From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Thu Mar 2 13:03:05 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:03:05 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 7 Offers Message-ID: [Certaines de ces annonces sont transférées de la liste LINGUIST, avec l'autorisation de ses éditeurs. PB] [Some of these annoucements are forwarded from the LINGUIST list, by courtesy of its editors. PB] _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Alexander Franz" Subject: NLP Position at Sony US Research Labs, San Jose, CA 2/ From: Torsten Schaub Subject: Two open research positions 3/ From: "Shinya Nakagawa" Subject: Job Opportunities in Natural Language Processing 4/ From: Dan Faulkner Subject: TTS and Linguistics: Aculab plc, Buckinghamshire UK 5/ From: Dorothy.SENEZ at cec.eu.int Subject: Translation services 6/ From: Wei Li Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at Cymfony Inc. 7/ From: Peter Chane Subject: Computational Linguist at Thrownet, San Francisco _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Alexander Franz" Subject: NLP Position at Sony US Research Labs, San Jose, CA The Spoken Language Technology group at Sony's US Research Laboratories, located in San Jose, CA, has an immediate opening for a natural language processing specialist. The successful applicant will perform research and development in robust language analysis and spoken language translation. Applicants should be creative problem solvers, strong team players, and good communicators, and they should be self-motivated and flexible. Desired qualifications include experience in NLP, MT, search, statistical language modelling, and speech recognition-NLP integration. Applicants should hold an advanced degree (ideally PhD) in NLP, CS, Computational Linguistics, or a related field. Desired skills include strong programming skills in C/C++, and familiarity with Unix, UNIX/Windows cross-platform development, and software engineering. Please send inquiries or resumes to: Alexander Franz Sony US Research Labs Email: amf at slt.sel.sony.com Fax: +1 (408) 955-6848 --------------------------- _______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Torsten Schaub Subject: Two open research positions [Please forward the following to anybody who you think may be interested. Apologies if you have already seen this.] ======================================================================== Two Research Positions Available Department of Informatics, University of Potsdam, Germany The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group at the University of Potsdam offers two research positions within the project ``Nonmonotonic inference systems for reasoning with conflictual rules''. Apart from the development and implementation of corresponding reasoning techniques, a particular emphasis lies on the integration of flexible conflict resolution mechanisms that are in turn applied to modeling conflictual knowledge bases found in linguistics. The project is part of the Research Group ``Conflictual rules'' (in German: Forschergruppe ``Konfligierende Regeln''), funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG). This research group offers an interdisciplinary context comprising adjacent research projects from Linguistics, Psychology, Physics, and Informatics. Applicants must hold a master's degree (Diplom, DEA, or equivalent) and should preferably have a PhD in Informatics/Computer Science or Mathematics, although a PhD project is also conceivable. A suitable candidate is expected to have good communication skills (though fluency in German is not required) and research experience in at least one area, relevant to logic-based knowledge representation and reasoning, eg. nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming, automated deduction, argumentation systems, deductive databases, etc. However, highly motivated and academically strong applicants interested in getting into nonmonotonic reasoning/logic programming are also encouraged to apply. The positions are available immediately; they will be filled for a period of up to 24+12 months in the first instance, with a likely extension by three additional years. Salary is according to the German BAT scale (Bat-O IIa), depending on age and family status. Candidates should send a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, references, and a statement of research interests to: Prof. Torsten Schaub phone (+49) 331 977 1163/1057 Universität Potsdam fax (+49) 331 977 1720 Institut für Informatik mail torsten at cs.uni-potsdam.de Am Neuen Palais 10 url http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~torsten D-14469 Potsdam An hyperlinked version of this offer is available at http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~torsten/jobs. If you need more information just give me a call or send me an email. Torsten Schaub 2000-02-15 _______________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: "Shinya Nakagawa" Subject: Job Opportunities in Natural Language Processing Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Japan is looking for candidates who are interested in research positions in Tokyo, Japan in the area of natural language processing. This is an exciting opportunity to work with Hewlett-Packard in areas of text processing applied to corpus data and mobile appliances. Profile: - Degree in computational linguistics - Experience in language engineering such as morphological analysis, knowledge extraction and information retrieval. - High-level programming skill in C and C++ on both Windows and UNIX(HP-UX and Linux) environments. - Experience with development of software packages. - Native English For consideration, send your resume via email to marc at jp.hpl.hp.com +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Marc McEachern Phone: +81-44-812-5920 | | Hewlett-Packard Labs Japan Fax: +81-44-812-5247 | | 3-29-21 Takaido-Higashi, Suginami-Ku e-mail: marc at jp.hpl.hp.com | | Tokyo 168-8585 JAPAN | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Dan Faulkner Subject: TTS and Linguistics: Aculab plc, Buckinghamshire UK Rank of Job: n/a Areas Required: TTS and Linguistics Other Desired Areas: prosody, phonetics, languages University or Organization: Aculab plc Department: DSP Research & Development State or Province: Buckinghamshire Country: UK Final Date of Application: asap Contact: Dan Faulkner Dan.Faulkner at aculab.com Address for Applications: Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire MK1 1PT UK ____________Italian Linguist Engineer_____________ Aculab is a leading provider of components and systems for the Computer Telephony industry. With branches throughout the World, Aculab's R&D is based in Milton Keynes, UK. Both Aculab and Milton Keynes are rapidly expanding, providing an exciting and challenging environment. Our products include the Prosody (TM) speech processing platform, running World-class multi-channel speech recognition and synthesis algorithms. We currently have a vacancy for a Linguist Engineer to join our text-to-speech R&D team. The successful applicant will be responsible for the development and specification of the text and linguistic processing algorithms for Italian text-to-speech conversion. He or she should be aware of the key issues in text-to-speech synthesis. A wide range of linguistic knowledge is necessary, but some specialisation in phonetics and/or phonology would be advantageous, as would knowledge of prosody (e.g. intonation, rhythm and duration modelling). The position would be suitable for somebody with a masters degree or higher in a relevant field, although other graduates will be considered if they possess relevant commercial experience. Programming skills are not essential, but some knowledge – particularly of C and/or C++ - would be an advantage. We enjoy a relaxed working environment and an extremely flat management structure, so candidates must also possess good organisational skills, as there will be a high degree of responsibility for the project from the start. For further details about Aculab, see http://www.aculab.com Please apply to Dan Faulkner with a current CV and a cover letter. Applications may be sent electronically to Dan.Faulkner at aculab.com, or write to: Aculab plc Lakeside Bramley Road Mount Farm Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire MK1 1PT UK _______________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: Dorothy.SENEZ at cec.eu.int Subject: Translation services The TRANSLATION SERVICE of the EUROPEAN COMMISSION wishes to recruit 3 temporary officials (grade LA7/LA6 ) for its Development of multilingual tools and Informatics units. Applicants must be nationals of one of the Member States of the European Union. Applicants should hold a university degree and have a thorough and proven knowledge of computational linguistics. A minimum of three years' experience managing projects in fields relating to the posts is required. Applications should be sent no later than 10 March 2000 (the postmark serving as proof). Applicants may apply for several posts, provided they complete a separate application form for each post and attach the necessary supporting documents to each form. Post 76T/SdT/99 Translation Service, AGL Directorate (General and Language Matters), Unit 04 (Development of multilingual tools): machine translation team. Task : developing the language pairs of the Commission's machine translation system. Requirements: detailed knowledge of the Internet, programming languages (C/C++, Perl, Java, etc.) and markup languages (HTML, SGML, XML, etc.). Knowledge of the technologies used for representing multilingual data on different computer platforms. The European Commission has acquired development licences for the Systran machine translation (MT) system. Every Commission official has access to the system via e-mail or through a Web interface. 18 language pairs are offered (of which 2 on a test basis), and the level of quality varies. Language pairs with English, French or Spanish provide the best results. The service enjoys great success - it translated some 600 000 pages in 1999. Since the old MT server is to be phased out within the next few years, the SdT undertook in 1999 to migrate the existing EC Systran system by building on the techniques, experience and results gained during Systran S.A.'s migration of the commercial system developed at La Jolla, California, several years ago. A Luxembourg-based contractor is in charge of this migration, which has just entered its final phase. We want one specialist to join the team which monitors this project and works on the development of new language pairs. He/she must have a good knowledge of machine translation systems as well as a solid technical and managerial profile and a good team spirit. Place of employment : Luxembourg Contact: Dimitrios.Theologitis at cec.eu.int Poste 77T/SdT/99 Translation Service, AGL Directorate (General and Language Matters), Unit 04 (Development of multilingual tools): terminological tools team. Task: development of terminological tools (acquisition, management and provision of terminological data). Requirements: as in post 76T above, plus knowledge of database management systems (Oracle, Oracle-Context, Fulcrum, etc.) and search engines. The specialist we are looking for is to join a parallel team developing terminological tools for the Translation Service. He/she shall have good knowledge in the field of language engineering (automated terminology management, linguistic databases and translation memories). Tasks will cover: follow-up of the migration of the EC's Eurodicautom terminology database to a Unix platform; collaboration on an interinstitutional terminology database; follow-up of the development/implementation of new access interfaces to terminological resources (e-mail, Web browsers, terminology editor, and integration with word-processing systems); evaluations, tests and technology watch; analysis of user feedback. Place of employment : Luxembourg Contact: Dimitrios.Theologitis at cec.eu.int Poste 78T/SdT/99 Translation Service, Unit 02 (Informatics) Tasks: development of multilingual documentation and translation aids, management of multilingual documentation. Requirements: as in post 77T above. Place of employment: Luxembourg or Brussels Contact: Francisco.Garcia-Moran at cec.eu.int General information: A perfect command of one of the official languages of the European Union as well as a thorough knowledge of at least two other official languages is required. One of the three languages must be French or English. The maximum term of a contract is 3 years, with one possible extension of up to one year. A request for further information regarding this notice does not exempt you from submitting a duly completed application form, together with the necessary supporting documents, by 10 March 2000 (the postmark serving as proof). An application form is attached below. EUROPEAN COMMISSION APPLICATION FORM SELECTION OF TEMPORARY OFFICIALS Selection 1. Surname: ............................................................................ ........................... Forenames: ............................................................................ ........................ 2. Address for correspondence and for the invitation: Street and number: ............................................................................ ............. Town/region: ............................................................................ ..................... Postcode: ............................ Country: ........................................................... Telephone No: ............................................................................ ................... Fax No: ............................................................................ .............................. All correspondence will be sent to you at the above address. Please inform us immediately of any change of address. Name and telephone number of a person we can contact in your absence: .. ............................................................................ ............................................ 3. Date of birth: ............................................................................ ...................... Nationality: ............................................. Sex: .............................................. 4. Language knowledge: ............................................................................ ....... ............................................................................ ............................................ Please attach a curriculum vitae in English or French, copies of diplomas required for admission to the selection, and any documents proving the quality and duration of your professional experience and send, before 10 March 2000, to: European Commission Translation Service - SdT 01 - JECL 4/29 Ref. Selection 76T/SdT/99 or 77T/SdT/99 or 78T/SdT/99 Rue de la Loi 200 B - 1049 Brussels _______________________________________________________________________ 6/ From: Wei Li Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at Cymfony Inc. Rank of Job: Rsearch Scientist Areas Required: Computational Linguist Other Desired Areas: Natural Language Processing University or Organization: Cymfony Inc. Department: State or Province: New York State Country: USA Final Date of Application: July 2000 Contact: Wei Li wei at cymfony.com Address for Applications: 5500 Main Street Williamsville NY 14221 USA Computational Linguists Needed Cymfony, located in suburban Buffalo, New York State, USA, is a leader in technology pertaining to intelligent search and retrieval, including question answering systems. This fast-growing company has IMMEDIATE OPENINGS for research scientists in natural language processing. SEVERAL POSITIONS ARE AVAILABLE. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in Computer Science or related field with experience in natural language processing, computational linguistics, or information retrieval. Proficiency in C++ programming is required. Salary will be commensurate with education and experience. Cymfony also offers an attractive benefits package. All positions are full-time. Please forward CV with references to: Cymfony, Inc. Attn: Wei Li 5500 Main Street, Suite 206 Williamsville, NY 14221, USA Email: wei at cymfony.com Fax: (716)-565-0308 _______________________________________________________________________ 7/ From: Peter Chane Subject: Computational Linguist at Thrownet, San Francisco Rank of Job: Areas Required: Computational Linguist Other Desired Areas: Computational Lexicographer University or Organization: Thrownet Department: Product Development State or Province: San Francisco, CA Country: USA Final Date of Application: ASAP Contact: Peter Chane jobs at thrownet.com Address for Applications: 85 Columbia Square San Francisco CA 94103 USA Thrownet, a startup company located in San Francisco's South of Market district has many openings for a Computational Linguist, Computational Lexicographer, and Information Science specialists. Thrownet is developing technology to enable users to find an answer to a question by utilizing proprietary search and information retrieval technology. Specific details of our plans can be discussed under NDA. See http://www.thrownet.com for details. Send resumes to jobs at thrownet.com. Please note that the positions are full-time positions in San Francisco. No telecommuting positions are available at this time. ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Mar 2 13:07:30 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:07:30 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journees INTEX Message-ID: From: Anne Dister 3es Journées INTEX Deuxième appel à communication Second Call For Papers (see English version below) ====================== Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2000 ************************************************************************** 3es Journées INTEX Liège, les 13 et 14 juin 2000 ************************************************************************** Les troisièmes Journées INTEX auront lieu à l'Université de Liège, les 13 et 14 juin 2000. INTEX est une plate-forme d'ingénierie linguistique permettant de développer des ressources linguistiques à large couverture et de les appliquer sur de vastes corpus. Ces ressources peuvent prendre la forme de dictionnaires électroniques, bibliothèques de graphes et bases de données mopho-syntaxiques du type lexique-grammaire. INTEX intègre les dictionnaires électroniques du LADL (série des dictionnaires DELA) : il s'agit de vastes bases de données lexicales comportant pour chaque entrée une série d'informations morphologiques, syntaxiques et dans certains cas sémantiques. Les dictionnaires français ont été développés au LADL et, dans le cadre du réseau européen de laboratoires RELEX, des ressources linguistiques compatibles (c'est-à-dire utilisant le même formalisme) ont été développées pour une dizaine d'autres langues (italien, portugais, espagnol, anglais, grec, etc.). De nouveaux travaux ont récemment été entrepris pour le norvégien et le slovaque. L'une des particularités du système INTEX est son ouverture : les utilisateurs peuvent ajouter leurs propres ressources au système et même réutiliser séparément les différents programmes dont il se compose dans leurs propres applications. 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 encore d'enseignant. Elles seront également l'occasion de présenter les nouvelles fonctionnalités d'INTEX issues des récents développements. Pour les nouveaux utilisateurs ou les chercheurs travaillant avec d'autres systèmes, ces journées offrent la possibilité de découvrir un panel diversifié de domaines d'application d'INTEX. En plus des communications portant sur des recherches ou développements en cours, une série de séances d'initiation et de démonstration permettront d'expérimenter concrètement le logiciel. ********************* Appel à communication ********************* Les soumissions de communication (titre + une page maximum) sont à envoyer, de préférence par email, à Anne Dister (adister at ulg.ac.be) Université de Liège - CIPL Quai Roosevelt 1b (Bât. A4) B. 4000 Liège Belgique Dates importantes : Date de soumission : 1er mars 2000 Date d'acceptation : 1er avril 2000 Réception des versions définitives des textes pour publication : 30 juin 2000. Les actes seront publiés dans RISSH, Revue : Informatique et Statistiques dans les Sciences Humaines. ************************************ English version 3rd INTEX Workshop INTEX is a linguistic development environment which includes large-coverage dictionaries and grammars, and which parse texts of several million words in real time. INTEX includes tools for creating and maintain lexical resources (such as dictionaries of compound nouns), as well as morphological and syntactic grammars. Dictionaries and grammars are applied to texts in order to locate morphological, lexical and syntactic patterns, to remove ambiguities, and to tag simple and compound words. INTEX can build lemmatized concordances and indices of large texts with respect to Finite State patterns whether defined by regular expressions or by finite automata. INTEX is used in more than 50 research centers as an information retrieval system, to analyze literary texts, to quantify language variations, to teach second languages, as a terminological extractor, as well as to teach computational linguistics to graduate students. INTEX integrates the electronic dictionaries of the LADL. These dictionaries are lexical databases that provide for each item morphological, syntactic and semantic information. French dictionaires have been developed at the LADL and within the European RELEX network, compatible linguistic resources (i.e. that use the same format) have been built for several languages: Bulgarian, English, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. New studies have been started for Norvegian and Slovak. One interesting characteristic of INTEX is that the system is "open": users can add their own resources and use the INTEX programs to build new applications. This third Workshop will offer the INTEX users the opportunity to meet and share their INTEX experience in development, teaching and research. New features of INTEX will be presented during demonstration sessions. For new INTEX users or researchers who work with other systems, the Workshop will be an opportunity to discover a wide spectrum of research projects that have recourse to INTEX. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2000 Notification of acceptance for papers: April 1, 2000 Definitive version of paper due: June 30, 2000 **************************************************** ********************** Informations pratiques ********************** Il est impératif de réserver une chambre d'hôtel dans les plus brefs délais. En effet, en juin se déroulera à Liège la phase finale de l'Euro 2000, et l'on attend des milliers de supporters. Des préréservations ont été faites dans certains hôtels (situation centrale, très proches de l'Université), qui accordent par ailleurs des tarifs préférentiels pour les participants aux colloques organisés à l'Université de Liège. (N'oubliez pas de le mentionnez lors de votre réservation. La préréservation est faite sous le nom Colloque INTEX - ULG) Les prix comprennent le petit-déjeuner. Un Euro = 40.3399 FB 1) Hôtel Ibis chambre single : 2600 FB chambre double : 2900 FB tél : 0032-4-230.33.33 fax : 0032-4-223.04.81 2) Hôtel La Passerelle chambre single : 1950 FB chambre double : 2400 FB tél : 0032-4-341.20.20 fax : 0032-4-344.36.43 3) Le Cygne d'Argent chambre single : 2170 FB chambre double : 2650 FB tél : 0032-4-223.70.01 fax : 0032-4-222.49.66 4) Eurotel (même chose que La Passerelle, mais un peu plus éloigné) chambre single : 1950 FB chambre double : 2400 FB tél : 0032-4-341.16.27 fax : 0032-4-344.36.43 Pour plus d'informations et une situation des hôtels, vous pourvez consulter le site suivant http://www.ulg.ac.be/info-gen/hotels.html ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Mar 2 13:07:51 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:07:51 +0100 Subject: Resources: XML Version of the CES Message-ID: From: "Nancy M. Ide" ******** XCES ******** XML version of the Corpus Encoding Standard BETA RELEASE http://www.cs.vassar.edu/XCES We are pleased to announce the availability of a Beta release of XCES, which instantiates the Corpus Encoding Standard (CES) DTDs for linguistic corpora endorsed by the Expert Advisory Group for Language Engineering Standards (EAGLES). XCES was developed by the Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, and Equipe Langue et Dialogue, LORIA/CNRS. The current version includes a set of XSL stylesheets for cesDoc documents. We are in the process of developing stylesheets for cesAna and cesAlign documents. We appreciate feedback on XCES. Please contact Nancy Ide (ide at cs.vassar.edu) or Patrice Bonhomme (bonhomme at loria.fr). ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Mar 2 13:08:16 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:08:16 +0100 Subject: Conf: LREC-2000 Message-ID: From: Jeff ALLEN [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies] Call for Participation - 2nd international Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2000) Year 2000 marks the beginning of a new era for Human Language Technology and Language Engineering. The European Commission and the US National Science Foundation have announced Multilinguality as one of their main action points. The 2nd international Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2000), the second of a series of leading biennial events representing cross-sectoral research and development in speech, text, multi-media, and multi-modal processing, is committed to promoting the language engineering initiatives of these and similar organizations. LREC2000, scheduled to take place 29 May - 2 June 2000 in Athens, Greece, has accepted nearly 300 papers for presentation at the main conference. About 10 pre- and post-conference satellite workshops will also take place. Many commercial and research systems for speech and natural language processing will be demonstrated at the LREC2000 Exhibition in parallel with the conference sessions. From 500 to 700 conference delegates are expected to attend this conference, with half coming from the corporate and industrial sectors and half coming from the academic field. For more information with regard to LREC2000, please contact: LREC2000 Conference Secretariat Institute for Language and Speech Processing 6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str. 15125 Marousi Athens, Greece Tel: (+301) 6800959 Fax: (+301) 6856794 E-mail: LREC2000 at ilsp.gr LREC2000 Web site: http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html For more information about the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), please contact: Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO 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 ELRA Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.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 Thu Mar 2 13:07:07 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:07:07 +0100 Subject: Appel: RECITAL-2000 Message-ID: From: Damien Genthial ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Appel à communications RÉCITAL-2000 Rencontre des Etudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Suisse) du 16 au 18 octobre 2000 http://www-clips.imag.fr/RECITAL-2000 RECITAL-2000 at imag.fr conjointement à TALN-2000 http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000 La quatrième édition du colloque RECITAL se tiendra conjointement à la conférence TALN-2000 (Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles), à Lausanne (Suisse) du 16 au 18 octobre 2000. Le colloque RECITAL-2000 donne aux jeunes chercheurs l'occasion de se rencontrer, de présenter leurs travaux et de comparer leurs approches. L'expérience très réussie du couplage RECITAL-TALN en 1999 sera renouvelée cette année encore et devrait l'être systématiquement à l'avenir.Ce couplage permet aux participants d'acquérir une vision plus globale sur les avancées théoriques les plus récentes, ainsi que sur des applications industrielles actuellement développées. Il favorise également les échanges avec les chercheurs confirmés qui participent à TALN. * Thèmes indicatifs Problématiques classiques : - Analyse et compréhension de textes - Génération d'énoncés en LN - Traduction automatique - Production de résumés - Correction automatique - Dialogue humain/machine Problématiques connexes : - Ressources linguistiques (lexiques, dictionnaires électroniques, corpus etc.) - Sémantique lexicale (polysémie, catégorisation, etc.) - Sémantique du temps et de l'espace (représentation et raisonnement) - Logique (argumentation, modélisation des intentions et des croyances, etc.) - Architectures dédiées au TAL (systèmes multi-agents, réseaux neuromimétiques) - Acquisition et apprentissage automatique de ressources ou de connaissances (à partir de corpus, ou de l'interaction humain/machine) - Relations entre TAL et reconnaissance de la parole Cette liste n'est pas exhaustive et l'adéquation d'une proposition de communication à la conférence sera jugée par le comité de programme. * Soumissions Les soumissions (de 6 pages maximum en Times 12) devront être rédigées en français ou en anglais par de jeunes chercheurs (thèse en cours ou bien soutenue après septembre 1998) et accompagnées d'un résumé de 200 mots. RECITAL-2000 est la session pour étudiants de TALN-2000 et il est possible pour un auteur de soumettre à plusieurs manifestations (TAL, RECITAL, ateliers). Dans ce cas, la double soumission doit apparaître clairement dans le courrier adressé aux deux comités de programme. Les soumissions à RECITAL-2000 ne seront pas anonymes. Les relecteurs seront encouragés à signer leurs rapports. Les soumissions seront exclusivement électroniques et devront être envoyées en fichier attaché à : RECITAL-2000 at imag.fr. Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission en PostScript, en RTF ou en PDF. Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word sont disponibles sur les pages web de TALN-2000 (voir ci-dessus). Les articles retenus seront présentés lors des sessions RECITAL sous la forme d'une communication orale d'une vingtaine de minutes et figureront dans les actes de TALN-2000. * Dates importantes (calendrier identique à celui de TALN-2000) Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2000 Notification aux auteurs : 23 juin 2000 Version finale (prêt-à-clicher): 4 août 2000 Conférence : 16-18 octobre 2000 * Comité de programme Responsable : Damien Genthial (mailto:Damien.Genthial at imag.fr) Pascal Amsili (TALANA, Paris) Pierre Beust (GREYC, Caen) Jean Caelen (CLIPS, Grenoble) Paul Deléglise (LIUM, Le Mans) Cécile Fabre (ERSS, Toulouse) Bertrand Gaiffe (LORIA, Nancy) Emmanuel Giguet (GREYC, Caen) Stéphane Ferrari (GREYC, Caen) Brigitte Grau (LIMSI, Orsay) Maurice Gross (LADL, Paris) Jean-Luc Husson (LORIA, Nancy Eric Laporte (Marne la Vallée) Jérome Lehuen (LIUM, Le Mans) Gérard Ligozat (LIMSI, Orsay) Daniel Luzzati (LIUM, Le Mans) Denis Maurel (LI, Tours) Reza Mir-Samii (LIUM, Le Mans) Jacques Moeschler (Genève) Philippe Muller (IRIT, Toulouse) Anne Nicolle (GREYC, Caen) Didier Pernel (L&H, Belgique) Cécile Fabre (ERSS, Toulouse) Violaine Prince (Paris 8) Martin Rajman (EPFL, Lausanne) Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy) Azim Roussanaly (LORIA, Nancy) Gérard Sabah (LIMSI, Orsay) Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse) Jean Senellart (LADL, Paris) Jacques Siroux (IRISA LLI/CORDIAL, Rennes) Max Silberztein (LADL, Paris) Jacques Vergne (GREYC, Caen) Jean Véronis (LPL, Aix) Anne Vilnat (LIMSI, Orsay) Michael Zock (LIMSI, Orsay) * Comité d'organisation Responsable : José Rouillard (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Pierre Beust (GREYC Caen) Peggy Cadel (LILLA Nice) Jean Caelen (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Damien Genthial (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Stéphanie Pouchot (CRISTAL-GRESEC Grenoble) Dominique Vaufreydaz (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Pour tous renseignements : Page web de RÉCITAL-2000 : http://www-clips.imag.fr/RECITAL-2000 Adresse électronique de RÉCITAL-2000 : RECITAL-2000 at imag.fr Adresse courrier: Colloque RÉCITAL-2000 à l'attention de Damien Genthial CLIPS, IMAG-Campus BP 53 38040 Grenoble cedex * Information Pratiques Pour toute information pratique concernant l'hébergement, l'accès au site à Lausanne, etc, nous vous renvoyons aux pages web de TALN (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- TRILAN/CLIPS/IMAG, (lundis et jeudis) | IUT de Valence (les autres jours) Tél : 04 76 51 49 15 | Tél : 04 75 41 88 00 ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Sat Mar 4 16:22:39 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:22:39 +0100 Subject: Appel: ESSLLI Student Session Message-ID: From: Catherine Piliere ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science --- --- Thank you to circulate and post among students --- ======================================================================= THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION August 6-18 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain Submission Deadline : March 15th, 2000 http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/ESSLLI-2000.html ======================================================================= We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2000) organized by the University of Birmingham and located at the same University in August 2000 (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli). We will welcome submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PURPOSE This fifth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the other editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own WORK IN PROGRESS and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. It is desired that papers presenting creative and innovative ideas will be submitted. The ESSLLI-2000 Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates - before completion of the Master Thesis as well as postgraduates - before completion of the PhD degree. Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. The ESSLLI Student Session consists of paper presentations and has its own timeslot in the summerschool's schedule: 60 minutes every day for two weeks, provided that a sufficient number of good quality papers is accepted. Each presentation will last 30 minutes (including 10 minutes of discussion). The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during ESSLLI-2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KLUWER BEST PAPER AWARD As in previous editions of ESSLLI, the best paper will be selected by the program committee and will be offered a prize by Kluwer Academic Publishers. The prize of 1000 Dfl consists of a free choice of Kluwer books to be displayed during the school. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REQUIREMENTS The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. Papers will cover topics within the six ESSLLI subject areas (Logic, Language, Computation, Logic & Language, Logic & Computation, Language & Computation). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FORMAT OF SUBMISSION Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the paper title, not to exceed 5 pages of length exclusive of references and send a separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since reviewing will be blind, the body of the abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., " We previously showed (Smith, 1991)... ") should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like " Smith (1991) previously showed...". For any submission, a plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent SEPARATELY, using the following format: Title: Author: <firstname lastname of the first author> Address: <address of the first author> .. Author: <firstname lastname of the last author> Address: <address of the last author> Short summary (5 lines): <summary> Subject area (one of): Logic | Language | Computation | Logic and Language | Logic and Computation | Language and Computation. The submission of the extended abstract should be in one of the following formats: 1) SELF-CONTAINED LATEX SOURCE (the most encouraged): The LaTeX source should use the standard article document-class, with A4 paper size and 12pt font size. The source should not refer to any other external files or styles, except for the standard styles for LaTeX2e. The bibliography for a LaTeX submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file: the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file. 2) POSTSCRIPT: PostScript submissions must use a standard font and A4 (8 1/4 " x 11 3/4 ") size pages. Please avoid the default letter page size if submitting from outside Europe. 3) ASCII text. Submissions outside the specified length and formatting requirements will be subject to rejection without review. The extended abstract and separate identification page must be sent by e-mail to: Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr by March 15, 2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION In order to present a paper at ESSLLI-2000 Student Session, at least one student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant at ESSLLI-2000. Nevertheless, the authors of accepted papers will be eligible for reduced registration fees. For all information, please consult the ESSLLI-2000 web site (it will be regularly updated): http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission: March 15, 2000. Authors notifications: May 14, 2000. Final version due: June 11, 2000. ESSLLI-2000 Student Session: August 6-18, 2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Catherine Pilière (chair), LORIA - University Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France; Manuel Bodirsky, Programming Systems Lab, University of Saarbrücken, Germany; Mohamed Zakaria Kurdi, IMAG, Grenoble, France; Paola Maneggia, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Great Britain; Vincenzo Pallotta, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland; Sylvain Pogodalla, Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France; Kristina Striegnitz, Computational Linguistics, University of Saarbrücken, Germany. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For any specific question concerning ESSLLI-2000 Student Session, please, do not hesitate to contact the chair: Catherine Pilière LORIA Campus Scientifique BP 239 54 506 VANDOEUVRE-LES-NANCY Cedex France Tel. +33 (0)3 83 59 20 22 E-mail Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Sat Mar 4 16:22:43 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:22:43 +0100 Subject: Appel: TAPD-2000 Message-ID: <SAT.4.MAR.2000.172243.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" <alonso at dc.fi.udc.es> [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies] ====================================================================== 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/ Following TAPD'98 in Paris (France) next TAPD event will be held in Vigo (Spain) in September, 2000. The conference will be previous to SEPLN 2000 (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/), the conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing. MOTIVATIONS: 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. Different approaches, including for example Chart Parsing, Magic-Set rewriting, Memoization, and Dynamic Programming, have been proposed whose key idea is to keep traces of computations to achieve computation sharing and loop detection. Tabulation also offers more flexibility to investigate new parsing or proof strategies and to represent ambiguity by shared structures. The first objective of this workshop is to compare and discuss these different approaches. The second objective is to present tabulation and tabular systems to potential users in different application areas such as natural language processing, picture parsing, genome analysis, or complete deduction techniques. TOPICS (not exclusive): -- 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 or 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. WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as group discussions. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors are invited to submit before April 28 a 4-page position paper or abstract concerning a theoretical contribution or a system to be presented. Due to tight time constraints, submission and reviewing will be handled exclusively electronically (LaTeX, PostScript, dvi or ascii format). Submission should include the title, authors' names, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail. The submissions must be sent to David S. Warren (warren at cs.sunysb.edu) in gziped encoded postscript. SCHEDULE: Submission of contributions: April 28, 2000 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2000 Final versions due: June 30, 2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: David S. Warren -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 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, US Terrance Swift -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US Manuel Vilares -- Univ. Vigo, Spain David Weir -- Univ. Sussex, UK ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR: Manuel Vilares -- Univ. Vigo, Spain ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Miguel A. Alonso -- Univ. Coruna, Spain Eric de la Clergerie -- INRIA, France David Cabrero -- Univ. Vigo, Spain Victor M. Darriba -- Univ. Coruna, Spain David Olivieri -- Univ. Vigo, Spain Francisco J. Ribadas -- Univ. Coruna, Spain Leandro Rodriguez -- Univ. Vigo, Spain PUBLICATION: Papers accepted by the Program Committee must be presented at the conference and will appear in a proceedings volume. The format for camera-ready manuscripts will be available from the web page of the event. LOCATION: Auditorio del Centro Cultural Caixavigo e Ourense Marques de Valladares Vigo, Spain FURTHER 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 <LN at cines.fr> 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 Sat Mar 4 16:21:01 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:21:01 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 6 Offers Message-ID: <SAT.4.MAR.2000.172101.