From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Aug  1 16:45:17 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:45:17 +0200
Subject: Appel: IEEE Data Mining 2001
Message-ID: <TUE.1.AUG.2000.184517.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Ning Zhong <zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp>


[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

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   ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
               Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
----------------------------------------------------------------------
                   Silicon Valley, California, USA
                    November 29 - December 2, 2001
       Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html

                            Call for Papers
                            ***************

The  2001  IEEE International Conference  on  Data  Mining  (ICDM '01)
provides a forum  for  the sharing  of  original research results  and
practical development experiences  among  researchers  and application
developers  from different data mining related areas  such as  machine
learning,   automated   scientific   discovery,  statistics,   pattern
recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data
warehousing,  data visualization,  and  knowledge-based  systems.  The
conference   seeks  solutions  to  challenging   problems  facing  the
development of data mining systems,  and  shapes  future directions of
research   by  promoting  high  quality,  novel  and  daring  research
findings.  As  an important part  of  the  conference,  the  workshops
program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives.

Topics of Interest
==================

Topics  related to  the design,  analysis  and  implementation of data
mining  theory,  systems  and  applications  are  of  interest.  These
include, but are not limited to the following areas:

  - Foundations and principles of data mining
  - Data mining algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as
    classification, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and
    association analysis), and in new areas
  - Data and knowledge representation for data mining
  - Modeling of structured, textual, temporal, spatial, multimedia and
    Web data to support data mining
  - Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining
  - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature
    transformation
  - Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining
  - Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
    evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty
    management for data mining
  - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
  - Man-machine interaction in data mining and visual data mining
  - Artificial intelligence contributions to data mining
  - High performance and distributed data mining
  - Machine learning, pattern recognition and automated scientific
    discovery
  - Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining
    results
  - Process centric data mining and models of data mining process
  - Security and social impact of data mining
  - Emerging data mining applications, such as electronic commerce,
    Web mining and intelligent learning database systems

Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards
==================================================

High quality papers  in all data mining areas  are  solicited.  Papers
exploring  new  directions  will  receive  a  careful  and  supportive
review.  All submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of  6,000
words (approximately 20 A4 pages),  and  will be reviewed on the basis
of   technical  quality,  relevance  to  data   mining,   originality,
significance,  and clarity.  Accepted papers  will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.  A selected
number of ICDM '01 accepted papers  will be  expanded and revised  for
possible  inclusion  in  the Knowledge and Information Systems journal
(http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/) by Springer-Verlag.

ICDM Best Paper Awards  will be conferred  on the authors  of the best
papers at the conference.

Important Dates
===============

     June 15, 2001                    Paper submissions.
     July 31, 2001                    Acceptance notices.
     August 31, 2001                  Final camera-readies.
     Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2001             Conference.

Detailed instructions  for paper submissions  will be provided  on the
conference home page at http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html.

Conference Chair:
=================

      Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA
         (xindong at computer.org)

Program Committee Chairs:
=========================

      Nick Cercone,  University of Waterloo, Canada
         (ncercone at math.uwaterloo.ca)
      T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
         (tylin at mathcs.sjsu.edu)

ICDM '01 Workshops Chair:
=========================

      Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
         (johannes at cs.cornell.edu)

ICDM '01 Tutorials Chair:
=========================

      Chris Clifton, MITRE, USA
         (clifton at mitre.org)

ICDM '01 Panels Chair:
======================

      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
         (rao at cs.mu.oz.au)

ICDM '01 Publicity Chair:
=========================

      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
         (zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp)

ICDM '01 Local Arrangements Chair:
==================================

      Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Blue Martini Software Inc., USA
         (tonyhu at bluemartini.com)

ICDM Steering Committee
=======================

      Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK
      Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada
      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
      Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany
      Xindong Wu, Chair (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
      Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
      Jan M. Zytkow, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Further Information
===================

      Dr. Xindong Wu
      Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
      Colorado School of Mines,
      1500 Illinois Street,
      Golden, Colorado 80401,
      USA.

      Telephone: +1-303-273-3874
      Facsimile: +1-303-273-3875
      E-mail: xindong at computer.org



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Aug  1 16:46:26 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:46:26 +0200
Subject: Appel: Romand-2000
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From: TALN2000 <taln2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch>


PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR ROMAND2000 HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO AUGUST
12th


                                           First Call for Papers

                                                  ROMAND 2000

                     1st workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural
language Data

                                              *** EXTENDED DEADLINE ***

                                           Department of Computer Science
                                 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology -
Lausanne
                                                  October 19-20 2000

                                          http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2000/

ROMAND 2000 is the first of a series of workshop that aims at bringing
together researchers working on robust methods in natural language
processing.
The term "natural language" is intended as all possible modalities of human
communication and it is not restricted to written or spoken language.
The main goal of the workshop will be to bring together researchers working
in
fields like artificial
intelligence, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction,
cognitive
science who are facing with the problem of feasible and reliable systems
implementation. Theoretical aspects of robustness in NLP are welcome as well
as engineering and industrial experiences.

The workshop will be held in collaboration with the TALN 2000 conference (le
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - Automatic Natural Language
Processing) which will be held in Lausanne from October 16th to 18th. The
ROMAND workshop will be held just afterwards, from the 19th to 20th.

We invite abstracts on all topics related to robustness in natural language
processing, including, but not  limited to:

      Robust Text Analysis
      Information Extraction
      Spoken Dialogue systems
      Multimodal human-computer interfaces
      Natural Language Architectures
      NLP and Soft Computing
      Robust Semantics
      Underspecification
      Multimedia document analysis
      Robust Parsing
      Complexity of linguistic analysis
      Hybrid methods in computational linguistics
      Text Mining


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 6 (included
references) single-column pages with 10' body font size (for talks with a
duration of 20' plus 10' discussion) together with a separate page
specifying
the authors' names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. The abstracts
should be submitted electronically (in postscript or pdf format) to:
romand at epfl.ch.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Papers due: August 12th
Acceptance notice: August 28th
Final version due:  September 28th
Conference: October 19-20

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:

Program chairs are

Afzal Ballim                 Afzal.Ballim at epfl.ch
Vincenzo Pallotta            Vincenzo.Pallotta at epfl.ch
Hatem Ghorbel                Hatem.Ghorbel at epfl.ch

Program committee

Steve Abney
Wolfgang Menzel
Jean-Pierre Chanod
Alberto Lavelli
Rens Bod
Giorgio Satta
Joachim Niehren
Roberto Basili
Maria Teresa Pazienza
Manuela Boros
Diego Molla' Aliod
Hervé Bourlard
B. Srinivas
C.J. Rupp
Peter Asveld


ORGANIZATION:

This year's workshop is organized in collaboration with the TALN 7eme
conférence annuelle sur LE TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES NATURELLES (
http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/ ).  The workshop will take place at the
Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. The workshop is endorsed by ATALA
(Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues).

REGISTRATION:

Details about the registration procedure will be posted later at the
official
web site. The registration fee will be:

     Normal registration:          150.- CHF
     For registered TALN attendee: 100.- CHF

FURTHER INFORMATION:

For any information related to the organization, please contact:

Vincenzo Pallotta

DI-LITH EPFL
IN F Ecublens
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

tel. +41-21-693 52 97
fax. +41-21-693 52 78
Vincenzo.Pallotta at epfl.ch

News about the conference will be posted on the workshop's Web page at
http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2000/



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For the organising committee of TALN 2000,
Cristian Ciressan

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Aug  1 16:46:31 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:46:31 +0200
Subject: Conf: TALN-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.1.AUG.2000.184631.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: TALN2000 <taln2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch>


----------------------------------------------------------------------
              TALN 2000 PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Please find hereafter the preliminary program of the 7th Conference on
AUTOMATIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (TALN 2000), that will take
place in Lausanne from Monday October 16 to Wednesday October 18, 2000.

This program can also be found on-line at:
    http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/programme_taln2000.html

Resgistration can be done either on-line at:
    http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/gb/inscription.html
or by contacting the organizing committee at:


    TALN 2000
    c/o Marie Decrauzat
    EPFL
    DI-LIA
    IN (Ecublens)
    CH-1015 Lausanne
    Suisse

    Tél  : +41 21 693 27 35
    Fax  : +41 21 693 52 25
    Email: taln2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch
    Web  : http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000



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                             Lundi 16 octobre

  8h30                      Accueil - Inscriptions

  9h00                             Mot d'accueil
         Eric Wehrli / Martin Rajman (Président du comité d'organisation)

                      Séance paralèlle (I)      Séance paralèlle (II)

  9h30                 Laurence DANLOS,          Jill BURSTEIN
                       Bertrand GAIFFE           Toward Using Text
         Séances TALN  Coréférence               Summarization for
          paralèlles   événementielle et         Essay-Based Feedback
                       relations de discours

 10h00                 Holger SCHAUER            Gees C. STEIN
                       Using Coreferences for    Multi-Document
                       Coherence Relations       Summarization:
                                                 Methodologies and
                                                 Evaluations

 10h30                             Pause (20 mn)

 10h50    Conférence   Udo Hahn(Universitaet Freiburg)
            invitée    Information extraction out of textual data

 11h35                              Pause (5mn)

 11h40                 Authors
                       Titre

 12h00                 Authors
            Séances    Titre
            RECITAL
 12h20                 Authors
                       Titre

 12h40                 Authors
                       Titre

 13h00                        Repas

                       Séance paralèlle (I)      Séance paralèlle (II)

 14h30                 Jacques SAVOY             Didier MAILLAT
                       Recherche                 Computing the Spatial
                       d'informations dans un    Reference Frame: How to
         Séances TALN  environnement distribué   interpret directional
          paralèlles                             prepositions

 15h00                 Sébastien L'HAIRE, Juri   Yann MATHET
                       MENGON, Christopher       Le pradigme
                       LAENZLINGER               monodimensionnel dans
                       Outils génériques et      l'expression de l'espace
                       transfert hybride pour    et du déplacement
                       la traduction
                       automatique sur
                       Internet

 15h30                             Pause (20mn)

                         Séance paralèlle (I)      Séance paralèlle (II)

 15h50                 Mare KOIT                 Cristian CIRESSAN, Martin
                       Reasoning in              RAJMAN, Eduardo SANCHEZ,
                       Interaction: A Model of   Jean-Cedric CHAPPELIER
         Séances TALN  Dialogue                  Towards NLP
          paralèlles                             co-processing: An FPGA
                                                 implementation of a
                                                 context-free parser

 16h20                 Zakaria KURDI             André KEMPE
                       La grammaire sémantique   Reduction of Intermediate
                       d'unification d'arbres:   Alphabets in Finite-State
                       un formalisme pour        Transducer Cascades
                       l'analyse des dialogues
                       oraux spontanés

 16h50                             Pause (10mn)

 17h00                 Authors
                       Titre
            Séances                                            Démos
 17h20      RECITAL    Authors                                   &
            Démos &    Titre                                  Posters
 17h40     Posters     Authors
                       Titre

 18h00                                     Fin journée

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                              Mardi 17 octobre

                         Séance paralèlle (I)      Séance paralèlle (II)

  9h00                 Gabriel ILLOUZ             Mariana DAMOVA, Sabine
                       Méthode pour               BERGLER
                       l'apprentissage parallèle  The Aspectual Type BEGIN
                       en TALN

 9h30                  Emmanuel MORIN             Sandiway FONG,
         Séances TALN  Complémentarité des        Christiane FELLBAUM,
          paralèlles   approches supervisées et   David LEBEAUX
                       non supervisées pour       Semantic Templates and
                       l'acquisition de           Transitivity
                       relations entre termes     Alternations in a
                                                  Computational Lexicon

 10h00                 Thierry POIBEAU            Claude LAI
                       De l'acquisition de        Propagation de traits
                       classes lexicales à        conceptuels au moyen des
                       l'induction                métastructures Prolog
                       semi-automatique de
                       grammaires locales

  10h30                            Pause (20 mn)

  10h50                Marc El-Beze(University of Avignon)
          Conférence
            invitée    Corpus annotation or lexicon design ?
                       Complementary approaches for semantic resource
                       production.

  11h35                            Pause (5 mn)

  11h40     Séances    Authors                             Démos
            RECITAL    Titre                                 &
            Démos &                                       Posters
  12h05    Posters     Authors
                       Titre

  12h30                       Repas

                         Séance paralèlle (I)      Séance paralèlle (II)

  14h00                Philippe BLACHE            Farid CERBAH
                       Le rôle des contraintes    Une étude comparative de
                       dans les théories          méthodes de
                       linguistiques et leur      catégorisation
                       intérêt pour l'analyse     sémantique de termes
                       automatique                techniques
         Séances TALN
 14h30    paralèlles   Thierry ETCHEGOYHEN        Gaël de CHALENDAR
                       Analyse Syntaxique         SVETLAN' ou Comment
                       Monotone par Décisions     Classer les Mots en
                       Différées                  fonction de leur
                                                  Contexte

 15h00                 Sylvain KAHANE             Patrick PAROUBEK
                       Des grammaires pour        MULTITAG, une ressource
                       définir une                linguistique produit du
                       correspondance: un point   paradigme d'évaluation
                       de vue mathématique et
                       épistémologique

  15h30                             Pause(20mn)

                         Tutoriel 1 (partie I)     Tutoriel 2 (partie I)

 15h50                 Piet Mertens, (CCL, KU     H. Bourlard (IDIAP,
           Tutoriels   Leuven)                    Martigny), M. Rajman
          paralèlles   Intonation and syntax:     (EPFL, Lausanne), S.
                       automatic processing for   Moeller (Uni Bochum)
                       speech synthesis           Rapid dialogue model
                                                  prototyping for the
                                                  development of vocal
                                                  information servers

  17h50                             Fin journée

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                               Mercredi 18 octobre

                         Séance paralèlle (I)       Séance paralèlle (II)

  9h00                Chafik ALOULOU, Lamia        Frédéric BECHET, A.
                      HADRICH BELGUITH,            NASR, F. GENET
                      Abdelmajid BEN HAMADOU       Filtrage automatique de
                      Vers un système d'analyse    corpus pour
                      syntaxique robuste pour      l'enrichissement de
                      l'Arabe                      dictionnaires de noms
           Séances                                 propres
            TALN
 9h30    paralèlles   Rodolfo DELMONTE             Olivier KRAIF
                      Parsing with Getaruns        Extraction automatique
                                                   de correspondances
                                                   lexicales: évaluation
                                                   d'indices et
                                                   d'algorithmes

 10h00                Anne VANDEVENTER             Christian JACQUEMIN
                      Diagnostic d'erreurs         Fouille du Web pour la
                      grammaticales par            collecte d'Entités
                      relâchement de contraintes   Nommées
                      dans le cadre de l'EAO

  10h30                                Pause

                         Séance paralèlle (I)       Séance paralèlle (II)

  10h50               Julie BERNDSEN, Michael      BASILI Roberto,
                      WALSH                        Alessandro MOSCHITTI,
                      Generic Techniques for       Maria Teresa PAZIENZA
                      Multilingual Speech          Modeling Terminological
                      Technology Applications      Information in Text
                                                   Classification

 11h20     Séances    Zakaria KURDI                DELISLE Sylvain, Terry
            TALN      Une approche intégrée pour   COPECK, Kim BARKER,
         paralèlles   la normalisation des         Stan SZPAKOWICZ
                      extragrammaticalités de la   Automating the
                      parole spontanée             Measurement of
                                                   Linguistic Features to
                                                   Help Classify Texts as
                                                   Technical

 11h50                Carole TIBERIUS              Olivier FERRET,
                      Phonological feature based   Briggite GRAU
                      multilingual lexical         Une analyse thématique
                      description                  fondée sur un principe
                                                   d'amorçage

  12h20                       Repas

                         Tutoriel 1 (partie I)      Tutoriel 2 (partie I)

 13h50                Piet Mertens, (CCL, KU       H. Bourlard (IDIAP,
          Tutoriels   Leuven)                      Martigny), M. Rajman
         paralèlles   Intonation and syntax:       (EPFL, Lausanne), S.
                      automatic processing for     Moeller (Uni Bochum)
                      speech synthesis             Rapid dialogue model
                                                   prototyping for the
                                                   development of vocal
                                                   information servers

  15h50                          Séance de cloture

  16h10                             Fin journée
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International Program Committee

 Pascal Amsili, TALaNa (Paris)
 Susan Armstrong, ISSCO (Genève)
 Nicholas Asher, University of Texas (Austin)
 Afzal Ballim, EPFL (Lausanne)
 Philippe Blache, LPL (Aix-en-Provence)
 Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA (Grenoble)
 Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO (Genève)
 Didier Bourigault (CNRS, Paris)
 Jean-Pierre Chanod, XEROX Research Center (Grenoble)
 Jean-Cédric Chappelier, EPFL (Lausanne)
 Béatrice Daille, IRIN (Nantes)
 Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne
 Claire Gardent, Universität des Saarlandes (Sarrbrücken)
 Damien Genthial, CLIPS-IMAG (Grenoble)
 Gregory Grefenstette, XEROX Research Center (Grenoble)
 Michael Hess, Uni Zurich
 Pierre Isabelle, XEROX Research Center (Grenoble)
 Daniel Kayser, LIPN (Paris)
 Geert-Jan Kruijff, Univerzita Karlova (Praha)
 Eric Laporte, CERIL, Université de Marne la Vallée
 Paola Merlo, LATL (Genève)
 Piet Mertens, CCL K.U. Leuven
 Jacques Moeschler, LATL (Genève)
 Cécile Paris, CSIRO (Sidney)
 Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA (Nancy)
 Alain Polguère, Université de Montréal
 Martin Rajman, EPFL (Lausanne)
 Owen Rambow, ATT Labs-Research
 Gérard Sabah, LIMSI (Paris)
 Jacques Savoy, Uni Neuchatel
 Jacques Vergne, GREYC (Caen)
 Jean Véronis, LPL (Aix-en-Provence)
 Eric Wehrli, LATL (Genève)
 Francois Yvon, ENST (Paris)
 Brigitte Zellner Keller (UNIL, Lausanne)
 Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM (Paris)


Organization Committee

 Eric Wehrli (Président/President)    LATL Geneva
 Martin Rajman                        EPF Lausanne
 Cristian Ciressan                    EPF Lausanne
 Jean-Cédric Chappelier               EPF Lausanne
 Marie Decrauzat                      EPF Lausanne
 Paola Merlo                          LATL Geneva
 Christopher Laenzlinger              LATL Geneva


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For the organising committee of TALN 2000,
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Aug  1 16:50:20 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:50:20 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.1.AUG.2000.185020.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

____________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Olivier Laurens <laurens at unlost.com>
   Subject: Offre d'emploi

2/ From: Salliou Alain <asa at teamlog.fr>
   Subject: Proposition d'annonce

3/ From:  Anna-Maria Di Sciullo <di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca
   Subject:  Comp Ling/syntactic parsing & NLP/Information Extraction
____________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Olivier Laurens <laurens at unlost.com
   Subject: Offre d'emploi

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

Offre d'emploi : Informaticien / applications linguistiques

Start-up spécialisée dans le développement de logiciels de recherche
d'information, nous recherchons UN OU UNE INFORMATICIEN(NE)
spécialiste du traitement automatique du langage naturel.

Les candidats doivent posséder une formation supérieure en
informatique et connaître les techniques de programmation spécifiques
aux applications de traitement du langage naturel (parsers, automates,
compilateurs, etc).

Langages de programmation : Perl et C/C++.

Une expérience d'implémentation en C/C++ de parser fonctionnant avec
des DCG ou des grammaires d'unification ainsi qu'une bonne
connaissance des formalismes grammaticaux modernes est souhaitable.

Vous travaillerez au sein d'une équipe jeune et dynamique dans un
environnement de travail convivial.

Les candidats, quelle que soit leur nationalité, doivent avoir le
droit de travailler en France. Le poste à pourvoir est en CDI. La
rémunération est fonction des compétences et de l'expérience. Lieu de
travail : Massy (10 mn gare RER B)

Les candidatures sont acceptées par email ou courrier postal (envoyer
CV + disponibilité + références).


COORDONNEES POSTALES :

   SA UNLOST
   emploi
   3 rue Galvani
   91300 Massy

EMAIL : linguist at unlost.com

____________________________________________________________________

2/ From: Salliou Alain <asa at teamlog.fr>
   Subject: Proposition d'annonce


 Formed in 1991, Teamlog is a computer services and engineering company
  specialized in optimizing IT system performance and integrating new
 technologies.
 Set on the development of intelligent communication, TEAMLOG designs
 new generation
  services over many of today's fastest growing sectors as digital
 television,
  the Internet, intelligent telephony, interactive voice servers.
 For more details, click on http://www.teamlog.fr

 TEAMLOG is searching for ENGINEERS in Natural Language Processing
 to design new generation dialogue services in french language.
 Applicants should have several years of experience in
  computational linguistics,
  knowledge representation,
  dialogue modeling and dialogue strategies,
  prolog / java
 The practice of french language is mandatory.
 Date : as soon as possible
 Location : Lannion (FRANCE - Brittany)
 Duration : no limit

 Please send a detail CV to
  Marie-Paule COLLIN
  TEAMLOG
  10, square du Chene Germain
  35510 CESSON-SEVIGNE - FRANCE
 email : mpc at teamlog.fr


____________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Anna-Maria Di Sciullo <di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca
   Subject:  Comp Ling/syntactic parsing & NLP/Information Extraction

 Contact person: Anna Maria Di Sciullo
 e-mail: di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca
 University: Universite du Quebec a Montreal
 Departement: Linguistics
 Province: Quebec
 Country: Canada
 Job speciality: computational linguistics
     syntactic parsing
 Rank: postdoc
 Final date: September 1rst
 for application

 Address for application:
 Universite du Quebec a Montreal
 Departement de linguistique
 C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre Ville
 Montreal, Pc, H3C 3 P8
 Canada


 2e job advertisement
 Contact person: Anna Maria Di Sciullo
 e-mail: di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca
 University: Universite du Quebec a Montreal
 Departement: Linguistics
 Province: Quebec
 Country: Canada
 Job speciality:  Information Extraction
      Natural Language Processing based
      Information Extraction
 Rank: postdoc
 Final date: September 1rst
 for application

 Address for application:
 Universite du Quebec a Montreal
 Departement de linguistique
 C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre Ville
 Montreal, Pc, H3C 3 P8
 Canada


Postdoc Position 1


Qualified individuals are invited to apply for a postdoctoral
fellowship in Computational Linguistics.  The fellowship is supported
by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and
provides an annual stipend of $28,000 per year, renewable. A qualified
candidate should hold a Ph.D degree in an area of Computational
Linguistics and have experience in syntactic parsing, preferably
principle-based parsing. Technical experiences with C/C++ and
Unix/Linux on Sun/Window platforms are preferable. The successful
candidate will join the UQAM research team in collaboration with
Princeton and MIT researchers to develop a model of parsing based on
the recovery of natural language asymmetries. See the UQAM homepage
for a summery of the project: http://www.asymmetryproject.uqam.ca


The fellowship is expected to start between now and September
1. Consideration of the applications will begin immediately until the
position is filled. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a cover
letter, and two letters of recommendations to Anna Maria Di Sciullo,
Departement de Linguistique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Case
Postale 8888, Succursale Centre Ville, Montreal, PC. H3C 3P8, Canada.,
or via e-mail to di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca.


