From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jun 7 17:21:01 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:21:01 +0200 Subject: Conf: 3e journees INTEX Message-ID: From: ms1 at us.ibm.com ************************************************************ 3es Journées INTEX, Liège, les 13 et 14 juin 2000 ************************************************************ (English version below) INTEX est une plate-forme d'ingénierie linguistique permettant de développer (éditer, tester et maintenir) des ressources linguistiques à large couverture et de les appliquer à des textes de taille importante. Ces ressources ont la forme de dictionnaires électroniques, bibliothèques de graphes et bases de donnée de type lexique-grammaire. INTEX est fondé sur la technologie des machines à états finis (automates et transducteurs). Ce choix permet d'une part une efficacité de traitement optimale (lorsqu'on applique des dictionnaires ou grammaires à des textes de taille importante), et garantit que les ressources linguistiques accumulées peuvent être réutilisables. Une particularité du système INTEX est son ouverture : les utilisateurs peuvent ajouter leurs propres ressources linguistiques au système et utiliser les fonctionnalités élémentaires d'INTEX (consultation de dictionnaire, application de transducteurs à des textes, indexation, etc.) dans leurs propres applications. Une API INTEX sera bientôt disponible. INTEX utilise des dictionnaires à large couverture construits "à la main" dans le but initial d'analyser automatiquement des textes en langue naturelle, dont le système DELA du LADL. Des ressources linguistiques compatibles ont été développées pour une douzaine de langues par les laboratoires du réseau RELEX. Comme les deux premières éditions (juin 1996 et juin 1999), ces journées seront l'occasion pour les utilisateurs d'INTEX de se rencontrer et d'échanger leur expérience de développeur, de chercheur ou d'enseignant. Pour les nouveaux utilisateurs ou les chercheurs travaillant dans d'autres cadres, ces journées offrent la possibilité de découvrir des applications variées de la technologie des machines à états finis. En plus des communications portant sur des recherches ou développements en cours, des séances de tutoriels sont prévues. Pour tous renseignements : http://cipl.philo.ulg.ac.be/intex ************************************************************ 3rd INTEX Workshop, Liège, June 13th and 14th, 2000 ************************************************************ INTEX is a development environment that allows linguists to develop (edit, test and maintain) large-coverage linguistic resources, and to apply them to large texts. Linguistic Resources are in the form of electronic dictionaries, libraries of graphs and lexicon-grammars. INTEX is based on Finite State Technology (automata and transducers). This provides very fast processing (when applying large dictionaries or grammars to large texts), and garanties that the accumulated linguistic resources can be re-used. Another characteristic of INTEX is that users can add their own linguistic resources, and can use the INTEX elementary functionalities (dictionary lookup, Transducer executors, indexing texts, etc.) in their own applications. An INTEX API will soon be available. INTEX uses large-coverage dictionaries constructed by linguists specifically for Natural Language Processing, such as the LADL DELA system. Compatible linguistic resources have been developed for a dozen languages by the laboratories of the RELEX network. As the two first INTEX workshops (June 1996 and June 1999), this workshop will give the INTEX users the opportunity to meet and confront their experience as developers, researchers or teachers. For new INTEX users or for researchers who work in other frameworks, the workshop will be an opportunity to discover a wide spectrum of research projects based on Finite State technology. Beside the presentations of the various research projects and developments, tutorials are planned. For any information, see: http://cipl.philo.ulg.ac.be/intex ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jun 7 17:20:24 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:20:24 +0200 Subject: Appel: TELRI Message-ID: From: Milena Slavcheva Second Call for Papers 5th TELRI Seminar Corpus Lingustics: How to Extract Meaning from Corpora 22-24 September 2000 Ljubljana, Slovenia The fifth in the series of TELRI (Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure) seminars will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 22-24 September 2000 with the theme "Corpus Linguistics: How to Extract Meaning from Corpora". Theme The universe of discourse, that is, the ensemble of all communication acts of a discourse community, functions as an autonomous semantic system. This does not contest that texts may also refer to some discourse-external reality. But first and foremost texts, text segments and text elements refer to previous occurrences: they address, paraphrase and rearrange segments and elements that have been used before, in the same text or in other texts. Corpus linguistics detects and analyzes the recurrence of meaningful conglomerates in the discourse, combining statistical and categorial approaches and resulting in the structured presentation of the evidence. This evidence represents the shareable meaning of text segments and text elements. The paraphrases we find in the discourse tell us how to understand them; usage, that is, information on how segments and elements are embedded in their contexts, tells us how to produce texts in which they are being used. Corpus linguistics is about extracting meaning from (monolingual, comparable or parallel) corpora. Corpus linguistics generates the semantic knowledge which is the basis of language practice as in information extraction, translation or foreign language document authoring. Corpus linguistics is the prime approach to Human Language Technology if we understand HLT as the technology for dealing with general unrestricted language as opposed to controlled languages as formal calculi. The TELRI Seminar will feature contributions focussing on all aspects of extracting meaning from corpora. Invited Speakers To be announced. Young Researchers Workshop A pre-seminar workshop on Thursday, September 21, is dedicated to presentations of work in progress by young researchers, that is, graduate students and young research fellows. Seminar fees will be waived for young researchers presenting at the Seminar. TELRI will investigate further possibilities for financial support. Software Demonstrations A goal of the seminar is to stimulate cooperation between industry and academia in the West and in Central and Eastern Europe. The programme will include sessions devoted to demonstrating commercial and public domain software with emphasis on information extraction systems. Seminar fees will be waived for software presenters. Papers Papers and presentations should be 30 minutes long including discussion. A selection will be published after the seminar. Fees will be waived for accepted speakers. Submission Guidelines Authors are requested to submit abstracts which should not exceed 600 words. The address for electronic submission is: telri-admin at ids-mannheim.de Fees Academic participants: EUR 50/20* Industrial participants: EUR 100/30* Students: EUR 20/10* * refers to fees for participants from CEE/NIS Schedule Abstract Submission Due: 5 June 2000 Notification of Acceptance: 10 July 2000 Venue This year's TELRI seminar will take place in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, a medieval town at the crossroads of Mediterranean and Central-European cultures. The venue of the seminar will be the Faculty of Arts, located near the historical centre of the town and within walking distance to most hotels. The Faculty itself has recently been extended with an annexe, which provides new, well-equipped and airy classrooms for the seminar sessions as well as a cafeteria for the coffee breaks. OHP and beamer will be available in the presentation rooms; Internet access will be provided in the computer lab in the main building. Further Information Further information can be obtained from: http://www.telri.de/ http://nl.ijs.si/telri00/ telri-admin at ids-mannheim.de ------------------------------------------------------------ ************************************************************************** Milena Slavcheva Manager, TELRI II project Multilinguale Forschung Tel: +49 621 1581 427 Abteilung LEXIK Fax: +49 621 1581 415 Institut fuer deutsche Sprache E-mail: slavchev at mx300e.ids-mannheim.de R5, 6-13 www.telri.de D-68161 Mannheim ************************************************************************** ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jun 7 17:19:58 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:19:58 +0200 Subject: Conf: IMPACTS Message-ID: From: Stephan Busemann FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPACTS in Natural Language Generation NLG Between Technology and Applications July 26-28, 2000 - immediately preceding COLING 2000 - Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany Homepage: http://impacts.dfki.de IMPACTS is supported as a "SIGGEN NLG Workshop". ------------------------------------------------------------------ The IMPACTS workshop aims at studying, discussing, and clarifying the relationships between NLG technologies and applications. The workshop addresses - researchers and developers in NLG, - current and potential users of NLG applications, - the interplay between statistical and rule-based NLG, - the reusability of modules within NLG systems. IMPACTS will be an ideal opportunity to discuss current issues and future prospects in Natural Language Generation with prominent researchers in the field, in the stimulating environment of Schloss Dagstuhl. THE WORKSHOP The workshop will consist of three types of sessions: presentation of submitted papers, an invited talk and several "burning issues" sessions. In order to implement our concept of a discussion-intensive event, we have invited six "burning issues" presentations taking up the main topic of the workshop. They will initiate interesting discussions within small groups (10-15 participants), and last two hours up to half a day. A plenum session will have reports of all discussions. Sessions already confirmed will be chaired by Eduard Hovy (ISI, Univ. of California, USA) and Chris Mellish (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK); more details can be found soon at the IMPACTS web site. The invited talk will be given by David McDonald (Brandeis University, USA). ACCOMODATION AND REGISTRATION Please register soon; as Schloss Dagstuhl has limited capacity, registration will be on a first come, first serve basis. All participants will stay at Schloss Dagstuhl. Cost is DM 450 (approx. US$ 210) per person, including full board, in single rooms with a shower. Please register directly with the organizers using the simple registration procedure outlined at http://impacts.dfki.de/#registration = The early registration fee (before July 1, 2000) is DM 170 (approx. US$ 80) and includes a copy of the proceedings. Late registration will cost DM 220 (approx US$ 100). DATES IMPACTS will take place from July 26-28, 2000 at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl (http://www.dagstuhl.de). Arrival is on Tuesday, July 25. The workshop will take until Friday, July 28, after lunch. IMPACTS immediately precedes the events of COLING 2000 taking place in Luxembourg, Saarbr=FCcken, and Nancy. Schloss Dagstuhl is situated in the= Saarland, allowing participants to reach the COLING tutorials on July 29 conveniently. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbr=FCcken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Stephan Busemann, DFKI Saarbr=FCcken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Robert Dale, Language Technology Pty Ltd and Macquarie University, Australia Laurence Danlos, LORIA, France Michael Elhadad, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA Richard Kittredge, CoGenTex Inc., USA Inderjeet Mani, Mitre Corporation, USA David D. McDonald, Gensym Corporation, USA Cecile Paris, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia Owen Rambow, AT&T, USA Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK Donia Scott, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jun 7 17:25:09 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:25:09 +0200 Subject: Divers: FoLLI Dissertation award Message-ID: From: Christof Monz --- We apologize for multiple copies --- 2000 FoLLI Dissertation Award Call for Nominations The European Association for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI) is inviting nominations for the 2000 edition of the FoLLI Dissertation Award to be awarded annually to an outstanding dissertation in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation. FoLLI gratefully acknowledges sponsorship of this prize by funds from the Spinoza Prize awarded to Johan van Benthem. We are happy to announce that an amount of 1000 EURO will be allocated to one or more award recipients. It is at the discretion of the Prize Committee to allocate the prize money to a single nominee or to divide the prize among two recipients. Eligibility Ph.D. theses in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation by authors who completed the Ph.D. degree between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99. Submission Details 1. A letter of nomination by the thesis supervisor. (N.B. Self-applications by Ph.D. holders are not possible. Each application must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor.) The letter from the student's Ph.D. advisor should verify that the degree was conferred between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99. 2. Two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. 3. An abstract of the thesis, prepared by the author of the thesis and not to exceed five pages in length 4. A hard copy of the dissertation All materials have to be sent as hard-copy to Mr. Marco de Vries, FoLLI Secretary, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Authors are advised to have their Ph.D.thesis available on the Web, if possible. Submissions Deadline All materials have to be received by June 10, 2000. Prize Committee Anne Abeille Natasha Alechina Patrick Blackburn Nissim Francez Paul Gochet (chair) Valentin Goranko Markus Kracht Larry Moss Francesco Orilia Manfred Pinkal Christian Retore Rob van der Sandt Further Details Please consult the FoLLI web site at http://www.folli.uva.nl for further details. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Jun 8 18:35:38 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:35:38 +0200 Subject: Appel: Translting and the Computer Message-ID: From: Nicole Adamides Apologies if you receive more than one copy of this announcement - it has been sent to several lists. ************************************************************* 22nd Caonference "Translting and the Computer" 16-17 November 2000 One Great George Street, London, SW1 ************************************************************* The annual conference "Translating and the Computer" has been an important forum for Machine Translation and Translation Aids users over the past 21 years. The conference is one of the few international events which focuses on the user aspects of translation software and as such has been particularly beneficial to a very wide audience including translators, business managers, researchers and language experts. Against the background of an increasingly multilingual society and the all-encompassing impact of information technology, this year's conference will address the latest developments in translation (and translation-related) software. This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the conference. The papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user aspects of translation or translation-related software rather than on research and development issues. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations are especially welcome. TOPICS The range of conference topics includes (but is not limited to) * use of Machine Translation (MT) systems * machine-aided translation and translation aids * memory based translation * controlled languages and their use in MT * speech translation * terminology * localisation * translation aids for minority languages * multilingual document management/workflow * experience of companies using translation software * translating and the computer: the new millennium challenges * the Internet and translation aids PROGRAMME CHAIRS Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK Chris Pyne, ICE, Germany Daniel Grasmick, SAP, Germany SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are requested to submit an extended abstract (between 500 and 1000 words) of the paper they would like to present. Extended abstracts should be sent by post, fax or email before 23 June 2000 to: Nicole Adamides, Conference Organiser ASLIB, The Association for Information Management Staple Hall, Stone House Court, London, EC3A 7PB Tel: +44 (0) 20 7903 0000 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7903 0011 Email nicole.adamides at aslib.com WWW: http://www.aslib.com The full-length versions of the accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Electronic versions of the full papers are expected at Aslib by 1 October 2000. The authors will be informed if their papers have been accepted or not by 1 August 2000. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Jun 8 18:36:13 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:36:13 +0200 Subject: Appel: MT 2000 Message-ID: From: "Roger Harris" British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm --------------------------------------------- Date: Thursday 1st June 2000 From: Roger Harris (rwsh at dircon.co.uk) --------------------------------------------- **************************** EXTENDED DEADLINE 19 June 2000 ***************************** INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MT AND MULTILINGUAL NLP MT 2000: MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Exeter, United Kingdom 20-22 November 2000 The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group (NLTSG) of the British Computer Society (BCS) and the University of Exeter announce an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter (UK) on 20-22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful conference "Machine Translation: 10 Years On" held in 1994 in Cranfield. Against the backdrop of increasingly multilingual society, MT2000 will look at the main challenges to MT and multilingual NLP at the dawn of the new millennium. The focus of this year's conference is not only recent machine translation research and products, but latest multilingual developments in general. The organisers aim to attract a wide range of contributions from researchers, users, educationalists and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. A selection of papers will be published in book form soon after the conference. There will also be an exhibition area and an opportunity to hold poster sessions. * Topics We invite papers covering multilingual aspects of any NLP task/application. We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas; the following list of possible topics is not exhaustive and is intended to indicate areas of probable interest. Machine translation (developments, techniques, applications) Translation aids Controlled Languages Computer-assisted language learning Corpora (construction, annotation, exploitation) Evaluation Part-of-speech tagging Parsing Information retrieval Information extraction Automatic abstracting Word-sense disambiguation Lexical knowledge acquisition Anaphora resolution Text categorisation Dialogues systems Web-based NLP applications NL generation Speech processing Translation studies Terminology Lexicography Syntax Semantics Discourse Pragmatics * Invited speakers Martin Kay (Xerox Parc) Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) * Programme Committee Mona Baker (UMIST, Manchester) Christian Boitet (Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble) Francis Bond (NTT, Kyoto) Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon) Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan) Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp) Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney) Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice) Laurie Gerber (Systran Software Inc.) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble) Changning Huang (Microsoft, China) John Hutchins (University of Anglia) Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Labs) Gareth Jones (University of Exeter) Martin Kay (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto) Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton) Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal) Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht) Tara O'Leary (TRADOS Ireland) Derek Lewis (University of Exeter), Co-Chair Gabriel Lopez (New Lisbon University) Bente Maegard (Center of Language Technology, Copenhagen) Chris Manning (Stanford University) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Co-Chair Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton) Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante) Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University) Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens) Stephen Pulman (University of Cambridge) Lucia Rino (Federal University of Sao Carlos) Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University Barcelona) Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex, Brighton) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Isabelle Trancoso (INEC, Lisbon) Arturo Trujillo (Vocalis plc, Cambridge) Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo) Agnes Tutin (Stendahl University Grenoble) Karin Vespoor (Intelligenesis, New York) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) Lotfi Zadeh (University of California) * Submission Guidelines Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be written in English and should not exceed 7 single-column pages (preferred font: Times New Roman 12) including figures, tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature the title of the paper, the author's name(s), the author's surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Electronic submissions (attached postscript files, pdf, rtf or Word files) are encouraged. The address for e-mail paper submissions is: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk In addition, the abstracts of the papers should be separately emailed to Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk). The papers will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines on how to produce the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings. * Schedule Paper Submission Due: 19 June 2000 Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2000 Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September 2000 Conference: 20-22 November 2000 * Venue The conference venue will be the Crossmeads Conference Centre at the University of Exeter. Exeter is an historic city in the heart of Devon in the South West of England. The campus is celebrated as one of the most beautiful in the United Kingdom. Exeter's international airport is a few miles away. There are good rail and coach links to London, Birmingham and other UK cities. * Exhibitions The conference will host exhibitions of software products and books related to multilingual NLP. Companies/organisations interested in exhibiting their products should contact Derek Lewis (see below). * Call for participation A call for participation, including the conference program and attendance fees, will be posted in August. * Further information Further information can be obtained from Derek Lewis Queen's Building University of Exeter Exeter United Kingdom EX4 4QH Telephone/fax: ++44 (0)1392 264296 / 264306 E-mail: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk or from David Wigg, NLTSG Telephone: +44 (0) 1732 455446 E-mail: wiggjd at bcs.org.uk Conference web site: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/index.htm Exeter University web-site: http://www.exeter.ac.uk -------------( end )----------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Jun 8 18:36:22 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:36:22 +0200 Subject: Conf: Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation Message-ID: From: Detmar Meurers ESSLLI'2000 Workshop on LINGUISTIC THEORY AND GRAMMAR IMPLEMENTATION 14.-18. August 2000 Birmingham, Great Britain PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Monday: Introduction + Invited talk by Martin Kay - Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers (Universität Tübingen) Shuly Wintner (University of Pennsylvania): Introduction - Martin Kay (Xerox PARC): "Taking underspecification seriously" Tuesday: Grammars and grammar implementation platforms - Stefanie Dipper (IMS Stuttgart), Annette Frank (Xerox Europe), Tracy Holloway King (Xerox PARC), Jonas Kuhn (IMS Stuttgart), John Maxwell (Xerox PARC): "Ambiguity management in grammar writing" - Anne Abeillé, Marie-Helene Candito, Alexandra Kinyon (Paris 7): "FTAG: developing and maintaining a wide-coverage grammar for French" - William Schuler, David Chiang, Mark Dras (University of Pennsylvania): "A multi-level TAG approach to dependency" Wednesday: Categorial grammar related approaches - Aline Villavicencio (University of Cambridge, England): "The use of default unification in a system of lexical types" - Julia Hockenmaier, Gann Bierner, Jason Baldridge (University of Edinburgh): "Providing robustness for a CCG system" - Shravan Vasishth (Ohio State University) Geert-Jan M. Kruijff (Charles University, Prague): "Processing as abduction: a sentence processing model" Thursday: Constituency and linearization - Stefan Müller (DFKI Saarbrücken): "Continuous or discontinuous constituents?" - Frederik Fouvry, Detmar Meurers (Universität Tübingen): "Towards a platform for linearization grammars" - Jesse Tseng (Universität Tübingen, University of Edinburgh): "Linearizing parentheticals in German: The limitations of phrase-structure" Friday: Semantics / shallow preprocessing - Jonathan Ginzburg, Howard Gregory, Shalom Lappin (King's College London): "A dialogue system for interpreting fragments" - António Branco (Universidade de Lisboa): "Specification and verification of binding constraints: An integrated account" - Tzvetomira Venkova (St Kliment Ochridski University, Sofia): "A local grammar disambiguator of compound conjunctions as a pre-processor for deep analysers" Accepted paper which cannot be presented at the workshop: - Carolyn Penstein Rose (University of Pittsburgh): "Syntactic framework for semantic interpretation" Alternates: - Philippe Blache (LPL-CNRS, Université de Provence): "Property grammars and the problem of constraint satisfaction" - Liviu-Virgil Ciortuz (DFKI Saarbrücken): "Scaling up the abstract machine for unification of OSF-terms to parsing with large-scale typed unification grammars" ------- All information concerning this workshop is available from: http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/events/esslli00/ For information on the ESSLLI summer school, please visit: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli/ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Jun 8 18:36:26 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:36:26 +0200 Subject: Conf: ECAI Message-ID: From: "ECAI 2000 Publicity [Markus Hannebauer]" [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies of this call.] --------------- 2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------- ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems Berlin, Humboldt University August 20-25, 2000 http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE 15th of June 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organized by German Informatics Society (GI) and European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Hosted by Humboldt University Berlin In this special turn of the century we invite you to celebrate ECAI 2000 in Berlin. Being the fourteenth in a very successful series of European Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2000 will offer a unique opportunity to bring industry and academics together to explore the full spectrum of Artificial Intelligence, from theory and methodology to its application in commercial systems. Respond to the call of the German Informatics Society (GI) and the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, the world's largest umbrella organization for AI, and meet well- known AI experts at Humboldt University Berlin, a University that can proudly look back on almost 200 years of tradition and 29 associated Nobel prize winners. Since the year 2000 is a special year, we will make ECAI 2000 a very special conference. ECAI 2000 gathered 443 submissions from which, however, only 140 have been accepted for presentation. Although the majority of papers comes from Europe, there is a significant number of papers from Australia, Asia, and North America, leading to a total of 42 contributing countries. Furthermore, ECAI 2000 comprises six invited talks plus one public talk given by distinguished scientists, master-class lec- tures in 10 tutorials and serious discussions of hot new research topics in 30 workshops. The real success of Artificial intelligence will be measured by the applications that use the technology rather than the techno- logy itself. For the first time, ECAI comprises the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems sub-conference (PAIS 2000), which is the first major European showcase of beneficial solu- tions for industry and commerce based on AI technologies. ECAI and PAIS are accompanied by an exhibition concept that re- flects AI's history, its gaining grounds in the 20th century and its progress paths envisioned into the 21st century. We also plan to have a rather unusual sidetrack meant to attract layman such that ECAI 2000 becomes an event in Berlin and not only one of diverse scientific congresses hardly noticed by the public. In so far, we aim at presenting AI on ECAI 2000 in a very broad scope in order to show its relation to other classical and advanced IT topics. In the following we will present a short glance at the program of ECAI 2000. We will also provide some information on registra- tion deadlines and fees. More detailed information is available on the conference home page at ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de ----------------------------------------------------------------- Do not miss this opportunity. Register now and be cordially welcome at ECAI 2000 in Berlin! --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- 15 Jun 2000 Early Registration Deadline 1 Aug 2000 Late Registration Deadline 20-25 Aug 2000 ECAI/PAIS 2000 ------------- INVITED TALKS ------------- Piero P. Bonissone General Electric, USA Corporate Research and Development "Hybrid Soft Computing: Where are we going?" Patrick Doherty Linkoeping University, Sweden Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems Division "A Bird's-Eye View of the WITAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Project" Daniele Nardi Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Artificial Intelligence Research Group "Artificial Intelligence in RoboCup" Bernhard Nebel Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Artificial Intelligence Research Group "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - The Theoretical Side of AI" Luc Steels Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France and Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Artificial Intelligence Laboratory "The Emergence of Grammar in Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents" Mark Wallace Imperial College, UK ICL and IC-Parc "Constraint Programming - Applications, Algorithms, Languages" ----------- PUBLIC TALK ----------- H. Van Dyke Parunak Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, USA Center for Electronic Commerce "Assembling Artificial Societies: Missing Pieces and Left-Over Parts" --------- TUTORIALS --------- T1: Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence: An Introduction M. Dorigo http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo T2: Stochastic Search Algorithms H. H. Hoos, T. Stuetzle http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-stoch T3: AI Techniques for Knowledge Management S. Decker, S. Staab http://kmtutorial.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de T4: Solving and Programming with Soft Constraints: Theory and Implementation F. Rossi, P. Codognet http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/ecai2000-tut.html T5: Empirical Methods for Computer Science P. Cohen, I. Gent, T. Walsh T6: Knowledge Markup Techniques H. Boley, S. Decker, M. Sintek http://www.SemanticWeb.org/knowmarktutorial T7: Applying Automatic Text Generation M. Stede, L. Wanner http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~stede/ecaitutorial.html T8: Rational Action in Autonomous Agents S. Parsons, M. Wooldridge T9: Seeking Information: Methods from Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence D. Fensel, M. Lalmas http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~mounia/ECAI.html T10: Neural Networks and Structured Knowledge F. Kurfess http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/franz --------- WORKSHOPS --------- W1: 14th Workshop on Planning and Configuration (PuK 2000) http://www-is.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~sauer/puk2000/index.html W2: Configuration http://www.cs.hut.fi/u/pdmg/ECAI2000WS W3: Agent-oriented Software Management (AOSM) http://www.wirtschaft.tu-ilmenau.de/wi/wi2/ECAI2000-AOSE W4: Cognitive Robotics http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/LuFG/cogrob2000 W5: Current Issues in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~hans/spacetime W6: Local Search for Planning & Scheduling http://www.ai-center.com/events/ecai-2000-ws W7: 2nd ECAI Workshop on Binding Environmental Sciences and Artificial Intelligence (BESAI 2000) http://www.lsi.upc.es/~webia/besai/besai2000.html W8: Scientific Reasoning in AI and Philosophy of Science http://www.compulog.org/workshops/ecai W9: Application of Ontologies and Problem Solving Methods http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/WORKSHOP/ECAI00/index.html W10: Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW 00) http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00 W11: Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2000-OM/call.html W13: Agent Technologies and Their Application Scenarios in Logistics http://www.tzi.de/ecai00-mas W15: Foundations of Connectionist-Symbolic Integration: Representation, Paradigms, and Algorithms http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/ECAI2000 W16: Machine Learning for Information Extraction http://ecate.itc.it:1024/cirave/ecai-workshop.html W18: Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB-2000) http://www-lti.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/KRDB2000 W19: Applied Semiotics: Control Problems (ASC2000) http://www.iitp.ru/asc2000 W20: Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging Market http://www.uni-bremen.de/~sppraum/sr00.htm W21: Workshop on Bayesian and Causal Networks: From Inference to Data Mining http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/CaNew2000.html W22: Computational Dialectics: Models of Argumentation, Negotiation and Decision Making http://www.philos.rug.nl/~gerard/cd2000 W23: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2000) http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap-2000 W24: Ontology Learning http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de W25: Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints http://www.iiia.csic.es/ecai2000 W26: Analysis and Modelling of Collaborative Learning Interactions http://collide.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/ecai-2000 W27: Machine Learning in Computer Vision (MLCV) http://www.di.uniba.it/~malerba/ws-ecai2000 W28: Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jonker/masho-ecai2000 W29: Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html W30: Flexible Strategies for Maintaining Knowledge Containers http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/mkc-ws W31: Knowledge-Based Systems for Model-Based Engineering http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/ecai2000-kbsmbe W32: Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS 2000) http://www.eml.org/aims2000 W34: Empirical Methods in Artificial Intelligence http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-empai ------------ REGISTRATION ------------ The details given here are for your information only. 