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Albert Llorens" <Albert_Llorens at sail-labs.es> Subject: Sail Labs: Openings in TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY (Spain) 2/ From: VINESSE Jerome CNET/DMI/LAN <jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr> Subject: Jobs in CNET - Emplois au CNET 3/ From: "Vanessa Combet" <combet at sinequa.com> Subject: Jobs : 2 offers (German, Spanish) 4/ From: "Bill Hutchison" <bill.hutchison at wordmap.com> Subject: JOBS: Natural language Web search 5/ From: Yorick Wilks <y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE/NLP 6/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Modern Lang. IT Officer, LeedsU ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Albert Llorens" <Albert_Llorens at sail-labs.es> Subject: Sail Labs: Openings in TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY (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: ************************************ PROJECT LEADERS (ref. PL) ************************************ Your tasks: * Manage and coordinate development projects in the area of natural language processing technology and systems. Your profile: * An advanced degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, etc.). * A minimum of four years experience in systems design and development, from design to product delivery. * Previous experience as a project leader. * Good knowledge of and experience in natural language processing applications. * Native or near-native proficiency in at least two of the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. * Fluency in English. * Experience in object oriented programming will be a plus. ************************************************************ SENIOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (ref. SCL) ************************************************************ Your tasks: * Design, development and maintenance of formal grammars for our several new or existing translation engines. * 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. * 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 in at least two of the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. * Effective communication skills in written and spoken English. **************************************************************************** LINGUISTS FOR LEXICON AND GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT (ref. LEX/GR) **************************************************************************** Your tasks: * Development and maintenance of grammars and lexicons for our new and existing translation engines. Your profile: * University degree in philology, linguistics, languages, computational linguistics or equivalent * Native or near-native proficiency in at least two of the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. * 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. 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: VINESSE Jerome CNET/DMI/LAN <jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr> Subject: Jobs in CNET - Emplois au CNET > FRENCH VERSION - ENGLISH VERSION BELOW > ************************************************************ > > L'unité de Recherche et Développement "Langues Naturelles" du CNET, centre > de recherche de France Télécom, propose à Lannion (Côtes d'Armor, France), > quatre postes : > 1. un poste d'ingénieur de recherche à durée indéterminée "langues > naturelles et commerce électronique multilingue" > 2. un poste d'ingénieur de recherche à durée indéterminée "extraction > automatique d'informations multilmédia" > 3. un Postdoc d'une durée d'un an "recherche d'information en langue > arabe" > 4. un stage bac+5 d'une durée de 5 à 6 mois "traduction automatique > français/anglais sur un corpus spécialisé" > > Les postes sont détaillés ci-dessous > > > 1. Ingénieur de recherche "langues naturelles et commerce électronique > multilingue" > > Dans le cadre des développements de nouveaux services offerts aux clients > de FT et intégrant des technologies avancées de langage naturel, le Cnet > recrute un jeune ingénieur de R&D informaticien. Il contribue à > l'application des techniques de traitement du langage naturel aux services > de commerce électronique, en prenant part à des projets européens dans ce > domaine. L'objectif est de mettre en correspondance les demandes des > clients et les catalogues des marchands, l'ensemble étant exprimé sous > forme textuelle, et dans des langues différentes. > > Il participe au développement de nouvelles méthodes et à l'amélioration > des techniques existantes d'interprétation du contenu textuel, pour leur > utilisation dans des plates-formes de commerce électronique multilingue. > > - Contrat à durée indéterminée : > - Compétences requises : > * Développement logiciel en C++ > * Informatique avancée (traitement de la langue, intelligence > artificielle, ontologies, agents intelligents) > * Commerce électronique > * Culture générale en linguistique, logique, statistique > * Technologies liées à Internet (HTML, XML, serveurs, protocoles, Java) > * Langues étrangères, anglais indispensable > * Travail en équipe, contacts fréquents avec des partenaires européens, > des clients internes > > Contact (envoyer un CV détaillé) : > Jérôme Vinesse > CNET - France Télécom - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.38.92 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > > 2. Ingénieur de recherche "extraction automatique d'informations > multimedia" > > La disponibilité de grands corpus de textes ou de contenus multimédia (sur > le Web ou sur support CD) exige d'explorer de nouvelles voies de recherche > sur l'extraction automatique des connaissances par analyse desdits corpus. > C'est dans ce cadre des études sur la recherche d'informations que le CNET > a développé des techniques d'analyse en vue d'extraire automatiquement à > partir de corpus des "réseaux sémantiques" de grande taille pour cerner le > sens des documents. > > Le Cnet recrute un ingénieur R&D informaticien, pour mettre en oeuvre ces > techniques de fouille de données (datamining) pour des besoins internes à > France Télécom (gestion intelligente de documents,...) ou pour l'offre de > services de France Télécom (offre Wanadoo Education,...). Ce poste > contribue au transfert rapide de ces technologies vers les entités > d'exploitation de FT. > > - Contrat à durée indéterminée > - Compétences requises : > * Développement logiciel en C > * Fortes connaissances en algorithmique, en apprentissage > * Bonnes connaissances en statistiques * Connaissances en développement d'applications multimedia appréciées (HTTP, CGI, Java) * Connaissances en système et architectures distribuees appréciées > Contact (envoyer un CV détaillé) : > Jérôme Vinesse > CNET - France Télécom - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.38.92 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > > 3. Post-Doc "recherche d'information en langue arabe" > > - Sujet: Moteur de recherche en langue arabe. > - Activités : > * localisation d'un moteur de recherche en langue arabe, > * recherche d'information en cross-language (français, arabe), > * dictionnaire(s) bilingue(s), > * étude de la faisabilité d'une traduction automatique de textes, > * étude des outils web d'entrée/sortie et de codage de textes arabes, > * étude de la morphologie de l'arabe. > > - Profil requis: > * Expérience en développement d'outils linguistiques. > * Connaissance des problèmes liés au multilinguisme et à l'arabe. > * Connaissance des outils Web appliqués à l'arabe (navigateurs, éditeurs > de documents). > * Morphologie de l'arabe. > * Compétences en intégration d'outils sur le web. > * Recherche d'information > * Traduction automatique ou TAO (souhaitée). > * Unix, C++, Java, HTML. > > - Durée : 12 mois (début dès que possible, Mars/Avril 2000). > > Contact (envoyer un CV détaillé) : > Malek Boualem > CNET - France Télécom - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.29.83 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > > 4. Stage de DEA ou DESS ou Ingénieur en traduction automatique > > - Sujet: traduction automatique français vers anglais sur corpus > spécialisé. > - Durée: 5 à 6 mois, rémunéré. > - Début du stage : Mars ou Avril 2000. > - Thèse après le stage envisageable mais non garantie. > - Connaissances requises : traduction automatique ou TAO, > processus d'analyse du langage naturel, syntaxe, langage C++. > > Contact (envoyer un CV détaillé): > Malek Boualem > CNET - France Télécom - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.29.83 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > ************************************************************ > ENGLISH VERSION > ************************************************************ > > The Natural Language Processing R&D unit of CNET France Telecom research > center in Lannion (Brittany, France), invites applications for several > positions: > 1. a position of research engineer "natural language processing and > multilingual e-commerce" > 2. a position of research engineer "automatic extraction of multimedia > information" > 3. a one-year post-doctoral position "information retrieval in Arabic > language" > 4. a 5 or 6 month placement for DEA, DESS, engineer or other postgraduate > technical degree (Master of Science) student, "french/english machine > translation on a specialised corpus" > > The positions are detailed hereafter : > > > 1. Research engineer "natural language processing and multilingual > e-commerce" > > While developing new services for the customers of France Telecom, we > integrate natural language processing technologies. CNET is looking for a > young R&D software engineer, who will contribute to this integration for > electronic commerce services, taking part in European projects in this > field. Our aim is to match customers needs with the available catalogs, > both being expressed by text, and possibly in different languages. > > The successful candidate will participate in developing new methods and > improving existing techniques for textual content interpretation, in order > to use them on multilingual e-commerce platforms. > > - Permanent (open-ended) contract : > - Required skills : > * C++ software development > * Advanced computer science (natural language processing, artificial > intelligence, ontologies, software agents) > * Electronic commerce > * General knowledge in linguistics, logics, statistics > * Internet technologies (HTML, XML, server, protocols, Java) > * French and English required, other languages appreciated > * Team work, frequent contacts with European partners and internal > customers > > Contact for applications (please send a detailed CV): > Jérôme Vinesse > CNET - France Télécom - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.38.92 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > > 2. Research engineer "automatic extraction of multimedia information" > > The availability of large corpora and multimedia content (on the Web or > CD-ROM) means new research directions for the automatic extraction of > knowledge from such corpora need to be considered. In the context of > information retrieval studies, the CNET has developed analysis techniques > aimed at automatically extracting large "semantic networks" for corpora, > in order to represent the sense of documents. > > We are looking for a software engineer, who will apply these dataming > techniques to France Telecom's needs. This includes internal needs > (advanced management of documents,...) as well as creation of new services > on the Web (Wanadoo Education,...). This position will contribute to a > rapid use of these technologies in operational divisions of France > Telecom. > > - Permanent (open-ended) contract > - Required skills : > * C Software development > * Strong skill in algorithmics and machine learning > * Good knowledge of statistics * Knowledge in multimedia applications development (HTTP, CGI, Java) appreciated * Knowledge in systems and sitributed architectures appreciated > Contact for applications (please send a detailed CV) : > Jérôme Vinesse > CNET - France Télécom - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.38.92 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > > 3. Post-doctoral position "Information retrieval in Arabic language". > > - Topic: Research engine for Arabic language. > - Activity: > * localization of a search engine into Arabic, > * cross-language information retrieval (French, Arabic), > * multilingual dictionary. > * Prospection of machine translation of texts. > * Prospection of web tools for Arabic texts input/output. > * Study of the Arabic morphology. > > - Required knowledge: > * Ph.D. level with a strong background in computer science and NLP. > * Problems related to multilinguality and to Arabic. > * Arabic related web tools (browsers, text editors). > * Arabic morphology. > * Integration of applications to the web. > * Information retrieval > * Machine translation (if possible). > * Unix, C++, Java, HTML. > > Address for Applications (please send a detailed CV): > Malek Boualem > CNET - France Telecom - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 - Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86 > Email: malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > > 4. Training for DEA or DESS or Engineer or other postgraduate technical > degree (Master of Science) in Machine Translation. > - Topic: MT from French to English based on a specialized corpus. > - Financing: 5 to 6 months. > - Starting date: March or April 2000. > - Possibility of PhD in October (but not guaranteed). > - Required knowledge: MT, NLP, syntax, C++. > > Contact (please send a detailed CV): > Malek Boualem > CNET - France Telecom - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.29.83 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr > ___________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: "Vanessa Combet" <combet at sinequa.com> Subject: Jobs : 2 offers (German, Spanish) SINEQUA (anciennement CORA-SA), start-up dynamique d=E9veloppant des = logiciels, en=20 particulier pour le e-commerce et Internet, qui int=E8grent des = techniques d'analyses=20 linguistiques, recherche : ***************************************************** un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne) sp=E9cialiste de = l'allemand et=20 un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne) sp=E9cialiste de = l'espagnol. ****************************************************** Description du poste : Vous serez en charge de la cr=E9ation, l'enrichissement et la = maintenance des ressources=20 lexico-s=E9mantiques n=E9cessaires au traitement de l'espagnol et de = l'allemand par notre moteur=20 de recherche d'informations Intuition. Par ailleurs, vous serez = =E9galement amen=E9(e) =E0 adapter=20 notre =E9tiqueteur morpho-syntaxique pour le traitement de ces langues, = ce qui implique, entre=20 autres, d'=E9crire des grammaires de d=E9sambigu=EFsation ou encore de = pr=E9parer des corpus pour=20 entra=EEner notre analyseur. Enfin, vous serez directement impliqu=E9(e) = dans les divers projets de=20 recherche men=E9s par nos =E9quipes de linguistes et d'informaticiens. Comp=E9tences requises : * parfaite ma=EEtrise de l'espagnol ou de l'allemand (langue maternelle) = et bonne=20 connaissance du fran=E7ais ; * formation universitaire sup=E9rieure en linguistique informatique ou = linguistique=20 (DESS, DEA, doctorat) ; * autonomie en mati=E8re de programmation, c'est-=E0-dire que vous = =EAtes capable=20 d'=E9laborer vos propres outils pour constituer, traiter et exploiter = des ressources=20 linguistiques (dictionnaires, corpus, grammaires) ; * une bonne connaissance et/ou exp=E9rience dans les domaines suivants = seront=20 particuli=E8rement appr=E9ci=E9es : lexicographie, terminologie, = recherche=20 d'informations, extraction d'informations, multilinguisme dans les = syst=E8mes de=20 recherche d'informations, autres langues... Aspects pratiques : La r=E9mun=E9ration sera fonction de l'exp=E9rience et des comp=E9tences = des candidats. Le lieu de travail est =E0 Ivry sur Seine, en proche banlieue = parisienne. Les candidats doivent avoir le droit de travailler en France. Merci d'envoyer votre candidature par courrier =E9lectronique ou postal = =E0 : Vanessa Combet-Meunier SINEQUA (Cora-SA) 51, rue Ledru Rollin 94 200 Ivry sur Seine combet at sinequa.com http://www.sinequa.com =20 SINEQUA (formerly CORA-SA), a dynamic software company developing = Natural=20 Language products for e-commerce and the Web in particular, has the = following openings for: ***************************** a German computational linguist; a Spanish computational linguist. ***************************** Position description: The successful candidates will be required to create, enhance and = maintain the lexical and=20 semantic Spanish and German databases used by our search engine = Intuition. The candidates=20 will also be responsible for training our part-of-speech tagger for = these languages, which=20 means being able to write disambiguation grammars, to edit corpora to = ensure the successful=20 training of out tagger, etc. The candidates will directly be involved in = the different research=20 projects our linguists and computer scientists carry out. Skills required: * (near) native speaker of Spanish or German and a good command of = French; * relevant university degree in (computational) linguistics; * sufficient programming abilities to be able to build your own tools = for the=20 constitution and processing of linguistic resources; * good knowledge of and/or experience in the following areas are = considered an=20 asset: lexicography, terminology, information retrieval and extraction, = cross-language=20 information retrieval, other languages. Practical aspects: Salary according to experience and qualifications. The post is based in Ivry sur Seine (near Paris). The candidates must have a work permit for France. Please send your application letter and detailed resume by email or = snail mail to: Vanessa Combet-Meunier SINEQUA (Cora-SA) 51, rue Ledru Rollin 94 200 Ivry sur Seine combet at sinequa.com=20 http://www.sinequa.com ___________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: "Bill Hutchison" <bill.hutchison at wordmap.com> Subject: JOBS: Natural language Web search Please accept our apologies if you receive more than one copy of this message. If you know of anyone who may be interested in these opportunities, please pass the message on SENIOR ENGINEERS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE IR APPLICATIONS Wordmap is a pre-launch start-up developing a set of technologies that will revolutionise Web search. The company is now looking to recruit several senior engineers to take a prototype developed in partnership with Sheffield University to beta launch on the Web. Wordmap offers its engineers an opportunity to innovate in an area that also has significant commercial potential. Backed by one of the UK's leading venture capitalists and with significant interest among information industry players, the resources to pursue exciting product developments are now available. The attributes we are seeking are: - proven record in natural language/IR/search technology development - BSc(Hons) or MSc from a top ranking institution - ideally, commercial sector experience - Hands-on coding ability C/C++; database skills; XML; UNIX/Linux. Working knowledge of other key skills areas eg Java/Script, ASP, Perl - Interest in key areas of text/Web development We are looking for highly disciplined, motivated team players. They will have curious and creative minds and a desire to make a real difference to Web technology. We offer competitive salaries and a generous stock option and bonus scheme. Location: Bath, UK """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Bill Hutchison Chief Executive Wordmap Limited, 1 Fairfield Villas, Bath BA2 6LT, UK email bill.hutchison at wordmap.com """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" ___________________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: Yorick Wilks <y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE/NLP University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science RESEARCH DEGREES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE This department intends to recruit a number of postgraduate research students to begin studies in October 2000 or before. Successful applicants will read for an M.Phil or Ph.D. The department has research groups in: Natural Language Processing Verification and Testing Communications and Distributed Systems Speech and Hearing Computer Graphics Machine Learning Neurocomputing and Robotics UK, EU and overseas candidates with research interests in any relevant area are encouraged to apply. Candidates for all awards should have a good honours degree in a relevant discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), or should attain such a degree by September 1999. Part-time registration is a possibility. A number of EPSRC awards are available, which are available for UK students' fees and support and, on a fees-only basis, for EU students. More details of our research, and application forms, are on our world-wide-web site: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk. Hard copy application forms and further particulars are available from the Research Admissions Secretary, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP. All applicants should quote reference number ST051. Informal enquiries may be addressed to: Professor Yorick Wilks: +44 114 222 1804, yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk ___________________________________________________________________________ 6/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Modern Lang. IT Officer, LeedsU University of Leeds http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sml/sml.html IT OFFICER http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts/mod1a.htm Computer Staff 2/3 (£18,915 - £30,065p.a.) Working for this dynamic, multidisciplinary School, you will provide a comprehensive and high quality IT support service to the SMLC, planning and overseeing the implementation of agreed strategies with respect to the School's state-of the-art language IT facility and at-desk use of I.T. by staff and students. You will have a minimum of 2 years experience working in an IT support role, preferably in an educational context; this will have included working in a heterogeneous network environment. Experience of managing a multi-server Windows NT domain is essential. An interest in multi-lingual software would be an advantage, as would knowledge of Linux or another BSD-style UNIX system. Enthusiasm, a co-operative and flexible approach, and the ability to communicate with non-specialists are also highly desirable qualities for this post. The post is available on a 3 year rolling contract basis. Informal enquiries to Rowena Armstrong, Planning & Resources Officer on (00 44) 113 233 3364 or email r.armstrong at leeds.ac.uk ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Sat Mar 4 16:22:50 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:22:50 +0100 Subject: Appel: Translating and the Computer Message-ID: <SAT.4.MAR.2000.172250.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Nicole Adamides <nicole at aslib.co.uk> Apologies if you receive more than one copy of this announcement - it has been sent to several lists. ************************************************************* 22nd Conference "Translating 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 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 22 May 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.co.uk WWW: http://www.aslib.co.uk The full-length versions of the accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Sat Mar 4 16:29:00 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:29:00 +0100 Subject: Varia: 3 annoucements Message-ID: <SAT.4.MAR.2000.172900.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: kilgarriff <A.Kilgarriff at bton.ac.uk> Subject: SENSEVAL 2/ From: "Linguistic Studies" <linguistic.studies at insead.edu.sg> Subject: Stats on Linguistic Groups 3/ From: JA/AM <mance at elda.fr> Subject: ELRA/ELDA On-line Survey ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: kilgarriff <A.Kilgarriff at bton.ac.uk> Subject: SENSEVAL SENSEVAL 2 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Following the success of the first SENSEVAL in 1998, we are now beginning the planning for SENSEVAL-2. As before, it will proceed as an ACL-SIGLEX activity. The evaluation will take place over a year, concluding with a workshop in Pisa in Spring 2001. Last time, there were evaluations for English, French and Italian. We are keen to encourage evaluations for further languages, so would particularly like to hear from people who are interested in setting up evaluations for the language they work in. If you wish to join the discussion group that works out how the evaluation should proceed (and were not on the mailing list for the first SENSEVAL) please let me know and I will add you to the list. Adam Kilgarriff SENSEVAL co-ordinator adam at itri.bton.ac.uk ___________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: "Linguistic Studies" <linguistic.studies at insead.edu.sg> Subject: Stats on Linguistic Groups I thought you might find my recent monograph of interest: Linguistic Cultures of the World: A Statistical Reference (Greenwood Press) The book gives over 150,000 stats covering 500+ language groups worldwide (demographics, economics, geography, etc.). I would be glad to send to you an EXCEL spreadsheet of the raw data (or to any researcher who may find it of interest). Otherwise, the link below to Amazon gives more qualitative details; the book, however, is largely covered in the spreadsheet which is complementary to researchers/scholars. Regards, Phil Parker Professor of Economics and International Studies UCSD & INSEAD http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031329769X/icongroupinterna ___________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: JA/AM <mance at elda.fr> Subject: ELRA/ELDA On-line Survey GEMA UsersÂ’ Survey The European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is conducting another user needs survey within the framework of the European Commission funded GEMA (Gates for an Enhanced Multilingual resource Access) project (http://www..linglink.lu/hlt/projects/GEMA-M2/ and http://www.elda.fr/proj/gema.html). We encourage all people who use the internet for locating and accessing terminological data (for example, linguists, lexicographers, terminologists, technical writers, translators, documentation specialists, and others) to participate. An on-line version of the survey can be found at the following page: http://www.elda.fr/proj/gemasurv.html This survey is conducted in cooperation with SALT project (see http://www.ttt.org/salt or http://www.linglink.lu/hlt/projects/salt/summary.asp) Thank you in advance for your participation. Best, The ELDA team ----------------------------------- All specific answer will remain confidential. Only statistics from this study will be reproduced in project reports. ----------------------------------- Please place an x in the boxes below that are relevant to you or your organisation and return your completed questionnaire to <mance at elda.fr> ----------------------------------- Your name: Your organisation: E-mail: 1. About Yourself 1.1. Are you : [ ] A translator [ ] A technical writer [ ] A terminologist [ ] A lexicographer [ ] A linguistic tools developer [ ] A localizer [ ] Other - please specify ______________________ 1.2. Do you work in a [ ] free-lance position? [ ] in-house position? [ ] linguistic department of a company / organisation? [ ] documentation department? [ ] localization department? [ ] translation agency? [ ] publishing house? [ ] Other - please specify ____________________ [ ] academia? [ ] research [ ] teaching [ ] Other - please specify ______________ 1.3. What fields do you work in? [ ] Administrative [ ] Aeronautics [ ] Agriculture [ ] Architecture/construction [ ] Arts [ ] Automobile [ ] Biology [ ] Business [ ] Chemistry [ ] Computing and Information technology [ ] Economics & finance [ ] Education & pedagogy [ ] Electrical engineering [ ] Electronics [ ] Food sciences [ ] Geography [ ] Geology [ ] Heavy-machinery [ ] History [ ] Insurance [ ] Law [ ] Leisure [ ] Medicine [ ] Navigation [ ] Pharmaceutical [ ] Physics [ ] Psychology [ ] Sociology [ ] Sports [ ] Tourism [ ] Telecommunications [ ] General (any domain) [ ] Other - please specify ________________ 1.4. What languages do you work in? [ ] Arabic [ ] Chinese [ ] Danish [ ] Dutch [ ] English [ ] Finnish [ ] French [ ] German [ ] Greek [ ] Italian [ ] Japanese [ ] Polish [ ] Portuguese [ ] Russian [ ] Spanish [ ] Swedish [ ] Other- please specify __________________ 2. The language resources you use 2.1. What types of language resources do you use? [ ] dictionaries [ ] glossaries [ ] monolingual glossaries [ ] bilingual glossaries [ ] multilingual glossaries [ ] lexicographical databases [ ] monolingual corpora [ ] multilingual corpora (non parallel, but same domain) [ ] terminological databases [ ] monolingual databases [ ] bilingual databases [ ] multilingual databases [ ] translation memories / parallel texts 2.2. How do you currently obtain language resources? [ ] purchases [ ] exchanges with other producers [ ] consulting of experts / technicians [ ] free-of-charge consulting (via Internet, libraries) [ ] in-house 2.3. On what media are these resources available? [ ] CD [ ] Internet [ ] Intranet [ ] Paper [ ] Other - please specify _______________________ 2.4. What are they used for? [ ] to provide information on specific fields for translation and domain understanding [ ] to elaborate glossaries, dictionaries, databases [ ] to be integrated in machine translation systems [ ] to be integrated in translation memory systems [ ] to supply a terminology management system with data [ ] to be incorporated in a Language Engineering system - please specify ______________ 3. In the case of in-house resources 3.1. What types of language resources do you produce? [ ] glossaries [ ] terminological databases [ ] dictionaries [ ] corpora [ ] monolingual [ ] multilingual [ ] Other - please specify __________________ 3.2. What tools do you use to store your data? [ ] ACCESS [ ] DBase [ ] WORD [ ] EXCEL [ ] Multiterm [ ] Other - please specify _______________________ 3.3. What interchange formats do you use? [ ] GENETER [ ] IIF [ ] MARTIF [ ] MATER [ ] OLIF [ ] In-house, SGML-based format [ ] Other - please specify ________________________ 3.4. Would you be willing to make your resources available to others according to a negotiated standardised distribution agreement? [ ] Yes [ ] for consultation only [ ] for sale [ ] No 3.5. If no, what are the reasons for not distributing your resources? [ ] technical [ ] commercial (pricing policy) [ ] legal (Copyright, Industrial / intellectual property rights) [ ] strategic [ ] Other - please specify _________________ 3.6. If Yes, whom would you be ready to sell your resources to? [ ] end-users [ ] tool developers [ ] researchers 3.7. Would you be ready to provide data samples for format conversion? [ ] Yes [ ] No 3.8. Would you be ready to provide documents describing your dataÂ’s structure? [ ] Yes [ ] No 4. Language resources on the Internet 4.1. For consulting resources on the Internet, what sites do you use? [ ] linguistic sites / portals with general information [ ] linguistic sites with links to glossaries and lexicons [ ] linguistic sites dedicated to specific fields (economics, sciences...) [ ] non linguistic sites dedicated to specific fields (economics, sciences...) [ ] non linguistic sites with links to glossaries and lexicons [ ] non linguistic but reference sites (from companies / industries / organisations) [ ] terminological databases [ ] Other - please specify _____________ 4.2. Why do you consult these sites (please, select only 3 propositions)? [ ] They cover the fields you work in [ ] The data are provided by official terminology centres or international / national organisations [ ] The data are provided by technical / scientific organisations or companies / industries [ ] They are accessible free of charge [ ] Resources or tools can be downloaded [ ] The interface is user-friendly 4.3. How do you find your language resources on the Internet? [ ] by doing your own search with search engines (Altavista, Yahoo...) [ ] by using portals dedicated to language(s) 4.4. In the case of portals, what services do they systematically offer? [ ] Language / terminological Resources [ ] on-line-consultation [ ] on-line acquisition [ ] On-line acquisition of linguistic tools [ ] Value-added services [ ] validation or consolidation of existing tools / resources [ ] resource creation support [ ] Information [ ] newsgroups [ ] forum [ ] technical / scientific / business information (reports, articles) [ ] job offers [ ] Other - please specify ____________________ 4.5. What services would you like to find more often on these portals? [ ] Language / terminological Resources [ ] on-line-consultation [ ] on-line acquisition [ ] On-line acquisition of linguistic tools [ ] Value-added services [ ] validation or consolidation of existing tools / resources [ ] resource creation support [ ] Information [ ] newsgroups [ ] forum [ ] technical / scientific / business information (reports, articles) [ ] job offers [ ] Other - please specify ____________________ 4.6. How valuable are Language Resources on the Internet? [ ] very valuable [ ] valuable [ ] poorly valuable 4.7. Rank the following scenarios in order of preference, with 1 as highest preference and 3 as lowest preference: [ ] a paying access to a site without advertising [ ] access at a lower cost, with advertising for linguistic-related products [ ] an access free of charge, with a significant amount of advertising 4.8. What type of subscription is reasonable for you to access language resources? [ ] A set fee for: [ ] less than 100 searches (please, suggest a price___________Euro) [ ] between 100 & 1 000 searches (please, suggest a price___________Euro) [ ] between 1 000 & 10 000 searches (please, suggest a price___________Euro) [ ] Payment per view [ ] Annual subscription (please, suggest a price___________Euro) 5. Contact details 5.1. Are you member of any association related to Language Resources, Translation, Terminology...? If Yes, which one(s)? 5.2. Do you wish to be kept informed of any further developments concerning this project? [ ] Yes [ ] No 5.3. Would you like to be contacted for other surveys in relation to language resources/terminology and this particular project? [ ] Yes [ ] No ------------------- Please return this questionnaire to mance at elda.fr ------------------ --------------------------------------------------- Jeff Allen mail: jeff at elda.fr GEMA: http://www.linglink.lu/hlt/Projects/GEMA-M2/ GEMA - USERS' SURVEY: http://www.elda.fr/proj/gema.html ELRA/ELDA tel.: 33 1 43 13 33 33 fax: 33 1 43 13 33 30 ---------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 8 22:14:45 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:14:45 +0100 Subject: Q: Systeme d'annotations tagging Message-ID: <WED.8.MAR.2000.231445.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:11:44 +0100 From: "braulin" <braulin at tiscalinet.it> Message-Id: <007301bf876f$c06000e0$c2020a3e at oemcomputer> Est-ce que quelqu'un aurait déjà un système d'annotation pour un corpus anglais ce que les anglais appellent tagging, je dois faire un travail sémantique sur les annotations, et je ne voudrais pas faire le déjà fait, c'est-à-dire des annotations. Je vous serai très reconnaissante. Ce que je puis faire en échange c'est de vous envoyer mes résultats. Salutations distinguées. Et merci déjà. Monique Frei ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 8 22:28:38 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:28:38 +0100 Subject: Q: French corpus for machine translation evaluation Message-ID: <WED.8.MAR.2000.232838.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:29:29 +0100 From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr> Message-Id: <26F7C2E07274D311A6D80060080C3EEE5EF0AA at l-mhs5.lannion.cnet.fr> Je recherche un corpus français afin de comparer des systèmes de traduction du français vers l'anglais. Le corpus, éventuellement dédié à cette tâche, doit contenir une quantité de phrases suffisante et variée et il peut être spécialisé ou non. Merci d'avance. Malek Boualem Here my message translated from French to English using MT system 1: I look for a French corpus to compare systems of translation of French towards English. The corpus, possibly dedicated to this task, has to contain a quantity of sufficient and varied sentences and it can be specialized or not. Thank you beforehand. Here my message translated from French to English using MT system 2: I seek a French corpus in order to compare translation systems of French into English. The corpus, possibly dedicated to this task, must contain a quantity of sentences sufficient and varied and it can be specialized or not. Thank you in advance. And just for fun, translation crossing between system 1 and 2: Here English text 1 translated again into French by system 2: Je recherche un corpus français pour comparer des systèmes de traduction du français vers l'anglais. Le corpus, probablement consacré à cette tâche, doit contenir une quantité de suffisamment et des phrases diverses et lui peuvent être spécialisés ou pas. Merci à l'avance. Here English text 2 translated again into French by system 1: Je cherche un corpus français pour comparer les systèmes de traduction de français dans l'Anglais. Le corpus, probablement consacré à cette tâche, doit contenir une quantité de phrases(sentences) suffisantes et diverses et il peut être spécialisé ou non. Merci d'avance. Conclusion: Personally I think that MT has made much progress within the last decade. Malek Boualem ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 8 22:30:56 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:30:56 +0100 Subject: Q: Hierarchie de themes lies au TALN et au multilinguisme Message-ID: <WED.8.MAR.2000.233056.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:59:48 +0100 From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr> Message-Id: <26F7C2E07274D311A6D80060080C3EEE5EF0A7 at l-mhs5.lannion.cnet.fr> Dans une perspective de mettre en place une organisation documentaire en TALN et en multilinguisme, je recherche une hiérarchie de thèmes liés à ces domaines. Si vous en avez une en anglais, je suis également preneur. 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The moderators In case of problem, directly contact the moderators: Philippe Blache LPL- Université de Provence 29, Avenue Robert Schuman 13621 Aix-en-Provence E-mail: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tel: +33 (0)4 92 96 73 98 Fax: +33 (0)4 42 59 50 96 all topics Pierre Zweigenbaum DIAM - SIM/AP-HP 91, boulevard de l'Hôpital F-75634 Paris Cedex 13 E-mail: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: +33 (0)1 45 83 67 28 Fax: +33 (0)1 45 86 80 68/ 45 86 56 85 queries and answers, subscription problems ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 8 23:03:35 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:03:35 +0100 Subject: Q: Information sur des corpus de francais ecrit Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.000335.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 14:46:19 +0000 From: "Victoria.Kelly" <Victoria.Kelly at ul.ie> Message-Id: <D842D4FDC431D2119E9E00609762F28B287B2B at exch-staff2.ul.ie> Bonjour à tous, Je viens de m'abonner à la liste. Je suis une étudiante inscrit en doctorat à l'Université de Limerick, Irlande. L'objet de ma recherche est l'analyse du 'français des affaires'. Je suis en train de compiler ma propre corpus d'un million de mots. En ce moment, je suis en train d'écrire un chapitre sur les linguistiques de corpus et il me faut plus d'informations sur des corpus écrits. J'ai déjà consulté le numéro 2 de la Revue Française de Linguistique Appliquée, consacré justement aux corpus, la bibliograbhie d'Ambrose, l'excellent livre de Habert et al. et des sites web consacrés aux corpus mais l'accent est mis soit aux corpus littéraires comme Le Trésor de la Langue Française soit sur des corpus de français parlé. Je vous serai très reconnaissante de me fournir tout renseignement que vous jugez utile. Merci Victoria Kelly ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 8 23:33:30 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:33:30 +0100 Subject: Q: Reconnaissance parole, informations phonologiques Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.003330.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:11:06 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois=20G=E9rard?= <Francois.Gerard at s2.chalmers.se> Message-ID: <3891BF9A.8136310 at s2.chalmers.se> Je recherche un système de reconnaissance de la parole continue (pour le français) qui fournirait, à partir du signal audio, une suite d'informations phonologiques (les phonèmes et leur taux de reconnaissance mais aussi si possible des informations sur la prosodie), mais dont le traitement s'arreterait là, c'est-à-dire qui ne chercherait pas à reconnaitre les mots. Merci d'avance, François Gérard ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Thu Mar 9 09:23:14 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:23:14 +0100 Subject: R: Systeme d'annotations tagging Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.102314.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:29:01 +0200 (EET) From: Fredrik Westerlund <fwesterl at lingsoft.fi> ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:47:35 +0100 (MET) From: "Abolfazl.Fatholahzadeh" <afzadeh at afzadeh.ese-metz.fr> ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:29:01 +0200 (EET) From: Fredrik Westerlund <fwesterl at lingsoft.fi> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003090925500.581-100000 at stoker.lingsoft.fi> X-url: http://www.lingsoft.fi/doc/engcg/ Il me semble que notre produit ENGCG <http://www.lingsoft.fi/doc/engcg/> pourrait être quelque chose pour vous. Etudiez notre documentation sur le web et faites-moi savoir si cela vous intéresse. Salutations distinguées --Fredrik Westerlund -- Fredrik Westerlund * Produktchef * Tuotepäällikkö * Product Manager fredrik.westerlund at lingsoft.fi Lingsoft Ab * Lingsoft Oy * Lingsoft, Inc. * http://www.lingsoft.fi/ Tfn/Puh./Tel. +358 9 668 9280 * Fax +358 9 6689 2898 ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:47:35 +0100 (MET) From: "Abolfazl.Fatholahzadeh" <afzadeh at afzadeh.ese-metz.fr> Message-ID: <14535.25324.922099.264814 at afzadeh.ese-metz.fr> Bonjour, Vous pouvez le demander, par exemple, à Tony McEnery (mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk), Dept. Linguistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster,LA1 4YT, UK. Bien à vous, A. Fatholahzadeh (http://www.ese-metz/~afzadeh) Supelec, Campus Metz 2, rue Edouard Belin 57000 Metz France ________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Thu Mar 9 10:03:51 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:03:51 +0100 Subject: R: Systeme d'annotations tagging Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.110351.