Postdoc Position 2


Qualified individuals are invites to apply for a postdoctoral
fellowship in Natural Language Processing and Information
Extraction/Information Retrieval. The fellowship is supported by the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and provides
an annual stipend of $28,000 per year, renewable. A qualified
candidate should hold a Ph.D degree in an area of Natural Language
Processing based Information Extraction/Information Retrieval
Technical experiences with indexing, morphological and syntactic
tagging are preferable. The successful candidate will join the UQAM
research team in collaboration with Princeton and MIT researchers to
develop a model of parsing based on the recovery of natural language
asymmetries. See the UQAM homepage for a summery of the project:
http://www.asymmetryproject.uqam.ca


The fellowship is expected to start between now and September
1. Consideration of the applications will begin immediately until the
position is filled. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a cover
letter, and two letters of recommendations to Anna Maria Di Sciullo,
Departement de Linguistique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Case
Postale 8888, Succursale Centre Ville, Montreal, PC. H3C 3P8, Canada.,
or via e-mail to di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca.




Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Director
Asymmetry Project


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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:28:12 +0200
Subject: Conf: DRH2000
Message-ID: <TUE.8.AUG.2000.112812.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Roberta Catizone <roberta at dcs.shef.ac.uk>


This Message is a Call for Registration for DRH2000

We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for delegates to

DRH2000: DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES,

University of Sheffield,
10-13 September 2000

The on-line registration form can be found at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/register.htm

The DRH conferences have established themselves firmly in the UK and
international calendar as a forum that brings together scholars,
librarians,archivists, curators, information scientists and computing
professionalsin a unique and positive way, to share ideas and
information about the creation, exploitation, management and
preservation of digital resources in the arts and humanities.

The DRH 2000 conference will take place at the University of Sheffield,
10-13 September 2000 in Stephenson Hall.  Themes include: the creation
of digital resources; their delivery, use and integration; the impact
of digital resources on humanities research and education.

Cost:

*Full Registration £170 (includes conference dinner)
*Local Registration £110 for University of Sheffield Staff only
*Student Registration £60 (includes conference dinner)
*Day Delegate £60 (not including conference dinner)


Accommodation:

Accommodation is provided at Stephenson Hall at the following rates:
*En-Suite £33.40
*Standard £27.74
Details of local hotels are available on request.

Full details about the conference, provisional timetable etc. may be
found at:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/

Please address any queries to drh2000 at sheffield.ac.uk

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Aug  8 09:28:15 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:28:15 +0200
Subject: Soft: Release of Link Grammar Version 4.0
Message-ID: <TUE.8.AUG.2000.112815.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: sleator+ at bobo.link.cs.cmu.edu


We would like to announce the release of version 4.0 of the Link Grammar
parser:

                       http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu

The new version has several significant new features.  Perhaps the most
important is a system for deriving a constituent representation of a
sentence from a linkage:

  (S (NP the quick brown fox)
     (VP jumped
         (PP over
             (NP the lazy dog))))

The new release also includes a simple toy system for translating German
to English (as well as a simple dictionary for parsing German).

Please visit the web site for a demo of the parser and the translation
system, the complete source code for the system, and extensive
documentation,

                           John Lafferty
                           Daniel Sleator
                           David Temperley


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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:27:45 +0200
Subject: Appel: ROCMELIA'2000
Message-ID: <TUE.8.AUG.2000.112745.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: E S Atwell <eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk>



The Fourth International Conference
on Multimedia Language Education,
ROCMELIA'2000

Call for Papers and Courseware
on Multimedia Language Education

Hosts:
ROCMELIA
Yuan Ze University (Taoyuan County, Taiwan)

Conference Theme:
Happy Internet Language Education

Conference Dates and Location:
October 27-29 (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), 2000
Yuan Ze University (Taoyuan County, Taiwan)

Important Dates:
Paper Submission: August 15, 2000
Acceptance Notification: August 31, 2000
Camera-ready Copy Due: September 31, 2000
Early Registration Deadline: October 15, 2000

Conference Chairs: President Kuo-Ming Wang of Yuan Ze University, Ph.D.
President Yuangshan Chuang of ROCMELIA, Ph.D.

     ROCMELIA'2000 is the fourth one of the international
multimedia language education conference series which
is organized by ROCMELIA. The conference serves to foster
and encourage the creation and application of computer
assisted multimedia technology in language education.
The First International Conference on Multimedia Language
Education, ROCMELIA'97, was held at the Chinese Navy Academy
in Kaohsiung City in 1997, which enjoyed participation of
more than 400 attendees. The Second International
Conference on Multimedia Language Education, ROCMELIA'98,
was held at the Chinese Military Academy in Kaohsiung
County in 1998, which also enjoyed participation from
different areas of expertise ranging from computer
technology to language education. And the contents
consisted of seven languages: English, Spanish, German,
French, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Taiwanese.
Like the previous three international conferences, this conference
welcomes good papers and courseware written
for any languages. In order to make more people understand

your efforts, please write and present your paper
in English or Chinese.


Conference Formats:
1. Keynote Speeches
2. Paper Presentation
3. Hypermedia Workshops
4. Courseware Presentation



Finished or near-finished papers and courseware
which address well-founded theories and creative practices
are especially encouraged. There are 30 suggested topics
of interest related to language education and listed
below for your reference:

=============================================
1. Artificial Intelligence and Language Instruction
2. Authoring Systems
3. Collaborative Learning
4. Communicative Instruction
5. Corpus Linguistics and Language Instruction
6. Courseware Design
7. Courseware Evaluation Models
8. Culture and Language Instruction
9. Educational Simulation and Gaming
10. Expert Systems and Language Instruction
11. Global Education
12. Hypermedia and Language Instruction
13. Intelligent Language Instruction
14. Intelligent Tutoring Systems
15. Interactive Language Instruction
16. Language Instruction Modeling
17. Language Instruction Strategies
18. Learning Motivation and Language Instruction
19. Linguistics and Hypermedia
20. Linguistics and Multimedia
21. Linguistics and Language Instruction
22. Literature and Hypermedia
23. Literature and Multimedia
24. Literature and Language Instruction
25. Multimedia and Distance Language Instruction
26. Multimedia Language Instruction
27. Networked Resources and Language Instruction
28. Society and Language Instruction
29. Virtual Reality and Language Instruction
30. World Wide Web and Language Instruction

=============================================
*** Correspondence Information ***
For further information, please contact us at ROCMELIA's:
Email: rocmelia at acer.net
WWW: www.rocmelia.com.tw

***ROCMELIA stands for "The Multimedia English Learning
and Instruction Association in the Republic of China,"
whose members consist mostly of professors, teachers,
and students.

***Please pass this notification to your colleagues and friends.
=============================================
*** Paper Presentation Proposal Form ***

Please complete this form and have it emailed
together with your paper including an abstract at:

Email: rocmelia at acer.net

Title of presentation:

Name of Principal Presenter:

Affiliation and Position:

Equipment needed for presentation:

Language used in presentation:

Fax Number:

Email Address:

Mailing Address:
Telephone Number: _______________ (Office) ______________ (Home)
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Aug  8 09:26:49 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:26:49 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 2 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.8.AUG.2000.112649.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Richard Willis (richard.willis at reuters.com)"
   Subject: Natural Language Engineering Positions at Reuters

2/ From:  Kenan Rappuchi <eng-jobs at xigo.com>
   Subject:  Information Extraction: Xigo, Inc., California USA
________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Richard Willis (richard.willis at reuters.com)"
   Subject: Natural Language Engineering Positions at Reuters


Natural Language Engineering Positions at Reuters
-------------------------------------------------

Reuters seeks energetic, and highly motivated Language Engineers to join the
Research and Standards Group within Reuters Chief Technology Office.

The major function of the Research and Standards Group is the investigation
and
evaluation of new technologies and software products, identifying those
which
can have a major impact on the business, and assisting in the transfer of
these
technologies into the business units.

These positions would suit candidates with a NLP background who are
interested
in diversifying or alternatively, candidates who have an IR background but
who
have interest and knowledge in NLP techniques.
We seek candidates with good fundamental knowledge who wish to broaden their
interests and see their expertise applied in a practical business context.

Candidates with a PhD are preferred although those with a Masters degree in
a
relevant subject would be considered.

Areas of interest include;

* Topic categorisation
* Text summarisation
* Machine translation
* Information retrieval, including cross language information retrieval, and
filtering
* Information extraction
* Statistical language understanding
* Multi-media searching and access
* Question answering
* Speech recognition
* Document structuring using XML

You must be a good team-worker, a good communicator, self-motivated and
eager
to learn. Good programming experience and ability, flexibility and a
willingness to tackle a wide range of problems are essential.

Successful candidates will join a close knit group of highly motivated and
qualified individuals and will be expected to establish themselves as
experts
in the Language Engineering area within Reuters.

The positions are based in London.

Letters of application together with a CV should be sent to,
Bella Hawkes, Reuters Ltd., 85 Fleet Street, London EC4 4AJ, UK
Or preferably by e-mail to bella.hawkes at reuters.com

Richard A Willis
Head of Research and Standards,
Chief Technology Office,
Reuters Ltd.,

richard.willis at Reuters.com

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2/ From:  Kenan Rappuchi <eng-jobs at xigo.com>
   Subject:  Information Extraction: Xigo, Inc., California USA


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: Information Extraction
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Xigo, Inc.
Department:
State or Province: California
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: August 31, 2000
Contact: Kenan Rappuchi eng-jobs at xigo.com

Address for Applications:
249 Shipley St. #4
San Francisco
CA 94107
USA

Information Extraction at Xigo, San Francisco, CA

Xigo, a pre-IPO startup specializing in information for online
investors, is looking for someone with a background in information
extraction (IE), computational linguistics, or natural language
processing to join our text analysis team.  The position would be a
combination of applied research and software engineering, involving
anything from evaluating possible IE techniques to implementing
components of our system.  The ideal candidate will be equally
comfortable browsing the research literature, writing the code, and
designing the experiment to evaluate it.  An M.S. or equivalent is
required for this job.

Xigo is a rapidly growing, well-funded company that offers a
competitive salary, terrific benefits, and an excellent stock option
plan.  For more information about Xigo, visit our web site at
http://www.xigo.com

If you wish to apply for this position, please send your resume to
eng-jobs at xigo.com and include the phrase "linguist" in the subject line.



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Aug  9 14:01:50 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:01:50 +0200
Subject: Appel: CICLing-2001
Message-ID: <WED.9.AUG.2000.160150.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Alexander Gelbukh" <gelbukh at cic.ipn.mx>



                CICLing-2001

        Second International Conference
        on Intelligent Text Processing
        and Computational Linguistics

        February 18 to 24, 2001
        Mexico City, Mexico

SUMMARY

        PUBLICATION: Springer LNAI

        SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1,
                posters: November 5

        INVITED SPEAKERS: Graeme Hirst, Ruslan Mitkov;
                to confirm: Ivan Sag, Igor Mel'cuk

        EXCURSIONS: Ancient pyramids, Monarch butterflies,
                great cave and colonial city, and more

        URL: http://www.cicling.org/2001

Areas of interest: Nearly all topics of computational
        lingustics.

Committee: 40 world-recognized specialists
        from 17 countries

You can see many photos of the excursions made by the
participants of the past CICLing-2000 at
http://www.cicling.org/2000/Photos/Frames.htm.


=====================================
Prof. Dr. Alexander Gelbukh (Alexandre Guelboukh Kahn),
Professor and researcher, head of NLP Lab.
Lab. de Lenguaje Natural, Centro de Investigacion en Computacion,
IPN, Av. Juan Dios Batiz s/n esq. Mendizabal, UP Adolfo L. Mateos,
Col. Zacatenco CP 07738, Mexico DF., Mexico
Office: (+52) 5729-6000 ext. 56544, 56518, 56602.
Fax and Voice (answering machine): +1 (520) 441-1817 (personal).
Shared fax: (+52) 5586-2936. Home: (+52) 5597-0709.
gelbukh at earthling.net, gelbukh at cic.ipn.mx, www.cic.ipn.mx/~gelbukh
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Aug  9 14:01:47 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:01:47 +0200
Subject: Appel: IWCS-4
Message-ID: <WED.9.AUG.2000.160147.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Harry Bunt <Harry.Bunt at kub.nl>



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                    Fourth International Workshop on

                        COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS

                             (IWCS-4)

             January 10-12, 2001, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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

                         Sponsored by SIGSEM,
       the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics

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

                FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Unit at
Tilburg University will host the Fourth International Workshop on
Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), that will take place from 10-12
January 2001. The aim of the workshop is to bring together
researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of
meaning in natural language or in language-based multimedia
objects.


                          TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest for the workshop will be computational aspects
of formal semantic theories as well as theoretical issues in
building natural language understanding systems, including systens
where language is used in a multimedia setting. Papers are invited
in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following
specific topics:

      * working with underspecified representations of meaning
      * modelling and using context for interpretation
      * the relations between semantics and pragmatics
      * dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue
      * interpretation and games
      * computational lexical semantics
      * interpretation and inference
      * meaning in multimedia objects
      * interpretation and optimality
      * speech acts and interpretation
      * incrementality and monotonicity in interpretation
      * knowledge representation and reasoning in meaning computation


                       SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally 5000
words by September 15, 2000, by email in Postscript form. All
submitted papers that are received in time will be refereed by the
programme committee and may be accepted for full presentation at
the workshop and publication in the proceedings, or for a
short/poster presentation and publication of a 2-page abstract. We
also aim at publishing a selection of accepted papers in book
form. Accepted papers should be submitted in final form in LaTeX;
guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts will soon be
available at the IWCS web pages:

     http://pi0239.kub.nl/~sigsem/iwcs4.html

For initial submission email a Postscript version of the paper to:
Computational.Semantics at kub.nl by September 15, 2000.


                        PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

                 David Beaver         Martha Palmer
                 Patrick Blackburn    Manfred Pinkal
                 Harry Bunt (chair)   Steve Pulman
                 Robin Cooper         James Pustejovsky
                 Jan van Eijck        Allan Ramsay
                 Giacomo Ferrari      Patrick Saint Dizier
                 Jerry Hobbs          Mark Steedman
                 Daniel Kayser        Enric Vallduvi
                 Paul Mc Kevitt       Wlodek Zadrozny
                 Reinhard Muskens     Henk Zeevat
                 John Nerbonne


                         ORGANISING COMMITTEE

         Harry Bunt        Reinhard Muskens       Huub Prust
             Ielka van der Sluis        Elias Thijsse


                           IMPORTANT DATES

         15 September  2000 Submission of papers
         15 October    2000 Notification of acceptance
         15 November   2000 Final papers due
         10-12 January 2001 Workshop


                         FURTHER INFORMATION

         Conference Secretariat:
         Anne Adriaensen
         Department of Linguistics
         Tilburg University
         PO Box 90153,
         5000 LE Tilburg
         The Netherlands

         Email: Computational.Semantics at kub.nl
         Phone: +31-13 466 30 60
         Fax:   +31-13 466 31 10

         WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm

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 Harry C. Bunt
 Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
 Tilburg University
 P.O. Box 90153
 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
 Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
                     2568 (Dean's office)
                     2653 (office, room B 310)
 Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
 Harry.Bunt at kub.nl
 WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm
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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:01:57 +0200
Subject: Appel: LICS 2001 Call for Affiliated Workshops
Message-ID: <WED.9.AUG.2000.160157.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Martin Grohe <lics at zermelo.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>



                    CALL FOR AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS
                  Sixteenth Annual IEEE Symposium on
                LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2001)
               Boston, Massachusetts, June 16-19, 2001
             http://logik.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/lics

LICS 2001, the 16th Annual IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER
SCIENCE, will be held in Boston, MA, from Saturday June 16 through
Tuesday June 19.  As in past years, facilities are available for
pre-conference and post-conference workshops related to topics
generally covered by LICS, or of special interest to LICS attendees.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for
workshops on topics related to logic in computer science, broadly
understood. Past workshops have emphasized emerging topics of
particular interest. Proposals that promise to bring new topics into
LICS, of either practical or theoretical importance, or provide a
forum for more detailed discussion of central topics of continuing
importance will be welcomed.

Proposals should consist of two parts.  First, a short scientific
justification of the proposed topic, its significance, and the
particular benefits of a workshop.  A second, organizational, part
should include:

       * contact information for organizers;
       * proposed format and agenda;
       * procedures for selecting papers and participants;
       * duration and preferred period (pre- or post-LICS).

Additional organizational plans may include:

       * potential invited speakers;
       * demo sessions;
       * plans for proceedings or other publications.

Proposals are due

                           October 1, 2000.

Organizers will be notified by October 31, 2000.

Proposals may be submitted electronically to

Leonid Libkin, e-mail: libkin at research.bell-labs.com,

as postscript or ascii email with "LICS WORKSHOP SUBMISSION" in the
subject header.

Workshop selection committee:
    Martin Grohe (UIC),
    Joseph Halpern (Cornell),
    Leonid Libkin, Chair (Bell Labs),
    Harry Mairson (Boston U)






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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 11 12:44:39 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:44:39 +0200
Subject: Appel: CLIN'2000
Message-ID: <FRI.11.AUG.2000.144439.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Jorn Veenstra <jorn.veenstra at kub.nl>


Call for Papers

                              CLIN 2000
                        Eleventh CLIN Meeting
            (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands)
 Held in conjunction with BNAIC 2000, The Belgian-Dutch AI Conference
                     (http://ilk.kub.nl/bnaic00/)

                       Friday, 3 November, 2000
                      Computational Linguistics
                          Tilburg University

We are happy to announce the eleventh CLIN meeting, which will be
hosted by department of Computational Linguistics at Tilburg
University. The languages of the conference will be Dutch and English.

Keynote Lecture:

Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
"Very Large Lexicons"

Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects of
computational linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, machine translation, computational
lexicography, formal languages, grammar formalisms, information
retrieval, information extraction, text mining, knowledge
representation, corpus-oriented methods, etc.).

Authors should submit an abstract in English or Dutch (preferably by
e-mail, in flat ASCII). The abstract should contain:

- a title
- your name, address, affiliation, and e-mail address
- a short outline of the paper (10-20 lines)

You can send your abstract to:   clin2000 at kub.nl

or, if email is not possible, to:

CLIN
2000

Computational Linguistics
Tilburg University
PO box 90153
5000 LE  Tilburg
The Netherlands

Deadline for submission:     1 September 2000.
Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2000.

The local organisation committee of this year's meeting consists of
Walter Daelemans, Khalil Sima'an, Jorn Veenstra, and Jakub Zavrel.

A volume with proceedings of the tenth CLIN meeting (held 10 December
1999, in Utrecht) will be available at this year's meeting. We intend
to produce a volume of the proceedings of CLIN 2000 before CLIN
2001. Papers for these proceedings will have to be written in English;
they will be reviewed by a committee to be appointed in due time.

This and future information about CLIN 2000 will be made available via
the CLIN home page:
http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/clin/clin.html
or the CLIN2000 home page:
http://ilk.kub.nl/clin2000






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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:43:29 +0200
Subject: Appel: IEEE Data Mining 2001
Message-ID: <FRI.11.AUG.2000.144329.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  Ning Zhong <zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp>


[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

- --------------------------------------------------------------------
   ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
               Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
                   Silicon Valley, California, USA
                    November 29 - December 2, 2001
       Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html

                            Call for Papers
                            ***************

The  2001  IEEE International Conference  on  Data  Mining  (ICDM '01)
provides a forum  for  the sharing  of  original research results  and
practical development experiences  among  researchers  and application
developers  from different data mining related areas  such as  machine
learning,   automated   scientific   discovery,  statistics,   pattern
recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data
warehousing,  data visualization,  and  knowledge-based  systems.  The
conference   seeks  solutions  to  challenging   problems  facing  the
development of data mining systems,  and  shapes  future directions of
research   by  promoting  high  quality,  novel  and  daring  research
findings.  As  an important part  of  the  conference,  the  workshops
program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives.

Topics of Interest
==================

Topics  related to  the design,  analysis  and  implementation of data
mining  theory,  systems  and  applications  are  of  interest.  These
include, but are not limited to the following areas:

  - Foundations and principles of data mining
  - Data mining algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as
    classification, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and
    association analysis), and in new areas
  - Data and knowledge representation for data mining
  - Modeling of structured, textual, temporal, spatial, multimedia and
    Web data to support data mining
  - Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining
  - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature
    transformation
  - Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining
  - Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
    evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty
    management for data mining
  - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
  - Man-machine interaction in data mining and visual data mining
  - Artificial intelligence contributions to data mining
  - High performance and distributed data mining
  - Machine learning, pattern recognition and automated scientific
    discovery
  - Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining
    results
  - Process centric data mining and models of data mining process
  - Security and social impact of data mining
  - Emerging data mining applications, such as electronic commerce,
    Web mining and intelligent learning database systems

Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards
==================================================

High quality papers  in all data mining areas  are  solicited.  Papers
exploring  new  directions  will  receive  a  careful  and  supportive
review.  All submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of  6,000
words (approximately 20 A4 pages),  and  will be reviewed on the basis
of   technical  quality,  relevance  to  data   mining,   originality,
significance,  and clarity.  Accepted papers  will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.  A selected
number of ICDM '01 accepted papers  will be  expanded and revised  for
possible  inclusion  in  the Knowledge and Information Systems journal
(http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/) by Springer-Verlag.

ICDM Best Paper Awards  will be conferred  on the authors  of the best
papers at the conference.

Important Dates
===============

     June 15, 2001                    Paper submissions.
     July 31, 2001                    Acceptance notices.
     August 31, 2001                  Final camera-readies.
     Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2001             Conference.

Detailed instructions  for paper submissions  will be provided  on the
conference home page at http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html.

Conference Chair:
=================

      Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA
         (xindong at computer.org)

Program Committee Chairs:
=========================

      Nick Cercone,  University of Waterloo, Canada
         (ncercone at math.uwaterloo.ca)
      T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
         (tylin at mathcs.sjsu.edu)

ICDM '01 Workshops Chair:
=========================

      Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
         (johannes at cs.cornell.edu)

ICDM '01 Tutorials Chair:
=========================

      Chris Clifton, MITRE, USA
         (clifton at mitre.org)

ICDM '01 Panels Chair:
======================

      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
         (rao at cs.mu.oz.au)

ICDM '01 Publicity Chair:
=========================

      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
         (zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp)

ICDM '01 Local Arrangements Chair:
==================================

      Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Blue Martini Software Inc., USA
         (tonyhu at bluemartini.com)

ICDM Steering Committee
=======================

      Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK
      Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada
      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
      Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany
      Xindong Wu, Chair (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
      Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
      Jan M. Zytkow, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Further Information
===================

      Dr. Xindong Wu
      Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
      Colorado School of Mines,
      1500 Illinois Street,
      Golden, Colorado 80401,
      USA.

