-29 (Direct)
Fax :02-96-37-01-99
Web : http://www.enssat.fr
e-mail : guyomard at enssat.fr

________________________________________________________________
6/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:34:48 +0200
From: Piet Mertens <Piet.Mertens at arts.kuleuven.ac.be>
Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990920093448.007deaf0 at onyx.arts.kuleuven.ac.be>
X-url: http://swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/


Le logiciel recherché est disponible sur

http://swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/

Je l'utilise depuis quelques années, pour les gros projets
comme pour l'enseignement.  C'est robuste, fiable, rapide,
portable (Unix, Windows, d'autres...). Il existe une liste
de discussion où celui qui a conçu le système répond
aux questions.

Piet Mertens

________________________________________________________________
7/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:39:05 +0100
From: Laurent.Trilling at imag.fr (Laurent Trilling)
Message-Id: <v01540b00b40bbd75cb4d@[129.88.38.44]>


Bien recu.
Nous utilisons ici Prolog IV (de prologIA), disponible aussi sous Windows.
Pour deux raisons:
 - une tres bonne definition (essentiel pour l'enseignement)
 - les derniers concepts en matiere de contraintes sont integres
(contraintes sur intervalles).
Devoir payer un cout (extremement modeste) m'apparait un avantage. A partir
du moment ou on achete (meme peu cher), le vendeur a des devoirs...
Bien a vous.
Laurent Trilling.

-----------------------------
Laurent Trilling

Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble)
lab. LSR-IMAG
BP 72
38402 SAINT MARTIN D'HERES CEDEX
France

e-mail: Laurent.Trilling at imag.fr
bureau: ENSIMAG, bat. D, D104
tel : 04 76 82 72 13 (prof.),  O4 76 51 23 76 (dom.)
FAX :04 76 82 72 87 (prof.)
-----------------------------

________________________________________________________________
8/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:37:29 +0000 (GMT)
From: Serge Rosmorduc <rosmord at iut.univ-paris8.fr>
Message-ID: <14310.17970.961743.842955 at djedefhor.iut.univ-paris8.fr>


Bonjour,

Le swi prolog est très complet, et en plus disponible à la fois sous
windows et sous unix.

Cordialement,

--

Serge Rosmorduc, (rosmord at iut.univ-paris8.fr)
tel 01 48 70 37 09
fax 01 48 70 86 49
http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/AEgypt.html

________________________________________________________________


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Thu Sep 23 16:39:06 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:39:06 +0100
Subject: Q: Debugging computational grammars
Message-ID: <THU.23.SEP.1999.173906.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 10:23:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Alberto Lavelli <lavelli at itc.it>
Message-Id: <199909230824.KAA16161 at ecate.itc.it>


Dear colleagues,

I'm looking for references to the problem of developing and debugging
computational grammars for natural languages. I'm particularly
interested in tools and approaches used in debugging grammars
(particularly in their use when dealing with relatively large
hand-written grammars).  In the computational systems I'm aware of,
usually there is only a limited (and standard) set of debugging tools:
tracers, steppers, chart browsers.

Furthermore, does anybody know any extensive study on the most
suitable strategies/tools to cope with the writing/testing/debugging
cycle (always with a particular emphasis on debugging)?

I know that there have been hints to this problem in related areas
(e.g., the EU projects TSNLP and DiET, some papers at the ACL-EACL97
workshop on Computational Environments for Grammar Development and
Linguistic Engineering) but it seems to me that this topic has so far
received little attention. But perhaps I'm missing some relevant
contributions and so I'm asking for your help.

Apart from references to relevant stuff, I'm also interested in your
general opinion on the issue.  Is this (alleged) lack of interest an
indication of the fact that such issue is in your opinion not
particularly relevant?


I'll post a summary if I receive enough responses


best
	alberto


ps: I have sent this message to several mailing lists. I apologize if
you receive it more than once.


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Sep 28 12:38:31 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:38:31 +0100
Subject: Appel: ACIDCA (Corpora&NNLP)
Message-ID: <TUE.28.SEP.1999.133831.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

>From L.Belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn Thu Sep 23 17:45:54 1999



[Apologies if you receive this message more than once]



*************************************************************************

                         "Corpora and NLP"
                        ACIDCA'2000 session
                Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000

                     Under the auspices of ELRA

                            Organised by:
                   University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS)
            Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)

                            Sponsored by:
                              IEEE SMC
				co-sponsored by:
                                TSS
                            Supported by:
               Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific
                   Research and Technology (SERST)

**************************************************************************




General
-------

The last few years have seen the explosively growing use of corpora in
a number of NLP areas. Corpus data are used increasingly as a basis for
the design, development and optimisation of various NLP applications but
also for their evaluation.

"Corpora and NLP" is a 3-day thematic session and will be held as part
of the International Conference on Artificial and Computational
Intelligence for Control, Automation and Decision in Engineering and
Industrial Systems (ACIDCA'2000) (for more details on ACIDCA'2000,
visit http://www.chez.com/acidca2000) . The session
"Corpora and NLP" will be organised as a workshop with its own
Proceedings and Programme Committee.

The session will address all aspects of the use of written and spoken
corpora (including the construction of corpora to be used) in NLP.


Main Topics
-----------

We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following
topics:

* Lexicography
* Lexical knowledge acquisition
* Part of Speech Tagging
* Unknown word guessing
* Term recognition
* Morphological Analysis
* Robust Parsing
* Word Sense Disambiguation
* Anaphora Resolution
* Discourse segmentation
* Machine Translation
* Agreement Error Correction
* Spelling and Grammar Correction
* Information Extraction
* Automatic Abstracting
* Text Categorisation
* Speech processing
* Multilingual corpora and multilingual applications
* Corpus annotation
* Evaluation

Papers describing industrial applications based on corpus
processing techniques are welcome.


Honorary Chairs
---------------

Mohamed Ben Ahmed - Tunisian State Secretary of Scientific
                    and Technological Research

Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT)-Tunisia

Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley


General Chairs
--------------

Adel Alimi,
National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS)

Lamia Belguith Hadrich,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)

Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)


Programme Committee
-------------------

Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair

Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom)
Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)
Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble)
Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble)
Khalid Choukri (ELRA, Paris)
Fathi Debili (IRMC, Tunis)
Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris)
Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon)
Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen)
Fumiyo Fukumoto (University of Yamanashi)
Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble)
Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York)
Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technology, Copenhagen)
Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal)
Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of Edinburgh)
Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona)

Manolo Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain)
Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma, Tor Vergata)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille)
Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
Keh-Yih Su  (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei)
Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)
Agnes Tutin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill)
Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki)


Local Organising Committee
--------------------------

Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) - Chairs
H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax),
Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS, Sfax),
Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG, Gabes),
Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax),
Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax),
Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax),
Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis),
Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)
Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)

International Organising Committee
----------------------------------

Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray
(University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs
Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan),
Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan),
Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France),
Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University),
Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA)
Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA)
Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France)
Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain)


Submission Guidelines
---------------------

Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be
written in English and must not exceed 10 pages including figures,
tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature
title, author's name(s), surface and email address(es), followed by
keywords and an abstract.

Four hard copies of each submission are to be sent to the following
address :

ACIDCA'2000  (Corpora & NLP Session)
Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe,
BP 120, 3049 Sfax
Tunisia

In addition, a 200-word (or so) abstract of the paper and a list of
keywords should be emailed as plain text to R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk and
copied to  l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn

The papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Programme
Committee.

Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines how to produce the
camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings.


Schedule
--------

Paper Submission Due: 20 October 1999 **extended deadline**
Notification of Acceptance : 10 December 1999
Camera-ready Paper Due : 10 January 1999
"Corpora and NLP" Session : 22-24 March 2000


Further information
-------------------

Registration to the "Corpora and NLP" session entitles the participants
to attend all other ACIDCA'2000 invited talks and sessions as well as
the exhibition. Registration details will be included in the Second Call
for Papers.

There will be tutorials on 21 March. More information on the tutorials
will be available from ACIDCA'2000 web site as soon as they are
finalised.

ACIDCA'2000 will offer best paper awards in three categories:
Best Paper, Best Poster Paper and Best Student Paper.

The social programme will be announced in the second call for papers.


For any Information
-------------------

Please contact :

Lamia Belguith
e-mail: l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn
Fax: (216) 4 296 229


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Sep 28 12:39:06 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:39:06 +0100
Subject: Appel: ISKO6
Message-ID: <TUE.28.SEP.1999.133906.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Widad MUSTAFA <mustafa at univ-lille3.fr>


===================================================
************** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTING ******
====================================================
Dear Colleagues,

Just a reminder to those who are planning to present papers
at the ISKO6 Conference, July 10-13, 2000, that the deadline for
the submission of abstracts is fast approaching - September 30, 1999.
Below there is a copy of the original call for papers

In the interests of ensuring that abstracts do not get lost in
cyberspace, you will be notified when your abstract has been received.

Please forward this message to person or listserv that you think would
be interested.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Nancy Williamson,
Conference Chair


International Society for
Knowledge Organization
Sixth International ISKO Conference
Call for Papers

 The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will
 conduct its 6th International Conference (ISKO 6) in Toronto, Canada,
 July 10-13, 2000.  The theme of the conference is:

     Dynamism and Stability in Knowledge Organization

 Papers addressing Dynamism and Stability in Knowledge Organization
 from any of the following interrelated perspectives are invited:

      Cognitive and Linguistic Foundations
      Theories of Knowledge and Knowledge Organization
      Information Policies and Management of Knowledge Structures
      Information Systems: Concepts, Design and Implementation
      Culture, Language and Communication in Knowledge Organization
      Knowledge Organization of Universal and Special Systems Global
      Users and Uses of Knowledge and Knowledge Organization New
      Information Technologies for Knowledge Organization

  Theoreticians, researchers and practitioners involved in knowledge
  organization are invited to submit abstracts of between 500 and 1000
  words by September 30, 1999 to Professor Clare Beghtol, Programme
  Chair (see contact information below; electronic submissions
  welcome; please include ISKO in the subject line). In preparing your
  abstract please relate your topic to the theme of the  conference
  and indicate the category above to which you believe your paper
  belongs. An international programme committee will review the
  papers, and authors will be notified of decisions by December 1,
  1999.  The deadline for submission of papers for the printed
  conference proceedings will be March 1, 2000.

  Venue of the conference:
  Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto,
  Canada Conference Chair: Nancy Williamson Programme Chair: Clare
  Beghtol Mailing address:  Faculty of Information Studies, University
  of Toronto, 140 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada M5S 3G6 FAX: +1
  416 971 1399 e-mail: isko at fis.utoronto.ca
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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Sep 28 12:38:55 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:38:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: CPC-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.28.SEP.1999.133855.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Tony Berber Sardinha" <tony4 at uol.com.br>

CALL

Symposium
Computational Processing of Portuguese 2000

Dates: 14 / 15 April 2000
Venue: Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Deadline for proposals: 10 October 1999
Confirmation of acceptance: 25 October 1999
Whole symposium: 4 hours (aprox. 40 minutes per speaker)
Total number of speakers: 6

Please send a 300-word abstract in Portuguese or English to tony4 at uol.com.br

thanks
-------------------------------
Dr Tony Berber Sardinha
Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
tony4 at uol.com.br
http://sites.uol.com.br/tony4/homepage.html
http://homepages.infoseek.com/~corpuslinguistics/homepage.html
-------------------------------


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Sep 28 12:39:13 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:39:13 +0100
Subject: Livre: 1 announcement
Message-ID: <TUE.28.SEP.1999.133913.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: salkoff at cora-sa.com (Morris Salkoff)


Book Announcement

New book: A French-English grammar: a contrastive grammar on translational
principles.   Morris Salkoff, 1999  J. Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia

		In this contrastive French-English grammar, the comparisons between French
structures and their English equivalents are formulated as rules which
associate a French schema (of a particular grammatical structure) with its
translation into an equivalent English schema. The grammar contains all the
rules giving the English equivalents under translation of the principal
grammatical structures of French: the verb phrase, the noun phrase and the
adjuncts (modifiers).

		In addition to its intrinsic linguistic interest, this comparative grammar
has two important applications. The translation equivalences it contains can
provide a firm foundation for the teaching of the techniques of translation.
Furthermore, such a comparative grammar is a necessary preliminary to any
program of machine translation, which needs a set of formal rules, like
those given here for the French-to-English case, for translating into a
target language the syntactic structures encountered in the source language.

		The importance of this comparative grammar is seen from the new results
obtained here, which can have an immediate application to research in MT.
These are the translational sub-classes and the passe-partout (all-purpose)
translations. The first are sub-classes of French words and their English
translations, which are related only as translation equivalents, but are not
otherwise distinguished in their respective grammars. The need for such
sub-classes emerges only when certain difficulties are encountered in
finding suitable English equivalents for French schemata. The second, the
passe-partout translations, are approximate translations which are useful in
two cases. In the first case, there are several related schemata whose
translations could be separated only on the basis of semantic considerations
that would be difficult to formalize. The passe-partout translation provides
a 'cover' translation that is approximately correct for all the schemata,
and does not require establishing hard-to-define semantic sub-classes. In
the second case, some one-to-many translations of a French word can be
approximated by a single passe-partout translation which covers
approximately the same range of meaning in English as the original
one-to-many translations do.

		Such results could not have been found from the sole consideration of
grammatical phenomena in French or English grammar independently of each
other. As the reader will observe from the data collected in this book, a
comparative study is necessary both for pedagogical purposes, and for
research in machine translation.

Table of Contents

Chapter  1  Introduction

	1.0 Generalities
	1.1 Previous Work
	1.2 The Present Method
	1.3 Comparative grammar for pedagogy and for MT

Chapter 2  Major sentence structures; the verb; the object

	2.1 Principal Clauses	
	2.2 The Verb	
	2.3 Modals                            	
	2.4 Support verbs	
	2.5 Objects	
	2.6 Negation
	2.7 Amalgamation
						
     Chapter 3  The Noun Phrase NP

	3.1 gN  N  dN
	3.2 Qd  de  NP
	3.3 Pronouns
	3.4 Noun Replacement strings

    Chapter 4   Adjuncts

    Chapter 5   Conclusions; Applications

      I. Conclusions

	5.1 New translations
	5.2 Solutions
	5.3 Translational Sub-classes
	5.4 Reversible Grammars
	5.5 An Extension of passe-partout translations
	5.6 Extension to other language pairs

      II. Applications

	5.7 To pedagogy
	5.8 To MT

References

	J. Benjamins,  Lingvisticae Investigationes Supplementa, 22
	    1999.  xvi, 342 pp.  HB: 150 Dutch guilder
					pb: 70 Dutch guilder


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 29 16:11:54 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:11:54 +0100
Subject: Appel: ATALA Workshop
Message-ID: <WED.29.SEP.1999.171154.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)


[Version francaise ci-apres]


			      ATALA Workshop

	    Representation and Treatment of Syntactic Ambiguity in
			Natural Language Processing

				------------

			Paris, Piti�-Salp�tri�re
		  	     January 29, 2000

		   htpp://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/ATALA2000.html

				------------

			   CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

There are several approaches making it possible to treat syntactic ambiguity:
one can for example decide to apply disambiguation as soon as possible, in
particular using statistical methods. One can on the contrary choose to delay
to the maximum the disambiguation and to maintain the ambiguity, possibly
until the end of the processing. These two approaches are not necessarily
contradictory. However, the problem remains very difficult to solve and many
of the methods proposed amount to little more than the traditional
enumeration.

Factorizing the information (for example in using parse forests) can from
this point of view play a very significant role and even lead to effective
solutions.

The goal of this workshop is to propose an overview of the current techniques
for the representation and the treatment of syntactic ambiguity in natural
language processing.