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:39:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Jennifer.Pearson at dcu.ie Message-id: <0003099525.AA952594804 at ccmail.dcu.ie> Bonjour Monique, Le Corpus Linguistics group a l'universite de Birmingham pourrait peut-etre vous aider. Ils offraient un service de tagging gratuit l'annee derniere. Leur adresse: clg at bham.ac.uk. Ils font partie du departement d'anglais. Jennifer Pearson, Dublin City University ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 10 16:45:05 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:45:05 +0100 Subject: Q: Thésaurus français Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAR.2000.174505.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 14:18:23 +0100 From: Styve Jaumotte <Styve.Jaumotte at info.univ-angers.fr> Message-Id: <38C7A49F.9A904971 at info.univ-angers.fr> Bonjour, Je suis étudiant au Leria (Angers) et je recherche un thésaurus en français. Je suis preneur de toutes informations à ce sujet. Merci, Styve Jaumotte ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 10 16:49:21 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:49:21 +0100 Subject: R: Information sur des corpus de francais ecrit Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAR.2000.174921.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:04:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Jennifer.Pearson at dcu.ie ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:05:36 +0100 From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr> ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:04:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Jennifer.Pearson at dcu.ie Message-id: <0003099526.AA952614317 at ccmail.dcu.ie> There is a journal called Terminologies Nouvelles (http:www.rint.org) published by the Reseau International de neologie et de terminologie which may be of interest to you. . (Issues 17, 18 and 19 in particular) Also, some other starting points might be: the CNRS at the University of Toulouse (Anne Condamines and Didier Bourigault), the Universite de Nantes (Beatrice Daille), and the CTN Villetaneuse (John Humbley) all of whom conduct research on special purpose corpora. Jennifer Pearson Dublin City University ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:05:36 +0100 From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr> Message-Id: <26F7C2E07274D311A6D80060080C3EEE5EF0E7 at l-mhs5.lannion.cnet.fr> Ne cherchez plus, voilà votre site: http://cedric.cnam.fr/ABU/ Malek Boualem France Telecom R&D ________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 13 09:04:45 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:04:45 +0100 Subject: Appel: Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation (ESSLLI) Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.100445.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Detmar Meurers <dm at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> ESSLLI'2000 Workshop on LINGUISTIC THEORY AND GRAMMAR IMPLEMENTATION August 14 - 18, 2000 A workshop held as part of the Twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2000 August 6-18, 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain ** Second Call For Papers ** -- Note the EXTENDED DEADLINE (15. April) and FUNDING INFORMATION -- ORGANIZERS: Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers (Universitaet Tuebingen) Shuly Wintner (University of Pennsylvania) DESCRIPTION: Partially in response to data-oriented methods, grammar-based approaches to Natural Language Processing in recent years have made significant advances in terms of linguistic coverage, wealth of analysis, efficiency of processing and grammar engineering techniques. The workshop is intended as a forum for this ongoing work in declarative, constraint- and resource-based approaches, informed by linguistic theory. It will cover various aspects of the computational implementation of grammars based on linguistic knowledge, and in particular address: - grammar coverage as a major emphasis in practical projects - efficiency of processing (e.g., grammar compilation techniques, abstract machine implementations) - implementations of novel grammar architectures and mechanisms (e.g., glue languages, defaults, optimality-theoretic constraint ranking, underspecification) - hybrid architectures combining shallow parsing and deep analysis (e.g., finite state pre-processors for deep analysis) - grammar development tools (e.g., test methodology, profiling, visualization tools, grammar debugging and validation) - modularity in grammar design (e.g., definition of modules in grammars, separate and incremental compilation of grammars, architectures for grammar organization) - mathematical, logical and computational aspects of linguistic formalisms (e.g., semantics of linguistic formalisms, adaptation of techniques from programming languages to linguistic formalisms) SUBMISSION: All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are invited to submit a paper. Electronic submissions are highly encouraged (preferably as plain ASCII or Postscript). Submissions should not exceed 10 (A4 or letter) pages, typeset in 10-12 points, with at least 2.5 cm / 1 inch margins. Submitted papers should be anonymous and be accompanied by an e-mail listing the following details: - Title - Authors' names and affiliation - Address - E-mail addresses All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee: Philippe Blache Miriam Butt Jo Calder Ann Copestake Nissim Francez Erhard Hinrichs Suresh Manandhar Detmar Meurers, co-chair Stefan Mueller Tsuneko Nakazawa Louisa Sadler Shuly Wintner, co-chair The accepted papers will be made available in a summer school reader. If sufficiently many high-quality papers are submitted, we intend to publish them in an edited volume. Submissions should be sent before April 15, 2000 to one of the following two organizers: Detmar Meurers Shuly Wintner Universitaet Tuebingen Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft University of Pennsylvania Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A D-72074 Tuebingen Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 Germany USA dm at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de shuly at linc.cis.upenn.edu If electronic submission is impossible, please send four copies of the paper to one of these two organizers. Informal enquiries by e-mail to the organizers are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES: Apr 15, 2000: Deadline for submissions May 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance Jun 15, 2000: Final version due Aug 14, 2000: Start of workshop FUNDING: Some funding is available to reimburse the ESSLLI registration fees for PhD students presenting in the workshop. We are grateful to the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) of the University of Pennsylvania for their financial support. FURTHER INFORMATION: All information concerning this workshop is available at: http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/events/esslli00/ To obtain further information about ESSLLI'2000 please visit http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli/ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 13 09:07:57 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:07:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLDB-2000 Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.100757.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Odile Piton <Odile.Piton at univ-paris1.fr> Second C A L L F O R P A P E R S (deadline March 12th,2000) N L D B ' 2 0 0 0 5th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems Versailles (France), June 28-30, 2000 http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/dataware/confs/nldb00/ Since 1995 the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researchers, industrial and potential users interested in various applications of NATURAL LANGUAGE in the DATABASE and information systems field. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for a long time. Nowadays, this is an accessible convergent point on which a lot of researchers are focusing, mainly due to the large progress of research in natural language and to the development of new technologies which allow the storage of real semantic electronic dictionaries. Each aspect of an information system life cycle may be improved by natural language techniques: database design (specification, validation, conflict resolution), database query languages and application programming that use new software engineering research (e.g. natural language program specifications). As information systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems. SETTING: Versailles is an historical city famous for its palace and gardens. Half an hour separates Versailles from Paris which is one of the most charming cities in the world. MAJOR TOPICS OF INTEREST : * Natural Language for WEB Databases Semantic information retrieval Semi-structured models and associated languages * Natural Language Resources for Integration in Multi-Sources Systems Linguistic aspects of view integration Linguistic aspects of data warehouse Natural language queries to multi-databases systems Data integration and data cleaning * Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling Requirement engineering Analysis of natural language descriptions Verification, consistency checking Paraphrasing Dynamic modeling * Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying Natural languages interfaces for database querying Verification of database queries by paraphrasing Semantic analysis for information retrieval * Hypertext and Hyperbases Hypertext as a navigation tool Generating hypertext from data sources * Large-Scale Online Linguistic Resources Question-answer corpora Electronic dictionaries Ontologies * Natural Language for Reuse Application dictionaries Reusable components in database design * Textual Databases Indexing Retrieval * Multilingual Issues Machine translation Multilingual information systems SUPPORTING EVENTS: The organizers would like to provide for opportunities to disseminate work in a variety of ways. Those interested in preparing tutorials or panel discussions are invited to contact the program chair. Demonstrations of prototypes or tools are also welcome. Previous conferences have been held in Versailles (France), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Vancouver (Canada) and Klagenfurt (Austria), and have attracted researchers from all the continents. In addition to a conference proceedings, selected papers have in the past been submitted for review and publication in special editions of the Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering. CONFERENCE CHAIR : Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Université de Versailles, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE chair: Elisabeth Metais, Université de Versailles, France Alfs T. Berztiss, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM, Université de Versailles, France Hans Burg, Ordina Alignment Consulting, The Netherlands Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Université de Cergy, France Günther Fliedl, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Nicola Guarino, CNR, Padova, Italy Jon Atle Gulla, Borvegian Institute of Technology, Norway Udo Hahn, Freiburg University, Germany Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Zoubida Kedad, PRiSM, Université de Versailles, France Christian Kop, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Paul McFetridge, Simon Fraser University, Canada Henrich Mayr, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Odile Piton, Université de Paris 1, France Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ans Steuten, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Veda Storey, Rochester University, Canada Bernhard Thalheim, University of Cottbus, Germany Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Christian Winkler, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland ORGANIZING COMMITTEE chair: Zoubida Kedad, Université de Versailles, France Chantal Ducoin, Université de Versailles, France Paul Schmidt, IAI, Germany INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: To contribute, please submit 4 copies of a paper which does not exceed 5000 words, including a short abstract, to the program committee chair : Elisabeth Metais laboratoire PRiSM 45 avenue des Etats-Unis F-78035 Versailles France Elisabeth.Metais at prism.uvsq.fr phone: +33 (0) 1 39 25 40 53 fax: +33 (0) 1 39 25 40 57 IMPORTANT DATES : PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 12th, 2000 Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2000 Camera-ready paper: May 8th, 2000 Odile PITON ---> ---> ---> attention nouvelle numerotation tel au labo :01 44 07 83 05 fax du labo : 01 44 07 83 01 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 13 09:08:08 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:08:08 +0100 Subject: Appel: Ontology Learning (ECAI) Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.100808.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Alexander Maedche <ama at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> ********************************************************************* *********** Call for Papers: Ontology Learning ****************** ******************** ECAI-2000 Workshop ************************** ********************************************************************* ******************** August 22, 2000 ************************** ********************************************************************* Comprehensive information to be found at http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Workshop Summary Ontologies serve as a means for establishing a conceptually concise basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. In recent years, we have seen a surge of interest that deals with the discovery and automatic creation of complex, multirelational knowledge structures. For example, the natural language community tries to acquire word semantics from natural language texts, database researchers tackle the problem of schema induction and integration, and people building intelligent information agents research the learning of complex structures from semi-structured input (HTML, XML). All the while, efforts in the machine learning community pursue the induction of more concise and more expressive knowledge structures (e.g., relational learning) in general. For the workshop we intend to gather a diverse range of participants interested in the learning of ontologies. In particular, we are also interested in the maintenance (revision, incrementality) and integration (from various sources) aspects of learning ontologies. We want to further, or even establish, the exchange of ideas between these communities --- and maybe even others that we have not thought of. Hence, we solicit papers that present innovative approaches to ontology learning that are to be discussed in the workshop, system demonstrations and applications or position statements. Important Dates Deadline for paper submission 1 April 2000 Notification of acceptance 1 May 2000 Deadline final contributions 1 June 2000 All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. In addition, a few selected best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue about Ontology Learning of Elsevier's Journal "Data and Knowledge Engineering". Submission Information We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in participating should submit either a technical paper (less than 5000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for ontology learning. Submit before April 1, 2000 in electronic form (strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf in the final ECAI style format (cf. http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/style.html) to: ama at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de or send three hard copies of your submission to: "Ontology Learning" Steffen Staab and Alexander Maedche Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe University, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Organizing Committee Steffen Staab (Contact), AIFB, Karlsruhe University, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany email: sst at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone: +49-721-608 4751 fax: +49-721-693 717 Alexander Maedche, AIFB, Karlsruhe University Claire Nedellec, Inference and Machine Learning Group, LRI, Université Paris Sud Peter Wiemer-Hastings, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Program Committee Illarramendi Echave Arantxa, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL Nicola Guarino, National Research Council, Padova, Italy Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Udo Hahn, CLIF, University of Freiburg, Germany Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK Paul Johannson, University of Stockholm, Sweden Jörg-Uwe Kietz, Swiss Life, Zurich, Switzerland Yves Kodratoff, LRI, France Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Christine Parent, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Marie-Christine Rousset, LRI, France Rudi Studer, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Stefan Wrobel, University of Magdeburg, Germany ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 13 09:07:52 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:07:52 +0100 Subject: Appel: Human-Computer Conversation Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.100752.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Yorick Wilks <y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk> SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Apologies if you receive this from more than one source THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy 3-5 July, 2000 Everything is on the website, including registration information on line, hotels (from simple to sumptious), the glorious site etc. The key date is 8 April when abstracts are due. Hotel accomodation should be booked as soon as possible. www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/ Invited speakers include (not all have yet accepted): Dr B Alabiso, Microsoft, USA Dr J Hutchens, UWA, Australia Prof. G Leech, University of Lancaster, UK Dr U Reithinger, DFKI-Saarbruecken, DE Dr. T. Strzalkowski, General Electric, USA Prof. D. Traum, U Maryland, USA The Workshops on Human-Computer Conversation in Bellagio, Italy, took place in 1997 and 1998, as small groups of experts from industry and academia met to discuss this pressing question for the future of Language Engineering, not as an academic question only, but chiefly to bring forward for discussion computer demonstrations and activities within company laboratories that were not being published or discussed. The Workshops were highly successful in these aims and we now wish to widen participation and add distinguished speakers, as well as introducing more theoretical topics, though without losing the practical emphasis. The site remains one of the finest in the world, and it promoted excellent and intimate discussions in 1997 and 1998. The emphasis this year will take note of the CE Fifth Framework calls announced under Human Language Technology and in particular the emphasis on interactivity. We also plan to emphasise (in invited talks) the issue of politeness and whether it is crucial or dispensible to conversation, as well as recent results on statistical/empirical work on dialogue corpora, and on deriving marked up dialogue corpora. All details, including previous programs, program committee, accomodation and travel and details of registration are on the web site. Contributions are invited on any aspect of human-computer conversation, as are demonstrations. Two page abstracts should be sent by mail or email to the address at the bottom according to the following timetable: Deadline for submission: 8 April 2000 Notice of acceptance: 8 May 2000 Camera ready paper due: 8 June 2000 The European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), SigDial and ELSNET have endorsed the meeting. Submissions and further enquiries to: hccw at dcs.shef.ac.uk Yorick Wilks HCCW 2000 Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield 211 Portobello St., Sheffield S1 4DP UK phone: (44) 114 222 1814 fax: (44) 114 222 1810 email: hccw at dcs.shef.ac.uk www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 13 09:14:18 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:14:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: Comlex'2000 Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.101418.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr> First Call for Papers 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 Encyclopedic 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 center 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 center of Western Greece. Apart from its beautiful landscape, Patras is close to the famous archeological 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"at 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 (Universite de Provence) Zampolli Antonio (University of Pisa) INVITED SPEAKERS Cristos Faloutsos, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University. "Multimedia Information Retrieval" Dafydd Gibbon Fakulta t fur Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universitat Bielefeld. "Progress in Computational Lexicography" Jean Veronis, Centre Informatique pour les Lettres et Science Humaines, Universite 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 E-mail: electronic mail address of main author (for contact), followed by other authors (if any) 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 26500, 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. REGISTRATION FEES Registration fees will be around 150 EURO with special prices for students and a 10% early registration discount. Fees include welcome reception, two meals, banquet, and coffee breaks. 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. web site : http://www.wcl2.ee.upatras.gr/comlex2000.htm ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 13 09:14:21 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:14:21 +0100 Subject: Appel: Information Doors Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.101421.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Einat Amitay <einat at ics.mq.edu.au> 2nd CFP -- Please accept our apology for multiple postings. ======================= Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link May 30th 2000 San Antonio, Texas, USA http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/ A workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Hypertext conference (www.ht00.org/) ======================= Introduction The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the context of search results. Online search results are, no doubt, a form of hypertext created on-the-fly. Search results pages are also probably the most frequently seen hypertext form of writing nowadays. However, the research community tends to identify the presentation search results with Information Retrieval research. This workshop will consider search results as a form of hypertext, encouraging discussion about the nature of this dynamically created textual point-of-departure. The task of reading from a screen is not a trivial one, nor is the task of navigating between online texts. Even less trivial is creating a new text to represent other texts that are interconnected. In the case of hypertext representation of search results these tasks are combined to create a new on-screen text that describes and links other texts or entities. The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the context of search results. The workshop will focus on the textual aspects of the problem: - How texts are read online? - How previously unseen documents might be presented in text to people who search for information? - How people navigate through textual search results? - What are the informative role and value of the newly created intermediate page? - Does it influence the reading of the documents followed by users? - Does it change the focus and the meaning of the texts as they are perceived by readers? - Are there any emerging textual or language conventions of presentation within hypertext systems and among hypertext authors that can be used in order to facilitate navigation through search results (e.g. naming of links conventions on the web, similarities in annotation patterns in annotation systems, use of titles and paragraph arrangements and positioning, use of lists and preferred methods of list ordering, and authors' frequent vocabulary choices). The workshop aims to bring together participants from many disciplines such as Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Digital Library (DL), applied psychology and psycho-linguistics, to discuss the nature of one of the most frequently seen hypertext presentation in recent years -- online search results. It will address the problem of textual presentation and hypertext representations of search results by looking at evaluations and studies of hypertext representations, studies about interaction with texts, how text representations should be designed in terms of language coherence and on-screen/online reading limitations, how to improve navigation with a smarter choice of textual representation, etc. The term 'textual representation' relates to how a document or a group-of-documents is represented in text (short or long texts, coherently summarised or organised by fixed fields like author, title, last updated, citations, generating descriptions, extracting passages, and so on). We will aim for gathering our knowledge to enhance and integrate our experience about hypertext in order to improve the options users are presented with while searching for information. The goal of the workshop is to create an interdisciplinary community that is able to address issues concerning search results presentation in the context of an online hypertext system. The workshop will specifically focus on the textual representation of results. It will not look at graphical representations of search results unless these shed new light on a textual issue, such as a comparison between textual and graphical representations of documents. The following list of suggested topics is only a short one and authors are encouraged to add more related issues and directions of investigations that are missing from it. Topics Issues of presentation - Choosing what information to show about found entities (summaries, titles, links, annotations, additional related information, etc.) - Grouping of results - Labelling Groups of documents - Creating hierarchies of results - Comparisons between textual & graphical representations of results Issues of results refinement - Similarities detected between results (represented in text) - Query refinement (textual options) Issues of evaluation - How results are read - Does presentation change users navigation experience - Different users - different presentations? - Large scale studies - Task-specific studies Issues of speed and efficiency Commercial applications Important Dates Submission of papers - 5 April 2000 Notification of acceptance - 30 April 2000 Workshop - 30 May 2000 Submission Papers are due on the 5th of April 2000. All papers should be submitted electronically via email (sent to einat at ics.mq.edu.au). PDF submissions are preferred (if this is not possible then try to send it as a .txt, .ps or MSWord file). Papers should be no longer than 6 pages. Workshop Organiser: Einat Amitay (Macquarie University & CSIRO) einat at ics.mq.edu.au Committee: Chaomei Chen (IS & Computing, Brunel University) Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft) Andrew Dillon (SLIS, Indiana University) Sue Dumais (Microsoft) Raya Fidel (SLIS, University of Washington) Gene Golovchinsky (FXPAL) Stephen Green (Sun Microsystems) Christina Haas (English, Kent State University) Johndan Johnson-Eilola (English, Purdue University) Chris Manning (CS & Linguistics, Stanford University) Vibhu Mittal (Just Research) -- Einat Amitay einat at ics.mq.edu.au http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 14 12:19:25 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:19:25 +0100 Subject: Appel: LLL Message-ID: <TUE.14.MAR.2000.131925.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Claire Nedellec <Claire.Nedellec at lri.fr> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC (LLL) WORKSHOP 13th - 14th September 2000, Lisbon - Portugal Co-located with ICGI and CoNLL http://www.lri.fr/~cn/LLL-2000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Presentation ------------ Our purpose is to provide a forum for discussion on all aspects of learning linguistic knowledge in logic. This workshop is a follow-up of the succesful LLL workshop held in 1999 in Bled, (Slovenia) and co-located with ICML (http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/mlg/lll/workshop/). It will be co-located with the International Conference on Grammar Inference (ICGI) (http://vinci.inesc.pt/icgi-2000/) and the Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) (http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2000/cfp.html). Aims and scope of the conference -------------------------------- The fact that more and more people are interested in the automatic acquisition of lexicons is due to the progress in the development of applications in NLP, terminology acquisition, indexing, information extraction, retrieval, question-answering, etc. Relational learning seems like a valuable alternative to data analysis in some NLP domains. This is clearly shown by the recent success of both NLP methods based on ILP or non-classic logics, and hybrid methods. Interest in learning linguistic knowledge has grown steadily over the last 15 years. As compared to manual acquisition, specialized resources can be learned, revised and extended with respect to the task at hand for much less cost. Despite the degree of variation in the applications and resources we want to acquire, most of them are learned in the same way: by observing regularities among the co-occurence of phenomena in the corpus. Therefore, a large amount of work is naturally based on statistics, and attempts to develop robust and large-scale methods. Moreover, relational learning and logic-based learning have proved their capacity to learn complex structured knowledge from structured data and explicit background knowledge. Compared to data analysis, some of the major advantages here are: a better means to express the representation; a method that is easier to understand; and a comprehensible learning result. As a consequence, interest is growing for a corpus-based learning of structures that represent linguistic resources such as predicate-argument structures, grammars, ontologies, etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from many subfields of AI who are working on learning from text, while emphasizing the logic-based learning techniques and algorithms. These techniques include, * Instance-based and clustering approaches in relational learning * Scalability issues (applying Logic-based methods to large data sets) * Logical approaches to statistical NLP * Theory revision * Explanation-based learning * Higher-order logic for LLL * Handling very complex terms * Multi-predicate learning * Collaborative and interactive learning * Learning in description logics * Combinations of approaches and multi-strategy learning * Evaluation techniques * Information indexing, filtering, retrieval, extraction * Text classification methods * Question answering * Learning ontologies, thesauri and lexicon * Learning terminology * Learning predicate-argument structure * Shallow parsing * Learning grammar * Learning subcategorisation frames * Part-of-speech tagging * Morphosyntactic tagging * Morphological analysis In addition to these topics, the workshop covers all theoretical and methodological issues concerning learning from text using logic- based techniques. Submissions describing innovative applications are also encouraged. Important dates --------------- Submission of papers by May, 15, 2000 Acceptance notices mailed by June, 19, 2000 Final, camera-ready papers due by July, 14, 2000 Organization ------------ The workshop will be two full days, including invited talks, paper presentations, poster presentations, and numerous opportunities for discussion. There will be joint sessions with the workshop "International Conference on Grammar Inference" (ICGI) and the "Conference on Natural Language Learning" (CoNLL) on topics of common interest. Joint sessions will include invited talks and paper presentations, depending on submissions. Submission procedure ------------------- Full papers may be up to 10 pages, short papers up to 6 pages, both in a 11 point font and single-spaced. We accept either electronic submission (preferred), in Postscript, PDF or Word format, or paper submissions (in 4 copies) to the following address: Claire Nedellec LLL workshop LRI, Bat 490 e-mail: cn at lri.fr Universite Paris-Sud Tel: +33 (0)1 69 15 66 26 F-91405 Orsay Fax: +33 (0)1 69 15 65 86 FRANCE Program committee ----------------- Program chair ------------- Claire Nedellec (LRI, University of Paris-Sud, France) Members ------- Pieter Adriaans (Syllogic and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Roberto Basili (University of Roma, Italy) Gilles Bisson (INRIA, Grenoble, France) Henrik Boström (University of Stockholm, Sweden) Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen, Netherlands) James Cussens (University of York, UK) Tomaz Erjavec (Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, University Paris-Nord, France) Suresh Manandhar (University of York, UK) Guenter Neumann (DFKI, Germany) Steve Pulman (University of Cambridge, UK) Christer Samuelsson (XRCE, Grenoble, France) Stefan Wrobel (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Organization ------------ Arlindo Oliveira (INESC, Lisbon, Portugal) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Claire Nedellec Inference and Machine Learning Group e-mail: cn at lri.fr LRI, Bat 490 Tel: +33 (0)1 69 15 66 26 Universite Paris-Sud Fax: +33 (0)1 69 15 65 86 F-91405 Orsay FRANCE Web : http://www.lri.fr/~cn ------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 14 12:19:04 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:19:04 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers Message-ID: <TUE.14.MAR.2000.131904.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ 1/ From: Eduard Hovy <hovy at ISI.EDU> Subject: Job in SPEECH RECOGNITION and DIALOGUE PROCESSING 2/ From: Linguist jobs <linguist_jobs at logos-usa.com> Subject: Jobs for French-language linguists 3/ From: Shira Blumenstein <resumes at dragonsys.com> Subject: NLP: Research Scientist at Dragon Systems, Inc., Massachusetts 4/ From: "Chan, Ruby" <rchan at ets.org> Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ 1/ From: Eduard Hovy <hovy at ISI.EDU> Subject: Job in SPEECH RECOGNITION and DIALOGUE PROCESSING Job posting We are looking for a dynamic research scientist with expertise in SPEECH RECOGNITION and DIALOGUE PROCESSING to help start a new research project at the recently formed Institute for Creative Technologies of the University of Southern California in Marina del Rey, CA. The system being built incorporates speech processing, dialogue, agent-based reasoning, virtual reality, and sophisticated immersive multimedia displays in a large-scale new project that has links to research at several USC centers including the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC). The candidate should have a Ph.D. in either Speech Recognition or Natural Language Processing (with emphasis on discourse) and strong abilities in the both areas. The successful candidate may choose to join the Computer Science faculty of USC as well, and eventually supervise graduate students in addition to performing the research. Please contact both William Swartout Eduard Hovy USC/ICT USC/ISI 13274 Fiji Way 4676 Admiralty Way Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 Marina del Rey CA 90292-6695 tel: 310-574-5705 tel: 310-448-8731 email: swartout at ict.usc.edu email: hovy at isi.edu ========================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eduard Hovy email: hovy at isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute tel: 310-448-8731 4676 Admiralty Way fax: 310-823-6714 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ 2/ From: Linguist jobs <linguist_jobs at logos-usa.com> Subject: Jobs for French-language linguists We would appreciate your assistance in circulating this job posting among the candidates who you think are most appropriate and interested. Logos Corporation, a leading developer of machine translation software, has openings for energetic (Computational) Linguists and Lexicographers specialized in French or German at its Technology Development Center, which is situated less than an hour from New York City in a pleasant residential area. This positions' responsibilities include: * Development and maintenance of computational grammars for our translation engine; * Developing effective strategies for dictionary development by mining parallel and monolingual corpora or machine readable glossaries and dictionaries; * Design and development of other linguistic components for our translation system; * Providing linguistic expertise for the development of other linguistic products and tools. The ideal candidate will have: * Native or near-native proficiency in English and in French or German. * An advanced university degree, with a strong background in linguistics and natural language processing. * Experience in language engineering in an industrial or commercial setting. * Experience in one or more of the following knowledge areas: machine translation, corpus linguistics, statistical language processing, contrastive linguistics, translation, computational lexicography, project management, tools development. * Ability to work independently and in a team. * Programming skills in Java, C++ and/or Perl. Send résumé and cover letter to: Director of Linguistic Development Logos Corporation 100 Enterprise Drive, Suite 501 Rockaway, NJ 07866 Or by e-mail to: linguist_jobs at logos-usa.com ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ 3/ From: Shira Blumenstein <resumes at dragonsys.com> Subject: NLP: Research Scientist at Dragon Systems, Inc., Massachusetts Rank of Job: PhD Areas Required: Natural Language Processing Other Desired Areas: Computational Linguistics University or Organization: Dragon Systems, Inc. Department: Research State or Province: MA Country: USA Final Date of Application: open Contact: Shira Blumenstein resumes at dragonsys.com Address for Applications: 320 Nevada Street Newton MA 02460 USA Senior Research Scientist (NLP) Responsibilities: - Join an exciting new effort in Natural Language Processing (NLP)/Natural Language Understanding (NLU). - Major focus on developing the capability to reliably infer the intent behind a variety of types of utterances and commands. - Focus on bringing higher level linguistic knowledge to bear in speech recognition and speech synthesis. Requirements: - Candidate should be conversant with all stages of language processing, from morphological analysis through discourse, including knowledge of a broad array of parsing techniques and grammar formulations, both deterministic and probabilistic. - A strong programming background in C/C++ is essential. - The ideal candidate will be comfortable with the idea of automatically extracting linguistic information via the statistical analysis of corpora, and eager to assist in the design and collection of such corpora. - More junior candidates are also invited to apply. If you are interested in joining an exciting, cutting edge company that is changing the way we use technology, please email your resume (MS Word format or text) with job code "NLP-ll" and last name in the subject line to: resumes at dragonsys.com. EOE. Visit our website at http://www.dragonsys.com. ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ 4/ From: "Chan, Ruby" <rchan at ets.org> Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service Research Position available at Educational Testing Service THE CENTER FOR ASSESSMENT DESIGN AND SCORING The Research Division at Educational Testing Service is seeking a junior to mid-level research scientist with the following qualifications: a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Linguistics with solid computational linguistics experience and an interest in natural language processing research for purposes of automated writing analysis, instruction and scoring. The work involves the ability to apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting natural language processing research studies and in developing and contributing to the development of new products or services for education. Evidence of independent substantive research experience is required and the successful candidate is expected to be able to contribute to new or modified theories of natural language processing as applied to educational and psychological processes. ETS is located near Princeton, NJ, and offers a competitive salary, commensurate with experience, an attractive benefits package, and ample opportunity for professional growth. For confidential consideration, please send resume, including salary history to: Ruby Chan, MS 14-R, ETS, Rosedale Road, Princeton, NJ 08540. Email: rchan at ets.org. Fax: (609) 734-5010. ETS is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 14 12:19:27 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:19:27 +0100 Subject: Appel: CL Special Issue Message-ID: <TUE.14.MAR.2000.131927.