      Telephone: +1-303-273-3874
      Facsimile: +1-303-273-3875
      E-mail: xindong at computer.org


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 11 12:43:10 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:43:10 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers
Message-ID: <FRI.11.AUG.2000.144310.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________

1/ From: BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: Offre de these en traduction - France Telecom R&D



 L'unité de Recherche et Développement "Langues Naturelles" de
 France Télécom R&D (anciennement CNET) à Lannion recherche
 un(e) candidat pour une thèse de doctorat en informatique ou en
linguistique.

 - Sujet de thèse : traduction automatique.
 - Rémunération pour 3 ans.
 - Début de thèse : octobre 2000.
 - Lieu : France Télécom R&D à Lannion.

 - Sujet de thèse :
 Un système d'analyse linguistique robuste et multilingue a été développé.
 Il intègre
 des modules d'analyse lexicale, morphologique et syntaxique. D'autre part,
 des
 travaux pour la mise en place d'un modèle multilingue de sémantique
 lexicale sont
 en cours et sont orientés vers des problématiques de traduction
 automatique.
 Le sujet de thèse envisagé s'inscrit dans le cadre de l'activité
 "traduction automatique".
 Le travail consiste à mettre en place un mécanisme additionnel au système
 d'analyse
 linguistique pour effectuer une traduction automatique de bonne qualité.
 Les perspectives
 multilingues du système de traduction entraînent un choix stratégique. La
 technique de
 traduction envisagée consiste à minimiser le transfert lexical et
 syntaxique entre les
 langues. Il s'agira alors d'augmenter (ou d'abstraire) le résultat de
 l'analyse linguistique sur
 des aspects sémantiques indépendants des structures syntaxiques. Les
 travaux en sémantique
 lexicale et, notamment les travaux de Igor Mel'cuk (Théorie Sens-Texte)
 seront des références
 privilégiées pour ce travail. Dans un premier temps, le système de
 traduction sera expérimenté
 sur le couple de langues français-anglais.

 Le candidat, informaticien ou linguiste, devra avoir des connaissances en
 traitement automatique
 du langage naturel. Des connaissances, à la fois en en linguistique et en
 informatique (langage C)
 sont requises pour ce travail de thèse.

Merci d'envoyer un CV détaillé à :
 Malek Boualem
 France Télécom R&D (CNET) - DMI/GRI
 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion
 Tel: 02.96.05.29.83
 Fax: 02.96.05.32.86
 Email: malek.boualem at francetelecom.fr

_______________________________________________________________________


2/ From:  Carl Rubino <rubino at humanitas.ucsb.edu>
   Subject:  Linguistic Software Testing

Positions in Linguistic Software Testing

AnswerLogic, a Washington D.C. based software company that delivers online
question-answering solutions for businesses is currently seeking
experienced linguists with a combination of the listed skill sets:

B.A. or higher in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics.
Good knowledge of English syntax and semantics (lexicographic experience
is a plus).
Some knowledge of computer languages such as C++, Visual Basic, Java, or
Perl.
Experience in software testing and/or development is a plus.

Qualified candidates please send resume and cover letter to:
crubino at answerlogic.com. Please note that applications without a detailed
cover letter will not be considered. AnswerLogic offers competitive
salaries, stock options, flexible hours and full benefits, as well as a
stimulating environment with opportunity for advancement.


=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\
Dr. Carl Rubino
crubino at answerlogic.com / rubino at humanitas.ucsb.edu
http://vowel.ucsb.edu/~carl

_______________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Kamil Golebiowski <kamil at interprice.com>
   Subject:  Corpora: JOB OFFERS @ Interprice Technologies  Berlin, Germany



e-mail: jobs at interprice.com <mailto:jobs at interprice.com>

Interprice has many opportunities for talented, creative, and energetic
people looking for a real challenge. You'll have the chance to help build a
language and multi modal user interfaces from the ground up, work with
highly motivated  people in a high performance team, and contribute to the
growth of the most dynamic industry in the world today.

Interprice offers competitive compensation plans and benefit programs, an
opportunity to participate in the equity of the company, and has a clear
focus on the employees. We are an equal  opportunities employer with a
clear bias "against bias" and we recruit world wide. In order to attract
key global players we also offer "e-commute" positions!


1. Speech recognition
---------------------
 You will be developing a speech front end for our NL user interface.

Your profile

        * a degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or a related
area
        * ideally a PhD in speech recognition
        * very good knowledge of statistics
        * expertise in speech processing algorithms, ideally 3+ years
        of professional experience in this area
        * familiarity with the commercial speech recognition products
        * very good programming skills (C/C++)


2. Knowledge representation
---------------------------
Your task will be to design, develop and maintain an ontology of products,
adapt it to new domains and feed it with knowledge available on the
Internet.
You will closely collaborate with the NLP team on the one side and database
specialists on the other.

You have a degree in AI, computer science or a related area.

Your skills include:

        * profound expertise in knowledge representation
        * familiarity with different kinds of knowledge representation
        languages; ability to assess their value for our project
        * experience in the automatic or semi-automatic acquisition of
domain
        knowledge
        * programming skills in Java would be an asset


3. Computational semantics/information extraction
-------------------------------------------------

You will work on the robust representation of the semantics of user queries
in
arbitrary domains. You will closely co-operate with a knowledge
representation
expert responsible for domain modelling.

Your profile:

        * a degree in computational linguistics or computer science,
        * familiarity with the main meaning representation methods
        (templates, logical representation languages, semantic networks)
        * experience in information extraction, anaphora resolution and
related
        areas,
        * good programming skills in Java or C++.


4. Statistical NLP, machine learning, corpus-based methods
----------------------------------------------------------

Your possible work areas with our company include:
        + statistical parsing
        + statistical models for the construction of meaning
representations
        + automatic acquisition of domain knowledge/ontology
        + text mining/product name recognition

Your profile:
        * expertise in at least one of the above areas
        * good knowledge of statistical and symbolic machine learning
methods
        * degree in computer science/applied mathematics/computational
        linguistics or a related area
        * good programming skills (C/C++)


5. Corpora, annotation
----------------------------

Your task will be the acquisition, construction and preparation of training
corpora for statistical NLP algorithms. You will work for and report to a
statistical NLP expert responsible for the implementation of
training/processing algorithms.

Your profile:

        * a degree in (computational) linguistics
        * experience in the annotation/preparation/processing of corpora
        (PoS corpora, treebanks etc.)
        * familiarity with (main stream) statistical NLP methods
        (e.g., POS tagging)
        * strong programming skills in Perl or script languages
        * good command of German and English
        * programming skills in C/C++/Java would be an asset
mit freundlichen Gruessen

Kamil Golebiowski - kamil.golebiowski at interprice.com

Interprice Technologies
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
10553 Berlin, Germany
fon      +49-(0)30-345 077 -0
fax      +49-(0)30-345 077 -77
www.interprice.com

Map:
<http://www.stadtplandienst.de/query;ORT=b;LL=13.324562x52.527146;GR=2>

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 25 15:02:48 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:02:48 +0200
Subject: Appel: I Meeting on Language Engineering
Message-ID: <FRI.25.AUG.2000.170248.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Teresa L. Soto" <teresa at fing.us.es>


-------------------------------------------------
I MEETING ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING

6-10 November 2000
Universidad de Sevilla and Universidad de Granada
Sevilla
SPAIN

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

The I MEETING ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING will take place at the University of
Seville from Monday 6th to Friday 10th November 2000.

Oral presentations, posters and demos are invited on any topic concerned
with the following related areas:

- Phonetics and Phonology
- Discourse Analysis
- Language Modelling
- Signal Processing and Analysis
- Speech Recognition
- Speech Processing
- Speaker Recognition
- Speech Synthesis
- Language Generation
- Dialogue Systems
- Signal Coding
- Resources, Assessment and Evaluation
- Applications
- Education
- Development
- Machine Translation
- Parsing
- Information Retrieval
- Others

An abstract of a maximum of 300 words must reach us by 1st October 2000.


INFORMATION:

UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE
Teresa L. Soto
Dpto. Lengua Inglesa
Palos de la Frontera, s/n
41004 Sevilla
SPAIN
Tel: +34 954 551 588
Fax: +34 954 551 516
email: teresa at fing.us.es

UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA
Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado
Dpto. Electronica y Tecnologia de Computadores
Avda. Severo Ochoa, s/n
18071 Granada
SPAIN
Tel: +34 958 243 271
Fax: +34 958 243 230
email: rlopezc at ugr.es

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


I JORNADAS EN TECNOLOGIA DEL HABLA

Universidad de Sevilla y Universidad de Granada
6-10 noviembre 2000
Sevilla
ESPANA

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

Con el fin de impulsar el intercambio tecnologico y favorecer el
encuentro entre los investigadores y empresas de nuestro pais dedicados a
la tecnologia del habla, la Universidad de Sevilla y la Universidad de
Granada organizan las I JORNADAS EN TECNOLOGIA DEL HABLA.

Se invita a los interesados a presentar una comunicacion oral, poster o
demostracion de sistema antes del 1 de octubre de 2000. En cualquier caso
deberan presentar un resumen de la actividad a desarrollar que no exceda
300 palabras.

Los trabajos presentados podran adscribirse a cualquiera de las siguientes
areas tematicas:

- Fonetica y fonologia
- Analisis del discurso
- Modelado del lenguaje
- Procesamiento y analisis de senal
- Reconocimiento del habla
- Procesamiento del habla
- Reconocimiento de locutores
- Sintesis del habla
- Generacion del lenguaje
- Sistemas de dialogo
- Codificacion de la senal
- Recursos y evaluacion
- Aplicaciones
- Herramientas didacticas y de desarrollo
- Traduccion automatica
- Tecnicas de parsing
- Recuperacion de informacion
- Otros


INFORMACION:

UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
Teresa L. Soto
Dpto. Lengua Inglesa
Palos de la Frontera, s/n
41004 Sevilla
SPAIN
Tel: +34 954 551 588
Fax: +34 954 551 516
email: teresa at fing.us.es

UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado
Dpto. Electronica y Tecnologia de Computadores
Avda. Severo Ochoa, s/n
18071 Granada
SPAIN
Tel: +34 958 243 271
Fax: +34 958 243 230
email: rlopezc at ugr.es

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 25 15:01:22 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:01:22 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 6 Offers
Message-ID: <FRI.25.AUG.2000.170122.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Pierre Isabelle <Pierre.Isabelle at xrce.xerox.com>
   Subject: Open position at Xerox Research (Grenoble)

2/ From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
   Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany

3/ From : "Tony Rose" <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
   Subject: Open Position at Canon Research Centre Europe

4/ From:  Pascale de Brondeau <emplois at delphesintl.com>
   Subject:  Delphes Technologies International, Montréal, Québec Canada

5/ From:  Ann Lamson <techmav at answerlogic.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics: AnswerLogic, Washington, DC USA

6/ From:  Jason Patino <jpatino at corp.netzero.net>
   Subject:  Computational Linguist at Net Zero, California USA
___________________________________________________________________________


1/ From: Pierre Isabelle <Pierre.Isabelle at xrce.xerox.com>
   Subject: Open position at Xerox Research (Grenoble)


    Position available at Xerox Research Center Europe (Grenoble)
       Senior Researcher - MultiLingual Theory and Technologies

Ref: MLTT/000108

Position open from August 2000

XRCE Grenoble Laboratory is a world leader in natural language and
distributed systems/knowledge management research. It is part of an
expanding research centre with a second lab in Cambridge and strong
links to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in California.

The MultiLingual Theory and Technology Group has an open position for
a senior researcher in machine learning and statistical modelling for
the purpose of natural language processing. In collaboration with a
small group of other researchers, the candidate will elaborate
state-of-the-art modelling techniques for the syntax and semantics of
natural languages, with a view to applying such techniques to the
solution of problems such as knowledge extraction or the
reconstruction of linguistic input against a noisy background (as for
example in optical character reading).

Research Focus & Qualifications:
Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree or equivalent in a relevant
discipline e.g. computer science, linguistics, mathematics etc. and a
proven track record in research (publications and/or
patents). Hands-on experience with applying a wide range of NLP
techniques to NLP and/or speech processing is also
desirable. Proficiency in English is required and good communication
skills are a must.

XRCE offers competitive salaries, excellent computing facilities and
the opportunity to work in a leading industry-geared research
institute. This position is in Grenoble, France. Please refer to the
XRCE webpages for more information on our research centre
(http://www.xrce.xerox.com/).

The position is permanent and is open now.

Candidates should include the reference MLTT/000108 and address their
CV and letter of application to:

             Mr Christophe Mitenne
             Human Resources
             Xerox Research Centre Europe
             6, chemin de Maupertuis
             38240 MEYLAN, France

___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
   Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany


University or Organization: Interprice Technologies
State or Province: Berlin, Germany
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski jobs at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11, 10553 Berlin, Germany
Berln
Berlin 10553
Germany

1. Speech recognition
- -------------------
 You will be developing a speech front end for our NL user interface.

Your profile

        * a degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or a
related area
        * ideally a PhD in speech recognition
        * very good knowledge of statistics
        * expertise in speech processing algorithms, ideally 3+ years
        of professional experience in this area
        * familiarity with the commercial speech recognition products
        * very good programming skills (C/C++)


2. Knowledge representation
 ---------------------------

Your task will be to design, develop and maintain an ontology of
products, adapt it to new domains and feed it with knowledge available
on the Internet.  You will closely collaborate with the NLP team on
the one side and database specialists on the other.

You have a degree in AI, computer science or a related area.

Your skills include:

        * profound expertise in knowledge representation
        * familiarity with different kinds of knowledge representation
        languages; ability to assess their value for our project
        * experience in the automatic or semi-automatic acquisition of
        domain knowledge
        * programming skills in Java would be an asset

3. Computational semantics/information extraction
- -----------------------------------------------

You will work on the robust representation of the semantics of user
queries in arbitrary domains. You will closely co-operate with a
knowledge representation expert responsible for domain modelling.

Your profile:

        * a degree in computational linguistics or computer science,
        * familiarity with the main meaning representation methods
        (templates, logical representation languages, semantic networks)
        * experience in information extraction, anaphora resolution and
        related areas,
        * good programming skills in Java or C++.


4. Statistical NLP, machine learning, corpus-based methods
- --------------------------------------------------------

Your possible work areas with our company include:
        + statistical parsing
        + statistical models for the construction of meaning
        representations
        + automatic acquisition of domain knowledge/ontology
        + text mining/product name recognition

Your profile:
        * expertise in at least one of the above areas
        * good knowledge of statistical and symbolic machine learning
        methods
        * degree in computer science/applied mathematics/computational
        linguistics or a related area
        * good programming skills (C/C++)

5. Corpora, annotation
- --------------------------

Your task will be the acquisition, construction and preparation of
training corpora for statistical NLP algorithms. You will work for and
report to a statistical NLP expert responsible for the implementation
of training/processing algorithms.

Your profile:

        * a degree in (computational) linguistics
        * experience in the annotation/preparation/processing of
        corpora (PoS corpora, treebanks etc.)
        * familiarity with (main stream) statistical NLP methods
        (e.g., POS tagging)
        * strong programming skills in Perl or script languages
        * good command of German and English
        * programming skills in C/C++/Java would be an asset

___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From : "Tony Rose" <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
   Subject: Open Position at Canon Research Centre Europe


Software Engineer - Information Retrieval

Due to ongoing expansion, Canon Research Centre Europe
(CRE) has a position for a first class Software Engineer in the
Information Retrieval Group. Applications from experienced
software engineers and exceptional recent graduates are
invited for the following position:

Job Specification:
 * to design, develop and maintain prototypes, demonstrators and
   product-level software for multi-lingual information retrieval

 * to perform development activities as an integral member of an
   R&D team working on advanced information retrieval, user
   interface technology, natural language processing & WWW

Requirements:
 * excellent software engineering skills in a variety of languages
   including C/C++ and Java

 * experience of working on commercial software projects

 * excellent academic background: honours degree with significant
   computing content

Desirable:
 * experience of building robust, high performance IR or NLP
   applications

 * track record of initiative and teamwork in software
   development projects

 * expertise in the areas of:
  - C++ standard template library
  - multi-lingual IR systems
  - databases

We offer:

 * Stimulating and flexible working environment
 * Competitive salary and benefits package
 * Excellent career opportunities

Canon has over 75,000 employees world wide. Since its founding,
Canon has moved forward toward its objective of being the
manufacturer of the best products in the world. While pursuing
the pinnacle of quality, we have taken the lead in developing
electronic and automation technologies to enhance the ease of
use of our products. One key to Canon's success has been the
spirit of meeting new technological challenges and at CRE you
will have the opportunity to play a significant part in this.

Because of British Law, preference will be given to applicants
who already have the right to work in the United Kingdom.
To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter to:

The Recruitment Manager, Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd,
1 Occam Court, Occam Road, Guildford GU2 7YJ, United Kingdom
EMAIL: retjob at cre.canon.co.uk PHONE: +44 (0)1483 448 844
FAX: +44 (0)1483 448 845 WEB: www.cre.canon.co.uk

___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  Pascale de Brondeau <emplois at delphesintl.com>
   Subject:  Delphes Technologies International, Montréal, Québec Canada

Rank of Job: n/a
Areas Required: n/a
Other Desired Areas: n/a
University or Organization: Delphes Technologies International
Department: Human Resources
State or Province: Montréal, Québec
Country: Canada
Final Date of Application: September 30, 2000
Contact: Pascale de Brondeau emplois at delphesintl.com

Address for Applications:
408, rue McGill
Montréal
Québec H2Y 2G1
Canada

Delphes développe des solutions infogicielles uniques pour la recherche,
l'acquisition et la gestion de l'information par le traitement dynamique
de l'information en langage naturel. Cette technologie se situe dans la
lignée des technologies infogicielles les plus avancées au monde et
cible actuellement les langues française, anglaise et espagnole.

Responsabilités:
- Construction de segmenteurs et analyse des parties du discours qui
seront intégrées à un système d'analyse linguistique sur des textes en
plusieurs langues (français, anglais, espagnol);
- Développement et tests des modules de traitement linguistiques
(traitement de l'information en lagage naturel);
- Travail en collaboration avec les membres de l'équipe informatique.

Pré-requis:
- Scolarité: Minimum M. Sc. linguistique computationnelle, priorité au
Ph. D;
- Expérience en linguistique computationnelle, rechreche et extraction
de l'information, traduction automatique basée sur le traitement en
langues naturelles, traitement de grands ensembles de données, pratique
de l'implantation du traitement linguistique dans les bases de données
relationnelles;
- Maîtrise des langues française, anglaise, espagnole, pour l'un des
postes la maîtrise de l'anglais américain est demandée.

Si vous avez le goût du challenge et pour en savoir davantage sur notre
vision, veuillez visiter notre site web au www.delphesintl.com. Seul les
candidats(tes) retenus seront contactés.

___________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  Ann Lamson <techmav at answerlogic.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics: AnswerLogic, Washington, DC USA


Rank of Job: n/a
Areas Required: Computational Linguistics
Other Desired Areas: C++ / Java
University or Organization: AnswerLogic
Department: Human Resources
State or Province: Washington, DC
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: n/a
Contact: Ann Lamson techmav at answerlogic.com

Address for Applications:
1111 19th Street NW
Washigton
DC 20036
USA

Computational Linguist

AnswerLogic seeks a computational linguist to join its software
development team, building a question-answering system.

Qualified candidates will have a masters or Ph.D. (or equivalent
experience) in computer science, computational linguistics, or a related
field with a focus on natural language processing.  Experience with
natural language parsing, semantics, and corpus analysis is vital; in
addition, familiarity with techniques in information retrieval or
dialogue systems would be advantageous.

Also required, mid to advanced level knowledge of C++/Java (C++
preferred), experience in developing software for NLP applications, and
excellent verbal and written communication skills.

AnswerLogic offers competitive salaries, stock options and full
benefits, as well as a stimulating environment with opportunity for
advancement.  Qualified applicants should send a resume and cover letter
to techmav at answerlogic.com.

___________________________________________________________________________

6/ From:  Jason Patino <jpatino at corp.netzero.net>
   Subject:  Computational Linguist at Net Zero, California USA


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: Recruiter
Other Desired Areas: United States
University or Organization: Net Zero
Department: HR
State or Province: California
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: 12/01/00
Contact: Jason Patino jpatino at corp.netzero.net

Address for Applications:
2555 Townsgate Road
Westlake Village
California 91361
USA

Computational Linguist

Simpli.com (http://www.simpli.com) has developed a technology to enhance
Internet search and targeted content based on ideas derived from
cognitive science and linguistics.   The founders of the company are
largely drawn from the Brown University Department of Cognitive and
Linguistic Sciences and the Department of Computer Science. We are
seeking a computational linguist, or computer scientist/software
engineer with a strong background in linguistics.

Education:
* Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science or Linguistics with a focus on
  Natural Language Processing

Requirements:
* Minimum two years of experience in developing applications for
  corpus-based natural language processing, information retrieval, or
  other related products
* Working knowledge of Perl, C/C++, or Java
* In-depth knowledge of areas such as text analysis and processing,
  data-mining, information extraction (e.g., automatic indexing of large
  text corpora), knowledge-based techniques
  (e.g., the use of ontologies and lexicons), or neural networks for
  unsupervised learning

Preferred:
* Familiarity with Internet Search
* Management and/or leadership experience
* Knowledge of and experience with existing NLP tools
* Significant work experience

Salary and Benefits:
Salary commensurate with experience.  Competitive benefits package.

Environment:
Simpli.com is an up-and-coming internet start-up devoted to improving
web search.  We have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the
Financial Times, and NewsWeek.  We are located in downtown Providence,
Rhode Island within walking distance of Brown University and the Rhode
Island School of Design.  Providence has a vibrant arts community,
museums, theaters, and world class dining.  Living costs are extremely
reasonable.  Providence is an hour from Boston and 4 hours from New
York.

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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:02:15 +0200
Subject: Appel: NAACL-2001
Message-ID: <FRI.25.AUG.2000.170215.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
   Subject: NAACL-2001 Call for Papers

2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
   Subject: NAACL-2001 Student Research Workshop Call for Papers
___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
   Subject: NAACL-2001 Call for Papers



          PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

              Language Technologies 2001:
    2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the
         Association for Computational Linguistics
                        June 2-7, 2001
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
      http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html

General Conference Chair: Lori Levin (Carnegie Mellon University)
Program Chair: Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Local Arrangements: Alon Lavie (Carnegie Mellon University)

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research
contributions on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but
not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon;
phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and
written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of
language; information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based
language modeling; multilingual processing, machine translation and
translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
language in multimedia systems; message and narrative understanding
systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems.