INVITED SPEAKERS
----------------
	. Bernard Lang			
		INRIA

	. David Weir
		Cognitive and Computing Science
		University of Sussex

COMMUNICATIONS
--------------

The proposals for a communication will be selected on the basis of a 1 page
abstract.

Abstracts will be sent by e-mail (preferably) or surface mail at:

		pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr

		Philippe Blache
		LPL - Universit� de Provence
		29, Avenue Robert Schuman
		13621  Aix-en-Provence
		France

DATES
-----
	Deadline : 	December 1st, 1999
	Notifications:	December 20th, 1999


CHAIR
-----
	Philippe Blache			Eric de la Clergerie
	CNRS/Universit� de Provence	INRIA
			

_______________________________________________________________________________


			   Journ�e de l'ATALA :

	Repr�sentation et traitement de l'ambiguit� pour l'analyse syntaxique

				------------

			Paris, Piti�-Salp�tri�re
		  	     29 Janvier 2000

		htpp://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/ATALA2000.html

				------------


			  APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS


Il existe plusieurs approches permettant de traiter l'ambiguit� : on
peut par exemple d�cider d'appliquer une d�sambiguisation au plus t�t,
notamment � l'aide de m�thodes statistiques ou heuristiques. On peut
au contraire choisir de retarder au maximum la d�sambiguisation et de
maintenir l'ambiguit�, �ventuellement jusqu'� la fin du
traitement. Ces deux approches ne sont d'ailleurs pas forc�ment
contradictoires. Cependant, le probl�me reste tr�s difficile �
r�soudre et bien des m�thodes propos�es reviennent finalement a une
�numeration classique.

Dans cette perspective, le partage des informations � l'aide, par exemple, de
for�ts d'arbres peut jouer un r�le tr�s important et conduire � des solutions
efficaces.

Le but de cette journ�e est de faire le point sur les techniques
actuelles de repr�sentation et de traitement de l'ambiguit� pour
l'analyse syntaxique ou pour des phases ult�rieures, et ce pour
diff�rents formalismes grammaticaux (ou ind�pendamment d'eux).


CONFERENCIERS INVITES
---------------------
	. Bernard Lang			
		INRIA

	. David Weir
		Cognitive and Computing Science
		University of Sussex

COMMUNICATIONS
--------------
Les propositions de communication seront selectionn�es sur la base d'un r�sum�
de 1 page � transmettre par e-mail (de pr�f�rence) ou courrier � l'adresse
suivante :

		pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr

		Philippe Blache
		LPL - Universit� de Provence
		29, Avenue Robert Schuman
		13621  Aix-en-Provence
		France

CALENDRIER
----------

	Date limite de r�ception des r�sum�s : 	1er D�cembre 1999
	Notifications aux auteurs :		20 D�cembre 1999


ORGANISATEURS
-------------

	Philippe Blache		Eric de la Clergerie
	LPL - CNRS		INRIA


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 29 16:11:59 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:11:59 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLPRS Workshop
Message-ID: <WED.29.SEP.1999.171159.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: nlprs 99 <nlprs99 at korterm.kaist.ac.kr>




                    NLPRS'99 Workshop

                          MAL'99

Multi-lingual Information Processing and Asian Language processing

            Beijing, China, November 5, 1999



                  --  Call for Papers  --

           Summary submission due : October 12
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


The recent information society has been evolved into the state
of multi-lingual communication and broadcasting. However, the
theoretical and empirical research and development has not been
fully flourished toward the customer-oriented product. The
knowledge about multi-lingual communication has not yet been
fully discovered and furthermore, the knowledge about Asian
language processing is too weak to understand the neighboring
countries' languages even inside of the Asian countries. Here,
the each country's language processing has to be introduced to
other language users for their language resources, experiences
and theoretical achievements. Although the characteristics
among Asian languages are more similar than those of European
languages, the chance of this discussion has been very few.

This workshop will solicit papers from the academic sectors as
well as from the commercial sectors, in order to know what are
achievements of researchers and what are problems of information
industry. Standardization efforts of markup languages are one
of important issues for the advanced intelligent language
processing. Moreover, the test suites for each language and
information processing areas are invited to be presented.

All submissions are welcomed in all area of NLP topics and
the partial lists of topics are as follows but not limited to:

  - characteristics of each language processing
  - standards of tag set for language resources and application
  - test suite of language processing, e.g., IR, MT, summarization
  - industrial application of Asian language processing and
    multi-lingual information handling
  - multi-lingual indexing and keyword extraction
  - data and information structure of Asian languages
  - multi-lingualism in broadcasting and public affairs
  - computer-based language teaching
  - localization of language products
  - machine translation
  - cross-lingual information retrieval

The workshop review and acceptance will be based on a two-page
extended summary (2000 words or less). The summary must be
accompanied by its title and author information including full
names, affiliations of all authors and the postal mailing
address and email of the corresponding author. "Software
demonstration" is also very much encouraged.

Submit by email to 'mal99 at korterm.kaist.ac.kr'



== IMPORTANT DATES ==

   - Summary submission due:  October 12
   - Notification of acceptance: October 16
   - Camera ready papers or presentation materials due: October 22
   - Inquires concerning the workshop can be sent to one of
     the organizers by
        * email to mal99 at korterm.kaist.ac.kr
        * fax to +82-42-867-3565 (forward to: NLPRS99 MAL Workshop)
        * Dr. Young-Soog Chae
          KORTERM, Department of Computer Science
          Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
          373-1 Kusong-dong Yusong-gu Taejon 305-701
          Korea


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 15 10:48:11 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:48:11 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 6 Offers
Message-ID: <WED.15.SEP.1999.114811.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Amnon Meyers <amnonm at home.com>
   Subject:  Programmers/NLP and Text Analysis

2/ From: <melamed at research.westlaw.com>  (Dan Melamed)
   Subject: job in research at West Group

3/ From:  <CHayes4779 at aol.com>
   Subject:  Linguists/Computational & Russian

4/ From: Claude de Loupy <deloupy at bertin.fr>
   Subject: Bertin

5/ From: VINESSE Jerome CNET/DSM/LAN <jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: Poste au CNET

6/ From: GAZEAU Didier 096289 <GAZEAU at CARTIER.CEA.fr>
   Subjetc: CEA, stage post-doctoral
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Amnon Meyers <amnonm at home.com>
   Subject:  Programmers/NLP and Text Analysis

Southern California Programmers

A pioneering NLP-based company seeks candidates for software developer
positions.  Preference to those living in or willing to move to
Southern California (e.g., Orange County).  We offer perks such as
stock options and support for working from home.  As an early stage
startup, we seek creative and versatile software developers.

TAI builds GUI tool sets that enable users to create and maintain text
analysis applications.  Check out our website at

http://www.textanalysis.com


Requirements:

5 years of programming experience required.  Strong preference for MS
Visual C++ experience, including GUI, with Windows NT 4.0 operating
system.  Experience with web (Java, Perl, CGI), database desired.
Main platforms are PC and UNIX/Linux.  Experience with natural
language processing or document management middleware is a plus.

B.S. Computer Science, EE, or equivalent is required.  Strong written
and oral English skills are required.

Inquiries and resumes by email to amnonm at home.com .

Amnon Meyers
Chief Technology Officer
Text Analysis International, Inc.

_______________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: <melamed at research.westlaw.com>  (Dan Melamed)
   Subject: job in research at West Group


West Group, a leading international publisher and provider of
value-added information to the legal and business communities, seeks
qualified applicants to expand its research staff.  The Computer
Science Research Department at West Group currently consists of 15
individuals and is co-located in Rochester, New York and in Eagan,
Minnesota (a suburb of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul).

The department's primary research interests include information
retrieval (including cross-language retrieval), information
extraction, text categorization, machine learning, natural language
processing, and performance evaluation.  Principal duties would
include analysis, design, coding and testing of concepts and
prototypes for retrieval, extraction, and categorization systems in
the context of very large data environments such as Westlaw.  The
department and its staff are positioned to pursue cutting-edge
research in order to impact the company's new technology-driven
applications, and thus to achieve recognition both inside and outside
the firm.

Applicants should have a graduate degree in Computer Science or
related field, with a focus in IR, IE, NLP, or ML.  Excellent UNIX,
C/C++, Java, OOA/OOD experience desirable.

West Group offers excellent growth opportunities, a competitive
salary, and comprehensive benefits.  West is an equal opportunity
employer.

Send resume in electronic form to:  Peter.Jackson @WestGroup.com

Or via conventional mail to:    	

Peter Jackson
West Group
610 Opperman Drive
D1-66F
Eagan, MN 55123

_______________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  <CHayes4779 at aol.com>
   Subject:  Linguists/Computational & Russian

Company in Fairfax, VA is looking to hire a Computational
Linguist and a Russian linguist.  30-80 hours per month, as needed. Salary
depends on qualifications and experience.  Must have US citizenship.
Security clearance preferred.  E-mail resume to <DamicoLynne at yahoo.com>


_______________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: Claude de Loupy <deloupy at bertin.fr>
   Subject: Bertin

Proposition de poste en linguistique computationnelle

La societ? Bertin Technologies, situ?e a Plaisir (78), France (pr?s de
Paris) recherche un informaticien specialis? dans le traitement
automatique de la langue. Le profil recherch? comprend, mais n'est pas
limit? ? :

* approches statistiques / probabilistes et symboliques du TALN
* Recherche documentaire
* Gestion de bases de donn?es textuelles
* R?seaux Internet et Intranet

Requis :

* Doctorat en linguistique computationnelle ou dans un domaine li?
* Experience de programmation, Internet et Intranet, d?veloppement
  de syst?mes d'information
* Expertise dans le traitement d'au moins une langue en plus du
  francais
* Citoyen francais

Salaire : selon experience

Envoyez votre CV par un des moyens suivant :

* e-mail:       znaty at bertin.fr
* fax:  33 1 34 81 87 43        attn: Elie Znaty
* mail: Elie Znaty
        Bertin Technologies
        59, rue pierre Curie, BP3
        78 373 Plaisir cedex



Career Opportunity for a Computational Linguist:

Bertin technologies, located in Plaisir (78), France, (near Paris) seeks a
computational linguist.  Relevant backgrounds include, but are not
restricted to the following:

* Statistical / probabilistic and symbolic NLP approaches
* Information retrieval
* Textual Data Base management
* Internet and intranet networking

Requirements:

* Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics or related field
* Work experience involving computer programming, Internet and Intranet
  information systems developement
* Expertise in at least one language in addition to French
* French citizenship

Pay: commensurate with experience.

Send your CV by one of the following methods:

* e-mail:       znaty at bertin.fr
* fax:  33 1 34 81 87 43        attn: Elie Znaty
* mail: Elie Znaty
        Bertin Technologies
        59, rue pierre Curie, BP3
        78 373 Plaisir cedex


_______________________________________________________________________________

5/ From: VINESSE Jerome CNET/DSM/LAN <jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: Poste au CNET


L'unit? de R&D langue naturelle du CNET (Centre de recherche de France
T?l?com) propose ? Lannion (C?tes d'Armor, Bretagne, France) un poste
d'ing?nieur de recherche en traitement automatique du langage naturel, ?
dur?e ind?termin?e. Niveau bac+5, bonnes connaissances en informatique et en
linguistique.


_______________________________________________________________________________

6/ From: GAZEAU Didier 096289 <GAZEAU at CARTIER.CEA.fr>
   Subjetc: CEA, stage post-doctoral


SUJET :

Les m?thodes de veilles strat?giques font appel ? la constitution de grandes
banques d'informations multi-sources et multilingues sur un th?me g?n?rique.
L'int?r?t de telles banques d'informations r?side dans la multiplicit? des
angles de vue sous lesquels elles sont interrogeables. Les informations qui
s'y trouvent  sont l? pour r?pondre ? des interrogations mais surtout pour
susciter la r?flexion et l'analyse strat?gique par les responsables.

L'alimentation de ces banques d'informations constitu?es ? partir
d'informations tr?s h?t?rog?nes tant dans la forme que dans la provenance
n?cessite des traitement linguistiques performant pour ne retenir que les
informations en rapport avec le th?me suivi. Pour prendre un exemple concret
une banque d'informations sur le nucl?aire pourra ?tre constitu?e ? partir
d'informations provenant de sources extr?mement vari?es : pages des sites
Internet des diff?rents acteurs mondiaux (institutionnels et industriels),
revues de presse, documents en provenance de sites parlementaires,
d'organisations non gouvernementales pour ou contre l'utilisation de cette
forme d'?nergie, ... Un contr?le de la langue, un filtrage des informations

par rapport ? un ou des dictionnaires de sp?cialit? sont des moyens
d'augmenter significativement le rapport signal sur bruit dans la base sans
pour autant en diminuer la richesse.

L'h?t?rog?n?it? de la banque d'informations en terme de contenu de
l'information induit pour les utilisateurs le besoin d'une aide ? la
navigation ? travers cette masse de donn?es. Une analyse morphosyntaxique
fine du contenu de la banque d'informations est susceptible de fournir aux
utilisateurs une cartographie des concepts qui s'y trouvent repr?sent?s.
Pour reprendre notre exemple d'une banque d'informations d?di?e au
nucl?aire, l'utilisateur doit pouvoir retrouver rapidement par ce proc?d? de
" navigation conceptuelle " sur le contenu les sous-ensembles de
d'informations relatives ? des sous th?matiques particuli?res (ex : mati?res
nucl?aires, transport, entreposage-stockage, budgets, participations,
programmes, ...).

Enfin l'?tude des formes du discours dans les documents eux-m?mes doit
permettre de reconna?tre dans ces documents les ?l?ments factuels et
argumentatifs. Pour cet aspect particulier de la veille strat?gique les
solutions " classiques " de recherche d'informations textuelle ou
l'utilisation de syst?mes statistiques d'infom?trie sont inop?rantes. On
peut imaginer que ce type d'approche permette dans l'avenir d'envisager
d'aborder de fa?on scientifique le probl?me de la d?tection des signaux
faibles en mati?re de veille.

La DIST a b?n?fici? dans les domaines scientifiques et techniques d?crits
ci-dessus de nombreuses ann?es d'exp?rience et de d?veloppements concrets
d'applications transverses au CEA. Des recherches ont ?t? men?es sur les
deux premiers points d?velopp?s plus haut. Elles ont fait l'objet de
plusieurs th?ses et d'adaptations. Il s'agit maintenant de passer ? une
phase d'assemblage des diff?rents types d'outils r?alis?s pour les
exp?rimenter dans le cadre de besoins r?els sur des banques d'informations
pr?sentant un caract?re transverse aux activit?s du CEA.

Le stage post-doctoral propos? a donc pour objectif la mise en oeuvre d'un
proc?d? de navigation conceptuelle ? travers une grande banque
d'informations sur le nucl?aire destin?e au CEA, et ? proposer et tester des
m?thodes d'analyse du discours en vue de la reconnaissance et  de
l'extraction de faits et de l'argumentation qui y est d?velopp?e.

Le candidat post-doc devra int?grer les r?sultats de recherche d?j? obtenus
et d?velopper les fonctionnalit?s qui restent ? mettre en oeuvre. Il doit
avoir des comp?tences dans les applications du web, la recherche
d'informations, l'ing?nierie linguistique. Une bonne ma?trise de
l'informatique est n?cessaire pour reprendre et faire ?voluer rapidement les
outils d?velopp?s au cours des th?ses pass?es.