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> *** Reminder: Submission Deadline is 1 April 2000 *** Call for Papers Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution Guest editors: Ruslan Mitkov, Branimir Boguraev, Shalom Lappin Anaphora and ellipsis both account for cohesion in text and are phenomena of active study in formal and computational linguistics alike. The correct interpretation of anaphora and ellipsis, as well as the understanding of the relationship between them, is vital for Natural Language Processing. After considerable initial research, and after years of relative silence in the early eighties, these issues have attracted the attention of many researchers in the last 10 years and much promising work on the topic has been reported. Discourse-orientated theories and formalisms such as DRT and Centering have inspired new research on the computational treatment of anaphora. The drive towards corpus-based robust NLP solutions has further stimulated interest, for alternative and/or data-enriched approaches. In addition, application-driven research in areas such as automatic abstracting and information extraction, has independently identified the importance of (and boosted the research in) anaphora and coreference resolution. Ellipsis resolution too, being of particular importance to a number of Natural Language Understanding applications such as dialogue and discourse processing, has received increasing attention. The growing interest in anaphora and ellipsis resolution has been demonstrated clearly over the last 4--5 years through the MUC coreference task projects and at a number of related fora (workshops, conferences, etc.). Against this background of expanding research and growing interest, this special issue offers the opportunity for a high quality, and timely, collection of papers on anaphora and ellipsis resolution. Topics The call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel and challenging work/results in anaphora and ellipsis resolution. The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited to: o new anaphora and ellipsis resolution algorithms, o factors in anaphora resolution: salience and interaction of factors, o techniques in ellipsis resolution, o use of theories and formalisms in anaphora resolution, o use of theories and formalisms in ellipsis resolution, o applications of anaphora/coreference resolution, o applications of ellipsis resolution, o multilingual anaphora resolution, o evaluation issues, o use/production of annotated corpora for anaphora and ellipsis. In addition, we expect papers addressing various issues of debate related to the resolution of anaphora and ellipsis, such as: o Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora resolution? o When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit "constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"? o What is the case for languages other than English? o What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential" factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical data can be brought to bear on this? o What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting the antecedent? o Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts? o Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora automatically? o Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for particular type(s) of input text? o Should ellipsis resolution be handled by syntactic or semantic reconstruction? o Is it necessary to retrieve both syntactic and semantic properties of the antecedent in the reconstructed representation of the elided structure? Finally, we invite discussion on various open questions from both theoretical and computational point of view such as whether we should construe ellipsis as entirely distinct from anaphora. Submissions and Reviewing The submission deadline is 1 April 2000. Authors can submit either electronically or send 6 hard copies of their paper (for format and style details, see http://www.aclweb.org/cl) to: Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk) School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom Please note that in addition to the submission, a 100-word abstract and details of the author (following the format given at http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt) should be emailed to R.Mitkov. Each submission will be reviewed both by experts appointed by the editor of the journal and by members of the guest editorial board of the special issue. In addition to the guest editors, Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) and Shalom Lappin (University of London), the guest editorial board includes the following members: Nicholas Asher (University of Texas), Amit Bagga (GE CRD), Claire Cardie (Cornell University), David Carter (Speech Machines, Malvern), Eugene Charniak (Brown University), Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp), Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC), Dan Hardt (Villanova University), Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto), Jerry Hobbs (SRI International), Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania), Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Center Europe), Andrew Kehler (SRI International), Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University), Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh), Monique Rolbert (University of Marseille), Stuart Shieber (Harvard University), Candy Sidner (Lotus Research), Marilyn Walker (AT&T). This call for paper is also available at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/text.html --=====================_1882718==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <font size=3>*** Reminder: Submission Deadline is 1 April 2000 ***<br> <br> <br> <br>             &nbs p; & nbsp;             ; &n bsp; Call for Papers<br> <br> Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution <br> <br> Guest editors:  Ruslan Mitkov, Branimir Boguraev, Shalom Lappin<br> <br> <br> Anaphora and ellipsis both account for cohesion in text and are phenomena<br> of active study in formal and computational linguistics alike.  The<br> correct interpretation of anaphora and ellipsis, as well as the<br> understanding of the relationship between them, is vital for Natural<br> Language Processing.<br> <br> After considerable initial research, and after years of relative silence<br> in the early eighties, these issues have attracted the attention of many<br> researchers in the last 10 years and much promising work on the topic has<br> been reported.  Discourse-orientated theories and formalisms such as DRT<br> and Centering have inspired new research on the computational treatment<br> of anaphora.  The drive towards corpus-based robust NLP solutions has<br> further stimulated interest, for alternative and/or data-enriched<br> approaches.  In addition, application-driven research in areas such as<br> automatic abstracting and information extraction, has independently<br> identified the importance of (and boosted the research in) anaphora and<br> coreference resolution.  Ellipsis resolution too, being of particular<br> importance to a number of Natural Language Understanding applications<br> such as dialogue and discourse processing, has received increasing<br> attention.  The growing interest in anaphora and ellipsis resolution has<br> been demonstrated clearly over the last 4--5 years through the MUC<br> coreference task projects and at a number of related fora (workshops,<br> conferences, etc.).<br> <br> Against this background of expanding research and growing interest, this<br> special issue offers the opportunity for a high quality, and timely,<br> collection of papers on anaphora and ellipsis resolution.<br> <br> <br> Topics<br> <br> The call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel<br> and challenging work/results in anaphora and ellipsis resolution.<br> The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited<br> to:<br> <br>   o  new anaphora and ellipsis resolution algorithms,<br>   o  factors in anaphora resolution: salience and interaction of factors,<br>   o  techniques in ellipsis resolution,<br>   o  use of theories and formalisms in anaphora resolution,<br>   o  use of theories and formalisms in ellipsis resolution,<br>   o  applications of anaphora/coreference resolution,<br>   o  applications of ellipsis resolution,<br>   o  multilingual anaphora resolution,<br>   o  evaluation issues,<br>   o  use/production of annotated corpora for anaphora and ellipsis.<br> <br> <br> In addition, we expect papers addressing various issues of debate related<br> to the resolution of anaphora and ellipsis, such as:<br> <br>   o  Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora<br>      resolution?<br>   o  When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit<br>      "constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"?<br>   o  What is the case for languages other than English?<br>   o  What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential"<br>      factors?  How should weights best be determined?  What empirical<br>      data can be brought to bear on this?<br>   o  What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple<br>      factors?  Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting<br>      the antecedent?<br>   o  Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts?<br>   o  Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora<br>      automatically?<br>   o  Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements<br>      from an anaphora resolution module?  What kind(s) of compromises<br>      might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would<br>      awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for<br>      particular type(s) of input text?<br>   o  Should ellipsis resolution be handled by syntactic or semantic<br>      reconstruction?<br>   o  Is it necessary to retrieve both syntactic and semantic properties of<br>      the antecedent in the reconstructed representation of the elided<br>      structure?<br> <br> Finally, we invite discussion on various open questions from both<br> theoretical and computational point of view such as whether we should<br> construe ellipsis as entirely distinct from anaphora.<br> <br> <br> Submissions and Reviewing<br> <br> The submission deadline is 1 April 2000.  Authors can submit either<br> electronically or send 6 hard copies of their paper (for format and style<br> details, see <a href="http://www.aclweb.org/cl" eudora="autourl">http://www.aclweb.org/cl</a>) to:<br> <br>   Ruslan Mitkov   (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk) <br>   School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences <br>   University of Wolverhampton <br>   Stafford St.<br>   Wolverhampton WV1 1SB<br>   United Kingdom <br> <br> Please note that in addition to the submission, a 100-word abstract and<br> details of the author (following the format given at<br> <a href="http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt" eudora="autourl">http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt</a>) should be emailed to R.Mitkov.<br> <br> Each submission will be reviewed both by experts appointed by the editor<br> of the journal and by members of the guest editorial board of the special<br> issue.  In addition to the guest editors, <br> <br>   Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), <br>   Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) and<br>   Shalom Lappin (University of London), <br> <br> the guest editorial board includes the following members:<br> <br>   Nicholas Asher (University of Texas),<br>   Amit Bagga (GE CRD), <br>   Claire Cardie (Cornell University), <br>   David Carter (Speech Machines, Malvern),<br>   Eugene Charniak (Brown University),<br>   Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp), <br>   Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC), <br>   Dan Hardt (Villanova University), <br>   Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto), <br>   Jerry Hobbs (SRI International), <br>   Aravind Joshi (University of  Pennsylvania),<br>   Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Center Europe), <br>   Andrew Kehler (SRI International), <br>   Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University), <br>   Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh), <br>   Monique Rolbert (University of Marseille), <br>   Stuart Shieber (Harvard University),<br>   Candy Sidner (Lotus Research), <br>   Marilyn Walker (AT&T).<br> <br> This call for paper is also available at <br> <a href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/text.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/text.html</a><br> </font><br> </html> --=====================_1882718==_.ALT-- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 14 12:19:35 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:19:35 +0100 Subject: Ecole: LE for Lesser-Studied Languages Message-ID: <TUE.14.MAR.2000.131935.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Kemal Oflazer <ko at cs.bilkent.edu.tr> NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES July 3 - 14, 2000 BILKENT UNIVERSITY ANKARA, TURKEY Co-directors: Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University), Sergei Nirenburg (New Mexico State University), Oleg Kapanadze (Tbilisi State University). NEW Important Information about travel support for Greek, Portugese, Turkish and US Participants is available at the end of the announcement. We are pleased to announce that the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Language Engineering for Lesser-studied Languages will be held on the campus of Bilkent University in Turkey, July 3rd through July 14th, 2000. The ASI program will comprise the following courses on the state-of-the-art in various aspects of language engineering. Currently, the following courses are planned: * Introduction to languages and language engineering, Nicholas Ostler (Linguacubun, UK) Sergei Nirenburg (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) * Text processing ecology, Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab,, NMSU, USA) * Computational tools and resources, Remi Zajac (Computing Research Lab,, NMSU, USA) * Computational morphology and finite state methods, Ken Beesley (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) * Statistical methods and corpus linguistics, Christer Samuelsson (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) * Lexical acquisition, Victor Raskin (Purdue University, USA) Sergei Nirenburg (Computing Research Lab,, NMSU, USA) * Grammar and grammar writing, Svetlana Sheremetyeva (Computing Research Lab,, NMSU, USA) * Machine translation, Harold Somers (CCL,UMIST, UK) * Information extraction, Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) * Information retrieval. Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) The ASI will feature a number of participant workshops. These workshops will provide a forum for participants to present their work on language engineering and receive feedback from colleagues. Applicants are strongly suggested to submit an abstract of their presentation in their application. Abstracts will be selected for presentation in the workshops after a review process. Full versions of these presentations will be expected to be submitted before the ASI starts. The ASI will also feature discussion panel which will enable participants to discuss specific issues in language engineering with experts in the field. The ASI will admit a limited number of qualified participants from NATO countries (1) Partner countries (2), and Mediterranean dialogue countries (3). Depending on the specific circumstances, funding for living and lodging expenses of such participants will be available. Participants from commercial/industrial institutions may attend provided they cover their travel and living expenses. Please inquire with natoasi at cs.bilkent.edu.tr for the details of such participation. Since there are a limited number of participant slots, admission to the ASI will be strictly on a competitive basis taking into account the participants' background, their potential contribution and the benefit they may draw from the meeting. All courses and presentations will be conducted in English. We acknowledge the additional support provided by Bilkent University, Computing Research Lab, NMSU, and EACL- European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. This information and the application form can be found at http://www.nlp.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/ASI and on mirror sites listed there ------------------------------------------------------------------------ APPLICATIONS TO THE ASI Please fill out the application form and send by electronic mail to natoasi at cs.bilkent.edu.tr. Application by fax or mail will only be considered in exceptional circumstances. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2000. Applicants will be notified of the results of their application by April 17, 2000. Applicants are expected to secure financial support for travel to/from Ankara, Turkey, from outside sources. Support for living and lodging expenses during the ASI will be available to qualified applicants on a case by case basis. TRAVEL SUPPORT FOR GREEK, PORTUGESE, TURKISH AND U.S. PARTICIPANTS NATO provides limited additional funds to ensure the participation of some young scientists from Greece, Portugal and Turkey, who might otherwise be prevented from NATO Advanced Study Institutes. These funds are administered on NATO's behalf, by a National Administrator in each of the three countries. These funds are requested by the ASI on behalf of the accepted participants and not by individual participants, but individuals looking for further information regarding these funds can contact: in Greece: Mrs. M. Bofakou, Ministry of Industry, General Secretariat of Research and Technology International Organisations Departments, Messogion, 14-18, 11527 Athens Tel: 30-1 775 2222, Fax: 30-1 775 3872 in Portugal Dr. L. Floxo Instituto de Cooperaçao Cientifica e Tecnologica Internacional Rua Castilho, 5-4, 1250-066 Lisbon Tel: 351-1, 358 5303, Fax: 351-1 315 4065 in Turkey Prof.H. Arici, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, TÃœBITAK Atatürk Bulvari, 221, Kavaklidere, Ankara Tel: 90-312-426 6846, Fax: 90-312- 427 2382 The US NSF may also provide travel awards for a limited number of US student participants in selected Advanced Study Institutes conducted in NATO countries other than Canada and US. The awards consist of round trip tickets issued directly to participants by a travel agency acting for NSF. The ASI Organization will contact the NSF on behalf of the selected US Participants. Citizens of Greece, Portugal, Turkey and the US may indicate that they would like to apply for these additional grants on their application forms. After the participants are selected, the relevant national offices will be contacted by the NATO ASI Organization in due time with the names of the participants from the respective countries for additional travel support. ---- (1) NATO Countries: Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and USA. (2) Partner Countries eligible for support: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzistan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tadjikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (*), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. ((*) Turkey recognizes the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name.) (3) Mediterranean Dialogue Countries eligible for support: Egypt, Israel. ------ ------ NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES July 3 - July 14, 2000 Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey APPLICATION FORM Please use as much space as necessary. Send completed form by electronic mail to natoasi at cs.bilkent.edu.tr. Do not send a hardcopy by mail or fax. Please take as much space as you feel is necessary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NAME OF THE APPLICANT: STREET ADDRESS: CITY/STATE/COUNTRY: CITIZENSHIP: E-MAIL: WEB URL: TELEPHONE: FAX: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND BACKGROUND Please summarize your educational and work background and experience especially pointing out experience and publications (if any) relevant to language engineering. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STATEMENT OF PURPOSE Please give a short summary of why you would want to attend the NATO ASI and what do you expect to gain from it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PARTICIPANT WORKHOP SUBMISSION Would you like to submit a paper for consideration for presentation in Participant Workshops? If so, please provide a title, and an abstract. Please note that submitting a paper does not have any impact on the criteria to be used in selecting participants. TITLE: AUTHOR(S): ABSTRACT: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 14 12:19:31 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:19:31 +0100 Subject: Ecole: ESSLLI 2000 in Birmingham Message-ID: <TUE.14.MAR.2000.131931.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: ESSLLI 2000 in Birmingham <esslli2000 at cs.bham.ac.uk> ESSLLI 2000 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 6-18th August 2000 Birmingham, England A two week summer school which offers 42 courses at various levels and six workshops in the areas of Logic, Computation, and Language. 77 lecturers from all over the world. A phenomenally low registration fee and accommodation costs. Bursaries for participants from non-OECD countries available. Visit http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli for the full programme, descriptions of lecture courses and a registration form. REGISTER NOW! Early registration deadline for reduced registration fee of 95 Pounds is MAY 31, 2000. After this the registration fee will be 150 Pounds. Applications for bursaries need to be received by MAY 31, 2000. Please mail esslli at cs.bham.ac.uk for any queries. LECTURERS AND WORKSHOP ORGANISERS: José Júlio Alferes, Lisboa Peter Kühnlein, Bielefeld Carlos Areces, Amsterdam Agnes Kurucz, London Brandon Bennett, Leeds Marta Kwiatkowska, Birmingham Jean-Yves Béziau, Petropolis Rob Malouf, Groningen Patrick Blackburn, Saarbrücken Carlos Martín-Vide, Tarragona Hendrik Blockeel, Heverlee Maarten Marx, Amsterdam Paolo Bouquet, Trento Ralph Matthes, München Krysia Broda, London Mary McGee Wood, Manchester Greg Carlson, Rochester Detmar Meurers, Tübingen Ann Copestake, Stanford Wilfried Meyer-Viol, London Richard Crouch, Xerox PARC Angelo Montanari, Udine James Cussens, York Christof Monz, Amsterdam Anuj Dawar, Cambridge Andrew Moshier, Orange Denys Duchier, Saarbrücken Stephen Muggleton, York Gisbert Fanselow, Potsdam Stephan Oepen, Saarbrücken Caroline Féry, Potsdam Marc Pauly, Amsterdam Hana Filip, Evanston David Pearce, Saarbrücken Dan Flickinger, Stanford Alberto Pettorossi, Roma Dov Gabbay, London Paul Piwek, Brighton Bart Geurts, Nijmegen Alberto Policriti, Udine Anastasia Giannakidou, Groningen Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Manchester Valentin Goranko, Johannesburg Maurizio Proietti, Roma Fritz Hamm, Tübingen Christian Retoré, Rennes Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen Hannes Rieser, Bielefeld Martin Hofmann, Edinburgh Mark Ryan, Birmingham Kenneth Holmqvist, Lund Luciano Serafini, Povo Richard Hudson, London Aaron Sloman, Birmingham Mateja Jamnik, Birmingham Mike Squire, Warwick Neil D Jones, Copenhagen Johan van Benthem, Amsterdam Reinhard Kahle, Tübingen Josef van Genabith, Dublin Sara Kalvala, Warwick Robert van Rooy, Amsterdam Ruth Kempson, London Yde Venema, Amsterdam Manfred Kerber, Birmingham Andrei Voronkov, Manchester Paul John King, Tübingen Shuly Wintner, Philadelphia Valia Kordoni, Tübingen Frank Wolter, Leipzig Emiel Krahmer, Eindhoven John H Woods, Lethbridge Bob Krovetz, Princeton Michael Zakharyaschev, Leeds Geert-Jan Kruijff, Prague Thomas E Zimmermann, Frankfurt ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 16 15:16:33 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:16:33 +0100 Subject: Appel: Linguistique de Corpus Appliqué e aux Langues Romanes Message-ID: <THU.16.MAR.2000.161633.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr> 1re Rencontre fribourgeoise de la Linguistique de Corpus Appliquée aux Langues Romanes Corpus oraux des langues romanes Etat de la recherche, projets et nouvelles perspectives Université Albert-Ludwig Fribourg-en-Brisgau Allemagne) Département de Philologie Romane 6 - 8 octobre 2000 Depuis longtemps, la linguistique romane s'occupe du langage parlé, mais c'est surtout à partir des années 60 que la recherche dans ce domaine a pris un essor remarquable. L'enregistrement, la transcription et l'analyse systématiques de l'oral ont été entrepris dans plusieurs langues romanes. Pourtant, la linguistique romane a pris du retard concernant la quantité, la dimension et l'accessibilité des corpus oraux, notamment sur support électronique. La Rencontre fribourgeoise souhaite réunir les spécialistes dans les langues romanes qui eux-mêmes établissent ou travaillent sur des corpus de la langue parlée. Les communications porteront sur les aspects suivants : réflexions théoriques et méthodologiques concernant l'enquête, la transcription, la documentation et l'analyse des données langagières orales présentation de corpus en cours d'élaboration ou achevés et des outils d'analyse des corpus électroniques résultats de projets de recherche récents pour lesquels des corpus oraux ont été dépouillés. Date et lieu du colloque : Le colloque aura lieu du 6 au 8 octobre 2000 dans le bâtiment « Wilhelmstrasse 26 » de l'Université Albert-Ludwig, Domaine Universitaire des Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Geisteswissenschaftliches Universitätszentrum; voir le plan de l'université). L'arrêt le plus proche des transports publics est « Stadttheater », à 300 m. Communications : Tous les conférenciers disposent d'un total de 50 minutes et sont priés d'envoyer leur proposition de communication (avec titre, nom et résumé d'une page A4 environ), accompagnée d'un formulaire d'inscription rempli (à demander par courrier électronique), au coordinateur du colloque. La date limite de réception est fixée au 17 mars 2000. Les communications peuvent être présentées en allemand, en anglais ou dans la langue romane de votre choix. Vous recevrez la confirmation d'acceptation de votre communication avant la fin de mars. Echéances : 17.3.2000: Fin d'inscription pour les participants qui souhaitent présenter une communication; dernier délai pour envoyer le résumé (aussi par courrier électronique). avant 30.3.2000: Confirmation d'acceptation des propositions de communication 1.6.2000: Dernier délai de réservation pour les chambres à tarif spécial au City-Hotel 15.8.2000: Fin d'inscription pour les participants sans communication; dernier délai de réception des frais d'inscription. Pour toute question, contactez, s'il vous plaît, le coordinateur du colloque : Claus D. Pusch Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Romanisches Seminar Werthmannplatz 3 D-79085 Freiburg im Breisgau Fax ++49 / 7 61 / 2 03 31 95 E-mail pusch at uni-freiburg.de site web: http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~pusch/korpus_2000/francais.htm ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 16 15:16:14 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:16:14 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 Announcements Message-ID: <THU.16.MAR.2000.161614.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ 1/ From: Adelina Ivanova <Adelina.Ivanova at issco.unige.ch> Subject: Job Add Posting 2/ From: Robert Stumberger <robst at MICROSOFT.com> Subject: Position as Program Manager for linguistic Search team at Microsoft ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ 1/ From: Adelina Ivanova <Adelina.Ivanova at issco.unige.ch> Subject: Job Add Posting LCG TMR Network - Post-doc researcher at ISSCO, Geneva The Institute for Cognitive and Semantic Studies (ISSCO), University of Geneva, has a vacancy for a qualified and motivated young post-doc researcher to join the LCG project. Leaning Computational Grammars (LCG) is a research network funded by the EC Training and Mobility of Researchers programme and involves 7 partner sites. LCG researchers the application of a variety of machine learning techniques from neural networks, statistical and symbolic learning. Currently efforts focus on comparison of results based on attempts to learn noun phrase structure in English, but work on other languages is possible. More information on the project can be found at: http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/lcg ISSCO offers a stimulating and multidisciplinary environment and possibility for collaboration with experts in NLP, linguistics, psycholinguistics and translation. There will be also opportunities to collaborate with other LCG researchers at the partner sites. The candidate should be able to demonstrate strong computational skills and interest in multi-lingual issues. The post is available as of 1.04.00 until the end of the project - September, 2001. Further information can be obtained by sending an e-mail with specific questions to <Adelina.Ivanova at issco.unige.ch> (subject TMR) or by phone (+ 41 22 7058690). If you are interested, please send to Professor Susan Armstrong (Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch) the following: a CV, list of publications, the names and addresses of two referees and a short expose outlining your interest in LCG, how it relates to your previous research and the special expertise you will bring to the project. *** Please accept our apologies if you have seen this message more than once. ‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹‹ 2/ From: Robert Stumberger <robst at MICROSOFT.com> Subject: Position as Program Manager for linguistic Search team at Microsoft (Apologies for multiple postings) Microsoft has an opening for a Program Manager to help guide linguistic search technology in the Natural Language Group (NLG). The Search team ships components built on our language analysis engine that help Microsoft products deliver higher search precision to end users. NLG is the central organization for shipping advanced linguistic technology in Microsoft's key applications and system products, including Office, Windows, and several consumer applications. As a Program Manager, you will deliver updates to existing components, pursue new features, and advance the underlying technology as we move to higher-precision search results and question answering. Responsibilities include specification and scheduling of search features; coordination with internal clients on feature requirements and schedules; and communications with team, management, and clients. You will work closely with the development and test teams to prototype and deliver technology improvements such as word-sense disambiguation. Preferred experience includes an MS in either Computer Science or Linguistics and 2-3 years as a program manager, or equivalent industry experience. Knowledge of computational linguistics, information retrieval, or information extraction is highly desirable. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. Please send your CV, in ASCII text or as a Word attachment, to nljobs at microsoft.com, and reference job number N054N-03-1399. Robert Stumberger Natural Language Group Microsoft Corporation email: robst at microsoft.com ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 16 15:16:37 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:16:37 +0100 Subject: Conf: CLAW-2000 Message-ID: <THU.16.MAR.2000.161637.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: MIT2USA at aol.com [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] Dear all, This message is posted on behalf of the CLAW2000 committee. Marilyn Mason Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2) http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html ---------- ***** CLAW2000 - Call for Participation ***** The 3rd international Controlled Language Applications Workshop (CLAW2000) Web page has been updated: (http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000/) Registration for CLAW2000 can be done on-line at: (http://www2.gte.com/claw/index.html). Registration for ANLP and NAACL is not required to attend CLAW2000. Only registration for CLAW is necessary. ACL membership is included with CLAW2000 registration. NOTE: Early registration deadline is 28 March 2000. A block of hotel rooms for ANLP/NAACL/CLAW has been reserved until 28 March. General information and hotel reservations for CLAW2000 are available through the ANLP/NAACL page. From the CLAW registration page, a small link ("Back to Conference home") at the left takes you back to the main web page for ANLP/NAACL 2000: http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000 Or go directly to: General local arrangements information: http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/arrangements.html Hotel reservations: http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/arrangements.html#hotel Regards, CLAW2000 Committee ---------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 16 15:16:43 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:16:43 +0100 Subject: Livre: Breadth and depth of semantic lexicons Message-ID: <THU.16.MAR.2000.161643.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr> Subject: Book: Breadth and depth of semantic lexicons Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mime-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hermes.cines.fr id IAA11594 **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 10 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis BREADTH AND DEPTH OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS Edited by EVELYNE VIEGAS Computing Research Laboratory New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA Most of the books about computational (lexical) semantic lexicons deal with the depth (or content) aspect of lexicons, ignoring the breadth (or coverage) aspect. This book presents a first attempt in the community to address both issues: content and coverage of computational semantic lexicons, in a thorough manner. Moreover, it addresses issues which have not yet been tackled in implemented systems such as the application time of lexical rules. Lexical rules and lexical underspecification are also contrasted in implemented systems. The main approaches in the field of computational (lexical) semantics are represented in the present book (including Wordnet, CyC, Mikrokosmos, Generative Lexicon). This book embraces several fields (and subfields) as different as: linguistics (theoretical, computational, semantics, pragmatics), psycholinguistics, cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, statistics and natural language processing. The book also constitutes a very good introduction to the state of the art in computational semantic lexicons of the late 1990s. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7 November 1999, 352 pp. NLG 270.00 / USD 144.00 / GBP 89.00 CONTENTS Preface vii Contributors ix Introduction xi Evelyne Viegas I. LEXICAL RULES AND UNDERSPECIFICATION Categorization of Types and Application of Lexical Rules 3 Boyan A. Onyshkevych The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns 19 Brendan S. Gillon Lexical Rules and Lexical Organization: Productivity in the Lexicon 39 Onur T. Sehitoglu and Cem Bozsahin Word Disambiguation by Lexical Underspecification 59 Antonio Sanfillippo II. BREADTH OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS Acquisition of Semantic Lexicons: Using Word Sense Disambiguation to Improve Precision 79 Bonnie J. Dorr and Doug Jones Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives 99 Victor Raskin and Sergei Nirenburg Building and Maintaining a Semantically Adequate Lexicon Using CYC 121 Kathy J. Burns and Anthony R. Davis III. DEPTH OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS The Adjective "Vieux": The Point of View of "Generative lexicon" 147 Pierrette Bouillon Qualia Structures and the Compositional Interpretation of Compounds 167 Michael Johnston and Federica Busa Integrating Machine Readable Dictionary and Thesaurus for Conceptual Context Representation of Word Sense 189 J.N. Chen and J.S. Chang Using Lexical Semantic Techniques to Classify Free-Responses 227 Jill Burstein, Susanne Wolff and Chi Lu IV. LEXICAL SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS Semantics via Conceptual and Lexical Relations 247 Christiane Fellbaum Opening the World with Active Words and Concept Triggers 263 Evelyne Viegas Supply-Side and Demand-Side Lexical Semantics 283 Sergei Nirenburg and Victor Raskin Lexical Rules is Italicized 299 Stephen Helmreich and David Farwell Subject Index 321 Author Index 325 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora Susan Armstrong, Kenneth Ward Church, Pierre Isabelle, Sandra Manzi, Evelyne Tzoukermann, David Yarowsky (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 <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 16 15:16:39 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:16:39 +0100 Subject: Conf: Evolang Message-ID: <THU.16.MAR.2000.161639.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Conference Evolang <evolang at infres.enst.fr> ( Apologies for multiple copies ) *********************************************** ****** Evolution of Language Conference ****** *********************************************** Paris, 3-6 April CALL FOR PARTICIPATION This is the third conference in a series concerned with the evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives with those of modern Darwinism. The aim is to bring together linguists, computer scientists, anthropologists, palaeontologists, ethologists, geneticists, neuroscientists, and other scientists who are concerned with the question of the origin and evolution of language. All useful information (scientific programme, registration information) can be found at the following address: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang Scientific programme: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/program.html Registration information: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/registration.html You may send a message to: evolang-registration at cwtfrance.com or write to Wagonlit Evenements, 16, Rue Ballu - 75009 Paris, France We invite you to consider sending your registration before March 15 to benefit from reduced rates (155 Euros, instead of 230 Euros after this date). The number of available places is limited, and priority will be given to early registrations. Jean-Louis Dessalles ================================================= Conference : The Evolution of Language April 3rd - 6th , 2000 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications Paris - France http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang ================================================= ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 16 15:16:49 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:16:49 +0100 Subject: Appel: CIAA-2000 Message-ID: <THU.16.MAR.2000.161649.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Sheng Yu <syu at csd.uwo.ca> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA 2000, Formerly WIA) http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000 July 24-25, 2000 University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada This conference concerns research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures. The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in implementation and application of automata to demonstrate and analyze their work and to explain the problems they have been solving. In conjunction with this conference, there will be two other events at the University of Western Ontario: A one-day symposium entitled "Half Century of Automata Theory" (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~automata) will be held on July 26, 2000, and a workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars, and Related Structures" (http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs) will be on July 27-29, 2000. SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE We solicit papers and demos on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are requested to submit an electronic version (in postscript or latex form) or six hard copies of an extended abstract (arriving) by April 3, 2000. An extended abstract should start with the title, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, and a brief summary of the results and ideas, and be sent to: CIAA2000 at csd.uwo.ca or CIAA 2000 Department of Computer Science University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 The extended abstract should provide sufficient detail to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance to the conference. The extended abstract should be at most ten pages long using 11-point font with ample margins. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by May 17, 2000. Final copies of accepted papers must be submitted by June 2, 2000. We expect the proceedings to appear in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series after the conference. (See, e.g., LNCS 1260, 1436, and 1660 for the proceedings of the previous conferences.) We will distribute a preproceedings for participants at the conference. Extended versions of selected papers from the conference series will be solicited for publication in special issues of Theoretical computer Science (TCS) and International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS), alternately, with the CIAA 2000 special issue appearing in IJFCS. DEMOS We encourage the submission of software demos. Developers wishing to demonstrate their software should submit a two-page description to the preceding address by April 3, 2000, outlining the design of their system and their computing needs (if any). INVITED SPEAKER David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel CIAA 2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE (A Tentative list) J.-M. Champarnaud (Rouen) M. Crochemore (Marne la Vallee) F. Gunthner (Ludwig Maximillian) O. Ibarra (UCSB) H. Jurgensen (Potsdam) L. Karttunen (Xerox) D. Maurel (Tours) M. Mohri (AT&T) J.-E. Pin (Paris) K. Salomaa (Queen's) W. Thomas (Aachen) B. Watson (Pretoria) D. Wood (Hong Kong) S. Yu (chair, Western Ontario) IMPORTANT DATES April 3, 2000 Submission deadline May 17, 2000 Acceptances and rejections sent out June 2, 2000 Submission deadline for preproceedings July 24-26, 2000 Conference dates (including HCAT) Sept. 29, 2000 Submission deadline for SV-LNCS Tri-Event Organizing Committee: John Hart Helmut Jurgensen (co-chair) Lila Kari Kai Salomaa Stephen Watt Sheng Yu (co-chair) RELATED WEBSITES Half Century of Automata Theory: "http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~automata" CIAA 2000: "http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000" DCAGRS 2000: http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 17 08:11:33 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:11:33 +0100 Subject: Q: CES and XCES Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.091133.