===== SUBMISSION FORMAT

Submissions will be hardcopy.  Submissions must use the appropriate ACL
latex style or Microsoft Word style (links to which will be available from
the conference web page
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html).  Submissions should follow the
two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages,
including references.  If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly,
a description of the required format will be available on the conference
web page.  If you cannot access the conference web page or have other
questions about submissions, send email to naaclpgm at isi.edu.

Reviewing will be blind.  Thus, a separate identification page is
required.  The identification page should include the following:

      * Paper ID number (see SUBMISSION PROCEDURE below).
      * Title.
      * Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses.
      * Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area.
      * Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list.
      * Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary.

Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted from the paper
itself.  Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity
(e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ... ") should be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".

Papers that do not conform to these requirements are subject to being
rejected without review.

===== SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

1) Submission notification:  You must submit a notification of submission
by filling out a form on the conference web page
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html by November 6, 2000.  This will
return to you an email with a paper ID number that should be included
(printed or handwritten) on the first page of the paper and on the
identification page.  Also, please use it on all correspondence with the
program committee chair.  The form will be available on the web after
October 1, 2000.

2) Paper submission: send six (6) hardcopies of your submission and two (2)
hardcopies of your identification page to

     Kevin Knight (Program Chair, NAACL 2001)
     USC/Information Sciences Institute
     4676 Admiralty Way
     Marina del Rey, CA 90292
     http://www.isi.edu/~knight

Remember to include your ID number on all submissions and identification
pages.  Late submissions will be returned unopened.  Notification of
receipt will be emailed to the first author shortly after receipt.

===== DEADLINES

Electronic submission notification deadline: 6-Nov-00
Hardcopy paper submission deadline: 9-Nov-00
Notification of acceptance for papers: 24-Jan-01
Camera ready papers due: 27-Feb-01
Regular sessions begin: 5-Jun-01
A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final
version.

___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
   Subject : NAACL-2001 Student Research Workshop Call for Papers



                  Preliminary Call for Papers
                           for the
                   Student Research Workshop
                             at
                  Language Technologies 2001:
       2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the
           Association for Computational Linguistics

     Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2-7, 2001


Student Co-Chairs: Krzysztof Czuba, Carnegie Mellon University
                   (kczuba at cs.cmu.edu)
                   Lisa Michaud, University of Delaware
                   (masterma at mail.eecis.udel.edu)

                   (Full contact information below)


Advisor: Deborah Dahl, Unisys Corporation
        (Deborah.Dahl at unisys.com)


Contents: 1. Overview and Purpose of the Student Research Workshop
          2. Topics of Interest
          3. Format of Presentations
          4. Requirements
          5. Paper Publication
          6. Format for Submissions
          7. Timeline
          8. Website
          9. Contact Information



1.  Overview

The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL) is pleased to announce the student program for the
2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL).
Through this program, students working in any area of computational
linguistics present research in progress and receive feedback from
other members of the computational linguistics community.  This is a
valuable opportunity for students to solicit comments on their
research from a broad audience including other graduate students and
researchers from academia and industry.  We encourage students of all
levels to participate.


2. Topics of Interest

The Student Research Workshop accepts submission of papers addressing
all topics covered by NAACL.  Please see the main session CFP for a
list of topics, or see the NAACL 2001 webpage at:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html


3. Format of Presentations

Following the format of the successful Student Research Workshop at
NAACL 2000 in Seattle, this year's presentations will involve
responses given by panels of experienced researchers in the field. The
purpose of the panel is to provide the students with clear feedback on
their research and presentation skills.  Two panelists will respond to
each presentation. The panelists will have read the paper beforehand
and prepared supportive comments to help the student identify
strengths and weaknesses.  Following the panelists' comments, there
will be time for general comments from the audience.  The time block
for each paper will be fairly large to accommodate the more extensive
feedback expected in this format.

This year, we would also like to introduce poster presentations.  In
addition to the paper, all presenters will also design a poster for
the Student Poster Session outside of the workshop.  The Student
Poster Session will give the students greater exposure to the NAACL
community at large, particularly those individuals who are unable to
attend the workshop. There will be no separate submission to the
Student Poster Session. The organizers may also choose to invite the
authors of high-quality papers which, due to time constraints, were
not accepted for the Student Workshop, to present their work during
the Student Poster Session.

4. Paper Publication

Papers presented at the NAACL 2001 Student Research Workshop will be
published in the NAACL 2001 Student Research Workshop Proceedings.
The Proceedings will be printed in a volume separate from the main
conference proceedings, following the format adopted for other
preconference workshops.

5. Requirements

Papers submitted to the Student Research Workshop should describe
original, unpublished work in progress.  For student papers presenting
joint work, all co-authors must be students.  Concurrent submission to
other conferences is allowed, but this must be clearly indicated on
the identification page.  If accepted, the paper must be withdrawn
from all other conferences or alternatively may be withdrawn from
NAACL 2001.  Students may not submit the same paper to the main
sessions and the student workshop for NAACL 2001.  Students may, of
course, submit different papers to the main conference and the student
workshop, or papers on different aspects of a particular problem or
project.  The author's decision on which venue is most appropriate for
his or her work should depend on the completion level of the work
(work that has been extensively evaluated may be more appropriately
submitted to the main session, while work in early stages may benefit
most from the Student Workshop venue, where it can receive more
detailed feedback) and on the presentation experience of the student
(the workshop should be seen as an excellent opportunity to present to
a supportive audience whose comments aim to assist in the improvement
of the work rather than to criticize).

5.  Format for Submissions

The maximum allowable length is 3,200 words, including inline
references and footnotes but excluding the identification page,
figures and bibliography.  Electronic submissions are required and
should be either self-contained LaTeX source, PostScript, or PDF (we
encourage postscript submissions).  PostScript submissions must use a
standard font.  LaTeX submissions should not refer to any other
external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14
and LaTeX 2.09 or the ACL-standard LaTeX style files.  The bibliography
for a LaTeX submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the
actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX
source file.

We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX (including the
bibstyle) or Word style files (which will be available on the website)
for the preparation of submissions.  Authors who have difficulty
accessing the style files from the student web site should contact the
student Co-Chairs for a textual description.

Since reviewing will be blind, the heading of the paper should omit
author names and addresses (this information will be included in the
identification page).  Self-references that reveal the authors'
identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) . . . ") should be
avoided.  Instead, use references in a neutral form (e.g., "Smith
previously showed (1991) . . . ").  Furthermore, avoid obvious
giveaways in the bibliography such as listings for unpublished
in-house technical reports.

Each paper will be reviewed by one non-student and two student
reviewers knowledgeable in the area addressed by the paper.

Identification Page

Identifying information should be on a separate page and must include
the following:

 Title
  Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses
        Paper identification number
 Designated contact author
 Short (5 line) summary
 Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
 Submission to other conferences (`none' or a list)

The ACL-standard LaTeX and Word can be used to create the
identification page.

Papers outside the specified length or that do not meet the formatting
guidelines are subject to rejection without review.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Prior to submission, the author or authors must notify the Co-chairs
of the intent to submit via the Student Research Workshop website at:

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~aclstu/naacl01-student/

There will be a form there to submit title, authors, abstract, and
keywords.  Following notification, an identification number will be
assigned to assist in the blind reviewing.

The preferred form for submission is via the author's web site. Load
the PostScript, PDF or self-contained LaTeX file (for papers prepared
using Word, a postscript or PDF file must be submitted) to a web site,
then email the URL to the Co-Chairs at an email address which will be
provided in the final Call for Papers and will be available on the
website.  Make certain you mention the identification number in your
email.

If an author has no web space available, the file containing the paper
can be emailed to the above address.  Only in unusual cases will hard
copy submissions be allowed.  Please contact the Co-Chairs well in
advance of the deadline if you need to make special arrangements.

Late submissions will not be accepted.  Notification of receipt will be
e-mailed to the designated contact author shortly after receipt.

6. Timeline

The preliminary timeline for the Student Research Workshop follows the
main session timeline:

   Deadline for electronic notification of intent to submit:
      November 6, 2000

   Submission deadline:
      November 9, 2000

   Acceptance notification:
      January 24, 2001

   Camera-ready papers due by:
      February 27, 2001

   Workshop date:
      The exact date is still to be determined.  The workshop will
      take place before the main NAACL conference, either on the
      3rd or 4th of June 2001.


7.  Website

Updated information, including this CFP, will be available at this
website address:

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~aclstu/naacl01-student/


8.  Contact Information

Inquiries to the Co-Chairs of the student session should be sent to:

Krzysztof Czuba
Language Technologies Institute
Newell-Simon Hall 4605
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: (412) 268 6521
Fax: (412) 268 6298
email: kczuba at cs.cmu.edu

Lisa Michaud
Computer and Information Sciences Department
214 Smith Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302) 831-3643
Fax: (302) 831-4091
email: michaud at cis.udel.edu   (email is the best)



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 25 15:03:17 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:03:17 +0200
Subject: Appel: PAKDD-01
Message-ID: <FRI.25.AUG.2000.170317.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Graham Williams <Graham.Williams at cmis.csiro.au>

    1st call for papers

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

         The Fifth

    Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
         (PAKDD-01)

                    Hong Kong, April 16 - 18, 2001

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

      http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01

  The Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
  Mining (PAKDD-01) will be an international forum for the sharing of
  original and innovative research results and practical applications
  and experiences among researchers and application developers from
  the many constituent areas of KDD, including artificial
  intelligence, databases, e-commerce, Internet computing, machine
  learning, high performance computing, statistics and
  visualization. This conference builds on the success of PAKDD-97
  (Singapore), PAKDD-98 (Australia), PAKDD-99 (China) and PAKDD-00
  (Japan) by bringing together participants from universities,
  industry and government.

  With the growing number of successful applications and systems
  development in KDD in enterprise computing and e-commerce the
  conference encourages submissions on practical experiences in
  applying KDD techniques to real-world applications.

SUBMISSION by 12 November 2000

  Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (in the
  Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series). All submissions
  should follow the Springer-Verlag guidelines and be no more than 12
  pages. (Formatting information is available from the conference web
  site at http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01).

  Please include a cover page containing the title, authors (names,
  postal and email addresses), a 200-word abstract and up to 5
  keywords.  Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically
  (as PostScript or PDF attachments) following the instructions on the
  conference web page at http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01 or send five
  copies to:

    David Cheung (PAKDD-01)
    E-Business Technology Institute
    The University of Hong Kong
    Pokfulam, Hong Kong

AWARDS AND JOURNAL PUBLICATION

  The PAKDD Best Paper Award will be conferred on the authors of the
  best paper at the conference.

  Authors of selected papers will be invited to have their paper
  included in a special issue of an international journal.

TOPICS

  We invite submissions in the areas of KDD research and application.
  Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

    Foundations and principles of data mining
    New application challenges and requirements
    Web based mining
    Data mining applications in e-commerce
    Resource discovery in the Internet
    Internet standards for data mining
    Data mining and data warehousing
    Data mining in multidimensional databases
    Data mining in heterogeneous databases
    Data mining support for data warehouse design
    Integration with data warehousing/OLAP
    Parallel and distributed mining
    Statistical methods in data mining
    Rule induction and decision trees
    Clustering and classification
    Exploratory data analysis
    Visual data mining and visualization
    Machine learning for data mining
    Knowledge representation and acquisition in KDD
    Performance and benchmarks of KDD systems
    Security and social impact of data mining

TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

  Tutorials and Workshops will form a key component of the
  conference. It is planned to hold them on Monday, 16 April 2001.
  Proposals for addressing issues in data mining, knowledge discovery
  and applications are invited.

  New applications such as temporal and spatial data mining, Asian
  language text mining, collaborative filtering, personalization, eCRM
  and e-marketplace data mining are of special interest.

  Tutorial and workshop proposals (preferably by email) should be
  submitted by 30 October 2000 to the respective Chair:


    Joshua Z Huang, Tutorial Chair
    E-Business Technology Institute
    The University of Hong Kong
    Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
    jhuang at eti.hku.hk

    Michael K Ng, Workshop Chair
    Department of Mathematics
    The University of Hong Kong
    Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
    mng at maths.hku.hk

DEMONSTRATIONS

  Proposals for live demonstrations of research projects, prototypes,
  experimental systems, and/or potential commercial products are
  encouraged. Each proposal should include a title page containing the
  title, names of presenters and their postal/Email addresses, and a
  two-page description of the demo system.  Proposals (preferably by
  email) should be submitted by 15 January 2001 to the Demonstration
  Chair at jiming at comp.hkbu.edu.hk.

    Jiming Liu, Demonstration Chair
    Department of Computer Science
    Hong Kong Baptist University
    Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong


IMPORTANT DATES

  Tutorial proposals     : 30 October  2000
  Workshop proposals  : 30 October  2000
  Submissions due date   : 12 November 2000
  Notification date      : 24 December 2000
  Demonstration proposals: 15 January  2001
  Camera ready date      : 23 January  2001
  Conference date        : 16-18 April 2001

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  Rohan Baxter           CSIRO, Australia
  Keith Chan             Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Surajit Chaudhuri      Microsoft, USA
  Ming-Syan Chen         National Taiwan University
  Umeshwar Dayal         Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
  Tharam Dillon          Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Guozhu Dong            Wright State University, USA
  Ada Fu                 Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Yike Guo               Imperial College, UK
  Jayant Haritsa         Indian Institute of Science, India
  Markus Hegland         Australian National University
  Robert Hilderman       University of Regina, Canada
  Joshua Z Huang         University of Hong Kong
  Moon Yul Huh           SKK University, Korea
  Ben Kao                University of Hong Kong
  Kamal Karlapalem       Hong Kong UST
  Hiroyuki Kawano        University of Kyoto, Japan
  Jinho Kim              Kangwon National U., Korea
  Sang-Wook Kim          Kangwon National University, Korea
  Masaru Kitsuregawa     University of Tokyo, Japan
  Kevin Korb             Monash University, Australia
  Laks V.S. Lakshmanan   Concordia U. and IIT, Bombay
  Doheon Lee             Chonnam National University, Korea
  T Y Lin                San Jose State University, USA
  Bing Liu               National University of Singapore
  Huan Liu               Arizona State University, USA
  Jiming Liu             Hong Kong Baptist University
  Hongjun Lu             Hong Kong UST
  Hiroshi Motoda         Osaka University, Japan
  Raymond Ng             UBC, Canada
  Kyuseok Shim           KAIST, Korea
  Il-Yeol Song           Drexel University, USA
  Changjie Tang          Sichuan University, China
  Zhaohui Tang           Microsoft, USA
  Ah-Hwee Tan            Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
  Takao Terano           University of Tsukuba, Japan
  Bhavani Thurasingham   MITRE, USA
  Kyu-Young Whang        KAIST, Korea
  Ian Witten             University of Waikato, New Zealand
  Xindong Wu             Colorado School of Mines, USA
  Yiyu Yao               University of Regina, Canada
  Clement Yu             University of Illinois, USA
  Jeffrey Yu             Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Philip Yu              IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
  Ning Zhong             Maebashi Institute of Technology
  Aoying Zhou            Fudan University, China
  Lizhu Zhou             Tsinghua University, China


ORGANIZATION

Conference Chairs:
 Chung-Jen Tan (University of Hong Kong and IBM Watson)
 Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Program Committee Chairs:
 David Cheung (University of Hong Kong)
 Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong)
 Graham Williams (CSIRO, Australia)

Tutorial Chair:
 Joshua Z Huang (University of Hong Kong)

Workshop Chair:
 Michael K Ng (University of Hong Kong)

Industrial Chair:
 Joseph Fong (City University of Hong Kong)

Demonstration Chair:
 Jiming Liu  (Baptist University of Hong Kong)

Local arrangements Chairs:
 Ronnie Cheung (Hong Kong Poly University)
 Ben Kao (University of Hong Kong)

Publicity Chairs:
 Vincent Ng (Hong Kong Poly University)
 Rohan Baxter (CSIRO, Australia)
 Hiroyuki Kawano (Kyoto University, Japan)

Treasurer:
 Ada Fu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Aug 30 07:55:07 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:55:07 +0200
Subject: Conf: Tutorials on "Information Exploitation and Learning from
 Text"
Message-ID: <WED.30.AUG.2000.095507.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Gabriel Pereira Lopes <gpl at di.fct.unl.pt>



Dear coleagues,

I would like to invite you to participate in Lisbon on the tutorials
sessions on "Information Exploitation and Learning from Text". This
event will occur in September 15-16, at Institututo Superior Técnico.

 Complete information can be found at:
http://pc-gpl.di.fct.unl.pt/~glint/tutorials/tutorials.html

It follows a series of workshops and symposia on Machine Learning
applied to Natural languages that will all take place at the same
premises:

5th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI-2000),
September 11-13, 2000 (http://vinci.inesc.pt/icgi-2000/)

2nd Learning Language In Logic Workshop (LLL 2000), September 13-14,
2000

 4th Meeting of the Interest Group on Computational Natural
Language Learning (CoNLL-2000), September 14, 2000

Fees for those attending  any of the previous workshops, simposium or
meeting are reduced. As well as the fees for students. Members of APPIA
pay also reduced fees.

The organization of the tutorial series on "Information Extraction and
Learning from Text" was solicited by the Board of APPIA (the Portuguese
Association for Artificial Intelligence) and its President, Prof. Pavel
Brazdil.

The tutorials programme can be found at the web page mentioned above as
well as other important information

We will count with the participation of Gregory Grefenstette (Automatic
Thesaurus Construction); Nuno Marques (Neural nets based POS-tagging and
unsupervised learning of verbal frame
subcategorization); Joaquim Ferreira da Silva & Gael Dias (Statistical
extraction of contiguous and
non-contiguous patterns of words, characters and POS-tags from text);
Raymond Mooney (Inductive Logic Programming for Natural Language);
Walter Daelemans (Memory-Based Language Processing: Applications in
Language Engineering); Dunja Mladenic (Document Categorization by
Modeling Human
Expert); António Ribeiro (Statistical alignment of parallel text and
extraction of translation equivalents); Vitor Rocio and João Balsa
(Symbolic adaptive parsing: declarative fault finding, multi-parsers
correction proposals, results validation and learning)

Event organizer,

Gabriel Pereira Lopes
Departamento de Informática
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Quinta da Torre
2825-114 Caparica
Portugal
phone: (351) 21 294 85 36
fax: (351) 21 294 85 41
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Aug 30 07:53:36 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:53:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: IWCS-4
Message-ID: <WED.30.AUG.2000.095336.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Harry Bunt <Harry.Bunt at kub.nl>


                    Fourth International Workshop on

                        COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS

                             (IWCS-4)

             January 10-12, 2001, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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

                         Sponsored by SIGSEM,
          the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics

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

                          CALL FOR PAPERS

The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Unit at
Tilburg University will host the Fourth International Workshop on
Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), that will take place from 10-12
January 2001. The aim of the workshop is to bring together
researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of
meaning in natural language or in language-based multimedia
objects.

                     +------------------------+
                     |    INVITED SPEAKERS:   |
                     |                        |
                     |      James Allen       |
                     |     Jan van Eijck      |
                     |    Alex Lascarides     |
                     |                        |
                     +------------------------+

                         TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest for the workshop will be computational aspects
of formal semantic theories as well as theoretical issues in
building natural language understanding systems, including systens
where language is used in a multimedia setting. Papers are invited
in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following
specific topics:

      * working with underspecified representations of meaning
      * modelling and using context for interpretation
      * the relations between semantics and pragmatics
      * dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue
      * interpretation and games
      * computational lexical semantics
      * interpretation and inference
      * meaning in multimedia objects
      * interpretation and optimality
      * speech acts and interpretation
      * incrementality and monotonicity in interpretation
      * knowledge representation and reasoning in meaning computation


                       SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally 5000
words by September 15, 2000, by email in Postscript form. All
submitted papers that are received in time will be refereed by the
programme committee and may be accepted for full presentation at
the workshop and publication in the proceedings, or for a
short/poster presentation and publication of a 2-page abstract. We
also aim at publishing a selection of accepted papers in book
form. Accepted papers should be submitted in final form in LaTeX;
guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts are available at the
IWCS web pages:

                 http://www.sigsem.org/iwcs4.html

For initial submission email a Postscript version of the paper to:
Computational.Semantics at kub.nl by September 15, 2000.


                        PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

                 David Beaver         Martha Palmer
                 Patrick Blackburn    Manfred Pinkal
                 Harry Bunt (chair)   Steve Pulman
                 Robin Cooper         James Pustejovsky
                 Jan van Eijck        Allan Ramsay
                 Giacomo Ferrari      Patrick Saint Dizier
                 Jerry Hobbs          Mark Steedman
                 Daniel Kayser        Enric Vallduvi
                 Paul Mc Kevitt       Wlodek Zadrozny
                 Reinhard Muskens     Henk Zeevat
                 John Nerbonne


                         ORGANISING COMMITTEE

         Harry Bunt        Reinhard Muskens       Huub Prust
             Ielka van der Sluis        Elias Thijsse


                           IMPORTANT DATES

         15 September  2000 Submission of papers
         15 October    2000 Notification of acceptance
         15 November   2000 Final papers due
         10-12 January 2001 Workshop


                         FURTHER INFORMATION

         Conference Secretariat:
         Anne Adriaensen/Carol McGregor
         Department of Linguistics
         Tilburg University
         PO Box 90153,
         5000 LE Tilburg
         The Netherlands

         Email: Computational.Semantics at kub.nl
         Phone: +31-13 466 30 60
         Fax:   +31-13 466 31 10

         WWW: http://www.sigsem.org/iwcs4.html

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

 Harry C. Bunt
 Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
 Tilburg University
 P.O. Box 90153
 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
 Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
                     2568 (Dean's office)
                     2653 (office, room B 310)
 Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
 Harry.Bunt at kub.nl
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Aug  1 16:45:17 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:45:17 +0200
Subject: Appel: IEEE Data Mining 2001
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From: Ning Zhong <zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp>


[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

----------------------------------------------------------------------
   ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
               Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
----------------------------------------------------------------------
                   Silicon Valley, California, USA
                    November 29 - December 2, 2001
       Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html

                            Call for Papers
                            ***************

The  2001  IEEE International Conference  on  Data  Mining  (ICDM '01)
provides a forum  for  the sharing  of  original research results  and
practical development experiences  among  researchers  and application
developers  from different data mining related areas  such as  machine
learning,   automated   scientific   discovery,  statistics,   pattern
recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data
warehousing,  data visualization,  and  knowledge-based  systems.  The
conference   seeks  solutions  to  challenging   problems  facing  the
development of data mining systems,  and  shapes  future directions of
research   by  promoting  high  quality,  novel  and  daring  research
findings.  As  an important part  of  the  conference,  the  workshops
program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives.