Renseignements aupr?s de C. FLUHR (t?l : 01 69 08 70 93, fax 01 69 08 76 95
fluhr at tabarly.saclay.cea.fr) ou D. GAZEAU (gazeau at cartier.cea.fr)


Didier GAZEAU

COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE

Direction de l'information scientifique et technique
Service d'ing?nierie de l'information et applications
Groupe environnement scientifique et technique

tel : (33)-1-69 08 36 75
fax : (33)-1-69 08 26 69
m?l : gazeau at cartier.cea.fr

_______________________________________________________________________________


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 15 10:48:39 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:48:39 +0100
Subject: Jobs: 6 (other) offers
Message-ID: <WED.15.SEP.1999.114839.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Mark Turner <mturner at htech.com>
   Subject:  Research Position in Natural Language Processing

2/ From:  <DamicoLynne at yahoo.com>
   Subject:  Computational and Russian Linguists

3/ From:  "Berman, Jules (NCI)" <bermanj at ctep.nci.nih.gov>
   Subject:  Software Development/Medical Text

4/ From:  Pfaraud at aol.com
   Subject:  Speech and Language Technologies

5/ From:  Ulrike Sperling <cicd at cicdgo.com>
   Subject:  Computational Ling: Internship in Seattle

6/ From: "Noord G.J.M. van" <vannoord at let.rug.nl>
   Subject: Job opportunities in Groningen, Netherlands
_______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From:  Mark Turner <mturner at htech.com>
   Subject:  Research Position in Natural Language Processing

  Research Position in Natural Language Processing

Highland Technologies, a leader in document imaging and management, is
seeking a researcher in natural language processing.

The Research and Development group at Highland does applied research
in text extraction, retrieval, classification, mining, OCR, and
related areas.  Our work will be expanding to include relational data
mining.  Highland has access to unique corpora and welcomes your
research ideas.

Candidates should have a degree in NLP, linguistics (any specialty),
computer science, mathematics, or statistics, and have experience with
NLP or text processing in a university, government, or private
industry.

Proficiency in C, C++ and/or Java is required.  Experience with Perl,
sed, awk, and similar tools is helpful.

Highland Technologies is located in Lanham, Maryland, in the greater
Washington, D.C. area.  We offer competitive salaries, including
profit sharing, as well as a full benefits package.

Please contact:

    Mark Turner, Manager of Research and Development
    Highland Technologies, Inc.
    4303 Forbes Boulevard
    Lanham, MD  20706 USA
    e-mail: mturner at htech.com
    tel. +1.301.306.8290 ext. 290
    fax. +1.301.306.8201


_______________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  <DamicoLynne at yahoo.com>
   Subject:  Computational and Russian Linguists

Company in Fairfax, VA is looking to hire a Computational
Linguist and a Russian linguist.  30-80 hours per month, as needed. Salary
depends on qualifications and experience.  Must have US citizenship.
Security clearance preferred.  E-mail resume to <DamicoLynne at yahoo.com>

_______________________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  "Berman, Jules (NCI)" <bermanj at ctep.nci.nih.gov>
   Subject:  Software Development/Medical Text


New NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program contract  proposals
have just been announced and are available at:

http://deainfo.nci.nih.gov/sbircontract/allindex.htm

Attached is a contract announcement that may be of interest to you or your
company.  If you have any questions regarding this  contract proposal , they
must be referred through NCI's  SBIR  Contracting Officer:

     Mr. Joseph Bowe
     Phone: (301) 435-3810
     Fax: (301) 480-0309
     E-mail: jb166i at nih.gov


179 Encoding Surgical Pathology Data into Standard Nomenclature within
XML The Resources Development Branch of the Cancer Diagnosis Program
is seeking software development proposals to convert surgical
pathology report data into XML documents containing tagged encrypted
identifiers, tagged demographics, and tagged medical codes (UMLS or
SNOMED, or SNOMED + LOINC). The long-term goal is to convert pathology
data into a structure and format that will support queries from
standard network protocols. Applicants will develop algorithms to
parse pathology reports into fields,then sentences, then text phrases
and will match the text phrases with a coded standard
nomenclature. The parsing/matching algorithms may use term frequency
tables, grammatical rules, context sensitivity, or other algorithmic
approaches, but the proposal must explain and justify the proposed
algorithms. The proposed algorithms should provide a way of dealing
with misspellings, negations, run-on sentences, and improperly
inconsistently delimited sentences. The applicant will propose and
describe methodology to assess the accuracy of coding. Phase 1
(feasibility) will consist of the development and testing (for
accuracy) of implementations that convert the text of actual pathology
reports into medical codes. Phase 2 involves the preparation of
software to produce XML files that encapsulate the tagged coded data
as described in the following requirements. The applicant will design
a DTD (Data Type Declaration) for the XML file to include the fields
and subfields of data contained in pathology reports (e.g. surgical
pathology case number, coded patient identifier(s), date of biopsy,
demographics, clinical history, specimen type, specimen number,
diagnosis, microscopic description, comment). The software application
will be developed using a collection of textually real pathology
reports consisting of a combined total of at least 5,000 surgical
pathology reports acquired from at least two institutions with which
the applicant has formed appropriate collaborations. The reports may
be made false or anonymized by the collaborating institution so that
the software developer receives the report files in a format from
which patients cannot be identified (e.g. patient names can be encoded
via a one-way hash, and each piece of demographic information can be
translated to a false data element). The software implementation will
convert electronic files of surgical pathology reports into XML
documents wherein the original text has been converted to coded
medical terms. The accuracy of the software implementation should be
tested by comparison with a separate set of reports (at least 200)
that have been manually encoded and manually converted to XML
files. The implementation of the algorithms will be written in Perl or
Java, with well-annotated source code, and must be designed to have a
practical GUI and to permit software users to upload pathology reports
over the Internet and to view the XML output on an XML-capable web browser.


_______________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  Pfaraud at aol.com
   Subject:  Speech and Language Technologies



- ---------------------------------
THE L&H COMPANY
- ---------------------------------

At the center of a rapidly expanding worldwide market

Lernout & Hauspie ( L&H TM) is a world leader in the field of advanced speech
and language technologies, products, solutions and services.
Its core technologies include automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech,
digital speech compression, text-to-text language translation, and linguistic
components.
With more than 1,700 employees worldwide, primarily speech linguists,
scientists, and engineers, the company's research and development operations
comprise one of the most largest commercial speech and linguistics
laboratories in the world.
The company is commited to the idea that the human voice is the most natural
interface for use with virtually any device or software program, and that
globalization and growth of the internet requires real-time translation for
multiple languages.
Our goal is to provide easy-to-use technologies and products that enable
people to interact by voice with the machine that surround them, regardless
of the language they speak.

J In 1998, Revenues increased by more than 100 % for the fourth straight year.
J In early 1999, Microsoft increased its investment in L&H , adding $15
million and raising its ownership position to 7%.
J Also in early 1999, Intel has invested $30 million in L&H.

For more information, please visit Lernout & Hauspie on the World Wide Web at
www.lhs.com or www.lhsl.com .


THE TECHNOLOGIES & SOLUTIONS DIVISION :

This division provides solutions to OEMs and corporate customers, based on
L&H speech and language technologies. These can be software development kits,
user interface modules, or entire applications.

The division is organized in department for the following market : Embedded
solutions, PC/Multimedia, Automobile and Telecommunication.


THE TELECOM DEPARTMENT :

The telecom department is part of the TECHNOLOGIES & SOLUTIONS Division.

The telecom department sells dialog applications (i.e. Interactive Speech
Systems) through specific customer projects, that allow end-users to
communicate with the computer using ordinary speech devices such as
telephones.
These applications are build using L&H advanced ASR and TTS engines, and
could take place within call centers solutions. They greatly reduce costs,
increase the availibility of the call centres, raise productivity and, last
but not the least, offer a powerful service to the end user.
Applications examples : banking services, flight reservation system, stock
market, E Commerce, ??


- --------------------------------------------------------------
THE JOB:  Linguiste  Departement Telecom
- --------------------------------------------------------------

VOTRE MISSION

Integre au sein de notre equipe technique, vous participez a la realisation :
- de Serveurs Vocaux Interactifs (SVI), dans le cadre de nos projets de
centre d'appels,
- en utilisant les technologies avancees de reconnaissance et de synthese
vocale du leader mondial,
- pour le compte de nos clients et partenaires,
- et sous la responsabilite d'un chef de projet.

Vous assistez le chef de projet dans la conception generale du systeme de
dialogue interactif,  et dans la definition detaillee de l'arborescence et de
l'ergonomie du dialogue.
Vous etes en charge du parametrage du moteur de reconnaissance de la voix. Ce
moteur de reconnaissance necessite un formalisme specifique (recognition
grammars) pour reconnaetre et comprendre les expressions des utilisateurs, a
chaque etape du dialogue.
Vous participez activement a la mise au point du systeme (Wizard of OZ), et
aux differentes etapes de test.
Vous menez des enquetes pour connaitre la satisfaction des utilisateurs du
systeme, et vous en analysez les resultats.

Poste base a Marne La Vallee (77) FRANCE


VOTRE PROFIL

Formation :
-  Universitaire avec specialisation en linguistique

Experiences professionnelles :
- Vous justifiez idealement d'une experience sur les technologies appliquees
au langage.
- Vous savez construire des " Recognition Grammars ", ou vous avez une
experience en programmation informatique.
- Les candidatures des debutants seront etudiees

Vous etes rigoureux, vous appreciez le travail en equipe, et vous avez le
sens de la relation client. Une competence fonctionnelle sur un metier
vertical serait un plus tres apprecie.

Langues :
- Votre langue maternelle est le francais
- Bon niveau d'anglais indispensable

Merci d'adresser votre dossier de candidature (lettre, CV, photo) a :
L&H
A l'attention de Patrice Faraud
44, avenue Georges Pompidou
92300 Levallois-Perret FRANCE
Tel : 01 41 49 98 70
Fax : 01 41 49 98 71

_______________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  Ulrike Sperling <cicd at cicdgo.com>
   Subject:  Computational Ling: Internship in Seattle

Internship in Computational Linguistics / Software Development

Company Description: World-leading Software Globalization Company based
in Seattle, represented by Center for International Career Development
(CICD)

Contact: Ulrike Sperling

Start date: Immediately

Type of Internship: Information Technology, software R & D in
Computational Linguistics

Description of Internship:
Number of internship positions: 1 - 4
Length: 9-12 months
Salary: Between US$1400-1800 per month

One of the world's largest global players in service and software
globalization needs for its Research Development department
computational linguist interns with qualifications including the
following:

- Experience with parsing methods (ATN, top-down parsers...)
- Phrase structured grammar
- Pattern matching and keyword extraction
- Tokenizing tools and their implementations in various systems
- Lexicographic applications of dictionary structures
- Language/phrase recognition
- Programming skills in PERL and C++
- CGI scripting and HTML
- Semantic encoding of nouns (selectional constraints)
- International focus, experience(s) and language(s)
- Machine Translation and Translation Memory

Internship will focus on R&D methods with development of query patterns
and natural language data processing for cutting edge information
retrieval systems (search engines and other information retrieval
systems).
..

Bringing companies into the global marketplace is an integral part of
the Company's services. Its international localization and testing
capabilities are among the most extensive in the software industry.
Testing and Certification Centers in all major markets around the world
perform linguistic and usability testing, and conduct full certification
using localized test suites on localized platforms. The Company's
expertise extends to a wide array of products including office suites,
graphics, networking, database management, programming languages,
operating systems, printers, scanners, digital photography, and
multimedia authoring tools.

_______________________________________________________________________________

6/ From: "Noord G.J.M. van" <vannoord at let.rug.nl>
   Subject: Job opportunities in Groningen, Netherlands

Research opportunities


                           Algorithms for
                        Linguistic Processing


Algorithms for Linguistic Processing is a five year PIONIER research
project in the area of computational linguistics. The project focuses
on problems of ambiguity and processing efficiency by investigating
grammar approximation and grammar specialization techniques. The
project is located at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and
starts at the end of 1999. It is funded by NWO (Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research).

The project description is available on line at:

                    http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/alp/

Within the next few months, we will be looking to fill two 3-year post-doc
positions and several 4-year Ph.D. positions:

   * 1 post-doc and 1 ph-d Lexically Sensitive Disambiguation techniques
   * 1 ph-d Empirical Aspects of Finite State Language Processing
   * 1 post-doc Formal Aspects of Finite State Language Processing
   * 1 ph-d Grammar Development for Dutch
   * 1 ph-d Linguistic Search Tool for Bare Text Corpora

Further information is available from:

Gertjan van Noord,  vannoord at let.rug.nl
Alfa-Informatica,   University of Groningen
PO Box 716, 9700 AS Groningen, Netherlands


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 15 10:55:21 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:55:21 +0100
Subject: Appel: JADT 2000
Message-ID: <WED.15.SEP.1999.115521.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: JADT 2000 <jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch>

[English version below]

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Veuillez notez que la date limite de soumission ?

                             J A D T   2 0 0 0

  5e Journ?es Internationales d'Analyse Statistique des Donn?es Textuelles

a ?t? repouss?e au

		  Vendredi 24 septembre   1999

Pour plus de renseignements, lire l'appel ? soumissions ci-dessous.

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    JADT 2000 WEB SITE : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000

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                             J A D T   2 0 0 0


  5e Journ?es Internationales d'Analyse Statistique des Donn?es Textuelles

                               9-11 Mars 2000

                  ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne

                              Lausanne, Suisse

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Apr?s Barcelone (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), et Nice (1998), les
5e  Journ?es Internationales d'Analyse  Statistique  des  Donn?es Textuelles
auront lieu  ? Lausanne (Suisse) du 9  au 11 mars 2000. Cette manifestation,
qui  gagne en  importance ?  chaque ?dition, est  ouverte aux  chercheurs du
vaste domaine d'?tudes qui, centr? sur  la statistique textuelle, s'?tend de
la    lexicographie  ? l'analyse  du  discours   politique,  de la recherche
documentaire  ?    la    recherche  en   marketing,    de  la   linguistique
computationnelle  ? la  sociolinguistique,  du traitement   informatique des
donn?es   ?   l'analyse de   contenu.     Apr?s  le  succ?s  des pr?c?dentes
occurrences, JADT 2000 fournira de nouveau un  forum de discussion convivial
comprenant ? la fois des pr?sentations  techniques, des conf?rences invit?es
et des tables rondes.

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CALENDRIER

               Date limite de soumission : 24 Septembre 1999
                Notification aux auteurs : 15 Octobre 1999
                          Version finale : 10 D?cembre 1999
                              Conf?rence : 9-11 Mars 2000

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TH?MES

Les th?mes  de la conf?rence concernent l'application  des outils et mod?les
de la statistique aux domaines suivants :

   * Analyse exploratoire de donn?es textuelles
   * Analyse du discours
   * Traitement automatique du langage
   * Analyse statistique de r?ponses ? des questions ouvertes
   * Analyse bibliom?trique et statistique textuelle
   * Stylom?trie
   * Dictionnaires de fr?quences
   * Lemmatisation
   * Corpus de textes et repr?sentations textuelles
   * Classification de textes
   * Recherche documentaire
   * Hypertexte
   * Logiciels pour l'analyse lexicale et textuelle

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COMIT? DE PROGRAMME

 Monica B?cue     Univ. Polytechnique de Catalogne
 Sergio Bolasco   Univ. de Rome 'La Sapienza'
 ?tienne Brunet   Univ. de Nice/Sophia-Antipolis
 Yadolah Dodge    Univ. de Neuch?tel
 Annibale Elia    Univ. de Salerno
 Benoit Habert    ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud
 R?mi Jolivet     Univ. de Lausanne
 Dominique Labb?  Univ. de Grenoble
 Ludovic Lebart   CNRS, ENST Paris
 Alain Lelu       Univ. Paris 8
 Sylvie Mellet    CNRS, Nice
 Charles Muller   Univ. de Strasbourg
 Martin Rajman    EPF Lausanne
 Max Reinert      CNRS Toulouse
 Jacques Rouault  CRISTAL Grenoble 3
 Andr? Salem      Univ. Paris 3

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COMIT? D'ORGANISATION

 Martin Rajman           EPF Lausanne
 Marie Decrauzat         EPF Lausanne
 Jean-C?dric Chappelier  EPF Lausanne

Cette conf?rence  est   organis?e    par   le   Laboratoire   d'Intelligence
Artificielle de  l'EPFL (Lausanne, Suisse)  avec  le soutient  de  EuroStat,
Quantos et la Soci?t? Fran?aise de Statistique.