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:58:01 -0500 From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu> Message-Id: <200003170358.WAA01694 at fac58> I am attempting to make up a list of projects that use the Corpus Encoding Standard (CES) or its XML version, XCES. I would appreciate it if those who have used the CES could send me (not this list) a short description of the project and/or a link to a site that describes it. Thanks, Nancy Ide ======================================================= Nancy Ide Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0520 USA Tel: +1 914 437-5988 Fax: +1 914 437-7498 ide at cs.vassar.edu Chercheur Invite Equipe Langue et Dialogue, LORIA/CNRS Campus Scientifique - BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 83 59 20 47 Fax: +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 ide at loria.fr ======================================================= ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 17 15:51:59 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:51:59 +0100 Subject: R: Thésaurus français Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.165159.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:19:51 +0100 (CET) From: Philippe Monnier <monnier at cmc.fr> ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 02:12:12 +0000 From: habert <Benoit.Habert at limsi.fr> ________________________________________________________________ 3/Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:02:43 +0100 From: "Dominique Dutoit" <dutoit at info.unicaen.fr> ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:19:51 +0100 (CET) From: Philippe Monnier <monnier at cmc.fr> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0003101816420.24748-100000 at trinity.inside.cmc> Bonjour, Le CNDP diffuse un thesaurus en usage dans le monde de la documentation "MOTBIS", un CDROM est fourni avec pour un usage manuel. ISBN : 2-240-71661-4 prix de vente 3 tomes : 600 francs. Il devrait etre disponible dans toute bonne bibliotheque. Philippe Monnier mailto:phmonnier at cmc.fr * Philippe Monnnier * mailto:monnier at inf.enst.fr http://www.cmc.fr * CMC Dir. Rech.60, rue de Ponthieu 75008 Paris France http://www.inf.enst.fr * ENST Infres 46 rue Barrault 75634 Paris cedex 13 * CMC Tél. (33)156432405 Fax ~2425 * ENST Tél. (33)145817588 Fax ~3119 ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 02:12:12 +0000 From: habert <Benoit.Habert at limsi.fr> Message-ID: <38CC4E7C.1563C9C1 at limsi.fr> @Book{pechoin92, editor = {Daniel Péchoin}, title = {Thésaurus {Larousse} -- des idées aux mots, des mots aux idées}, publisher = {Larousse}, year = 1992, address = {Paris}, edition = {2ème} } -- Ce sont ces sous-bassements polémiques des sociolinguistiques, et eux seuls, qui seront discutés ici, amicalement, mais avec minutie et pugnacité - sinon, à quoi bon discuter ? Pierre Corbin},"Regard sur le regard sociolinguistique sur la linguistique << ordinaire >>, Langage et société 16, juin 1981, pp. 3-65. Benoît Habert - UMR 8503 Analyses de corpus (ENS de Fontenay St Cloud 31 avenue Lombart F-92260 Fontenay-aux-Roses) et université Paris X Tel : vendredi (33 1) 41 13 24 63 (fax 25 99) / lundi 41 12 36 35 (fax 36 30) / jeudi 69 85 80 22 (fax 80 88) - Mel : habert at limsi.fr NE PLUS ECRIRE À bh at ens-fcl.fr ________________________________________________________________ 3/Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:02:43 +0100 From: "Dominique Dutoit" <dutoit at info.unicaen.fr> Message-ID: <09f001bf8dd7$1dc50740$548f8aa4 at platon> X-url: http://www.memodata.com/ MEMODATA propose pas mal de choses dans ce domaine. Bien cordialement Dominique Dutoit __________________________________________________________________________ Web site : http://www.memodata.com MEMODATA Tel: (33)02.31.35.75.21 Language Dpt fax: (33)02.31.35.75.28 17 rue Dumont d'Urville Mail dutoit at info.unicaen.fr 14000 CAEN The INTEGRAL DICTIONARYtm DICOLOGICtm : the largest world model for linguistic computing and semantic analysis. Computational semantic with the SEMIOGRAPHtm for five languages (French, English, German, Italian, Spanish) Semantic modelization with LEXIDIOMtm. ________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 17 16:40:38 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:40:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: IMPACTS in NLG Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.174038.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Stephan Busemann <busemann at dfki.de> WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Impacts in Natural Language Generation NLG Between Technology and Applications July 24-28, 2000 Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany - immediately preceding COLING 2000 - Homepage: http://impacts.dfki.de The tension between theoretical work and its implementation has often been considered fruitful. In the field of Natural Language Generation, it is now complemented by another tension, the one between technologies and applications: "I have invented a new technique for NLG!" - "What is its impact on applications?" "I have built a new NLG application!" - "What is its impact on the technology?" Much of NLG technology is based on a theoretical understanding of the process of language generation, whereas the applications strongly rely on practical requirements. There are not many theoretically well-motivated technologies that can straightforwardly be employed within specific applications. For this workshop, we adopt a broad notion of application by including pieces of software containing NLG technology that currently are used by others in order to solve real-world tasks. Some NLG application developers find it preferable to not reuse existing technology. This is often due to the lack of solutions for the knowledge bottleneck and for the input formation bottleneck: NLG technology lacks the power of dealing with external conceptual lexical knowledge bases, and it also lacks standards of representing inputs at a suitable specificity. 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, - providers of large conceptual lexicons usable by NLG, and - developers of systems that deal with the input specificity problem. We invite original and unpublished contributions from all areas of NL generation, either from the technological side or from the applications point of view. They must state clearly how they relate to the respective counterpart, hence addressing one of the above questions. "IMPACTS" will take place from July 24-28, 2000 at International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl. It 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. Dates: 24.-28. July 2000: Workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl 15. June 2000: Camera-ready copies 20. May 2000: Notification of acceptance 01. April 2000: Deadline for submissions 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, Microsoft Research Institute, 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 More information can be found at the Workshop homepage, which is located at http://impacts.dfki.de and which will be extended during the next months. -- Dr. Stephan Busemann, DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken phone: (+49 681) 302-5286, fax: (+49 681) 302-5338 web: http://www.dfki.de/~busemann ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 17 16:40:35 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:40:35 +0100 Subject: Appel: MT 2000 Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.174035.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "Roger Harris" <rwsh at dircon.co.uk> 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. 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 Terminology Lexicography 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 * Invited speakers Martin Kay (Xerox Parc) Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) * Programme Committee 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 (SDLX, Maidenhead ) 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) 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) 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) * 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: 1 June 2000 Notification of Acceptance: 1 August Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September 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 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 17 16:40:40 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:40:40 +0100 Subject: Appel: ISSC Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.174040.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS On its 30th Anniversary SANTIAGO DE CUBA JANUARY 23-26, 2001 The Center of Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba's branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce on the occasion of its 30 Anniversary, the Seventh International Symposium on Social Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 23rd through the 26th, 2001. This interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Voice Processing, Mass Media, and Ethnology and Folklore. The Symposium will be also sponsored by: .. University of Oriente, Cuba .. Higher Institute for Medical Sciences, Santiago de Cuba .. Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais', Santiago de Cuba .. Information for Development Agency, Cuba .. University of Twente, The Netherlands .. National Council of Scientific Research, Italy .. University of Leon, Spain .. University of Malaga, Spain .. University of Granada, Spain .. Humboldt University, Germany Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the following disciplines: 1. Applied Linguistics: - Spanish and foreign language teaching - Spanish as a second language - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Morphology and Syntax - Sociolinguistics - Psycholinguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Terminology - Translations 2. Computational Linguistics: - Software related to linguistic research - Automated grammatical tagging of texts - Automated dictionaries - Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign languages - Related issues 3. Voice Processing: - Research related to Cry Analysis - Applications of analysis, synthesis and voice-recognition - Artificial intelligence and voice processing 4. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social Communication in general: - Logopedy and Phoniatry - Neurology - Otorhinolaringology - Stomatology - Child Psychiatry - Pediatrics - Cronobiology 5. Mass Media: - Linguistic research related to the speech of journalists, actors and radio and television announcers. - Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and electronic media articles 6. Ethnology and Folklore: - Research related to Social Communication Activities that will take place within the event are: - Pre-Symposium seminars - Discussion of papers in commissions - Master conferences - Workshops - Posters PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by prestigious specialists to be announced. The seminars will take place Monday, January 22nd of 2001 and will focus on the following subjects: - Spanish as a second language - Latest trends in Computational Linguistics Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 20.00 USD will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. WORKSHOP A workshop entitled 'Applied Linguistics in the Spanish-speaking World' will be held on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Center of Applied Linguistics. MASTER LECTURES During the symposium four master lectures will be delivered by: - Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt, Professor and Researcher, Twente University, Enschede, Holland. - Dr. Hiroto Ueda, Professor and Researcher, Department of Spanish, Tokyo University, Japan. - Dr. Mercedes Cathcart Roca, Professor and Researcher, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. - Dr. Manuel Vilares Ferro, Professor and Researcher, Vigo University, Spain. ABSTRACTS The deadline of submission of paper abstracts is July 1st, 2000. They should not exceed 250 words. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's Scientific Committee will be sent before July 30th, 2000. PAPERS To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of the Symposium's documentation, accepted papers must be sent before September 1st, 2000, with the following requirements: 1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and bibliography. 2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the Symposium's Executive Secretary either via e-mail (attachment) or by mailing a 3½-inch diskette. 3. Each page must be written in an A4 (mail type) format with left, right, top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm. 4. The paper must be written in one of the event's official languages: Spanish, English or French. Instructions for paper submission: 1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 10 points (Word 6.0 or 7.0). Under the authors' names should appear in bold (only initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail address if available. 2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be written in Arial bold, Italics, 11 points size letters. 3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 10 points size and leaving one space between lines. 4. Paragraphs will have no indentation. Spaces between paragraphs will be of 3 points. 5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, and sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic. 6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 9 points size letters. Presentation time will be 15 minutes and 5 minutes for discussion. Authors must advise in advance if they will need a tape recorder, video set, computer or other kind of equipment for presentation. POSTERS Posters should be 1 meter wide and 1.2 meter high. Authors will be responsible of displaying them in the morning of the presentation. Abstract submission should include the word POSTERS. For proceedings, follow instructions above. Notice: unlike full papers, posters will not exceed 3 pages. All mail or inquiries should be addressed to: Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez Secretaria Ejecutiva Comite Organizador VII Simposio Internacional de Comunicacion Social Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400 Telephones: (53-226) 42760 or (53-226) 41081 Fax: (53-226) 41579 E-mail: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/index.html OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English and French REGISTRATION FEE Speakers and Delegates 160.00 USD Companions 80.00 USD Payment must be in cash during registration and it covers a copy of the Proceedings, all other documentation related to the event, speaker's certificate, welcome cocktail, concert and tours. Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the proceedings. ACCOMODATION The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event. IMPORTANT REMINDERS - Abstract Submission deadline: July 1st, 2000 - Notification on paper's approval by Scientific Committee: by July 30, 2000 - Delivery of papers either by e-mail or by mail using 3½-inch diskette: September 1st, 2000 - Pre-Symposium seminars: January 22nd, 2001 - 7th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 23rd through 26th, 2001 OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 kms from Havana, is Cuba's second largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban history is unquestionable. Santiago is also the capital of the province with the same name. Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the city's beauty and charm. SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE President of Honor: Dr. Rosa Elena Simeon Negrin Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment Republic of Cuba Aida Almaguer Furnaguera Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Santiago de Cuba Cuba Gerardo Garcia Cabrera President of Information for Development Agency Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Havana Cuba Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez Member of the Academy of Science of Cuba Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director of Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Eloina Miyares Bermudez Executive Secretary of the Seventh International Symposium on Social Communication Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Marcos Cortina V. Rector University of Oriente Ministry of Higher Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Nayra Pujals Rector Higher Institute for Medical Sciences Ministry of Public Health Santiago de Cuba Cuba Cesar Torres Rector Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais' Ministry of Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Anton Nijholt Professor and Researcher Twente University Enschede, Holland Kathleen Wermke Professor and Researcher Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Renate Siegmund Professor and Researcher Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Mercedes Cathcart Roca Professor and Researcher Faculty of Humanities University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba Cuba Daniela Ratti Researcher National Council of Scientific Research Genoa, Italy Lucia Marconi Researcher National Council of Scientific Research Genoa, Italy Claudia Rolando Researcher National Council of Scientific Research Genoa, Italy Jose Ramon Morala Rodriguez Professor and Researcher University of Leon Spain Gloria Corpas Pastor Professor and Researcher University of Malaga Spain Daniel Madrid Vicedean of International Relations Faculty of Education University of Granada Spain Ercilia Estrada Estrada Scientific Council Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Nancy Alamo Suarez Researcher Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Humberto Ocaña Dayar Professor and Researcher Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais' Santiago de Cuba Cuba Miladys Diodene Adame Ministry of Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION REGISTRATION FORM Mr./Ms. ___________________ Organization: _____________ Title: ____________________ Business address: ______________ City: _______ Telefax: _________ Phone: ___________ E-Mail:_________________________ Home address: __________________ City: ________ Telephone: ______ I wish to participate in Pre-Symposium seminars (optional) ___Spanish as a second language ___Latest trends in Computational Linguistics Paper title: _________________ Date: ________________ Signature: ___________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 17 16:40:46 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:40:46 +0100 Subject: Conf: Cross Language Evaluation Forum Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.174046.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr> [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] This message is posted by ELRA/ELDA for Carol Peters. ------------------------- CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM CALL FOR PARTICIPATION A Cross-Language System Evaluation activity is now being launched in Europe. The activity is sponsored by the DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries in collaboration with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the TREC Conferences. The Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) will run three main evaluation tracks in 2000, testing multilingual, bilingual and monolingual (non-English) information retrieval systems. There will also be a special sub-task for domain-specific cross-language evaluation. For further information, see <http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/DELOS/CLEF>. The results of the activity will be presented during a two-day Workshop on Multilingual Information Access, 21-22 September in Lisbon, Portugal, immediately after the fourth European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2000: see <http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000>). Those intending to participate in CLEF 2000 are requested to send an e-mail to Carol Peters (carol at iei.pi.cnr.it), as soon as possible, indicating in which task(s) they intend to participate. IMPORTANT DATES: Data Release - 1 April 2000 Topic Release - 8 May 2000 Receipt of results from participants - 1 July 2000 Release of relevance assessments and individual results - 15 August 2000 Submission of paper for Working Notes - 5 September 2000 Workshop - 21-22 September 2000 ------------------------------------------- Carol Peters Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (or IEI-CNR) Area della Ricerca di Pisa Via Alfieri, 1 56010 Ghezzano, PISA, Italy Tel: +39 050 315 2897 Fax: +39 050 315 2810 E-mail:carol at iei.pi.cnr.it http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/Personal/carol.html ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.elda.fr/ *** See the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2000 Web site: http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html *** ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 17 16:40:44 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:40:44 +0100 Subject: Ecole: ESSLLI 2000 in Birmingham Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.174044.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "Geert-Jan M. Kruijff" <gj at Kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz> PLEASE POST - WE APOLOGIZE FOR MULTIPLE COPIES - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESSLLI 2000 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 6-18th August 2000 Birmingham, England A two week summer school which offers 42 courses at various levels and six workshops in the areas of Logic, Computation, and Language. 77 lecturers from all over the world. A phenomenally low registration fee and accommodation costs. Bursaries for participants from non-OECD countries available. Visit http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli for the full programme, descriptions of lecture courses and a registration form. REGISTER NOW! Early registration deadline for reduced registration fee of 95 Pounds is MAY 31, 2000. After this the registration fee will be 150 Pounds. Applications for bursaries need to be received by MAY 31, 2000. Please mail esslli at cs.bham.ac.uk for any queries. LECTURERS AND WORKSHOP ORGANISERS: José Júlio Alferes, Lisboa Agnes Kurucz, London Carlos Areces, Amsterdam Marta Kwiatkowska, Birmingham Brandon Bennett, Leeds Rob Malouf, Groningen Jean-Yves Béziau, Petropolis Carlos Martín-Vide, Tarragona Patrick Blackburn, Saarbrücken Maarten Marx, Amsterdam Hendrik Blockeel, Heverlee Ralph Matthes, München Paolo Bouquet, Trento Mary McGee Wood, Manchester Krysia Broda, London Detmar Meurers, Tübingen Greg Carlson, Rochester Wilfried Meyer-Viol, London Ann Copestake, Stanford Angelo Montanari, Udine Richard Crouch, Xerox PARC Christof Monz, Amsterdam James Cussens, York Andrew Moshier, Orange Anuj Dawar, Cambridge Stephen Muggleton, York Denys Duchier, Saarbrücken Stephan Oepen, Saarbrücken Gisbert Fanselow, Potsdam Marc Pauly, Amsterdam Caroline Féry, Potsdam David Pearce, Saarbrücken Hana Filip, Evanston Alberto Pettorossi, Roma Dan Flickinger, Stanford Paul Piwek, Brighton Dov Gabbay, London Alberto Policriti, Udine Bart Geurts, Nijmegen Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Manchester Anastasia Giannakidou, Groningen Maurizio Proietti, Roma Valentin Goranko, Johannesburg Christian Retoré, Rennes Fritz Hamm, Tübingen Hannes Rieser, Bielefeld Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen Mark Ryan, Birmingham Martin Hofmann, Edinburgh Luciano Serafini, Povo Kenneth Holmqvist, Lund Aaron Sloman, Birmingham Richard Hudson, London Mike Squire, Warwick Mateja Jamnik, Birmingham Johan van Benthem, Amsterdam Neil D Jones, Copenhagen Josef van Genabith, Dublin Reinhard Kahle, Tübingen Robert van Rooy, Amsterdam Sara Kalvala, Warwick Yde Venema, Amsterdam Ruth Kempson, London Andrei Voronkov, Manchester Manfred Kerber, Birmingham Shuly Wintner, Philadelphia Valia Kordoni, Tübingen Frank Wolter, Leipzig Emiel Krahmer, Eindhoven John H Woods, Lethbridge Bob Krovetz, Princeton Michael Zakharyaschev, Leeds Geert-Jan Kruijff, Prague Thomas E Zimmermann, Frankfurt Peter Kühnlein, Bielefeld ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 20 08:57:35 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:57:35 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL2000 (Papers+Workshops) Message-ID: <MON.20.MAR.2000.095735.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: ACL2000 Call for Papers 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: ACL2000 Call for Workshops __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: ACL2000 Call for Papers ACL 2000 Call For Papers 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3--6 October, 2000 Hong Kong The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 38th Annual Meeting. As was the case with last year's ACL conference, the technical sessions of the conference will be of two kinds. There will be General Sessions as well as a number of special Thematic Sessions organized around themes proposed by members of the computational linguistics community. For the General Sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. Papers submitted to the Thematic Sessions are more narrowly targeted at specific topics. The list of Thematic Sessions is as follows: T1: NLP and Open-Domain Question Answering from Text T2: Machine Learning and Statistical NLP for Dialogue T3: Text Summarization T4: Theoretical and Technical Approaches for Asian Language Processing -- Similarities and Differences among Languages Further information on the individual themes and topics appropriate to each can be obtained from the ACL-2000 conference website (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). Requirements Requirements are the same regardless of whether you are submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions; a separate Call for Student Workshop papers will provide the information on requirements for the Student Workshop submissions. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page. (See Submission Format below.) Reviewing The reviewing of the papers submitted to the General Sessions and the Thematic Sessions will be blind. Reviewing of papers submitted to the General Sessions will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance of a team of reviewers. The Area Chairs are: Key-Sun Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Walter Daelemans University of Antwerp, Belgium Dan Jurafsky University of Colorado, USA Yuji Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Johanna Moore University of Edinburgh, UK Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, PA Ellen Riloff University of Utah, USA Giorgio Satta Universita` di Padova, Italy Reviewing of papers for the Thematic Sessions will be managed by the chairs of the Thematic Sessions, with the assistance of teams of reviewers. Final decisions on the technical program (both General Sessions and Thematic Sessions) will be made by the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Submission Procedure The format of submissions is the same regardless of whether you are submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions. Papers may not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of title page and references). Papers outside the specified length are subject to be rejected without review. We strongly recommend the use of ACL latex style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. These are available from the ACL-2000 Conference Website (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). These style files include a place for the paper ID code (see below) and word count and allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. A description of the format is also available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. If you are unable to access this webpage, please send email to acl2k at cis.udel.edu. The reviewing of papers submitted to the General Session or the Thematic Sessions will be blind. Hence the title page and paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". You must first register your submission. This can be done by filling out an electronic form that is accessible from the conference webpage (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). The form requires a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your submission. Also, please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the program committee co-chairs. If you have any difficulty using the electronic registration form, please send email to acl2k at cis.udel.edu with all of the title page information (see below) plus the authors' names and affiliations. As reviewing will be blind, a separate title page and identification page will be required. The title page should include the following information: Title: Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration) Topic Area: one or two general topic areas Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area Which Session: T1, T2, T3, T4, or G (you must choose one) Word Count, excluding title page and references: Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify): Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) T1, T2, T3, and T4 correspond to the four Theme Sessions and G corresponds to the General Session. A paper can be submitted to at most one session. The identification page should contain all of the information in the title page, but in addition must include the authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses. The format for the identification page should be as follows: Title: Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration) Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses Topic Area: one or two general topic areas Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area Which Session: T1, T2, T3, T4, or G (you must choose one) Word Count, excluding title page and references: Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify): Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) Submissions must be received by April 7th, 2000. Late submissions (those arriving on or after April 8th) will be rejected without review. The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following address: ACL-2000 Submission c/o K. Vijay-Shanker 103 Smith Hall Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 USA Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic version of the paper (without the identification page) to acl-routing at cis.udel.edu. Please include the paper ID code in the subject line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The electronic version should also be received by April 7, 2000. Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic version, please send mail to the pc co-chairs at acl2k at cis.udel.edu. Acknowledgment of receipt of the hardcopy submission will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) around June 15, 2000. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright release statement along with the final camera-ready papers. The dates here pertain only to the General Sessions and Thematic sessions. Paper registration deadline: March 31, 2000 Paper submissions deadline: April 7, 2000 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2000 ACL 2000 Conference: October 3--6, 2000 Submission Questions Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should contact the program committee co-chairs sufficiently ahead of the submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made. All queries regarding the General Sessions and Thematic sessions of ACL-2000 should be sent to acl2k at cis.udel.edu; this forwards to both PC co-chairs. Changning Huang (PC Co-Chair) K. Vijay-Shanker (PC Co-Chair) Microsoft Research, China CIS Department 5F, Beijing Sigma Center University of Delaware No.49, Zhichun Road Newark, DE 19716, USA Beijing 100080, P.R.C cnhuang at microsoft.com vijay at cis.udel.edu Tel: +86 10 6261-7711 -5760 Tel: +1 302 831 1952 Fax: +86 10 8809-7305 Fax: +1 302 831 8458 Hitoshi Iida (General Chair) Aravind K. Joshi (Honorary Chair) Speech and Language Information Department of Computer and Processing Lab Information Sciences SONY Computer Science Labs, Inc. University of Pennsylvania Tokyo 141-0022, Japan Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA iida at csl.sony.co.jp joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu Tel: +81 3 5448 4380 Tel: +1 215 898 0359 Fax: +81 3 5447 1942 Fax: +1 215 573 9247 __________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: ACL2000 Call for Workshops ACL 2000 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3-6 October, 2000 Hong Kong http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/ Call for Workshop Proposals Workshop Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa glottolo at ilc.pi.cnr.it Call The ACL'2000 Program Committee invites proposals for Workshops to be held in conjunction with the ACL'2000 Conference. Areas of Interest We welcome proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL community. In addition to the traditional workshops areas, including both core issues in CL and NLP applications (such as MT, CLIR, speech related applications, etc.), we encourage proposals for workshops focussing on Asian language processing and fostering communication and cooperation between Western and Eastern (Asian) CL communities. Dates The Conference will be held October 3-6; Workshop dates will be scheduled before and/or after the conference. Venue Pre/Post Conference Workshop/Tutorials will be held at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Reviewing Reviewing of Workshop proposals will be managed by an international Workshop Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Submission Details Proposals for workshops should contain: Scientific part: * A title and brief (about 500 word) content description of the workshop topic. Organizational part: * Length of workshop (from half a day to 2 days). * The target audience and expected number of participants. * Estimate of special costs, such as invited speakers (if any). * Any outside financial support for the workshop. * Any special requirements for technical needs (computer infrastructure, etc.). * Food/beverage requirements for the workshop. Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible, but no later than April 18. The subject line should be: "ACL 2000 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL". Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to: Nicoletta Calzolari, ACL 2000 Workshop Chair glottolo at ilc.pi.cnr.it Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa Via Alfieri 1 Localita' San Cataldo 56010 Ghezzano - Pisa - Italy Tel: +39 050 315-2870 (direct); -2836 or -2835 (secr.) Fax: +39 050 315-2834 Important Dates Submission Deadline for Workshop Proposal: Apr 18 Notification of acceptance of Workshop Proposal: May 10 Workshop descriptions due to Workshop Chair: July 10 Workshop material for reproduction: around the beginning of September (more information will be provided later) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 20 08:57:41 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:57:41 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 Offers Message-ID: <MON.20.MAR.2000.095741.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Chan, Ruby" <rchan at ets.org> Subject: Job announcement 2/ From: Oxford Text Archive <info at ota.ahds.ac.uk> Subject: IT posts at Oxford University __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Chan, Ruby" <rchan at ets.org> Subject: Job announcement Research Position available at Educational Testing Service THE CENTER FOR ASSESSMENT DESIGN AND SCORING The Research Division at Educational Testing Service is seeking a junior to mid-level Research Scientist with the following qualifications: a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Linguistics with solid computational linguistics experience and an interest in natural language processing research for purposes of automated writing analysis, instruction and scoring. The work involves the ability to apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting natural language processing research studies and in developing and contributing to the development of new products or services for education. Evidence of independent substantive research experience is required and the successful candidate is expected to be able to contribute to new or modified theories of natural language processing as applied to educational and psychological processes. ETS is located near Princeton, NJ, and offers a competitive salary, commensurate with experience, an attractive benefits package, and ample opportunity for professional growth. For confidential consideration, please send resume, including salary requirements to: Ruby Chan, MS 14-R, ETS, Rosedale Road, Princeton, NJ 08540. Email: rchan at ets.org. Fax: (609) 734-5010. ETS is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Research Position available at Educational Testing Service THE CENTER FOR ASSESSMENT DESIGN AND SCORING __________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Oxford Text Archive <info at ota.ahds.ac.uk> Subject: IT posts at Oxford University apologies for any cross-posting. NEW JOBS AT OXFORD'S HUMANITIES COMPUTING UNIT We are pleased to announce two exciting new positions for imaginative IT developers, involving hands-on experience and state-of- the-art technologies, and located in the intellectually challenging environment of Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit. If you feel that there is more to life than payroll and e-commerce, enjoy the challenge of working in a small research-oriented team, and would like to apply your technical expertise to support research and teaching in the Humanities at one of the world's most famous Universities then we'd like to hear from you. You must be a graduate, with demonstrable experience of relevant technologies, and you must be a good team-worker, a good communicator, and ready to learn. We promise to stretch your understanding and give you valuable practical experience with a wide range of new technologies. The two jobs currently advertised are both available for one year in the first instance on Research Grade RS1A (16286-24479) and located in Central Oxford. Detailed job descriptions for each post are available from http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jobs/ and are briefly summarized below: 1. HCDT Project Officer - project developer to work on an exciting range of teaching and research projects - experience of HTML and Javascript, PERL and/or ASP essential - develop new skills as part of a small team 2. HCU/TEI Development Officer - software developer with expertise in open software tools, XML and web technologies - will provide support for Oxford's Text Encoding Initiative activities - initially to work on the EU-funded MASTER project INTERESTED? If you'd like to discuss either post informally, please email humanities at oucs.ox.ac.uk. If you'd like to apply, please request an application form from : Mrs Nicky Tomlin, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK. tel: +44[0]1865-273230 fax: +44 [0]1865-273275 e-mail: nicky.tomlin at oucs.ox.ac.uk Completed applications must be received by 4.00 pm on 14 April 2000, and we hope to interview during the first week of May. *** The Humanities Computing Unit, based at Oxford University Computing Services, brings together a number of local, national and international facilities providing support for Humanities Computing at Oxford. These include the Centre for Humanities Computing; the Humanities Computing Development Team; the Humbul Humanities Hub; the Oxford Text Archive and a range of other projects. Its activities and strategies are described at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 20 08:57:18 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:57:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN 2000 Message-ID: <MON.20.MAR.2000.095718.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: TALN2000 <taln2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch> ********************************************************************** * ##### ### ### ### * * ##### ## # # # # # # # # # # # * * # # # # ## # # # # # # # # * * # # # # # # # ##### # # # # # # * * # ###### # # # # # # # # # # # * * # # # # # ## # # # # # # # * * # # # ###### # # ####### ### ### ### * * * * * * TALN 2000 * * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * * * École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne * * du 16 au 18 octobre 2000 * * * * http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/ * * * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) RAPPEL À COMMUNICATIONS CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2000 Notification aux auteurs : 23 juin 2000 Version finale (prêt-à-clicher): 4 août 2000 Conférence : 16-18 octobre 2000 Conjointement organisée par l'École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne et l'Université de Genève, la septième édition de la conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2000) se tiendra, du 16 au 18 octobre 2000, à l'École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Suisse. La conférence comprendra des communications scientifiques, des conférences invitées, des séances de démonstration ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conférence sont le français et l'anglais. TALN 2000 est organisée sous l'égide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et se tiendra conjointement à la conférence pour jeunes chercheurs RECITAL 2000 (appel à communications a paraître séparement). THÈMES Les communications, d'une durée de trente minutes, questions comprises, pourront porter sur tous les thèmes habituels du TALN, incluant, de façon non limitative: lexique morphologie syntaxe sémantique pragmatique discours analyse génération résumé dialogue traduction automatique approches logiques, symboliques et statistiques TALN 2000 souhaite également accueillir des travaux de domaines proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un rôle important, dans la mesure où l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : traitement de la parole (prosodie, linguistique, pragmatique) traitement de l'écrit aspects cognitifs terminologie, acquisition de connaissances à partir de textes extraction d'information recherche documentaire linguistique de corpus linguistique mathématique utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la modélisation linguistique enseignement assisté, enseignement des langues. Sont aussi attendus des travaux sur des applications du TALN, implémentées et évaluées, faisant ressortir leurs aspects scientifiques et les enseignements tirés. Des démonstrations de systèmes pourront être proposées, indépendamment ou en complément d'articles scientifiques. L'emploi du temps de la conférence comprendra une session pour ces démonstrations. Le comité de programme sélectionnera parmi les communications acceptées deux articles pour publication (dans une version étendue) dans la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.). Ces articles seront considérés par la revue comme "acceptés sous réserve de modification", la modification étant la mise au format de la revue. CRITÈRES DE SÉLECTION Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications antérieures. Les soumissions seront examinées par au moins deux spécialistes du domaine. Seront considérées en particulier : - l'importance et l'originalité de la contribution, - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique, - la discussion critique des résultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine, - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale, - l'organisation et la clarté de la présentation, - l'adéquation aux thèmes de la conférence. Les articles sélectionnés seront publiés dans les actes de la conférence. MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION Les articles soumis ne devront pas dépasser 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, soit environ 3000 mots, figures, exemples et références compris. Les propositions de démonstrations ne devront pas dépasser 3 pages. Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word seront disponibles sur le site web de la conférence (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/). Les articles devront parvenir au comité d'organisation avant le 21 avril 2000, sous forme électronique, à l'adresse suivante : taln2000 at latl.unige.ch En cas d'impossibilité d'envoi par courrier électronique, une soumission "papier" pourra être admise. 3 exemplaires papier de la contribution devront être envoyés à l'adresse suivante: Eric Wehrli - TALN 2000 Dépt. de linguistique - LATL Université de Genève 2, rue de Candolle CH-1211 Genève 4 Suisse Format pour les soumissions : Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission sous la forme d'un document attaché à un courrier électronique ayant pour titre "TALN submission" et contenant le titre de la communication, le nom, l'affiliation, l'adresse postale, l'adresse électronique, le numéro de téléphone et le fax de l'auteur principal. Les soumissions devront être anonymes et ne devront donc comporter aucun nom d'auteur ni auto-citation. L'un des formats suivants devra IMPÉRATIVEMENT être employé: - source LaTeX auto-suffisant (les styles non standards ou différents de ceux fournis pour TALN 2000 devront être inclus dans le fichier source) ET PostScript - RTF (Word) ET PostScript ou PDF Les versions PostScript devront être au format A4 et non Lettre US. INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES Les informations pratiques seront précisées ultérieurement, notamment sur le site web de la conférence (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (voir version française au dessus) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS TALN 2000 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland 16-18 October 2000 CALENDAR submission deadline : April 21st, 2000 notification to authors : June 23th, 2000 final version due (camera-ready): August 4th, 2000 conference: 16-18 October, 2000 Jointly organised by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) and the University of Geneva the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN 2000) will be held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, (Lausanne, Switzerland), on October 16-18, 2000. The conference includes paper presentations, invited speakers, tutorials and software demonstrations. The official conference languages are French and English. TALN 2000 is organised in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) and will be held jointly with the young researcher conference RECITAL 2000 (a separate call for papers will follow). TOPICS Papers are invited for 30-minutes talks (including questions) in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to): lexicon morphology syntax semantics pragmatics discourse parsing generation abstraction/summarisation dialogue translation logical,symbolical and statistical approaches mathematical linguistics TALN 2000 also welcomes contributions in fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as these contributions emphasise their NLP dimension : speech processing text processing cognition terminology, knowledge acquisition information retrieval documentary research corpus-based linguistics mathematical linguistics management and acquisition of linguistic resources computer assisted learning NLP tools for linguistic modelization TALN 2000, also welcomes submissions focusing on NLP applications that have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasising the scientific aspects and conclusions drawn. Software demonstrations can be proposed, either independently or in connection with a paper proposal. Specific sessions for the demos will be scheduled in the program of the conference. The program committee will select 2 papers among the accepted papers for publication (in an extended version) in the journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (t.a.l.). For the journal, these papers will have the status "accepted, subject to modifications", the modifications being the formatting according to the style of the journal. SELECTION Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria : - importance and originality of the paper - soundness of the scientific and technical content - comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work - clarity - relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12 (approx. 3000 words), single spaced, including figures, examples and references. The maximum length for demo proposals is 3 pages. A LaTeX style file and a Word template will be available on the web site of the conference (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000). Electronic submissions must reach the organising committee before April 21st, 2000 to the latest, at the following address: taln2000 at latl.unige.ch If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organising committee before April 21st 2000, at the following address: Eric Wehrli - TALN 2000 Dépt. de linguistique - LATL Université de Genève 2, rue de Candolle CH-1211 Genève 4 Suisse File format for electronic submissions: Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail, with the subject field "TALN submission" and containing the following information: submission title, first author's name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, phone and fax number. The submissions are ANONYMOUS, and should therefore not include the author's name, or any self-reference. One of the following formats MUST be used: - self-contained LaTeX source (including non standard styles) AND PostScript version. - RTF (Word) document AND PostScript or PDF version. All the PostScript versions must be for A4 paper and not US letter. PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS: Practical information will be detailed shortly on the conference WEB page site (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMITÉ DE PROGRAMME/PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pascal Amsili, TALaNa (Paris) Susan Armstrong, ISSCO (Genève) Nicholas Asher, University of Texas (Austin) Afzal Ballim, EPFL (Lausanne) Philippe Blache, LPL (Aix-en-Provence) Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA (Grenoble) Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO (Genève) Didier Bourigault (CNRS, Paris) Jean-Pierre Chanod, XEROX Research Center (Grenoble) Cédric Chappelier, EPFL (Lausanne) Béatrice Daille, IRIN (Nantes) Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne Claire Gardent, Universität des Saarlandes (Sarrbrücken) Damien Genthial, IUT (Valence) Gregory Grefenstette (XEROX) Michael Hess, Uni Zurich Pierre Isabelle, XEROX Research Center (Meylan) Daniel Kayser, LIPN (Paris) Brigitte Zellner Keller (UNIL, Lausanne) Geert-Jan Kruijff, Univerzita Karlova (Praha) Eric Laporte, CERIL, Université de Marne la Vallée Paola Merlo, LATL (Genève) Piet Mertens, CCL K.U. Leuven Jacques Moeschler, LATL (Genève) Cécile Paris, CSIRO (Sidney) Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA (Nancy) Alain Polguère, Université de Montréal Martin Rajman, EPFL (Lausanne) Owen Rambow, ATT Labs-Research Gérard Sabah, LIMSI (Paris) Jacques Savoy, Uni Neuchatel Jacques Vergne, GREYC (Caen) Jean Véronis, LPL (Aix-en-Provence) Eric Wehrli, LATL (Genève) Francois Yvon, ENST (Paris) Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM (Paris) COMITÉ D'ORGANISATION/ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Eric Wehrli (Président/President) Martin Rajman Cristian Ciressan Jean-Cédric Chappelier Marie Decrauzat Paola Merlo Christopher Laenzlinger ********************************************************************** * Contact: * * * * Eric Wehrli - TALN 2000 * * Dépt. de linguistique - LATL * * Université de Genève * * 2, rue de Candolle * * CH-1211 Genève 4 * * Switzerland * * * * Tel: +41-22-705.73.63 * * Fax: +41-22-705.79.31 * * email: taln2000 at latl.unige.ch * * * * http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/ * ********************************************************************** ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 20 08:58:09 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:58:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: Finite-State Phonology (SIGPHON 2000) Message-ID: <MON.20.MAR.2000.095809.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jason Eisner <jason at cs.rochester.edu> ----------------------------------------------- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS FINITE-STATE PHONOLOGY : SIGPHON 2000 Fifth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology A full-day workshop held at COLING 2000 Luxembourg, 6 August 2000 ----------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION -------------------- The workshop will focus on the growing role of finite-state methods in computational phonology. Excellent papers in other areas of computational phonology are also welcome. Sample topics: * Finite-state formalizations of phonological frameworks * Algorithms and theorems about finite-state phonological formalisms * Embedding finite-state phonology in NLP or speech systems * The application of finite-state methods to empirical description (including difficulties, representational encodings, and software tools) * Phonologically motivated extensions to finite-state techniques * Research bearing on whether the finite-state assumptions are empirically adequate or computationally necessary A principal goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers who are working in different phonological frameworks: Finite-state methods have been more-or-less persuasively applied to a range of frameworks, from derivational approaches to Optimality Theory. This shared formal underpinning exposes crucial differences among the frameworks (Frank & Satta 1998), and also suggests deep similarities (Karttunen 1998). We hope that the workshop's focus on formalizations using finite-state techniques, which are well understood in themselves, will facilitate further discussion of the theoretical and empirical virtues of different frameworks. We are particularly interested in the potential for new or hybrid frameworks. ORGANIZERS AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------------- Lauri Karttunen, Xerox Research Centre France (program chair) Markus Walther, University of Marburg (local chair) Jason Eisner, University of Rochester (organization) Alain Theriault, Universite de Montreal (administration) Daniel Albro, University of California at Los Angeles Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania John Coleman, University of Oxford Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado Andras Kornai, Belmont Research, Cambridge MA Reviewing will be blind. The program chair may invite additional reviewers as necessary to obtain relevant expertise and avoid conflicts of interest. Questions and correspondence may be sent to: Jason Eisner Department of Computer Science University of Rochester P.O. Box 270226 Rochester, NY 14627 USA tel: +1 (716) 275-5671 fax: +1 (716) 461-2018 email: sigphon2000 at cs.rochester.edu More information about SIGPHON is available at http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon. PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Content: Papers should be original, topical, and clear. Completed work is preferable to intended work, but in any event the paper should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Length: Submissions should be full-length papers, up to a maximum of 10 pages. (The final version in the proceedings should incorporate reviewers' suggestions and may be up to 12 pages.) Layout: Except for length, papers should adhere to Coling 2000 formatting guidelines, at http://www.coling.org/format.html. Be careful not to disclose authorship. Electronic submission procedure: 1. Turn your paper into a PDF file, or if necessary a Postscript file. See http://www.coling.org/postscript.html for help. 2. Email this file as an attachment to theriaal at magellan.umontreal.ca (Alain Theriault) The body of the email should give title, author(s), abstract, and contact information. The subject line should include the word "SIGPHON." Hardcopy submission procedure: If electronic submission is impossible, please send FOUR hardcopies to Alain Theriault Departement de linguistique et de traduction Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7 CANADA along with a page giving title, author(s), abstract, and contact information. Note that electronic submission is strongly preferred! IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Mon. 1 May Deadline for receipt of submissions Wed. 24 May Authors notified of acceptance Wed. 21 June Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy Sun. 6 Aug. Workshop held in Luxembourg at Coling 2000 Coling 2000 - http://www.coling.org SIGPHON - http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon Luxembourg - http://www.coling.org/lux-links.html Registration fees and details - http://www.coling.org/reg.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Mon Mar 20 16:19:47 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:19:47 +0100 Subject: Q: Question and Answer NLP Devices Message-ID: <MON.20.MAR.2000.171947.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:44:08 -1000 From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." <bralich at hawaii.edu> Message-Id: <4.1.20000317113453.0625d0f0 at pop-server.hawaii.edu> X-url: http://www.ergo-ling.com/ I am currently trying to put together a focused and complete list of Question and Answer dialog systems that exist as for sale products on the web or as stand alone products. The list I am compiling will include products that can be purchased or downloaded as well as much larger projects that require a long term commitment of resources for both the developer and the client. The list should include search engine projects such as "Ask Jeeves" or those efforts that are proposing even more targeted question and answer systems than that company. Though I am primarily interested in working, ready to go products, promised products are also of interest. Also early stage start ups (e.g. ThrowNet.com) will be included as well. Please send your responses to me privately and I will post a summary to the list. University research may also be included, but I am primarily interested in work being done by the private sector. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich at hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Mar 21 16:18:41 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:18:41 +0100 Subject: Q: Identification de la langue en LN ecrit Message-ID: <TUE.21.MAR.2000.171841.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:47:16 +0100 From: "laurent charnay" <laurent.charnay at arisem.com> Message-Id: <000901bf934c$bc775d00$5700000a at ARISEM> bonjour, une des methodes pour identifier la langue d'un document ecrit se fonde sur les trigrammes, i.e. sur les frequences statistiques d'occurence de sequences de 3 caracteres, caracteristiques d'une langue. Je cherche les tables de frequence caracteristiques des principales langues europeennes (Francais, Anglais, Allemand, Espagnol, Italien...) et eventuellement un logiciel libre qui les mettrait en oeuvre... merci d'avance bien cordialement ---------------------------------------------- Laurent Charnay ARISEM laurent.charnay at arisem.com 01 44 88 99 66 ---------------------------------------------- [le message d'origine contenait également l'info suivante : -- pz] Par ailleurs, j'ai mis en ligne une partie de ma these qui contient un etat de l'art et une biblio sur le Dialogue Homme-machine et sur la problematique Explication dans les systemes experts. Ceci peut interesser des doctorants dans ces domaines : http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/charnay/WWW/thIndex.htm ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Mar 21 17:40:32 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:40:32 +0100 Subject: R: Identification de la langue en LN ecrit Message-ID: <TUE.21.MAR.2000.184032.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:28:30 -0500 From: Ismail Biskri <Ismail_Biskri at UQTR.UQuebec.CA> ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:08:23 -0500 From: "Patrick Andries" <pandries at iti.qc.ca> ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:28:30 -0500 From: Ismail Biskri <Ismail_Biskri at UQTR.UQuebec.CA> Message-Id: <38D7A32E.456BF4C6 at uqtr.uquebec.ca> Bonjour Laurent il me semble que Grefenstete presente ces tables dans un article paru au jadt de 1995. vous pourrez egalement consulter cet article sur le site francais de XEROX. j espere que ca vous aidera. bye -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ismaïl BISKRI, Ph.D. Professeur Département de Mathématiques et d'Informatique Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières C.P. 500, Trois-Rivières, Québec, G9A 5H7, Canada Téléphone: 1 819 376 5011 # 3837 Télécopie: 1 819 376 5185 www.uqtr.uquebec.ca/~biskri --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:08:23 -0500 From: "Patrick Andries" <pandries at iti.qc.ca> Message-Id: <004101bf9358$108b8f50$9a01020a at dolphinsoftware.com> X-url: http://www.cafi.org/normes_et_standards/iso639-2.fr.html X-url: http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso15924/document/pre-dis15924.pdf Pour les langues : http://www.cafi.org/normes_et_standards/iso639-2.fr.html Pour les écritures : Voir http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso15924/document/pre-dis15924.pdf Patrick Andries ________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 22 18:39:32 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:39:32 +0100 Subject: Appel: SEPLN Message-ID: <WED.22.MAR.2000.193932.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" <alonso at dc.fi.udc.es> ====================================================================== Final CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 in September 2000. 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. MOTIVATIONS: 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. PROJECTS AND DEMOS: The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of oral presentations, some session may be reserved to this purpose. For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information must be included: - Project title - Funding institution - Participant groups in the project - Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the director of the project. - Abstract (2 pages maximum). - If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be included, as indicated below. For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory: - Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors. - Abstract (2 pages maximum). - Time estimation for the whole presentation. This information must be received by June 4, 2000. CONFERENCE FORMAT: The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as project an demos presentations and group discussions. INVITED SPEAKERS: -- Daniel Tapias Merino Telefonica investigación y desarrollo (Spain) -- Christopher S. Butler Univ. of Wales Swansea SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors are invited to submit an abstract about a system to be presented, or a paper concerning a theoretical contribution. Submission and paper reviews shall be handled exclusively electronically (PostScript or PDF format). Submission should include a separate file with the title, authors, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail. Papers, in a second file, should be anonymous, excluding autoreferences in the text. Accepted works must be presented at the congress and adhere to certain rules: - They must include an abstract (150 word maximum). - The proposed area of interest must be included. - Maximum length is 3500 words, abstract included. - Accepted papers must follow format rules that will be given in the conference web page (http://coleweb.ei.uvigo.es/sepln2000/). Submissions must be sent to sepln-submit at ei.uvigo.es SCHEDULE: - XVI SEPLN Conference: September 26-28 2000 - Submission of contributions: April 14, 2000 - Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2000 - Final versions due: June 30, 2000 - Projects and demos submission: June 4, 2000 - Early registration: before July 14, 2000 - Late registration: after July 14, 2000 AREAS OF INTEREST AND COMMITTEE: 1. Linguistic, mathematic and psicolinguistic models of languages Miguel A. Alonso Pardo Univ. of A Coruña Toni Badia Univ. Pompeu Fabra 2. Corpus linguistics José Mª García-Miguel Gallego Univ. of Vigo Guillermo Rojo Sanchez Univ. of Santiago de Compostela 3. Information extraction and retrieval Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez Univ. Europea de Madrid María Felisa Verdejo Maillo UNED 4. Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis Manuel Palomar Sanz Univ. of Alicante Manuel Vilares Ferro Univ. of Vigo 5. Computational lexicography Margarita Alonso Ramos Univ. of A Coruña Xabier Artola Univ. of País Vasco Jorge Graña Gil Univ. of A Coruña 6. Monolingual and multilingual textual generation Lydia Moreno Boronat Univ. Politécnica de Valencia 7. Machine translation Ines Diz Univ. of Vigo Javier Gómez Guinovart Univ. of Vigo 8. Speech synthesis and recognition Carmen García Mateo Univ. of Vigo Joaquim Llisterri Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona 9. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse Joseba Abaitua Univ. of Deusto M. Antonia Martí Antonín Univ. of Barcelona ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Chair: Manuel Vilares Ferro Univ. of Vigo Members: David Cabrero Souto Univ. of Vigo Víctor Darriba Bilbao Univ. of A Coruña Javier Gómez Guinovart Univ. of Vigo Manuel J. Maña Univ. of Vigo David N. Olivieri Univ. of Vigo Javier Pérez Guerra Univ. of Vigo Francisco José Ribadas Pena Univ. of A Coruña Leandro Rodríguez Liñares Univ. of Vigo LOCATION: Sala de Conferencias del Centro Cultural Caixavigo e Ourense Policarpo Sanz, 13 Vigo FURTER 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 <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 22 18:39:48 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:39:48 +0100 Subject: Conf: ECAI-2000 Message-ID: <WED.22.MAR.2000.193948.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "ECAI 2000 Publicity [Markus Hannebauer]" <hannebau at first.gmd.de> [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies of this call.] ------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 roughly a third can be accepted for presen- tation. 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 given by distinguished scientists, master-class lectures in 10 tutorials and serious discussions of hot new research topics in 34 work- shops. 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" --------- 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) Submission date: March 28th, 2000 http://www-is.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~sauer/puk2000/index.html W2: Configuration Submission date: April 16th, 2000 http://www.cs.hut.fi/u/pdmg/ECAI2000WS W3: Agent-oriented Software Management (AOSM) Submission date: March 31st, 2000 http://www.wirtschaft.tu-ilmenau.de/wi/wi2/ECAI2000-AOSE W4: Cognitive Robotics Submission date: April 7th, 2000 http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/LuFG/cogrob2000 W5: Current Issues in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning Submission date: March 31st, 2000 http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~hans/spacetime W6: Local Search for Planning & Scheduling Submission date: May 1st, 2000 http://www.ai-center.com/events/ecai-2000-ws W7: 2nd ECAI Workshop on Binding Environmental Sciences and Artificial Intelligence (BESAI 2000) Submission date: expired http://www.lsi.upc.es/~webia/besai/besai2000.html W8: Scientific Reasoning in AI and Philosophy of Science Submission date: April 7th, 2000 http://www.compulog.org/workshops/ecai W9: Application of Ontologies and Problem Solving Methods Submission date: March 29th, 2000 http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/WORKSHOP/ECAI00/index.html W10: Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW 00) Submission date: April 7th, 2000 http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00 W11: Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory Submission date: expired http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2000-OM/call.html W12: Knowledge Representation and Ontologies in Education Submission date: expired http://virtcampus.cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de/ecai-2000 W13: Agent Technologies and Their Application Scenarios in Logistics Submission date: May 31st, 2000 http://www.tzi.de/ecai00-mas W14: Multi-Agent Systems and Geographical Information Systems Submission date: April 3rd, 2000 http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/MAGMA/ECAI00/ecai-ws.html W15: Foundations of Connectionist-Symbolic Integration: Representation, Paradigms, and Algorithms Submission date: March 31st, 2000 http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/ECAI2000 W16: Machine Learning for Information Extraction Submission date: expired http://ecate.itc.it:1024/cirave/ecai-workshop.html W17: AI in Product Data Management: Modelling and Reasoning about Product Data in e-Commerce and e-Business (AiPDM) Submission date: May 5th, 2000 http://www.zurich.ibm.com/pub/Other/AiPDM W18: Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB-2000) Submission date: March 20th, 2000 http://www-lti.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/KRDB2000 W19: Applied Semiotics: Control Problems (ASC2000) Submission date: expired http://www.iitp.ru/asc2000 W20: Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging Market Submission date: March 31st, 2000 http://www.uni-bremen.de/~sppraum/sr00.htm W21: Workshop on Bayesian and Causal Networks: From Inference to Data Mining Submission date: expired http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/CaNew2000.html W22: Computational Dialectics: Models of Argumentation, Negotiation and Decision Making Submission date: April 8th, 2000 http://www.philos.rug.nl/~gerard/cd2000 W23: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2000) Submission date: April 20th, 2000 http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap-2000 W24: Ontology Learning Submission date: April 1st, 2000 http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de W25: Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints Submission date: May 5th, 2000 http://www.iiia.csic.es/ecai2000 W26: Analysis and Modelling of Collaborative Learning Interactions Submission date: expired http://collide.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/ecai-2000 W27: Machine Learning in Computer Vision (MLCV) Submission date: March 20th, 2000 http://www.di.uniba.it/~malerba/ws-ecai2000 W28: Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations Submission date: April 7th, 2000 http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jonker/masho-ecai2000 W29: Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems Submission date: May 1st, 2000 http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html W30: Flexible Strategies for Maintaining Knowledge Containers Submission date: April 17th, 2000 http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/mkc-ws W31: Knowledge-Based Systems for Model-Based Engineering Submission date: April 10th, 2000 http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/ecai2000-kbsmbe W32: Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS 2000) Submission date: April 21st, 2000 http://www.eml.org/aims2000 W33: AI in Agriculture and Natural Resources Submission date: April 3rd, 2000 http://www-bia.inra.fr/T/decision/WS-ECAI2000 W34: Empirical Methods in Artificial Intelligence Submission date: May 5th, 2000 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. 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No extra charge for late workshop registrations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - "At the change of ages we will make ECAI 2000 in Berlin a special conference" ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 22 18:39:45 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:39:45 +0100 Subject: Appel: ESSLLI-2000 Student Session Message-ID: <WED.22.MAR.2000.193945.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Catherine Piliere <Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science --- --- Thank you to circulate and post among students --- ================================================= LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION August 6-18 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain EXTENTED Deadline : March 26th, 2000 http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/ESSLLI-2000.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 22 18:40:54 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:40:54 +0100 Subject: Conf: "Corpora and NLP" SESSION / ACIDCA'2000 International Conference Message-ID: <WED.22.MAR.2000.194054.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Lamia Hadrich Belguith <l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn> ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION "Corpora and NLP" SESSION of ACIDCA'2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE <http://www.chez.com/acidca2000> Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000 ***************************************************************** Organised by: University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS) Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia) Supported by: Minstry of Higher Education Ministry of Tourism, Leisure and Handicrafts Ministry of Communications State Secretary of Scientific Research and Technology Sfax Ville and Monastir Ville Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers European Language Resources Assocition Sponsored by : Groupe Affes POULINA IDERYET Mac UNIVERS POINT/POINT IMPRIMERIE RELIURE D'ART OMEGA ACADEMIC PRESS Session Program: Wednesday 22, March 2000 9:00 am - 9:30 am, Opening 9:30 am - 10:30 am, Plenary Lecture 1 "From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words From Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions", by L.A. Zadeh (USA) 10:30 am - 12:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit 12:30 am - 2:30 pm, Lunch 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Session NLP-1 : Morphosyntactic Analysis Chairs: Pieter Seuren (The Netherlands), Lamia H. Belguith (Tunisia) 1. "Morphosyntactic Specifiers to be Associated to Arabic Lexical Entries-Methodological and Theoretical Aspects", by Joseph Dichy (France) 2. "An Efficient Arabic Morphological Analysis Technique for Information Retrieval Systems", by Imed A. Al sughaiyer and Ibrahim A. Al kharashi (Saudi Arabia ) 3. "Chunking, marking and searching a morphosyntactically annotated corpus for French", by Lionel Clément and Alexandra Kinyon (France) 3:30 - 4:00 pm, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP- KL1 : "Handling texts and corpuses in Ariane-G5, a complete environment for multilingual MT", by Christian Boitet (France). Chairs: Ruslan Mitkov (UK) and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia) 5:00 - 6:00 pm, Session NLP-2 : Exploitation of Corpora 1. "Exploring Annotated Arabic Corpora, Preliminary Results", by Mark Van Mol (Belgium) 2. "On the Complexity of Queries for Structurally Annotated Linguistic Data", by Laura Kallmeyer (Germany) 3. "How to Improve Descriptive Texts Generation thanks to Corpus Analyses", by Laurence Balicco and Stéphanie Pouchot (France) 6:00 - 7:00 pm, Free Activity 7:00 pm, Monastir City Reception Thursday 23, March 2000 8:00 - 9:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP- KL2 : "Automatic Extraction of information from textual data", by J.-P. Descles (France) 9:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-3-A: Text analysis and syntax Chairs: Jean-Guy Meunier (Canada) and Seham El Kareh (Egypt) 1. "Text Analysis as a Prerequisite for building Adequate Text Knowledge Bases", by Udo Hahn and Martin Romacker (Germany) 2. "Basic Structures of Modern Standard Arabic Syntax in terms of Functions and Categories", by Everhard Ditters (The Netherlands) 3. "Towards a more Efficient Linguistic Recovery of Handwriting Recognition", by Chafik Aloulou, Lamia Hadrich Belguith and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia) 9:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-3-B: Anaphora resolution Chairs: Dan Tufis (Romania) & Key-Sun Choi (Korea) 1. "Dialogue Structure as a Preference in Anaphora Resolution Systems", by Patricio Martinez-Barco (Spain). 2. "Semantic Compatibility Techniques for Anaphora Resolution", by Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Jesus Peral and Armando Suarez (Spain) 3. ""VASISTH" an Anaphora Resolution System for Indian Languages", by Sobha L, B. N. Patnaik (India) 10:00 - 10:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit 10:30 - 11:30 am, Session NLP-4-A (enlver la lettre "A"): Term extraction and automatic abstracting Chairs: Udo Hahn (Germany), Maria Teresa Pazienza (Italy) 1. "Automatic Text Extraction Based on Classification of Extract's Population", by Maher Jaoua and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia) 2. "A Hybrid Technique for Automatic Term Extraction", by Byron Georgantopoulos and Stelios Piperidis (Greece) 3. "An extraction method for text summarisation", by Guillermo Moncecchi and Juan José Prada (Uruguay). 11:30 am - 12:30 am, Plenary Lecture 2 "Categorial and Mathematical classification in Natural Language Processing", by J.G. Meunier (Canada) 12:30 am - 2:30 pm, Lunch 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Session NLP-5 : Tagging Chairs: Joseph Dichy (France), Hanene Ben Abdallah (Tunisia) 1. "Evaluating POS tagging under sub-optimal conditions. Or: Does meticulousness pay ?", by Sandra Kübler and Andreas Wagner (Germany) 2. "An Arabic Interactive Multi-feature POS Tagger", by Seham El-Kareh and Sameh Al Ansary (Egypt) 3. "High Accuracy Tagging with Large Tagsets", by Dan Tufis (Romania) 3:30 - 4:00 pm, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP-KL3: "An Extended Boolean Algebra for PPC3", by Pieter A.M Seuren (The Netherlands) Chairs: Christian Boitet (France), Jean-Pierre Descles (France) 5:00 - 6:20 pm, Session NLP-6 : Text segmentation and Lexis 1. "A hybrid method for clause splitting in unrestricted English texts", by Costantin Orasan (UK) 2. "Sub-Technical Lexis in English : A Case Study Using Corpus Linguistics", by M. Bahloul and G. Greenall (USA) 3. "Normalisation of Association Measures for Multiword Lexical Unit Extraction", by Ga?l Dias, José Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Portugal) and Sylvie Guilloré (France). 4. "Word Alignment for Different Language Family Based on Linguistic Knowledge", by Jin-Xia Huang (China) and Key-Sun Choi (Korea) 6:20 - 8:00 pm, Free Activity 8:00 pm, Conference Dinner Friday 24, March 2000 8:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-7 : NLP Tools Chairs: Everhard Ditters (The Netherlands), Fumiyo Fukumoto (Japan) 1. "IBI: A NLP Approach to Question Answering Systems", by Jose L. Vicedo and Antonio Ferrandez (Spain) 2. "Automatic Annotation of HTML Documents to Improve the Web Research Pertinence", Omar Mazhoud and Lamia Hadrich Belguith (Tunisia) 3. "Correlating Newswire Articles with TV News Story using Features of TV News", by Yoshimi Suzuki and Yoshihiro Sekiguchi (Japan) 4. "Softening Fuzzy Knowledge Representation Tool with the Learning of New Words in Natural Language ", by Mohamed-Nazih Omri (Tunisia) 5. "A Logic Programming Approach to Word Expert Engineering", by Torbjörn Lager (Sweden) 10:00 - 10:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit 10:30 - 11:30 am, Session NLP-8 : Chairs: Ruslan Mitkov (UK), Belguith lamia(Tunisia) 1. "Resolving Overt Pronouns in Japanese using Hierarchical VP Structures" by Fumiyo Fukumoto, Hiroyasu Yamada (Japan) and Ruslan Mitkov (UK) 2. "Identification and Classification of Italian Complex Proper Names", by Maria Teresa Pazienza and Michele Vindigni (Italy) 3. "Definite Description Resolution in Spanish" by Rafael Munoz and Antonio Ferrandez (Spain) 11:30 - 12:30 am, Round Table & Closing 12:30 am- 2:30 pm, Lunch ********************************** Honorary Chairs --------------- Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT)-Tunisia Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley General Chairs -------------- Adel Alimi, National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS) Lamia Belguith Hadrich, LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science and Management of Sfax (FSEGS) Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science and Management of Sfax (FSEGS) Programme Committee ------------------- Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom) Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence) Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble) Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville) Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble) Khalid Choukri (ELRA, Paris) Fathi Debili (IRMC, Tunis) Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris) Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon) Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen) Fumiyo Fukumoto (University of Yamanashi) Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble) Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg) Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York) Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble) Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technology, Copenhagen) Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal) Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of Edinburgh) Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris) Manolo Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain) Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma, Tor Vergata) Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens) Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona) Mike Rosner (University of Malta) Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille) Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei) Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon) Agnes Tutin (Stendhal University, Grenoble) Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill) Jacques Virbel (IRIT, France) Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki) Additional Reviewers -------------------- Amit Bagga (USA) Costantin Orasan (UK) Catalina Barbu (UK) Hanene Ben Abdallah (Tunisia) Kalina Bontcheva (UK) Lamia Labed (Tunisia) Richard Evans (UK) Rim Faiz (Tunisia) Wahiba ben Abdessalem (Tunisia) Ahmed Hadj Kacem (Tunisia) Local Organising Committee -------------------------- Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) - Chairs H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax), Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS, Sfax), Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG, Gabes), Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax), Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax), Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax), Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis), Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax) Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax) International Organising Committee ---------------------------------- Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray (University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan), Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany), Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany), Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France), Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University), Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA) Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA) Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France) Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble) Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble) Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain) For any Information ------------------- Please contact : Lamia Belguith e-mail: l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn Mobile : (216) 9 411 060 Fax : (216) 4 279 139 Web site of the conference : <http://www.chez.com/acidca2000> ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 27 08:24:51 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:24:51 +0200 Subject: Project: CES Message-ID: <MON.27.MAR.2000.102451.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu> A list of projects using the Corpus Encoding Standard (CES) is now available through the CES web page: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/CES If you have a CES-based project that is not on the list, please contact ide at cs.vassar.edu. ======================================================= Nancy Ide Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0520 USA Tel: +1 914 437-5988 Fax: +1 914 437-7498 ide at cs.vassar.edu Chercheur Invite Equipe Langue et Dialogue, LORIA/CNRS Campus Scientifique - BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 83 59 20 47 Fax: +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 ide at loria.fr ======================================================= ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 27 08:23:23 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:23:23 +0200 Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers Message-ID: <MON.27.MAR.2000.102323.