Topics of Interest
==================

Topics  related to  the design,  analysis  and  implementation of data
mining  theory,  systems  and  applications  are  of  interest.  These
include, but are not limited to the following areas:

  - Foundations and principles of data mining
  - Data mining algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as
    classification, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and
    association analysis), and in new areas
  - Data and knowledge representation for data mining
  - Modeling of structured, textual, temporal, spatial, multimedia and
    Web data to support data mining
  - Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining
  - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature
    transformation
  - Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining
  - Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
    evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty
    management for data mining
  - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
  - Man-machine interaction in data mining and visual data mining
  - Artificial intelligence contributions to data mining
  - High performance and distributed data mining
  - Machine learning, pattern recognition and automated scientific
    discovery
  - Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining
    results
  - Process centric data mining and models of data mining process
  - Security and social impact of data mining
  - Emerging data mining applications, such as electronic commerce,
    Web mining and intelligent learning database systems

Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards
==================================================

High quality papers  in all data mining areas  are  solicited.  Papers
exploring  new  directions  will  receive  a  careful  and  supportive
review.  All submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of  6,000
words (approximately 20 A4 pages),  and  will be reviewed on the basis
of   technical  quality,  relevance  to  data   mining,   originality,
significance,  and clarity.  Accepted papers  will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.  A selected
number of ICDM '01 accepted papers  will be  expanded and revised  for
possible  inclusion  in  the Knowledge and Information Systems journal
(http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/) by Springer-Verlag.

ICDM Best Paper Awards  will be conferred  on the authors  of the best
papers at the conference.

Important Dates
===============

     June 15, 2001                    Paper submissions.
     July 31, 2001                    Acceptance notices.
     August 31, 2001                  Final camera-readies.
     Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2001             Conference.

Detailed instructions  for paper submissions  will be provided  on the
conference home page at http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html.

Conference Chair:
=================

      Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA
         (xindong at computer.org)

Program Committee Chairs:
=========================

      Nick Cercone,  University of Waterloo, Canada
         (ncercone at math.uwaterloo.ca)
      T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
         (tylin at mathcs.sjsu.edu)

ICDM '01 Workshops Chair:
=========================

      Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
         (johannes at cs.cornell.edu)

ICDM '01 Tutorials Chair:
=========================

      Chris Clifton, MITRE, USA
         (clifton at mitre.org)

ICDM '01 Panels Chair:
======================

      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
         (rao at cs.mu.oz.au)

ICDM '01 Publicity Chair:
=========================

      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
         (zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp)

ICDM '01 Local Arrangements Chair:
==================================

      Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Blue Martini Software Inc., USA
         (tonyhu at bluemartini.com)

ICDM Steering Committee
=======================

      Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK
      Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada
      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
      Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany
      Xindong Wu, Chair (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
      Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
      Jan M. Zytkow, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Further Information
===================

      Dr. Xindong Wu
      Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
      Colorado School of Mines,
      1500 Illinois Street,
      Golden, Colorado 80401,
      USA.

      Telephone: +1-303-273-3874
      Facsimile: +1-303-273-3875
      E-mail: xindong at computer.org



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Aug  1 16:46:26 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:46:26 +0200
Subject: Appel: Romand-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.1.AUG.2000.184626.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: TALN2000 <taln2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch>


PLEASE NOTE THAT THE DEADLINE FOR ROMAND2000 HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO AUGUST
12th


                                           First Call for Papers

                                                  ROMAND 2000

                     1st workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural
language Data

                                              *** EXTENDED DEADLINE ***

                                           Department of Computer Science
                                 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology -
Lausanne
                                                  October 19-20 2000

                                          http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2000/

ROMAND 2000 is the first of a series of workshop that aims at bringing
together researchers working on robust methods in natural language
processing.
The term "natural language" is intended as all possible modalities of human
communication and it is not restricted to written or spoken language.
The main goal of the workshop will be to bring together researchers working
in
fields like artificial
intelligence, computational linguistics, human-computer interaction,
cognitive
science who are facing with the problem of feasible and reliable systems
implementation. Theoretical aspects of robustness in NLP are welcome as well
as engineering and industrial experiences.

The workshop will be held in collaboration with the TALN 2000 conference (le
Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles - Automatic Natural Language
Processing) which will be held in Lausanne from October 16th to 18th. The
ROMAND workshop will be held just afterwards, from the 19th to 20th.

We invite abstracts on all topics related to robustness in natural language
processing, including, but not  limited to:

      Robust Text Analysis
      Information Extraction
      Spoken Dialogue systems
      Multimodal human-computer interfaces
      Natural Language Architectures
      NLP and Soft Computing
      Robust Semantics
      Underspecification
      Multimedia document analysis
      Robust Parsing
      Complexity of linguistic analysis
      Hybrid methods in computational linguistics
      Text Mining


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:

Authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract of at most 6 (included
references) single-column pages with 10' body font size (for talks with a
duration of 20' plus 10' discussion) together with a separate page
specifying
the authors' names, affiliation, address, and e-mail address. The abstracts
should be submitted electronically (in postscript or pdf format) to:
romand at epfl.ch.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Papers due: August 12th
Acceptance notice: August 28th
Final version due:  September 28th
Conference: October 19-20

WORKSHOP COMMITTEE:

Program chairs are

Afzal Ballim                 Afzal.Ballim at epfl.ch
Vincenzo Pallotta            Vincenzo.Pallotta at epfl.ch
Hatem Ghorbel                Hatem.Ghorbel at epfl.ch

Program committee

Steve Abney
Wolfgang Menzel
Jean-Pierre Chanod
Alberto Lavelli
Rens Bod
Giorgio Satta
Joachim Niehren
Roberto Basili
Maria Teresa Pazienza
Manuela Boros
Diego Molla' Aliod
Herv? Bourlard
B. Srinivas
C.J. Rupp
Peter Asveld


ORGANIZATION:

This year's workshop is organized in collaboration with the TALN 7eme
conf?rence annuelle sur LE TRAITEMENT AUTOMATIQUE DES LANGUES NATURELLES (
http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/ ).  The workshop will take place at the
Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne. The workshop is endorsed by ATALA
(Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues).

REGISTRATION:

Details about the registration procedure will be posted later at the
official
web site. The registration fee will be:

     Normal registration:          150.- CHF
     For registered TALN attendee: 100.- CHF

FURTHER INFORMATION:

For any information related to the organization, please contact:

Vincenzo Pallotta

DI-LITH EPFL
IN F Ecublens
1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

tel. +41-21-693 52 97
fax. +41-21-693 52 78
Vincenzo.Pallotta at epfl.ch

News about the conference will be posted on the workshop's Web page at
http://lithwww.epfl.ch/romand2000/



--
Pour le comit? d'organisation de  TALN 2000,
For the organising committee of TALN 2000,
Cristian Ciressan

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Aug  1 16:46:31 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:46:31 +0200
Subject: Conf: TALN-2000
Message-ID: <TUE.1.AUG.2000.184631.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: TALN2000 <taln2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch>


----------------------------------------------------------------------
              TALN 2000 PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE PROGRAM
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Please find hereafter the preliminary program of the 7th Conference on
AUTOMATIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (TALN 2000), that will take
place in Lausanne from Monday October 16 to Wednesday October 18, 2000.

This program can also be found on-line at:
    http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/programme_taln2000.html

Resgistration can be done either on-line at:
    http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/gb/inscription.html
or by contacting the organizing committee at:


    TALN 2000
    c/o Marie Decrauzat
    EPFL
    DI-LIA
    IN (Ecublens)
    CH-1015 Lausanne
    Suisse

    T?l  : +41 21 693 27 35
    Fax  : +41 21 693 52 25
    Email: taln2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch
    Web  : http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000



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                             Lundi 16 octobre

  8h30                      Accueil - Inscriptions

  9h00                             Mot d'accueil
         Eric Wehrli / Martin Rajman (Pr?sident du comit? d'organisation)

                      S?ance paral?lle (I)      S?ance paral?lle (II)

  9h30                 Laurence DANLOS,          Jill BURSTEIN
                       Bertrand GAIFFE           Toward Using Text
         S?ances TALN  Cor?f?rence               Summarization for
          paral?lles   ?v?nementielle et         Essay-Based Feedback
                       relations de discours

 10h00                 Holger SCHAUER            Gees C. STEIN
                       Using Coreferences for    Multi-Document
                       Coherence Relations       Summarization:
                                                 Methodologies and
                                                 Evaluations

 10h30                             Pause (20 mn)

 10h50    Conf?rence   Udo Hahn(Universitaet Freiburg)
            invit?e    Information extraction out of textual data

 11h35                              Pause (5mn)

 11h40                 Authors
                       Titre

 12h00                 Authors
            S?ances    Titre
            RECITAL
 12h20                 Authors
                       Titre

 12h40                 Authors
                       Titre

 13h00                        Repas

                       S?ance paral?lle (I)      S?ance paral?lle (II)

 14h30                 Jacques SAVOY             Didier MAILLAT
                       Recherche                 Computing the Spatial
                       d'informations dans un    Reference Frame: How to
         S?ances TALN  environnement distribu?   interpret directional
          paral?lles                             prepositions

 15h00                 S?bastien L'HAIRE, Juri   Yann MATHET
                       MENGON, Christopher       Le pradigme
                       LAENZLINGER               monodimensionnel dans
                       Outils g?n?riques et      l'expression de l'espace
                       transfert hybride pour    et du d?placement
                       la traduction
                       automatique sur
                       Internet

 15h30                             Pause (20mn)

                         S?ance paral?lle (I)      S?ance paral?lle (II)

 15h50                 Mare KOIT                 Cristian CIRESSAN, Martin
                       Reasoning in              RAJMAN, Eduardo SANCHEZ,
                       Interaction: A Model of   Jean-Cedric CHAPPELIER
         S?ances TALN  Dialogue                  Towards NLP
          paral?lles                             co-processing: An FPGA
                                                 implementation of a
                                                 context-free parser

 16h20                 Zakaria KURDI             Andr? KEMPE
                       La grammaire s?mantique   Reduction of Intermediate
                       d'unification d'arbres:   Alphabets in Finite-State
                       un formalisme pour        Transducer Cascades
                       l'analyse des dialogues
                       oraux spontan?s

 16h50                             Pause (10mn)

 17h00                 Authors
                       Titre
            S?ances                                            D?mos
 17h20      RECITAL    Authors                                   &
            D?mos &    Titre                                  Posters
 17h40     Posters     Authors
                       Titre

 18h00                                     Fin journ?e

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                              Mardi 17 octobre

                         S?ance paral?lle (I)      S?ance paral?lle (II)

  9h00                 Gabriel ILLOUZ             Mariana DAMOVA, Sabine
                       M?thode pour               BERGLER
                       l'apprentissage parall?le  The Aspectual Type BEGIN
                       en TALN

 9h30                  Emmanuel MORIN             Sandiway FONG,
         S?ances TALN  Compl?mentarit? des        Christiane FELLBAUM,
          paral?lles   approches supervis?es et   David LEBEAUX
                       non supervis?es pour       Semantic Templates and
                       l'acquisition de           Transitivity
                       relations entre termes     Alternations in a
                                                  Computational Lexicon

 10h00                 Thierry POIBEAU            Claude LAI
                       De l'acquisition de        Propagation de traits
                       classes lexicales ?        conceptuels au moyen des
                       l'induction                m?tastructures Prolog
                       semi-automatique de
                       grammaires locales

  10h30                            Pause (20 mn)

  10h50                Marc El-Beze(University of Avignon)
          Conf?rence
            invit?e    Corpus annotation or lexicon design ?
                       Complementary approaches for semantic resource
                       production.

  11h35                            Pause (5 mn)

  11h40     S?ances    Authors                             D?mos
            RECITAL    Titre                                 &
            D?mos &                                       Posters
  12h05    Posters     Authors
                       Titre

  12h30                       Repas

                         S?ance paral?lle (I)      S?ance paral?lle (II)

  14h00                Philippe BLACHE            Farid CERBAH
                       Le r?le des contraintes    Une ?tude comparative de
                       dans les th?ories          m?thodes de
                       linguistiques et leur      cat?gorisation
                       int?r?t pour l'analyse     s?mantique de termes
                       automatique                techniques
         S?ances TALN
 14h30    paral?lles   Thierry ETCHEGOYHEN        Ga?l de CHALENDAR
                       Analyse Syntaxique         SVETLAN' ou Comment
                       Monotone par D?cisions     Classer les Mots en
                       Diff?r?es                  fonction de leur
                                                  Contexte

 15h00                 Sylvain KAHANE             Patrick PAROUBEK
                       Des grammaires pour        MULTITAG, une ressource
                       d?finir une                linguistique produit du
                       correspondance: un point   paradigme d'?valuation
                       de vue math?matique et
                       ?pist?mologique

  15h30                             Pause(20mn)

                         Tutoriel 1 (partie I)     Tutoriel 2 (partie I)

 15h50                 Piet Mertens, (CCL, KU     H. Bourlard (IDIAP,
           Tutoriels   Leuven)                    Martigny), M. Rajman
          paral?lles   Intonation and syntax:     (EPFL, Lausanne), S.
                       automatic processing for   Moeller (Uni Bochum)
                       speech synthesis           Rapid dialogue model
                                                  prototyping for the
                                                  development of vocal
                                                  information servers

  17h50                             Fin journ?e

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                               Mercredi 18 octobre

                         S?ance paral?lle (I)       S?ance paral?lle (II)

  9h00                Chafik ALOULOU, Lamia        Fr?d?ric BECHET, A.
                      HADRICH BELGUITH,            NASR, F. GENET
                      Abdelmajid BEN HAMADOU       Filtrage automatique de
                      Vers un syst?me d'analyse    corpus pour
                      syntaxique robuste pour      l'enrichissement de
                      l'Arabe                      dictionnaires de noms
           S?ances                                 propres
            TALN
 9h30    paral?lles   Rodolfo DELMONTE             Olivier KRAIF
                      Parsing with Getaruns        Extraction automatique
                                                   de correspondances
                                                   lexicales: ?valuation
                                                   d'indices et
                                                   d'algorithmes

 10h00                Anne VANDEVENTER             Christian JACQUEMIN
                      Diagnostic d'erreurs         Fouille du Web pour la
                      grammaticales par            collecte d'Entit?s
                      rel?chement de contraintes   Nomm?es
                      dans le cadre de l'EAO

  10h30                                Pause

                         S?ance paral?lle (I)       S?ance paral?lle (II)

  10h50               Julie BERNDSEN, Michael      BASILI Roberto,
                      WALSH                        Alessandro MOSCHITTI,
                      Generic Techniques for       Maria Teresa PAZIENZA
                      Multilingual Speech          Modeling Terminological
                      Technology Applications      Information in Text
                                                   Classification

 11h20     S?ances    Zakaria KURDI                DELISLE Sylvain, Terry
            TALN      Une approche int?gr?e pour   COPECK, Kim BARKER,
         paral?lles   la normalisation des         Stan SZPAKOWICZ
                      extragrammaticalit?s de la   Automating the
                      parole spontan?e             Measurement of
                                                   Linguistic Features to
                                                   Help Classify Texts as
                                                   Technical

 11h50                Carole TIBERIUS              Olivier FERRET,
                      Phonological feature based   Briggite GRAU
                      multilingual lexical         Une analyse th?matique
                      description                  fond?e sur un principe
                                                   d'amor?age

  12h20                       Repas

                         Tutoriel 1 (partie I)      Tutoriel 2 (partie I)

 13h50                Piet Mertens, (CCL, KU       H. Bourlard (IDIAP,
          Tutoriels   Leuven)                      Martigny), M. Rajman
         paral?lles   Intonation and syntax:       (EPFL, Lausanne), S.
                      automatic processing for     Moeller (Uni Bochum)
                      speech synthesis             Rapid dialogue model
                                                   prototyping for the
                                                   development of vocal
                                                   information servers

  15h50                          S?ance de cloture

  16h10                             Fin journ?e
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International Program Committee

 Pascal Amsili, TALaNa (Paris)
 Susan Armstrong, ISSCO (Gen?ve)
 Nicholas Asher, University of Texas (Austin)
 Afzal Ballim, EPFL (Lausanne)
 Philippe Blache, LPL (Aix-en-Provence)
 Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA (Grenoble)
 Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO (Gen?ve)
 Didier Bourigault (CNRS, Paris)
 Jean-Pierre Chanod, XEROX Research Center (Grenoble)
 Jean-C?dric Chappelier, EPFL (Lausanne)
 B?atrice Daille, IRIN (Nantes)
 Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne
 Claire Gardent, Universit?t des Saarlandes (Sarrbr?cken)
 Damien Genthial, CLIPS-IMAG (Grenoble)
 Gregory Grefenstette, XEROX Research Center (Grenoble)
 Michael Hess, Uni Zurich
 Pierre Isabelle, XEROX Research Center (Grenoble)
 Daniel Kayser, LIPN (Paris)
 Geert-Jan Kruijff, Univerzita Karlova (Praha)
 Eric Laporte, CERIL, Universit? de Marne la Vall?e
 Paola Merlo, LATL (Gen?ve)
 Piet Mertens, CCL K.U. Leuven
 Jacques Moeschler, LATL (Gen?ve)
 C?cile Paris, CSIRO (Sidney)
 Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA (Nancy)
 Alain Polgu?re, Universit? de Montr?al
 Martin Rajman, EPFL (Lausanne)
 Owen Rambow, ATT Labs-Research
 G?rard Sabah, LIMSI (Paris)
 Jacques Savoy, Uni Neuchatel
 Jacques Vergne, GREYC (Caen)
 Jean V?ronis, LPL (Aix-en-Provence)
 Eric Wehrli, LATL (Gen?ve)
 Francois Yvon, ENST (Paris)
 Brigitte Zellner Keller (UNIL, Lausanne)
 Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM (Paris)


Organization Committee

 Eric Wehrli (Pr?sident/President)    LATL Geneva
 Martin Rajman                        EPF Lausanne
 Cristian Ciressan                    EPF Lausanne
 Jean-C?dric Chappelier               EPF Lausanne
 Marie Decrauzat                      EPF Lausanne
 Paola Merlo                          LATL Geneva
 Christopher Laenzlinger              LATL Geneva


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For the organising committee of TALN 2000,
Cristian Ciressan

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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:50:20 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.1.AUG.2000.185020.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

____________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Olivier Laurens <laurens at unlost.com>
   Subject: Offre d'emploi

2/ From: Salliou Alain <asa at teamlog.fr>
   Subject: Proposition d'annonce

3/ From:  Anna-Maria Di Sciullo <di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca
   Subject:  Comp Ling/syntactic parsing & NLP/Information Extraction
____________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Olivier Laurens <laurens at unlost.com
   Subject: Offre d'emploi

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

Offre d'emploi : Informaticien / applications linguistiques

Start-up sp?cialis?e dans le d?veloppement de logiciels de recherche
d'information, nous recherchons UN OU UNE INFORMATICIEN(NE)
sp?cialiste du traitement automatique du langage naturel.

Les candidats doivent poss?der une formation sup?rieure en
informatique et conna?tre les techniques de programmation sp?cifiques
aux applications de traitement du langage naturel (parsers, automates,
compilateurs, etc).

Langages de programmation : Perl et C/C++.

Une exp?rience d'impl?mentation en C/C++ de parser fonctionnant avec
des DCG ou des grammaires d'unification ainsi qu'une bonne
connaissance des formalismes grammaticaux modernes est souhaitable.

Vous travaillerez au sein d'une ?quipe jeune et dynamique dans un
environnement de travail convivial.

Les candidats, quelle que soit leur nationalit?, doivent avoir le
droit de travailler en France. Le poste ? pourvoir est en CDI. La
r?mun?ration est fonction des comp?tences et de l'exp?rience. Lieu de
travail : Massy (10 mn gare RER B)

Les candidatures sont accept?es par email ou courrier postal (envoyer
CV + disponibilit? + r?f?rences).


COORDONNEES POSTALES :

   SA UNLOST
   emploi
   3 rue Galvani
   91300 Massy

EMAIL : linguist at unlost.com

____________________________________________________________________

2/ From: Salliou Alain <asa at teamlog.fr>
   Subject: Proposition d'annonce


 Formed in 1991, Teamlog is a computer services and engineering company
  specialized in optimizing IT system performance and integrating new
 technologies.
 Set on the development of intelligent communication, TEAMLOG designs
 new generation
  services over many of today's fastest growing sectors as digital
 television,
  the Internet, intelligent telephony, interactive voice servers.
 For more details, click on http://www.teamlog.fr

 TEAMLOG is searching for ENGINEERS in Natural Language Processing
 to design new generation dialogue services in french language.
 Applicants should have several years of experience in
  computational linguistics,
  knowledge representation,
  dialogue modeling and dialogue strategies,
  prolog / java
 The practice of french language is mandatory.
 Date : as soon as possible
 Location : Lannion (FRANCE - Brittany)
 Duration : no limit

 Please send a detail CV to
  Marie-Paule COLLIN
  TEAMLOG
  10, square du Chene Germain
  35510 CESSON-SEVIGNE - FRANCE
 email : mpc at teamlog.fr


____________________________________________________________________

3/ From:  Anna-Maria Di Sciullo <di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca
   Subject:  Comp Ling/syntactic parsing & NLP/Information Extraction

 Contact person: Anna Maria Di Sciullo
 e-mail: di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca
 University: Universite du Quebec a Montreal
 Departement: Linguistics
 Province: Quebec
 Country: Canada
 Job speciality: computational linguistics
     syntactic parsing
 Rank: postdoc
 Final date: September 1rst
 for application

 Address for application:
 Universite du Quebec a Montreal
 Departement de linguistique
 C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre Ville
 Montreal, Pc, H3C 3 P8
 Canada


 2e job advertisement
 Contact person: Anna Maria Di Sciullo
 e-mail: di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca
 University: Universite du Quebec a Montreal
 Departement: Linguistics
 Province: Quebec
 Country: Canada
 Job speciality:  Information Extraction
      Natural Language Processing based
      Information Extraction
 Rank: postdoc
 Final date: September 1rst
 for application

 Address for application:
 Universite du Quebec a Montreal
 Departement de linguistique
 C.P. 8888, Succursale Centre Ville
 Montreal, Pc, H3C 3 P8
 Canada


Postdoc Position 1


Qualified individuals are invited to apply for a postdoctoral
fellowship in Computational Linguistics.  The fellowship is supported
by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and
provides an annual stipend of $28,000 per year, renewable. A qualified
candidate should hold a Ph.D degree in an area of Computational
Linguistics and have experience in syntactic parsing, preferably
principle-based parsing. Technical experiences with C/C++ and
Unix/Linux on Sun/Window platforms are preferable. The successful
candidate will join the UQAM research team in collaboration with
Princeton and MIT researchers to develop a model of parsing based on
the recovery of natural language asymmetries. See the UQAM homepage
for a summery of the project: http://www.asymmetryproject.uqam.ca


The fellowship is expected to start between now and September
1. Consideration of the applications will begin immediately until the
position is filled. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a cover
letter, and two letters of recommendations to Anna Maria Di Sciullo,
Departement de Linguistique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Case
Postale 8888, Succursale Centre Ville, Montreal, PC. H3C 3P8, Canada.,
or via e-mail to di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca.