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ECAI 2000 CONFERENCE (PAIS 2000 included) Early Late On-Site (until June 15th) (until August 1st) (after August 1st) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Member EUR 350 / DM 684.54 EUR 410 / DM 801.89 EUR 480 / DM 938.08 Non-Member EUR 450 / DM 880.12 EUR 510 / DM 997.47 EUR 570 / DM 1114.82 Student/Member EUR 120 / DM 234.07 EUR 145 / DM 283.06 EUR 190 / DM 371.61 Student/Non-Member EUR 130 / DM 254.26 EUR 155 / DM 303.15 EUR 200 / DM 391.17 TUTORIALS (each) Early Late On-Site (until June 15th) (until August 1st) (after August 1st) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Member EUR 200 / DM 391.17 EUR 220 / DM 430.28 EUR 260 / DM 508.52 Non-Member EUR 250 / DM 488.96 EUR 270 / DM 528.07 EUR 310 / DM 606.31 Student/Member EUR 80 / DM 156.47 EUR 110 / DM 215.14 EUR 140 / DM 273.82 Student/Non-Member EUR 90 / DM 176.02 EUR 120 / DM 234.70 EUR 150 / DM 293.37 WORKSHOPS (each) There is a flat fee for each workshop: EUR 50 / DM 97.79 Workshop participants must register for the main ECAI conference. No extra charge for late workshop registrations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - "At the change of ages we will make ECAI 2000 in Berlin a special conference" -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Markus Hannebauer www.first.gmd.de/~hannebau | | Dipl.-Inform., Research Fellow hannebau at first.gmd.de | | | | Research Institute for Computer Architecture | | and Software Technology (FIRST) | | phone: +49- 30-63 92 18 66 | | German National Research Center cell. p.: +49-177-267 43 60 | | for Information Technology (GMD) fax: +49- 30-63 92 18 05 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Jun 8 18:37:08 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:37:08 +0200 Subject: Divers: Marges Linguistiques Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis Français - English Inauguration de la revue online en sciences du langage Marges Linguistiques http://www.marges-linguistiques.com Mai/Juin 2000 Ouverture officielle du Site Internet http://www.marges-linguistiques.com http://marges.linguistiques.free.fr *********** Bonjour, J'ai l'honneur d'annoncer l'inauguration officielle du site WEB et de la revue électronique en Sciences du Langage Marges Linguistiques http://www.marges-linguistiques.com Marges Linguistiques, revue électronique semestrielle, en sciences du langage, souhaite concilier, d'une part les domaines traditionnels de la linguistique: syntaxe, phonologie, sémantique; d'autre part les champs plus ouverts de la pragmatique linguistique, de l'analyse conversationnelle, de l'analyse des interactions verbales et de la communication sociale. ********************************************************************* Appel à contributions ********************************************************************* Cher(e)s collègues, veuillez trouver ci-dessous le premier appel à contributions de la revue Marges Linguistiques. Thèmatique du vol. 1, n°1 de la revue Marges Linguistiques (parution Mai 2001) ___________________________________ Faits de langue - Faits de discours Données, processus et modèles *** Qu'est ce qu'un fait linguistique ? ___________________________________ Les soumissions d'articles se font par messagerie électronique, à l'adresse suivante : contributions.ML at wanadoo.fr La date limite d'envoi des articles est fixée au 31 décembre 2000 ********************************************************************* Au sommaire du site web Marges Linguistiques : ********************************************************************* 1- Présentation de la revue scientifique Marges Linguistiques (volumes téléchargeables, format .pdf) ­ Voir Orientation éditoriale 2- Un espace Thèses en ligne qui permet de déposer, consulter et de télécharger des thèses doctorales en Sciences du Langage. 3- Une rubrique Forums des revues, établissant des liens avec des revues de la presse spécialisée et prochainement le téléchargement d¹articles scientifiques ayant trait aux Sciences du Langage. 4- Une information actualisée sur les Colloques et Manisfestations en linguistique, dans différents pays. 5- Un Bulletin d¹information (trimestriel) téléchargeable. 6- De très nombreux Liens sur la toile (ressources en Sciences du Langage sur le Web mondial). 7- Des Forums de discussion, mis à disposition des chercheurs. 8- Prochainement une Table ronde réunissant divers spécialistes du domaine. ********************************************************************* Important ********************************************************************* Ce site internet et cette revue, qui s'adressent prioritairement à l'ensemble des chercheurs, praticiens, étudiants, concernés par les questions s'inscrivant dans le vaste champ des sciences du langage, peuvent également intéresser un public plus large; c'est pourquoi nous vous serions extrêmement reconnaissant de bien vouloir retransmettre cette annonce électronique intégralement à un nombre important de personnes qui pourront par suite, faire de même. Grâce à vos efforts de diffusion, nous pouvons espérer toucher rapidement un très large public et nous vous en remercions par avance. Bonne visite du site Web ! Merci d'avance pour vos commentaires et suggestions ainsi que pour la diffusion de la présente annonce. Responsable de la publication Michel Santacroce dirpubl at marges-linguistiques.com en collaboration avec Véronique Fillol veronique.fillol at free.fr Création et gestion Multimédia Béat Grossenbacher (Suisse) http://www.chants-magnetiques.com ********************* English - Français Announcing the official opening of the online journal dedicated to linguistics: Marges Linguistiques http://www.marges-linguistiques.com May/june 2000 Offical opening of the Web Site http://www.marges-linguistiques.com http://marges.linguistiques.free.fr We have the pleasure to announce the official opening of the website and of the online journal: Marges Linguistiques dedicated to linguistic issues http://www.marges-linguistiques.com Marges Linguistiques, a bi-yearly journal in Linguistics, only available online on the Web, wishes to reconcile traditional fields in Linguistics, such as syntax, phonology and semantics with the less unified domains of pragmatics, conversational analysis, interactional analysis or social communication. ********************************************************************* First call for contribution ********************************************************************* Dear colleagues, please find below the first call for Marges Linguistiques Thematic issue n° 1 (May 2001) : __________________________ Linguistic facts Data, processes and models *** What is a linguistic fact ? __________________________ Deadline for the submission of contributions for the thematic issue n° 1, is the 31 st of december 2000 contributions.ML at wanadoo.fr ********************************************************************* Contents ********************************************************************* 1- Presentation of the journal Marges Linguistiques (volumes to be downloaded, format .pdf). See Orientation éditoriales 2- Ph. D space online. Doctoral theses in Linguistics can be uploaded, accessed, and downloaded). 3- Column: "Scientific journal in linguistics" creating links with other journals and enabling the downloading of articles in Linguistics. 4- Updated information on Linguistics Colloquia and other manifestations. 5- A quarterly information bulletin that can be uploaded. 6- Numerous links on the web (ressources in Linguistics on WWW) 7- Discussion Fora at the disposal of researchers. 8- In a near future a round-table with the participation of specialists from various areas in the field. ********************************************************************* Important ********************************************************************* This web site and the journal are targeted towards researchers, practioners, students interested in the various subareas of Linguistics, and for a more general public. We would be extremely grateful if you could pass on this information to interested persons who could circulate the information in turn. Thanks to your help, we hope to reach a wider public. We thank you beforehand. Enjoy the web site seeing ! Thank you for your comments and for passing on this announcement Editor : Michel Santacroce dirpubl at marges-linguistiques.com with the help of Véronique Fillol veronique.fillol at free.fr Creation and multimedia management Béat Grossenbacher (Switzerland) http://www.chants-magnetiques.com ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Jun 19 13:55:15 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:55:15 +0200 Subject: Jobs: 11 Offers Message-ID: _________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Albert Llorens" Subject: Sail Labs: LINGUISTS AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (ARABIC); based in Barcelona (Spain) 2/ From: Jacques Virbel Objet : Toulouse 3/ From: Olivier Laurens Subject: Job offer English computational linguist (France) 4/ From: Derek Walker Subject: Computational Linguist at ISSCO (Geneva) 5/ From: abeille at linguist.jussieu.fr (Anne Abeille) Subject: ater 6/ From: Charlene Daniels Subject: Natural Lang Processing at Cycorp, Inc., Texas US 7/ From: Karin Verspoor Subject: Comp Linguist: Intelligenesis Corporation, New York USA 8/ From: Peter Lucas Subject: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position available 9/ From: Richard Evans Subject: PhD Studentship in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton 10/ From: Koenraad de Smedt Subject: Associate Prof. in CL, U of Bergen 11/ From: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk Subject: Salford _________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Albert Llorens" Subject: Sail Labs: LINGUISTS AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (ARABIC); based in Barcelona (Spain) Openings in TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY at SAIL LABS Barcelona Sail Labs is one of the world's leading R&D companies in the field of "Natural Language Understanding". With the slogan "Innovation in Understanding", the company is focusing on three core development areas: * Language technology * Translation technology * Content technology In the Munich head office and in its branches in Berlin, Barcelona, Antwerp and Vienna, 160 developers are working on solutions, products and components related to the understanding of natural languages. For the further expansion of our highly motivated team in Barcelona we are looking for qualified professionals for the area of translation technologies. Candidate tasks and profiles: ***************************************** SENIOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (ref. SCL-AR) ***************************************** Your tasks: * Design, development and maintenance of formal grammars for our new Arabic-English translation engine. * Design and development of the linguistic components of our new generation of translation systems. Your profile: * University degree in philosophy, linguistics, computational linguistics or equivalent, with a strong background in natural language processing applied to the Arabic language. * Experience in one or more of the following knowledge areas: disambiguation, statistical NLP, semantic networks, example-based and pattern-based machine translation, discourse representation, lexical knowledge representation. * Programming experience. * Experience in machine translation and/or developing formal grammars for natural language processing applications. * Native or near-native proficiency of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). * High grammatical proficiency in Arabic and good grammatical proficiency in English * Effective communication skills in written and spoken English. *********************************************************** LINGUISTS FOR LEXICON AND GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT (ref. LEX/GR-AR) *********************************************************** Your tasks: * Development and maintenance of grammars and lexicons for our new Arabic-English translation engine. Your profile: * University degree in philology, linguistics, languages, computational linguistics or equivalent. Specialization in Arabic will be a plus. * Native or near-native proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). * High grammatical proficiency in Arabic and good grammatical proficiency in English * Effective communication skills in written and spoken English. * Programming experience will be a plus. * Experience in machine translation and/or developing lexicons and grammars for natural language processing applications will be a plus. * Knowledge of Spanish will be a plus. Working language: English Starting date: As soon as possible Office location: Center of Barcelona (in the charming 19th century district Eixample, within walking distance from the old part of the city and from the famous 'Las Ramblas') You will join a young, international, and highly motivated team. SAIL LABS combines research and development of market-ready products. This will thus offer a great opportunity to those people who want to apply their acquired knowledge and skills in real-world conditions. More information about SAIL LABS can be found at the web page << http://www.sail-labs.com >>. If you are interested, send CV and cover letter in English either by surface mail to: SAIL LABS Roger de Lluria, 50 1-B E-08009 BARCELONA Spain Fax: +34 - 93 - 487 76 19 or by email to jobs-bcn at sail-labs.es indicating on the envelope or in the subject of the email the job reference. _________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Jacques Virbel Objet : Toulouse ACCUEIL D'UN CHERCHEUR ETRANGER POST-DOCTORANT au Laboratoire de Neuropsycholinguistique Jacques-Lordat (UniversitéToulouse-Le-Mirail) Dans le cadre du Programme d'aide à la mobilité des chercheurs étrangers du Ministère de l'Education Nationale, le Laboratoire de Neuropsycholinguistique Jacques-Lordat (LNJL) est en mesure d'accueillir un chercheur étranger pour une durée d'un an pour participer à son programme de recherche (cf.ci-dessous). Conditions requises : - être titulaire d'un doctorat acquis à l'étranger (les post-doctorants étrangers ayant soutenu leur thèse en France ne sont pas éligibles) ; - avoir 35 ans maximum au 31 décembre 2000 ; - compte tenu de la nature des recherches, qui concernent des sujets francophones, avoir une bonne connaissance au moins écrite du français estnécessaire. Conditions du séjour : - le candidat retenu a le statut de contractuel de l'Université; - rénumération nette : 12.000 FF/mois + couverture sociale personnelle (à l'exclusion des ayants droits, conjoint et enfants); - les frais de voyage et de déménagement sont à la charge du candidat retenu ; - durée : 12 mois ; - début : octobre (ou, au plus tard, novembre) 2000. Démarche : Les personnes intéressées et satisfaisant les conditions requises sont priées d'adresser par e-mail, et avant le 1er juillet 2000, une lettre de motivation ainsi qu'un curriculum vitae et tous documents et/ou informations jugés utiles à l'adresse ci-dessous : Pr. Jean-Luc Nespoulous Directeur Laboratoire de Neuropsycholinguistique Jacques-Lordat Maison de la Recherche Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail 5, Allées A. Machado 31058 Toulouse Cedex France Téléphone : 33 5 61 50 46 72 Fax : 33 5 61 50 49 18 Email : nespoulo at univ-tlse2.fr ================================ CONTENU de la PROPOSITION Le Laboratoire de Neuropsycholinguistique Jacques-Lordat (LNJL) s'assigne pour objectif principal de rendre compte des processus cognitifs à l'oeuvre, tant en production qu'en comprehension, dans divers comportements verbaux émanant de sujets pathologiques (aphasiques, déments...) ou normaux (enfants apprenant leur langue maternelle, adultes à l'état stable, apprenants de L2...). Sa problématique générale vise à tenter d'appréhender le déterminisme sousjacent des manifestations de surface observées dans le comportement des diverses populations étuduées. Dans ce contexte, le LNJL développe plusieurs axes où l'unité de langage, prise en référence à différents niveaux de traitements cognitifs, est le texte (i.e. : un discours inscrit). Ce type d'unité présente des difficultés certaines pour l'expérimentation : - il s'agit d'énoncés étendus (vs. phrases isolées) où les structures sont multiples et diversement inter-dépendantes et imbriquées ; - le texte (vs. le discours oral) ajoute une dimension spécifique à prendre en compte : il apparaît ainsi que les propriétés visuelles (morpho-dispositionnelles) des textes interviennent à de multiples niveaux ; entre autres, comme : instructions de lecture ; éléments directement significatifs ; facteurs d'efficacité communicationnelle variables, en rapport à divers processus tels que mémorisation/compréhension, transmission d'information à des tiers, exécution dans le cas de textes procéduraux, etc. Malgré la complexité des problèmes qu'affronte le recours à ce type d'unité, celle-ci constitue cependant le seul niveau pertinent pour l'étude de phénomènes qui ne se déploient et ne sont donc appréhendables qu'à cette échelle (traitement linguistique du temps, logique du récit, anaphore associative par ex.). Des progrès récents concernant les structures discursives (ex. : la RST, " RhetoricalStructure Theory ", de Mann & Thomson et al.) et textuelles (ex. : le Modèle d'Architectures Textuelles de Pascual et Virbel) permettent d'envisager un contrôle réaliste, pour autant que soient abordés le problème de la composition entre modèles dont chacun prend en charge un niveau partiel de modélisation. D'autres options théoriques ou de modélisation peuvent être abordées dans ce contexte. Les textes dont il est question sont aussi bien des textes préexistants, indépendamment de leur utilisation dans des protocoles expérimentaux, que des "textoïdes", i.e. des textes élaborés exprès à une telle fin. Dans les deux cas, ils posent des problèmes d'analyse systématisée ou de contrôle de propriétés. Les types de textes utilisés comprennent principalement des récits et des textes procéduraux. Ces recherches comportent ainsi trois composantes principales : - linguistique - relations entre marques visuelles (typographiques et dispositionnelles) et lexico-syntaxiques - et formelle (logique et informatique) visant à l'étude de la composition de modèles différents nécessaires pour représenter les aspects pris en compte ; - psycholinguistique visant à l'étude expérimentale de l'incidence des propriétés des textes, représentées et formalisées selon les approches ci-dessus, par rapport aux performances de divers types de sujets ; - neuropsycholinguistique, visant à l'élaboration et à l'évaluation d'hypothèses sur l'architecture fonctionnelle de l'esprit/cerveau dans le traitement du langage. Ces recherches s'inscrivent dans le cadre d'une collaboration ancienne et très étroite entre le Laboratoire de Neuropsycholinguistique Jacques-Lordat et l'Equipe " Modèle de Communication Ecrite " de l'Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (Université Paul Sabatier) dont l'animateur est Jacques Virbel. Les projets, anciens et en cours, issus de cette collaboration sont principalement centrés sur : (1) - la contribution de la spatialisation du langage dans la structuration des textes, et son impact sur les performances de mémorisation/compréhension de divers types de populations (Cf. supra) ; (2) - les ressources de questionnabilité d'un texte (à quelles questions un texte donné comporte-il des éléments de réponse ?) (3) - la communication non-littérale (actes de discours indirects, ironie, etc.). Les approches suivies dans ces contextes sont principalement : - les relations langage/métalangage/sous-langage, dans le sens de la théorie de Z. Harris - composition (respectivement : décomposition) de phrases lexicales (ou de langue) en phrases textueles (ou de discours) ; - modèles formels du texte (modèle d'Architectures Textuelles, Rhetorical Structure Theory, modèle de Kintsch et Van Dijk, etc.) ; - composition de modèles ; - sémantique lexicale ; - l'interrogation ; théorie logique des "sets of answers" ; - théorie des actes de langage et de la coopération communicationnelle (Grice, etc.) ***** Dans ce cadre général, le LNJL souhaite s'associer les compétences d'un chercheur étranger post-doctorant : - familiarisé avec certains au moins des thèmes précisés ci-dessus, - pouvant apporter à ces recherches une capacité de proposition en termes d'applications concrètes et/ou de test d'autres hypothèses théoriques et/ou formelles, - et qui souhaiterait mettre en oeuvre ses connaisances dans le contexte de mises à l'épreuve expérimentales dans le contexte psycho- et/ou neuropsycholinguistique (sur sujets normaux ou pathologiques). ======================= ======================= Jacques Virbel Equipe Modèles de Communication Ecrite Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse Université Paul Sabatier 118 Route de Narbonne F 31062 Toulouse Tel/Rep/Fax : 05 62 18 54 98 Email : virbel at irit.fr _________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Olivier Laurens Subject: Job offer English computational linguist (France) Job offer : Computational Linguist (English) at UNLOST English version below Offre d'emploi : Linguiste Informaticien(ne) angliciste chez UNLOST Start-up spécialisée dans le développement de logiciels de recherche d'information, nous recherchons UN OU UNE LINGUISTE - INFORMATICIEN(NE) spécialiste du traitement automatique de l'ANGLAIS. De formation supérieure en linguistique et en TALN, vous participerez aux aspects linguistiques de l'élaboration d'un moteur de recherche documentaire basé sur une nouvelle technologie de modélisation du sens. Votre tâche principale sera le développement et la maintenance de GRAMMAIRES formelles. De plus, vous serez appelé à contribuer - à la mise au point des spécifications linguistiques (morphologie, syntaxe, sémantique), - à la spécification d'outils informatique d'aide au développement à l'usage des linguistes et lexicographes, - au développement et à la mise en oeuvre des systèmes de TALN, en général. Vous serez aussi appelé à participer aux aspects R&D du projet. Vous travaillerez au sein d'une équipe jeune et dynamique dans un environnement de travail convivial. La langue de travail est le français. Outre la maîtrise parfaite de l'anglais, la connaissance d'une troisième langue est un plus. Les compétences suivantes sont particulièrement appréciées : * formation solide en linguistique et en grammaire * bonne connaissance d'au moins un formalisme grammatical majeur (TAG, UCG, HPSG, GPSG, ALEP, ...), de préférence un formalisme d'unification * expérience de développement de grammaires formelles et lexiques computationnels * maîtrise d'outils informatiques de manipulation de données (awk, perl, grep, base de données, tableur, ...) * expérience de travail sur gros corpus (et des outils associés) * autonomie en tant qu'utilisateur professionnel des ordinateurs (Unix, Windows NT) 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 ********************************************************** ENGLISH VERSION SA Unlost is a start up company developing Information Retrieval software. We are currently recruiting ONE COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST specialized in the ENGLISH language. The candidate should have a university degree in linguistics and NLP. He or she will participate in the linguistic parts of our innovating, meaning based, IR system and will be responsible for the development and maintenance of English formal grammars. Additionally, the successful candidate will get an opportunity to contribute to the following tasks : - linguistic specification (morphology, syntax, semantics), - design of computer tools to help grammar and lexical development, - and generally, development and implementation of NLP systems. The successful candidate will also be welcome to contribute to the R&D aspects of the project. The work environment is young, dynamic and friendly. Working language is French. Besides English and French, good knowledge of one or more additional languages is a plus. The following skills are particularly welcome : * excellent background in linguistics and (natural language) grammar * proficiency in at least one major grammar formalism (TAG, UCG, HPSG, GPSG, ALEP, ...), preferably a unification formalism * experience in developing formal grammars and computational lexica * working ability to use computer data manipulation tools such as awk, perl, grep, databases, spreadsheet, etc. * experience in working with large corpora (and knowledge of corpora related tools) * professional autonomy as a computer user (under either Unix or Windows NT or both) Candidates, whatever their original citizenship, must have permission to work in France. This is a permanent position. The salary is commensurate with diplomas and experience. The workplace is in Massy, within walking distance of major commuter trains, 30 mnts from the center of Paris. Applications should be sent via Email or normal mail and should include a resume and the names of referees. They should also mention the date when the applicant would be able to start the job. Address: SA UNLOST emploi 3 rue Galvani 91300 Massy EMAIL : linguist at unlost.com _________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Derek Walker Subject: Computational Linguist at ISSCO (Geneva) Version française ci-dessous. Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message, it has been submitted to several lists. ISSCO (Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies, in the Translation and Interpretation School of the University of Geneva) has an immediate opening for: 1 COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST to participate in a number of Swiss and European language engineering projects. The qualified candidate will collaborate on software design and implementation in one or more of the following areas: - parallel text alignment - syntactic and semantic tagging - intelligent document analysis - web-based linguistic resources - general statistical NLP tools Requirements: - university degree in computational linguistics or computer science - programming skills in C, Java and Perl - knowledge of Unix systems - good knowledge of internet technologies - strong grounding in SGML and XML - experience in developing software for NLP applications - fluency in either French or English with good knowledge of the other language Additional qualities include: - good communication skills - expertise in probabilistic and statistical methods - strong linguistic background - fluency in German and/or Italian ISSCO offers: - good working conditions in a well-established research institute - opportunities to collaborate in a variety of projects - salary calculated by qualifications according to university scales. We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a detailed CV and the names of three references to: ISSCO/ETI attn: Pierrette Bouillon University of Geneva 40, blvd. du Pont d'Arve CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland) email: pierrette.bouillon at issco.unige.ch (Please CC derek.walker at issco.unige.ch in all email correspondence) Tel : (+41 22) 705 86 78 Fax : (+41 22) 705 86 89 WWW : http://www.issco.unige.ch/ ====== L'ISSCO, Institut Dalle Molle pour les Etudes Sémantiques et Cognitives (Ecole de Traduction et d'Interprétation, Université de Genève) cherche un(e) LINGUISTE INFORMATICIEN(NE) pour participer à différents projets (suisses et européens) dans le domaine du traitement de la langue. Responsabilités: Collaborer à la définition et la mise en oeuvre de logiciels dans un ou plusieurs des domaines suivants : - outils d'alignement de textes - étiquetage syntaxique et sémantique - analyse de corpus - ressources linguistiques pour le WWW - outils statistiques pour le traitement de la langue Profil requis : - Diplôme universitaire en informatique ou en linguistique informatique - Excellentes connaissances d'UNIX, C, Java et Perl - Connaissances des technologies d'Internet - Expertises en SGML et XML - Expériences dans le développement de logiciels de traitement automatique des langues - Maîtrise du français et de l'anglais Atouts : - Connaissances en linguistique - Connaissances dans les méthodes statistiques et probabilistiques - Connaissances de l'allemand et/ou de l'italien L'ISSCO offre: - Environnement académique dans un institut de recherche renommé - Possibilité de participer à différents projets de recherche - Rémunération selon barême de l'Université de Genève Les candidats intéressés sont priés d'envoyer une lettre de candidature et un CV détaillé, avec au moins trois références, à l'adresse suivante : ISSCO/ETI attn: Pierrette Bouillon Université de Genève 40, blvd. du Pont d'Arve CH-1211 GENEVE 4 SUISSE email : pierrette.bouillon at issco.unige.ch (Vous êtes priés de faire une copie de toutes les correspondances email à derek.walker at issco.unige.ch) Tél : 41 22 705 86 78 Fax : 41 22 705 86 89 WWW : http://www.issco.unige.ch _________________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: abeille at linguist.jussieu.fr (Anne Abeille) Subject: ater l'ufr de linguistique de paris 7 recrute des le 1er septembre - un demi ater en sciences du langage (morphologie, syntaxe, linguistique francaise...) - un ater plein en linguistique informatique (analyse syntaxique, corpus, systemes...) veuillez envoyer votre candidature avant le 13 juin a anne abeille http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/ directrice de l'ufr de linguistique tel 01 44 27 82 87 UFRL Case 7003 Universite Paris 7 2 place jussieu 75005 paris http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/ _________________________________________________________________________ 6/ From: Charlene Daniels Subject: Natural Lang Processing at Cycorp, Inc., Texas US Rank of Job: Areas Required: see description Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: Cycorp, Inc. Department: Natural Language State or Province: Texas Country: US Final Date of Application: 12/24/00 Contact: Charlene Daniels charlene at cyc.com Address for Applications: 3721 Executive Center Drive Suite 100 Austin TX 78731 US Cycorp (http://www.cyc.com/) has begun to harness the power of its Cyc(TM) common sense knowledge base and reasoning system to do semantic and pragmatic disambiguation of English. Currently we are working on new and exciting clarification dialogue interfaces for Cyc itself and for Cyc-based applications. These include applications for smart Web searching, question and answer dialogues, and speech understanding, to name just a few. Join the team building this one-of-a-kind interactive dialogue front end. You will create formal representations of natural language expressions and phenomena, as well as develop applications to exploit such representations. Candidates for these positions must be familiar with formal logic, and have sound fundamentals in English usage, syntax, and semantics. In addition, one or more of the following would be a plus: Knowledge of discourse structure, pragmatics, and dialog modeling Experience with the influence of semantic distinctions on syntax Familiarity with formal semantic analysis Facility with knowledge representation and other AI tools and techniques Knowledge of constraint-based grammatical theories Understanding of NL parsing theory (statistical, corpus-based, etc.) Experience in applying that knowledge (computational NLU systems) Experience in computational lexicography Experience in natural language generation Knowledge of NL interface design and human cognitive considerations Programming skills, especially in Lisp or Scheme General Information: All technical positions at Cycorp involve working with the Cyc(TM) technology -- an immense, broad, multi-contextual knowledge base and efficient inference system which our group has developed over the last 16 years and 400 person-years. The Cyc knowledge base, spanning fundamental "consensus" human knowledge, enables a multitude of knowledge-intensive products and services which will revolutionize the way in which people use and interact with computers: semantic information retrieval, consistency-checking of structured information, deductive integration of heterogeneous data bases, natural language interfaces able to cope with realistic levels of ambiguity/terseness/contextualization, and many more. Cycorp is located in Austin, TX. We are an equal opportunity employer. For more information about employment at Cycorp, visit our website at http://www.cyc.com/employment.html For immediate consideration, please send your resume and a cover letter to Kathleen Black at the following address: Cycorp, Inc. 3721 Executive Center Drive, Suite 100 Austin TX 78731 Internet: info at cyc.com Telephone: +1 (512) 342-4000 Fax: +1 (512) 342-4040 No person shall be excluded from consideration for recruitment, selection, appointment, training, promotion, retention, or any other personnel action, or be denied any benefits or participation in any activities on the grounds of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, handicap or age. Cycorp will hire only persons authorized to work in the United States and will verify identity and eligibility for employment, and complete form I-9 for all new employees within three (3) business days of the date of hire. _________________________________________________________________________ 7/ From: Karin Verspoor Subject: Comp Linguist: Intelligenesis Corporation, New York USA Rank of Job: mid-Senior Areas Required: Computational Linguist Other Desired Areas: Cognitive Science University or Organization: Intelligenesis Corporation Department: Natural Language Engineering group State or Province: New York Country: USA Final Date of Application: June 16, 2000 Contact: Karin Verspoor karin at intelligenesis.net Address for Applications: 50 Broadway New York NY 10004 USA Intelligenesis, a New York based AI start-up firm, is seeking a creative linguistic scientist to round out our Natural Language team. We're engaged in the construction of Webmind, a unique and comprehensive AI architecture that aims to be the world's first truly intelligent software program; and also in the creation of several products carrying out commercially useful functions (such as text categorization, market prediction and search) utilizing Webmind components. The Natural Language team helps support both of these goals. For this position, we're looking for someone who has a strong intuitive feel for the structure of language and the dynamics of language learning, especially as regards the integration of and interplay between syntax, semantics, pragmatics, cognition, and experience. But, we also need someone with a good practical sense of what kinds of algorithms will work in practice in computational systems, given finite computational resources. We're not looking for a programmer here, although computer science knowledge will be extremely valuable; we're looking someone with the ability to design NLP algorithms and architectures, both on the general and detailed levels, and to deal with the integration of NL systems with other components of our AI system, such as categorization and reasoning and symbol grounding. Experience with object-oriented design is valuable but not required. The ideal candidate would have some experience doing theoretical research in a linguistic area, and experience working on the development of computational linguistics systems. A broad knowledge of cognitive science and a passion for making the first NL system that actually works would also be valuable. We are dealing with deep issues such as how much linguistic structure to build into our system versus how much to let the system learn, and how to best utilize technologies such as higher-order logical inference and evolutionary computation in NL processing; issues like these require a careful balancing of practical and theoretical issues, and an ability to draw conceptual inspiration from a broad variety of domains. This is a unique opportunity to do both cutting-edge research and practical system design work, simultaneously, letting each kind of work benefit from the other; and to participate in an AI development project unlike any other. To submit an application, please send (preferably by email) your resume and an indication of your salary expectations to: karin at intelligenesis.net Dr. Karin Verspoor Director, Natural Language Engineering Intelligenesis Corporation 50 Broadway New York, NY 10004 tel: (212) 324 2001 fax: (212) 324 3001 _________________________________________________________________________ 8/ From: Peter Lucas Subject: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position available UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN LECTURER / SENIOR LECTURER GBP 17,238 - 35,670 per annum You will join the Bioinformatics/Medical Informatics research group within the Department of Computing Science (rated 4 in the 1996 RAE). You should have an established research record in Bioinformatics although other areas of specialisation which would strengthen the overall activities of the group will be considered. Applications from researchers in Biology or Medicine who have considerable computing experience and who wish to develop this further will also be considered. You will also contribute to teaching and supervision at all levels. Informal enquiries should be directed to Dr Jim Hunter, Head of Department (telephone +44 (0)1224 272287, fax: +44 (0)1224 273422, email: jhunter at csd.abdn.ac.uk). Information about the Department of Computing Science can be found on: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk Application forms and further particulars are available from Human Resources, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX, tel: +44 (0)1224 272727 quoting reference number FCS014A. A 24-hour answering service is in operation. Closing date: 16 June 2000 An Equal Opportunities Employer Peter Lucas Dept. of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK Tel: +44 1224 273829; Fax: +44 1224 273422/487048 E-mail: plucas at csd.abdn.ac.uk; URL: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~plucas _________________________________________________________________________ 9/ From: Richard Evans Subject: PhD Studentship in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton With apologies for multiple postings. --------------------------------------- PhD studentship in Computational Linguistics (Current value of bursary 6,500 UK pounds) The University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Studies invites applications for a research studentship in Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate will work on term extraction and its application in anaphora resolution and automatic abstracting. We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science, with excellent programming skills and some experience in statistics and Natural Language Processing or Linguistics. Overseas candidates must have a good command of English. The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship in September 2000. For further information/queries, please contact Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk. Formal applications must be made to: The Research Support Unit University of Wolverhampton Dudley Campus Castle View Dudley DY1 3HR Email L.Barlow at wlv.ac.uk and must include - a completed application form, - a CV and - a covering letter in which the candidates explain why they have applied for the studentship, give details of their research interests/experience, background, programming skills and an outline of any experience in or knowledge of statistics and Natural Language Processing or Linguistics. When you apply, please quote the reference number of the studentship RS276. The application form can be downloaded from http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/ Extended closing date for applications: 30 June 2000. _________________________________________________________________________ 10/ From: Koenraad de Smedt Subject: Associate Prof. in CL, U of Bergen Please distribute (with apologies for multiple postings): Vacant position at the University of Bergen as ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS The University of Bergen (Norway) is officially announcing a vacant TENURED position as Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics. Candidates are invited to send in their applications by JUNE 24, 2000. More information in Norwegian and English is available at: http://www.hf.uib.no/i/LiLi/SLF/stilling/ -- Prof. Koenraad de Smedt mailto:desmedt at uib.no Universitetet i Bergen tel: +47 5558-2052 http://fasting.hf.uib.no/~desmedt fax: +47 5558-9354 _________________________________________________________________________ 11/ From: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk Subject: Salford RESEARCH ASSOCIATE/FELLOW IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (NLP) The Natural Language Processing Group of Computer Science (http://fw4.cms.salford.ac.uk/research/) has recently been awarded a grant to carry out research in the context of a EUREKA funded European collaborative project with industry and academia in the area of bioinformatics. The group's role is to apply natural language processing techniques to the analysis of molecular biology corpora. Duties: to adapt and expand the Group's existing tools for automatic term recognition and clustering; to interface the group's tools with existing natural language parsers; to work on semantic tagging for domain specific texts; and to aid in the design and construction of ontologies. Expertise: MSc or preferably PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or Computational Linguistics. Good programming skills (Java, Perl) are essential. Knowledge of at least basic natural language processing techniques is highly desirable. Knowledge of statistics-based methods in NLP is a plus. Salary: Up to GBP 21,463 per annum (in first year), according to qualifications and experience. Duration: 30 months Starting date: The post is immediately available. Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr S.Ananiadou (S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk). Candidates should send a detailed CV with the names of 2 referees to: Dr S.Ananiadou (S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk) Computer Science, School of Sciences, University of Salford, Newton Building, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK Tel: +44 161 295 0480 Fax: +44 161 295 5559 Closing date: 15th July 2000. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TWO RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS in COMPUTER SCIENCE (NLP) The Natural Language Processing Group of Computer Science (http://fw4.cms.salford.ac.uk/research/) has available two fully funded three year research studentships. The group was recently awarded a EUREKA funded grant in the area of NLP and Bio-informatics. Successful candidates should have a minimum of a 2.1 honours degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or Artificial Intelligence. The successful candidates will be involved (with researchers in the department and abroad) in innovative research into: --- novel ways of information extraction from scientific texts ---- design of domain specific ontologies ---- integration of ontologies with scientific databases ---- information retrieval We are particularly interested in candidates able to engage in multi-disciplinary research involving NLP. Expertise: Good programming skills (Java, Perl). An ability to conduct research, to work independently and to contribute to the group's research activities. An ability to work with industrial collaborators. Knowledge of NLP is a plus (but not essential). The studentships carry a bursary of £6,800 plus fees (at UK/EU rates) Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr S.Ananiadou (S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk). Candidates should send a detailed CV with the names of 2 referees to: Dr S.Ananiadou (S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk) Computer Science, School of Sciences, University of Salford, Newton Building, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK Tel: +44 161 295 0480 Fax: +44 161 295 5559 Closing date: 7th August 2000. Starting date: The studentships will run from 1st October 2000. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Jun 19 13:56:31 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:56:31 +0200 Subject: Appel: EKAW2000 Workshop "ontologies and texts" Message-ID: From: Sylvie Szulman _______________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION _______________________________________ Ontologies and Texts Workshop during the EKAW'2000 conference Juan-Les-Pins (France), October 2nd 2000 http://www.irit.fr/wsontologies2000 Ontology design remains a difficult and challenging problem. Most of the current research studies and papers focus on the technical problems raised by the representation and structuring of knowledge in the ontology. Many works are also devoted to the problem of formalization and reusability of ontologies. More recently, new interests bore on the influence of the target application on the task of designing an ontology. In this workshop, we concentrate on ontology design considered as a process stemming from knowledge sources to a structured conceptual model. Among all knowledge sources (human experts, existing ontologies and texts), we pay special interest to texts (technical documentation, interview transcripts, handbooks and so on). We claim that texts are an important source of knowledge for any kind of application, in particular because most of the texts contain shared and stabilized knowledge among a community of specialists. Moreover, NLP tools are mature enough to be worth being integrated in knowledge engineering methods. Available linguistics results (principles and techniques) are also relevant for building semantic networks and ontologies from texts. In spite of such potential values, knowledge acquisition from texts for ontology design is hardly studied. We assert that text analysis could significantly improve the efficiency of the process of ontology building, as well as the quality and the relevance of the resulting ontologies. We wish to stress that knowledge engineering is ready to face a major evolution by integrating texts as knowledge sources and mainly by giving a new status to concepts and linguistic data. Our aim is to discuss these assertions within the community as long as several teams have been experiencing practical work in ontology design and theoritical reflexions on the topic for many years. Technical and theoretical issues to be discussed at the workshop include, but are not limited to: Texts as knowledge sources - What kind of knowledge can be acquired from which class of texts ? shared and stabilized domain knowledge versus individual know-how - Complementarity of analysing texts, interviewing domain experts and reusing existing ontologies - The expert's role in a text centered view : from experts' knowledge elicitation to model validation by domain specialists. - Typology of data that can be acquired from these knowledge sources, their status and role in a domain model or an ontology. Linguistic resources for ontology design - Mixing textual or linguistic information and conceptual information in ontologies : should a conceptual model always include a linguistic dimension ? - Connections between texts and conceptual models, texts and ontologies - The nature of the term-concept relation ; justifications of a concept definition. - The status of linguistics in knowledge engineering. - What kind of linguistics is needed ? Conceptual semantics vs. textual semantics. Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools - What kinds of NLP tools can prove useful ? - How much should they be adapted to match the needs of knowledge acquisition and ontology design ? How is the use of these tools influenced by the target application ? - How to define and select the data they should apply on ? - How to combine their use with the purpose of conceptual modelling and ontology design ? - Role and limitations of general lexical resources (like WordNet) vs. specific terminological resources (like Terminological Knowledge Bases, thesaurus and so on) Call for papers --------------- Papers should be no longer than 2500 words. They can either report research works, practical experiments or discuss more theoretical questions. Papers will be published in paper-back proceedings distributed to the workshop participants and available on-line the week before the worskhop. Please use the same format as the one suggested for the conference. Send papers by email (html AND ps files) to Brigitte BIEBOW (bb at lipn.univ-paris13.fr) and Sylvie SZULMAN (ss at lipn.univ-paris13.fr) before July 7th Participation conditions ------------------------- Anyone wishing to take part in this workshop should send a one page abstract about its motivations to attend the workshop and/or its recent works related to the workshop topic. This page should also contain a question-issue to be debated during the workshop. Send your text to Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (aussenac at irit.fr) before September 18th. Calendar ------------- Paper submissions : July, 7th Acceptance information : August, 28th Motivation texts : Sept, 18th Final paper : Sept, 21st Scientific Organisation -------------------------------- This workshop is promoted by the French working group on Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA) (web site http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA) to which the chairwomen belong. Most of the issues mentionned as topics reflect the group scientific debates and orientations. Workshop chairs : Sylvie SZULMAN (LIPN, Paris) Brigitte BIEBOW (LIPN, Paris) Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse) Local organisation -------------------------- Rose DIENG (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Olivier CORBY (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) http://sophia.inria.fr/EKAW2000 Program Committee (provisional list) ----------------------------- Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse, F) Richard BENJAMINS (Univ. Amsterdam, NL) Brigitte BIEBOW (LIPN, Paris, F) Rose DIENG (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, F) Dieter FENSEL (Vrije Universiteit, NL) Asuncion GOMEZ PEREZ (UPM, Madrid, S) Gregory GREFENSTETTE (Xerox Research Center Europe, Meylan, F) (to be confirmed) Nicola GUARINO (Italian National Research Council, I) Udo HAHN (Frieburg University, G) Adeline NAZARENKO (LIPN, Paris, F) Roberto BASILI (University Tor Vergata, Roma,I) (to be confirmed) François ROUSSELOT (LIIA, Strasbourg, F) Sylvie SZULMAN (LIPN - CNRS, Paris) Michael USCHOLD (Boeing, USA) Gertjan Van HEIJST (Kenniscentrum CIBIT, Utrecht, NL) Bernard VICTORRI (ENS , Paris, F) Registration information ---------------------------------- Registration information will be available on the EKAW web site (http://sophia.inria.fr/EKAW2000) -- Sylvie Szulman | tel : +33/(0) 1 49 40 36 09 LIPN - Universite Paris 13 | fax : +33/(0) 1 48 26 07 12 av. J.-B. Clement | email : sylvie.szulman at lipn.univ-paris13.fr F-93430 Villetaneuse | http : //www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/membres/~szulman ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Jun 19 13:57:15 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:57:15 +0200 Subject: Appel: Comlex-2000 Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis Second Call for Papers COMLEX 2000 Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND MULTIMEDIA DICTIONARIES 22-23 September 2000, Patras, Greece Organized by WCL, Department of Electrical ? Computer Engineering University of Patras, Greece Supported by ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) and ELSNET (European Network in Language and Speech) AIMS The aim of this workshop is to present the state of the art in corpus based monolingual and multilingual lexicography (corpora creation, methods and tools for lexical knowledge extraction, knowledge representation, etc.) and the integration of various modalities (textual, spoken, visual) in electronic dictionaries. In particular the workshop aims at the presentation of current work and results of national and international projects related to the workshop's subject. The scientific program will include several invited lectures as well as submitted paper presentations. Submitted papers will be published in a volume of Proceedings available at the workshop. TOPICS · Electronic corpora for lexicography · Methods and tools for corpus based lexicography · Acquisition and reusability of lexicography resources · Annotation of lexicography resources · Evaluation and validation of lexicography resources · Lexical knowledge representation · Treatment of morphology and polysemy · Recognition of lexical units in text · Monolingual and multilingual lexicography · Integration of various modalities in electronic dictionaries · Multimedia information retrieval · Speech synthesis/recognition for multimedia dictionaries · Encyclopaedic dictionaries · Specialized dictionaries (language teaching, NLP-applications, etc) · Internet based dictionaries · Other subjects related to the workshop VENUE The workshop will be held at the conference centre of the University of Patras, Greece. Patras is located on the west coast of Greece, 200 km from Athens. It is the principal seaport linking the country with Italy and the commercial and cultural centre of Western Greece. Apart from its beautiful landscape, Patras is close to the famous archaeological sites of Olympia, Delphi and Corinth. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Anastassiadi-Simeonidi Anna (University of Thessaloniki) Caragiannis George (Technical University of Athens) Christodoulakis Dimitris (University of Patras) Dermatas Evangelos (University of Patras) Fakotakis Nikos (University of Patras) Faloutsos Cristos (Carnegie Mellon University) Gibbon Dafydd (Universit?t Bielefeld) Kalamboukis Theodore (Athens University of Economics and Business) King Philip (University of Birmingham) Kokkinakis George (University of Patras) Kontos John (Athens University of Economics and Business) Potapova Rodmonga (Moscow State Linguistic University) Spyropoulos Konstantinos (Research Centre "Democritos" Athens) Tsoutsoura Maria (Ionian University) Veronis Jean (Universit? de Provence) Zampolli Antonio (University of Pisa) INVITED SPEAKERS Cristos Faloutsos Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University "Multimedia Information Retrieval" Dafydd Gibbon Fakult?t f?r Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft Universit?t Bielefeld "Progress in Computational Lexicography" Jean Veronis Centre Informatique pour les Lettres et Science Humaines, Universit? de Provence "Building dictionaries from knowledge bases" Antonio Zampolli Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa "Electronic corpora for lexicography" SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Abstracts of original, not elsewhere published papers may be submitted either by post (three copies) or preferably by e-mail in ASCII format only. Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. They should not exceed two A4 pages including figures and references). All abstracts will be refereed by the Scientific Committee. Submission of an abstract implies a commitment to present the paper if accepted. All submissions should begin with the following information: Title: title of paper Author(s): names of author(s) Affiliation: of author(s) Contact address: full postal address of main author, followed by other authors, (if any) Email: of main author Fax number: of main author Phone number: of main author Electronic submissions should be sent to: dermatas at george.wcl2.ee.upatras.gr with the subject line "?Author's surname> Submission for COMLEX2000" Submissions by post should be addressed to: George Kokkinakis Department of Electrical ? Computer Engineering University of Patras 265 00, Patras, Greece IMPORTANT DATES Submission of abstracts: June 15, 2000 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2000 Camera-ready paper due: August 1, 2000 Advance registration: July 10, 2000 Late registration: September 1, 2000 Workshop: September 22, 2000 LANGUAGE The official language of the workshop will be English. ACCOMMODATION Several hotels are situated on the beach of Rion near the venue. Accommodation service will be provided. Hotel prices per night in drachmas Hotel Single Double **** 25,000-30,000 35,000-40,000 *** 15,000-20,000 18.000-25.000 ** 10,000-14,000 14,000-18,000 REGISTRATION FEES The full registration fee includes conference materials, coffee breaks, welcome reception, two meals, banquet, and the use of conference facilities. Early registration Late Registration Regular 190 220 Student 145 170 All prices are in Euro. GRANTS Ten grants including free registration and accommodation will be given to students and young scientists by the organizers. Applications should be submitted together with the abstracts. Further grants are provided by ISCA (http://www.isca-speech.org) APPLICATION FORM FOR A GRANT: Name: Institution: Address: Country: Email address: Telephone / Fax: Date of Birth: 2) Curriculum Vitae with academic records. 3) Complete list of previous publications. Grant applications should be submitted by email to dermatas at george.wcl2.ee.upatras.gr ORGANIZING COMMITTEE George Kokkinakis (Chair) WCL, Department of Electrical ? Computer Engineering, University of Patras. Nikos Fakotakis (Vice Chair) WCL, Department of Electrical ? Computer Engineering, University of Patras. Evangelos Dermatas (Secretary) WCL, Department of Electrical ? Computer Engineering, University of Patras. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Jun 19 13:58:07 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:58:07 +0200 Subject: Conf: Impacts Message-ID: From: Stephan Busemann WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPACTS in Natural Language Generation NLG Between Technology and Applications July 26-28, 2000 - immediately preceding COLING 2000 - Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany Homepage: http://impacts.dfki.de IMPACTS is supported as a "SIGGEN NLG Workshop". ------------------------------------------------------------------ The IMPACTS workshop aims at studying, discussing, and clarifying the relationships between NLG technologies and applications. The workshop addresses - researchers and developers in NLG, - current and potential users of NLG applications, - the interplay between statistical and rule-based NLG, - the reusability of modules within NLG systems. IMPACTS will be an ideal opportunity to discuss current issues and future prospects in Natural Language Generation with prominent researchers in the field, in the stimulating environment of Schloss Dagstuhl. THE WORKSHOP The workshop will consist of three types of sessions: presentation of submitted papers, an invited talk and several "burning issues" sessions. In order to implement our concept of a discussion-intensive event, we have invited four "burning issues" presentations taking up the main topic of the workshop. They will initiate interesting discussions and last two hours up to half a day. A concluding panel session will summarize all discussions. Burning Issues sessions will be chaired by Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Research), Eduard Hovy, Daniel Marcu (both USC/ISI, Los Angeles), and Chris Mellish (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK). The invited talk will be given by David McDonald (Brandeis University, USA). As for the programme, please consult the IMPACTS homepage at http://impacts.dfki.de ACCOMODATION AND REGISTRATION Please register soon; as Schloss Dagstuhl has limited capacity, registration will be on a first come, first serve basis. IMPACTS will take place from July 26-28, 2000 at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl (http://www.dagstuhl.de). Arrival is on Tuesday, July 25. The workshop will take until Friday, July 28, after lunch. IMPACTS immediately precedes the events of COLING 2000 taking place in Luxembourg, Saarbrücken, and Nancy. Schloss Dagstuhl is situated in the Saarland, allowing participants to reach the COLING tutorials on July 29 conveniently. All participants will stay at Schloss Dagstuhl. Cost is DM 450 (approx. US$ 210) per person, including full board, in single rooms with a shower. Please register directly with the organizers using the simple registration procedure outlined at http://impacts.dfki.de/#registration . The early registration fee (before July 1, 2000) is DM 170 (approx. US$ 80) and includes a copy of the proceedings. Late registration will cost DM 220 (approx US$ 100). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Stephan Busemann, DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Robert Dale, Language Technology Pty Ltd and Macquarie University, Australia Laurence Danlos, LORIA, France Michael Elhadad, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA Richard Kittredge, CoGenTex Inc., USA Inderjeet Mani, Mitre Corporation, USA David D. McDonald, Gensym Corporation, USA Cecile Paris, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia Owen Rambow, AT&T, USA Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK Donia Scott, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Jun 19 13:58:01 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:58:01 +0200 Subject: Appel: LisTAL Message-ID: From: "Nuno J. Mamede" LisTAL Lisboa for Natural Language Processing Lisboa para o Tratamento Automático das Línguas Lisboa pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, September 10-12 2001 Following VEXTAL, held at Venice on November 1999, LisTAL will take place in LISBOA (Portugal), September 10-12, 2001. LISTAL will provide an excellent opportunity to exchange original research papers on a very broad range of topics in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering. Major topics include, but are not limited to: - Parsing and Generating Spoken and Written Language - Word Sense Disambiguation - Linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language - Information Retrieval and Information Extraction - Corpus Linguistics - Machine Translation and Translation Aids - Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems - Textual Databases: Indexing; Retrieval - Large-Scale (Online) Linguistic Resources - Natural Language for WEB Databases IMPORTANT: Up-to-date information is available at the URL: http://digitais.ist.utl.pt/listal/ Elisabete Ranchhod (CAUTL-IST) Nuno Mamede (CSTC-IST) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 20 12:48:35 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:48:35 +0200 Subject: Appel: SICS Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis VIIe CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL DE COMMUNICATION SOCIALE CENTRE DE LINGUISTIQUE APPLIQUÉE Lors du 30e anniversaire de sa fondation SANTIAGO DE CUBA 23-26 janvier 2001 Le Centre de Linguistique Appliquée, appartenant au Ministère des Sciences, de la Technologie et de l'Environnement à Santiago de Cuba, organise le VIIe Congrès International de Communication Sociale, qui aura lieu dans cette ville du 23 au 26 janvier 2001 à l'occasion du 30e anniversaire de la fondation du centre. Dans ce forum interdisciplinaire, on favorisera la discussion sur des thèmes concernant des branches comme la linguistique appliquée, la linguistique informatisée, la médecine, le traitement de la voix, ainsi que des sujets portant sur les médias et sur l'ethnologie et le folklore, liés à la communication sociale. Le congrès sera aussi patronné par: - Université d'Oriente, Cuba - Institut Supérieur de Sciences Médicales, Santiago de Cuba - Université Pédagogique "Frank País García", Santiago de Cuba - Agence d'Information pour le Développement, Cuba - Université de Twente, Hollande - Conseil National des Recherches, Italie - Université de Léon, Espagne - Université de Malaga, Espagne - Université de Grenade, Espagne - Université de Alcalá, Espagne - Université Humboldt, Allemagne On acceptera un seul travail par auteur concernant les disciplines et les thèmes suivants: 1. Linguistique appliquée: -Enseignement de l'espagnol et des langues étrangères -Enseignement de l'espagnol langue étrangère -Phonétique et phonologie -Lexicologie et lexicographie -Morphosyntaxe -Sociolinguistique -Psycholinguistique -Linguistique du discours et linguistique pragmatique -Terminologie -Traductions 2. Linguistique informatisée: -Logiciels appliqués à des recherches linguistiques -Codification grammaticale automatique de textes -Dictionnaires automatiques -Logiciels rapportés à l'enseignement des langues maternelles et des langues étrangères -Autres sujets proches 3. Traitement de la voix: -Recherches sur l'analyse du pleur -Applications de l'analyse, la synthèse et la reconnaissance de la voix -Intelligence artificielle et traitement de la voix 4. Spécialités médicales liées notamment à la parole et à la voix et en général à la communication sociale: -Logopédie et phoniatrie -Neurologie -Oto-rhino-laryngologie -Stomatologie -Psychiatrie enfantine -Pédiatrie -Chronobiologie 5. Médias: -Recherches linguistiques sur le parler des journalistes, des acteurs et des présentateurs de radio et de télévision -Analyses du discours dans des programmes de radio et de télévision, ainsi que dans des articles de la presse écrite et de la presse orale 6. Ethnologie et folklore: -Études sur la communication sociale. Les activités qui auront lieu lors du congrès sont: -Stages préalables -Discussion des rapports dans des commissions -Conférences -Ateliers -Exposition d'affiches STAGES PRÉALABLES Il y aura deux stages préalables au congrès qui seront animés par de prestigieux spécialistes dont on annoncera bientôt les noms. Ces stages sont programmés le lundi 22 janvier 2001 et traiteront des sujets suivants: -Enseignement de l'espagnol langue étrangère -Dernières tendances de la linguistique informatisée Chaque participant doit communiquer par avance à quel stage il désire assister. Une attestation de participation lui sera décernée. Supplément à payer par chaque stage: 20.00 USD. ATELIER À l'occasion du 30e anniversaire de la fondation du Centre de Linguistique Appliquée, on réalisera un atelier intitulé "La linguistique appliquée dans le monde hispanophone". CONFÉRENCES Dans ce congrès, quatre conférences seront données par: -Dr. Anton Nijholt, professeur et chercheur à l'Université de Twente, Hollande -Dr. Hiroto Ueda, professeur et chercheur du Département d'Espagnol de l'Université de Tokyo, Japon -Dr. Mercedes Cathcart Roca, professeur et chercheuse à la Faculté de Sciences Sociales et Humaines de l'Université d'Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba -Dr. Manuel Vilares Ferro, professeur et chercheur à l'Université de Vigo, Espagne RÉSUMÉS On recevra les résumés des travaux à présenter jusqu'au 1 juillet 2000. Ils auront 250 mots au maximum. L'approbation de chaque travail par le Comité Scientifique sera notifiée avant le 30 juillet 2000. RAPPORTS Afin de pouvoir éditer les actes du congrès, où l'on publiera tous les travaux approuvés, les rapports doivent être envoyés avant le 1 septembre 2000. Ces rapports rempliront les conditions suivantes: 1. Ne pas dépasser 5 pages, y compris les graphiques, les notes et la bibliographie. 2. Être écrits au moyen du traitement de textes Word et envoyés à la secrétaire exécutive du forum par courrier électronique (attachment) ou sur une disquette de 3 pouces et demi. 3. Être présentés sur des feuilles à format A4, les quatres marges des pages mesurant 2,5 cm. 4. Être écrits dans une des langues officielles du congrès: espagnol, anglais ou français. Indications pour présenter les rapports: 1. Écrire sur le coin supérieur gauche de la première page le nom de l'auteur, tout en majuscules grasses, police arial et taille 10 (Word). Si les auteurs sont plusieurs, saisir leurs noms en colonne, interligne simple. En-dessous, toujours à gauche, indiquer le nom de l'institution que chaque auteur représente, le nom de la ville et du pays d'origine et l'adresse du courrier électronique, en gras aussi avec les initiales en majuscules. 2. Aller à la ligne et placer au centre le titre du rapport en italiques grasses, police arial et taille 11. 3. Ensuite, saisir en caractère maigre le texte du rapport, police arial et taille 10, interligne simple. 4. Ne pas mettre d'alinéa aux paragraghes, qui seront séparés par un interligne de 3 points. 5. Écrire les titres des sections en gras et ceux des sous-sections en italiques. 6. Mettre les notes dans la marge inférieure de chaque page, police arial et taille 9. La durée de l'exposé sera de 15 minutes et celle de la discussion de 5 minutes. Les auteurs devront demander par avance les moyens techniques dont ils auront besoin pour exposer: projecteur, rétroprojecteur, magnétophone, équipement vidéo, ordinateur, etc. EXPOSITION D'AFFICHES Les affiches doivent mesurer 1 mètre de largeur sur 1,2 mètre de hauteur. Les exposants se chargeront eux-mêmes de l'affichage le matin du jour de leur exposé. Dans les résumés, il faut mettre le mot AFFICHE. Les rapports correspondants aux affiches n'excéderont pas 3 pages et se conformeront aux indications déjà énumérées. Toute correspondance ou consultation doit s'adresser à: Dra. Eloína Miyares Bermúdez Secretaria Ejecutiva del Comité Organizador VII Simposio Internacional de Comunicación Social Centro de Lingüística Aplicada Apartado Postal 4067. Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba, 90400 Teléfonos: (53-226) 42760, (53-226) 41081 Fax: (53-226) 41579 E-mail: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu Home page: http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/index.html LANGUES OFFICIELLES: Espagnol, anglais et français. QUOTA D'INSCRIPTION Auteurs 160.00 USD Accompagnants 80.00 USD La quota d'inscription se payera en liquide lors de l'inscription même, ce qui donnera le droit à recevoir les actes, toute la documentation du forum, une attestation d'exposé, à prendre part au cocktail de bienvenue et à des excursions et à jouir d'un concert. Les accompagnants auront droit aux mêmes bénéfices, sauf aux actes. LOGEMENT Le Comité Organisateur assurera le logement dans des hôtels trois, quatre et cinq étoiles avec un tarif préférentiel aux participants au congrès. À RETENIR: - Réception des résumés: Jusqu'au 1 juillet 2000 - Notification de l'approbation du travail: Jusqu'au 30 juillet 2000 - Réception des rapports sur disquette ou par courrier électronique: Jusqu'au 1 septembre 2000 - Stages préalables: 22 janvier 2001 - VIIe Congrès International de Communication Sociale: Du 23 au 26 janvier 2001 COMITÉ ORGANISATEUR ET SCIENTIFIQUE Présidente d'honneur: Dr. Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín, Ministre des Sciences, de la Technologie et de l'Environnement, République de Cuba Aida Almaguer Furnaguera, Déléguée du Ministère des Sciences, de la Technologie et de l'Environnement, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Gerardo García Cabrera, Président de l'Agence d'Information pour le Développement, Ministère des Sciences, de la Technologie et de l'Environnement, La Havane, Cuba Vitelio Ruiz Hernández, Académicien Titulaire de l'Académie de Sciences de Cuba, Centre de Linguistique Appliquée, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Leonel Ruiz Miyares, Directeur du Centre de Linguistique Appliquée, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Eloína Miyares Bermúdez, Secrétaire Exécutive du VIIe Congrès International de Communication Sociale, Centre de Linguistique Appliquée, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Marcos Cortina V., Recteur de l'Université d'Oriente, Ministère de l'Éducation Supérieur, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Nayra Pujals, Recteur de l'Institut Supérieur de Sciences Médicales, Ministère de la Santé Publique, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba César Torres, Recteur de l'Université Pédagogique "Frank País García", Ministère de l'Éducation, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Anton Nijholt, Professeur et chercheur, Université de Twente, Enschede, Hollande Kathleen Wermke, Professeur et chercheuse, Université Humboldt, Berlin, Allemagne Renate Siegmund, Professeur et chercheuse, Université Humboldt, Berlin, Allemagne Mercedes Cathcart Roca, Professeur et chercheuse, Faculté de Sciences Sociales et Humaines, Université d'Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Daniela Ratti, Chercheuse, Conseil National des Recherches, Gênes, Italie Lucia Marconi, Chercheuse, Conseil National des Recherches, Gênes, Italie Claudia Rolando, Chercheuse, Conseil National des Recherches, Gênes, Italie José Ramón Morala Rodríguez, Professeur et chercheur, Université de Léon, Espagne Gloria Corpas Pastor, Professeur et chercheuse, Université de Malaga, Espagne Daniel Madrid, Vice-doyen de Relations Internationales, Faculté de Sciences de l'Éducation, Université de Grenade, Espagne Luis Beltrán, Vice-Rector de Relations Internationales, Université de Alcalá, Espagne Ercilia Estrada Estrada, Conseil Scientifique, Centre de Linguistique Appliquée, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Nancy Álamo Suárez, Chercheuse, Centre de Linguistique Appliquée, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Humberto Ocaña Dayar, Professeur et chercheur, Université Pédagogique "Frank País García", Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Miladys Diodene Adame, Ministère de l'Éducation, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba VIIe CONGRÈS INTERNATIONAL DE COMMUNICATION SOCIALE Modèle de fiche d'inscription Nom: ____________________ Centre de travail: ____________________ Profession: __________________________ Adresse professionnelle: ______________ Téléphone: _________________ E-mail: ___________ Fax: _______________________________ Domicile: _______________________ Téléphone: _________________ Fax: __________ Je souhaite assister au stage préalable (facultatif): ______ Enseignement de l'espagnol langue étrangère ______ Dernières tendances de la linguistique informatisée Titre du rapport: ______________________ Date: __________________ Signature: ______________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 20 12:48:23 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:48:23 +0200 Subject: Appel: ROMAND 2000 Message-ID: From: TALN2000 First Call for Papers ROMAND 2000 1st workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data 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: July 23rd Acceptance notice: August 14th 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/ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 20 12:51:34 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:51:34 +0200 Subject: Appel: Comparing Corpora Message-ID: From: Adam Kilgarriff CALL FOR PAPERS ACL Workshop: COMPARING CORPORA October 2000 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology THEME ===== Anyone who has worked with corpora will be all too aware of differences between them. Depending on the differences, it may, or may not, be reasonable to expect results based on one corpus to also be valid for another. It may, or may not, be appropriate for a grammar, or parser, based on one to perform well on another. It may, or may not, be straightforward to port an application from a domain of the first text type to a domain of the second. Currently, characterisations of corpora are mostly textual and at different levels of generality. A corpus is described as ``Wall Street Journal'' or ``transcripts of business meetings'' or ``foreign learners' essays (intermediate grade)''. It would be desirable to be able to place a new corpus in relation to existing ones, and to be able to quantify similarities and differences. Allied to corpus-similarity is corpus-homogeneity. An understanding of homogeneity is a prerequisite to a measure of the similarity -- it makes little sense to compare a corpus sampled across many genres, like the Brown, with a corpus of weather forecasts, without first accounting for the one being broad, the other narrow. Given the centrality of corpora to contemporary language engineering, it is remarkable how little research there has been to date on the question. Biber's work, coming from sociolinguistics, has made a considerable impact, with various researchers in computational lingustics taking forward the model (Biber 1989, 1995). Studies in text classification, genre and sublanguage are also salient, but it is rarely evident how well the technologies ddeveloped in these fields are suited to measuring corpus similarity or homogeneity. The workshop will welcome contributions concerned with measuring and comparing corpora using quantitative methods, from any field. Where and when ============== The workshop will last half a day and will be on either 7th or 8th Oct, the main ACL conference being 3rd-6th Oct. The venue will be the as for the main conference. Submissions: ============ Submissions are limited to original, unpublished work. Papers may not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of title page and references). They must be received by July 8, 2000, in hard copy (4 copies) OR postscript OR rtf format. Electronic delivery is to compcorp at itri.brighton.ac.uk and hard copies are to be mailed to Compcorp submission ITRI University of Brighton Lewes Road Brighton BN2 4GJ United Kingdom Important Dates: July 8, 2000 Submission (of full-length paper) August 17, 2000 Acceptance notice September 5, 2000 Camera-ready paper due October 7 or 8 Workshop date Co-ordinators ============= Adam Kilgarriff - University of Brighton, UK Tony Berber Sardinha - Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Programme committee =================== Douglas Biber Northern Arizona University Jeremy Clear University of Birmingham Ted Dunning MusicMatch Software, Inc. Tomaz Erjavec Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Pascale Fung University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Sylviane Granger (tbc) Universite Catholique de Louvain Greg Grefenstette (tbc) XRCE, Grenoble Benoit Habert LIMSI, France Przemek Kaszubski (tbc) Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Adam Kilgarriff University of Brighton David Lee University of Lancaster Oliver Mason University of Birmingham Doug Oard University of Maryland Tony Rose Canon Research Tony Berber Sardinha Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil George Tambouratzis ILSP, Athens Christopher Tribble King's College, London University Website ======= http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/compcorp ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 20 12:51:38 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:51:38 +0200 Subject: Conf: Automata Message-ID: From: Helmut Jurgensen CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Tri-conference event: CIAA2000 -- Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata HCAT -- Half Century of Automaton Theory DCAGRS2000 --- Workshop on Descriptional Complexity of Automata Grammars and Related Structures Plus: Workshop on Coding Theory. Held in London, Canada 24-25, 26 and 27-29 July and 31 July - 1 August For information visit: http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs/triconf.html I am looking forward to seeing you London, Canada in July. Helmut Jurgensen Travel information is available at http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs/london.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 20 12:51:48 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:51:48 +0200 Subject: Soft: new open source NLP software Message-ID: From: Jason Baldridge Hi all, This is an announcement to let people know of the availability of some new open source NLP software. Here are the descriptions and where you can go to find out more. The Quipu Grok Library - a library of Java components for performing various natural language tasks. These include several preprocessing tasks (pos tagging, sentence detection, etc.), chart parsing, a large categorial grammar for English (induced from the Penn treebank), and some knowledge representation components (basic coreference, salience tracking, etc.) Homepage: . The Quipu OpenNLP API - a preliminary collection of Java interfaces that we are designing in conjunction with Grok in order to standardize how NLP modules interact. Homepage: . The Quipu Maximum Entropy Package - an Java implementation of the maximum entropy framework. It allows you to train, evaluate, and use maxent models. Homepage: . "Quipu" is a moniker which we use to refer to several students at the University of Edinburgh who are interested in building open source natural language software. This is not an exclusive club, and we welcome anyone else who would like to contribute to this cause. Homepage: . The software described above is distributed under the GNU Public Licenses (GPL and LGPL). This means you are free to download both the binaries and the source code. You are also welcome to modify the source code for your own applications. There are certain restrictions spelled out in the licenses, the main impact of which is to ensure that modifications (e.g. improvements and bug fixes) and new software which incorporates GPL'ed code is made available to the community. Our hope is that NLP researchers don't have to keep re-inventing basic NLP components every time they want to build a new system. We hope to achieve this through modularity and the open source philosophy. Please send this announcement along to any mailing lists whose readers you think would be interested. Let us know if you have any questions! Jason Baldridge: jmb at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Gann Bierner: gbierner at cogsci.ed.ac.uk -- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 27 13:26:23 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:26:23 +0200 Subject: Divers: FoLLI Dissertation Award Message-ID: From: Christof Monz --- We apologize for multiple copies --- --- DEADLINE EXTENDED due to mutliple requests --- New deadline: July 9, 2000 2000 FoLLI Dissertation Award Call for Nominations The European Association for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI) is inviting nominations for the 2000 edition of the FoLLI Dissertation Award to be awarded annually to an outstanding dissertation in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation. FoLLI gratefully acknowledges sponsorship of this prize by funds from the Spinoza Prize awarded to Johan van Benthem. We are happy to announce that an amount of 1000 EURO will be allocated to one or more award recipients. It is at the discretion of the Prize Committee to allocate the prize money to a single nominee or to divide the prize among two recipients. Eligibility Ph.D. theses in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation by authors who completed the Ph.D. degree between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99. Submission Details 1. A letter of nomination by the thesis supervisor. (N.B. Self-applications by Ph.D. holders are not possible. Each application must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor.) The letter from the student's Ph.D. advisor should verify that the degree was conferred between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99. 2. Two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. 3. An abstract of the thesis, prepared by the author of the thesis and not to exceed five pages in length 4. A hard copy of the dissertation All materials have to be sent as hard-copy to Mr. Marco de Vries, FoLLI Secretary, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Authors are advised to have their Ph.D. thesis available on the Web, if possible. Submissions Deadline All materials have to be received by July 9, 2000. Prize Committee Anne Abeille Natasha Alechina Patrick Blackburn Nissim Francez Paul Gochet (chair) Valentin Goranko Marcus Kracht Larry Moss Francesco Orilia Manfred Pinkal Christian Retore Rob van der Sandt Further Details Please consult the FoLLI web site at http://www.folli.uva.nl for further details. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 27 13:29:52 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:29:52 +0200 Subject: Conf: SEPLN 2000 Message-ID: From: "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" ====================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SEPLN 2000 XVI Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- September 26-28 2000 Vigo, Spain Sponsored by Universidade de Vigo with the support of Caixavigo e Ourense Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing Xunta de Galicia Telefonica I+D http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/ Following the XV SEPLN Conference that took place in Lleida in September 1999, the XVI SEPLN Conference shall be held in Vigo from September 26 to September 28. The event shall take place after TAPD 2000 (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/) which is a conference centered upon applications of tabulation technologies for syntactic analysis and deduction. The motivation for this Conference is to provide researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing a chance to present their recent work, to share their experimental results, and to discuss a range of problems which must be treated. Moreover, an important objective of this Conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and opinions for future basic research directions and to compare these ideas with the actual needs of the society. The conference will include talks on a number of topics, including: -- Computational lexicography -- Corpus linguistics -- Information extraction and retrieval -- Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis -- Linguistic, mathematic and psicolinguistic models of languages -- Machine translation -- Monolingual and multilingual textual generation -- Semantics, pragmatics and discourse -- Speech synthesis and recognition as well as presentations by our invited speakers: -- Eric de la Clergerie, INRIA, France -- Daniel Tapias Merino, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo, Spain -- Christopher S. Butler, Univ. of Wales Swansea, UK (See program below.) Information about participation and registration, an online registration form and the program are available at http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM: TUESDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2000 * 8:30 REGISTRATION * 9:30 INVITED TALK "Tabulation in Natural Language Processing" by Eric de la Clergerie Chair: M. A. Alonso * SESSION S1: Linguistic, mathematical an psycholinguistic models of language; Monolingual and multilingual text generation Chair: T. Badia 10:30 "Sistema incremental generador de oraciones y de descodificación lingüística" J. Luciano Maldonado 10:50 "Método para la elaboración de un corpus para la generación de lenguaje natural" G. Aguado and M. del Socorro Bernardos 11:10 "Un modelo computacional para la generación automática de poesía formal en Castellano" P. Gervás * 11:30 COFFEE-BREAK * Continuation of session S1: Linguistic, mathematical an psycholinguistic models of language; Monolingual and multilingual text generation Chair: T. Badía 12:00 Demo: "A Development Environment For MTT-Based Sentence Generators" B. Bohnet, A. Langjahr and L. Wanner 12:20 Project: "Generation of Air Pollutant Information" L. Wanner, B. Bohnet and C. Gerstenberger * SESSION S2: Semantic, pragmatic and discourse Chair: A. Martí 12:40 "Análisis y procesamiento de la diátesis de los verbos de cambio en gallego" J. L. Aguirre Moreno 13:00 "Resolución de la anáfora: estructura del diálogo y conocimiento lingüístico" P. Martínez-Barco and M. Palomar 13:20 "Método basado en marcas de especificidad para WSD" A. Montoyo 13:40 Demo: "OntoTerm: un sistema abierto de representación conceptual" A. Moreno Ortiz * 14:00 LUNCH * SESSION S3: Computational lexicography Chair: X. Artola 16:00 "Bases léxicas organizadas mediante un sistema de herencia mereológica" P. Gamallo Otero 16:20 "Extracting Portuguese-Spanish Word Translations from Aligned Parallel Texts" A. Ribeiro, G. Lopes and J. Mexia 16:40 "Incorporación de adjetivos al WordNet español" I. Chugur, A. Peñas, J. Gonzalo and M.F. Verdejo * 17:00 COFFEE-BREAK * Continuation of session S3: Computational lexicography Chair: X. Artola 17:30 "Hacia un tratamiento computacional de la sinonimia" S. Fernández and A. Sobrino 17:50 Project: "Construcción de una base de datos de colocaciones léxicas" M. Alonso Ramos and B. Sanromán Vilas 18:10 Demo: "Diccionario de diccionarios electrónico da língua galega" J.R. Pichel and A. Fernández * 20:00 RECEPTION at the Town Hall of Vigo --------- WEDNESDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2000 * 8.30 REGISTRATION * SESSION S4: Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis Chair: H. Rodríguez 9:30 "Análisis sintáctico bidireccional de TAGs" V. J. Díaz and M. A. Alonso 9:50 "Towards a Discriminating-Reverse Tomita-like Parser with Reduced Nondeterminism" J. Fortes and J. Farre 10:10 "Herramienta para el etiquetado léxico y análisis sintáctico de textos orientado a la construcción de corpus supervisados" X. Ribera, A. Molina and F. Pla 10:30 "Análisis sintáctico estocástico y paralelismo" F.M. Barcala, O. Sacristá and J. Graña 10:50 "Análisis estadístico del comportamiento del primer etiquetador cubano en tres diferentes corpus de la prensa" L. Ruiz Miyares and L. Zamora Matamoros 11:10 Project: "Proyecto RILE: Servidor de Recursos para el desarrollo de la Ingeniería Lingüística en Español" I. Bermejo, X. Carreras, N. Castellón, E. Coello, J. Gonzalo, E. López, M.A. Martí, S. Rodríguez, H. Rodríguez, L. Padró, Anselmo and M. Felisa Verdejo * 11:30 COFFEE-BREAK * Continuation of session S4: Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis Chair: H. Rodríguez 12:00 Demo: "El corrector de Planeta" Y. Castellón, A. Collet, A. Gonzalvo, X. Lloré, A. Ortega, G. Pérez, J. Pérez and D. Trotzig * SESSION S5: Machine translation; Corpus linguistics Chair: J. Gómez Guinovart 12:20 "Etiquetado semiautomático del rasgo semántico de animicidad para su uso en un sistema de traducción automática" A. Díaz de Ilarraza, M. Lersundi, A. Mayor and K. Sarasola 12:40 "Two Frequency-rank Law for Letters in Printed Romanian" A. Vlad, A. Mitrea and M. Mitrea * 13:00 INVITED TALK "El habla natural como interfaz en la sociedad de la información" by Daniel Tapias Merino Chair: C. García Mateo * 14:00 LUNCH * SESSION S6: Speech recognition and synthesis Chair: J. Llisterri 16:00 "La frecuencia fundamental de la voz y sus efectos en reconocimiento de habla continua" C. García and D. Tapias 16:20 "Restricciones de funcionamiento en tiempo real de un sistema automático de diálogo" R. López-Cozar, A.J. Rubio, M.C. Benítez and D.H. Milone 16:40 "Proposición de un marco adecuado para el estudio de contornos de F0 para síntesis de voz" X. Fernández Salgado and E. Rodríguez Banga * 17:00 COFEE-BREAK * Continuation of session S6: Speech recognition and synthesis Chair: J. Llisterri 17:30 "Desarrollo de un módulo de asignación de parámetros prosódicos para la versión en español del sistema de conversión texto-habla ACTOR ®" J.M. Garrido, I. Ortín and S. Quazza 17:50 "Segmentación automática de voz basada en modelos ocultos de Markov y características acusticas" L. Docío Fernández 18:10 "Diseño de una base de datos tipo SpeechDat para el idioma gallego" B. González Rei and C. García Mateo * 18:30 GENERAL MEETING OF THE SEPLN * 20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER --------- THURSDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2000 * 8.30 REGISTRATION * 9:30 INVITED TALK "Corpus Studies and Functional Linguistics" by Christopher S. Butler Chair: J.M. García-Miguel * SESSION S7: Information extraction and retrieval Chair: M. Felisa Verdejo 10:30 "Aplicación de técnicas de Extracción de Informa ción en Bibliotecas Digitales" A. Bia and R. Muñoz 10:50 "Tareas de análisis del contenido textual para la recuperación de información con realimentación" M.J. Maña, L.A. Ureña and M. De Buenaga 11:10 "Extracción y asignación de tiempos de suceso para documentos de actualidad" R. Berlanga Llavori, D. Llidó Escrivá and M.J. Aramburu Cabo * 11:30 COFFEE-BREAK * Continuation of session S7: Information extraction and retrieval Chair: M. Felisa Verdejo 12:00 "¿Cómo influye la resolución de la anáfora pronominal en los sistemas de bũsqueda de respuestas?" J.L. Vicedo González, A. Ferrández Rodríguez and J. Peral Cortés 12:20 "Optimización en el reconocimiento de patrones" M. Vilares, F.J. Ribadas and V.M. Darriba 12:40 Project: "Proyecto MESIA: Modelo computacional para Extracción Selectiva de Información de textos cortos" P. Martínez, P. González, P. Sánchez and A. María García 13:00 Demo: "Proyecto Mercurio: un servicio personalizado de noticias basado en técnicas de clasificación de texto y modelado de usuario" A. Díaz, P. Gervás, J.M. Gómez, A. García, M. de Buenaga, I. Chacón, B. San Miguel, R. Murciano, E. Puertas, M. Alcojor and I. Acero 13:20 Project: "El Proyecto SCASEM: un Sistema de Catalogación Semántica" D. Trotzig 13:40 Demo: "GaIn: un buscador Internet/Intranet avanzado para textos en euskera" Ibon Aizpurua, Iñaki Alegria, Nerea Ezeiza * 14:00 CLOSING ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Manuel Vilares Ferro (chair) -- Univ. of A Coruna Joseba Abaitua -- Univ. of Deusto Miguel A. Alonso Pardo -- Univ. of A Coruña Margarita Alonso Ramos -- Univ. of A Coruña Xabier Artola -- Univ. of País Vasco Toni Badia -- Univ. Pompeu Fabra Manuel de Buenaga Rodriguez -- Univ. Europea de Madrid Ines Diz -- Univ. of Vigo Carmen Garcia Mateo -- Univ. of Vigo Jose M. Garcia-Miguel Gallego -- Univ. of Vigo Javier Gomez Guinovart -- Univ. of Vigo Jorge Grana Gil -- Univ. of A Coruña Joaquim Llisterri -- Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona M. Antonia Marti Antonin -- Univ. of Barcelona Lydia Moreno Boronat -- Univ. Politécnica de Valencia Manuel Palomar Sanz -- Univ. of Alicante Guillermo Rojo Sanchez -- Univ. of Santiago de Compostela Maria Felisa Verdejo Maillo -- UNED ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREVIOUS SEPLN CONFERENCES: SEPLN'99 (LLeida) http://www.udl.es/dept/dal/sepln/ SEPLN'98 (Alicante) http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/sepln/congreso98/congreso.htm SEPLN'97 (Madrid) http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/sepln/congreso/ SEPLN'96 (Sevilla) http://www.cica.es/sepln96/sepln96.html SEPLN'95 (Bilbao) SEPLN'94 (Cordoba) SEPLN'93 (Santiago de Compostela) SEPLN'92 (Granada) SEPLN'91 (Valencia) SEPLN'90 (San Sebastian) SEPLN'89 (Barcelona) SEPLN'88 (Madrid) SEPLN'87 (Barcelona) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FOR MORE INFORMATION: Further information will be available at http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/. For any information related to the organization, please contact: Secretaría SEPLN'2000 Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática Campus As Lagoas, s/n 32004 Ourense España E-mail: sepln-secret at ei.uvigo.es Fax: +34 988-387001 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 27 13:25:42 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:25:42 +0200 Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers Message-ID: ________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Claire Waast Subject: Offre d'emploi: Ingénieur-chercheur en modélisation acoustique de la parole à IBM 2/ From: andre.ABBOU at auf-francophonie.org Subject: Appel à candidatures 3/ From: Jeff ALLEN Subject: 2 positions at ELDA/ELRA 4/ From: Jason Patino Subject: Computational Linguist at NetZero, California USA ________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Claire Waast Subject: Offre d'emploi: Ingénieur-chercheur en modélisation acoustique de la parole à IBM Offre d'emploi: Ingénieur-chercheur en modélisation acoustique de la parole à IBM Lieu: Paris La Defense, France En rejoignant IBM, le leader mondial des technologies et services informatiques, vous allez participer à un formidable challenge : le développement de systèmes de pointe (logiciels ViaVoice: téléphonie, compréhension du langage naturel, technologie embarquée). Cet environnement pluridisciplinaire et international vous conduira à travailler en coordination avec les équipes de R&D IBM réparties dans le monde. L'équipe basée à Paris a la double mission de faire avancer la Recherche sur les problèmes spécifiques à la langue française, et de calculer et optimiser les modèles acoustiques et linguistiques du français dans tous les domaines de technologie du langage (reco, synthèse, compréhension...) Au sein de ce département, vos missions sont les suivantes : Ingénieur-chercheur en modélisation acoustique de la parole --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vous êtes responsable du calcul de modèles statistiques du français pour le traitement de la parole, au niveau acoustique. Fort d'une première expérience dans un domaine identique ou connexe (laboratoire de recherche, université), vous avez des compétences en mathématiques appliquées, statistiques, modélisation probabiliste et programmation.La maîtrise de l'anglais et la connaissance des plateformes UNIX, Windows, des languages C/C++, ksh et Tcl/Tk sont requises. Adressez vos candidatures (lettre, CV) IBM France, Direction du Recrutement Service 9000 92086 Paris La Défense Cedex ________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: andre.ABBOU at auf-francophonie.org Subject: Appel à candidatures Appel à candidatures L'École Doctorale de Génie Linguistique, fonctionnant sous la tutelle de l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, et qui regroupe 4 universités francophones (Université de Québec, Université de Genève, pool des Universités belges et l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne (Département MIASH) invite les étudiants titulaires d'une maîtrise ou d'un DEA comportant les éléments suivants : - initiation au traitement automatique des langues - formation/expérience en programmation informatique (C ou C++, Prolog, Lisp) - formation en BDD et intéressés par la préparation d'UN DEA et, postérieurement éventuellement d'une thèse, en Traitement automatique des langues et applications industrielles, à faire acte de candidature d'ici le 15 juillet 2000. Si leur candidature est acceptée, ils recevront une bourse de 4 500F/mois versée sur critères d'assiduité aux cours + TD, et sur vérification des connaissances et des aptitudes. Faire acte de candidature à : Professeur André Abbou OFIL 2, rue Abel 75012 Paris Tél. : 01.44.73.85.85 Mail : andre.ABBOU at auf-francophonie.org ________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Jeff ALLEN Subject: 2 positions at ELDA/ELRA [Please accept our apologies for multiple list cross posting] Please circulate to whom it may interest/concern: Two full-time Technical Engineer/Scientist positions at ELDA. The European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a company specialized in Human Language Technologies within an international context, acting as the distribution agency of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), is currently seeking to fill two immediate vacancies for Technical Engineer/Scientist positions. ELRA was established in February 1995, with the support of the European Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (LRs). Language Resources include all data necessary for language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases and terminology. The role of this non-profit membership Association is to promote the production of LRs, to collect and to validate them and, foremost, make them available to users. The association also gathers information on market needs and trends. Under the supervision of the CEO, the responsibilities of the Technical Engineers/Scientists include market studies, reports, and development in the field of Language Engineering. Tasks will be technical in nature as well as investigating economic and market needs. This yields excellent opportunities for young, creative, and motivated candidates wishing to participate actively in establishing/ building the European Union Language Engineering field. The ideal candidate would have: * Experience in the field of language engineering/ computational linguistics/ speech processing or a related field; * Experience in developing market studies and writing technical reports in the field of information technologies or Human Language Technologies; * Knowledge of /Experience in integrating and implementing language resources in new applications; * Experience with technology transfer projects, industrial projects, collaborative projects within the European Commission or other international frameworks; * Experience /motivations in establishing and supervising external contracts; * Citizenship of (or residency papers) a European Union country; * The ability to work in at least two European languages (English being essential). Both positions are based in Paris. Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. Applicants should E-mail, Fax, or post a cover letter addressing the points listed above, together with a Curriculum Vitae, to: Khalid CHOUKRI ELRA / ELDA 55-57, rue Brillat Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel : +33 1 43 13 33 33 ; Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30 E-mail : choukri at elda.fr For more information about ELDA and ELRA, see: http://www.elda.fr/ ________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Jason Patino Subject: Computational Linguist at NetZero, California USA Rank of Job: Areas Required: Computational Linguist Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: NetZero Department: HR State or Province: California Country: USA Final Date of Application: 10/01/2000 Contact: Jason Patino jpatino at corp.netzero.net Address for Applications: 2555 Townsgate Road Westlake CA 91361 USA Simpli and Net Zero are currently in merger negotations. 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. To apply: Mail, fax, or e-mail a cover letter, resume and names of three references to: ATTN: Jobs, Simpli.com, Inc., 203 S. Main, Providence, RI 02903. fax: 401-621-3220. email: jobs at simpli.com . ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 27 13:29:59 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:29:59 +0200 Subject: Conf: TAPD 2000 Message-ID: [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies] ====================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TAPD 2000 2nd Workshop on 'Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- September 19-21 2000 Vigo, Spain Sponsored by University of Vigo with the support of Caixa Vigo e Ourense and Logic Programing Associates http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/ Following TAPD'98 in Paris (France), TAPD 2000 will be held in Vigo (Spain), from September 19 to September 21. The workshop will be previous to SEPLN 2000 (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/), the conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing. Tabulation techniques are becoming a common way to deal with highly redundant computations occurring, for instance, in Natural Language Processing, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, or Abstract Interpretation, and related to phenomena such as ambiguity, non-determinism or domain ordering. The workshop will include talks on a number of topics, including: -- Tabulation Techniques: Chart Parsing, Tabling, Memoization, Dynamic Programming, Magic Set, Generic Fix-Point Algorithms -- Applications: Parsing, Generation, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, Abstract Interpretation, Deduction in Knowledge Bases, Theorem Proving -- Static Analysis: Improving tabular evaluation -- Parsing and resolution strategies. -- Efficiency issues: Dealing with large tables (structure sharing, term indexing), Execution models, Exploiting the domain ordering (subsumption). -- Shared structures (parse or proof forest): Formal analysis, representation and processing. as well as presentations by our invited speakers: -- Bharat Jayaraman (State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, USA) -- I.V. Ramakrishnan (State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, USA) (See program below.) Information about participation and registration and an online registration form are available at http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: In addition to the invited talks -- "Applications of Tabled Logic Programming" by I.V. Ramakrishnan -- "Preference Logic Grammars" by Bharat Jayaraman the following accepted papers will be presented by authors: -- "A Distributed Tabling System" by C. Damasio -- "A formal definition of Bottom-Up Embedded Push-Down Automata and their tabulation technique" by M.A. Alonso, E. de la Clergerie and M. Vilares -- "A New Tabling Scheme with Dynamic Ordering of Alternatives" by Hai-Feng Guo and Gopal Gupta -- "A Proposal on Error Repair" by M. Vilares, V.M. Darriba and F.J. Ribadas -- "An Architecture for Multi-Threaded Tabled Engine" by R. Marques, T. Swift and J. Cunha -- "Comparing Tabular Parsers for Tree Adjoining Grammars" by V.J. Diaz and M.A. Alonso -- "Improving Constructive Synthesizers by Tabulation Techniques and Domain Ordering" by F.J. Galan and J.M. Canete -- "Interfacing a Tabled-WAM to a Dual-Mode Tabling Subsystem" by E. Johnson -- "Logic Programming Optimizations for Faster Model Checking" by Y. Dong and C.R. Ramakrishnan -- "Pattern Matching as Dynamic Facility to get Aboutness" by M. Vilares, F.J. Ribadas and V.M. Darriba Bilbao -- "Shared Forest can Guide Parsing" by F. Barthelemy, P. Boullier, P. Deschamp and E. de la Clergerie -- "Symbolic Bisimulation using Tabled Constraint Logic Programming" by M. Mukund, C.R. Ramakrishnan, I.V. Ramakrishnan and R. Verma -- "Syntactic Dependency Graph: A Compact representation of Alternative Dependency Structures" by T. Obrebski -- "YapTab: A Tabling Engine Designed to Support Parallelism" by R. Rocha, F. Silva and V. Santos ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE: David S. Warren (chair) -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, USA Francois Bry -- Univ. Munich, Germany Manuel Carro -- Univ. Polit. Madrid, Spain Eric de la Clergerie -- INRIA, France Veronica Dahl -- Univ. Simon Fraser, Canada Baudouin Le Charlier -- Univ. Namur, Belgium Mark Jan Nederhof -- DFKI, Germany Luis M. Pereira -- Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Martin Rajman -- EPFL, Switzerland Domenico Sacca -- Univ. della Calabria, Italy Kostis Sagonas -- Univ. Uppsala, Sweden David Shasha -- Univ. New York, USA Terrance Swift -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, USA Manuel Vilares -- Univ. Vigo, Spain David Weir -- Univ. Sussex, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREVIOUS TAPD WORKSHOPS: TAPD'98 (Paris, France) http://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/tapd.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FOR MORE INFORMATION: For further details consult http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/, or contact TAPD'2000 Secretariat Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Informática Campus as Lagoas, s/n 32004 Ourense Spain E-mail: tapd-secret at ei.uvigo.es Fax: +34 988 387001 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 27 13:30:01 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:30:01 +0200 Subject: Livre: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 12 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing edited by Frank van Eynde Dafydd Gibbon This book offers a state-of-the-art survey of methods and techniques for structuring, acquiring and maintaining lexical resources for speech and language processing. The first chapter provides a broad survey of the field of computational lexicography, introducing most of the issues, terms and topics which are addressed in more detail in the rest of the book. The next two chapters focus on the structure and the content of man-made lexicons, concentrating respectively on (morpho-)syntactic and (morpho-)phonological information. Both chapters adopt a declarative constraint-based methodology and pay ample attention to the various ways in which lexical generalizations can be formalized and exploited to enhance the consistency and to reduce the redundancy of lexicons. A complementary perspective is offered in the next two chapters, which present techniques for automatically deriving lexical resources from text corpora. These chapters adopt an inductive data-oriented methodology and focus also on methods for tokenization, lemmatization and shallow parsing. The next three chapters focus on speech synthesis and speech recognition. The last chapter takes a psycholinguistic perspective and addresses the relation between storage and computation in the mental lexicon. The relevance of these topics for speech and language processing is obvious, for since NLP systems need large lexica in order to achieve reasonable coverage, and since the construction and maintenance of large-size lexical resources is a complex and costly task, it is of crucial importance for those who design or build such systems to be aware of the latest developments in this fast-moving field. The intended audience for this book includes advanced students and professional scientists working in the areas of computational linguistics and language and speech technology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht * Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X April 2000, 298 pp. NLG 240.00 / USD 128.00 / GBP 79.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents and Contributors - Computational Lexicography; D. Gibbon. - Constraint-Based Lexica; G. Bouma, et al. - Phonology-Based Lexical Knowledge Representation; L. Cahill, et al. - Inductive Lexica; W. Daelemans, G. Durieux. - Recognizing Lexical Patterns in Text; G. Grefenstette, et al. - Speech Databases; C. Draxler. - The Use of Lexica in Text-To-Speech Systems; S. Quazza, H.v.d. Heuvel. - The Use of Lexica in Automatic Speech Recognition; M. Adda-Decker, L. Lamel. - Morphology in the Mental Lexicon: A Computational Model for Visual Word Recognition; R.H. Baayen, et al. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis Thierry Dutoit Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997 Volume 4: Exploring textual data Ludovic Lebart, André Salem and Lisette Berry Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997 Volume 5: Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition Julie Carson-Berndsen Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997 Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998 Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999 Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999 Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging Hans van Halteren (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999 Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons Viegas, E. (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999 Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999 Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB --------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jun 7 17:21:01 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:21:01 +0200 Subject: Conf: 3e journees INTEX Message-ID: From: ms1 at us.ibm.com ************************************************************ 3es Journ?es INTEX, Li?ge, les 13 et 14 juin 2000 ************************************************************ (English version below) INTEX est une plate-forme d'ing?nierie linguistique permettant de d?velopper (?diter, tester et maintenir) des ressources linguistiques ? large couverture et de les appliquer ? des textes de taille importante. Ces ressources ont la forme de dictionnaires ?lectroniques, biblioth?ques de graphes et bases de donn?e de type lexique-grammaire. INTEX est fond? sur la technologie des machines ? ?tats finis (automates et transducteurs). Ce choix permet d'une part une efficacit? de traitement optimale (lorsqu'on applique des dictionnaires ou grammaires ? des textes de taille importante), et garantit que les ressources linguistiques accumul?es peuvent ?tre r?utilisables. Une particularit? du syst?me INTEX est son ouverture : les utilisateurs peuvent ajouter leurs propres ressources linguistiques au syst?me et utiliser les fonctionnalit?s ?l?mentaires d'INTEX (consultation de dictionnaire, application de transducteurs ? des textes, indexation, etc.) dans leurs propres applications. Une API INTEX sera bient?t disponible. INTEX utilise des dictionnaires ? large couverture construits "? la main" dans le but initial d'analyser automatiquement des textes en langue naturelle, dont le syst?me DELA du LADL. Des ressources linguistiques compatibles ont ?t? d?velopp?es pour une douzaine de langues par les laboratoires du r?seau RELEX. Comme les deux premi?res ?ditions (juin 1996 et juin 1999), ces journ?es seront l'occasion pour les utilisateurs d'INTEX de se rencontrer et d'?changer leur exp?rience de d?veloppeur, de chercheur ou d'enseignant. Pour les nouveaux utilisateurs ou les chercheurs travaillant dans d'autres cadres, ces journ?es offrent la possibilit? de d?couvrir des applications vari?es de la technologie des machines ? ?tats finis. En plus des communications portant sur des recherches ou d?veloppements en cours, des s?ances de tutoriels sont pr?vues. Pour tous renseignements : http://cipl.philo.ulg.ac.be/intex ************************************************************ 3rd INTEX Workshop, Li?ge, June 13th and 14th, 2000 ************************************************************ INTEX is a development environment that allows linguists to develop (edit, test and maintain) large-coverage linguistic resources, and to apply them to large texts. Linguistic Resources are in the form of electronic dictionaries, libraries of graphs and lexicon-grammars. INTEX is based on Finite State Technology (automata and transducers). This provides very fast processing (when applying large dictionaries or grammars to large texts), and garanties that the accumulated linguistic resources can be re-used. Another characteristic of INTEX is that users can add their own linguistic resources, and can use the INTEX elementary functionalities (dictionary lookup, Transducer executors, indexing texts, etc.) in their own applications. An INTEX API will soon be available. INTEX uses large-coverage dictionaries constructed by linguists specifically for Natural Language Processing, such as the LADL DELA system. Compatible linguistic resources have been developed for a dozen languages by the laboratories of the RELEX network. As the two first INTEX workshops (June 1996 and June 1999), this workshop will give the INTEX users the opportunity to meet and confront their experience as developers, researchers or teachers. For new INTEX users or for researchers who work in other frameworks, the workshop will be an opportunity to discover a wide spectrum of research projects based on Finite State technology. Beside the presentations of the various research projects and developments, tutorials are planned. For any information, see: http://cipl.philo.ulg.ac.be/intex ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jun 7 17:20:24 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:20:24 +0200 Subject: Appel: TELRI Message-ID: From: Milena Slavcheva Second Call for Papers 5th TELRI Seminar Corpus Lingustics: How to Extract Meaning from Corpora 22-24 September 2000 Ljubljana, Slovenia The fifth in the series of TELRI (Trans-European Language Resources Infrastructure) seminars will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 22-24 September 2000 with the theme "Corpus Linguistics: How to Extract Meaning from Corpora". Theme The universe of discourse, that is, the ensemble of all communication acts of a discourse community, functions as an autonomous semantic system. This does not contest that texts may also refer to some discourse-external reality. But first and foremost texts, text segments and text elements refer to previous occurrences: they address, paraphrase and rearrange segments and elements that have been used before, in the same text or in other texts. Corpus linguistics detects and analyzes the recurrence of meaningful conglomerates in the discourse, combining statistical and categorial approaches and resulting in the structured presentation of the evidence. This evidence represents the shareable meaning of text segments and text elements. The paraphrases we find in the discourse tell us how to understand them; usage, that is, information on how segments and elements are embedded in their contexts, tells us how to produce texts in which they are being used. Corpus linguistics is about extracting meaning from (monolingual, comparable or parallel) corpora. Corpus linguistics generates the semantic knowledge which is the basis of language practice as in information extraction, translation or foreign language document authoring. Corpus linguistics is the prime approach to Human Language Technology if we understand HLT as the technology for dealing with general unrestricted language as opposed to controlled languages as formal calculi. The TELRI Seminar will feature contributions focussing on all aspects of extracting meaning from corpora. Invited Speakers To be announced. Young Researchers Workshop A pre-seminar workshop on Thursday, September 21, is dedicated to presentations of work in progress by young researchers, that is, graduate students and young research fellows. Seminar fees will be waived for young researchers presenting at the Seminar. TELRI will investigate further possibilities for financial support. Software Demonstrations A goal of the seminar is to stimulate cooperation between industry and academia in the West and in Central and Eastern Europe. The programme will include sessions devoted to demonstrating commercial and public domain software with emphasis on information extraction systems. Seminar fees will be waived for software presenters. Papers Papers and presentations should be 30 minutes long including discussion. A selection will be published after the seminar. Fees will be waived for accepted speakers. Submission Guidelines Authors are requested to submit abstracts which should not exceed 600 words. The address for electronic submission is: telri-admin at ids-mannheim.de Fees Academic participants: EUR 50/20* Industrial participants: EUR 100/30* Students: EUR 20/10* * refers to fees for participants from CEE/NIS Schedule Abstract Submission Due: 5 June 2000 Notification of Acceptance: 10 July 2000 Venue This year's TELRI seminar will take place in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, a medieval town at the crossroads of Mediterranean and Central-European cultures. The venue of the seminar will be the Faculty of Arts, located near the historical centre of the town and within walking distance to most hotels. The Faculty itself has recently been extended with an annexe, which provides new, well-equipped and airy classrooms for the seminar sessions as well as a cafeteria for the coffee breaks. OHP and beamer will be available in the presentation rooms; Internet access will be provided in the computer lab in the main building. Further Information Further information can be obtained from: http://www.telri.de/ http://nl.ijs.si/telri00/ telri-admin at ids-mannheim.de ------------------------------------------------------------ ************************************************************************** Milena Slavcheva Manager, TELRI II project Multilinguale Forschung Tel: +49 621 1581 427 Abteilung LEXIK Fax: +49 621 1581 415 Institut fuer deutsche Sprache E-mail: slavchev at mx300e.ids-mannheim.de R5, 6-13 www.telri.de D-68161 Mannheim ************************************************************************** ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jun 7 17:19:58 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:19:58 +0200 Subject: Conf: IMPACTS Message-ID: From: Stephan Busemann FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPACTS in Natural Language Generation NLG Between Technology and Applications July 26-28, 2000 - immediately preceding COLING 2000 - Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany Homepage: http://impacts.dfki.de IMPACTS is supported as a "SIGGEN NLG Workshop". ------------------------------------------------------------------ The IMPACTS workshop aims at studying, discussing, and clarifying the relationships between NLG technologies and applications. The workshop addresses - researchers and developers in NLG, - current and potential users of NLG applications, - the interplay between statistical and rule-based NLG, - the reusability of modules within NLG systems. IMPACTS will be an ideal opportunity to discuss current issues and future prospects in Natural Language Generation with prominent researchers in the field, in the stimulating environment of Schloss Dagstuhl. THE WORKSHOP The workshop will consist of three types of sessions: presentation of submitted papers, an invited talk and several "burning issues" sessions. In order to implement our concept of a discussion-intensive event, we have invited six "burning issues" presentations taking up the main topic of the workshop. They will initiate interesting discussions within small groups (10-15 participants), and last two hours up to half a day. A plenum session will have reports of all discussions. Sessions already confirmed will be chaired by Eduard Hovy (ISI, Univ. of California, USA) and Chris Mellish (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK); more details can be found soon at the IMPACTS web site. The invited talk will be given by David McDonald (Brandeis University, USA). ACCOMODATION AND REGISTRATION Please register soon; as Schloss Dagstuhl has limited capacity, registration will be on a first come, first serve basis. All participants will stay at Schloss Dagstuhl. Cost is DM 450 (approx. US$ 210) per person, including full board, in single rooms with a shower. Please register directly with the organizers using the simple registration procedure outlined at http://impacts.dfki.de/#registration = The early registration fee (before July 1, 2000) is DM 170 (approx. US$ 80) and includes a copy of the proceedings. Late registration will cost DM 220 (approx US$ 100). DATES IMPACTS will take place from July 26-28, 2000 at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl (http://www.dagstuhl.de). Arrival is on Tuesday, July 25. The workshop will take until Friday, July 28, after lunch. IMPACTS immediately precedes the events of COLING 2000 taking place in Luxembourg, Saarbr=FCcken, and Nancy. Schloss Dagstuhl is situated in the= Saarland, allowing participants to reach the COLING tutorials on July 29 conveniently. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbr=FCcken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Stephan Busemann, DFKI Saarbr=FCcken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Robert Dale, Language Technology Pty Ltd and Macquarie University, Australia Laurence Danlos, LORIA, France Michael Elhadad, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA Richard Kittredge, CoGenTex Inc., USA Inderjeet Mani, Mitre Corporation, USA David D. McDonald, Gensym Corporation, USA Cecile Paris, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia Owen Rambow, AT&T, USA Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK Donia Scott, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Wed Jun 7 17:25:09 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 19:25:09 +0200 Subject: Divers: FoLLI Dissertation award Message-ID: From: Christof Monz --- We apologize for multiple copies --- 2000 FoLLI Dissertation Award Call for Nominations The European Association for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI) is inviting nominations for the 2000 edition of the FoLLI Dissertation Award to be awarded annually to an outstanding dissertation in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation. FoLLI gratefully acknowledges sponsorship of this prize by funds from the Spinoza Prize awarded to Johan van Benthem. We are happy to announce that an amount of 1000 EURO will be allocated to one or more award recipients. It is at the discretion of the Prize Committee to allocate the prize money to a single nominee or to divide the prize among two recipients. Eligibility Ph.D. theses in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation by authors who completed the Ph.D. degree between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99. Submission Details 1. A letter of nomination by the thesis supervisor. (N.B. Self-applications by Ph.D. holders are not possible. Each application must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor.) The letter from the student's Ph.D. advisor should verify that the degree was conferred between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99. 2. Two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. 3. An abstract of the thesis, prepared by the author of the thesis and not to exceed five pages in length 4. A hard copy of the dissertation All materials have to be sent as hard-copy to Mr. Marco de Vries, FoLLI Secretary, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Authors are advised to have their Ph.D.thesis available on the Web, if possible. Submissions Deadline All materials have to be received by June 10, 2000. Prize Committee Anne Abeille Natasha Alechina Patrick Blackburn Nissim Francez Paul Gochet (chair) Valentin Goranko Markus Kracht Larry Moss Francesco Orilia Manfred Pinkal Christian Retore Rob van der Sandt Further Details Please consult the FoLLI web site at http://www.folli.uva.nl for further details. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Jun 8 18:35:38 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:35:38 +0200 Subject: Appel: Translting and the Computer Message-ID: From: Nicole Adamides Apologies if you receive more than one copy of this announcement - it has been sent to several lists. ************************************************************* 22nd Caonference "Translting and the Computer" 16-17 November 2000 One Great George Street, London, SW1 ************************************************************* The annual conference "Translating and the Computer" has been an important forum for Machine Translation and Translation Aids users over the past 21 years. The conference is one of the few international events which focuses on the user aspects of translation software and as such has been particularly beneficial to a very wide audience including translators, business managers, researchers and language experts. Against the background of an increasingly multilingual society and the all-encompassing impact of information technology, this year's conference will address the latest developments in translation (and translation-related) software. This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the conference. The papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user aspects of translation or translation-related software rather than on research and development issues. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations are especially welcome. TOPICS The range of conference topics includes (but is not limited to) * use of Machine Translation (MT) systems * machine-aided translation and translation aids * memory based translation * controlled languages and their use in MT * speech translation * terminology * localisation * translation aids for minority languages * multilingual document management/workflow * experience of companies using translation software * translating and the computer: the new millennium challenges * the Internet and translation aids PROGRAMME CHAIRS Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK Chris Pyne, ICE, Germany Daniel Grasmick, SAP, Germany SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are requested to submit an extended abstract (between 500 and 1000 words) of the paper they would like to present. Extended abstracts should be sent by post, fax or email before 23 June 2000 to: Nicole Adamides, Conference Organiser ASLIB, The Association for Information Management Staple Hall, Stone House Court, London, EC3A 7PB Tel: +44 (0) 20 7903 0000 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7903 0011 Email nicole.adamides at aslib.com WWW: http://www.aslib.com The full-length versions of the accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. Electronic versions of the full papers are expected at Aslib by 1 October 2000. The authors will be informed if their papers have been accepted or not by 1 August 2000. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Jun 8 18:36:13 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:36:13 +0200 Subject: Appel: MT 2000 Message-ID: From: "Roger Harris" British Computer Society Natural Language Translation Specialist Group URL: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/sg37.htm --------------------------------------------- Date: Thursday 1st June 2000 From: Roger Harris (rwsh at dircon.co.uk) --------------------------------------------- **************************** EXTENDED DEADLINE 19 June 2000 ***************************** INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MT AND MULTILINGUAL NLP MT 2000: MACHINE TRANSLATION AND MULTILINGUAL APPLICATIONS IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM Exeter, United Kingdom 20-22 November 2000 The Natural Language Translation Specialist Group (NLTSG) of the British Computer Society (BCS) and the University of Exeter announce an international conference to be held at the University of Exeter (UK) on 20-22 November 2000. The event is a follow-up of the successful conference "Machine Translation: 10 Years On" held in 1994 in Cranfield. Against the backdrop of increasingly multilingual society, MT2000 will look at the main challenges to MT and multilingual NLP at the dawn of the new millennium. The focus of this year's conference is not only recent machine translation research and products, but latest multilingual developments in general. The organisers aim to attract a wide range of contributions from researchers, users, educationalists and exhibitors in the field of multilingual language engineering. The conference will take the form of addresses from invited keynote speakers plus individual papers. All papers accepted and presented will be available as a volume of proceedings at the conference. A selection of papers will be published in book form soon after the conference. There will also be an exhibition area and an opportunity to hold poster sessions. * Topics We invite papers covering multilingual aspects of any NLP task/application. We encourage the representation of a broad range of areas; the following list of possible topics is not exhaustive and is intended to indicate areas of probable interest. Machine translation (developments, techniques, applications) Translation aids Controlled Languages Computer-assisted language learning Corpora (construction, annotation, exploitation) Evaluation Part-of-speech tagging Parsing Information retrieval Information extraction Automatic abstracting Word-sense disambiguation Lexical knowledge acquisition Anaphora resolution Text categorisation Dialogues systems Web-based NLP applications NL generation Speech processing Translation studies Terminology Lexicography Syntax Semantics Discourse Pragmatics * Invited speakers Martin Kay (Xerox Parc) Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) * Programme Committee Mona Baker (UMIST, Manchester) Christian Boitet (Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble) Francis Bond (NTT, Kyoto) Key-sun Choi (KAIST, Taejon) Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan) Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp) Robert Dale (Macquarie University, Sydney) Rodolfo Delmonte (University of Venice) Laurie Gerber (Systran Software Inc.) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research, Grenoble) Changning Huang (Microsoft, China) John Hutchins (University of Anglia) Hitoshi Iida (SONY Computer Science Labs) Gareth Jones (University of Exeter) Martin Kay (Xerox Parc, Palo Alto) Adam Kilgarriff (University of Brighton) Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal) Steven Krauwer (University of Utrecht) Tara O'Leary (TRADOS Ireland) Derek Lewis (University of Exeter), Co-Chair Gabriel Lopez (New Lisbon University) Bente Maegard (Center of Language Technology, Copenhagen) Chris Manning (Stanford University) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Co-Chair Constantin Orasan (University of Wolverhampton) Manuel Palomar (University of Alicante) Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University) Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens) Stephen Pulman (University of Cambridge) Lucia Rino (Federal University of Sao Carlos) Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University Barcelona) Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex, Brighton) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Isabelle Trancoso (INEC, Lisbon) Arturo Trujillo (Vocalis plc, Cambridge) Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo) Agnes Tutin (Stendahl University Grenoble) Karin Vespoor (Intelligenesis, New York) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) Lotfi Zadeh (University of California) * Submission Guidelines Authors are requested to submit full-length papers which should be written in English and should not exceed 7 single-column pages (preferred font: Times New Roman 12) including figures, tables and references. The first page of the papers should feature the title of the paper, the author's name(s), the author's surface and email address(es), followed by keywords and an abstract. Electronic submissions (attached postscript files, pdf, rtf or Word files) are encouraged. The address for e-mail paper submissions is: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk In addition, the abstracts of the papers should be separately emailed to Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk). The papers will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will be sent guidelines on how to produce the camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the Proceedings. * Schedule Paper Submission Due: 19 June 2000 Notification of Acceptance: 1 August 2000 Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September 2000 Conference: 20-22 November 2000 * Venue The conference venue will be the Crossmeads Conference Centre at the University of Exeter. Exeter is an historic city in the heart of Devon in the South West of England. The campus is celebrated as one of the most beautiful in the United Kingdom. Exeter's international airport is a few miles away. There are good rail and coach links to London, Birmingham and other UK cities. * Exhibitions The conference will host exhibitions of software products and books related to multilingual NLP. Companies/organisations interested in exhibiting their products should contact Derek Lewis (see below). * Call for participation A call for participation, including the conference program and attendance fees, will be posted in August. * Further information Further information can be obtained from Derek Lewis Queen's Building University of Exeter Exeter United Kingdom EX4 4QH Telephone/fax: ++44 (0)1392 264296 / 264306 E-mail: D.R.Lewis at exeter.ac.uk or from David Wigg, NLTSG Telephone: +44 (0) 1732 455446 E-mail: wiggjd at bcs.org.uk Conference web site: http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/nalatran/mt2000/index.htm Exeter University web-site: http://www.exeter.ac.uk -------------( end )----------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Jun 8 18:36:22 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:36:22 +0200 Subject: Conf: Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation Message-ID: From: Detmar Meurers ESSLLI'2000 Workshop on LINGUISTIC THEORY AND GRAMMAR IMPLEMENTATION 14.-18. August 2000 Birmingham, Great Britain PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Monday: Introduction + Invited talk by Martin Kay - Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers (Universit?t T?bingen) Shuly Wintner (University of Pennsylvania): Introduction - Martin Kay (Xerox PARC): "Taking underspecification seriously" Tuesday: Grammars and grammar implementation platforms - Stefanie Dipper (IMS Stuttgart), Annette Frank (Xerox Europe), Tracy Holloway King (Xerox PARC), Jonas Kuhn (IMS Stuttgart), John Maxwell (Xerox PARC): "Ambiguity management in grammar writing" - Anne Abeill?, Marie-Helene Candito, Alexandra Kinyon (Paris 7): "FTAG: developing and maintaining a wide-coverage grammar for French" - William Schuler, David Chiang, Mark Dras (University of Pennsylvania): "A multi-level TAG approach to dependency" Wednesday: Categorial grammar related approaches - Aline Villavicencio (University of Cambridge, England): "The use of default unification in a system of lexical types" - Julia Hockenmaier, Gann Bierner, Jason Baldridge (University of Edinburgh): "Providing robustness for a CCG system" - Shravan Vasishth (Ohio State University) Geert-Jan M. Kruijff (Charles University, Prague): "Processing as abduction: a sentence processing model" Thursday: Constituency and linearization - Stefan M?ller (DFKI Saarbr?cken): "Continuous or discontinuous constituents?" - Frederik Fouvry, Detmar Meurers (Universit?t T?bingen): "Towards a platform for linearization grammars" - Jesse Tseng (Universit?t T?bingen, University of Edinburgh): "Linearizing parentheticals in German: The limitations of phrase-structure" Friday: Semantics / shallow preprocessing - Jonathan Ginzburg, Howard Gregory, Shalom Lappin (King's College London): "A dialogue system for interpreting fragments" - Ant?nio Branco (Universidade de Lisboa): "Specification and verification of binding constraints: An integrated account" - Tzvetomira Venkova (St Kliment Ochridski University, Sofia): "A local grammar disambiguator of compound conjunctions as a pre-processor for deep analysers" Accepted paper which cannot be presented at the workshop: - Carolyn Penstein Rose (University of Pittsburgh): "Syntactic framework for semantic interpretation" Alternates: - Philippe Blache (LPL-CNRS, Universit? de Provence): "Property grammars and the problem of constraint satisfaction" - Liviu-Virgil Ciortuz (DFKI Saarbr?cken): "Scaling up the abstract machine for unification of OSF-terms to parsing with large-scale typed unification grammars" ------- All information concerning this workshop is available from: http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/events/esslli00/ For information on the ESSLLI summer school, please visit: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli/ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Jun 8 18:36:26 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:36:26 +0200 Subject: Conf: ECAI Message-ID: From: "ECAI 2000 Publicity [Markus Hannebauer]" [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies of this call.] --------------- 2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------- ECAI 2000/PAIS 2000 14th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems Berlin, Humboldt University August 20-25, 2000 http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de ------------------------------------------------------------------- EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE 15th of June 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Organized by German Informatics Society (GI) and European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Hosted by Humboldt University Berlin In this special turn of the century we invite you to celebrate ECAI 2000 in Berlin. Being the fourteenth in a very successful series of European Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2000 will offer a unique opportunity to bring industry and academics together to explore the full spectrum of Artificial Intelligence, from theory and methodology to its application in commercial systems. Respond to the call of the German Informatics Society (GI) and the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, the world's largest umbrella organization for AI, and meet well- known AI experts at Humboldt University Berlin, a University that can proudly look back on almost 200 years of tradition and 29 associated Nobel prize winners. Since the year 2000 is a special year, we will make ECAI 2000 a very special conference. ECAI 2000 gathered 443 submissions from which, however, only 140 have been accepted for presentation. Although the majority of papers comes from Europe, there is a significant number of papers from Australia, Asia, and North America, leading to a total of 42 contributing countries. Furthermore, ECAI 2000 comprises six invited talks plus one public talk given by distinguished scientists, master-class lec- tures in 10 tutorials and serious discussions of hot new research topics in 30 workshops. The real success of Artificial intelligence will be measured by the applications that use the technology rather than the techno- logy itself. For the first time, ECAI comprises the Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems sub-conference (PAIS 2000), which is the first major European showcase of beneficial solu- tions for industry and commerce based on AI technologies. ECAI and PAIS are accompanied by an exhibition concept that re- flects AI's history, its gaining grounds in the 20th century and its progress paths envisioned into the 21st century. We also plan to have a rather unusual sidetrack meant to attract layman such that ECAI 2000 becomes an event in Berlin and not only one of diverse scientific congresses hardly noticed by the public. In so far, we aim at presenting AI on ECAI 2000 in a very broad scope in order to show its relation to other classical and advanced IT topics. In the following we will present a short glance at the program of ECAI 2000. We will also provide some information on registra- tion deadlines and fees. More detailed information is available on the conference home page at ----------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de ----------------------------------------------------------------- Do not miss this opportunity. Register now and be cordially welcome at ECAI 2000 in Berlin! --------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------- 15 Jun 2000 Early Registration Deadline 1 Aug 2000 Late Registration Deadline 20-25 Aug 2000 ECAI/PAIS 2000 ------------- INVITED TALKS ------------- Piero P. Bonissone General Electric, USA Corporate Research and Development "Hybrid Soft Computing: Where are we going?" Patrick Doherty Linkoeping University, Sweden Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems Division "A Bird's-Eye View of the WITAS Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Project" Daniele Nardi Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy Artificial Intelligence Research Group "Artificial Intelligence in RoboCup" Bernhard Nebel Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Artificial Intelligence Research Group "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning - The Theoretical Side of AI" Luc Steels Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris, France and Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium Artificial Intelligence Laboratory "The Emergence of Grammar in Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents" Mark Wallace Imperial College, UK ICL and IC-Parc "Constraint Programming - Applications, Algorithms, Languages" ----------- PUBLIC TALK ----------- H. Van Dyke Parunak Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, USA Center for Electronic Commerce "Assembling Artificial Societies: Missing Pieces and Left-Over Parts" --------- TUTORIALS --------- T1: Ant Algorithms and Swarm Intelligence: An Introduction M. Dorigo http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~mdorigo T2: Stochastic Search Algorithms H. H. Hoos, T. Stuetzle http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-stoch T3: AI Techniques for Knowledge Management S. Decker, S. Staab http://kmtutorial.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de T4: Solving and Programming with Soft Constraints: Theory and Implementation F. Rossi, P. Codognet http://www.math.unipd.it/~frossi/ecai2000-tut.html T5: Empirical Methods for Computer Science P. Cohen, I. Gent, T. Walsh T6: Knowledge Markup Techniques H. Boley, S. Decker, M. Sintek http://www.SemanticWeb.org/knowmarktutorial T7: Applying Automatic Text Generation M. Stede, L. Wanner http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~stede/ecaitutorial.html T8: Rational Action in Autonomous Agents S. Parsons, M. Wooldridge T9: Seeking Information: Methods from Information Retrieval and Artificial Intelligence D. Fensel, M. Lalmas http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~mounia/ECAI.html T10: Neural Networks and Structured Knowledge F. Kurfess http://www.cs.concordia.ca/~faculty/franz --------- WORKSHOPS --------- W1: 14th Workshop on Planning and Configuration (PuK 2000) http://www-is.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~sauer/puk2000/index.html W2: Configuration http://www.cs.hut.fi/u/pdmg/ECAI2000WS W3: Agent-oriented Software Management (AOSM) http://www.wirtschaft.tu-ilmenau.de/wi/wi2/ECAI2000-AOSE W4: Cognitive Robotics http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/LuFG/cogrob2000 W5: Current Issues in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~hans/spacetime W6: Local Search for Planning & Scheduling http://www.ai-center.com/events/ecai-2000-ws W7: 2nd ECAI Workshop on Binding Environmental Sciences and Artificial Intelligence (BESAI 2000) http://www.lsi.upc.es/~webia/besai/besai2000.html W8: Scientific Reasoning in AI and Philosophy of Science http://www.compulog.org/workshops/ecai W9: Application of Ontologies and Problem Solving Methods http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/WORKSHOP/ECAI00/index.html W10: Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW 00) http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00 W11: Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2000-OM/call.html W13: Agent Technologies and Their Application Scenarios in Logistics http://www.tzi.de/ecai00-mas W15: Foundations of Connectionist-Symbolic Integration: Representation, Paradigms, and Algorithms http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/ECAI2000 W16: Machine Learning for Information Extraction http://ecate.itc.it:1024/cirave/ecai-workshop.html W18: Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB-2000) http://www-lti.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/KRDB2000 W19: Applied Semiotics: Control Problems (ASC2000) http://www.iitp.ru/asc2000 W20: Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging Market http://www.uni-bremen.de/~sppraum/sr00.htm W21: Workshop on Bayesian and Causal Networks: From Inference to Data Mining http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/CaNew2000.html W22: Computational Dialectics: Models of Argumentation, Negotiation and Decision Making http://www.philos.rug.nl/~gerard/cd2000 W23: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2000) http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap-2000 W24: Ontology Learning http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de W25: Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints http://www.iiia.csic.es/ecai2000 W26: Analysis and Modelling of Collaborative Learning Interactions http://collide.