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Vanessa Combet" <combet at sinequa.com> Subject: SINEQUA 2/ From: Jian Su <sujian at krdl.org.sg> Subject: NLP:Researcher at Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Singapore 3/ From: Larry Pasquale <jobs at ingenuity.com> Subject: Comp Linguist (Bio-Medical) at InGenuity Systems, California ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Vanessa Combet" <combet at sinequa.com> Subject: SINEQUA SINEQUA (anciennement CORA-SA), start-up dynamique developpant des logiciels, en particulier pour le e-commerce et Internet, qui integrent des techniques d'analyses linguistiques, recherche : ********************************* un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne) specialiste de l'allemand et un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne) specialiste de l'espagnol. ********************************* Description du poste : Vous serez en charge de la creation, l'enrichissement et la maintenance des ressources lexico-semantiques necessaires au traitement de l'espagnol et de l'allemand par notre moteur de recherche d'informations Intuition. Par ailleurs, vous serez egalement amene(e) a adapter notre etiqueteur morpho-syntaxique pour le traitement de ces langues, ce qui implique, entre autres, d'ecrire des grammaires de desambiguïsation ou encore de preparer des corpus pour entrainer notre analyseur. Enfin, vous serez directement implique(e) dans les divers projets de recherche menes par nos equipes de linguistes et d'informaticiens. Competences requises : * parfaite maitrise de l'espagnol ou de l'allemand (langue maternelle) et bonne connaissance du francais ; * formation universitaire superieure en linguistique informatique ou linguistique (DESS, DEA, doctorat) ; * autonomie en matiere de programmation, c'est-a-dire que vous etes capable d'elaborer vos propres outils pour constituer, traiter et exploiter des ressources linguistiques (dictionnaires, corpus, grammaires) ; * une bonne connaissance et/ou experience dans les domaines suivants seront particulierement appreciees : lexicographie, terminologie, recherche d'informations, extraction d'informations, multilinguisme dans les systemes de recherche d'informations, autres langues... Aspects pratiques : La remuneration sera fonction de l'experience et des competences des candidats. Le lieu de travail est a Ivry sur Seine, en proche banlieue parisienne. Les candidats doivent avoir le droit de travailler en France. Merci d'envoyer votre candidature par courrier electronique ou postal a : Vanessa Combet-Meunier SINEQUA (Cora-SA) 51, rue Ledru Rollin 94 200 Ivry sur Seine combet at sinequa.com http://www.sinequa.com SINEQUA (formerly CORA-SA), a dynamic software company developing Natural Language products for e-commerce and the Web in particular, has the following openings for: ************************* a German computational linguist; a Spanish computational linguist. ************************* Position description: The successful candidates will be required to create, enhance and maintain the lexical and semantic Spanish and German databases used by our search engine Intuition. The candidates will also be responsible for training our part-of-speech tagger for these languages, which means being able to write disambiguation grammars, to edit corpora to ensure the successful training of out tagger, etc. The candidates will directly be involved in the different research projects our linguists and computer scientists carry out. Skills required: * (near) native speaker of Spanish or German and a good command of French; * relevant university degree in (computational) linguistics; * sufficient programming abilities to be able to build your own tools for the constitution and processing of linguistic resources; * good knowledge of and/or experience in the following areas are considered an asset: lexicography, terminology, information retrieval and extraction, cross-language information retrieval, other languages... Practical aspects: Salary according to experience and qualifications. The post is based in Ivry sur Seine (near Paris). The candidates must have a work permit for France. Please send your application letter and detailed resume by email or snail mail to: Vanessa Combet-Meunier SINEQUA (Cora-SA) 51, rue Ledru Rollin 94 200 Ivry sur Seine combet at sinequa.com http://www.sinequa.com ______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Jian Su <sujian at krdl.org.sg> Subject: NLP:Researcher at Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Singapore Rank of Job: researcher Areas Required: NLP on English and Chinese Other Desired Areas: Text Mining University or Organization: Kent Ridge Digital Labs Department: Knowledge Lab State or Province: Singapore Country: Singapore Final Date of Application: Open Contact: Jian Su sujian at krdl.org.sg Address for Applications: Kent Ridge Digital Labs, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore Singapore 119613 Singapore NLP(English & Chinese) researchers are needed: Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL)(http://www.krdl.org.sg/) is the premier national R&D organisation spearheading the research and development of information and networking technology. With an international team of 400 research scientists and engineers, KRDL offers industry partners the technology and technical leadership to become global players in the IT market: life sciences, information, education, transportation & logistics, and electronic commerce. At KRDL, we are committed to creating new breakthrough technologies that make a significant difference in the quality of life in the information age. At KRDL, you will find a community of unique individuals who know how to work hard, and play hard. We have the world -- in our hands. KRDL - the cradle for new technologies for the digital age. Position: Researcher Your responsibility will include research into English & Chinese entity recognition, coreference and other technologies; Requirements: Master/PhD Degree in Computer Science, preferably in NLP related area; Experience in Chinese/English NLP, especially entity recognition/coreference, etc; Good C/C++ programming skill Good communication skill and initiative CONTACT: *********** Su Jian Tel:(65) 874 2533 Email: sujian at krdl.org.sg ______________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Larry Pasquale <jobs at ingenuity.com> Subject: Comp Linguist (Bio-Medical) at InGenuity Systems, California Rank of Job: Mid to Senior Level Areas Required: Bio-medical Other Desired Areas: Science, Chemistry, Internet, NLP University or Organization: InGenuity Systems Department: Knowledge Engineering/Acquisition State or Province: California Country: United States Final Date of Application: April 30, 2000 Contact: Larry Pasquale jobs at ingenuity.com Address for Applications: 500 Ellis Street Mt. View California 94043 United States Computational Linguist Join a leading-edge team that is developing NLP systems to facilitate automatic information extraction from the biomedical literature. As a Computational Linguist. Your responsibilities will include: Design and implementation of an information extraction system for biomedical literature. Formulation, editing, and evaluation grammar rules for text-based biological data mining. Projects involving search, retrieval, and presentation of information from the InGenuity knowledge base Education: Master or Ph.D. in Computer Science or Linguistics with a focus on Natural Language Processing Requirements: At least two years of experience in developing applications for text-processing, information retrieval, or other related products. Knowledge of and experience with tagging, parsing, semantic processing, language generation, NL querying, and information extraction. Good analytic and problem-solving skills Working knowledge of PERL, C/C++, or Java Preferred: Familiarity with biomedical literature and vocabulary a plus Knowledge of and experience with existing NLP tools ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 27 08:23:40 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:23:40 +0200 Subject: Appel: 2 INLG'2000 workshops Message-ID: <MON.27.MAR.2000.102340.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Svetlana Sheremetyeva <lana at crl.NMSU.Edu> Objet : workshop deadline extended 2/ From: ralf.klabunde at t-online.de (Ralf Klabunde) Subject: Cognitive modeling/NLG systems (INLG'2000) ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Svetlana Sheremetyeva <lana at crl.NMSU.Edu> Objet : workshop deadline extended WORKSHOP DEADLINE EXTENDED Call for papers Analysis for Generation a Workshop in conjunction with The International Conference on Natural Language Generation INLG'2000 (June 13-14) June 12, 20000, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel 1. The reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time. The last decade has seen an explosion in the work done in the field of NLG with the emphasis on the development of independent NLG applications rather than generation modules of MT systems. While it seems natural to consider problems of analysis and generation as two sides of a coin in such NLP applications as MT, researchers working on "pure" generation systems sometimes treat problems arising at every stage of generation^content specification, sentence planning, and surface realization^as independent. Time may be ripe for examining the mutual utility of analysis and generation in greater detail. The impetus is, as can be expected, the goal of minimizing system-building efforts in language engineering. 2. A brief technical description of the issues the workshop will address. The workshop proposes to address: ^ issues connected to the needs of analysis in generation systems as well as ^ issues of interrelation between generation and analysis from the standpoint of reusability and adaptability of analysis techniques and tools for generation. ^ issues of reusability of analysis knowledge and methodology of its acquisition for generation. Analysis as part of generation. A wide range of complex problems which are considered to be specific for generation^content specification, planning, and grammaticalization^may lead one to believe that generation is completely independent of analysis. Most generators tacitly assume that an intermediate system module can use the output of the preceding module as its input without any processing (that is, analysis) of this output. This is not, however, the case in practice. A modicum of analysis is, in fact, an essential part of every generation system. The input to generation systems such as raw data in tables, lists, diagrams, elements of various databases or even text snippets that are fed into the system directly by a user still must first be somehow processed, that is, analyzed. The analysis is needed to provide both the necessary content and, often, format for the content specification (see, for example, Dale 1995, Robin 1994, Kukich 1988, McKeown et al. 1994, Bateman and Teich 1995). This problem becomes especially important in those applications (including multilingual ones) in which at least some input to generation is in textual form (e.g., Sheremetyeva and Nirenburg 1996). Many NLG systems often use a variety of analysis techniques. The question arises whether it is possible to develop criteria to better choose and integrate analysis techniques which could be efficiently applied at different stages of generation. Reusability and adaptability of analysis techniques and tools for generation. While it is not uncommon to believe that generation and analysis are not reversible, a number of contributions over the years have discussed reversibility of analysis and generation resources, especially the grammars. Appelt 1987, Barnett and Mani 1990 and van Noord 1993, among others, demonstrate how the use of reversible grammars may lead to efficient and flexible natural language parsing and generation systems. It is worth discussing constraints on reversibility. Reusability of analysis knowledge and methodology of its acquisition for generation. Generation and analysis are closely related in that both processes use many similar resources, and often it is less expensive to reorganize an existing "analysis" resource (e.g., an analysis lexicon) than to acquire one for generation from scratch. (Allgayer et al. 1989, Viegas and Beale 1996, Sheremetyeva and Nirenburg 1999a, 1999b). It is worth discussing how to establish whether a resource built for analysis can be used for generation and at what price. In particular the workshop will seek to address the following issues: I. Applications of analysis in generation and types of analysis techniques used in NLG. II. Reusability and adaptability of knowledge resources in generation and analysis - knowledge representation - lexicon format and indexing - rule writing format - knowledge acquisition and adaptation - reversibility of grammars - use of microtheories - architectural issues - converting (morphological, syntactic, semantic, etc.) analyzers into generator modules - architectural peculiarities of systems involving both analysis and synthesis and reusability of their modules. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions should consist of full papers (maximum of 12 pages, including references, 12pt font size). Each submission should include a separate title page providing the following information: the title, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone, fax, and email. Please send your electronic submission (PostScript or PDF format) until APRIL,10 to: Svetlana Sheremetyeva Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University USA Box30001/Dept.3CRL/Las Cruces New Mexico 88003-8001 505 646 5466 (voice) 505 646 6218 (fax) lana at crl.nmsu.edu IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: APRIL, 10 (extended) Notification of acceptance: April 20 Final paper to workshop coordinator: April 28 Workshop: June 12 INLG 2000: June13 - June 16 3. Organizing Committee Svetlana Sheremetyeva, Chair and contact person Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, USA lana at crl.nmsu.edu Sergei Nirenburg Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, USA sergei at crl.nmsu.edu Richard Kittredge Department of Linguistics and Translation, University of Montreal kittredge at IRO.UMontreal.CA Anna Sagvall Hein Department of linguistics, Uppsala University Anna at ling.uu.se Evelyne Viegas Microsoft Corporation evelynev at microsoft.com Michael Zock Language & Cognition LIMSI - CNRS zock at limsi.fr ______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: ralf.klabunde at t-online.de (Ralf Klabunde) Subject: Cognitive modeling/NLG systems (INLG'2000) ********************************************************** Attention: workshop DEADLINE EXTENDED C A L L F O R P A P E R S Why care for cognitive modeling when building NLG systems ? Workshop to be held in conjunction with INLG 2000 International Conference on Natural Language Generation Workshop home page: http://pc03.idf.uni-heidelberg.de/~ralf/wkshop WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Natural Language Generation (NLG) exists now for many years as a subdiscipline of computational linguistics. Many systems have been built with different goals and from different perspectives. While some approaches are strongly driven by engineering concerns, others are more concerned with insights in human language production. By organizing this workshop we pursue three goals: (a) to show that cognitive and engineering approaches, rather then being mutually exclusive, are highly complementary; (b) to identify some of the loci where the human factor should be taken into account; (c) to discuss then what methods could be used in order to enhance current systems or architectures by means of cognitive models of human language generation. While there is no doubt that cognitive modeling is useful for testing theories of human behavior, it is probably also quite useful in cognitive engineering, that is, as a complementary methodology for building systems. If the engineering point of view is overemphasised, designers will be more concerned with the machine than with their final users: people. In order to build truly user-friendly NL-generators, i.e. systems which adapt themselves to users rather than the other way around, we need a deeper understanding of the knowledge and the processes that people use when producing language. These kinds of insights can profitably be used when building systems, especially if they are meant to be used by people. At present, we observe a strong tendency towards an engineering approach. While many researchers in the field have based their systems on empirical research, their approach still remains more motivated by engineering considerations (efficiency) then by psycho-linguistic factors (the problems people face). Yet we do believe, that integrating the human factor into the engineering approach would greatly enhance the overall quality (adequacy, flexibility, scope) of the existing systems. To approach these goals, the workshop invites full papers that deal with any aspect of the following topics: - ARCHITECTURE (flexibility, decomposition and control of the process) - CONTENT DETERMINATION / CONCEPTUALIZATION - NATURE OF THE INPUT (proximity to language) - OUTLINE PLANNING - NP-GENERATION (the problem of reference) - LEXICAL ACCESS For more information on the workshop and its topics have a look at the workshop homepage. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Gerard Kempen, University of Leiden, The Netherlands kempen at rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl Ralf Klabunde, University of Heidelberg, Germany (Chair) klabunde at novell1.gs.uni-heidelberg.de Koenraad de Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway deSmedt at hf.uib.no Michael Zock, LIMSI - CNRS, France zock at limsi.fr FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions should consist of full papers (maximum of 10 pages including references, 12pt font size). Each submission should include a separate title page providing the following information: the title, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone, fax, and email. Electronic submissions should be sent to Ralf Klabunde until April 6. We strongly advise standard html, but PostScript or PDF form is also possible. Ralf Klabunde University of Heidelberg Center for Computational Linguistics Karlstr. 2 69117 Heidelberg, Germany klabunde at novell1.gs.uni-heidelberg.de IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: April 6             Notification of acceptance: April 14 Final paper to workshop coordinator: May 2          Workshop: June 12 INLG 2000: June13 - June 16 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 31 10:17:57 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:17:57 +0200 Subject: Appel: RECITAL-2000 Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAR.2000.121757.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Damien Genthial <Damien.Genthial at imag.fr> 2ème Appel à communications RÉCITAL-2000 Rencontre des Etudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Suisse) du 16 au 18 octobre 2000 http://www-clips.imag.fr/RECITAL-2000 RECITAL-2000 at imag.fr conjointement à TALN-2000 http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000 La quatrième édition du colloque RECITAL se tiendra conjointement à la conférence TALN-2000 (Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles), à Lausanne (Suisse) du 16 au 18 octobre 2000. Le colloque RECITAL-2000 donne aux jeunes chercheurs l'occasion de se rencontrer, de présenter leurs travaux et de comparer leurs approches. L'expérience très réussie du couplage RECITAL-TALN en 1999 sera renouvelée cette année encore et devrait l'être systématiquement à l'avenir.Ce couplage permet aux participants d'acquérir une vision plus globale sur les avancées théoriques les plus récentes, ainsi que sur des applications industrielles actuellement développées. Il favorise également les échanges avec les chercheurs confirmés qui participent à TALN. * Thèmes indicatifs Problématiques classiques : - Analyse et compréhension de textes - Génération d'énoncés en LN - Traduction automatique - Production de résumés - Correction automatique - Dialogue humain/machine Problématiques connexes : - Ressources linguistiques (lexiques, dictionnaires électroniques, corpus etc.) - Sémantique lexicale (polysémie, catégorisation, etc.) - Sémantique du temps et de l'espace (représentation et raisonnement) - Logique (argumentation, modélisation des intentions et des croyances, etc.) - Architectures dédiées au TAL (systèmes multi-agents, réseaux neuromimétiques) - Acquisition et apprentissage automatique de ressources ou de connaissances (à partir de corpus, ou de l'interaction humain/machine) - Relations entre TAL et reconnaissance de la parole Cette liste n'est pas exhaustive et l'adéquation d'une proposition de communication à la conférence sera jugée par le comité de programme. * Soumissions Les soumissions (de 6 pages maximum en Times 12) devront être rédigées en français ou en anglais par de jeunes chercheurs (thèse en cours ou bien soutenue après septembre 1998) et accompagnées d'un résumé de 200 mots. RECITAL-2000 est la session pour étudiants de TALN-2000 et il est possible pour un auteur de soumettre à plusieurs manifestations (TAL, RECITAL, ateliers). Dans ce cas, la double soumission doit apparaître clairement dans le courrier adressé aux deux comités de programme. Les soumissions à RECITAL-2000 ne seront pas anonymes. Les relecteurs seront encouragés à signer leurs rapports. Les soumissions seront exclusivement électroniques et devront être envoyées en fichier attaché à : RECITAL-2000 at imag.fr. Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission en PostScript, en RTF ou en PDF. Une feuille de style LaTeX et un modèle Word sont disponibles sur les pages web de TALN-2000 (voir ci-dessus). Les articles retenus seront présentés lors des sessions RECITAL sous la forme d'une communication orale d'une vingtaine de minutes et figureront dans les actes de TALN-2000. * Dates importantes (calendrier identique à celui de TALN-2000) Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2000 Notification aux auteurs : 23 juin 2000 Version finale (prêt-à-clicher): 4 août 2000 Conférence : 16-18 octobre 2000 * Comité de programme Responsable : Damien Genthial (mailto:Damien.Genthial at imag.fr) Pascal Amsili (TALANA, Paris) Pierre Beust (GREYC, Caen) Jean Caelen (CLIPS, Grenoble) Paul Deléglise (LIUM, Le Mans) Cécile Fabre (ERSS, Toulouse) Bertrand Gaiffe (LORIA, Nancy) Emmanuel Giguet (GREYC, Caen) Stéphane Ferrari (GREYC, Caen) Brigitte Grau (LIMSI, Orsay) Maurice Gross (LADL, Paris) Jean-Luc Husson (LORIA, Nancy Eric Laporte (Marne la Vallée) Jérome Lehuen (LIUM, Le Mans) Gérard Ligozat (LIMSI, Orsay) Daniel Luzzati (LIUM, Le Mans) Denis Maurel (LI, Tours) Reza Mir-Samii (LIUM, Le Mans) Jacques Moeschler (Genève) Philippe Muller (IRIT, Toulouse) Anne Nicolle (GREYC, Caen) Didier Pernel (L&H, Belgique) Cécile Fabre (ERSS, Toulouse) Violaine Prince (Paris 8) Martin Rajman (EPFL, Lausanne) Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy) Azim Roussanaly (LORIA, Nancy) Gérard Sabah (LIMSI, Orsay) Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse) Jean Senellart (LADL, Paris) Jacques Siroux (IRISA LLI/CORDIAL, Rennes) Max Silberztein (LADL, Paris) Jacques Vergne (GREYC, Caen) Jean Véronis (LPL, Aix) Anne Vilnat (LIMSI, Orsay) Michael Zock (LIMSI, Orsay) * Comité d'organisation Responsable : José Rouillard (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Pierre Beust (GREYC Caen) Peggy Cadel (LILLA Nice) Jean Caelen (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Damien Genthial (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Stéphanie Pouchot (CRISTAL-GRESEC Grenoble) Dominique Vaufreydaz (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Pour tous renseignements : Page web de RÉCITAL-2000 : http://www-clips.imag.fr/RECITAL-2000 Adresse électronique de RÉCITAL-2000 : RECITAL-2000 at imag.fr Adresse courrier: Colloque RÉCITAL-2000 à l'attention de Damien Genthial CLIPS, IMAG-Campus BP 53 38040 Grenoble cedex * Information Pratiques Pour toute information pratique concernant l'hébergement, l'accès au site à Lausanne, etc, nous vous renvoyons aux pages web de TALN (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- TRILAN/CLIPS/IMAG, (lundis et jeudis) | IUT de Valence (les autres jours) Tél : 04 76 51 49 15 | Tél : 04 75 41 88 00 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 31 10:14:09 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:14:09 +0200 Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAR.2000.121409.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: dirk.petry at systran.lu Subject: Job openings for language specialists at Systran Luxemburg 2/ From: betty at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Research Fellow in Probabilistic Natual Language Processing 3/ From: Ted Briscoe <Ted.Briscoe at cl.cam.ac.uk> Subject: Comp Ling/NLP: Lecturer at U of Cambridge 4/ From: Hassan Alam <hassana at bcl-computers.com> Subject: Comp Linguists/Project Manager at BCL Computers, California USA _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: dirk.petry at systran.lu Subject: Job openings for language specialists at Systran Luxemburg Job openings for language specialists at Systran Luxembourg S.A. Systran Luxembourg S.A., a Luxemburg-based company which has been developing machine translation systems for over fifteen years, is currently seeking three language specialists to join its team in Luxemburg on a full-time basis. 1. Two Dutch language specialists for the development of the English-Dutch resp. French-Dutch translation system, and particularly of the Dutch target. Profile: native Dutch excellent knowledge of English and/or French university degree in translating, phylology, computational linguistics or equivalent good knowledge/experience in one or more of the following areas would be considered an asset : programming in C or Perl, natural language processing, computational linguistics 2. One English language specialist for the development of the Dutch-English translation system, and particularly of the English target. Profile: native English excellent knowledge of Dutch university degree in translating, phylology, computational linguistics or equivalent good knowledge/experience in one or more of the following areas would be considered an asset : programming in C or Perl, natural language processing, computational linguistics If you are interested in one of these job opportunities and you believe to fulfil the required profile, please E-mail your CV, including full details of education, qualification and previous experience to : Pierre.Thillen at Systran.lu Alternatively, please send a paper copy to : Mr. Pierre Thillen Systran Luxembourg S.A. 12, rue de Vianden L - 2680 Luxembourg _______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: betty at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Research Fellow in Probabilistic Natual Language Processing Dear All Following is a job advert which we would be obliged could be posted on. Apologies if you receive this message twice. Division of Informatics RESEARCH POSITION IN PROBABILISTIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING This project in the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) of the Division of Informatics is funded by EPSRC to investigate the use of Categorial Grammars to support wide coverage statistically guided natural language parsing. A large categorial lexicon will be induced from labelled treebank corpora and the project will extend head dependency-based techniques to the parsing of a wide variety of problematic constructions involving long-range dependencies, including relatives, parentheticals, non-constituent fragments, and varieties of coordinate structures. The parser will deliver both syntactic and semantic structure. Evaluation will be both by comparison to existing large coverage parsers using standard measures, and by application to information processing tasks. We seek an individual to join an existing team of staff and postgraduate students to assist development of such parsers and applications. The ideal candidate will hold a degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Linguistics, or Artificial Intelligence and have an in interest both in linguistic analysis and parsing technology. S/he will have practical experience in programming, developing grammars, parsers, and probability models, and analysing linguistic corpora. Salary scale: 16,286 - 18.185 pounds per annum. The post is for 3 years initially (subject to further funding). Additional information about The Division of Informatics (http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk), ICCS (http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk) and related groups such HCRC (http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/) and the Language Technology group (http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/overview.htm) is available from our website. Informal enquiries may be made to: Mark Steedman (steedman at cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Please quote reference number 306195WW Further particulars are available from, and applications should be sent to: Personnel University of Edinburgh 9-16 Chambers Street Edinburgh, EH1 1HT Tel: 0131 650 2511 (24 hour answering service). Closing date for applications is 4 April 2000. Further Particulars for the post of research associate in probablistic natural language processing, ICCS, Division of Informatics, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW This project in the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) of the Division of Informatics is funded by EPSRC to investigate the use of Categorial Grammars to support wide coverage statistically guided natural language parsing. A large categorial lexicon will be induced from labelled treebank corpora and the project will extend head dependency-based techniques to the parsing of a wide variety of problematic constructions involving long-range dependencies, including relatives, parentheticals, non-constituent fragments, and varieties of coordinate structures. The parser will deliver both syntactic and semantic structure. Evaluation will be both by comparison to existing large coverage parsers using standard measures, and by application to information processing tasks. We seek an individual to join an existing team of staff and postgraduate students to assist development of such parsers and applications. The ideal candidate will hold a degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Linguistics, or Artificial Intelligence and have in interest both in linguistic analysis and parsing technology. S/he will have practical experience in programming, developing grammars, parsers, and probability models, and analysing linguistic corpora. Successful candidates will be hired on the AR1A researcher scale (16,286-18,185 pounds per annum) , depending on age and experience. They will be employed initially for a period of three years, starting as soon as possible. Additional information about The Division of Informatics (http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk), ICCS (http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk) and related groups such HCRC (http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/) and the Language Technology group (http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/overview.htm) is available from our website. The University The University of Edinburgh has a student population of around 15,000 and employs nearly 2,000 Academic and Related staff, and some 3,500 non-teaching staff in the Clerical, Technical and Manual categories. The main locations of the University are in the centre of the city (South Side) and at King's Buildings some 2.5 miles away. The Division of Informatics Informatics is the study of the structure, behaviour, and interactions of both natural and artificial computational systems. The Division was formed in 1998 by combining the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Artificial Intelligence, and the Centre for Cognitive Science. ICCS The Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) is dedicated to the pursuit of basic research into the nature of communication among humans and between humans and machines using text, speech, and graphics, and the design of interactive dialogue systems, using computational and algorithmic approaches, with applications including natural language processing, information retrieval and presentation, education, musical analysis, and instruction. The work of the Institute is crucially interdependent with work of units at Edinburgh outwith Informatics, notably the Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology Departments, with which it interacts via the cross faculty Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC). The members of ICCS comprise around forty-five academic and research staff doing basic and applied research in a wide range of topics in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science concerning dynamic aspects of cognition, including: computational syntax and semantics and their interaction in processing; human learning, human reasoning and psychologically realistic knowledge representation; the production and analysis of cooperative communication in a number of modalities including spoken and written text and dialogue, graphics design and multimedia, and music. The Language Technology Group pursues research within the Institute in a number of application domains, including instructional and educational systems, interactive information management systems and computer-assisted collaboration tools. Hours Fixed hours of attendance are not specified, you will be expected to work such hours, normally Monday to Friday, as are required from the proper discharge of your duties. The working week will average 35 hours. Part-time staff will be remunerated pro-rata to 35 hours. Application Procedure Please complete and return the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form, and the Application Form to, Recruitment, The Personnel Department, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1HT by the closing date of 4 April 2000. We cannot guarantee to consider late applications. These particulars are issued by the Personnel Office, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1HT, and represent an accurate description of the duties at the time of writing, although this accuracy cannot be guaranteed. The University reserves the right to vary these particulars in making an appointment or to make no appointment at all. Neither in part nor in whole do these particulars form part of any contract between the University and any individual. This advert can also be found at: http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/ Betty Huyhes Institute Secretary _______________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Ted Briscoe <Ted.Briscoe at cl.cam.ac.uk> Subject: Comp Ling/NLP: Lecturer at U of Cambridge The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory has a vacancy for a University Lecturer or University Assistant Lecturer in the area of computational linguistics and natural language processing, to take up appointment on 1 October 2000 or as soon as possible thereafter. Candidates are expected to have a demonstrated ability or clear potential to conduct research at an international level of excellence in their chosen speciality. Candidates will also be expected to have proven teaching abilities. The person appointed will be required to make a significant contribution to the teaching and organisation of the MPhil in Computer Speech and Language Processing. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/DeptInfo/Jobs/ul-nlp.html _______________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Hassan Alam <hassana at bcl-computers.com> Subject: Comp Linguists/Project Manager at BCL Computers, California USA Rank of Job: Areas Required: Project Manager and Computational Linguists Other Desired Areas: Knowledge-Base Construction University or Organization: BCL Computers Department: HCI Products State or Province: CA Country: USA Final Date of Application: 9/1/2000 Contact: Hassan Alam hassana at bcl-computers.com Address for Applications: 990 Linden Drive, Ste. 203 Santa Clara CA 95050 USA BCL is looking for people with experience in computational linguistics and linguistics to work on an exciting, cutting-edge project funded by the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) of the Department of Commerce. Positions include Project Manager, Researchers, Engineers, and Interns. The work involves developing and implementing linguistic models for spoken and written language for the Internet and handheld platforms. The ideal candidate will have a degree in computer science or linguistics. Experience in computational linguistics is a plus. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 31 10:17:08 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:17:08 +0200 Subject: Appel: ASE'00 Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAR.2000.121708.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Gerald Gannod <gannod at asu.edu> Automated Software Engineering --- ASE'00 15th IEEE International Conference September 11--15, 2000, Grenoble, France Abstracts due: March 24, 2000; Papers due: March 31, 2000 Latest information: http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ase/ Call for Papers The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of automated software engineering technology. Both automatic systems and systems that support and cooperate with people are within the scope of the conference, as are models of software and software engineering activities. ASE'00 encourages contributions describing basic research, novel applications, and experience relevant to automating software engineering activities. Solicited topics include, but are not limited to: - Automated software specification - Automated software design and synthesis - Category-theoretic approaches - Computer-supported cooperative work - Domain modeling - Knowledge acquisition - Maintenance and evolution - Process and workflow management - Program understanding - Re-engineering - Requirements engineering - Reuse - Software architectures - Testing - Tutoring, help, documentation systems - Human computer interaction - Verification and validation The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering was formerly known as the Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference. In conjunction with the name change three years ago, the conference expanded to encourage worldwide participation and to reach other scientific communities concerned with formal methods, partial evaluation, process support, human-computer interface support, requirements engineering, reverse engineering, testing, or verification & validation. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, at IEEE Computer Society Press. In addition, several of the highest quality papers will be selected for a special issue of the Journal of Automated Software Engineering (Kluwer). ASE'00 will also include invited talks, tutorials, panel discussions, a doctoral symposium, and project demonstrations, for which separate calls for participation will be issued. Papers should not exceed 6000 words, with full-page figures counting as 300 words. Papers that exceed the length restriction will not be reviewed. Papers will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. All papers, especially application papers and experience reports, should clearly identify their novel contributions. See http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ase/SubmissionPointers.html for guidelines. All papers should be submitted electronically to ase00 at ittc.ukans.edu in PostScript, MS Word, or PDF format, on or before March 31, 2000. In addition, a single hard copy should be mailed to Perry Alexander at the address below; it serves as a backup should printing problems occur, and it may arrive later than the electronic submission date. To expedite the review process, each paper's title, authors, abstract, keywords, and contact author's email address should be submitted by March 24, 2000 through http://www.dis.uu.se/ASE2000/ Use the returned paper number to identify your paper when submitting it. All subsequent communications will take place via email to the contact author. General Chair Yves Ledru IMAG Grenoble, France Yves.Ledru at imag.fr Program Co-Chairs Perry Alexander ITTC / The Univ. of Kansas 2291 Irving Hill Rd Lawrence, KS 66044-7321 Tel +1 785 864-7741 palexand at ukans.edu Pierre Flener Dept of Information Science Uppsala University, Box 513 S-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden Tel +46 18 471-1028 Pierre.Flener at dis.uu.se Program Committee: Perry Alexander, USA Daniel Berry, Israel Yves Deville, Belgium Steve Easterbrook, USA Wolfgang Emmerich, UK Martin Feather, USA Steve Fickas, USA Bernd Fischer, USA Pierre Flener, Sweden Alfonso Fuggetta, Italy Gerry Gannod, USA Michael Goedicke, Germany Joseph Goguen, USA Ian Green, UK John Grundy, New Zealand Robert Hall, USA Mehdi Harandi, USA Mats Heimdahl, USA Scott Henninger, USA Bernd Kraemer, Germany Kung-Kiu Lau, UK Baudouin Le Charlier, Belgium Yves Ledru, France Julio Leite, Brazil Mike Lowry, USA Tom Maibaum, UK Neil Maiden, UK Renaud Marlet, France Mihhail Matskin, Norway Ali Mili, USA Bashar Nuseibeh, UK Colin O'Halloran, UK Charles Pecheur, USA John Penix, USA Alex Quilici, USA David Redmiles, USA Arthur Reyes, USA Debra Richardson, USA Julian Richardson, UK Spencer Rugaber, USA Conor Ryan, Ireland Houari Sahraoui, Canada Akiyoshi Sato, Japan Dorothy Setliff, Australia Frank Shipman, USA Doug Smith, USA Kurt Stirewalt, USA Enn Tyugu, Sweden Jeff van Baalen, USA Richard Waldinger, USA Virginie Wiels, France Chris Welty, USA David Wile, USA --Boundary_(ID_qE758qqbRZFsD4tepk9MvQ) Content-type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version = 5.5.2651.75"> <TITLE>3rd CFP: Automated Software Engineering --- ASE'00