Postdoc Position 2


Qualified individuals are invites to apply for a postdoctoral
fellowship in Natural Language Processing and Information
Extraction/Information Retrieval. The fellowship is supported by the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and provides
an annual stipend of $28,000 per year, renewable. A qualified
candidate should hold a Ph.D degree in an area of Natural Language
Processing based Information Extraction/Information Retrieval
Technical experiences with indexing, morphological and syntactic
tagging are preferable. The successful candidate will join the UQAM
research team in collaboration with Princeton and MIT researchers to
develop a model of parsing based on the recovery of natural language
asymmetries. See the UQAM homepage for a summery of the project:
http://www.asymmetryproject.uqam.ca


The fellowship is expected to start between now and September
1. Consideration of the applications will begin immediately until the
position is filled. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a cover
letter, and two letters of recommendations to Anna Maria Di Sciullo,
Departement de Linguistique, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Case
Postale 8888, Succursale Centre Ville, Montreal, PC. H3C 3P8, Canada.,
or via e-mail to di_sciullo.anne-marie at uqam.ca.




Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Director
Asymmetry Project


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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:28:12 +0200
Subject: Conf: DRH2000
Message-ID: <TUE.8.AUG.2000.112812.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Roberta Catizone <roberta at dcs.shef.ac.uk>


This Message is a Call for Registration for DRH2000

We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for delegates to

DRH2000: DIGITAL RESOURCES FOR THE HUMANITIES,

University of Sheffield,
10-13 September 2000

The on-line registration form can be found at:
http://www.shef.ac.uk/~drh2000/register.htm

The DRH conferences have established themselves firmly in the UK and
international calendar as a forum that brings together scholars,
librarians,archivists, curators, information scientists and computing
professionalsin a unique and positive way, to share ideas and
information about the creation, exploitation, management and
preservation of digital resources in the arts and humanities.

The DRH 2000 conference will take place at the University of Sheffield,
10-13 September 2000 in Stephenson Hall.  Themes include: the creation
of digital resources; their delivery, use and integration; the impact
of digital resources on humanities research and education.

Cost:

*Full Registration ?170 (includes conference dinner)
*Local Registration ?110 for University of Sheffield Staff only
*Student Registration ?60 (includes conference dinner)
*Day Delegate ?60 (not including conference dinner)


Accommodation:

Accommodation is provided at Stephenson Hall at the following rates:
*En-Suite ?33.40
*Standard ?27.74
Details of local hotels are available on request.

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Aug  8 09:28:15 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:28:15 +0200
Subject: Soft: Release of Link Grammar Version 4.0
Message-ID: <TUE.8.AUG.2000.112815.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: sleator+ at bobo.link.cs.cmu.edu


We would like to announce the release of version 4.0 of the Link Grammar
parser:

                       http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu

The new version has several significant new features.  Perhaps the most
important is a system for deriving a constituent representation of a
sentence from a linkage:

  (S (NP the quick brown fox)
     (VP jumped
         (PP over
             (NP the lazy dog))))

The new release also includes a simple toy system for translating German
to English (as well as a simple dictionary for parsing German).

Please visit the web site for a demo of the parser and the translation
system, the complete source code for the system, and extensive
documentation,

                           John Lafferty
                           Daniel Sleator
                           David Temperley


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Aug  8 09:27:45 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:27:45 +0200
Subject: Appel: ROCMELIA'2000
Message-ID: <TUE.8.AUG.2000.112745.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: E S Atwell <eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk>



The Fourth International Conference
on Multimedia Language Education,
ROCMELIA'2000

Call for Papers and Courseware
on Multimedia Language Education

Hosts:
ROCMELIA
Yuan Ze University (Taoyuan County, Taiwan)

Conference Theme:
Happy Internet Language Education

Conference Dates and Location:
October 27-29 (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), 2000
Yuan Ze University (Taoyuan County, Taiwan)

Important Dates:
Paper Submission: August 15, 2000
Acceptance Notification: August 31, 2000
Camera-ready Copy Due: September 31, 2000
Early Registration Deadline: October 15, 2000

Conference Chairs: President Kuo-Ming Wang of Yuan Ze University, Ph.D.
President Yuangshan Chuang of ROCMELIA, Ph.D.

     ROCMELIA'2000 is the fourth one of the international
multimedia language education conference series which
is organized by ROCMELIA. The conference serves to foster
and encourage the creation and application of computer
assisted multimedia technology in language education.
The First International Conference on Multimedia Language
Education, ROCMELIA'97, was held at the Chinese Navy Academy
in Kaohsiung City in 1997, which enjoyed participation of
more than 400 attendees. The Second International
Conference on Multimedia Language Education, ROCMELIA'98,
was held at the Chinese Military Academy in Kaohsiung
County in 1998, which also enjoyed participation from
different areas of expertise ranging from computer
technology to language education. And the contents
consisted of seven languages: English, Spanish, German,
French, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Taiwanese.
Like the previous three international conferences, this conference
welcomes good papers and courseware written
for any languages. In order to make more people understand

your efforts, please write and present your paper
in English or Chinese.


Conference Formats:
1. Keynote Speeches
2. Paper Presentation
3. Hypermedia Workshops
4. Courseware Presentation



Finished or near-finished papers and courseware
which address well-founded theories and creative practices
are especially encouraged. There are 30 suggested topics
of interest related to language education and listed
below for your reference:

=============================================
1. Artificial Intelligence and Language Instruction
2. Authoring Systems
3. Collaborative Learning
4. Communicative Instruction
5. Corpus Linguistics and Language Instruction
6. Courseware Design
7. Courseware Evaluation Models
8. Culture and Language Instruction
9. Educational Simulation and Gaming
10. Expert Systems and Language Instruction
11. Global Education
12. Hypermedia and Language Instruction
13. Intelligent Language Instruction
14. Intelligent Tutoring Systems
15. Interactive Language Instruction
16. Language Instruction Modeling
17. Language Instruction Strategies
18. Learning Motivation and Language Instruction
19. Linguistics and Hypermedia
20. Linguistics and Multimedia
21. Linguistics and Language Instruction
22. Literature and Hypermedia
23. Literature and Multimedia
24. Literature and Language Instruction
25. Multimedia and Distance Language Instruction
26. Multimedia Language Instruction
27. Networked Resources and Language Instruction
28. Society and Language Instruction
29. Virtual Reality and Language Instruction
30. World Wide Web and Language Instruction

=============================================
*** Correspondence Information ***
For further information, please contact us at ROCMELIA's:
Email: rocmelia at acer.net
WWW: www.rocmelia.com.tw

***ROCMELIA stands for "The Multimedia English Learning
and Instruction Association in the Republic of China,"
whose members consist mostly of professors, teachers,
and students.

***Please pass this notification to your colleagues and friends.
=============================================
*** Paper Presentation Proposal Form ***

Please complete this form and have it emailed
together with your paper including an abstract at:

Email: rocmelia at acer.net

Title of presentation:

Name of Principal Presenter:

Affiliation and Position:

Equipment needed for presentation:

Language used in presentation:

Fax Number:

Email Address:

Mailing Address:
Telephone Number: _______________ (Office) ______________ (Home)
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Aug  8 09:26:49 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 11:26:49 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 2 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.8.AUG.2000.112649.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Richard Willis (richard.willis at reuters.com)"
   Subject: Natural Language Engineering Positions at Reuters

2/ From:  Kenan Rappuchi <eng-jobs at xigo.com>
   Subject:  Information Extraction: Xigo, Inc., California USA
________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: "Richard Willis (richard.willis at reuters.com)"
   Subject: Natural Language Engineering Positions at Reuters


Natural Language Engineering Positions at Reuters
-------------------------------------------------

Reuters seeks energetic, and highly motivated Language Engineers to join the
Research and Standards Group within Reuters Chief Technology Office.

The major function of the Research and Standards Group is the investigation
and
evaluation of new technologies and software products, identifying those
which
can have a major impact on the business, and assisting in the transfer of
these
technologies into the business units.

These positions would suit candidates with a NLP background who are
interested
in diversifying or alternatively, candidates who have an IR background but
who
have interest and knowledge in NLP techniques.
We seek candidates with good fundamental knowledge who wish to broaden their
interests and see their expertise applied in a practical business context.

Candidates with a PhD are preferred although those with a Masters degree in
a
relevant subject would be considered.

Areas of interest include;

* Topic categorisation
* Text summarisation
* Machine translation
* Information retrieval, including cross language information retrieval, and
filtering
* Information extraction
* Statistical language understanding
* Multi-media searching and access
* Question answering
* Speech recognition
* Document structuring using XML

You must be a good team-worker, a good communicator, self-motivated and
eager
to learn. Good programming experience and ability, flexibility and a
willingness to tackle a wide range of problems are essential.

Successful candidates will join a close knit group of highly motivated and
qualified individuals and will be expected to establish themselves as
experts
in the Language Engineering area within Reuters.

The positions are based in London.

Letters of application together with a CV should be sent to,
Bella Hawkes, Reuters Ltd., 85 Fleet Street, London EC4 4AJ, UK
Or preferably by e-mail to bella.hawkes at reuters.com

Richard A Willis
Head of Research and Standards,
Chief Technology Office,
Reuters Ltd.,

richard.willis at Reuters.com

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________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  Kenan Rappuchi <eng-jobs at xigo.com>
   Subject:  Information Extraction: Xigo, Inc., California USA


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: Information Extraction
Other Desired Areas:
University or Organization: Xigo, Inc.
Department:
State or Province: California
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: August 31, 2000
Contact: Kenan Rappuchi eng-jobs at xigo.com

Address for Applications:
249 Shipley St. #4
San Francisco
CA 94107
USA

Information Extraction at Xigo, San Francisco, CA

Xigo, a pre-IPO startup specializing in information for online
investors, is looking for someone with a background in information
extraction (IE), computational linguistics, or natural language
processing to join our text analysis team.  The position would be a
combination of applied research and software engineering, involving
anything from evaluating possible IE techniques to implementing
components of our system.  The ideal candidate will be equally
comfortable browsing the research literature, writing the code, and
designing the experiment to evaluate it.  An M.S. or equivalent is
required for this job.

Xigo is a rapidly growing, well-funded company that offers a
competitive salary, terrific benefits, and an excellent stock option
plan.  For more information about Xigo, visit our web site at
http://www.xigo.com

If you wish to apply for this position, please send your resume to
eng-jobs at xigo.com and include the phrase "linguist" in the subject line.



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Aug  9 14:01:50 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:01:50 +0200
Subject: Appel: CICLing-2001
Message-ID: <WED.9.AUG.2000.160150.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Alexander Gelbukh" <gelbukh at cic.ipn.mx>



                CICLing-2001

        Second International Conference
        on Intelligent Text Processing
        and Computational Linguistics

        February 18 to 24, 2001
        Mexico City, Mexico

SUMMARY

        PUBLICATION: Springer LNAI

        SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1,
                posters: November 5

        INVITED SPEAKERS: Graeme Hirst, Ruslan Mitkov;
                to confirm: Ivan Sag, Igor Mel'cuk

        EXCURSIONS: Ancient pyramids, Monarch butterflies,
                great cave and colonial city, and more

        URL: http://www.cicling.org/2001

Areas of interest: Nearly all topics of computational
        lingustics.

Committee: 40 world-recognized specialists
        from 17 countries

You can see many photos of the excursions made by the
participants of the past CICLing-2000 at
http://www.cicling.org/2000/Photos/Frames.htm.


=====================================
Prof. Dr. Alexander Gelbukh (Alexandre Guelboukh Kahn),
Professor and researcher, head of NLP Lab.
Lab. de Lenguaje Natural, Centro de Investigacion en Computacion,
IPN, Av. Juan Dios Batiz s/n esq. Mendizabal, UP Adolfo L. Mateos,
Col. Zacatenco CP 07738, Mexico DF., Mexico
Office: (+52) 5729-6000 ext. 56544, 56518, 56602.
Fax and Voice (answering machine): +1 (520) 441-1817 (personal).
Shared fax: (+52) 5586-2936. Home: (+52) 5597-0709.
gelbukh at earthling.net, gelbukh at cic.ipn.mx, www.cic.ipn.mx/~gelbukh
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Aug  9 14:01:47 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:01:47 +0200
Subject: Appel: IWCS-4
Message-ID: <WED.9.AUG.2000.160147.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Harry Bunt <Harry.Bunt at kub.nl>



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                    Fourth International Workshop on

                        COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS

                             (IWCS-4)

             January 10-12, 2001, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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

                         Sponsored by SIGSEM,
       the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Semantics

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                FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Unit at
Tilburg University will host the Fourth International Workshop on
Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), that will take place from 10-12
January 2001. The aim of the workshop is to bring together
researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of
meaning in natural language or in language-based multimedia
objects.


                          TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest for the workshop will be computational aspects
of formal semantic theories as well as theoretical issues in
building natural language understanding systems, including systens
where language is used in a multimedia setting. Papers are invited
in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following
specific topics:

      * working with underspecified representations of meaning
      * modelling and using context for interpretation
      * the relations between semantics and pragmatics
      * dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue
      * interpretation and games
      * computational lexical semantics
      * interpretation and inference
      * meaning in multimedia objects
      * interpretation and optimality
      * speech acts and interpretation
      * incrementality and monotonicity in interpretation
      * knowledge representation and reasoning in meaning computation


                       SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally 5000
words by September 15, 2000, by email in Postscript form. All
submitted papers that are received in time will be refereed by the
programme committee and may be accepted for full presentation at
the workshop and publication in the proceedings, or for a
short/poster presentation and publication of a 2-page abstract. We
also aim at publishing a selection of accepted papers in book
form. Accepted papers should be submitted in final form in LaTeX;
guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts will soon be
available at the IWCS web pages:

     http://pi0239.kub.nl/~sigsem/iwcs4.html

For initial submission email a Postscript version of the paper to:
Computational.Semantics at kub.nl by September 15, 2000.


                        PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

                 David Beaver         Martha Palmer
                 Patrick Blackburn    Manfred Pinkal
                 Harry Bunt (chair)   Steve Pulman
                 Robin Cooper         James Pustejovsky
                 Jan van Eijck        Allan Ramsay
                 Giacomo Ferrari      Patrick Saint Dizier
                 Jerry Hobbs          Mark Steedman
                 Daniel Kayser        Enric Vallduvi
                 Paul Mc Kevitt       Wlodek Zadrozny
                 Reinhard Muskens     Henk Zeevat
                 John Nerbonne


                         ORGANISING COMMITTEE

         Harry Bunt        Reinhard Muskens       Huub Prust
             Ielka van der Sluis        Elias Thijsse


                           IMPORTANT DATES

         15 September  2000 Submission of papers
         15 October    2000 Notification of acceptance
         15 November   2000 Final papers due
         10-12 January 2001 Workshop


                         FURTHER INFORMATION

         Conference Secretariat:
         Anne Adriaensen
         Department of Linguistics
         Tilburg University
         PO Box 90153,
         5000 LE Tilburg
         The Netherlands

         Email: Computational.Semantics at kub.nl
         Phone: +31-13 466 30 60
         Fax:   +31-13 466 31 10

         WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm

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 Tilburg University
 P.O. Box 90153
 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
 Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
                     2568 (Dean's office)
                     2653 (office, room B 310)
 Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Aug  9 14:01:57 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:01:57 +0200
Subject: Appel: LICS 2001 Call for Affiliated Workshops
Message-ID: <WED.9.AUG.2000.160157.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Martin Grohe <lics at zermelo.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de>



                    CALL FOR AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS
                  Sixteenth Annual IEEE Symposium on
                LOGIC IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LICS 2001)
               Boston, Massachusetts, June 16-19, 2001
             http://logik.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de/lics

LICS 2001, the 16th Annual IEEE Symposium on LOGIC IN COMPUTER
SCIENCE, will be held in Boston, MA, from Saturday June 16 through
Tuesday June 19.  As in past years, facilities are available for
pre-conference and post-conference workshops related to topics
generally covered by LICS, or of special interest to LICS attendees.

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for
workshops on topics related to logic in computer science, broadly
understood. Past workshops have emphasized emerging topics of
particular interest. Proposals that promise to bring new topics into
LICS, of either practical or theoretical importance, or provide a
forum for more detailed discussion of central topics of continuing
importance will be welcomed.

Proposals should consist of two parts.  First, a short scientific
justification of the proposed topic, its significance, and the
particular benefits of a workshop.  A second, organizational, part
should include:

       * contact information for organizers;
       * proposed format and agenda;
       * procedures for selecting papers and participants;
       * duration and preferred period (pre- or post-LICS).

Additional organizational plans may include:

       * potential invited speakers;
       * demo sessions;
       * plans for proceedings or other publications.

Proposals are due

                           October 1, 2000.

Organizers will be notified by October 31, 2000.

Proposals may be submitted electronically to

Leonid Libkin, e-mail: libkin at research.bell-labs.com,

as postscript or ascii email with "LICS WORKSHOP SUBMISSION" in the
subject header.

Workshop selection committee:
    Martin Grohe (UIC),
    Joseph Halpern (Cornell),
    Leonid Libkin, Chair (Bell Labs),
    Harry Mairson (Boston U)






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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 11 12:44:39 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:44:39 +0200
Subject: Appel: CLIN'2000
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From: Jorn Veenstra <jorn.veenstra at kub.nl>


Call for Papers

                              CLIN 2000
                        Eleventh CLIN Meeting
            (Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands)
 Held in conjunction with BNAIC 2000, The Belgian-Dutch AI Conference
                     (http://ilk.kub.nl/bnaic00/)

                       Friday, 3 November, 2000
                      Computational Linguistics
                          Tilburg University

We are happy to announce the eleventh CLIN meeting, which will be
hosted by department of Computational Linguistics at Tilburg
University. The languages of the conference will be Dutch and English.

Keynote Lecture:

Gregory Grefenstette, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
"Very Large Lexicons"

Researchers are invited to present papers on all aspects of
computational linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax,
semantics, pragmatics, machine translation, computational
lexicography, formal languages, grammar formalisms, information
retrieval, information extraction, text mining, knowledge
representation, corpus-oriented methods, etc.).

Authors should submit an abstract in English or Dutch (preferably by
e-mail, in flat ASCII). The abstract should contain:

- a title
- your name, address, affiliation, and e-mail address
- a short outline of the paper (10-20 lines)

You can send your abstract to:   clin2000 at kub.nl

or, if email is not possible, to:

CLIN
2000

Computational Linguistics
Tilburg University
PO box 90153
5000 LE  Tilburg
The Netherlands

Deadline for submission:     1 September 2000.
Notification of acceptance: 15 September 2000.

The local organisation committee of this year's meeting consists of
Walter Daelemans, Khalil Sima'an, Jorn Veenstra, and Jakub Zavrel.

A volume with proceedings of the tenth CLIN meeting (held 10 December
1999, in Utrecht) will be available at this year's meeting. We intend
to produce a volume of the proceedings of CLIN 2000 before CLIN
2001. Papers for these proceedings will have to be written in English;
they will be reviewed by a committee to be appointed in due time.

This and future information about CLIN 2000 will be made available via
the CLIN home page:
http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/clin/clin.html
or the CLIN2000 home page:
http://ilk.kub.nl/clin2000






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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 11 12:43:29 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:43:29 +0200
Subject: Appel: IEEE Data Mining 2001
Message-ID: <FRI.11.AUG.2000.144329.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  Ning Zhong <zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp>


[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

- --------------------------------------------------------------------
   ICDM '01: The 2001 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
               Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
- --------------------------------------------------------------------
                   Silicon Valley, California, USA
                    November 29 - December 2, 2001
       Home Page: http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html

                            Call for Papers
                            ***************

The  2001  IEEE International Conference  on  Data  Mining  (ICDM '01)
provides a forum  for  the sharing  of  original research results  and
practical development experiences  among  researchers  and application
developers  from different data mining related areas  such as  machine
learning,   automated   scientific   discovery,  statistics,   pattern
recognition, knowledge acquisition, soft computing, databases and data
warehousing,  data visualization,  and  knowledge-based  systems.  The
conference   seeks  solutions  to  challenging   problems  facing  the
development of data mining systems,  and  shapes  future directions of
research   by  promoting  high  quality,  novel  and  daring  research
findings.  As  an important part  of  the  conference,  the  workshops
program will focus on new research challenges and initiatives.

Topics of Interest
==================

Topics  related to  the design,  analysis  and  implementation of data
mining  theory,  systems  and  applications  are  of  interest.  These
include, but are not limited to the following areas:

  - Foundations and principles of data mining
  - Data mining algorithms and methods in traditional areas (such as
    classification, clustering, probabilistic modeling, and
    association analysis), and in new areas
  - Data and knowledge representation for data mining
  - Modeling of structured, textual, temporal, spatial, multimedia and
    Web data to support data mining
  - Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining
  - Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature
    transformation
  - Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining
  - Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic,
    evolutionary computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty
    management for data mining
  - Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
  - Man-machine interaction in data mining and visual data mining
  - Artificial intelligence contributions to data mining
  - High performance and distributed data mining
  - Machine learning, pattern recognition and automated scientific
    discovery
  - Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining
    results
  - Process centric data mining and models of data mining process
  - Security and social impact of data mining
  - Emerging data mining applications, such as electronic commerce,
    Web mining and intelligent learning database systems

Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards
==================================================

High quality papers  in all data mining areas  are  solicited.  Papers
exploring  new  directions  will  receive  a  careful  and  supportive
review.  All submitted papers should be limited to a maximum of  6,000
words (approximately 20 A4 pages),  and  will be reviewed on the basis
of   technical  quality,  relevance  to  data   mining,   originality,
significance,  and clarity.  Accepted papers  will be published in the
conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.  A selected
number of ICDM '01 accepted papers  will be  expanded and revised  for
possible  inclusion  in  the Knowledge and Information Systems journal
(http://kais.mines.edu/~kais/) by Springer-Verlag.

ICDM Best Paper Awards  will be conferred  on the authors  of the best
papers at the conference.

Important Dates
===============

     June 15, 2001                    Paper submissions.
     July 31, 2001                    Acceptance notices.
     August 31, 2001                  Final camera-readies.
     Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2001             Conference.

Detailed instructions  for paper submissions  will be provided  on the
conference home page at http://kais.mines.edu/~xwu/icdm/icdm-01.html.

Conference Chair:
=================

      Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA
         (xindong at computer.org)

Program Committee Chairs:
=========================

      Nick Cercone,  University of Waterloo, Canada
         (ncercone at math.uwaterloo.ca)
      T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
         (tylin at mathcs.sjsu.edu)

ICDM '01 Workshops Chair:
=========================

      Johannes Gehrke, Cornell University, USA
         (johannes at cs.cornell.edu)

ICDM '01 Tutorials Chair:
=========================

      Chris Clifton, MITRE, USA
         (clifton at mitre.org)

ICDM '01 Panels Chair:
======================

      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
         (rao at cs.mu.oz.au)

ICDM '01 Publicity Chair:
=========================

      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
         (zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp)

ICDM '01 Local Arrangements Chair:
==================================

      Xiaohua (Tony) Hu, Blue Martini Software Inc., USA
         (tonyhu at bluemartini.com)

ICDM Steering Committee
=======================

      Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, UK
      Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada
      Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne, Australia
      Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund, Germany
      Xindong Wu, Chair (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
      Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
      Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
      Jan M. Zytkow, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

Further Information
===================

      Dr. Xindong Wu
      Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
      Colorado School of Mines,
      1500 Illinois Street,
      Golden, Colorado 80401,
      USA.