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/ecai-2000 W27: Machine Learning in Computer Vision (MLCV) http://www.di.uniba.it/~malerba/ws-ecai2000 W28: Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jonker/masho-ecai2000 W29: Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html W30: Flexible Strategies for Maintaining Knowledge Containers http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/mkc-ws W31: Knowledge-Based Systems for Model-Based Engineering http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/ecai2000-kbsmbe W32: Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS 2000) http://www.eml.org/aims2000 W34: Empirical Methods in Artificial Intelligence http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-empai ------------ REGISTRATION ------------ The details given here are for your information only. To re- gister for ECAI 2000, its tutorials and workshops and to book a hotel please use the forms provided on our home page. Prices are given in Euro (EUR) and Deutsche Mark (DM). To re- ceive the reduced fee as a member of an ECCAI member society or being a member of GI, please provide evidence of membership (e.g. membership card) and send it together with your registration form. If you are a student, please provide proof on your status. ECAI 2000 CONFERENCE (PAIS 2000 included) Early Late On-Site (until June 15th) (until August 1st) (after August 1st) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Member EUR 350 / DM 684.54 EUR 410 / DM 801.89 EUR 480 / DM 938.08 Non-Member EUR 450 / DM 880.12 EUR 510 / DM 997.47 EUR 570 / DM 1114.82 Student/Member EUR 120 / DM 234.07 EUR 145 / DM 283.06 EUR 190 / DM 371.61 Student/Non-Member EUR 130 / DM 254.26 EUR 155 / DM 303.15 EUR 200 / DM 391.17 TUTORIALS (each) Early Late On-Site (until June 15th) (until August 1st) (after August 1st) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Member EUR 200 / DM 391.17 EUR 220 / DM 430.28 EUR 260 / DM 508.52 Non-Member EUR 250 / DM 488.96 EUR 270 / DM 528.07 EUR 310 / DM 606.31 Student/Member EUR 80 / DM 156.47 EUR 110 / DM 215.14 EUR 140 / DM 273.82 Student/Non-Member EUR 90 / DM 176.02 EUR 120 / DM 234.70 EUR 150 / DM 293.37 WORKSHOPS (each) There is a flat fee for each workshop: EUR 50 / DM 97.79 Workshop participants must register for the main ECAI conference. No extra charge for late workshop registrations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - "At the change of ages we will make ECAI 2000 in Berlin a special conference" -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Markus Hannebauer www.first.gmd.de/~hannebau | | Dipl.-Inform., Research Fellow hannebau at first.gmd.de | | | | Research Institute for Computer Architecture | | and Software Technology (FIRST) | | phone: +49- 30-63 92 18 66 | | German National Research Center cell. p.: +49-177-267 43 60 | | for Information Technology (GMD) fax: +49- 30-63 92 18 05 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Jun 8 18:37:08 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 20:37:08 +0200 Subject: Divers: Marges Linguistiques Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis Fran?ais - English Inauguration de la revue online en sciences du langage Marges Linguistiques http://www.marges-linguistiques.com Mai/Juin 2000 Ouverture officielle du Site Internet http://www.marges-linguistiques.com http://marges.linguistiques.free.fr *********** Bonjour, J'ai l'honneur d'annoncer l'inauguration officielle du site WEB et de la revue ?lectronique en Sciences du Langage Marges Linguistiques http://www.marges-linguistiques.com Marges Linguistiques, revue ?lectronique semestrielle, en sciences du langage, souhaite concilier, d'une part les domaines traditionnels de la linguistique: syntaxe, phonologie, s?mantique; d'autre part les champs plus ouverts de la pragmatique linguistique, de l'analyse conversationnelle, de l'analyse des interactions verbales et de la communication sociale. ********************************************************************* Appel ? contributions ********************************************************************* Cher(e)s coll?gues, veuillez trouver ci-dessous le premier appel ? contributions de la revue Marges Linguistiques. Th?matique du vol. 1, n?1 de la revue Marges Linguistiques (parution Mai 2001) ___________________________________ Faits de langue - Faits de discours Donn?es, processus et mod?les *** Qu'est ce qu'un fait linguistique ? ___________________________________ Les soumissions d'articles se font par messagerie ?lectronique, ? l'adresse suivante : contributions.ML at wanadoo.fr La date limite d'envoi des articles est fix?e au 31 d?cembre 2000 ********************************************************************* Au sommaire du site web Marges Linguistiques : ********************************************************************* 1- Pr?sentation de la revue scientifique Marges Linguistiques (volumes t?l?chargeables, format .pdf) ? Voir Orientation ?ditoriale 2- Un espace Th?ses en ligne qui permet de d?poser, consulter et de t?l?charger des th?ses doctorales en Sciences du Langage. 3- Une rubrique Forums des revues, ?tablissant des liens avec des revues de la presse sp?cialis?e et prochainement le t?l?chargement d?articles scientifiques ayant trait aux Sciences du Langage. 4- Une information actualis?e sur les Colloques et Manisfestations en linguistique, dans diff?rents pays. 5- Un Bulletin d?information (trimestriel) t?l?chargeable. 6- De tr?s nombreux Liens sur la toile (ressources en Sciences du Langage sur le Web mondial). 7- Des Forums de discussion, mis ? disposition des chercheurs. 8- Prochainement une Table ronde r?unissant divers sp?cialistes du domaine. ********************************************************************* Important ********************************************************************* Ce site internet et cette revue, qui s'adressent prioritairement ? l'ensemble des chercheurs, praticiens, ?tudiants, concern?s par les questions s'inscrivant dans le vaste champ des sciences du langage, peuvent ?galement int?resser un public plus large; c'est pourquoi nous vous serions extr?mement reconnaissant de bien vouloir retransmettre cette annonce ?lectronique int?gralement ? un nombre important de personnes qui pourront par suite, faire de m?me. Gr?ce ? vos efforts de diffusion, nous pouvons esp?rer toucher rapidement un tr?s large public et nous vous en remercions par avance. Bonne visite du site Web ! Merci d'avance pour vos commentaires et suggestions ainsi que pour la diffusion de la pr?sente annonce. Responsable de la publication Michel Santacroce dirpubl at marges-linguistiques.com en collaboration avec V?ronique Fillol veronique.fillol at free.fr Cr?ation et gestion Multim?dia B?at Grossenbacher (Suisse) http://www.chants-magnetiques.com ********************* English - Fran?ais Announcing the official opening of the online journal dedicated to linguistics: Marges Linguistiques http://www.marges-linguistiques.com May/june 2000 Offical opening of the Web Site http://www.marges-linguistiques.com http://marges.linguistiques.free.fr We have the pleasure to announce the official opening of the website and of the online journal: Marges Linguistiques dedicated to linguistic issues http://www.marges-linguistiques.com Marges Linguistiques, a bi-yearly journal in Linguistics, only available online on the Web, wishes to reconcile traditional fields in Linguistics, such as syntax, phonology and semantics with the less unified domains of pragmatics, conversational analysis, interactional analysis or social communication. ********************************************************************* First call for contribution ********************************************************************* Dear colleagues, please find below the first call for Marges Linguistiques Thematic issue n? 1 (May 2001) : __________________________ Linguistic facts Data, processes and models *** What is a linguistic fact ? __________________________ Deadline for the submission of contributions for the thematic issue n? 1, is the 31 st of december 2000 contributions.ML at wanadoo.fr ********************************************************************* Contents ********************************************************************* 1- Presentation of the journal Marges Linguistiques (volumes to be downloaded, format .pdf). See Orientation ?ditoriales 2- Ph. D space online. Doctoral theses in Linguistics can be uploaded, accessed, and downloaded). 3- Column: "Scientific journal in linguistics" creating links with other journals and enabling the downloading of articles in Linguistics. 4- Updated information on Linguistics Colloquia and other manifestations. 5- A quarterly information bulletin that can be uploaded. 6- Numerous links on the web (ressources in Linguistics on WWW) 7- Discussion Fora at the disposal of researchers. 8- In a near future a round-table with the participation of specialists from various areas in the field. ********************************************************************* Important ********************************************************************* This web site and the journal are targeted towards researchers, practioners, students interested in the various subareas of Linguistics, and for a more general public. We would be extremely grateful if you could pass on this information to interested persons who could circulate the information in turn. Thanks to your help, we hope to reach a wider public. We thank you beforehand. Enjoy the web site seeing ! Thank you for your comments and for passing on this announcement Editor : Michel Santacroce dirpubl at marges-linguistiques.com with the help of V?ronique Fillol veronique.fillol at free.fr Creation and multimedia management B?at Grossenbacher (Switzerland) http://www.chants-magnetiques.com ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Jun 19 13:55:15 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:55:15 +0200 Subject: Jobs: 11 Offers Message-ID: _________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Albert Llorens" Subject: Sail Labs: LINGUISTS AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (ARABIC); based in Barcelona (Spain) 2/ From: Jacques Virbel Objet?: Toulouse 3/ From: Olivier Laurens Subject: Job offer English computational linguist (France) 4/ From: Derek Walker Subject: Computational Linguist at ISSCO (Geneva) 5/ From: abeille at linguist.jussieu.fr (Anne Abeille) Subject: ater 6/ From: Charlene Daniels Subject: Natural Lang Processing at Cycorp, Inc., Texas US 7/ From: Karin Verspoor Subject: Comp Linguist: Intelligenesis Corporation, New York USA 8/ From: Peter Lucas Subject: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position available 9/ From: Richard Evans Subject: PhD Studentship in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton 10/ From: Koenraad de Smedt Subject: Associate Prof. in CL, U of Bergen 11/ From: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk Subject: Salford _________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Albert Llorens" Subject: Sail Labs: LINGUISTS AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (ARABIC); based in Barcelona (Spain) Openings in TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY at SAIL LABS Barcelona Sail Labs is one of the world's leading R&D companies in the field of "Natural Language Understanding". 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LEX/GR-AR) *********************************************************** Your tasks: * Development and maintenance of grammars and lexicons for our new Arabic-English translation engine. Your profile: * University degree in philology, linguistics, languages, computational linguistics or equivalent. Specialization in Arabic will be a plus. * Native or near-native proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). * High grammatical proficiency in Arabic and good grammatical proficiency in English * Effective communication skills in written and spoken English. * Programming experience will be a plus. * Experience in machine translation and/or developing lexicons and grammars for natural language processing applications will be a plus. * Knowledge of Spanish will be a plus. Working language: English Starting date: As soon as possible Office location: Center of Barcelona (in the charming 19th century district Eixample, within walking distance from the old part of the city and from the famous 'Las Ramblas') You will join a young, international, and highly motivated team. SAIL LABS combines research and development of market-ready products. This will thus offer a great opportunity to those people who want to apply their acquired knowledge and skills in real-world conditions. More information about SAIL LABS can be found at the web page << http://www.sail-labs.com >>. If you are interested, send CV and cover letter in English either by surface mail to: SAIL LABS Roger de Lluria, 50 1-B E-08009 BARCELONA Spain Fax: +34 - 93 - 487 76 19 or by email to jobs-bcn at sail-labs.es indicating on the envelope or in the subject of the email the job reference. _________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Jacques Virbel Objet?: Toulouse ACCUEIL D'UN CHERCHEUR ETRANGER POST-DOCTORANT au Laboratoire de Neuropsycholinguistique Jacques-Lordat (Universit?Toulouse-Le-Mirail) Dans le cadre du Programme d'aide ? la mobilit? des chercheurs ?trangers du Minist?re de l'Education Nationale, le Laboratoire de Neuropsycholinguistique Jacques-Lordat (LNJL) est en mesure d'accueillir un chercheur ?tranger pour une dur?e d'un an pour participer ? son programme de recherche (cf.ci-dessous). Conditions requises : - ?tre titulaire d'un doctorat acquis ? l'?tranger (les post-doctorants ?trangers ayant soutenu leur th?se en France ne sont pas ?ligibles) ; - avoir 35 ans maximum au 31 d?cembre 2000 ; - compte tenu de la nature des recherches, qui concernent des sujets francophones, avoir une bonne connaissance au moins ?crite du fran?ais estn?cessaire. Conditions du s?jour : - le candidat retenu a le statut de contractuel de l'Universit?; - r?num?ration nette : 12.000 FF/mois + couverture sociale personnelle (? l'exclusion des ayants droits, conjoint et enfants); - les frais de voyage et de d?m?nagement sont ? la charge du candidat retenu ; - dur?e : 12 mois ; - d?but : octobre (ou, au plus tard, novembre) 2000. D?marche : Les personnes int?ress?es et satisfaisant les conditions requises sont pri?es d'adresser par e-mail, et avant le 1er juillet 2000, une lettre de motivation ainsi qu'un curriculum vitae et tous documents et/ou informations jug?s utiles ? l'adresse ci-dessous : Pr. Jean-Luc Nespoulous Directeur Laboratoire de Neuropsycholinguistique Jacques-Lordat Maison de la Recherche Universit? de Toulouse-Le Mirail 5, All?es A. Machado 31058 Toulouse Cedex France T?l?phone : 33 5 61 50 46 72 Fax : 33 5 61 50 49 18 Email : nespoulo at univ-tlse2.fr ================================ CONTENU de la PROPOSITION Le Laboratoire de Neuropsycholinguistique Jacques-Lordat (LNJL) s'assigne pour objectif principal de rendre compte des processus cognitifs ? l'oeuvre, tant en production qu'en comprehension, dans divers comportements verbaux ?manant de sujets pathologiques (aphasiques, d?ments...) ou normaux (enfants apprenant leur langue maternelle, adultes ? l'?tat stable, apprenants de L2...). Sa probl?matique g?n?rale vise ? tenter d'appr?hender le d?terminisme sousjacent des manifestations de surface observ?es dans le comportement des diverses populations ?tudu?es. Dans ce contexte, le LNJL d?veloppe plusieurs axes o? l'unit? de langage, prise en r?f?rence ? diff?rents niveaux de traitements cognitifs, est le texte (i.e. : un discours inscrit). Ce type d'unit? pr?sente des difficult?s certaines pour l'exp?rimentation : - il s'agit d'?nonc?s ?tendus (vs. phrases isol?es) o? les structures sont multiples et diversement inter-d?pendantes et imbriqu?es ; - le texte (vs. le discours oral) ajoute une dimension sp?cifique ? prendre en compte : il appara?t ainsi que les propri?t?s visuelles (morpho-dispositionnelles) des textes interviennent ? de multiples niveaux ; entre autres, comme : instructions de lecture ; ?l?ments directement significatifs ; facteurs d'efficacit? communicationnelle variables, en rapport ? divers processus tels que m?morisation/compr?hension, transmission d'information ? des tiers, ex?cution dans le cas de textes proc?duraux, etc. Malgr? la complexit? des probl?mes qu'affronte le recours ? ce type d'unit?, celle-ci constitue cependant le seul niveau pertinent pour l'?tude de ph?nom?nes qui ne se d?ploient et ne sont donc appr?hendables qu'? cette ?chelle (traitement linguistique du temps, logique du r?cit, anaphore associative par ex.). Des progr?s r?cents concernant les structures discursives (ex. : la RST, " RhetoricalStructure Theory ", de Mann & Thomson et al.) et textuelles (ex. : le Mod?le d'Architectures Textuelles de Pascual et Virbel) permettent d'envisager un contr?le r?aliste, pour autant que soient abord?s le probl?me de la composition entre mod?les dont chacun prend en charge un niveau partiel de mod?lisation. D'autres options th?oriques ou de mod?lisation peuvent ?tre abord?es dans ce contexte. Les textes dont il est question sont aussi bien des textes pr?existants, ind?pendamment de leur utilisation dans des protocoles exp?rimentaux, que des "texto?des", i.e. des textes ?labor?s expr?s ? une telle fin. Dans les deux cas, ils posent des probl?mes d'analyse syst?matis?e ou de contr?le de propri?t?s. Les types de textes utilis?s comprennent principalement des r?cits et des textes proc?duraux. Ces recherches comportent ainsi trois composantes principales : - linguistique - relations entre marques visuelles (typographiques et dispositionnelles) et lexico-syntaxiques - et formelle (logique et informatique) visant ? l'?tude de la composition de mod?les diff?rents n?cessaires pour repr?senter les aspects pris en compte ; - psycholinguistique visant ? l'?tude exp?rimentale de l'incidence des propri?t?s des textes, repr?sent?es et formalis?es selon les approches ci-dessus, par rapport aux performances de divers types de sujets ; - neuropsycholinguistique, visant ? l'?laboration et ? l'?valuation d'hypoth?ses sur l'architecture fonctionnelle de l'esprit/cerveau dans le traitement du langage. Ces recherches s'inscrivent dans le cadre d'une collaboration ancienne et tr?s ?troite entre le Laboratoire de Neuropsycholinguistique Jacques-Lordat et l'Equipe " Mod?le de Communication Ecrite " de l'Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (Universit? Paul Sabatier) dont l'animateur est Jacques Virbel. Les projets, anciens et en cours, issus de cette collaboration sont principalement centr?s sur : (1) - la contribution de la spatialisation du langage dans la structuration des textes, et son impact sur les performances de m?morisation/compr?hension de divers types de populations (Cf. supra) ; (2) - les ressources de questionnabilit? d'un texte (? quelles questions un texte donn? comporte-il des ?l?ments de r?ponse ?) (3) - la communication non-litt?rale (actes de discours indirects, ironie, etc.). Les approches suivies dans ces contextes sont principalement : - les relations langage/m?talangage/sous-langage, dans le sens de la th?orie de Z. Harris - composition (respectivement : d?composition) de phrases lexicales (ou de langue) en phrases textueles (ou de discours) ; - mod?les formels du texte (mod?le d'Architectures Textuelles, Rhetorical Structure Theory, mod?le de Kintsch et Van Dijk, etc.) ; - composition de mod?les ; - s?mantique lexicale ; - l'interrogation ; th?orie logique des "sets of answers" ; - th?orie des actes de langage et de la coop?ration communicationnelle (Grice, etc.) ***** Dans ce cadre g?n?ral, le LNJL souhaite s'associer les comp?tences d'un chercheur ?tranger post-doctorant : - familiaris? avec certains au moins des th?mes pr?cis?s ci-dessus, - pouvant apporter ? ces recherches une capacit? de proposition en termes d'applications concr?tes et/ou de test d'autres hypoth?ses th?oriques et/ou formelles, - et qui souhaiterait mettre en oeuvre ses connaisances dans le contexte de mises ? l'?preuve exp?rimentales dans le contexte psycho- et/ou neuropsycholinguistique (sur sujets normaux ou pathologiques). ======================= ======================= Jacques Virbel Equipe Mod?les de Communication Ecrite Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse Universit? Paul Sabatier 118 Route de Narbonne F 31062 Toulouse Tel/Rep/Fax : 05 62 18 54 98 Email : virbel at irit.fr _________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Olivier Laurens Subject: Job offer English computational linguist (France) Job offer : Computational Linguist (English) at UNLOST English version below Offre d'emploi : Linguiste Informaticien(ne) angliciste chez UNLOST Start-up sp?cialis?e dans le d?veloppement de logiciels de recherche d'information, nous recherchons UN OU UNE LINGUISTE - INFORMATICIEN(NE) sp?cialiste du traitement automatique de l'ANGLAIS. De formation sup?rieure en linguistique et en TALN, vous participerez aux aspects linguistiques de l'?laboration d'un moteur de recherche documentaire bas? sur une nouvelle technologie de mod?lisation du sens. Votre t?che principale sera le d?veloppement et la maintenance de GRAMMAIRES formelles. De plus, vous serez appel? ? contribuer - ? la mise au point des sp?cifications linguistiques (morphologie, syntaxe, s?mantique), - ? la sp?cification d'outils informatique d'aide au d?veloppement ? l'usage des linguistes et lexicographes, - au d?veloppement et ? la mise en oeuvre des syst?mes de TALN, en g?n?ral. Vous serez aussi appel? ? participer aux aspects R&D du projet. Vous travaillerez au sein d'une ?quipe jeune et dynamique dans un environnement de travail convivial. La langue de travail est le fran?ais. Outre la ma?trise parfaite de l'anglais, la connaissance d'une troisi?me langue est un plus. Les comp?tences suivantes sont particuli?rement appr?ci?es : * formation solide en linguistique et en grammaire * bonne connaissance d'au moins un formalisme grammatical majeur (TAG, UCG, HPSG, GPSG, ALEP, ...), de pr?f?rence un formalisme d'unification * exp?rience de d?veloppement de grammaires formelles et lexiques computationnels * ma?trise d'outils informatiques de manipulation de donn?es (awk, perl, grep, base de donn?es, tableur, ...) * exp?rience de travail sur gros corpus (et des outils associ?s) * autonomie en tant qu'utilisateur professionnel des ordinateurs (Unix, Windows NT) 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 ********************************************************** ENGLISH VERSION SA Unlost is a start up company developing Information Retrieval software. We are currently recruiting ONE COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST specialized in the ENGLISH language. The candidate should have a university degree in linguistics and NLP. He or she will participate in the linguistic parts of our innovating, meaning based, IR system and will be responsible for the development and maintenance of English formal grammars. Additionally, the successful candidate will get an opportunity to contribute to the following tasks : - linguistic specification (morphology, syntax, semantics), - design of computer tools to help grammar and lexical development, - and generally, development and implementation of NLP systems. The successful candidate will also be welcome to contribute to the R&D aspects of the project. The work environment is young, dynamic and friendly. Working language is French. Besides English and French, good knowledge of one or more additional languages is a plus. The following skills are particularly welcome : * excellent background in linguistics and (natural language) grammar * proficiency in at least one major grammar formalism (TAG, UCG, HPSG, GPSG, ALEP, ...), preferably a unification formalism * experience in developing formal grammars and computational lexica * working ability to use computer data manipulation tools such as awk, perl, grep, databases, spreadsheet, etc. * experience in working with large corpora (and knowledge of corpora related tools) * professional autonomy as a computer user (under either Unix or Windows NT or both) Candidates, whatever their original citizenship, must have permission to work in France. This is a permanent position. The salary is commensurate with diplomas and experience. The workplace is in Massy, within walking distance of major commuter trains, 30 mnts from the center of Paris. Applications should be sent via Email or normal mail and should include a resume and the names of referees. They should also mention the date when the applicant would be able to start the job. Address: SA UNLOST emploi 3 rue Galvani 91300 Massy EMAIL : linguist at unlost.com _________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Derek Walker Subject: Computational Linguist at ISSCO (Geneva) Version fran?aise ci-dessous. Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message, it has been submitted to several lists. ISSCO (Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies, in the Translation and Interpretation School of the University of Geneva) has an immediate opening for: 1 COMPUTATIONAL LINGUIST to participate in a number of Swiss and European language engineering projects. The qualified candidate will collaborate on software design and implementation in one or more of the following areas: - parallel text alignment - syntactic and semantic tagging - intelligent document analysis - web-based linguistic resources - general statistical NLP tools Requirements: - university degree in computational linguistics or computer science - programming skills in C, Java and Perl - knowledge of Unix systems - good knowledge of internet technologies - strong grounding in SGML and XML - experience in developing software for NLP applications - fluency in either French or English with good knowledge of the other language Additional qualities include: - good communication skills - expertise in probabilistic and statistical methods - strong linguistic background - fluency in German and/or Italian ISSCO offers: - good working conditions in a well-established research institute - opportunities to collaborate in a variety of projects - salary calculated by qualifications according to university scales. We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a detailed CV and the names of three references to: ISSCO/ETI attn: Pierrette Bouillon University of Geneva 40, blvd. du Pont d'Arve CH-1211 Geneva 4 (Switzerland) email: pierrette.bouillon at issco.unige.ch (Please CC derek.walker at issco.unige.ch in all email correspondence) Tel : (+41 22) 705 86 78 Fax : (+41 22) 705 86 89 WWW : http://www.issco.unige.ch/ ====== L'ISSCO, Institut Dalle Molle pour les Etudes S?mantiques et Cognitives (Ecole de Traduction et d'Interpr?tation, Universit? de Gen?ve) cherche un(e) LINGUISTE INFORMATICIEN(NE) pour participer ? diff?rents projets (suisses et europ?ens) dans le domaine du traitement de la langue. Responsabilit?s: Collaborer ? la d?finition et la mise en oeuvre de logiciels dans un ou plusieurs des domaines suivants : - outils d'alignement de textes - ?tiquetage syntaxique et s?mantique - analyse de corpus - ressources linguistiques pour le WWW - outils statistiques pour le traitement de la langue Profil requis : - Dipl?me universitaire en informatique ou en linguistique informatique - Excellentes connaissances d'UNIX, C, Java et Perl - Connaissances des technologies d'Internet - Expertises en SGML et XML - Exp?riences dans le d?veloppement de logiciels de traitement automatique des langues - Ma?trise du fran?ais et de l'anglais Atouts : - Connaissances en linguistique - Connaissances dans les m?thodes statistiques et probabilistiques - Connaissances de l'allemand et/ou de l'italien L'ISSCO offre: - Environnement acad?mique dans un institut de recherche renomm? - Possibilit? de participer ? diff?rents projets de recherche - R?mun?ration selon bar?me de l'Universit? de Gen?ve Les candidats int?ress?s sont pri?s d'envoyer une lettre de candidature et un CV d?taill?, avec au moins trois r?f?rences, ? l'adresse suivante : ISSCO/ETI attn: Pierrette Bouillon Universit? de Gen?ve 40, blvd. du Pont d'Arve CH-1211 GENEVE 4 SUISSE email : pierrette.bouillon at issco.unige.ch (Vous ?tes pri?s de faire une copie de toutes les correspondances email ? derek.walker at issco.unige.ch) T?l : 41 22 705 86 78 Fax : 41 22 705 86 89 WWW : http://www.issco.unige.ch _________________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: abeille at linguist.jussieu.fr (Anne Abeille) Subject: ater l'ufr de linguistique de paris 7 recrute des le 1er septembre - un demi ater en sciences du langage (morphologie, syntaxe, linguistique francaise...) - un ater plein en linguistique informatique (analyse syntaxique, corpus, systemes...) veuillez envoyer votre candidature avant le 13 juin a anne abeille http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/ directrice de l'ufr de linguistique tel 01 44 27 82 87 UFRL Case 7003 Universite Paris 7 2 place jussieu 75005 paris http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/ _________________________________________________________________________ 6/ From: Charlene Daniels Subject: Natural Lang Processing at Cycorp, Inc., Texas US Rank of Job: Areas Required: see description Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: Cycorp, Inc. Department: Natural Language State or Province: Texas Country: US Final Date of Application: 12/24/00 Contact: Charlene Daniels charlene at cyc.com Address for Applications: 3721 Executive Center Drive Suite 100 Austin TX 78731 US Cycorp (http://www.cyc.com/) has begun to harness the power of its Cyc(TM) common sense knowledge base and reasoning system to do semantic and pragmatic disambiguation of English. Currently we are working on new and exciting clarification dialogue interfaces for Cyc itself and for Cyc-based applications. These include applications for smart Web searching, question and answer dialogues, and speech understanding, to name just a few. Join the team building this one-of-a-kind interactive dialogue front end. You will create formal representations of natural language expressions and phenomena, as well as develop applications to exploit such representations. Candidates for these positions must be familiar with formal logic, and have sound fundamentals in English usage, syntax, and semantics. In addition, one or more of the following would be a plus: Knowledge of discourse structure, pragmatics, and dialog modeling Experience with the influence of semantic distinctions on syntax Familiarity with formal semantic analysis Facility with knowledge representation and other AI tools and techniques Knowledge of constraint-based grammatical theories Understanding of NL parsing theory (statistical, corpus-based, etc.) Experience in applying that knowledge (computational NLU systems) Experience in computational lexicography Experience in natural language generation Knowledge of NL interface design and human cognitive considerations Programming skills, especially in Lisp or Scheme General Information: All technical positions at Cycorp involve working with the Cyc(TM) technology -- an immense, broad, multi-contextual knowledge base and efficient inference system which our group has developed over the last 16 years and 400 person-years. The Cyc knowledge base, spanning fundamental "consensus" human knowledge, enables a multitude of knowledge-intensive products and services which will revolutionize the way in which people use and interact with computers: semantic information retrieval, consistency-checking of structured information, deductive integration of heterogeneous data bases, natural language interfaces able to cope with realistic levels of ambiguity/terseness/contextualization, and many more. Cycorp is located in Austin, TX. We are an equal opportunity employer. For more information about employment at Cycorp, visit our website at http://www.cyc.com/employment.html For immediate consideration, please send your resume and a cover letter to Kathleen Black at the following address: Cycorp, Inc. 3721 Executive Center Drive, Suite 100 Austin TX 78731 Internet: info at cyc.com Telephone: +1 (512) 342-4000 Fax: +1 (512) 342-4040 No person shall be excluded from consideration for recruitment, selection, appointment, training, promotion, retention, or any other personnel action, or be denied any benefits or participation in any activities on the grounds of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, handicap or age. Cycorp will hire only persons authorized to work in the United States and will verify identity and eligibility for employment, and complete form I-9 for all new employees within three (3) business days of the date of hire. _________________________________________________________________________ 7/ From: Karin Verspoor Subject: Comp Linguist: Intelligenesis Corporation, New York USA Rank of Job: mid-Senior Areas Required: Computational Linguist Other Desired Areas: Cognitive Science University or Organization: Intelligenesis Corporation Department: Natural Language Engineering group State or Province: New York Country: USA Final Date of Application: June 16, 2000 Contact: Karin Verspoor karin at intelligenesis.net Address for Applications: 50 Broadway New York NY 10004 USA Intelligenesis, a New York based AI start-up firm, is seeking a creative linguistic scientist to round out our Natural Language team. We're engaged in the construction of Webmind, a unique and comprehensive AI architecture that aims to be the world's first truly intelligent software program; and also in the creation of several products carrying out commercially useful functions (such as text categorization, market prediction and search) utilizing Webmind components. The Natural Language team helps support both of these goals. For this position, we're looking for someone who has a strong intuitive feel for the structure of language and the dynamics of language learning, especially as regards the integration of and interplay between syntax, semantics, pragmatics, cognition, and experience. But, we also need someone with a good practical sense of what kinds of algorithms will work in practice in computational systems, given finite computational resources. We're not looking for a programmer here, although computer science knowledge will be extremely valuable; we're looking someone with the ability to design NLP algorithms and architectures, both on the general and detailed levels, and to deal with the integration of NL systems with other components of our AI system, such as categorization and reasoning and symbol grounding. Experience with object-oriented design is valuable but not required. The ideal candidate would have some experience doing theoretical research in a linguistic area, and experience working on the development of computational linguistics systems. A broad knowledge of cognitive science and a passion for making the first NL system that actually works would also be valuable. We are dealing with deep issues such as how much linguistic structure to build into our system versus how much to let the system learn, and how to best utilize technologies such as higher-order logical inference and evolutionary computation in NL processing; issues like these require a careful balancing of practical and theoretical issues, and an ability to draw conceptual inspiration from a broad variety of domains. This is a unique opportunity to do both cutting-edge research and practical system design work, simultaneously, letting each kind of work benefit from the other; and to participate in an AI development project unlike any other. To submit an application, please send (preferably by email) your resume and an indication of your salary expectations to: karin at intelligenesis.net Dr. Karin Verspoor Director, Natural Language Engineering Intelligenesis Corporation 50 Broadway New York, NY 10004 tel: (212) 324 2001 fax: (212) 324 3001 _________________________________________________________________________ 8/ From: Peter Lucas Subject: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position available UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN LECTURER / SENIOR LECTURER GBP 17,238 - 35,670 per annum You will join the Bioinformatics/Medical Informatics research group within the Department of Computing Science (rated 4 in the 1996 RAE). You should have an established research record in Bioinformatics although other areas of specialisation which would strengthen the overall activities of the group will be considered. Applications from researchers in Biology or Medicine who have considerable computing experience and who wish to develop this further will also be considered. You will also contribute to teaching and supervision at all levels. Informal enquiries should be directed to Dr Jim Hunter, Head of Department (telephone +44 (0)1224 272287, fax: +44 (0)1224 273422, email: jhunter at csd.abdn.ac.uk). Information about the Department of Computing Science can be found on: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk Application forms and further particulars are available from Human Resources, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX, tel: +44 (0)1224 272727 quoting reference number FCS014A. A 24-hour answering service is in operation. Closing date: 16 June 2000 An Equal Opportunities Employer Peter Lucas Dept. of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK Tel: +44 1224 273829; Fax: +44 1224 273422/487048 E-mail: plucas at csd.abdn.ac.uk; URL: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~plucas _________________________________________________________________________ 9/ From: Richard Evans Subject: PhD Studentship in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton With apologies for multiple postings. --------------------------------------- PhD studentship in Computational Linguistics (Current value of bursary 6,500 UK pounds) The University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Studies invites applications for a research studentship in Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate will work on term extraction and its application in anaphora resolution and automatic abstracting. We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics or Computer Science, with excellent programming skills and some experience in statistics and Natural Language Processing or Linguistics. Overseas candidates must have a good command of English. The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship in September 2000. For further information/queries, please contact Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk. Formal applications must be made to: The Research Support Unit University of Wolverhampton Dudley Campus Castle View Dudley DY1 3HR Email L.Barlow at wlv.ac.uk and must include - a completed application form, - a CV and - a covering letter in which the candidates explain why they have applied for the studentship, give details of their research interests/experience, background, programming skills and an outline of any experience in or knowledge of statistics and Natural Language Processing or Linguistics. When you apply, please quote the reference number of the studentship RS276. The application form can be downloaded from http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/ Extended closing date for applications: 30 June 2000. _________________________________________________________________________ 10/ From: Koenraad de Smedt Subject: Associate Prof. in CL, U of Bergen Please distribute (with apologies for multiple postings): Vacant position at the University of Bergen as ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS The University of Bergen (Norway) is officially announcing a vacant TENURED position as Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics. Candidates are invited to send in their applications by JUNE 24, 2000. More information in Norwegian and English is available at: http://www.hf.uib.no/i/LiLi/SLF/stilling/ -- Prof. Koenraad de Smedt mailto:desmedt at uib.no Universitetet i Bergen tel: +47 5558-2052 http://fasting.hf.uib.no/~desmedt fax: +47 5558-9354 _________________________________________________________________________ 11/ From: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk Subject: Salford RESEARCH ASSOCIATE/FELLOW IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (NLP) The Natural Language Processing Group of Computer Science (http://fw4.cms.salford.ac.uk/research/) has recently been awarded a grant to carry out research in the context of a EUREKA funded European collaborative project with industry and academia in the area of bioinformatics. The group's role is to apply natural language processing techniques to the analysis of molecular biology corpora. Duties: to adapt and expand the Group's existing tools for automatic term recognition and clustering; to interface the group's tools with existing natural language parsers; to work on semantic tagging for domain specific texts; and to aid in the design and construction of ontologies. Expertise: MSc or preferably PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or Computational Linguistics. Good programming skills (Java, Perl) are essential. Knowledge of at least basic natural language processing techniques is highly desirable. Knowledge of statistics-based methods in NLP is a plus. Salary: Up to GBP 21,463 per annum (in first year), according to qualifications and experience. Duration: 30 months Starting date: The post is immediately available. Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr S.Ananiadou (S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk). Candidates should send a detailed CV with the names of 2 referees to: Dr S.Ananiadou (S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk) Computer Science, School of Sciences, University of Salford, Newton Building, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK Tel: +44 161 295 0480 Fax: +44 161 295 5559 Closing date: 15th July 2000. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TWO RESEARCH STUDENTSHIPS in COMPUTER SCIENCE (NLP) The Natural Language Processing Group of Computer Science (http://fw4.cms.salford.ac.uk/research/) has available two fully funded three year research studentships. The group was recently awarded a EUREKA funded grant in the area of NLP and Bio-informatics. Successful candidates should have a minimum of a 2.1 honours degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or Artificial Intelligence. The successful candidates will be involved (with researchers in the department and abroad) in innovative research into: --- novel ways of information extraction from scientific texts ---- design of domain specific ontologies ---- integration of ontologies with scientific databases ---- information retrieval We are particularly interested in candidates able to engage in multi-disciplinary research involving NLP. Expertise: Good programming skills (Java, Perl). An ability to conduct research, to work independently and to contribute to the group's research activities. An ability to work with industrial collaborators. Knowledge of NLP is a plus (but not essential). The studentships carry a bursary of ?6,800 plus fees (at UK/EU rates) Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr S.Ananiadou (S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk). Candidates should send a detailed CV with the names of 2 referees to: Dr S.Ananiadou (S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk) Computer Science, School of Sciences, University of Salford, Newton Building, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT, UK Tel: +44 161 295 0480 Fax: +44 161 295 5559 Closing date: 7th August 2000. Starting date: The studentships will run from 1st October 2000. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Jun 19 13:56:31 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:56:31 +0200 Subject: Appel: EKAW2000 Workshop "ontologies and texts" Message-ID: From: Sylvie Szulman _______________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION _______________________________________ Ontologies and Texts Workshop during the EKAW'2000 conference Juan-Les-Pins (France), October 2nd 2000 http://www.irit.fr/wsontologies2000 Ontology design remains a difficult and challenging problem. Most of the current research studies and papers focus on the technical problems raised by the representation and structuring of knowledge in the ontology. Many works are also devoted to the problem of formalization and reusability of ontologies. More recently, new interests bore on the influence of the target application on the task of designing an ontology. In this workshop, we concentrate on ontology design considered as a process stemming from knowledge sources to a structured conceptual model. Among all knowledge sources (human experts, existing ontologies and texts), we pay special interest to texts (technical documentation, interview transcripts, handbooks and so on). We claim that texts are an important source of knowledge for any kind of application, in particular because most of the texts contain shared and stabilized knowledge among a community of specialists. Moreover, NLP tools are mature enough to be worth being integrated in knowledge engineering methods. Available linguistics results (principles and techniques) are also relevant for building semantic networks and ontologies from texts. In spite of such potential values, knowledge acquisition from texts for ontology design is hardly studied. We assert that text analysis could significantly improve the efficiency of the process of ontology building, as well as the quality and the relevance of the resulting ontologies. We wish to stress that knowledge engineering is ready to face a major evolution by integrating texts as knowledge sources and mainly by giving a new status to concepts and linguistic data. Our aim is to discuss these assertions within the community as long as several teams have been experiencing practical work in ontology design and theoritical reflexions on the topic for many years. Technical and theoretical issues to be discussed at the workshop include, but are not limited to: Texts as knowledge sources - What kind of knowledge can be acquired from which class of texts ? shared and stabilized domain knowledge versus individual know-how - Complementarity of analysing texts, interviewing domain experts and reusing existing ontologies - The expert's role in a text centered view : from experts' knowledge elicitation to model validation by domain specialists. - Typology of data that can be acquired from these knowledge sources, their status and role in a domain model or an ontology. Linguistic resources for ontology design - Mixing textual or linguistic information and conceptual information in ontologies : should a conceptual model always include a linguistic dimension ? - Connections between texts and conceptual models, texts and ontologies - The nature of the term-concept relation ; justifications of a concept definition. - The status of linguistics in knowledge engineering. - What kind of linguistics is needed ? Conceptual semantics vs. textual semantics. Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools - What kinds of NLP tools can prove useful ? - How much should they be adapted to match the needs of knowledge acquisition and ontology design ? How is the use of these tools influenced by the target application ? - How to define and select the data they should apply on ? - How to combine their use with the purpose of conceptual modelling and ontology design ? - Role and limitations of general lexical resources (like WordNet) vs. specific terminological resources (like Terminological Knowledge Bases, thesaurus and so on) Call for papers --------------- Papers should be no longer than 2500 words. They can either report research works, practical experiments or discuss more theoretical questions. Papers will be published in paper-back proceedings distributed to the workshop participants and available on-line the week before the worskhop. Please use the same format as the one suggested for the conference. Send papers by email (html AND ps files) to Brigitte BIEBOW (bb at lipn.univ-paris13.fr) and Sylvie SZULMAN (ss at lipn.univ-paris13.fr) before July 7th Participation conditions ------------------------- Anyone wishing to take part in this workshop should send a one page abstract about its motivations to attend the workshop and/or its recent works related to the workshop topic. This page should also contain a question-issue to be debated during the workshop. Send your text to Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (aussenac at irit.fr) before September 18th. Calendar ------------- Paper submissions : July, 7th Acceptance information : August, 28th Motivation texts : Sept, 18th Final paper : Sept, 21st Scientific Organisation -------------------------------- This workshop is promoted by the French working group on Terminology and Artificial Intelligence (TIA) (web site http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA) to which the chairwomen belong. Most of the issues mentionned as topics reflect the group scientific debates and orientations. Workshop chairs : Sylvie SZULMAN (LIPN, Paris) Brigitte BIEBOW (LIPN, Paris) Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse) Local organisation -------------------------- Rose DIENG (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) Olivier CORBY (INRIA Sophia Antipolis) http://sophia.inria.fr/EKAW2000 Program Committee (provisional list) ----------------------------- Nathalie AUSSENAC-GILLES (IRIT - CNRS, Toulouse, F) Richard BENJAMINS (Univ. Amsterdam, NL) Brigitte BIEBOW (LIPN, Paris, F) Rose DIENG (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, F) Dieter FENSEL (Vrije Universiteit, NL) Asuncion GOMEZ PEREZ (UPM, Madrid, S) Gregory GREFENSTETTE (Xerox Research Center Europe, Meylan, F) (to be confirmed) Nicola GUARINO (Italian National Research Council, I) Udo HAHN (Frieburg University, G) Adeline NAZARENKO (LIPN, Paris, F) Roberto BASILI (University Tor Vergata, Roma,I) (to be confirmed) Fran?ois ROUSSELOT (LIIA, Strasbourg, F) Sylvie SZULMAN (LIPN - CNRS, Paris) Michael USCHOLD (Boeing, USA) Gertjan Van HEIJST (Kenniscentrum CIBIT, Utrecht, NL) Bernard VICTORRI (ENS , Paris, F) Registration information ---------------------------------- Registration information will be available on the EKAW web site (http://sophia.inria.fr/EKAW2000) -- Sylvie Szulman | tel : +33/(0) 1 49 40 36 09 LIPN - Universite Paris 13 | fax : +33/(0) 1 48 26 07 12 av. J.-B. Clement | email : sylvie.szulman at lipn.univ-paris13.fr F-93430 Villetaneuse | http : //www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/membres/~szulman ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Jun 19 13:57:15 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:57:15 +0200 Subject: Appel: Comlex-2000 Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis Second Call for Papers COMLEX 2000 Workshop on COMPUTATIONAL LEXICOGRAPHY AND MULTIMEDIA DICTIONARIES 22-23 September 2000, Patras, Greece Organized by WCL, Department of Electrical ? Computer Engineering University of Patras, Greece Supported by ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) and ELSNET (European Network in Language and Speech) AIMS The aim of this workshop is to present the state of the art in corpus based monolingual and multilingual lexicography (corpora creation, methods and tools for lexical knowledge extraction, knowledge representation, etc.) and the integration of various modalities (textual, spoken, visual) in electronic dictionaries. In particular the workshop aims at the presentation of current work and results of national and international projects related to the workshop's subject. The scientific program will include several invited lectures as well as submitted paper presentations. Submitted papers will be published in a volume of Proceedings available at the workshop. TOPICS ? Electronic corpora for lexicography ? Methods and tools for corpus based lexicography ? Acquisition and reusability of lexicography resources ? Annotation of lexicography resources ? Evaluation and validation of lexicography resources ? Lexical knowledge representation ? Treatment of morphology and polysemy ? Recognition of lexical units in text ? Monolingual and multilingual lexicography ? Integration of various modalities in electronic dictionaries ? Multimedia information retrieval ? Speech synthesis/recognition for multimedia dictionaries ? Encyclopaedic dictionaries ? Specialized dictionaries (language teaching, NLP-applications, etc) ? Internet based dictionaries ? Other subjects related to the workshop VENUE The workshop will be held at the conference centre of the University of Patras, Greece. Patras is located on the west coast of Greece, 200 km from Athens. It is the principal seaport linking the country with Italy and the commercial and cultural centre of Western Greece. Apart from its beautiful landscape, Patras is close to the famous archaeological sites of Olympia, Delphi and Corinth. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Anastassiadi-Simeonidi Anna (University of Thessaloniki) Caragiannis George (Technical University of Athens) Christodoulakis Dimitris (University of Patras) Dermatas Evangelos (University of Patras) Fakotakis Nikos (University of Patras) Faloutsos Cristos (Carnegie Mellon University) Gibbon Dafydd (Universit?t Bielefeld) Kalamboukis Theodore (Athens University of Economics and Business) King Philip (University of Birmingham) Kokkinakis George (University of Patras) Kontos John (Athens University of Economics and Business) Potapova Rodmonga (Moscow State Linguistic University) Spyropoulos Konstantinos (Research Centre "Democritos" Athens) Tsoutsoura Maria (Ionian University) Veronis Jean (Universit? de Provence) Zampolli Antonio (University of Pisa) INVITED SPEAKERS Cristos Faloutsos Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University "Multimedia Information Retrieval" Dafydd Gibbon Fakult?t f?r Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft Universit?t Bielefeld "Progress in Computational Lexicography" Jean Veronis Centre Informatique pour les Lettres et Science Humaines, Universit? de Provence "Building dictionaries from knowledge bases" Antonio Zampolli Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa "Electronic corpora for lexicography" SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS Abstracts of original, not elsewhere published papers may be submitted either by post (three copies) or preferably by e-mail in ASCII format only. Submissions should be typed or printed on one side of the paper only, with ample margins. They should not exceed two A4 pages including figures and references). All abstracts will be refereed by the Scientific Committee. Submission of an abstract implies a commitment to present the paper if accepted. All submissions should begin with the following information: Title: title of paper Author(s): names of author(s) Affiliation: of author(s) Contact address: full postal address of main author, followed by other authors, (if any) Email: of main author Fax number: of main author Phone number: of main author Electronic submissions should be sent to: dermatas at george.wcl2.ee.upatras.gr with the subject line "?Author's surname> Submission for COMLEX2000" Submissions by post should be addressed to: George Kokkinakis Department of Electrical ? Computer Engineering University of Patras 265 00, Patras, Greece IMPORTANT DATES Submission of abstracts: June 15, 2000 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2000 Camera-ready paper due: August 1, 2000 Advance registration: July 10, 2000 Late registration: September 1, 2000 Workshop: September 22, 2000 LANGUAGE The official language of the workshop will be English. ACCOMMODATION Several hotels are situated on the beach of Rion near the venue. Accommodation service will be provided. Hotel prices per night in drachmas Hotel Single Double **** 25,000-30,000 35,000-40,000 *** 15,000-20,000 18.000-25.000 ** 10,000-14,000 14,000-18,000 REGISTRATION FEES The full registration fee includes conference materials, coffee breaks, welcome reception, two meals, banquet, and the use of conference facilities. Early registration Late Registration Regular 190 220 Student 145 170 All prices are in Euro. GRANTS Ten grants including free registration and accommodation will be given to students and young scientists by the organizers. Applications should be submitted together with the abstracts. Further grants are provided by ISCA (http://www.isca-speech.org) APPLICATION FORM FOR A GRANT: Name: Institution: Address: Country: Email address: Telephone / Fax: Date of Birth: 2) Curriculum Vitae with academic records. 3) Complete list of previous publications. Grant applications should be submitted by email to dermatas at george.wcl2.ee.upatras.gr ORGANIZING COMMITTEE George Kokkinakis (Chair) WCL, Department of Electrical ? Computer Engineering, University of Patras. Nikos Fakotakis (Vice Chair) WCL, Department of Electrical ? Computer Engineering, University of Patras. Evangelos Dermatas (Secretary) WCL, Department of Electrical ? Computer Engineering, University of Patras. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Jun 19 13:58:07 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:58:07 +0200 Subject: Conf: Impacts Message-ID: From: Stephan Busemann WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPACTS in Natural Language Generation NLG Between Technology and Applications July 26-28, 2000 - immediately preceding COLING 2000 - Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany Homepage: http://impacts.dfki.de IMPACTS is supported as a "SIGGEN NLG Workshop". ------------------------------------------------------------------ The IMPACTS workshop aims at studying, discussing, and clarifying the relationships between NLG technologies and applications. The workshop addresses - researchers and developers in NLG, - current and potential users of NLG applications, - the interplay between statistical and rule-based NLG, - the reusability of modules within NLG systems. IMPACTS will be an ideal opportunity to discuss current issues and future prospects in Natural Language Generation with prominent researchers in the field, in the stimulating environment of Schloss Dagstuhl. THE WORKSHOP The workshop will consist of three types of sessions: presentation of submitted papers, an invited talk and several "burning issues" sessions. In order to implement our concept of a discussion-intensive event, we have invited four "burning issues" presentations taking up the main topic of the workshop. They will initiate interesting discussions and last two hours up to half a day. A concluding panel session will summarize all discussions. Burning Issues sessions will be chaired by Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Research), Eduard Hovy, Daniel Marcu (both USC/ISI, Los Angeles), and Chris Mellish (Univ. of Edinburgh, UK). The invited talk will be given by David McDonald (Brandeis University, USA). As for the programme, please consult the IMPACTS homepage at http://impacts.dfki.de ACCOMODATION AND REGISTRATION Please register soon; as Schloss Dagstuhl has limited capacity, registration will be on a first come, first serve basis. IMPACTS will take place from July 26-28, 2000 at the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl (http://www.dagstuhl.de). Arrival is on Tuesday, July 25. The workshop will take until Friday, July 28, after lunch. IMPACTS immediately precedes the events of COLING 2000 taking place in Luxembourg, Saarbr?cken, and Nancy. Schloss Dagstuhl is situated in the Saarland, allowing participants to reach the COLING tutorials on July 29 conveniently. All participants will stay at Schloss Dagstuhl. Cost is DM 450 (approx. US$ 210) per person, including full board, in single rooms with a shower. Please register directly with the organizers using the simple registration procedure outlined at http://impacts.dfki.de/#registration . The early registration fee (before July 1, 2000) is DM 170 (approx. US$ 80) and includes a copy of the proceedings. Late registration will cost DM 220 (approx US$ 100). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman, University of Bremen, Germany Tilman Becker, DFKI Saarbr?cken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Stephan Busemann, DFKI Saarbr?cken, Germany (Program Co-Chair) Robert Dale, Language Technology Pty Ltd and Macquarie University, Australia Laurence Danlos, LORIA, France Michael Elhadad, Ben-Gurion University, Israel Eduard Hovy, ISI, University of Southern California, USA Richard Kittredge, CoGenTex Inc., USA Inderjeet Mani, Mitre Corporation, USA David D. McDonald, Gensym Corporation, USA Cecile Paris, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia Owen Rambow, AT&T, USA Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK Donia Scott, ITRI, University of Brighton, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Mon Jun 19 13:58:01 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 15:58:01 +0200 Subject: Appel: LisTAL Message-ID: From: "Nuno J. Mamede" LisTAL Lisboa for Natural Language Processing Lisboa para o Tratamento Autom?tico das L?nguas Lisboa pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues Lisboa, Instituto Superior T?cnico, September 10-12 2001 Following VEXTAL, held at Venice on November 1999, LisTAL will take place in LISBOA (Portugal), September 10-12, 2001. LISTAL will provide an excellent opportunity to exchange original research papers on a very broad range of topics in Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering. Major topics include, but are not limited to: - Parsing and Generating Spoken and Written Language - Word Sense Disambiguation - Linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language - Information Retrieval and Information Extraction - Corpus Linguistics - Machine Translation and Translation Aids - Natural Language Interfaces and Dialogue Systems - Textual Databases: Indexing; Retrieval - Large-Scale (Online) Linguistic Resources - Natural Language for WEB Databases IMPORTANT: Up-to-date information is available at the URL: http://digitais.ist.utl.pt/listal/ Elisabete Ranchhod (CAUTL-IST) Nuno Mamede (CSTC-IST) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 20 12:48:35 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:48:35 +0200 Subject: Appel: SICS Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis VIIe CONGR?S INTERNATIONAL DE COMMUNICATION SOCIALE CENTRE DE LINGUISTIQUE APPLIQU?E Lors du 30e anniversaire de sa fondation SANTIAGO DE CUBA 23-26 janvier 2001 Le Centre de Linguistique Appliqu?e, appartenant au Minist?re des Sciences, de la Technologie et de l'Environnement ? Santiago de Cuba, organise le VIIe Congr?s International de Communication Sociale, qui aura lieu dans cette ville du 23 au 26 janvier 2001 ? l'occasion du 30e anniversaire de la fondation du centre. Dans ce forum interdisciplinaire, on favorisera la discussion sur des th?mes concernant des branches comme la linguistique appliqu?e, la linguistique informatis?e, la m?decine, le traitement de la voix, ainsi que des sujets portant sur les m?dias et sur l'ethnologie et le folklore, li?s ? la communication sociale. Le congr?s sera aussi patronn? par: - Universit? d'Oriente, Cuba - Institut Sup?rieur de Sciences M?dicales, Santiago de Cuba - Universit? P?dagogique "Frank Pa?s Garc?a", Santiago de Cuba - Agence d'Information pour le D?veloppement, Cuba - Universit? de Twente, Hollande - Conseil National des Recherches, Italie - Universit? de L?on, Espagne - Universit? de Malaga, Espagne - Universit? de Grenade, Espagne - Universit? de Alcal?, Espagne - Universit? Humboldt, Allemagne On acceptera un seul travail par auteur concernant les disciplines et les th?mes suivants: 1. Linguistique appliqu?e: -Enseignement de l'espagnol et des langues ?trang?res -Enseignement de l'espagnol langue ?trang?re -Phon?tique et phonologie -Lexicologie et lexicographie -Morphosyntaxe -Sociolinguistique -Psycholinguistique -Linguistique du discours et linguistique pragmatique -Terminologie -Traductions 2. Linguistique informatis?e: -Logiciels appliqu?s ? des recherches linguistiques -Codification grammaticale automatique de textes -Dictionnaires automatiques -Logiciels rapport?s ? l'enseignement des langues maternelles et des langues ?trang?res -Autres sujets proches 3. Traitement de la voix: -Recherches sur l'analyse du pleur -Applications de l'analyse, la synth?se et la reconnaissance de la voix -Intelligence artificielle et traitement de la voix 4. Sp?cialit?s m?dicales li?es notamment ? la parole et ? la voix et en g?n?ral ? la communication sociale: -Logop?die et phoniatrie -Neurologie -Oto-rhino-laryngologie -Stomatologie -Psychiatrie enfantine -P?diatrie -Chronobiologie 5. M?dias: -Recherches linguistiques sur le parler des journalistes, des acteurs et des pr?sentateurs de radio et de t?l?vision -Analyses du discours dans des programmes de radio et de t?l?vision, ainsi que dans des articles de la presse ?crite et de la presse orale 6. Ethnologie et folklore: -?tudes sur la communication sociale. Les activit?s qui auront lieu lors du congr?s sont: -Stages pr?alables -Discussion des rapports dans des commissions -Conf?rences -Ateliers -Exposition d'affiches STAGES PR?ALABLES Il y aura deux stages pr?alables au congr?s qui seront anim?s par de prestigieux sp?cialistes dont on annoncera bient?t les noms. Ces stages sont programm?s le lundi 22 janvier 2001 et traiteront des sujets suivants: -Enseignement de l'espagnol langue ?trang?re -Derni?res tendances de la linguistique informatis?e Chaque participant doit communiquer par avance ? quel stage il d?sire assister. Une attestation de participation lui sera d?cern?e. Suppl?ment ? payer par chaque stage: 20.00 USD. ATELIER ? l'occasion du 30e anniversaire de la fondation du Centre de Linguistique Appliqu?e, on r?alisera un atelier intitul? "La linguistique appliqu?e dans le monde hispanophone". CONF?RENCES Dans ce congr?s, quatre conf?rences seront donn?es par: -Dr. Anton Nijholt, professeur et chercheur ? l'Universit? de Twente, Hollande -Dr. Hiroto Ueda, professeur et chercheur du D?partement d'Espagnol de l'Universit? de Tokyo, Japon -Dr. Mercedes Cathcart Roca, professeur et chercheuse ? la Facult? de Sciences Sociales et Humaines de l'Universit? d'Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba -Dr. Manuel Vilares Ferro, professeur et chercheur ? l'Universit? de Vigo, Espagne R?SUM?S On recevra les r?sum?s des travaux ? pr?senter jusqu'au 1 juillet 2000. Ils auront 250 mots au maximum. L'approbation de chaque travail par le Comit? Scientifique sera notifi?e avant le 30 juillet 2000. RAPPORTS Afin de pouvoir ?diter les actes du congr?s, o? l'on publiera tous les travaux approuv?s, les rapports doivent ?tre envoy?s avant le 1 septembre 2000. Ces rapports rempliront les conditions suivantes: 1. Ne pas d?passer 5 pages, y compris les graphiques, les notes et la bibliographie. 2. ?tre ?crits au moyen du traitement de textes Word et envoy?s ? la secr?taire ex?cutive du forum par courrier ?lectronique (attachment) ou sur une disquette de 3 pouces et demi. 3. ?tre pr?sent?s sur des feuilles ? format A4, les quatres marges des pages mesurant 2,5 cm. 4. ?tre ?crits dans une des langues officielles du congr?s: espagnol, anglais ou fran?ais. Indications pour pr?senter les rapports: 1. ?crire sur le coin sup?rieur gauche de la premi?re page le nom de l'auteur, tout en majuscules grasses, police arial et taille 10 (Word). Si les auteurs sont plusieurs, saisir leurs noms en colonne, interligne simple. En-dessous, toujours ? gauche, indiquer le nom de l'institution que chaque auteur repr?sente, le nom de la ville et du pays d'origine et l'adresse du courrier ?lectronique, en gras aussi avec les initiales en majuscules. 2. Aller ? la ligne et placer au centre le titre du rapport en italiques grasses, police arial et taille 11. 3. Ensuite, saisir en caract?re maigre le texte du rapport, police arial et taille 10, interligne simple. 4. Ne pas mettre d'alin?a aux paragraghes, qui seront s?par?s par un interligne de 3 points. 5. ?crire les titres des sections en gras et ceux des sous-sections en italiques. 6. Mettre les notes dans la marge inf?rieure de chaque page, police arial et taille 9. La dur?e de l'expos? sera de 15 minutes et celle de la discussion de 5 minutes. Les auteurs devront demander par avance les moyens techniques dont ils auront besoin pour exposer: projecteur, r?troprojecteur, magn?tophone, ?quipement vid?o, ordinateur, etc. EXPOSITION D'AFFICHES Les affiches doivent mesurer 1 m?tre de largeur sur 1,2 m?tre de hauteur. Les exposants se chargeront eux-m?mes de l'affichage le matin du jour de leur expos?. Dans les r?sum?s, il faut mettre le mot AFFICHE. Les rapports correspondants aux affiches n'exc?deront pas 3 pages et se conformeront aux indications d?j? ?num?r?es. Toute correspondance ou consultation doit s'adresser ?: Dra. Elo?na Miyares Berm?dez Secretaria Ejecutiva del Comit? Organizador VII Simposio Internacional de Comunicaci?n Social Centro de Ling??stica Aplicada Apartado Postal 4067. Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba, 90400 Tel?fonos: (53-226) 42760, (53-226) 41081 Fax: (53-226) 41579 E-mail: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu Home page: http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/index.html LANGUES OFFICIELLES: Espagnol, anglais et fran?ais. QUOTA D'INSCRIPTION Auteurs 160.00 USD Accompagnants 80.00 USD La quota d'inscription se payera en liquide lors de l'inscription m?me, ce qui donnera le droit ? recevoir les actes, toute la documentation du forum, une attestation d'expos?, ? prendre part au cocktail de bienvenue et ? des excursions et ? jouir d'un concert. Les accompagnants auront droit aux m?mes b?n?fices, sauf aux actes. LOGEMENT Le Comit? Organisateur assurera le logement dans des h?tels trois, quatre et cinq ?toiles avec un tarif pr?f?rentiel aux participants au congr?s. ? RETENIR: - R?ception des r?sum?s: Jusqu'au 1 juillet 2000 - Notification de l'approbation du travail: Jusqu'au 30 juillet 2000 - R?ception des rapports sur disquette ou par courrier ?lectronique: Jusqu'au 1 septembre 2000 - Stages pr?alables: 22 janvier 2001 - VIIe Congr?s International de Communication Sociale: Du 23 au 26 janvier 2001 COMIT? ORGANISATEUR ET SCIENTIFIQUE Pr?sidente d'honneur: Dr. Rosa Elena Sime?n Negr?n, Ministre des Sciences, de la Technologie et de l'Environnement, R?publique de Cuba Aida Almaguer Furnaguera, D?l?gu?e du Minist?re des Sciences, de la Technologie et de l'Environnement, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Gerardo Garc?a Cabrera, Pr?sident de l'Agence d'Information pour le D?veloppement, Minist?re des Sciences, de la Technologie et de l'Environnement, La Havane, Cuba Vitelio Ruiz Hern?ndez, Acad?micien Titulaire de l'Acad?mie de Sciences de Cuba, Centre de Linguistique Appliqu?e, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Leonel Ruiz Miyares, Directeur du Centre de Linguistique Appliqu?e, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Elo?na Miyares Berm?dez, Secr?taire Ex?cutive du VIIe Congr?s International de Communication Sociale, Centre de Linguistique Appliqu?e, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Marcos Cortina V., Recteur de l'Universit? d'Oriente, Minist?re de l'?ducation Sup?rieur, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Nayra Pujals, Recteur de l'Institut Sup?rieur de Sciences M?dicales, Minist?re de la Sant? Publique, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba C?sar Torres, Recteur de l'Universit? P?dagogique "Frank Pa?s Garc?a", Minist?re de l'?ducation, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Anton Nijholt, Professeur et chercheur, Universit? de Twente, Enschede, Hollande Kathleen Wermke, Professeur et chercheuse, Universit? Humboldt, Berlin, Allemagne Renate Siegmund, Professeur et chercheuse, Universit? Humboldt, Berlin, Allemagne Mercedes Cathcart Roca, Professeur et chercheuse, Facult? de Sciences Sociales et Humaines, Universit? d'Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Daniela Ratti, Chercheuse, Conseil National des Recherches, G?nes, Italie Lucia Marconi, Chercheuse, Conseil National des Recherches, G?nes, Italie Claudia Rolando, Chercheuse, Conseil National des Recherches, G?nes, Italie Jos? Ram?n Morala Rodr?guez, Professeur et chercheur, Universit? de L?on, Espagne Gloria Corpas Pastor, Professeur et chercheuse, Universit? de Malaga, Espagne Daniel Madrid, Vice-doyen de Relations Internationales, Facult? de Sciences de l'?ducation, Universit? de Grenade, Espagne Luis Beltr?n, Vice-Rector de Relations Internationales, Universit? de Alcal?, Espagne Ercilia Estrada Estrada, Conseil Scientifique, Centre de Linguistique Appliqu?e, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Nancy ?lamo Su?rez, Chercheuse, Centre de Linguistique Appliqu?e, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Humberto Oca?a Dayar, Professeur et chercheur, Universit? P?dagogique "Frank Pa?s Garc?a", Santiago de Cuba, Cuba Miladys Diodene Adame, Minist?re de l'?ducation, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba VIIe CONGR?S INTERNATIONAL DE COMMUNICATION SOCIALE Mod?le de fiche d'inscription Nom: ____________________ Centre de travail: ____________________ Profession: __________________________ Adresse professionnelle: ______________ T?l?phone: _________________ E-mail: ___________ Fax: _______________________________ Domicile: _______________________ T?l?phone: _________________ Fax: __________ Je souhaite assister au stage pr?alable (facultatif): ______ Enseignement de l'espagnol langue ?trang?re ______ Derni?res tendances de la linguistique informatis?e Titre du rapport: ______________________ Date: __________________ Signature: ______________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 20 12:48:23 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:48:23 +0200 Subject: Appel: ROMAND 2000 Message-ID: From: TALN2000 First Call for Papers ROMAND 2000 1st workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural language Data 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: July 23rd Acceptance notice: August 14th 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/ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 20 12:51:34 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:51:34 +0200 Subject: Appel: Comparing Corpora Message-ID: From: Adam Kilgarriff CALL FOR PAPERS ACL Workshop: COMPARING CORPORA October 2000 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology THEME ===== Anyone who has worked with corpora will be all too aware of differences between them. Depending on the differences, it may, or may not, be reasonable to expect results based on one corpus to also be valid for another. It may, or may not, be appropriate for a grammar, or parser, based on one to perform well on another. It may, or may not, be straightforward to port an application from a domain of the first text type to a domain of the second. Currently, characterisations of corpora are mostly textual and at different levels of generality. A corpus is described as ``Wall Street Journal'' or ``transcripts of business meetings'' or ``foreign learners' essays (intermediate grade)''. It would be desirable to be able to place a new corpus in relation to existing ones, and to be able to quantify similarities and differences. Allied to corpus-similarity is corpus-homogeneity. An understanding of homogeneity is a prerequisite to a measure of the similarity -- it makes little sense to compare a corpus sampled across many genres, like the Brown, with a corpus of weather forecasts, without first accounting for the one being broad, the other narrow. Given the centrality of corpora to contemporary language engineering, it is remarkable how little research there has been to date on the question. Biber's work, coming from sociolinguistics, has made a considerable impact, with various researchers in computational lingustics taking forward the model (Biber 1989, 1995). Studies in text classification, genre and sublanguage are also salient, but it is rarely evident how well the technologies ddeveloped in these fields are suited to measuring corpus similarity or homogeneity. The workshop will welcome contributions concerned with measuring and comparing corpora using quantitative methods, from any field. Where and when ============== The workshop will last half a day and will be on either 7th or 8th Oct, the main ACL conference being 3rd-6th Oct. The venue will be the as for the main conference. Submissions: ============ Submissions are limited to original, unpublished work. Papers may not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of title page and references). They must be received by July 8, 2000, in hard copy (4 copies) OR postscript OR rtf format. Electronic delivery is to compcorp at itri.brighton.ac.uk and hard copies are to be mailed to Compcorp submission ITRI University of Brighton Lewes Road Brighton BN2 4GJ United Kingdom Important Dates: July 8, 2000 Submission (of full-length paper) August 17, 2000 Acceptance notice September 5, 2000 Camera-ready paper due October 7 or 8 Workshop date Co-ordinators ============= Adam Kilgarriff - University of Brighton, UK Tony Berber Sardinha - Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Programme committee =================== Douglas Biber Northern Arizona University Jeremy Clear University of Birmingham Ted Dunning MusicMatch Software, Inc. Tomaz Erjavec Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Pascale Fung University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Sylviane Granger (tbc) Universite Catholique de Louvain Greg Grefenstette (tbc) XRCE, Grenoble Benoit Habert LIMSI, France Przemek Kaszubski (tbc) Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Adam Kilgarriff University of Brighton David Lee University of Lancaster Oliver Mason University of Birmingham Doug Oard University of Maryland Tony Rose Canon Research Tony Berber Sardinha Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil George Tambouratzis ILSP, Athens Christopher Tribble King's College, London University Website ======= http://www.itri.bton.ac.uk/events/compcorp ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 20 12:51:38 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:51:38 +0200 Subject: Conf: Automata Message-ID: From: Helmut Jurgensen CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Tri-conference event: CIAA2000 -- Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata HCAT -- Half Century of Automaton Theory DCAGRS2000 --- Workshop on Descriptional Complexity of Automata Grammars and Related Structures Plus: Workshop on Coding Theory. Held in London, Canada 24-25, 26 and 27-29 July and 31 July - 1 August For information visit: http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs/triconf.html I am looking forward to seeing you London, Canada in July. Helmut Jurgensen Travel information is available at http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs/london.