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LANGUES AUTORIS?ES POUR LES PR?SENTATIONS

Les pr?sentations pourront se faire dans l'une des langues suivantes :

               Fran?ais, Anglais, Allemand, Italien, Espagnol

Toutes les  communications devront cependant comporter  un r?sum?  (?crit et
oral) en anglais.

Comme lors des   pr?c?dents  colloques, aucune  traduction  simultan?e n'est
pr?vue.

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MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION

Les articles soumis  ? cette conf?rence devront  d?crire un travail original
et novateur  ayant fait l'objet  d'une ?valuation.  Toutes les contributions
devront  contenir  un ?tat de  l'art   et/ou des   r?f?rences ? des  travaux
ant?rieurs pertinents.  Si le travail   pr?sent? n'a pas fait  l'objet d'une
?valuation, les auteurs devront le  justifier.  Les  auteurs sont convi?s  ?
inclure dans leurs papiers des propositions, discussions, argumentations sur
l'ad?quation de leur travail avec les th?mes de la conf?rence.

Les participants souhaitant soumettre un papier ou un poster doivent envoyer
au comit?  (adresse  ci-dessous) avant le  24 Septembre  1999, les  ?l?ments
suivants :

   * Noms, affiliations et adresses compl?tes (+fax, email) des auteurs
   * Titre
   * Mots cl?s
   * Un r?sum? en anglais (300 mots maximum)
   * Version abr?g?e (3  pages minimum, 4 pages  maximum) de la contribution
     pr?sentant les grandes lignes du travail, les  probl?mes trait?s et les
     r?sultats obtenus
   * R?f?rences bibliographiques

Les notifications d'acceptation  seront  envoy?es aux auteurs le  15 Octobre
1999.

La version finale de la contribution (8 pages max.) devra ?tre r?dig?e selon
les r?gles de  formatage    qui seront pr?cis?es ult?rieurement    et  devra
parvenir au comit? (adresse ci-dessous) au plus tard le 10 D?cembre 1999.

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PR?SENTATIONS ORALES

La   dur?e de chacune   des   pr?sentations orales ne   devra  pas  d?passer
20 minutes.

Il sera possible  d'utiliser une tablette  de r?troprojection pour pr?senter
les bases  de donn?es et  les logiciels "en  direct". Une connexion Internet
pourra ?tre fournie aux orateurs qui le d?sirent.

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ACTES

La   totalit? des contributions   sera rassembl?e  et  ?dit?e  sous la forme
d'actes qui   seront distribu?s  ?  tous  les participants  au  d?but  de la
conf?rence.

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HEBERGEMENT

La gestion des h?bergements est prise en  compte par l'office de tourisme de
la  ville de Lausanne, ? contacter  directement sous r?f?rence ORG/JADT 2000
? :
Office du tourisme -- Case postale 49 -- CH-1000 Lausanne 6 (Suisse)
T?l : + 41 21 613.73.21
Fax : + 41 21 616.86.47
Email : wandfluh at lausanne-tourisme.ch}
Web : http://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/

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CONTACT / ADRESSE

JADT 2000
Martin Rajman
EPFL
DI-LIA
IN (Ecublens)
CH-1015 Lausanne
Suisse

 T?l :  +41 21 693 27 35
 Fax :  +41 21 693 52 25
 Email: jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch
 Web :  http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000

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	 EPFL
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                             J A D T   2 0 0 0

  5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data

has been extented to

		  Friday   septembre 24th 1999

For further details, please refer to the call for papers below.

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    JADT 2000 WEB SITE : http://liawww.epfl.ch/jadt2000

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                             J A D T   2 0 0 0


  5th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data

                              March 9-11, 2000

                  ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne

                            Lausanne, Switzerland


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Following  Barcelona   (1990), Montpellier   (1993), Rome  (1995),  and Nice
(1998),  the 5th International Conference   on  the Statistical Analysis  of
Textual Data will be  held in Lausanne,  on March 9-11, 2000. This  biennial
conference, which has constantly been gaining in  importance since its first
occurrence, is open  to all scholars working  in the  vast field of  textual
data analysis;  ranging  from  lexicography to  the analysis   of  political
discourse,  from  documentary    research   to  marketing   research,   from
computational linguistics  to sociolinguistics, from  the processing of data
to content  analysis.  After  the  success of   the previous meetings,   the
three-day   conference in     Switzerland    will continue  to   provide   a
workshop-style forum through  technical paper  sessions, invited talks,  and
panel discussions.

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IMPORTANT DATES

                 Submission Deadline: September 24th, 1999
                        Notification: October 15th, 1999
                 Camera ready papers: December 10th, 1999
                          Conference: March 9-11, 2000

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THEMES OF INTEREST

The  themes   of  interest of  the  conference   concern the  application of
statistical models and tools in the following domains:

   * Exploratory Textual Data Analysis
   * Discourse Analysis
   * Computational Linguistics
   * Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions
   * Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis
   * Stylometry
   * Frequency Dictionaries
   * Lemmatization
   * Text Corpora and Text Encoding
   * Textual Classification
   * Information Retrieval
   * Hypertext
   * Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 Monica B?cue     Univ. Polytechnic of Catalunya
 Sergio Bolasco   Univ. of Rome 'La Sapienza'
 ?tienne Brunet   Univ. of Nice/Sophia-Antipolis
 Yadolah Dodge    Univ. of Neuch?tel
 Annibale Elia    Univ. of Salerno
 Benoit Habert    ENS Fontenay/Saint-Cloud
 R?mi Jolivet     Univ. of Lausanne
 Dominique Labb?  Univ. of Grenoble
 Ludovic Lebart   CNRS, ENST Paris
 Alain Lelu       Univ. Paris 8
 Sylvie Mellet    CNRS, Nice
 Charles Muller   Univ. of Strasbourg
 Martin Rajman    EPF Lausanne
 Max Reinert      CNRS Toulouse
 Jacques Rouault  CRISTAL Grenoble 3
 Andr? Salem      Univ. Paris 3

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ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

 Martin Rajman           EPF Lausanne
 Marie Decrauzat         EPF Lausanne
 Jean-C?dric Chappelier  EPF Lausanne

This confernce is organized  by  the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory   of
EPFL (Lausanne,  Switzerland) with the support of   EuroStat, Quantos and la
Soci?t? Fran?aise de Statistique.

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LANGUAGES FOR THE PRESENTATIONS

Submissions, communications  and presentations  can be  made in  any  one of
these languages:

                  English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract.

As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided.

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SUBMISSION

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  the authors  to include  in their  papers proposals and
discussions of the relevance of their work to the theme of the conference.

Participants wishing to submit  a paper or present a  poster should send  to
the  program  committee  (address  below) a  short   version for   review by
September 24th, 1999, giving the following information:

   * Name of author;
   * Affiliation;
   * Full postal address with fax and/or e-mail
   * Title of the proposed paper with keywords;
   * An abstract in English (maximum 300 words)
   * A short version (3 pages min./4 pages  max.)  of the paper emphasizing
     the purpose   of the paper,   the  problem addressed and  the  results
     obtained;
   * Bibliographical references.

Notification of acceptance will be send to the  authors by October 15, 1999.
Final camera-ready papers should conform to the format that will be provided
to  the authors   and reach the    committee (address below)   no later than
December 10, 1999.

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PRESENTATIONS

Paper presentations will be limited to 20 minutes each.

An overhead projector will be available for the display of data-bases and/or
software directly  from the computer screen. Connection  to Internet will be
supplied for speakers on request.

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PROCEEDINGS

All accepted  papers will be  collected  and  issued  as proceedings to  the
participants at the start of the conference.

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HOTELS

For accomodation during the  conference, please contact the Lausanne Tourist
Office under reference ORG/JADT 2000 at:
Office du tourisme -- Case postale 49 -- CH-1000 Lausanne 6 (Switzerland)
Tel: + 41 21 613.73.21
Fax: + 41 21 616.86.47
Email: wandfluh at lausanne-tourisme.ch
Web: http://www.lausanne-tourisme.ch/

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CONTACT / ADDRESS

JADT 2000
Martin Rajman
EPFL
DI-LIA
IN (Ecublens)
CH-1015 Lausanne
Suisse

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 Email: jadt2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch
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	 EPFL
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	 IN (Ecublens)
	 CH-1015 Lausanne
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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 15 10:55:23 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:55:23 +0100
Subject: Appel: Information Retrieval (journal TAL)
Message-ID: <WED.15.SEP.1999.115523.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Christian Jacquemin <jacquemin at limsi.fr>
X-url: http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-ri.en.html


[ENGLISH VERSION FOLLOWS]

Revue t.a.l. : Second et dernier appel ? contributions

     Traitement Automatique des Langues pour la Recherche d'Information

            http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-ri.html

T.A.L. est la revue de l'Association de Traitement Automatique des LAngues
ATALA:  (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/ )


DATES IMPORTANTES
                   Intention de soumettre : maintenant

                   Date limite de soumission : 1er novembre 1999

                   Notification d'acceptation : fin 1999

                   Version finale: 15 f?vrier 2000

                   Publication: ?t? 2000

ADRESSE D'ENVOI DES CONTRIBUTIONS

     jacquemin at limsi.fr

ou pour les versions papier :

     Christian Jacquemin,
     LIMSI-CNRS,
     BP 133,
     91403 ORSAY,
     FRANCE

LANGUE: fran?ais ou anglais.

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Journal T.A.L.: 2nd and Last Call for Submissions


         Information Retrieval-oriented Natural Language Processing

           http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-ri.en.html


T.A.L. is the journal of the French association for Computational Linguistic
ATALA:  (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/ )


IMPORTANT DATES
                   Intention to submit: Now

                   Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999

                   Acceptance notification: End 1999

                   Final version: February 15th, 2000

                   Publication: Summer 2000

EDITORIAL ADDRESS

     jacquemin at limsi.fr

or through hard copies at:

     Christian Jacquemin,
     LIMSI-CNRS,
     BP 133,
     91403 ORSAY,
     FRANCE

LANGUAGE: English or French


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 15 10:55:25 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:55:25 +0100
Subject: Conf: CSSP'99
Message-ID: <WED.15.SEP.1999.115525.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: cssp99 at linguist.jussieu.fr (CSSP 99)



(Sorry if you receive this information more than once)
THE PARIS SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS CONFERENCE / COLLOQUE DE SYNTAXE ET
SEMANTIQUE A PARIS

Programme

Thursday, October 7th

9h-9h10 : Opening

9h10-10h10 : Invited speaker
Eva Hajicova (Charles U., Prague) : Discourse, focus and presupposition

Thematic session

10h30-11h:  Dimitra Kolliakou (Newcastle) & Theodora Alexopoulou
(Edinburgh) : Towards a structural definition of linkhood in Greek
11h-11h30 : Hanneke van Hoof (T?bingen) : I-topicalization: contrastive
topic or multiple focus?
11h30-12h : Ron Artstein (Rutgers) : Focus below the word level
12h-12h30 :  Robert D. Van Valin (SUNY Buffalo) : Quantifier scope in Toba Batak

----------------
Thematic Session

14h-14h30 : Jacques Jayez (EHESS) & Corinne Rossari (U. Gen?ve) : The
accommodation profile of discourse markers
14h30-15h : Arthur Merin (Stuttgart) : For every BUT there is an IF

15h30-16h : Laurence Danlos (Paris 7) : Sur la cor?f?rence ?v?nementielle
16h-16h30 : Ana T. Alves (Austin) & Isabel Gomez Txurruka (Austin) :
Discourse effects of same in anaphoric temporal adverbials
16h30-17h : Helen de Hoop (Utrecht) & Henri?tte de Swart (Utrecht) :
Optimal interpretations of discourse
17h-17h30 :  Massimo Poesio (Edinburgh) & Uwe Reyle (Stuttgart) : Partially
resolved interpretations

17h30-19h30 : Party

19h30-20h30 : Invited speaker  :
Oswald Ducrot (EHESS) : La concession dans les ?nonc?s interrogatifs.
Approche argumentative

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Friday, October 8th

9h-10h : Invited Speaker :
Nicholas Asher (Austin) : Logics of conversation

10h30-11h : Josep Quer (U.A. Barcelone) : The quantificational force of
free choice items
11h-11h30 :  C?cile Meier (T?bingen) : A semantics for result clauses and
constructions with too
11h30-12h :  Meltem Kelepir (MIT) : Negation is free: evidence from Turkish
12h-12h30 :  Malka Rappaport Hovav (Bar Ilan) & Beth Levin (Stanford) :
Reevaluation the direct object restriction on English resultatives

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14h-15h : Invited Speaker   :
Tanya Reinhart  (Utrecht) : Interpretation of theta-roles

15h30-16h : Martine Coene (Antwerp), Yves d'Hulst (Leiden) & Liliane
Tasmowski (Leuven) : Romance vocatives and the DP hypothesis
16h-16h30 : Kleanthes K. Grohmann (U. Maryland) : The syntax-discourse
interface of multiple Wh-constructions
16h30-17h : Caroline Heycock (Edinburgh) & Roberto Zamparelli (Edinburgh) :
The syntax and semantics of DP-internal coordination

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Saturday, October 9th

9h-10h : Invited Speaker :
Sandra Chung (UCSC) : Restriction versus saturation

10h30-11h : James Mc Closkey (UCSC) : On the expression of existence in Irish
11h-11h30 : Robert D. Levine (Ohio State), Thomas E. Hukari (U. Victoria),
Michael Calcagno (T?bingen): Unbounded dependencies : a unified class
11h30-12h : Robert D. Levine (Ohio State): Tough complementation and
clausal transparency
12h-12h30 : Alan Munn (Michigan) : Extraction domains and the semantics of
variables


Alternates

Jean-Pierre Koenig (SUNY Buffalo), Gail Mauner (SUNY Buffalo) & Breton
Bienvenue (SUNY Buffalo) : Arguments for adjuncts
Petra Sleeman (Amsterdam) : Adjectival agreement within DP without feature
movement
Monika Kozlowska (Gen?ve) : Ensuite et la narration dans le discours
George Tsoulas (York) & Artemis Alexiadou (T?bingen) : Scrambling and
extraposition : a case for cyclic spell-out

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Registration Form / Fiche d'Inscription

Name / Nom :
Affiliation :
e-mail address / courriel :

Will attend the conference / Participera ? la conf?rence

Fees / Tarif (including party / r?ception comprise) : FF 250 - Students /
Etudiants : FF 150,
to be paid on registration in Paris / payables lors de la conf?rence

Please send this completed form via e-mail or post to / Renvoyez-nous cette
fiche compl?t?e par courrier ?lectronique ou postal ? :

cssp99 at linguist.jussieu.fr      CSSP99
        URA 1028
        Tour Centrale 9?me Etage
        Universit? Paris 7
        2 place Jussieu
        75251 Paris cedex 05

Practical Information / Informations pratiques

The Conference takes place in Paris 7th University / La conf?rence a lieu ?
l'Universit? Paris 7
Metro station : Jussieu
For more information, see our Web page starting Tuesday, September 14th /
Pour plus d'informations, reportez-vous ? notree page Web ? partir du mardi
14 septembre:
http://www.cssp99.linguist.jussieu.fr

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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
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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 15 10:55:28 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:55:28 +0100
Subject: Appel: Proper nouns (journal TAL)
Message-ID: <WED.15.SEP.1999.115528.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Denis Maurel <maurel at univ-tours.fr>


Call for Papers: English version, see below

Appel a publication :
*********************

		Le traitement automatique des Noms propres

			Revue TAL
			      numero 2000-3

		Editeurs : Denis Maurel et Franz Guenthner

Voir l'URL:

http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/appel-noms-propres.html


Date limite de soumission : 1er novembre 1999

Denis Maurel
LI/E3i, Universite de Tours

Franz Guenthner
CIS, Universite de Munich

____________________________________________________________________________

Call for papers
***************

		Journal TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues)

	  Special issue on proper nouns in natural language processing

		Editors : Denis Maurel and Franz Guenthner

The Association pour le traitement automatique des langues (Atala)
(Association for language processing) organized a meeting on the treatment
of all forms of proper nouns in language processing on Saturday 29th May
1999.