      Telephone: +1-303-273-3874
      Facsimile: +1-303-273-3875
      E-mail: xindong at computer.org


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 11 12:43:10 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 14:43:10 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers
Message-ID: <FRI.11.AUG.2000.144310.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_______________________________________________________________________

1/ From: BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: Offre de these en traduction - France Telecom R&D



 L'unit? de Recherche et D?veloppement "Langues Naturelles" de
 France T?l?com R&D (anciennement CNET) ? Lannion recherche
 un(e) candidat pour une th?se de doctorat en informatique ou en
linguistique.

 - Sujet de th?se : traduction automatique.
 - R?mun?ration pour 3 ans.
 - D?but de th?se : octobre 2000.
 - Lieu : France T?l?com R&D ? Lannion.

 - Sujet de th?se :
 Un syst?me d'analyse linguistique robuste et multilingue a ?t? d?velopp?.
 Il int?gre
 des modules d'analyse lexicale, morphologique et syntaxique. D'autre part,
 des
 travaux pour la mise en place d'un mod?le multilingue de s?mantique
 lexicale sont
 en cours et sont orient?s vers des probl?matiques de traduction
 automatique.
 Le sujet de th?se envisag? s'inscrit dans le cadre de l'activit?
 "traduction automatique".
 Le travail consiste ? mettre en place un m?canisme additionnel au syst?me
 d'analyse
 linguistique pour effectuer une traduction automatique de bonne qualit?.
 Les perspectives
 multilingues du syst?me de traduction entra?nent un choix strat?gique. La
 technique de
 traduction envisag?e consiste ? minimiser le transfert lexical et
 syntaxique entre les
 langues. Il s'agira alors d'augmenter (ou d'abstraire) le r?sultat de
 l'analyse linguistique sur
 des aspects s?mantiques ind?pendants des structures syntaxiques. Les
 travaux en s?mantique
 lexicale et, notamment les travaux de Igor Mel'cuk (Th?orie Sens-Texte)
 seront des r?f?rences
 privil?gi?es pour ce travail. Dans un premier temps, le syst?me de
 traduction sera exp?riment?
 sur le couple de langues fran?ais-anglais.

 Le candidat, informaticien ou linguiste, devra avoir des connaissances en
 traitement automatique
 du langage naturel. Des connaissances, ? la fois en en linguistique et en
 informatique (langage C)
 sont requises pour ce travail de th?se.

Merci d'envoyer un CV d?taill? ? :
 Malek Boualem
 France T?l?com R&D (CNET) - DMI/GRI
 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion
 Tel: 02.96.05.29.83
 Fax: 02.96.05.32.86
 Email: malek.boualem at francetelecom.fr

_______________________________________________________________________


2/ From:  Carl Rubino <rubino at humanitas.ucsb.edu>
   Subject:  Linguistic Software Testing

Positions in Linguistic Software Testing

AnswerLogic, a Washington D.C. based software company that delivers online
question-answering solutions for businesses is currently seeking
experienced linguists with a combination of the listed skill sets:

B.A. or higher in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics.
Good knowledge of English syntax and semantics (lexicographic experience
is a plus).
Some knowledge of computer languages such as C++, Visual Basic, Java, or
Perl.
Experience in software testing and/or development is a plus.

Qualified candidates please send resume and cover letter to:
crubino at answerlogic.com. Please note that applications without a detailed
cover letter will not be considered. AnswerLogic offers competitive
salaries, stock options, flexible hours and full benefits, as well as a
stimulating environment with opportunity for advancement.


=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\=//=\\
Dr. Carl Rubino
crubino at answerlogic.com / rubino at humanitas.ucsb.edu
http://vowel.ucsb.edu/~carl

_______________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Kamil Golebiowski <kamil at interprice.com>
   Subject:  Corpora: JOB OFFERS @ Interprice Technologies  Berlin, Germany



e-mail: jobs at interprice.com <mailto:jobs at interprice.com>

Interprice has many opportunities for talented, creative, and energetic
people looking for a real challenge. You'll have the chance to help build a
language and multi modal user interfaces from the ground up, work with
highly motivated  people in a high performance team, and contribute to the
growth of the most dynamic industry in the world today.

Interprice offers competitive compensation plans and benefit programs, an
opportunity to participate in the equity of the company, and has a clear
focus on the employees. We are an equal  opportunities employer with a
clear bias "against bias" and we recruit world wide. In order to attract
key global players we also offer "e-commute" positions!


1. Speech recognition
---------------------
 You will be developing a speech front end for our NL user interface.

Your profile

        * a degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or a related
area
        * ideally a PhD in speech recognition
        * very good knowledge of statistics
        * expertise in speech processing algorithms, ideally 3+ years
        of professional experience in this area
        * familiarity with the commercial speech recognition products
        * very good programming skills (C/C++)


2. Knowledge representation
---------------------------
Your task will be to design, develop and maintain an ontology of products,
adapt it to new domains and feed it with knowledge available on the
Internet.
You will closely collaborate with the NLP team on the one side and database
specialists on the other.

You have a degree in AI, computer science or a related area.

Your skills include:

        * profound expertise in knowledge representation
        * familiarity with different kinds of knowledge representation
        languages; ability to assess their value for our project
        * experience in the automatic or semi-automatic acquisition of
domain
        knowledge
        * programming skills in Java would be an asset


3. Computational semantics/information extraction
-------------------------------------------------

You will work on the robust representation of the semantics of user queries
in
arbitrary domains. You will closely co-operate with a knowledge
representation
expert responsible for domain modelling.

Your profile:

        * a degree in computational linguistics or computer science,
        * familiarity with the main meaning representation methods
        (templates, logical representation languages, semantic networks)
        * experience in information extraction, anaphora resolution and
related
        areas,
        * good programming skills in Java or C++.


4. Statistical NLP, machine learning, corpus-based methods
----------------------------------------------------------

Your possible work areas with our company include:
        + statistical parsing
        + statistical models for the construction of meaning
representations
        + automatic acquisition of domain knowledge/ontology
        + text mining/product name recognition

Your profile:
        * expertise in at least one of the above areas
        * good knowledge of statistical and symbolic machine learning
methods
        * degree in computer science/applied mathematics/computational
        linguistics or a related area
        * good programming skills (C/C++)


5. Corpora, annotation
----------------------------

Your task will be the acquisition, construction and preparation of training
corpora for statistical NLP algorithms. You will work for and report to a
statistical NLP expert responsible for the implementation of
training/processing algorithms.

Your profile:

        * a degree in (computational) linguistics
        * experience in the annotation/preparation/processing of corpora
        (PoS corpora, treebanks etc.)
        * familiarity with (main stream) statistical NLP methods
        (e.g., POS tagging)
        * strong programming skills in Perl or script languages
        * good command of German and English
        * programming skills in C/C++/Java would be an asset
mit freundlichen Gruessen

Kamil Golebiowski - kamil.golebiowski at interprice.com

Interprice Technologies
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11
10553 Berlin, Germany
fon      +49-(0)30-345 077 -0
fax      +49-(0)30-345 077 -77
www.interprice.com

Map:
<http://www.stadtplandienst.de/query;ORT=b;LL=13.324562x52.527146;GR=2>

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 25 15:02:48 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:02:48 +0200
Subject: Appel: I Meeting on Language Engineering
Message-ID: <FRI.25.AUG.2000.170248.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Teresa L. Soto" <teresa at fing.us.es>


-------------------------------------------------
I MEETING ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING

6-10 November 2000
Universidad de Sevilla and Universidad de Granada
Sevilla
SPAIN

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

The I MEETING ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING will take place at the University of
Seville from Monday 6th to Friday 10th November 2000.

Oral presentations, posters and demos are invited on any topic concerned
with the following related areas:

- Phonetics and Phonology
- Discourse Analysis
- Language Modelling
- Signal Processing and Analysis
- Speech Recognition
- Speech Processing
- Speaker Recognition
- Speech Synthesis
- Language Generation
- Dialogue Systems
- Signal Coding
- Resources, Assessment and Evaluation
- Applications
- Education
- Development
- Machine Translation
- Parsing
- Information Retrieval
- Others

An abstract of a maximum of 300 words must reach us by 1st October 2000.


INFORMATION:

UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE
Teresa L. Soto
Dpto. Lengua Inglesa
Palos de la Frontera, s/n
41004 Sevilla
SPAIN
Tel: +34 954 551 588
Fax: +34 954 551 516
email: teresa at fing.us.es

UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA
Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado
Dpto. Electronica y Tecnologia de Computadores
Avda. Severo Ochoa, s/n
18071 Granada
SPAIN
Tel: +34 958 243 271
Fax: +34 958 243 230
email: rlopezc at ugr.es

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


I JORNADAS EN TECNOLOGIA DEL HABLA

Universidad de Sevilla y Universidad de Granada
6-10 noviembre 2000
Sevilla
ESPANA

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

Con el fin de impulsar el intercambio tecnologico y favorecer el
encuentro entre los investigadores y empresas de nuestro pais dedicados a
la tecnologia del habla, la Universidad de Sevilla y la Universidad de
Granada organizan las I JORNADAS EN TECNOLOGIA DEL HABLA.

Se invita a los interesados a presentar una comunicacion oral, poster o
demostracion de sistema antes del 1 de octubre de 2000. En cualquier caso
deberan presentar un resumen de la actividad a desarrollar que no exceda
300 palabras.

Los trabajos presentados podran adscribirse a cualquiera de las siguientes
areas tematicas:

- Fonetica y fonologia
- Analisis del discurso
- Modelado del lenguaje
- Procesamiento y analisis de senal
- Reconocimiento del habla
- Procesamiento del habla
- Reconocimiento de locutores
- Sintesis del habla
- Generacion del lenguaje
- Sistemas de dialogo
- Codificacion de la senal
- Recursos y evaluacion
- Aplicaciones
- Herramientas didacticas y de desarrollo
- Traduccion automatica
- Tecnicas de parsing
- Recuperacion de informacion
- Otros


INFORMACION:

UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
Teresa L. Soto
Dpto. Lengua Inglesa
Palos de la Frontera, s/n
41004 Sevilla
SPAIN
Tel: +34 954 551 588
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 25 15:01:22 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:01:22 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 6 Offers
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___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Pierre Isabelle <Pierre.Isabelle at xrce.xerox.com>
   Subject: Open position at Xerox Research (Grenoble)

2/ From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
   Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany

3/ From?: "Tony Rose" <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
   Subject: Open Position at Canon Research Centre Europe

4/ From:  Pascale de Brondeau <emplois at delphesintl.com>
   Subject:  Delphes Technologies International, Montr?al, Qu?bec Canada

5/ From:  Ann Lamson <techmav at answerlogic.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics: AnswerLogic, Washington, DC USA

6/ From:  Jason Patino <jpatino at corp.netzero.net>
   Subject:  Computational Linguist at Net Zero, California USA
___________________________________________________________________________


1/ From: Pierre Isabelle <Pierre.Isabelle at xrce.xerox.com>
   Subject: Open position at Xerox Research (Grenoble)


    Position available at Xerox Research Center Europe (Grenoble)
       Senior Researcher - MultiLingual Theory and Technologies

Ref: MLTT/000108

Position open from August 2000

XRCE Grenoble Laboratory is a world leader in natural language and
distributed systems/knowledge management research. It is part of an
expanding research centre with a second lab in Cambridge and strong
links to the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in California.

The MultiLingual Theory and Technology Group has an open position for
a senior researcher in machine learning and statistical modelling for
the purpose of natural language processing. In collaboration with a
small group of other researchers, the candidate will elaborate
state-of-the-art modelling techniques for the syntax and semantics of
natural languages, with a view to applying such techniques to the
solution of problems such as knowledge extraction or the
reconstruction of linguistic input against a noisy background (as for
example in optical character reading).

Research Focus & Qualifications:
Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree or equivalent in a relevant
discipline e.g. computer science, linguistics, mathematics etc. and a
proven track record in research (publications and/or
patents). Hands-on experience with applying a wide range of NLP
techniques to NLP and/or speech processing is also
desirable. Proficiency in English is required and good communication
skills are a must.

XRCE offers competitive salaries, excellent computing facilities and
the opportunity to work in a leading industry-geared research
institute. This position is in Grenoble, France. Please refer to the
XRCE webpages for more information on our research centre
(http://www.xrce.xerox.com/).

The position is permanent and is open now.

Candidates should include the reference MLTT/000108 and address their
CV and letter of application to:

             Mr Christophe Mitenne
             Human Resources
             Xerox Research Centre Europe
             6, chemin de Maupertuis
             38240 MEYLAN, France

___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  Kamil Golebiowski <jobs at interprice.com>
   Subject:  NLP/KA/KR/AI: Interprice Technologies, Berlin, Germany


University or Organization: Interprice Technologies
State or Province: Berlin, Germany
Contact: Kamil Golebiowski jobs at interprice.com

Address for Applications:
Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 10-11, 10553 Berlin, Germany
Berln
Berlin 10553
Germany

1. Speech recognition
- -------------------
 You will be developing a speech front end for our NL user interface.

Your profile

        * a degree in computer science, applied mathematics, or a
related area
        * ideally a PhD in speech recognition
        * very good knowledge of statistics
        * expertise in speech processing algorithms, ideally 3+ years
        of professional experience in this area
        * familiarity with the commercial speech recognition products
        * very good programming skills (C/C++)


2. Knowledge representation
 ---------------------------

Your task will be to design, develop and maintain an ontology of
products, adapt it to new domains and feed it with knowledge available
on the Internet.  You will closely collaborate with the NLP team on
the one side and database specialists on the other.

You have a degree in AI, computer science or a related area.

Your skills include:

        * profound expertise in knowledge representation
        * familiarity with different kinds of knowledge representation
        languages; ability to assess their value for our project
        * experience in the automatic or semi-automatic acquisition of
        domain knowledge
        * programming skills in Java would be an asset

3. Computational semantics/information extraction
- -----------------------------------------------

You will work on the robust representation of the semantics of user
queries in arbitrary domains. You will closely co-operate with a
knowledge representation expert responsible for domain modelling.

Your profile:

        * a degree in computational linguistics or computer science,
        * familiarity with the main meaning representation methods
        (templates, logical representation languages, semantic networks)
        * experience in information extraction, anaphora resolution and
        related areas,
        * good programming skills in Java or C++.


4. Statistical NLP, machine learning, corpus-based methods
- --------------------------------------------------------

Your possible work areas with our company include:
        + statistical parsing
        + statistical models for the construction of meaning
        representations
        + automatic acquisition of domain knowledge/ontology
        + text mining/product name recognition

Your profile:
        * expertise in at least one of the above areas
        * good knowledge of statistical and symbolic machine learning
        methods
        * degree in computer science/applied mathematics/computational
        linguistics or a related area
        * good programming skills (C/C++)

5. Corpora, annotation
- --------------------------

Your task will be the acquisition, construction and preparation of
training corpora for statistical NLP algorithms. You will work for and
report to a statistical NLP expert responsible for the implementation
of training/processing algorithms.

Your profile:

        * a degree in (computational) linguistics
        * experience in the annotation/preparation/processing of
        corpora (PoS corpora, treebanks etc.)
        * familiarity with (main stream) statistical NLP methods
        (e.g., POS tagging)
        * strong programming skills in Perl or script languages
        * good command of German and English
        * programming skills in C/C++/Java would be an asset

___________________________________________________________________________

3/ From?: "Tony Rose" <tgr at cre.canon.co.uk>
   Subject: Open Position at Canon Research Centre Europe


Software Engineer - Information Retrieval

Due to ongoing expansion, Canon Research Centre Europe
(CRE) has a position for a first class Software Engineer in the
Information Retrieval Group. Applications from experienced
software engineers and exceptional recent graduates are
invited for the following position:

Job Specification:
 * to design, develop and maintain prototypes, demonstrators and
   product-level software for multi-lingual information retrieval

 * to perform development activities as an integral member of an
   R&D team working on advanced information retrieval, user
   interface technology, natural language processing & WWW

Requirements:
 * excellent software engineering skills in a variety of languages
   including C/C++ and Java

 * experience of working on commercial software projects

 * excellent academic background: honours degree with significant
   computing content

Desirable:
 * experience of building robust, high performance IR or NLP
   applications

 * track record of initiative and teamwork in software
   development projects

 * expertise in the areas of:
  - C++ standard template library
  - multi-lingual IR systems
  - databases

We offer:

 * Stimulating and flexible working environment
 * Competitive salary and benefits package
 * Excellent career opportunities

Canon has over 75,000 employees world wide. Since its founding,
Canon has moved forward toward its objective of being the
manufacturer of the best products in the world. While pursuing
the pinnacle of quality, we have taken the lead in developing
electronic and automation technologies to enhance the ease of
use of our products. One key to Canon's success has been the
spirit of meeting new technological challenges and at CRE you
will have the opportunity to play a significant part in this.

Because of British Law, preference will be given to applicants
who already have the right to work in the United Kingdom.
To apply, please send your CV with a covering letter to:

The Recruitment Manager, Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd,
1 Occam Court, Occam Road, Guildford GU2 7YJ, United Kingdom
EMAIL: retjob at cre.canon.co.uk PHONE: +44 (0)1483 448 844
FAX: +44 (0)1483 448 845 WEB: www.cre.canon.co.uk

___________________________________________________________________________

4/ From:  Pascale de Brondeau <emplois at delphesintl.com>
   Subject:  Delphes Technologies International, Montr?al, Qu?bec Canada

Rank of Job: n/a
Areas Required: n/a
Other Desired Areas: n/a
University or Organization: Delphes Technologies International
Department: Human Resources
State or Province: Montr?al, Qu?bec
Country: Canada
Final Date of Application: September 30, 2000
Contact: Pascale de Brondeau emplois at delphesintl.com

Address for Applications:
408, rue McGill
Montr?al
Qu?bec H2Y 2G1
Canada

Delphes d?veloppe des solutions infogicielles uniques pour la recherche,
l'acquisition et la gestion de l'information par le traitement dynamique
de l'information en langage naturel. Cette technologie se situe dans la
lign?e des technologies infogicielles les plus avanc?es au monde et
cible actuellement les langues fran?aise, anglaise et espagnole.

Responsabilit?s:
- Construction de segmenteurs et analyse des parties du discours qui
seront int?gr?es ? un syst?me d'analyse linguistique sur des textes en
plusieurs langues (fran?ais, anglais, espagnol);
- D?veloppement et tests des modules de traitement linguistiques
(traitement de l'information en lagage naturel);
- Travail en collaboration avec les membres de l'?quipe informatique.

Pr?-requis:
- Scolarit?: Minimum M. Sc. linguistique computationnelle, priorit? au
Ph. D;
- Exp?rience en linguistique computationnelle, rechreche et extraction
de l'information, traduction automatique bas?e sur le traitement en
langues naturelles, traitement de grands ensembles de donn?es, pratique
de l'implantation du traitement linguistique dans les bases de donn?es
relationnelles;
- Ma?trise des langues fran?aise, anglaise, espagnole, pour l'un des
postes la ma?trise de l'anglais am?ricain est demand?e.

Si vous avez le go?t du challenge et pour en savoir davantage sur notre
vision, veuillez visiter notre site web au www.delphesintl.com. Seul les
candidats(tes) retenus seront contact?s.

___________________________________________________________________________

5/ From:  Ann Lamson <techmav at answerlogic.com>
   Subject:  Computational Linguistics: AnswerLogic, Washington, DC USA


Rank of Job: n/a
Areas Required: Computational Linguistics
Other Desired Areas: C++ / Java
University or Organization: AnswerLogic
Department: Human Resources
State or Province: Washington, DC
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: n/a
Contact: Ann Lamson techmav at answerlogic.com

Address for Applications:
1111 19th Street NW
Washigton
DC 20036
USA

Computational Linguist

AnswerLogic seeks a computational linguist to join its software
development team, building a question-answering system.

Qualified candidates will have a masters or Ph.D. (or equivalent
experience) in computer science, computational linguistics, or a related
field with a focus on natural language processing.  Experience with
natural language parsing, semantics, and corpus analysis is vital; in
addition, familiarity with techniques in information retrieval or
dialogue systems would be advantageous.

Also required, mid to advanced level knowledge of C++/Java (C++
preferred), experience in developing software for NLP applications, and
excellent verbal and written communication skills.

AnswerLogic offers competitive salaries, stock options and full
benefits, as well as a stimulating environment with opportunity for
advancement.  Qualified applicants should send a resume and cover letter
to techmav at answerlogic.com.

___________________________________________________________________________

6/ From:  Jason Patino <jpatino at corp.netzero.net>
   Subject:  Computational Linguist at Net Zero, California USA


Rank of Job:
Areas Required: Recruiter
Other Desired Areas: United States
University or Organization: Net Zero
Department: HR
State or Province: California
Country: USA
Final Date of Application: 12/01/00
Contact: Jason Patino jpatino at corp.netzero.net

Address for Applications:
2555 Townsgate Road
Westlake Village
California 91361
USA

Computational Linguist

Simpli.com (http://www.simpli.com) has developed a technology to enhance
Internet search and targeted content based on ideas derived from
cognitive science and linguistics.   The founders of the company are
largely drawn from the Brown University Department of Cognitive and
Linguistic Sciences and the Department of Computer Science. We are
seeking a computational linguist, or computer scientist/software
engineer with a strong background in linguistics.

Education:
* Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science or Linguistics with a focus on
  Natural Language Processing

Requirements:
* Minimum two years of experience in developing applications for
  corpus-based natural language processing, information retrieval, or
  other related products
* Working knowledge of Perl, C/C++, or Java
* In-depth knowledge of areas such as text analysis and processing,
  data-mining, information extraction (e.g., automatic indexing of large
  text corpora), knowledge-based techniques
  (e.g., the use of ontologies and lexicons), or neural networks for
  unsupervised learning

Preferred:
* Familiarity with Internet Search
* Management and/or leadership experience
* Knowledge of and experience with existing NLP tools
* Significant work experience

Salary and Benefits:
Salary commensurate with experience.  Competitive benefits package.

Environment:
Simpli.com is an up-and-coming internet start-up devoted to improving
web search.  We have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the
Financial Times, and NewsWeek.  We are located in downtown Providence,
Rhode Island within walking distance of Brown University and the Rhode
Island School of Design.  Providence has a vibrant arts community,
museums, theaters, and world class dining.  Living costs are extremely
reasonable.  Providence is an hour from Boston and 4 hours from New
York.