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 20 12:51:48 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:51:48 +0200 Subject: Soft: new open source NLP software Message-ID: From: Jason Baldridge Hi all, This is an announcement to let people know of the availability of some new open source NLP software. Here are the descriptions and where you can go to find out more. The Quipu Grok Library - a library of Java components for performing various natural language tasks. These include several preprocessing tasks (pos tagging, sentence detection, etc.), chart parsing, a large categorial grammar for English (induced from the Penn treebank), and some knowledge representation components (basic coreference, salience tracking, etc.) Homepage: . The Quipu OpenNLP API - a preliminary collection of Java interfaces that we are designing in conjunction with Grok in order to standardize how NLP modules interact. Homepage: . The Quipu Maximum Entropy Package - an Java implementation of the maximum entropy framework. It allows you to train, evaluate, and use maxent models. Homepage: . "Quipu" is a moniker which we use to refer to several students at the University of Edinburgh who are interested in building open source natural language software. This is not an exclusive club, and we welcome anyone else who would like to contribute to this cause. Homepage: . The software described above is distributed under the GNU Public Licenses (GPL and LGPL). This means you are free to download both the binaries and the source code. You are also welcome to modify the source code for your own applications. There are certain restrictions spelled out in the licenses, the main impact of which is to ensure that modifications (e.g. improvements and bug fixes) and new software which incorporates GPL'ed code is made available to the community. Our hope is that NLP researchers don't have to keep re-inventing basic NLP components every time they want to build a new system. We hope to achieve this through modularity and the open source philosophy. Please send this announcement along to any mailing lists whose readers you think would be interested. Let us know if you have any questions! Jason Baldridge: jmb at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Gann Bierner: gbierner at cogsci.ed.ac.uk -- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 27 13:26:23 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:26:23 +0200 Subject: Divers: FoLLI Dissertation Award Message-ID: From: Christof Monz --- We apologize for multiple copies --- --- DEADLINE EXTENDED due to mutliple requests --- New deadline: July 9, 2000 2000 FoLLI Dissertation Award Call for Nominations The European Association for Language, Logic and Information (FoLLI) is inviting nominations for the 2000 edition of the FoLLI Dissertation Award to be awarded annually to an outstanding dissertation in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation. FoLLI gratefully acknowledges sponsorship of this prize by funds from the Spinoza Prize awarded to Johan van Benthem. We are happy to announce that an amount of 1000 EURO will be allocated to one or more award recipients. It is at the discretion of the Prize Committee to allocate the prize money to a single nominee or to divide the prize among two recipients. Eligibility Ph.D. theses in the fields of Language, Logic and Computation by authors who completed the Ph.D. degree between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99. Submission Details 1. A letter of nomination by the thesis supervisor. (N.B. Self-applications by Ph.D. holders are not possible. Each application must be sponsored by the thesis supervisor.) The letter from the student's Ph.D. advisor should verify that the degree was conferred between 1/1/99 and 12/31/99. 2. Two additional letters of support, including at least one letter from a referee not affiliated with the academic institution that awarded the Ph.D. degree. 3. An abstract of the thesis, prepared by the author of the thesis and not to exceed five pages in length 4. A hard copy of the dissertation All materials have to be sent as hard-copy to Mr. Marco de Vries, FoLLI Secretary, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Authors are advised to have their Ph.D. thesis available on the Web, if possible. Submissions Deadline All materials have to be received by July 9, 2000. Prize Committee Anne Abeille Natasha Alechina Patrick Blackburn Nissim Francez Paul Gochet (chair) Valentin Goranko Marcus Kracht Larry Moss Francesco Orilia Manfred Pinkal Christian Retore Rob van der Sandt Further Details Please consult the FoLLI web site at http://www.folli.uva.nl for further details. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 27 13:29:52 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:29:52 +0200 Subject: Conf: SEPLN 2000 Message-ID: From: "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" ====================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SEPLN 2000 XVI Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing ---------------------------------------------------------------------- September 26-28 2000 Vigo, Spain Sponsored by Universidade de Vigo with the support of Caixavigo e Ourense Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing Xunta de Galicia Telefonica I+D http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/ Following the XV SEPLN Conference that took place in Lleida in September 1999, the XVI SEPLN Conference shall be held in Vigo from September 26 to September 28. The event shall take place after TAPD 2000 (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/) which is a conference centered upon applications of tabulation technologies for syntactic analysis and deduction. The motivation for this Conference is to provide researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing a chance to present their recent work, to share their experimental results, and to discuss a range of problems which must be treated. Moreover, an important objective of this Conference is to promote the exchange of ideas and opinions for future basic research directions and to compare these ideas with the actual needs of the society. The conference will include talks on a number of topics, including: -- Computational lexicography -- Corpus linguistics -- Information extraction and retrieval -- Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis -- Linguistic, mathematic and psicolinguistic models of languages -- Machine translation -- Monolingual and multilingual textual generation -- Semantics, pragmatics and discourse -- Speech synthesis and recognition as well as presentations by our invited speakers: -- Eric de la Clergerie, INRIA, France -- Daniel Tapias Merino, Telefonica Investigacion y Desarrollo, Spain -- Christopher S. Butler, Univ. of Wales Swansea, UK (See program below.) Information about participation and registration, an online registration form and the program are available at http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM: TUESDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER 2000 * 8:30 REGISTRATION * 9:30 INVITED TALK "Tabulation in Natural Language Processing" by Eric de la Clergerie Chair: M. A. Alonso * SESSION S1: Linguistic, mathematical an psycholinguistic models of language; Monolingual and multilingual text generation Chair: T. Badia 10:30 "Sistema incremental generador de oraciones y de descodificaci?n ling??stica" J. Luciano Maldonado 10:50 "M?todo para la elaboraci?n de un corpus para la generaci?n de lenguaje natural" G. Aguado and M. del Socorro Bernardos 11:10 "Un modelo computacional para la generaci?n autom?tica de poes?a formal en Castellano" P. Gerv?s * 11:30 COFFEE-BREAK * Continuation of session S1: Linguistic, mathematical an psycholinguistic models of language; Monolingual and multilingual text generation Chair: T. Bad?a 12:00 Demo: "A Development Environment For MTT-Based Sentence Generators" B. Bohnet, A. Langjahr and L. Wanner 12:20 Project: "Generation of Air Pollutant Information" L. Wanner, B. Bohnet and C. Gerstenberger * SESSION S2: Semantic, pragmatic and discourse Chair: A. Mart? 12:40 "An?lisis y procesamiento de la di?tesis de los verbos de cambio en gallego" J. L. Aguirre Moreno 13:00 "Resoluci?n de la an?fora: estructura del di?logo y conocimiento ling??stico" P. Mart?nez-Barco and M. Palomar 13:20 "M?todo basado en marcas de especificidad para WSD" A. Montoyo 13:40 Demo: "OntoTerm: un sistema abierto de representaci?n conceptual" A. Moreno Ortiz * 14:00 LUNCH * SESSION S3: Computational lexicography Chair: X. Artola 16:00 "Bases l?xicas organizadas mediante un sistema de herencia mereol?gica" P. Gamallo Otero 16:20 "Extracting Portuguese-Spanish Word Translations from Aligned Parallel Texts" A. Ribeiro, G. Lopes and J. Mexia 16:40 "Incorporaci?n de adjetivos al WordNet espa?ol" I. Chugur, A. Pe?as, J. Gonzalo and M.F. Verdejo * 17:00 COFFEE-BREAK * Continuation of session S3: Computational lexicography Chair: X. Artola 17:30 "Hacia un tratamiento computacional de la sinonimia" S. Fern?ndez and A. Sobrino 17:50 Project: "Construcci?n de una base de datos de colocaciones l?xicas" M. Alonso Ramos and B. Sanrom?n Vilas 18:10 Demo: "Diccionario de diccionarios electr?nico da l?ngua galega" J.R. Pichel and A. Fern?ndez * 20:00 RECEPTION at the Town Hall of Vigo --------- WEDNESDAY, 27 SEPTEMBER 2000 * 8.30 REGISTRATION * SESSION S4: Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis Chair: H. Rodr?guez 9:30 "An?lisis sint?ctico bidireccional de TAGs" V. J. D?az and M. A. Alonso 9:50 "Towards a Discriminating-Reverse Tomita-like Parser with Reduced Nondeterminism" J. Fortes and J. Farre 10:10 "Herramienta para el etiquetado l?xico y an?lisis sint?ctico de textos orientado a la construcci?n de corpus supervisados" X. Ribera, A. Molina and F. Pla 10:30 "An?lisis sint?ctico estoc?stico y paralelismo" F.M. Barcala, O. Sacrist? and J. Gra?a 10:50 "An?lisis estad?stico del comportamiento del primer etiquetador cubano en tres diferentes corpus de la prensa" L. Ruiz Miyares and L. Zamora Matamoros 11:10 Project: "Proyecto RILE: Servidor de Recursos para el desarrollo de la Ingenier?a Ling??stica en Espa?ol" I. Bermejo, X. Carreras, N. Castell?n, E. Coello, J. Gonzalo, E. L?pez, M.A. Mart?, S. Rodr?guez, H. Rodr?guez, L. Padr?, Anselmo and M. Felisa Verdejo * 11:30 COFFEE-BREAK * Continuation of session S4: Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis Chair: H. Rodr?guez 12:00 Demo: "El corrector de Planeta" Y. Castell?n, A. Collet, A. Gonzalvo, X. Llor?, A. Ortega, G. P?rez, J. P?rez and D. Trotzig * SESSION S5: Machine translation; Corpus linguistics Chair: J. G?mez Guinovart 12:20 "Etiquetado semiautom?tico del rasgo sem?ntico de animicidad para su uso en un sistema de traducci?n autom?tica" A. D?az de Ilarraza, M. Lersundi, A. Mayor and K. Sarasola 12:40 "Two Frequency-rank Law for Letters in Printed Romanian" A. Vlad, A. Mitrea and M. Mitrea * 13:00 INVITED TALK "El habla natural como interfaz en la sociedad de la informaci?n" by Daniel Tapias Merino Chair: C. Garc?a Mateo * 14:00 LUNCH * SESSION S6: Speech recognition and synthesis Chair: J. Llisterri 16:00 "La frecuencia fundamental de la voz y sus efectos en reconocimiento de habla continua" C. Garc?a and D. Tapias 16:20 "Restricciones de funcionamiento en tiempo real de un sistema autom?tico de di?logo" R. L?pez-Cozar, A.J. Rubio, M.C. Ben?tez and D.H. Milone 16:40 "Proposici?n de un marco adecuado para el estudio de contornos de F0 para s?ntesis de voz" X. Fern?ndez Salgado and E. Rodr?guez Banga * 17:00 COFEE-BREAK * Continuation of session S6: Speech recognition and synthesis Chair: J. Llisterri 17:30 "Desarrollo de un m?dulo de asignaci?n de par?metros pros?dicos para la versi?n en espa?ol del sistema de conversi?n texto-habla ACTOR ?" J.M. Garrido, I. Ort?n and S. Quazza 17:50 "Segmentaci?n autom?tica de voz basada en modelos ocultos de Markov y caracter?sticas acusticas" L. Doc?o Fern?ndez 18:10 "Dise?o de una base de datos tipo SpeechDat para el idioma gallego" B. Gonz?lez Rei and C. Garc?a Mateo * 18:30 GENERAL MEETING OF THE SEPLN * 20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER --------- THURSDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2000 * 8.30 REGISTRATION * 9:30 INVITED TALK "Corpus Studies and Functional Linguistics" by Christopher S. Butler Chair: J.M. Garc?a-Miguel * SESSION S7: Information extraction and retrieval Chair: M. Felisa Verdejo 10:30 "Aplicaci?n de t?cnicas de Extracci?n de Informa ci?n en Bibliotecas Digitales" A. Bia and R. Mu?oz 10:50 "Tareas de an?lisis del contenido textual para la recuperaci?n de informaci?n con realimentaci?n" M.J. Ma?a, L.A. Ure?a and M. De Buenaga 11:10 "Extracci?n y asignaci?n de tiempos de suceso para documentos de actualidad" R. Berlanga Llavori, D. Llid? Escriv? and M.J. Aramburu Cabo * 11:30 COFFEE-BREAK * Continuation of session S7: Information extraction and retrieval Chair: M. Felisa Verdejo 12:00 "?C?mo influye la resoluci?n de la an?fora pronominal en los sistemas de bũsqueda de respuestas?" J.L. Vicedo Gonz?lez, A. Ferr?ndez Rodr?guez and J. Peral Cort?s 12:20 "Optimizaci?n en el reconocimiento de patrones" M. Vilares, F.J. Ribadas and V.M. Darriba 12:40 Project: "Proyecto MESIA: Modelo computacional para Extracci?n Selectiva de Informaci?n de textos cortos" P. Mart?nez, P. Gonz?lez, P. S?nchez and A. Mar?a Garc?a 13:00 Demo: "Proyecto Mercurio: un servicio personalizado de noticias basado en t?cnicas de clasificaci?n de texto y modelado de usuario" A. D?az, P. Gerv?s, J.M. G?mez, A. Garc?a, M. de Buenaga, I. Chac?n, B. San Miguel, R. Murciano, E. Puertas, M. Alcojor and I. Acero 13:20 Project: "El Proyecto SCASEM: un Sistema de Catalogaci?n Sem?ntica" D. Trotzig 13:40 Demo: "GaIn: un buscador Internet/Intranet avanzado para textos en euskera" Ibon Aizpurua, I?aki Alegria, Nerea Ezeiza * 14:00 CLOSING ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Manuel Vilares Ferro (chair) -- Univ. of A Coruna Joseba Abaitua -- Univ. of Deusto Miguel A. Alonso Pardo -- Univ. of A Coru?a Margarita Alonso Ramos -- Univ. of A Coru?a Xabier Artola -- Univ. of Pa?s Vasco Toni Badia -- Univ. Pompeu Fabra Manuel de Buenaga Rodriguez -- Univ. Europea de Madrid Ines Diz -- Univ. of Vigo Carmen Garcia Mateo -- Univ. of Vigo Jose M. Garcia-Miguel Gallego -- Univ. of Vigo Javier Gomez Guinovart -- Univ. of Vigo Jorge Grana Gil -- Univ. of A Coru?a Joaquim Llisterri -- Univ. Aut?noma de Barcelona M. Antonia Marti Antonin -- Univ. of Barcelona Lydia Moreno Boronat -- Univ. Polit?cnica de Valencia Manuel Palomar Sanz -- Univ. of Alicante Guillermo Rojo Sanchez -- Univ. of Santiago de Compostela Maria Felisa Verdejo Maillo -- UNED ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREVIOUS SEPLN CONFERENCES: SEPLN'99 (LLeida) http://www.udl.es/dept/dal/sepln/ SEPLN'98 (Alicante) http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/sepln/congreso98/congreso.htm SEPLN'97 (Madrid) http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/sepln/congreso/ SEPLN'96 (Sevilla) http://www.cica.es/sepln96/sepln96.html SEPLN'95 (Bilbao) SEPLN'94 (Cordoba) SEPLN'93 (Santiago de Compostela) SEPLN'92 (Granada) SEPLN'91 (Valencia) SEPLN'90 (San Sebastian) SEPLN'89 (Barcelona) SEPLN'88 (Madrid) SEPLN'87 (Barcelona) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FOR MORE INFORMATION: Further information will be available at http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/. For any information related to the organization, please contact: Secretar?a SEPLN'2000 Escuela Superior de Ingenier?a Inform?tica Campus As Lagoas, s/n 32004 Ourense Espa?a E-mail: sepln-secret at ei.uvigo.es Fax: +34 988-387001 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 27 13:25:42 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:25:42 +0200 Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers Message-ID: ________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Claire Waast Subject: Offre d'emploi: Ing?nieur-chercheur en mod?lisation acoustique de la parole ? IBM 2/ From: andre.ABBOU at auf-francophonie.org Subject: Appel ? candidatures 3/ From: Jeff ALLEN Subject: 2 positions at ELDA/ELRA 4/ From: Jason Patino Subject: Computational Linguist at NetZero, California USA ________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Claire Waast Subject: Offre d'emploi: Ing?nieur-chercheur en mod?lisation acoustique de la parole ? IBM Offre d'emploi: Ing?nieur-chercheur en mod?lisation acoustique de la parole ? IBM Lieu: Paris La Defense, France En rejoignant IBM, le leader mondial des technologies et services informatiques, vous allez participer ? un formidable challenge : le d?veloppement de syst?mes de pointe (logiciels ViaVoice: t?l?phonie, compr?hension du langage naturel, technologie embarqu?e). Cet environnement pluridisciplinaire et international vous conduira ? travailler en coordination avec les ?quipes de R&D IBM r?parties dans le monde. L'?quipe bas?e ? Paris a la double mission de faire avancer la Recherche sur les probl?mes sp?cifiques ? la langue fran?aise, et de calculer et optimiser les mod?les acoustiques et linguistiques du fran?ais dans tous les domaines de technologie du langage (reco, synth?se, compr?hension...) Au sein de ce d?partement, vos missions sont les suivantes : Ing?nieur-chercheur en mod?lisation acoustique de la parole --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vous ?tes responsable du calcul de mod?les statistiques du fran?ais pour le traitement de la parole, au niveau acoustique. Fort d'une premi?re exp?rience dans un domaine identique ou connexe (laboratoire de recherche, universit?), vous avez des comp?tences en math?matiques appliqu?es, statistiques, mod?lisation probabiliste et programmation.La ma?trise de l'anglais et la connaissance des plateformes UNIX, Windows, des languages C/C++, ksh et Tcl/Tk sont requises. Adressez vos candidatures (lettre, CV) IBM France, Direction du Recrutement Service 9000 92086 Paris La D?fense Cedex ________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: andre.ABBOU at auf-francophonie.org Subject: Appel ? candidatures Appel ? candidatures L'?cole Doctorale de G?nie Linguistique, fonctionnant sous la tutelle de l'Agence universitaire de la Francophonie, et qui regroupe 4 universit?s francophones (Universit? de Qu?bec, Universit? de Gen?ve, pool des Universit?s belges et l'Universit? de Paris-Sorbonne (D?partement MIASH) invite les ?tudiants titulaires d'une ma?trise ou d'un DEA comportant les ?l?ments suivants : - initiation au traitement automatique des langues - formation/exp?rience en programmation informatique (C ou C++, Prolog, Lisp) - formation en BDD et int?ress?s par la pr?paration d'UN DEA et, post?rieurement ?ventuellement d'une th?se, en Traitement automatique des langues et applications industrielles, ? faire acte de candidature d'ici le 15 juillet 2000. Si leur candidature est accept?e, ils recevront une bourse de 4 500F/mois vers?e sur crit?res d'assiduit? aux cours + TD, et sur v?rification des connaissances et des aptitudes. Faire acte de candidature ? : Professeur Andr? Abbou OFIL 2, rue Abel 75012 Paris T?l. : 01.44.73.85.85 Mail : andre.ABBOU at auf-francophonie.org ________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Jeff ALLEN Subject: 2 positions at ELDA/ELRA [Please accept our apologies for multiple list cross posting] Please circulate to whom it may interest/concern: Two full-time Technical Engineer/Scientist positions at ELDA. The European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a company specialized in Human Language Technologies within an international context, acting as the distribution agency of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), is currently seeking to fill two immediate vacancies for Technical Engineer/Scientist positions. ELRA was established in February 1995, with the support of the European Commission, to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (LRs). Language Resources include all data necessary for language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases and terminology. The role of this non-profit membership Association is to promote the production of LRs, to collect and to validate them and, foremost, make them available to users. The association also gathers information on market needs and trends. Under the supervision of the CEO, the responsibilities of the Technical Engineers/Scientists include market studies, reports, and development in the field of Language Engineering. Tasks will be technical in nature as well as investigating economic and market needs. This yields excellent opportunities for young, creative, and motivated candidates wishing to participate actively in establishing/ building the European Union Language Engineering field. The ideal candidate would have: * Experience in the field of language engineering/ computational linguistics/ speech processing or a related field; * Experience in developing market studies and writing technical reports in the field of information technologies or Human Language Technologies; * Knowledge of /Experience in integrating and implementing language resources in new applications; * Experience with technology transfer projects, industrial projects, collaborative projects within the European Commission or other international frameworks; * Experience /motivations in establishing and supervising external contracts; * Citizenship of (or residency papers) a European Union country; * The ability to work in at least two European languages (English being essential). Both positions are based in Paris. Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience. Applicants should E-mail, Fax, or post a cover letter addressing the points listed above, together with a Curriculum Vitae, to: Khalid CHOUKRI ELRA / ELDA 55-57, rue Brillat Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel : +33 1 43 13 33 33 ; Fax : +33 1 43 13 33 30 E-mail : choukri at elda.fr For more information about ELDA and ELRA, see: http://www.elda.fr/ ________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Jason Patino Subject: Computational Linguist at NetZero, California USA Rank of Job: Areas Required: Computational Linguist Other Desired Areas: University or Organization: NetZero Department: HR State or Province: California Country: USA Final Date of Application: 10/01/2000 Contact: Jason Patino jpatino at corp.netzero.net Address for Applications: 2555 Townsgate Road Westlake CA 91361 USA Simpli and Net Zero are currently in merger negotations. 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. To apply: Mail, fax, or e-mail a cover letter, resume and names of three references to: ATTN: Jobs, Simpli.com, Inc., 203 S. Main, Providence, RI 02903. fax: 401-621-3220. email: jobs at simpli.com . ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 27 13:29:59 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:29:59 +0200 Subject: Conf: TAPD 2000 Message-ID: [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies] ====================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TAPD 2000 2nd Workshop on 'Tabulation in Parsing and Deduction' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- September 19-21 2000 Vigo, Spain Sponsored by University of Vigo with the support of Caixa Vigo e Ourense and Logic Programing Associates http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/ Following TAPD'98 in Paris (France), TAPD 2000 will be held in Vigo (Spain), from September 19 to September 21. The workshop will be previous to SEPLN 2000 (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/), the conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing. Tabulation techniques are becoming a common way to deal with highly redundant computations occurring, for instance, in Natural Language Processing, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, or Abstract Interpretation, and related to phenomena such as ambiguity, non-determinism or domain ordering. The workshop will include talks on a number of topics, including: -- Tabulation Techniques: Chart Parsing, Tabling, Memoization, Dynamic Programming, Magic Set, Generic Fix-Point Algorithms -- Applications: Parsing, Generation, Logic Programming, Deductive Databases, Abstract Interpretation, Deduction in Knowledge Bases, Theorem Proving -- Static Analysis: Improving tabular evaluation -- Parsing and resolution strategies. -- Efficiency issues: Dealing with large tables (structure sharing, term indexing), Execution models, Exploiting the domain ordering (subsumption). -- Shared structures (parse or proof forest): Formal analysis, representation and processing. as well as presentations by our invited speakers: -- Bharat Jayaraman (State Univ. of New York at Buffalo, USA) -- I.V. Ramakrishnan (State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook, USA) (See program below.) Information about participation and registration and an online registration form are available at http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PRELIMINARY PROGRAM: In addition to the invited talks -- "Applications of Tabled Logic Programming" by I.V. Ramakrishnan -- "Preference Logic Grammars" by Bharat Jayaraman the following accepted papers will be presented by authors: -- "A Distributed Tabling System" by C. Damasio -- "A formal definition of Bottom-Up Embedded Push-Down Automata and their tabulation technique" by M.A. Alonso, E. de la Clergerie and M. Vilares -- "A New Tabling Scheme with Dynamic Ordering of Alternatives" by Hai-Feng Guo and Gopal Gupta -- "A Proposal on Error Repair" by M. Vilares, V.M. Darriba and F.J. Ribadas -- "An Architecture for Multi-Threaded Tabled Engine" by R. Marques, T. Swift and J. Cunha -- "Comparing Tabular Parsers for Tree Adjoining Grammars" by V.J. Diaz and M.A. Alonso -- "Improving Constructive Synthesizers by Tabulation Techniques and Domain Ordering" by F.J. Galan and J.M. Canete -- "Interfacing a Tabled-WAM to a Dual-Mode Tabling Subsystem" by E. Johnson -- "Logic Programming Optimizations for Faster Model Checking" by Y. Dong and C.R. Ramakrishnan -- "Pattern Matching as Dynamic Facility to get Aboutness" by M. Vilares, F.J. Ribadas and V.M. Darriba Bilbao -- "Shared Forest can Guide Parsing" by F. Barthelemy, P. Boullier, P. Deschamp and E. de la Clergerie -- "Symbolic Bisimulation using Tabled Constraint Logic Programming" by M. Mukund, C.R. Ramakrishnan, I.V. Ramakrishnan and R. Verma -- "Syntactic Dependency Graph: A Compact representation of Alternative Dependency Structures" by T. Obrebski -- "YapTab: A Tabling Engine Designed to Support Parallelism" by R. Rocha, F. Silva and V. Santos ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE: David S. Warren (chair) -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, USA Francois Bry -- Univ. Munich, Germany Manuel Carro -- Univ. Polit. Madrid, Spain Eric de la Clergerie -- INRIA, France Veronica Dahl -- Univ. Simon Fraser, Canada Baudouin Le Charlier -- Univ. Namur, Belgium Mark Jan Nederhof -- DFKI, Germany Luis M. Pereira -- Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Martin Rajman -- EPFL, Switzerland Domenico Sacca -- Univ. della Calabria, Italy Kostis Sagonas -- Univ. Uppsala, Sweden David Shasha -- Univ. New York, USA Terrance Swift -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, USA Manuel Vilares -- Univ. Vigo, Spain David Weir -- Univ. Sussex, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREVIOUS TAPD WORKSHOPS: TAPD'98 (Paris, France) http://atoll.inria.fr/~clerger/tapd.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FOR MORE INFORMATION: For further details consult http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/, or contact TAPD'2000 Secretariat Escuela Superior de Ingenier?a Inform?tica Campus as Lagoas, s/n 32004 Ourense Spain E-mail: tapd-secret at ei.uvigo.es Fax: +34 988 387001 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tue Jun 27 13:30:01 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:30:01 +0200 Subject: Livre: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing Message-ID: From: Jean Veronis **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 12 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V?ronis Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing edited by Frank van Eynde Dafydd Gibbon This book offers a state-of-the-art survey of methods and techniques for structuring, acquiring and maintaining lexical resources for speech and language processing. The first chapter provides a broad survey of the field of computational lexicography, introducing most of the issues, terms and topics which are addressed in more detail in the rest of the book. The next two chapters focus on the structure and the content of man-made lexicons, concentrating respectively on (morpho-)syntactic and (morpho-)phonological information. Both chapters adopt a declarative constraint-based methodology and pay ample attention to the various ways in which lexical generalizations can be formalized and exploited to enhance the consistency and to reduce the redundancy of lexicons. A complementary perspective is offered in the next two chapters, which present techniques for automatically deriving lexical resources from text corpora. These chapters adopt an inductive data-oriented methodology and focus also on methods for tokenization, lemmatization and shallow parsing. The next three chapters focus on speech synthesis and speech recognition. The last chapter takes a psycholinguistic perspective and addresses the relation between storage and computation in the mental lexicon. The relevance of these topics for speech and language processing is obvious, for since NLP systems need large lexica in order to achieve reasonable coverage, and since the construction and maintenance of large-size lexical resources is a complex and costly task, it is of crucial importance for those who design or build such systems to be aware of the latest developments in this fast-moving field. The intended audience for this book includes advanced students and professional scientists working in the areas of computational linguistics and language and speech technology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht * Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X April 2000, 298 pp. NLG 240.00 / USD 128.00 / GBP 79.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents and Contributors - Computational Lexicography; D. Gibbon. - Constraint-Based Lexica; G. Bouma, et al. - Phonology-Based Lexical Knowledge Representation; L. Cahill, et al. - Inductive Lexica; W. Daelemans, G. Durieux. - Recognizing Lexical Patterns in Text; G. Grefenstette, et al. - Speech Databases; C. Draxler. - The Use of Lexica in Text-To-Speech Systems; S. Quazza, H.v.d. Heuvel. - The Use of Lexica in Automatic Speech Recognition; M. Adda-Decker, L. Lamel. - Morphology in the Mental Lexicon: A Computational Model for Visual Word Recognition; R.H. Baayen, et al. --------------------------------------------------------------------- PREVIOUS VOLUMES Volume 1: Recent Advances in Parsing Technology Harry Bunt, Masaru Tomita (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4152-X, 1996 Volume 2: Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech Processing Steve Young, Gerrit Bloothooft (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4463-4, 1997 Volume 3: An introduction to text-to-speech synthesis Thierry Dutoit Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4498-7, 1997 Volume 4: Exploring textual data Ludovic Lebart, Andr? Salem and Lisette Berry Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4840-0, December 1997 Volume 5: Time Map Phonology: Finite State Models and Event Logics in Speech Recognition Julie Carson-Berndsen Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-4883-4, 1997 Volume 6: Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in Lexical Knowledge Bases Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998 Volume 7: Natural Language Information Retrieval Tomek Strzalkowski (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5685-3, April 1999 Volume 8: Techniques in Speech Acoustics Jonathan Harrington, Steve Cassidy Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5731-0, July 1999 Volume 9: Syntactic Wordclass Tagging Hans van Halteren (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999 Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons Viegas, E. (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999 Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P., Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999 Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB --------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/