Some papers from presentations given at the meeting will be published in the
journal TAL issue 2000-3. In addition, we would like to invite papers from
other researchers working on any aspect of the automated treatment of proper
nouns. 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

* Linguistic analysis of proper nouns

* Applications of the treatment of proper names to information retrieval,
information extraction, text mining

* etc.

FORMAT
------
The paper should be formatted following the journal guidelines. These are
spelled out at the end of a volume or at:

	http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/normes.html

Papers can be submitted in English and French. They not exceed 30 pages in
double interline in Helvetica 12. We accept RTF or LaTeX + postscript. The
latex style is avalaible at:

	http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/tal/tal.html

Please send your text, by electronic mail, for the end of October to Denis
Maurel (mailto:maurel at univ-tours.fr).

CALENDAR
--------
Submission deadline :   November 1st 1999
Notification to authors : Jannuary 1999
Final version due : May, 1st 2000

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
-------------------
Chief editors:			A. Abeille (Universite Paris 7)
				Ph. Blache (LPL, CNRS)
				B. Habert (ENS Fontenay-Saint Cloud)
Autres
members of Editorial       	J. Anis (Universite Paris 10)
Committee:     			D. Clement (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal)
                              	A. Condamines (CNRS, Toulouse le Mirail)
				Ch. Dalessandro (LIMSI, Paris)
				M. El-Beze (Universit? d'Avignon)
				C. Gardent (Universitaet des Saarlandes)
				Ch. Jacquemin (IRIN, Nantes)
				J-L. Lebrave (CNRS, ITEM)
				B. Victorri (ELSAP, Caen)
				E. Tzoukermann (Bell Labs)
				P. Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, Paris 6)
Scientific Committee:           M. Borillo (CNRS, P. Sabatier, Toulouse)
		                R. Carre (ENST, Paris)
				J-P. Descles (Universit? Paris IV)
				C. Fuchs (CNRS, ENS Paris)
				M. Gross (LADL, Paris 7)
				F. Rastier (Paris 4)
				W. von Hahn (Univ Hambourg)
				Y. Wilks (Sheffield Univ)
				A. Zaenen (Xerox Grenoble)
Sub-Editor:       		Jeanine Mary (UFRL Paris 7)



Denis Maurel
LI/E3i, Universite de Tours

Franz Guenthner
CIS, Universite de Munich


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Fri Sep 17 17:49:10 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:49:10 +0100
Subject: Q: Prolog
Message-ID: <FRI.17.SEP.1999.184910.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:57:17 +0200
From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990917135717.007c1570 at up.univ-mrs.fr>
X-url: http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/


Bonjour,

Nous allons probablement enseigner Prolog cette ann?e dans mon service, et
je suis ? la recherche d'un Prolog freeware pour Windows.

Qui a des suggestions (et un avis qualitatif/p?dagogique)?

Merci!

Jean V?ronis, Professeur de Linguistique et Informatique

Directeur du Centre Informatique pour les Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Universit? de Provence
29 av. Robert Schuman
13621 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France

tel: +33 (0) 4 42 95 31 35
fax: +33 (0) 4 42 95 34 95
email: veronis at up.univ-mrs.fr

http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Sep 20 12:19:24 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:19:24 +0100
Subject: Appel: RIAO-2000
Message-ID: <MON.20.SEP.1999.131924.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at biomath.jussieu.fr>



This message is posted to several lists. We apologize if you receive
multiple copies.
			
				RIAO 2000

		Content-Based Multimedia Information Access

				College de France

				Paris, France

				April 12-14, 2000


			Preliminary Announcement

			_______________

Organized by:

Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaire
(C.I.D., France)
&
Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S., USA)


With the collaboration of AII, ASIS, ELRA, Elsnet, ESCA, Francil
(preliminary list)
_______________


Introduction

The RIAO (Recherche d'Informations Assistee par Ordinateur =
Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval)
International Conference is held every 3 years. Sites for the conference
have been Grenoble (1985), Boston
(1988), Barcelona (1991), New York (1994) and Montreal (1997). Paris will
host the next RIAO conference in
Spring 2000. The conference is organized by the Centre de Hautes Etudes
Internationales d'Informatique
Documentaire (C.I.D.) and the Center for the Advanced Study of Information
Systems (C.A.S.I.S.).

The theme of the conference is "Content-Based Multimedia Information
Access". The conference scope will
range from the traditional processing of text documents to the rapidly
growing field of automatic indexing and
retrieval of images and speech and, more generally, to all processing of
audio-visual and multimedia information
on various supports, including the net. The conference is of interest for
several scientific communities, including
Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing,  Spoken Language
Processing, Computer Vision, Human-
Computer Interaction and Digital Libraries. RIAO 2000 will, thereby, serve
as a forum for synergetic initiatives
and forward-looking applications.

The Scientific Committee will select the papers and the Application
Committee will select the innovative
applications and products to be presented at the conference. In order to
support the multi-disciplinary goals of
the conference, these international committees include representatives of
different scientific communities.

RIAO 2000 will present recent scientific research advances, demonstrations
of prototypes resulting from this
research as well as the most innovative products now appearing on the
market. A worldwide Call for Papers is
addressed to researchers engaged in academic or industrial research. The
associated Call for Applications is
addressed to companies and public organizations developing or marketing
hardware or software related to the
conference topics.


RIAO 2000 Conference Topics:
Under the theme "Content-Based Multimedia Information Access", the
following topics are among those
included for the Communications and for Innovative Application Demonstrations:

Document processing:
	Hypertextual and Hypermedia documents
	Human-Computer Interaction for document handling
	Textual and voice-based annotation creation and retrieval
	Digital libraries
	AI techniques for document generation and consultation
	Multimodal and transmodal human-machine communication

Information Retrieval:
	Information retrieval systems and methods
	Document search over the internet
	Text Mining
	Information and document routing/profiling/alerting
	Document classification

Spoken Language Processing:
	Voice-based document segmentation and transcription
	Voice-based document indexing and retrieval
	Identification of language of speaker
	Speaker recognition
	Audio Mining
	Non-verbal sound processing (music, noise...)

Natural Language Processing:
	Information extraction
	NLP techniques for document processing
	Terminology extraction and analysis
	Automatic thesaurus construction
	Multilingual and crosslingual document handling
	Machine translation of documents
	Automatic summarization
	Identification of language of text

Image processing:
	Automatic indexing and retrieval of visual documents
	Computer graphics for document generation and consultation
	Segmentation and indexing of visual data
	Face, gaze and expression recognition
	Character recognition in visual documents
	Image Mining
	Video indexing and retrieval

System architecture:
	Multi-agent architecture, search agents
	Intelligent agents, Androids and Avatars

Usage and best practice:
	Socio-economics of information retrieval
	Quantitative, qualitative and comparative evaluation
	Coding standards and Quality of Services
	Security and privacy
	Cognitive aspects, Human Factors and Ergonomics
	Legal aspects of multimedia document handling
	Multimedia and multimodal resources

Applications:

	Computer-aided information access for the handicapped
	Multimedia systems for medical applications
	Image Guided Surgery and Augmented Reality
	Medical documents archiving and retrieval
	Transmodal information access systems
	Telephone-based, nomad and in-vehicle systems
	Intelligent systems for call-center reporting
	Customized customer support (Aerospace product manuals...)
	Strategic and technology watch & Business Intelligence
	Real-Time information access for financial markets
	Information access for decision aid systems
	Multimodal Geographical Information Systems
	Television and Radio Broadcast Archiving and Browsing...



Call for Papers



The papers will be reviewed by the International Scientific Committee.


RIAO 2000 International Scientific Committee :

Co-Chairs : Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) and Donna Harman (NIST, USA)

Jean-Claude Bassano (University of Orleans, France)
Alain Berthoz (LPPA, College de France, France)
Patrick Bouthemy (IRISA/INRIA, France)
George Carayannis (ILSP, Greece)
Francine Chen (Xerox, USA)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusets, USA)
Franciska de Jong (University of Twente,The Netherlands)
Susan Dumais (Microsoft, USA)
David Evans (CMU and Claritech, USA)
Christian Fluhr (CEA, France)
Hiroya Fujisaki (Science University of Tokyo, Japan)
Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
Edouard Geoffrois (DGA/CTA, France)
Jean-Paul Haton (LORIA, France)
Alex Hauptman (CMU, USA)
Ulrich Heid (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Roland Hjerppe (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Christian Jacquemin (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Mun Kew Leong ( Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore)
Judith Klavans (Columbia University, USA)
Wessel Kraaij (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands)
Francis Kubala (BBN, USA)
Gianni Lazzari (IRST, Italy)
Alain Leger (CNET- France Telecom, France)
R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Richard Marcus (MIT, USA)
Mark Maybury (MITRE, USA)
Frank Nack (GMD IPSI, Germany)
Klaus Netter (DFKI, Germany)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)
Douglas Oard (University of Maryland, USA)
Dragutin Petkovic (IBM, USA)
Georges Quenot (CLIPS, France)
K. J. Ray Liu (University of Maryland, USA)
Ze'ev Rivlin (Natural Speech Communication, Israel)
Arnold Smeulders (ISIS, UvA, The Netherlands)
Karen Sparck Jones (University of Cambridge, UK)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Lucent technologies, USA)
Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia)
Phil Woodland (CUED, UK)



Call for Applications



Tools and products related to the conference topics are sought for
demonstration at special conference sessions.
Applications and products will be selected by the International Application
Committee, on the basis of their
innovation, utility, and present and future marketability.


RIAO 2000 International Application Committee :

Chair: Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox, France) and Pascal Faudemay (LIP6,
France)

Marie-Francoise Clergeau (College de France, France)
Daniel Confland (Jouve, France)
Max Copperman (Kanisa, USA)
Giorgio Dimino (RAI, Italy)
Michael Horowitz (Claritech, USA)
Hitoshi Iida (Sony Speech & Language Laboratory, Japan)
Hans-Joachim Novak (IBM, Germany)
Norbert Paquel (Canope, France)
Sylvie Regnier-Prost (Aerospatiale-Matra, France)
Remi Ronfard (INA, France)
Antonio Sanfilippo (EC, Luxembourg)
Laurent Schmitt (INIST-CNRS, France)
Vera Semenova (Sciper/Analit, Russia)
Joop Van Gent (TNO-TPD, The Netherlands)




The RIAO 2000 Conference is organized by:

Centre de Hautes Etudes Internationales d'Informatique Documentaires (C.I.D.)

36 bis rue Ballu
75009 Paris France
Tel: (33 / 0) 1 42 85 04 75
Fax: (33 / 0) 1 48 78 49 61 or 1 45 26 84 45

and

Center for the Advanced Study of Information Systems, Inc (C.A.S.I.S.)

Co / C. Constantin
575 Madison Avenue
25th floor
New York N.Y. 10022 USA

Contacts:

Email: riao2000 at limsi.fr

Web: http://host.limsi.fr/RIAO


Organizing and Coordinating Committee:

Agnes Beriot (CID, France)
Peter Brodnitz (CASIS, USA)
Jean-Louis Darc (France-Pologne, France)
Jean-Jacques Guilbart (College de France, France)
Nicolas Masson (LIMSI-CNRS, France)
Jean Perriere (CID, France)
Sharyn Rozart (CASIS, USA)
Anne Tabutiaux (Recherche et Diffusion Scientifique, France)
Tony Venables (ECAS, Belgium)


Calendar:

? Preliminary announcement: July 1999
? Call for Papers & Demonstrations: September 15, 1999
? Submission deadline: November 1st, 1999
? Notification of acceptance: December 15, 1999
? Submission of complete papers: January 15, 2000
? Final Program: January 25, 2000
? Conference: April 12-14, 2000



If you're interested in participating in the conference, or if you intend
to submit a paper, a prototype or an
application demo, or if you wish to know more about the conference when the
information will be available,
please fill in the Attendance Intention Form below, and send it to
"riao2000 at limsi.fr" ASAP.


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Attendance Intention Form:

Name :

Position:

Organization:

Mail address:



Telephone:

Fax:

EMAIL:

Web site:


I wish to participate in the RIAO 2000 Conference:

I wish to submit a paper (topic):

I wish to submit a prototype demo (topic):

I wish to submit an innovative product or application demo (topic):

I would like to have more information about RIAO 2000, when it will be
available:


Please, email this Attendance Intention Form to "riao2000 at limsi.fr" ASAP.
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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Sep 20 12:19:26 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:19:26 +0100
Subject: Appel: ICCI2000
Message-ID: <MON.20.SEP.1999.131926.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: almulla at sci.kuniv.edu.kw (Almulla M)

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   The Tenth International Conference on Computing and Information
              ICCI '2000, Kuwait, November 18-21, 2000

          Home Page: http://mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~icci2000
    North America Mirror Site: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icci-00/

                     organized and sponsored by
  Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science, Kuwait University, Kuwait


Keynote Speaker (*): Tim Berners-Lee, the Father of the World Wide Web

======================================================================

                           CALL FOR PAPERS

ICCI  '2000 will provide   an international forum for researchers  and
practitioners  to present  new  results in research,  development, and
applications in   computing    and  information. Since    1989,   ICCI
conferences  have   attracted  participants  from  over   40 different
countries.   ICCI '2000 will   consist  of four streams  ranging  from
theoretical computer  science to  applied   software systems. It  will
provide   a     unique  opportunity   for     cross-fertilization  and
interdisciplinary information exchange.

     Stream A: Theory. Data Theory and Logic. Information and Coding
     Theory. Algorithms. Theory of Computation.
     Chair: Monty Newborn, newborn at opus.cs.mcgill.ca

     Stream B: Distribution and Parallelism. Distributed Computing and
     Communications. Concurrency and Parallelism.
     Chair: Albert Zomaya, zomaya at ee.uwa.edu.au

     Stream C: Systems and Development. Database Systems. Software
     Engineering and CASE Methodologies. Expert Systems.
     Chair: Hans Loeper, Loeper at mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw

     Stream D: Data and Knowledge Engineering. AI Methodologies.  User
     Interfaces.  Data Mining.  Approximate Reasoning.
     Chair: Susan Craw, smc at scms.rgu.ac.uk

     Stream E: Networking and Internet. Information Exploration on the
     World Wide Web. Mobile Computing.
     Chair: Richard Lai, lai at cs.latrobe.edu.au

Papers for any of the above streams are welcome.  All submitted papers
will  be reviewed  on  the  basis  of technical correctness,  quality,
relevance,  originality, significance, and  clarity.   Accepted papers
are expected   to be  published in the    conference proceedings by an
international   publisher.  A selected  number  of  ICCI 2000 accepted
papers will  be  expanded and revised  for possible  inclusion in  the
"Journal of Computing  and Information" and "Knowledge and Information
Systems: An International Journal" by Springer-Verlag.

Proposals for tutorials,  workshops   and  panel sessions are     also
invited.  All  paper  submissions (by   e-mail  or in   hardcopy)  and
proposals for  panels, workshops and tutorials  should  be sent to the
Program Committee Chair at the following address.