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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:02:15 +0200
Subject: Appel: NAACL-2001
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1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
   Subject: NAACL-2001 Call for Papers

2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
   Subject: NAACL-2001 Student Research Workshop Call for Papers
___________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
   Subject: NAACL-2001 Call for Papers



          PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

              Language Technologies 2001:
    2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the
         Association for Computational Linguistics
                        June 2-7, 2001
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
      http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html

General Conference Chair: Lori Levin (Carnegie Mellon University)
Program Chair: Kevin Knight (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Local Arrangements: Alon Lavie (Carnegie Mellon University)

Papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research
contributions on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but
not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon;
phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and
written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of
language; information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based
language modeling; multilingual processing, machine translation and
translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems;
language in multimedia systems; message and narrative understanding
systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems.

===== SUBMISSION FORMAT

Submissions will be hardcopy.  Submissions must use the appropriate ACL
latex style or Microsoft Word style (links to which will be available from
the conference web page
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html).  Submissions should follow the
two-column format of ACL proceedings and should not exceed eight (8) pages,
including references.  If you cannot use the ACL-standard styles directly,
a description of the required format will be available on the conference
web page.  If you cannot access the conference web page or have other
questions about submissions, send email to naaclpgm at isi.edu.

Reviewing will be blind.  Thus, a separate identification page is
required.  The identification page should include the following:

      * Paper ID number (see SUBMISSION PROCEDURE below).
      * Title.
      * Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses.
      * Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area.
      * Under consideration for other conferences? If yes, please list.
      * Abstract: Short (no more than 5 lines) summary.

Authors' names and affiliations should be omitted from the paper
itself.  Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity
(e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ... ") should be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...".

Papers that do not conform to these requirements are subject to being
rejected without review.

===== SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

1) Submission notification:  You must submit a notification of submission
by filling out a form on the conference web page
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html by November 6, 2000.  This will
return to you an email with a paper ID number that should be included
(printed or handwritten) on the first page of the paper and on the
identification page.  Also, please use it on all correspondence with the
program committee chair.  The form will be available on the web after
October 1, 2000.

2) Paper submission: send six (6) hardcopies of your submission and two (2)
hardcopies of your identification page to

     Kevin Knight (Program Chair, NAACL 2001)
     USC/Information Sciences Institute
     4676 Admiralty Way
     Marina del Rey, CA 90292
     http://www.isi.edu/~knight

Remember to include your ID number on all submissions and identification
pages.  Late submissions will be returned unopened.  Notification of
receipt will be emailed to the first author shortly after receipt.

===== DEADLINES

Electronic submission notification deadline: 6-Nov-00
Hardcopy paper submission deadline: 9-Nov-00
Notification of acceptance for papers: 24-Jan-01
Camera ready papers due: 27-Feb-01
Regular sessions begin: 5-Jun-01
A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final
version.

___________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>
   Subject?: NAACL-2001 Student Research Workshop Call for Papers



                  Preliminary Call for Papers
                           for the
                   Student Research Workshop
                             at
                  Language Technologies 2001:
       2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the
           Association for Computational Linguistics

     Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2-7, 2001


Student Co-Chairs: Krzysztof Czuba, Carnegie Mellon University
                   (kczuba at cs.cmu.edu)
                   Lisa Michaud, University of Delaware
                   (masterma at mail.eecis.udel.edu)

                   (Full contact information below)


Advisor: Deborah Dahl, Unisys Corporation
        (Deborah.Dahl at unisys.com)


Contents: 1. Overview and Purpose of the Student Research Workshop
          2. Topics of Interest
          3. Format of Presentations
          4. Requirements
          5. Paper Publication
          6. Format for Submissions
          7. Timeline
          8. Website
          9. Contact Information



1.  Overview

The North American Chapter of the Association for Computational
Linguistics (ACL) is pleased to announce the student program for the
2nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL).
Through this program, students working in any area of computational
linguistics present research in progress and receive feedback from
other members of the computational linguistics community.  This is a
valuable opportunity for students to solicit comments on their
research from a broad audience including other graduate students and
researchers from academia and industry.  We encourage students of all
levels to participate.


2. Topics of Interest

The Student Research Workshop accepts submission of papers addressing
all topics covered by NAACL.  Please see the main session CFP for a
list of topics, or see the NAACL 2001 webpage at:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html


3. Format of Presentations

Following the format of the successful Student Research Workshop at
NAACL 2000 in Seattle, this year's presentations will involve
responses given by panels of experienced researchers in the field. The
purpose of the panel is to provide the students with clear feedback on
their research and presentation skills.  Two panelists will respond to
each presentation. The panelists will have read the paper beforehand
and prepared supportive comments to help the student identify
strengths and weaknesses.  Following the panelists' comments, there
will be time for general comments from the audience.  The time block
for each paper will be fairly large to accommodate the more extensive
feedback expected in this format.

This year, we would also like to introduce poster presentations.  In
addition to the paper, all presenters will also design a poster for
the Student Poster Session outside of the workshop.  The Student
Poster Session will give the students greater exposure to the NAACL
community at large, particularly those individuals who are unable to
attend the workshop. There will be no separate submission to the
Student Poster Session. The organizers may also choose to invite the
authors of high-quality papers which, due to time constraints, were
not accepted for the Student Workshop, to present their work during
the Student Poster Session.

4. Paper Publication

Papers presented at the NAACL 2001 Student Research Workshop will be
published in the NAACL 2001 Student Research Workshop Proceedings.
The Proceedings will be printed in a volume separate from the main
conference proceedings, following the format adopted for other
preconference workshops.

5. Requirements

Papers submitted to the Student Research Workshop should describe
original, unpublished work in progress.  For student papers presenting
joint work, all co-authors must be students.  Concurrent submission to
other conferences is allowed, but this must be clearly indicated on
the identification page.  If accepted, the paper must be withdrawn
from all other conferences or alternatively may be withdrawn from
NAACL 2001.  Students may not submit the same paper to the main
sessions and the student workshop for NAACL 2001.  Students may, of
course, submit different papers to the main conference and the student
workshop, or papers on different aspects of a particular problem or
project.  The author's decision on which venue is most appropriate for
his or her work should depend on the completion level of the work
(work that has been extensively evaluated may be more appropriately
submitted to the main session, while work in early stages may benefit
most from the Student Workshop venue, where it can receive more
detailed feedback) and on the presentation experience of the student
(the workshop should be seen as an excellent opportunity to present to
a supportive audience whose comments aim to assist in the improvement
of the work rather than to criticize).

5.  Format for Submissions

The maximum allowable length is 3,200 words, including inline
references and footnotes but excluding the identification page,
figures and bibliography.  Electronic submissions are required and
should be either self-contained LaTeX source, PostScript, or PDF (we
encourage postscript submissions).  PostScript submissions must use a
standard font.  LaTeX submissions should not refer to any other
external files or styles except for the standard styles for TeX 3.14
and LaTeX 2.09 or the ACL-standard LaTeX style files.  The bibliography
for a LaTeX submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file; the
actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX
source file.

We strongly recommend the use of ACL-standard LaTeX (including the
bibstyle) or Word style files (which will be available on the website)
for the preparation of submissions.  Authors who have difficulty
accessing the style files from the student web site should contact the
student Co-Chairs for a textual description.

Since reviewing will be blind, the heading of the paper should omit
author names and addresses (this information will be included in the
identification page).  Self-references that reveal the authors'
identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) . . . ") should be
avoided.  Instead, use references in a neutral form (e.g., "Smith
previously showed (1991) . . . ").  Furthermore, avoid obvious
giveaways in the bibliography such as listings for unpublished
in-house technical reports.

Each paper will be reviewed by one non-student and two student
reviewers knowledgeable in the area addressed by the paper.

Identification Page

Identifying information should be on a separate page and must include
the following:

 Title
  Authors' names, affiliations, and e-mail addresses
        Paper identification number
 Designated contact author
 Short (5 line) summary
 Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area
 Submission to other conferences (`none' or a list)

The ACL-standard LaTeX and Word can be used to create the
identification page.

Papers outside the specified length or that do not meet the formatting
guidelines are subject to rejection without review.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Prior to submission, the author or authors must notify the Co-chairs
of the intent to submit via the Student Research Workshop website at:

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~aclstu/naacl01-student/

There will be a form there to submit title, authors, abstract, and
keywords.  Following notification, an identification number will be
assigned to assist in the blind reviewing.

The preferred form for submission is via the author's web site. Load
the PostScript, PDF or self-contained LaTeX file (for papers prepared
using Word, a postscript or PDF file must be submitted) to a web site,
then email the URL to the Co-Chairs at an email address which will be
provided in the final Call for Papers and will be available on the
website.  Make certain you mention the identification number in your
email.

If an author has no web space available, the file containing the paper
can be emailed to the above address.  Only in unusual cases will hard
copy submissions be allowed.  Please contact the Co-Chairs well in
advance of the deadline if you need to make special arrangements.

Late submissions will not be accepted.  Notification of receipt will be
e-mailed to the designated contact author shortly after receipt.

6. Timeline

The preliminary timeline for the Student Research Workshop follows the
main session timeline:

   Deadline for electronic notification of intent to submit:
      November 6, 2000

   Submission deadline:
      November 9, 2000

   Acceptance notification:
      January 24, 2001

   Camera-ready papers due by:
      February 27, 2001

   Workshop date:
      The exact date is still to be determined.  The workshop will
      take place before the main NAACL conference, either on the
      3rd or 4th of June 2001.


7.  Website

Updated information, including this CFP, will be available at this
website address:

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~aclstu/naacl01-student/


8.  Contact Information

Inquiries to the Co-Chairs of the student session should be sent to:

Krzysztof Czuba
Language Technologies Institute
Newell-Simon Hall 4605
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: (412) 268 6521
Fax: (412) 268 6298
email: kczuba at cs.cmu.edu

Lisa Michaud
Computer and Information Sciences Department
214 Smith Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302) 831-3643
Fax: (302) 831-4091
email: michaud at cis.udel.edu   (email is the best)



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Aug 25 15:03:17 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 17:03:17 +0200
Subject: Appel: PAKDD-01
Message-ID: <FRI.25.AUG.2000.170317.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Graham Williams <Graham.Williams at cmis.csiro.au>

    1st call for papers

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         The Fifth

    Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
         (PAKDD-01)

                    Hong Kong, April 16 - 18, 2001

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      http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01

  The Fifth Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
  Mining (PAKDD-01) will be an international forum for the sharing of
  original and innovative research results and practical applications
  and experiences among researchers and application developers from
  the many constituent areas of KDD, including artificial
  intelligence, databases, e-commerce, Internet computing, machine
  learning, high performance computing, statistics and
  visualization. This conference builds on the success of PAKDD-97
  (Singapore), PAKDD-98 (Australia), PAKDD-99 (China) and PAKDD-00
  (Japan) by bringing together participants from universities,
  industry and government.

  With the growing number of successful applications and systems
  development in KDD in enterprise computing and e-commerce the
  conference encourages submissions on practical experiences in
  applying KDD techniques to real-world applications.

SUBMISSION by 12 November 2000

  Conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag (in the
  Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series). All submissions
  should follow the Springer-Verlag guidelines and be no more than 12
  pages. (Formatting information is available from the conference web
  site at http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01).

  Please include a cover page containing the title, authors (names,
  postal and email addresses), a 200-word abstract and up to 5
  keywords.  Authors are invited to submit their papers electronically
  (as PostScript or PDF attachments) following the instructions on the
  conference web page at http://www.csis.hku.hk/pakdd01 or send five
  copies to:

    David Cheung (PAKDD-01)
    E-Business Technology Institute
    The University of Hong Kong
    Pokfulam, Hong Kong

AWARDS AND JOURNAL PUBLICATION

  The PAKDD Best Paper Award will be conferred on the authors of the
  best paper at the conference.

  Authors of selected papers will be invited to have their paper
  included in a special issue of an international journal.

TOPICS

  We invite submissions in the areas of KDD research and application.
  Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

    Foundations and principles of data mining
    New application challenges and requirements
    Web based mining
    Data mining applications in e-commerce
    Resource discovery in the Internet
    Internet standards for data mining
    Data mining and data warehousing
    Data mining in multidimensional databases
    Data mining in heterogeneous databases
    Data mining support for data warehouse design
    Integration with data warehousing/OLAP
    Parallel and distributed mining
    Statistical methods in data mining
    Rule induction and decision trees
    Clustering and classification
    Exploratory data analysis
    Visual data mining and visualization
    Machine learning for data mining
    Knowledge representation and acquisition in KDD
    Performance and benchmarks of KDD systems
    Security and social impact of data mining

TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

  Tutorials and Workshops will form a key component of the
  conference. It is planned to hold them on Monday, 16 April 2001.
  Proposals for addressing issues in data mining, knowledge discovery
  and applications are invited.

  New applications such as temporal and spatial data mining, Asian
  language text mining, collaborative filtering, personalization, eCRM
  and e-marketplace data mining are of special interest.

  Tutorial and workshop proposals (preferably by email) should be
  submitted by 30 October 2000 to the respective Chair:


    Joshua Z Huang, Tutorial Chair
    E-Business Technology Institute
    The University of Hong Kong
    Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
    jhuang at eti.hku.hk

    Michael K Ng, Workshop Chair
    Department of Mathematics
    The University of Hong Kong
    Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
    mng at maths.hku.hk

DEMONSTRATIONS

  Proposals for live demonstrations of research projects, prototypes,
  experimental systems, and/or potential commercial products are
  encouraged. Each proposal should include a title page containing the
  title, names of presenters and their postal/Email addresses, and a
  two-page description of the demo system.  Proposals (preferably by
  email) should be submitted by 15 January 2001 to the Demonstration
  Chair at jiming at comp.hkbu.edu.hk.

    Jiming Liu, Demonstration Chair
    Department of Computer Science
    Hong Kong Baptist University
    Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong


IMPORTANT DATES

  Tutorial proposals     : 30 October  2000
  Workshop proposals  : 30 October  2000
  Submissions due date   : 12 November 2000
  Notification date      : 24 December 2000
  Demonstration proposals: 15 January  2001
  Camera ready date      : 23 January  2001
  Conference date        : 16-18 April 2001

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  Rohan Baxter           CSIRO, Australia
  Keith Chan             Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Surajit Chaudhuri      Microsoft, USA
  Ming-Syan Chen         National Taiwan University
  Umeshwar Dayal         Hewlett-Packard Labs, USA
  Tharam Dillon          Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  Guozhu Dong            Wright State University, USA
  Ada Fu                 Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Yike Guo               Imperial College, UK
  Jayant Haritsa         Indian Institute of Science, India
  Markus Hegland         Australian National University
  Robert Hilderman       University of Regina, Canada
  Joshua Z Huang         University of Hong Kong
  Moon Yul Huh           SKK University, Korea
  Ben Kao                University of Hong Kong
  Kamal Karlapalem       Hong Kong UST
  Hiroyuki Kawano        University of Kyoto, Japan
  Jinho Kim              Kangwon National U., Korea
  Sang-Wook Kim          Kangwon National University, Korea
  Masaru Kitsuregawa     University of Tokyo, Japan
  Kevin Korb             Monash University, Australia
  Laks V.S. Lakshmanan   Concordia U. and IIT, Bombay
  Doheon Lee             Chonnam National University, Korea
  T Y Lin                San Jose State University, USA
  Bing Liu               National University of Singapore
  Huan Liu               Arizona State University, USA
  Jiming Liu             Hong Kong Baptist University
  Hongjun Lu             Hong Kong UST
  Hiroshi Motoda         Osaka University, Japan
  Raymond Ng             UBC, Canada
  Kyuseok Shim           KAIST, Korea
  Il-Yeol Song           Drexel University, USA
  Changjie Tang          Sichuan University, China
  Zhaohui Tang           Microsoft, USA
  Ah-Hwee Tan            Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore
  Takao Terano           University of Tsukuba, Japan
  Bhavani Thurasingham   MITRE, USA
  Kyu-Young Whang        KAIST, Korea
  Ian Witten             University of Waikato, New Zealand
  Xindong Wu             Colorado School of Mines, USA
  Yiyu Yao               University of Regina, Canada
  Clement Yu             University of Illinois, USA
  Jeffrey Yu             Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Philip Yu              IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
  Ning Zhong             Maebashi Institute of Technology
  Aoying Zhou            Fudan University, China
  Lizhu Zhou             Tsinghua University, China


ORGANIZATION

Conference Chairs:
 Chung-Jen Tan (University of Hong Kong and IBM Watson)
 Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Program Committee Chairs:
 David Cheung (University of Hong Kong)
 Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong)
 Graham Williams (CSIRO, Australia)

Tutorial Chair:
 Joshua Z Huang (University of Hong Kong)

Workshop Chair:
 Michael K Ng (University of Hong Kong)

Industrial Chair:
 Joseph Fong (City University of Hong Kong)

Demonstration Chair:
 Jiming Liu  (Baptist University of Hong Kong)

Local arrangements Chairs:
 Ronnie Cheung (Hong Kong Poly University)
 Ben Kao (University of Hong Kong)

Publicity Chairs:
 Vincent Ng (Hong Kong Poly University)
 Rohan Baxter (CSIRO, Australia)
 Hiroyuki Kawano (Kyoto University, Japan)

Treasurer:
 Ada Fu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Wed Aug 30 07:55:07 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:55:07 +0200
Subject: Conf: Tutorials on "Information Exploitation and Learning from
 Text"
Message-ID: <WED.30.AUG.2000.095507.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Gabriel Pereira Lopes <gpl at di.fct.unl.pt>



Dear coleagues,

I would like to invite you to participate in Lisbon on the tutorials
sessions on "Information Exploitation and Learning from Text". This
event will occur in September 15-16, at Institututo Superior T?cnico.

 Complete information can be found at:
http://pc-gpl.di.fct.unl.pt/~glint/tutorials/tutorials.html

It follows a series of workshops and symposia on Machine Learning
applied to Natural languages that will all take place at the same
premises:

5th International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference (ICGI-2000),
September 11-13, 2000 (http://vinci.inesc.pt/icgi-2000/)

2nd Learning Language In Logic Workshop (LLL 2000), September 13-14,
2000

 4th Meeting of the Interest Group on Computational Natural
Language Learning (CoNLL-2000), September 14, 2000

Fees for those attending  any of the previous workshops, simposium or
meeting are reduced. As well as the fees for students. Members of APPIA
pay also reduced fees.

The organization of the tutorial series on "Information Extraction and
Learning from Text" was solicited by the Board of APPIA (the Portuguese
Association for Artificial Intelligence) and its President, Prof. Pavel
Brazdil.

The tutorials programme can be found at the web page mentioned above as
well as other important information

We will count with the participation of Gregory Grefenstette (Automatic
Thesaurus Construction); Nuno Marques (Neural nets based POS-tagging and
unsupervised learning of verbal frame
subcategorization); Joaquim Ferreira da Silva & Gael Dias (Statistical
extraction of contiguous and
non-contiguous patterns of words, characters and POS-tags from text);
Raymond Mooney (Inductive Logic Programming for Natural Language);
Walter Daelemans (Memory-Based Language Processing: Applications in
Language Engineering); Dunja Mladenic (Document Categorization by
Modeling Human
Expert); Ant?nio Ribeiro (Statistical alignment of parallel text and
extraction of translation equivalents); Vitor Rocio and Jo?o Balsa
(Symbolic adaptive parsing: declarative fault finding, multi-parsers
correction proposals, results validation and learning)

Event organizer,

Gabriel Pereira Lopes
Departamento de Inform?tica
Faculdade de Ci?ncias e Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Quinta da Torre
2825-114 Caparica
Portugal
phone: (351) 21 294 85 36
fax: (351) 21 294 85 41
e-mail: gpl at di.fct.unl.pt





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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:53:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: IWCS-4
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From: Harry Bunt <Harry.Bunt at kub.nl>


                    Fourth International Workshop on

                        COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS

                             (IWCS-4)

             January 10-12, 2001, Tilburg, The Netherlands

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                         Sponsored by SIGSEM,
          the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Semantics

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

                          CALL FOR PAPERS

The Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Unit at
Tilburg University will host the Fourth International Workshop on
Computational Semantics (IWCS-4), that will take place from 10-12
January 2001. The aim of the workshop is to bring together
researchers interested in any aspects of the computation of
meaning in natural language or in language-based multimedia
objects.

                     +------------------------+
                     |    INVITED SPEAKERS:   |
                     |                        |
                     |      James Allen       |
                     |     Jan van Eijck      |
                     |    Alex Lascarides     |
                     |                        |
                     +------------------------+

                         TOPICS OF INTEREST

Topics of interest for the workshop will be computational aspects
of formal semantic theories as well as theoretical issues in
building natural language understanding systems, including systens
where language is used in a multimedia setting. Papers are invited
in areas which include, but are not limited to, the following
specific topics:

      * working with underspecified representations of meaning
      * modelling and using context for interpretation
      * the relations between semantics and pragmatics
      * dynamic interpretation in text and dialogue
      * interpretation and games
      * computational lexical semantics
      * interpretation and inference
      * meaning in multimedia objects
      * interpretation and optimality
      * speech acts and interpretation
      * incrementality and monotonicity in interpretation
      * knowledge representation and reasoning in meaning computation


                       SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Authors are asked to submit an original paper of maximally 5000
words by September 15, 2000, by email in Postscript form. All
submitted papers that are received in time will be refereed by the
programme committee and may be accepted for full presentation at
the workshop and publication in the proceedings, or for a
short/poster presentation and publication of a 2-page abstract. We
also aim at publishing a selection of accepted papers in book
form. Accepted papers should be submitted in final form in LaTeX;
guidelines for the preparation of manuscripts are available at the
IWCS web pages:

                 http://www.sigsem.org/iwcs4.html

For initial submission email a Postscript version of the paper to:
Computational.Semantics at kub.nl by September 15, 2000.


                        PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

                 David Beaver         Martha Palmer
                 Patrick Blackburn    Manfred Pinkal
                 Harry Bunt (chair)   Steve Pulman
                 Robin Cooper         James Pustejovsky
                 Jan van Eijck        Allan Ramsay
                 Giacomo Ferrari      Patrick Saint Dizier
                 Jerry Hobbs          Mark Steedman
                 Daniel Kayser        Enric Vallduvi
                 Paul Mc Kevitt       Wlodek Zadrozny
                 Reinhard Muskens     Henk Zeevat
                 John Nerbonne


                         ORGANISING COMMITTEE

         Harry Bunt        Reinhard Muskens       Huub Prust
             Ielka van der Sluis        Elias Thijsse


                           IMPORTANT DATES

         15 September  2000 Submission of papers
         15 October    2000 Notification of acceptance
         15 November   2000 Final papers due
         10-12 January 2001 Workshop


                         FURTHER INFORMATION

         Conference Secretariat:
         Anne Adriaensen/Carol McGregor
         Department of Linguistics
         Tilburg University
         PO Box 90153,
         5000 LE Tilburg
         The Netherlands

         Email: Computational.Semantics at kub.nl
         Phone: +31-13 466 30 60
         Fax:   +31-13 466 31 10

         WWW: http://www.sigsem.org/iwcs4.html

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 Harry C. Bunt
 Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
 Tilburg University
 P.O. Box 90153
 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
 Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
                     2568 (Dean's office)
                     2653 (office, room B 310)
 Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
 Harry.Bunt at kub.nl
 WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm
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