     Xindong Wu (xwu at kais.mines.edu)
     Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
     Colorado School of Mines
     1500 Illinois Street
     Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
     Phone: +1-303-273-3874
     Fax: +1-303-273-3875

Please  reply to this  email with your  name and email  now to receive
more information in due time.

Important Dates

 =====================================================================
 January 15, 2000        Proposals for panels, tutorials and workshops
 March 1, 2000                  Paper submissions
 May 1, 2000                    Acceptance notices
 July 1, 2000                   Final camera-readies
 November 18-21, 2000           Conference
 =====================================================================

Organization

     General Chair: Waldemar W. Koczkodaj,
     Laurentian University, Canada.
     E-mail: icci at nickel.laurentian.ca;
     URL: http://www.cs.laurentian.ca/faculty/wkoczkodaj.html

     Organizing Committee Chair: Mohammed Almulla,
     Kuwait University, Kuwait.
     E-mail: almulla at mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw;
     URL: http://www.sci.kuniv.edu.kw/~almulla/

     Program Committee Chair: Xindong Wu,
     Colorado School of Mines, USA.
     E-mail: xwu at kais.mines.edu;
     URL: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/

General inquiries should be sent to the Organizing Committee Chair at

     Mohammed Almulla
     Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
     Kuwait University
     P.O.Box 5969
     Safat, 13060, Kuwait
     Telephone: (965) 481-1188 Ext. 5303 or 5624
     Fax: (965) 481-7201
     E-mail: almulla at mcs.sci.kuniv.edu.kw

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(*) pending confirmation


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Sep 20 12:19:28 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:19:28 +0100
Subject: Book: 2 announcements
Message-ID: <MON.20.SEP.1999.131928.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Techniques in Speech Acoustics

2/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
______________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Techniques in Speech Acoustics


**** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK ****



                     KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
               TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                            Volume 8
            Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V?ronis


                 Techniques in Speech Acoustics

                               by

                       Jonathan Harrington
                         Steve Cassidy

            Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre
              Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia


"Techniques in Speech Acoustics" provides an introduction to the acoustic
analysis and characteristics of speech sounds. The first part of the book
covers aspects of the source-filter decomposition of speech, spectrographic
analysis, the acoustic theory of speech production and acoustic phonetic
cues. The second part is based on computational techniques for analysing
the acoustic speech signal including digital time and frequency analyses,
formant synthesis, and the linear predictive coding of speech. There is
also an introductory chapter on the classification of acoustic speech
signals which is relevant to aspects of automatic speech and talker
recognition. Included with the book is a CD-ROM containing extensive speech
corpora, the EMU speech analysis tools, extensions to the X-LISP-STAT
programming language that are adapted to speech analysis, and numerous
exercises that are linked to the major themes of the book and which can be
run on Windows-95 and UNIX platforms.

The book and CD-ROM are intended for use as teaching materials on
undergraduate and postgraduate speech acoustics and experimental phonetics
courses; they are also aimed at researchers from phonetics, linguistics,
computer science, psychology and engineering who wish to gain an
understanding of the basis of speech acoustics and its application to
fields such as speech synthesis and automatic speech recognition.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0
July 1999, 336 pp.
NLG 250.00 / USD 150.00 / GBP 88.00

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Contents

Preface.

Vowel and Consonant Transcriptions.
Contents of the CD-Rom.

1. The Scope of Speech Acoustics.
2. The Physics of Speech.
3. The Acoustic Theory of Speech Production.
4. Segmental and Prosodic Cues.
5. Time-Domain Analysis.
6. Frequency-Domain Analysis.
7. Digital Formant Synthesis.
8. Linear Prediction of Speech.
9. Classification of Speech Data.

References.

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                            PREVIOUS VOLUMES


   Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
             Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996

   Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
             Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997

   Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
             Thierry Dutoit
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997

   Volume 4: Exploring textual data
             Ludovic Lebart, Andr? Salem and Lisette Berry
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997

   Volume 5: Time Map Phonology:
             Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition
             Julie Carson-Berndsen
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997

   Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
             Lexical Knowledge Bases

   Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
             Tomek Strzalkowski
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999


Check the series Web page for order information:

   http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB


---------------------------------------------------------------------


2/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging


**** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK ****



                     KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
               TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                            Volume 9
             Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V?ronis


                  Syntactic Wordclass Tagging

                           edited by
                        Hans van Halteren

                  Dept. of Language and Speech
             University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands


This book provides an in-depth discussion of the field of syntactic
wordclass tagging, i.e. the annotation of the words in a text with tags
indicating their syntactic properties. Represented are the viewpoints of
the two main groups who take an interest in tagging: the users of tagged
text and the developers of tagging software.

The book starts out by examining the field foremost from the user's point
of view. After a brief historical overview, the nature and uses of tagging
are discussed and current practice is described. Here the user will find
what tagging is and the software developer what it is the user wants.

The book then switches to the other point of view and continues with a
detailed explanation of the most common computational techniques for
automatically tagging large amounts of text. Here the software developer
finds information needed for the implementation of a tagger while the user
gains insight into the possibilities and impossibilities of automatic
tagging and how computer-provided tags should be interpreted.

Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1
August 1999, 300 pp.
NLG 280.00 / USD 149.00 / GBP 93.00

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Contents and Contributors

Preface.
Contributing Authors.

Part I: The User's View.

1. Orientation; A. Voutilainen.
2. A Short History of Tagging; A. Voutilainen.
3. The Use of Tagging; G. Leech, N. Smith.
4. Tagsets; J. Cloeren.
5. Standards for Tagsets; G. Leech, A. Wilson.
6. Performance of Taggers; H. van Halteren.
7. Selection and Operation of Taggers; H. van Halteren.

Part II: The Implementer's View.

8. Automatic Taggers: An Introduction; H. van Halteren, A. Voutilainen.
9. Tokenization; G. Grefenstette.
10. Lexicons for Tagging; A. Schiller, L. Karttunen.
11. Standardization in the Lexicon; M. Monachini, N. Calzolari.
12. Morphological Analysis; K. Oflazer.
13. Tagging Unknown Words; E. Brill.
14. Hand-Crafted Rules; A. Voutilainen.
15. Corpus-Based Rules; E. Brill.
16. Hidden Markov Models; M. El-Beze, B. Merialdo.
17. Machine Learning Approaches; W. Daelemans.

Appendix A: Example tagsets.
References.
Index

---------------------------------------------------------------------

                            PREVIOUS VOLUMES


   Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology
             Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996

   Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing
             Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997

   Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis
             Thierry Dutoit
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997

   Volume 4: Exploring textual data
             Ludovic Lebart, Andr? Salem and Lisette Berry
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997

   Volume 5: Time Map Phonology:
             Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition
             Julie Carson-Berndsen
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997

   Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
             Lexical Knowledge Bases

   Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval
             Tomek Strzalkowski
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999

   Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics
             Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy
             Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999


Check the series Web page for order information:

   http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB


---------------------------------------------------------------------


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Sep 20 12:19:34 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:19:34 +0100
Subject: Conf: CIL
Message-ID: <MON.20.SEP.1999.131934.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Jacqueline Lecarme" <jl at cra.cnrs.fr>



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             PROGRAMME DU COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL DE LINGUISTIQUE
                                     DE
                 L'INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES DE LYON

                             12-15 OCTOBRE 1999

  L'ECONOMIE DANS LES STRUCTURES, LES COMPUTATIONS ET L'UTILISATION DU LANGAGE



SESSIONS

                                  SEMANTIQUE

                            Mardi 12 Octobre 1999

Matin:

Chierchia, Genaro (University of Milan): Les implicatures scalaires, un
ph?nom?ne de polarit?

Dayal, Veneeta (Rutgers University): Le d?terminant d?fini et ses
contreparties silencieuses

Sauerland, Uli (Kanda Gaigo University, Japon): Sup?riorit? et Mont?e de
Quantifieur: un argument bas? sur le liage invers?

Apr?s midi :

Asher, Nicolas (University of Austin): Principes d??conomie dans
l?interpr?tation du discours

Shlenker, Philippe (MIT): Uniformit? s?mantique

Reinhart, Tanya (University of Tel Aviv): Le co?t pour le traitement du
langage d'un calcul bas? sur un ensemble de r?f?rence.

Alternate:

Monz, Christof (University of Amsterdam): Une d?sambiguation paresseuse
bas?e sur la d?duction.

                        MORPHOLOGIE/PHONOLOGIE

                        Mercredi 13 Octobre 1999


Matin:

Halle, Morris (MIT): Sur les consid?rations d'?conomie en phonologie.

Bonet, Eulalia (Universitat Autonoma Barcelona): De la phonologie des
clitiques catalans: approche d?rivationnelle ou non-d?rivationnelle.

Marantz, Alec (MIT): Les composants de la d?rivation.

Apr?s-midi

Vergneau, Jean Roger (ISC/USC): TBA

Peter F. Dominey (ISC): Un mod?le r?ductif de l?assignation des r?les
th?matiques en syntaxe.

Alternate:

Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry, Louis-Jean Boe, Nathalie Vall?e,
Marie-Agn?s Cathiard (ICP): Economie et Phonologie dans la th?orie de la
dispersion- focalisation perceptuelle et la th?orie de la perception
pour le contr?le de l?action.



                           PRAGMATIQUE

                      Jeudi 14 Octobre 1999


Matin :

Sperber, Dan (CREA, CNRS Paris): Economie et pragmatique.

Maillat, Didier (Lincoln College Oxford): Pour une pragmatique
minimaliste des pr?positions directionnelles.

Moeschler, Jacques (Universit? de Gen?ve): Economie et optimalit?
pragmatique: le cas des inf?rences directionnelles.

Apr?s midi :

Noveck, A.Ira (ISC): Comment rendre compte des implicatures
conversationnelles.

Blakemore, Diane (University of Salford): De l?interpr?tation des
?nonc?s conjoints.

Matsui, Tomoko (Christian University, Japan): Deux visions sur
l??conomie dans l?assignation de la r?f?rence: Centrage et
Pertinence.

Alternate:

Saussure, Louis de (Universit? de Gen?ve): Une approche proc?durale des
temps verbaux : L?exemple des temps du pass? en fran?ais.



                                SYNTAXE

                       Vendredi 15 Octobre 1999


Matin :

Rizzi, Luiggi (Universit? de Sienne): De quelques questions dans la
th?orie de la localit?.

Newmeyer, Frederic (University of Washington): Economie Grammaticale
versus Economie de traitement: Comment capturer les g?n?ralisations
typologiques

Williams, Edwin (Princeton University): L'?conomie comme conservation de
la forme

Apr?s midi

Kitagawa, Yoshihisa (Indiana University): Economie et S?lection Lexicale

Rezac, Milan (University of Toronto): L?Economie des relations
cible/but: le calcul de l?Equidistance

Collins, Christopher (Cornell University): Eliminer les ?tiquettes

Alternate:

Moro, Andrea (University San Raffaele, Milano): Antisym?trie faible: une
application ?conome de l?Axiome de Correspondance Lin?aire

Informations:

http://www.isc.cnrs.fr

Contacts:

deprez at isc.cnrs.fr (Viviane Deprez)
reboul at isc.cnrs.fr  (Anne Reboul)

Courrier:

Viviane Deprez
Institut des Sciences Cognitives
67 Blvd Pinel
69675 Bron Cedex


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Sep 20 12:19:56 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 13:19:56 +0100
Subject: Conf: GAT'99
Message-ID: <MON.20.SEP.1999.131956.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Georges Antoniadis <antoniadis at communication.u-grenoble3.fr>


==========================================================



                                 DERNIER APPEL A PARTICIPATION

                      ====================================================
                                              GAT'99
                                 Generation Automatique de Textes
                                   Deuxieme Colloque Francophone
                      =====================================================

                                 30 septembre et 1 octobre 1999

                                 Universite Stendhal - Grenoble 3
                            Institut de la Communication et des Medias
                                        38130 Echirolles
                                            FRANCE


OBJECTIFS :
Bien que la generation automatique de textes soit un domaine relativement
ancien  et actuellement en plein essor, les manifestations scientifiques
specifiques sont  plutot rares. Parmi les quelques conferences consacrees au
sujet, force est de  constater que les manifestations francophones sont
actuellement quasi  inexistantes. Un des objectifs de cette deuxieme edition
du colloque en generation  automatique de textes est de combler cette
lacune.

 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 peripherie de Grenoble.

ORGANISATION DU COLLOQUE :
Equipe CRISTAL-GRESEC
Universite Stendhal - Grenoble 3
Colloque organise avec le concours de la ville de Grenoble

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)
Gerard LIGOZAT (LIMSI ; Paris 11)
Jean-Francois NOGIER (Thomson CSF ; Bagneux)
Jacques ROUAULT (CRISTAL-GRESEC ; Grenoble 3)
Paul SABATIER (LIM ; CNRS)
Eric WEHRLI (LATL ; Universite de Geneve - Suisse)
Michael ZOCK (LIMSI ; Paris 11)


PROGRAMME PREVISIONNEL DU COLLOQUE

                            Jeudi 30 Septembre 1999

10h00 : Accueil des partcipants - Cafe
10h30 : Ouverture du colloque, bienvenue
11h00 : Conference invitee: Evelyne Viegas, New Mexico State University :
Le choix lexical en generation multilingue : du bon usage de la semantique
computationnelle.

12h00-14h00 : Repas

14h-17h30 Session presidee par Jean Caelen

14h00 : K. Chevreau, J. Coch : Generation multilingue de bulletins
meteorologiques : le logiciel multimeteo.
14h30 : M. Ellouze, A. Ben Hamadou : Reutilisation du langage dans une
generation de resumes de documents scientifiques basee sur des schemas.
15h00 : L. Balicco, S. Pouchot : Extraction de donnees d'un corpus en langue
naturelle en vue de l'amelioration d'un systeme de generation automatique de
textes.

15h30-16h00 : Pause cafe

16h00 : S. Pogodalla : Generation a l'aide de reseaux de preuves
semantiques.
16h30 : P.-A. Buvet : Determination et generation automatique.
17h00 : M. Frei : Polysemie causale et dilation semantique en GAT.

Soiree repas avec animation musicale: a partir de 20h "Chez le Pere Gras"

                              Vendredi 1er Octobre 1999

9h-12h30 Session presidee par Jacques Rouault

09h00 : Conference invitee: Frederic Meunier, Thomson - France,
Contraintes et choix industriels pour l'elaboration des systemes de
generation automatique de textes.
10h00 : E. Ben Meftah : Generateur multilingue de resumes de documents.

10h30-11h00 : Pause cafe

11h00 : J. Lavid, J. Arus : Signification experientielle en anglais et
espagnol : une specification pour la generation automatique et multilingue
de textes.
11h30 : T. Etchegoyen, J. Mengon, A. Vandeventer, T. Wehrle :  Une approche
efficace a la generation multilingue. Le systeme GBGen.
12h00 : F. Meunier, R. Reyes : Plate-forme de developpement de generateurs
multilingues.

12h30-14h00 : Repas

14h-17h Session presidee par Paul Sabatier

14h00 : C. Luc, M. Mojahid, J. Virbel : Connaissances structurelles et
modeles necessaires a la generation de textes formates.
14h30 : F. Sannier, V. Auberge : Vers la phonetisation des formes flechies
du francais.

15h00-15h30 : Pause Cafe

15h30 : Table ronde : Y a-t-il une dualite generation /reconnaissance?
Participants : M. Dymetman, F. Meunier, P. Sabatier, E. Viegas, E. Wehrli
Le debat permettra entre autres d'evoquer : les theories et les
outils communs,  les differences de methodologie, etc.

ACCUEIL ET INSCRIPTION
-----------------------
Le nombre de places etant limite, il est important de s'inscrire au  plus
tot (et en tout cas avant le 24 septembre 1999).
Les reservations d'hotel doivent etre faites directement par les
participants (une liste d'hotels se trouve sur le serveur Web de GAT'99 :
http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/gat/ , ou peut etre envoyee sur simple demande).

Le bulletin d'inscription (en fin de message) et le reglement des droits
d'inscription doivent etre envoyes a:
                   Monique BOIS
                   ICM - GAT'99
                   Universite Stendhal-Grenoble 3, BP 25
                   F-38040 Grenoble Cedex 9, FRANCE
                   Tel : (+33) 04 76 82 43 77
                   Fax : (+33) 04 76 82 43 22
                   Mel : bois at u-grenoble3.fr
                   http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/gat/

Localisation
-----------------
               Institut de Communication et des Medias
                           Avenue de 8 mai 45
                       38130 Echirolles - France

Acces   - Depuis l'aeroport de Lyon-Satolas :
                   . Navette (1h10mn) vers Grenoble (terminus gare SNCF)
                     puis Tram ligne A (Echirolles),  arret "La Rampe" (juste
                     devant l'ICM)

              - Depuis la gare, c'est a 45 minutes par le Tram ligne A
                  (Echirolles), arret "La Rampe" (juste devant l'ICM)

              - En voiture : suivre la direction "Rocade sud", sortir
                 a la sortie no7 (Echirolles centre) et prendre la diirection
                 Echirolles-centre. Au premier feu apres le pont tourner a
                 gauche, puis au premier feu a droite. Vous etes sur le
                 parking de l'ICM.


BULLETIN D'INSCRIPTION


RENSEIGNEMENTS
----------------------------

NOM : ...................................................................
PRENOM : ...........................................................
ORGANISME : .....................................................
ADRESSE : ..........................................................
............................................................................

TELEPHONE : .....................................................
FAX : ......................................................................
E-MAIL : ................................................................


Droits d'inscription
--------------------------

Tarif normal : 600 F
Tarif etudiant : 400 F (joindre un justificatif)

Les droits d'inscription comprennent les actes de la
conference ainsi que les pauses cafes et les repas de midi.

Une soiree avec animation musicale est prevue jeudi soir au restaurant "Chez
le Pere Gras"  sur la colline de la Bastille avec vue panoramique sur
Grenoble. Montee possible en telepherique (bulles).
La participation a cette soiree s'eleve a 160 FF, ce prix incluant :
l'apperif, le diner, les boissons et le cafe.

Vous pouvez regler les frais d'inscription et la participation a la soiree:
    - par cheque a l'ordre de l'Agent Comptable de Stendhal-Grenoble 3
    - par bon de commande
Toute inscription par courrier electronique devra etre confirmee par  un
courrier accompagne du reglement.

Vous trouverez toutes les informations concernant GAT'99 sous:
http://www.u-grenoble3.fr/gat/
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
Georges ANTONIADIS
D?partement Informatique P?dagogique / Equipe CRISTAL-GRESEC
Universit? 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Tue Sep 21 17:36:14 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 18:36:14 +0100
Subject: R: Prolog
Message-ID: <TUE.21.SEP.1999.183614.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

[avalanche de r?ponses !!  -- pz]

  ________________________________________________________________
  1/Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:08:37 -0400
  From: Laurence Capus <capus at ift.ulaval.ca>

  2/Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:39:54 -0400 (EDT)
  From: Gr?gory Perrat <perratg at mail.com>

  3/Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:02:57 +0200
  From: Nicolas <optimus at multimania.com>

  4/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 07:48:23 +0200 (MET DST)
  From: Henri.Zingle at unice.fr (Zingl? Henri)

  5/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:51:15 +0200 (MET DST)
  From: Marc Guyomard <Marc.Guyomard at enssat.fr>

  6/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:34:48 +0200
  From: Piet Mertens <Piet.Mertens at arts.kuleuven.ac.be>

  7/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:39:05 +0100
  From: Laurent.Trilling at imag.fr (Laurent Trilling)

  8/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:37:29 +0000 (GMT)
  From: Serge Rosmorduc <rosmord at iut.univ-paris8.fr>
  ________________________________________________________________


________________________________________________________________
1/Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:08:37 -0400
From: Laurence Capus <capus at ift.ulaval.ca>
Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990917160837.00806b20 at auguste.ift.ulaval.ca>
X-url: http://swi.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/download.html


J'enseigne Prolog dans un cours d'intelligence artificielle et nous
disposons de WinProlog 4 de la soci?t? LPA. Bien sur, il n'est pas gratuit
mais de leur site internet on peut telecharger une version d'utilisation
gratuite de 28 jours.
http://www.lpa.co.uk/

Mes ?tudiants ont trouv? des Prolog freeware pour Windows aux adresses
suivantes mais je n'ai pas eu encore le temps de les tester vraiment.
 - Pie Prolog
http://www.pdc.dk/vipexamples/winapps/pie.htm
 - Strawberry Prolog 1.02 pour Windows 95/NT
http://www.dobrev.com/download.html
 - SWI Prolog
http://swi.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/download.html

Laurence Capus
Departement d'informatique
Universite Laval
Ste-Foy (QC) - CANADA
capus at ift.ulaval.ca

________________________________________________________________
2/Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:39:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gr?gory Perrat <perratg at mail.com>
Message-Id: <382759269.937600794099.JavaMail.root at web02.pub01>
X-url: http://www.hio.hen.nl/faq/SWI-Prolog.html


SWI-Prolog est le Prolog gratuit le plus
connu pour Windows (et d'autres plateformes),
assez proche de Quintus-Prolog.
Il est surtout destin? ? l'enseignement, mais
n'est pas forc?ment de qualit? inf?rieure aux
Prolog commerciaux.
C'est un Prolog de type Edimbourg,
qui est utilis? dans la plupart des
universit?s anglaises qui enseignent le Prolog.

Voir :
http://www.hio.hen.nl/faq/SWI-Prolog.html

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________________________________________________________________
3/Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 00:02:57 +0200
From: Nicolas <optimus at multimania.com>
Message-ID: <37E2BA91.E6DBCEF7 at multimania.com>


Bonjour,
tr?s bonne d?cision l'enseignement de Prolog! Je le pr?f?re de loin ? LISP.
C'est plus intuitif.  Et c'est d'une grande souplesse et d'un grand int?r?t
p?d?gogique.
Par contre, je vous conseille d'aller lentement au d?but car rare sont les
personnes ? comprendre d'embl?e la programmation r?cursive, et surtout ?
penser r?cursivement.

J'utilise le Prolog SWI, freeware fait par une facult? ? Amsterdam. Il fatt
utiliser un ?diteur externe pour saisir les lignes de code. Mais il est d'un
tr?s bon niveau car tjrs dot? des derni?res inovations, ?tant la version test
propos?e aux universitaires pour ?prouver ses capacit?s!

Vous le trouverez facilement en tapant SWI dans Yahoo ou excite.com
Je n'ai pas les URL en t?te. Si vous ne le trouvez pas, je vous l'enverrai par
mail en fichier joint, il n'est pas tr?s gros. Il fonctionne tr?s bien sous
windows. Il existe aussi en version DOS et Linux.

Il existe le Prolog Strawberry qui est plus ax? sur windows et avec lequel
il est ais? de cr?er des environnements fen?tr?s pour ses applications. Mais
il faut ?tre quand m?me bien habitu? ? l aprogrammation Prolog. Donc ne pas le
proposer de suite. Aussi Freeware.

Enfin, si vous pouviez payer la licence de LPA Prolog qui dispose d'une
superbe interface graphique avec ?diteur et console. Ce n'est pas trop cher
pour une fac. La licence tourne autour de qq centaines de francs et encore...

    Si vous ne trouvez pas ces logiciels, faites le moi savoir, je
m'arrangerai alors pour retrouver les URLs! De toute fa?on, si je remet la
main dessus je vous les enverrai.

    Bonne continuation dans l'enseignement de ce fabuleux langage! Un peu
?trange au d?but, je sais qu'il en a d?courag? plus d'un. Il faut une approche
lente dans les premiers temps. Et peut-?tre donner quelques notions de
r?cursivit? math?matique pour les raisonnements (en ce qui concerne les
clauses, les faits, les r?gles...)

    En tout cas, c apr?s entrainement, un langage qui permet de d?finir assez
ais?ment des r?gles de grammaires. Et la facilit? de programmation d'automates
permet de ne pas ?tre arr?t? par de la programmtion trop lourde.

    J'esp?re vous avoir ?t? utile et clair! N'h?sitez pas ? me recontacter
pour tout pb!

Cordialement

Nicolas

________________________________________________________________
4/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 07:48:23 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Henri.Zingle at unice.fr (Zingl? Henri)
Message-Id: <199909200548.HAA01412 at naxos.unice.fr>
X-url: http://www.pdc.dk/


Il y a une version Education de VISUAL PROLOG (PDC) tres bon march?.
Renseignements sur
http://www.pdc.dk/
H. Zingle

Pr. H. Zingl?
LILLA-Universit? de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
98, bd Edouard Herriot - BP 209
F-06204 Nice Cedex3
T?l./Fax +33 93375439

________________________________________________________________
5/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 08:51:15 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Marc Guyomard <Marc.Guyomard at enssat.fr>
Message-Id: <v03007800b40ba4ffa783@[192.54.188.94]>
X-url: ftp://ftp.swi.psy.uva.nl/pub/SWI-Prolog/

Bonjour,

J'ai entendu beaucoup de bien de SWI-Prolog (certains l'ulisent dans
l'equipe), de l'universit? d'Amsterdam :

ftp://ftp.swi.psy.uva.nl/pub/SWI-Prolog/


C'est un prolog compil? (Wam), dote d'une interface avec C.


Cordialement.

____________________________________________________________________________
Marc Guyomard
Enssat/IRISA (Cordial)
Universit? de Rennes I
Technopole Anticipa
6, rue de Kerampont
22305 Lannion Cedex
France

>From overseas :
Tel :
     (33) 2-96-46-50-30 (Enssat)
     (33) 2-96-46-66-29 (Direct)
Fax :(33) 2-96-37-01-99

De France :
Tel :
     02-96-46-50-30 (Enssat)
     02-96-46-66-29 (Direct)
Fax :02-96-37-01-99
Web : http://www.enssat.fr
e-mail : guyomard at enssat.fr

________________________________________________________________
6/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:34:48 +0200
From: Piet Mertens <Piet.Mertens at arts.kuleuven.ac.be>
Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990920093448.007deaf0 at onyx.arts.kuleuven.ac.be>
X-url: http://swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/


Le logiciel recherch? est disponible sur

http://swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/

Je l'utilise depuis quelques ann?es, pour les gros projets
comme pour l'enseignement.  C'est robuste, fiable, rapide,
portable (Unix, Windows, d'autres...). Il existe une liste
de discussion o? celui qui a con?u le syst?me r?pond
aux questions.

Piet Mertens

________________________________________________________________
7/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:39:05 +0100
From: Laurent.Trilling at imag.fr (Laurent Trilling)
Message-Id: <v01540b00b40bbd75cb4d@[129.88.38.44]>


Bien recu.
Nous utilisons ici Prolog IV (de prologIA), disponible aussi sous Windows.
Pour deux raisons:
 - une tres bonne definition (essentiel pour l'enseignement)
 - les derniers concepts en matiere de contraintes sont integres
(contraintes sur intervalles).
Devoir payer un cout (extremement modeste) m'apparait un avantage. A partir
du moment ou on achete (meme peu cher), le vendeur a des devoirs...
Bien a vous.
Laurent Trilling.

-----------------------------
Laurent Trilling

Universit? Joseph Fourier (Grenoble)
lab. LSR-IMAG
BP 72
38402 SAINT MARTIN D'HERES CEDEX
France

e-mail: Laurent.Trilling at imag.fr
bureau: ENSIMAG, bat. D, D104
tel : 04 76 82 72 13 (prof.),  O4 76 51 23 76 (dom.)
FAX :04 76 82 72 87 (prof.)
-----------------------------

________________________________________________________________
8/Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:37:29 +0000 (GMT)
From: Serge Rosmorduc <rosmord at iut.univ-paris8.fr>
Message-ID: <14310.17970.961743.842955 at djedefhor.iut.univ-paris8.fr>


Bonjour,

Le swi prolog est tr?s complet, et en plus disponible ? la fois sous
windows et sous unix.

Cordialement,

--

Serge Rosmorduc, (rosmord at iut.univ-paris8.fr)
tel 01 48 70 37 09
fax 01 48 70 86 49
http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/~rosmord/AEgypt.html

________________________________________________________________


From pz at biomath.jussieu.fr  Thu Sep 23 16:39:06 1999
From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:39:06 +0100
Subject: Q: Debugging computational grammars
Message-ID: <THU.23.SEP.1999.173906.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR>

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 10:23:59 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Alberto Lavelli <lavelli at itc.it>
Message-Id: <199909230824.KAA16161 at ecate.itc.it>


Dear colleagues,

I'm looking for references to the problem of developing and debugging
computational grammars for natural languages. I'm particularly
interested in tools and approaches used in debugging grammars
(particularly in their use when dealing with relatively large
hand-written grammars).  In the computational systems I'm aware of,
usually there is only a limited (and standard) set of debugging tools:
tracers, steppers, chart browsers.

Furthermore, does anybody know any extensive study on the most
suitable strategies/tools to cope with the writing/testing/debugging
cycle (always with a particular emphasis on debugging)?

I know that there have been hints to this problem in related areas
(e.g., the EU projects TSNLP and DiET, some papers at the ACL-EACL97
workshop on Computational Environments for Grammar Development and
Linguistic Engineering) but it seems to me that this topic has so far
received little attention. But perhaps I'm missing some relevant
contributions and so I'm asking for your help.

Apart from references to relevant stuff, I'm also interested in your
general opinion on the issue.  Is this (alleged) lack of interest an
indication of the fact that such issue is in your opinion not
particularly relevant?


I'll post a summary if I receive enough responses


best
	alberto


ps: I have sent this message to several mailing lists. I apologize if
you receive it more than once.


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Sep 28 12:38:31 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:38:31 +0100
Subject: Appel: ACIDCA (Corpora&NNLP)
Message-ID: <TUE.28.SEP.1999.133831.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

>From L.Belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn Thu Sep 23 17:45:54 1999



[Apologies if you receive this message more than once]



*************************************************************************

                         "Corpora and NLP"
                        ACIDCA'2000 session
                Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000

                     Under the auspices of ELRA

                            Organised by:
                   University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS)
            Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia)

                            Sponsored by:
                              IEEE SMC
				co-sponsored by:
                                TSS
                            Supported by:
               Tunisian State Secretariat of Scientific
                   Research and Technology (SERST)

**************************************************************************




General
-------

The last few years have seen the explosively growing use of corpora in
a number of NLP areas. Corpus data are used increasingly as a basis for
the design, development and optimisation of various NLP applications but
also for their evaluation.

"Corpora and NLP" is a 3-day thematic session and will be held as part
of the International Conference on Artificial and Computational
Intelligence for Control, Automation and Decision in Engineering and
Industrial Systems (ACIDCA'2000) (for more details on ACIDCA'2000,
visit http://www.chez.com/acidca2000) . The session
"Corpora and NLP" will be organised as a workshop with its own
Proceedings and Programme Committee.

The session will address all aspects of the use of written and spoken
corpora (including the construction of corpora to be used) in NLP.


Main Topics
-----------

We expect submissions covering (but not limited to) the following
topics:

* Lexicography
* Lexical knowledge acquisition
* Part of Speech Tagging
* Unknown word guessing
* Term recognition
* Morphological Analysis
* Robust Parsing
* Word Sense Disambiguation
* Anaphora Resolution
* Discourse segmentation
* Machine Translation
* Agreement Error Correction
* Spelling and Grammar Correction
* Information Extraction
* Automatic Abstracting
* Text Categorisation
* Speech processing
* Multilingual corpora and multilingual applications
* Corpus annotation
* Evaluation

Papers describing industrial applications based on corpus
processing techniques are welcome.


Honorary Chairs
---------------

Mohamed Ben Ahmed - Tunisian State Secretary of Scientific
                    and Technological Research

Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT)-Tunisia

Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley


General Chairs
--------------

Adel Alimi,
National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS)

Lamia Belguith Hadrich,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)

Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou,
LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science
and Management of Sfax (FSEGS)


Programme Committee
-------------------

Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair

Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom)
Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)
Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble)
Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville)
Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble)
Khalid Choukri (ELRA, Paris)
Fathi Debili (IRMC, Tunis)
Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris)
Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon)
Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen)
Fumiyo Fukumoto (University of Yamanashi)
Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble)
Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York)
Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technology, Copenhagen)
Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal)
Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of Edinburgh)
Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris)
Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens)
Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona)

Manolo Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain)
Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma, Tor Vergata)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille)
Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen)
Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester)
Keh-Yih Su  (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei)
Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon)
Agnes Tutin (Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill)
Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki)


Local Organising Committee
--------------------------

Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) - Chairs
H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax),
Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS, Sfax),
Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG, Gabes),
Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax),
Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax),
Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax),
Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis),
Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)
Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax)

International Organising Committee
----------------------------------

Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray
(University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs
Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan),
Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan),
Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany),
Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France),
Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University),
Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA)
Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA)
Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France)
Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble)
Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain)


Submission Guidelines
---------------------

Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be
written in English and must not exceed 10 pages including figures,
tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature
title, author's name(s), surface and email address(es), followed by
keywords and an abstract.

Four hard copies of each submission are to be sent to the following
address :

ACIDCA'2000  (Corpora & NLP Session)
Centre Postal Maghreb Arabe,
BP 120, 3049 Sfax
Tunisia

In addition, a 200-word (or so) abstract of the paper and a list of
keywords should be emailed as plain text to R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk and
copied to  l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn

The papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the Programme
Committee.

Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines how to produce the
camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings.


Schedule
--------

Paper Submission Due: 20 October 1999 **extended deadline**
Notification of Acceptance : 10 December 1999
Camera-ready Paper Due : 10 January 1999
"Corpora and NLP" Session : 22-24 March 2000


Further information
-------------------

Registration to the "Corpora and NLP" session entitles the participants
to attend all other ACIDCA'2000 invited talks and sessions as well as
the exhibition. Registration details will be included in the Second Call
for Papers.

There will be tutorials on 21 March. More information on the tutorials
will be available from ACIDCA'2000 web site as soon as they are
finalised.

ACIDCA'2000 will offer best paper awards in three categories:
Best Paper, Best Poster Paper and Best Student Paper.

The social programme will be announced in the second call for papers.


For any Information
-------------------

Please contact :

Lamia Belguith
e-mail: l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn
Fax: (216) 4 296 229


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Sep 28 12:39:06 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:39:06 +0100
Subject: Appel: ISKO6
Message-ID: <TUE.28.SEP.1999.133906.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Widad MUSTAFA <mustafa at univ-lille3.fr>


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************** APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTING ******
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Dear Colleagues,

Just a reminder to those who are planning to present papers
at the ISKO6 Conference, July 10-13, 2000, that the deadline for
the submission of abstracts is fast approaching - September 30, 1999.
Below there is a copy of the original call for papers

In the interests of ensuring that abstracts do not get lost in
cyberspace, you will be notified when your abstract has been received.

Please forward this message to person or listserv that you think would
be interested.

Looking forward to hearing from you.
Nancy Williamson,
Conference Chair


International Society for
Knowledge Organization
Sixth International ISKO Conference
Call for Papers

 The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will
 conduct its 6th International Conference (ISKO 6) in Toronto, Canada,
 July 10-13, 2000.  The theme of the conference is:

     Dynamism and Stability in Knowledge Organization

 Papers addressing Dynamism and Stability in Knowledge Organization
 from any of the following interrelated perspectives are invited:

      Cognitive and Linguistic Foundations
      Theories of Knowledge and Knowledge Organization
      Information Policies and Management of Knowledge Structures
      Information Systems: Concepts, Design and Implementation
      Culture, Language and Communication in Knowledge Organization
      Knowledge Organization of Universal and Special Systems Global
      Users and Uses of Knowledge and Knowledge Organization New
      Information Technologies for Knowledge Organization

  Theoreticians, researchers and practitioners involved in knowledge
  organization are invited to submit abstracts of between 500 and 1000
  words by September 30, 1999 to Professor Clare Beghtol, Programme
  Chair (see contact information below; electronic submissions
  welcome; please include ISKO in the subject line). In preparing your
  abstract please relate your topic to the theme of the  conference
  and indicate the category above to which you believe your paper
  belongs. An international programme committee will review the
  papers, and authors will be notified of decisions by December 1,
  1999.  The deadline for submission of papers for the printed
  conference proceedings will be March 1, 2000.

  Venue of the conference:
  Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto,
  Canada Conference Chair: Nancy Williamson Programme Chair: Clare
  Beghtol Mailing address:  Faculty of Information Studies, University
  of Toronto, 140 St. George Street, Toronto, Canada M5S 3G6 FAX: +1
  416 971 1399 e-mail: isko at fis.utoronto.ca
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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Sep 28 12:38:55 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:38:55 +0100
Subject: Appel: CPC-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.28.SEP.1999.133855.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Tony Berber Sardinha" <tony4 at uol.com.br>

CALL

Symposium
Computational Processing of Portuguese 2000

Dates: 14 / 15 April 2000
Venue: Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Deadline for proposals: 10 October 1999
Confirmation of acceptance: 25 October 1999
Whole symposium: 4 hours (aprox. 40 minutes per speaker)
Total number of speakers: 6

Please send a 300-word abstract in Portuguese or English to tony4 at uol.com.br

thanks
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Dr Tony Berber Sardinha
Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
tony4 at uol.com.br
http://sites.uol.com.br/tony4/homepage.html
http://homepages.infoseek.com/~corpuslinguistics/homepage.html
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From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Sep 28 12:39:13 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:39:13 +0100
Subject: Livre: 1 announcement
Message-ID: <TUE.28.SEP.1999.133913.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: salkoff at cora-sa.com (Morris Salkoff)


Book Announcement

New book: A French-English grammar: a contrastive grammar on translational
principles.   Morris Salkoff, 1999  J. Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia

		In this contrastive French-English grammar, the comparisons between French
structures and their English equivalents are formulated as rules which
associate a French schema (of a particular grammatical structure) with its
translation into an equivalent English schema. The grammar contains all the
rules giving the English equivalents under translation of the principal
grammatical structures of French: the verb phrase, the noun phrase and the
adjuncts (modifiers).

		In addition to its intrinsic linguistic interest, this comparative grammar
has two important applications. The translation equivalences it contains can
provide a firm foundation for the teaching of the techniques of translation.
Furthermore, such a comparative grammar is a necessary preliminary to any
program of machine translation, which needs a set of formal rules, like
those given here for the French-to-English case, for translating into a
target language the syntactic structures encountered in the source language.

		The importance of this comparative grammar is seen from the new results
obtained here, which can have an immediate application to research in MT.
These are the translational sub-classes and the passe-partout (all-purpose)
translations. The first are sub-classes of French words and their English
translations, which are related only as translation equivalents, but are not
otherwise distinguished in their respective grammars. The need for such
sub-classes emerges only when certain difficulties are encountered in
finding suitable English equivalents for French schemata. The second, the
passe-partout translations, are approximate translations which are useful in
two cases. In the first case, there are several related schemata whose
translations could be separated only on the basis of semantic considerations
that would be difficult to formalize. The passe-partout translation provides
a 'cover' translation that is approximately correct for all the schemata,
and does not require establishing hard-to-define semantic sub-classes. In
the second case, some one-to-many translations of a French word can be
approximated by a single passe-partout translation which covers
approximately the same range of meaning in English as the original
one-to-many translations do.

		Such results could not have been found from the sole consideration of
grammatical phenomena in French or English grammar independently of each
other. As the reader will observe from the data collected in this book, a
comparative study is necessary both for pedagogical purposes, and for
research in machine translation.

Table of Contents

Chapter  1  Introduction

	1.0 Generalities
	1.1 Previous Work
	1.2 The Present Method
	1.3 Comparative grammar for pedagogy and for MT

Chapter 2  Major sentence structures; the verb; the object

	2.1 Principal Clauses	
	2.2 The Verb	
	2.3 Modals                            	
	2.4 Support verbs	
	2.5 Objects	
	2.6 Negation
	2.7 Amalgamation
						
     Chapter 3  The Noun Phrase NP

	3.1 gN  N  dN
	3.2 Qd  de  NP
	3.3 Pronouns
	3.4 Noun Replacement strings

    Chapter 4   Adjuncts

    Chapter 5   Conclusions; Applications

      I. Conclusions

	5.1 New translations
	5.2 Solutions
	5.3 Translational Sub-classes
	5.4 Reversible Grammars
	5.5 An Extension of passe-partout translations
	5.6 Extension to other language pairs

      II. Applications

	5.7 To pedagogy
	5.8 To MT

References

	J. Benjamins,  Lingvisticae Investigationes Supplementa, 22
	    1999.  xvi, 342 pp.  HB: 150 Dutch guilder
					pb: 70 Dutch guilder


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 29 16:11:54 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:11:54 +0100
Subject: Appel: ATALA Workshop
Message-ID: <WED.29.SEP.1999.171154.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)


[Version francaise ci-apres]


			      ATALA Workshop

	    Representation and Treatment of Syntactic Ambiguity in
			Natural Language Processing

				------------

			Paris, Piti?-Salp?tri?re
		  	     January 29, 2000

		   htpp://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/ATALA2000.html

				------------

			   CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

There are several approaches making it possible to treat syntactic ambiguity:
one can for example decide to apply disambiguation as soon as possible, in
particular using statistical methods. One can on the contrary choose to delay
to the maximum the disambiguation and to maintain the ambiguity, possibly
until the end of the processing. These two approaches are not necessarily
contradictory. However, the problem remains very difficult to solve and many
of the methods proposed amount to little more than the traditional
enumeration.

Factorizing the information (for example in using parse forests) can from
this point of view play a very significant role and even lead to effective
solutions.

The goal of this workshop is to propose an overview of the current techniques
for the representation and the treatment of syntactic ambiguity in natural
language processing.

INVITED SPEAKERS
----------------
	. Bernard Lang			
		INRIA

	. David Weir
		Cognitive and Computing Science
		University of Sussex

COMMUNICATIONS
--------------

The proposals for a communication will be selected on the basis of a 1 page
abstract.

Abstracts will be sent by e-mail (preferably) or surface mail at:

		pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr

		Philippe Blache
		LPL - Universit? de Provence
		29, Avenue Robert Schuman
		13621  Aix-en-Provence
		France

DATES
-----
	Deadline : 	December 1st, 1999
	Notifications:	December 20th, 1999


CHAIR
-----
	Philippe Blache			Eric de la Clergerie
	CNRS/Universit? de Provence	INRIA
			

_______________________________________________________________________________


			   Journ?e de l'ATALA :

	Repr?sentation et traitement de l'ambiguit? pour l'analyse syntaxique

				------------

			Paris, Piti?-Salp?tri?re
		  	     29 Janvier 2000

		htpp://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/ATALA2000.html

				------------


			  APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS


Il existe plusieurs approches permettant de traiter l'ambiguit? : on
peut par exemple d?cider d'appliquer une d?sambiguisation au plus t?t,
notamment ? l'aide de m?thodes statistiques ou heuristiques. On peut
au contraire choisir de retarder au maximum la d?sambiguisation et de
maintenir l'ambiguit?, ?ventuellement jusqu'? la fin du
traitement. Ces deux approches ne sont d'ailleurs pas forc?ment
contradictoires. Cependant, le probl?me reste tr?s difficile ?
r?soudre et bien des m?thodes propos?es reviennent finalement a une
?numeration classique.

Dans cette perspective, le partage des informations ? l'aide, par exemple, de
for?ts d'arbres peut jouer un r?le tr?s important et conduire ? des solutions
efficaces.

Le but de cette journ?e est de faire le point sur les techniques
actuelles de repr?sentation et de traitement de l'ambiguit? pour
l'analyse syntaxique ou pour des phases ult?rieures, et ce pour
diff?rents formalismes grammaticaux (ou ind?pendamment d'eux).


CONFERENCIERS INVITES
---------------------
	. Bernard Lang			
		INRIA

	. David Weir
		Cognitive and Computing Science
		University of Sussex

COMMUNICATIONS
--------------
Les propositions de communication seront selectionn?es sur la base d'un r?sum?
de 1 page ? transmettre par e-mail (de pr?f?rence) ou courrier ? l'adresse
suivante :

		pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr

		Philippe Blache
		LPL - Universit? de Provence
		29, Avenue Robert Schuman
		13621  Aix-en-Provence
		France

CALENDRIER
----------

	Date limite de r?ception des r?sum?s : 	1er D?cembre 1999
	Notifications aux auteurs :		20 D?cembre 1999


ORGANISATEURS
-------------

	Philippe Blache		Eric de la Clergerie
	LPL - CNRS		INRIA


From pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Sep 29 16:11:59 1999
From: pb at harar.lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:11:59 +0100
Subject: Appel: NLPRS Workshop
Message-ID: <WED.29.SEP.1999.171159.0100.PB@HARAR.LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: nlprs 99 <nlprs99 at korterm.kaist.ac.kr>




                    NLPRS'99 Workshop

                          MAL'99

Multi-lingual Information Processing and Asian Language processing

            Beijing, China, November 5, 1999



                  --  Call for Papers  --

           Summary submission due : October 12
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


The recent information society has been evolved into the state
of multi-lingual communication and broadcasting. However, the
theoretical and empirical research and development has not been
fully flourished toward the customer-oriented product. The
knowledge about multi-lingual communication has not yet been
fully discovered and furthermore, the knowledge about Asian
language processing is too weak to understand the neighboring
countries' languages even inside of the Asian countries. Here,
the each country's language processing has to be introduced to
other language users for their language resources, experiences
and theoretical achievements. Although the characteristics
among Asian languages are more similar than those of European
languages, the chance of this discussion has been very few.

This workshop will solicit papers from the academic sectors as
well as from the commercial sectors, in order to know what are
achievements of researchers and what are problems of information
industry. Standardization efforts of markup languages are one
of important issues for the advanced intelligent language
processing. Moreover, the test suites for each language and
information processing areas are invited to be presented.

All submissions are welcomed in all area of NLP topics and
the partial lists of topics are as follows but not limited to:

  - characteristics of each language processing
  - standards of tag set for language resources and application
  - test suite of language processing, e.g., IR, MT, summarization
  - industrial application of Asian language processing and
    multi-lingual information handling
  - multi-lingual indexing and keyword extraction
  - data and information structure of Asian languages
  - multi-lingualism in broadcasting and public affairs
  - computer-based language teaching
  - localization of language products
  - machine translation
  - cross-lingual information retrieval

The workshop review and acceptance will be based on a two-page
extended summary (2000 words or less). The summary must be
accompanied by its title and author information including full
names, affiliations of all authors and the postal mailing
address and email of the corresponding author. "Software
demonstration" is also very much encouraged.

Submit by email to 'mal99 at korterm.kaist.ac.kr'



== IMPORTANT DATES ==

   - Summary submission due:  October 12
   - Notification of acceptance: October 16
   - Camera ready papers or presentation materials due: October 22
   - Inquires concerning the workshop can be sent to one of
     the organizers by
        * email to mal99 at korterm.kaist.ac.kr
        * fax to +82-42-867-3565 (forward to: NLPRS99 MAL Workshop)
        * Dr. Young-Soog Chae
          KORTERM, Department of Computer Science
          Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
          373-1 Kusong-dong Yusong-gu Taejon 305-701
          Korea