Automated Software Engineering --- ASE'00
15th IEEE International Conference
September 11--15, 2000, Grenoble, France
Abstracts due: March 24, 2000; Papers due: March 31, = 2000
Latest information: http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ase/

Call for Papers

The IEEE International Conference on Automated = Software Engineering
brings together researchers and practitioners to = share ideas on the
foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of = automated software
engineering technology. Both automatic systems and = systems that
support and cooperate with people are within the = scope of the
conference, as are models of software and software = engineering
activities. ASE'00 encourages contributions = describing basic
research, novel applications, and experience = relevant to automating
software engineering activities. Solicited topics = include, but are not
limited to:

- Automated software specification
- Automated software design and synthesis
- Category-theoretic approaches
- Computer-supported cooperative work
- Domain modeling
- Knowledge acquisition
- Maintenance and evolution
- Process and workflow management
- Program understanding
- Re-engineering
- Requirements engineering
- Reuse
- Software architectures
- Testing
- Tutoring, help, documentation systems
- Human computer interaction
- Verification and validation

The IEEE International Conference on Automated = Software Engineering
was formerly known as the Knowledge-Based Software = Engineering
Conference. In conjunction with the name change = three years ago, the
conference expanded to encourage worldwide = participation and to reach
other scientific communities concerned with formal = methods, partial
evaluation, process support, human-computer = interface support,
requirements engineering, reverse engineering, = testing, or
verification & validation.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference = proceedings, at
IEEE Computer Society Press. In addition, several of = the highest
quality papers will be selected for a special issue = of the Journal of
Automated Software Engineering (Kluwer). ASE'00 will = also include
invited talks, tutorials, panel discussions, a = doctoral symposium, and
project demonstrations, for which separate calls for = participation
will be issued.

Papers should not exceed 6000 words, with full-page = figures counting
as 300 words. Papers that exceed the length = restriction will not be
reviewed. Papers will be reviewed by at least three = program committee
members. All papers, especially application papers = and experience
reports, should clearly identify their novel = contributions. See
http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ase/SubmissionPointe= rs.html for
guidelines.

All papers should be submitted electronically to = ase00 at ittc.ukans.edu
in PostScript, MS Word, or PDF format, on or before = March 31, 2000.
In addition, a single hard copy should be mailed to = Perry Alexander at
the address below; it serves as a backup should = printing problems
occur, and it may arrive later than the electronic = submission date.
To expedite the review process, each paper's title, = authors, abstract,
keywords, and contact author's email address should = be submitted by
March 24, 2000 through

          &nb= sp;            = http://www.dis.uu.se/ASE2000/

Use the returned paper number to identify your paper = when submitting it.
All subsequent communications will take place via = email to the
contact author.

General Chair
Yves Ledru
IMAG
Grenoble, France
Yves.Ledru at imag.fr

Program Co-Chairs
Perry Alexander
ITTC / The Univ. of Kansas
2291 Irving Hill Rd
Lawrence, KS 66044-7321
Tel +1 785 864-7741
palexand at ukans.edu

Pierre Flener
Dept of Information Science
Uppsala University, Box 513
S-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Tel +46 18 471-1028
Pierre.Flener at dis.uu.se

Program Committee:

Perry Alexander, USA
Daniel Berry, Israel
Yves Deville, Belgium
Steve Easterbrook, USA
Wolfgang Emmerich, UK
Martin Feather, USA
Steve Fickas, USA
Bernd Fischer, USA
Pierre Flener, Sweden
Alfonso Fuggetta, Italy
Gerry Gannod, USA
Michael Goedicke, Germany
Joseph Goguen, USA
Ian Green, UK
John Grundy, New Zealand
Robert Hall, USA
Mehdi Harandi, USA
Mats Heimdahl, USA
Scott Henninger, USA
Bernd Kraemer, Germany
Kung-Kiu Lau, UK
Baudouin Le Charlier, Belgium
Yves Ledru, France
Julio Leite, Brazil
Mike Lowry, USA
Tom Maibaum, UK
Neil Maiden, UK
Renaud Marlet, France
Mihhail Matskin, Norway
Ali Mili, USA
Bashar Nuseibeh, UK
Colin O'Halloran, UK
Charles Pecheur, USA
John Penix, USA
Alex Quilici, USA
David Redmiles, USA
Arthur Reyes, USA
Debra Richardson, USA
Julian Richardson, UK
Spencer Rugaber, USA
Conor Ryan, Ireland
Houari Sahraoui, Canada
Akiyoshi Sato, Japan
Dorothy Setliff, Australia
Frank Shipman, USA
Doug Smith, USA
Kurt Stirewalt, USA
Enn Tyugu, Sweden
Jeff van Baalen, USA
Richard Waldinger, USA
Virginie Wiels, France
Chris Welty, USA
David Wile, USA

--Boundary_(ID_qE758qqbRZFsD4tepk9MvQ)-- ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Fri Mar 31 10:18:43 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:18:43 +0200 Subject: Infos: Synapse Message-ID: From: "Dominique Laurent" Titre : Sous-entendus, tronquage et diffamation Canal+ a attaqué notre société, Synapse développement, à deux reprises le lundi 20 mars et le lundi 27 mars, dans l'émission "Nulle part ailleurs". Nous avons été traités de racistes et de fascistes à propos d'une proposition de vérification orthographique (comme si un vérificateur faisait de la sémantique et comme si on connaissait la sémantique d'un mot inconnu !) et à propos d'une liste des 3 seuls cas où les noms propres de fonction individualisés prennent une majuscule (Führer, Duce, Caudillo). Nos deux communiqués de presse en réponse à ces attaques inouïes sont disponibles sur notre site : http://www.synapse-fr.com/CP01.htm http://www.synapse-fr.com/CP02.htm Nous sommes en discussions avec Canal+ pour un droit de réponse et nous envisageons des poursuites judiciaires. Nous avons en partie découvert qui tire les ficelles derrière Vandel et, comme souvent, on trouve le mélange de concurrents et de gesns qui veulent se faire de la pub. Mais, si je vous adresse ce message, en dehors du fait qu'il nous permet de présenter notre défense, ce que bien peu de média nous ont permis jusqu'ici, c'est que ces deux affaires posent de vrais problèmes de linguistique appliquée : comment les journalistes généralistes et le grand public perçoit les outils de correction et l'ordinateur, comment en utilisant quelques mots sémantiquement forts et enlevés de leur contexte, on peut monter une attaque (mais cela tous les totalitarismes l'avaient utilisé, ce n'est pas Canal+ qui l'a découvert !). Cordialement Le responsable du développement SYNAPSE Développement 33, rue Mayanrd 31000 TOULOUSE 05-61-63-69-90 ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Fri Mar 31 10:18:04 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:18:04 +0200 Subject: Info: DEA, Genève Message-ID: From: laenzlinger *************************************************** Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (DEA) de Linguistique 2000-2001 Coordination : professeur Jacques Moeschler 1. Présentation générale Le Département de Linguistique de lÂ’Université de Genève offre une formation post-grade en linguistique dans le cadre de la certification DEA (Diplôme d’Études Approfondies) de la Faculté des Lettres. Le DEA est la première étape de la formation postgrade dont le terme est le doctorat. Il offre également des cours de mise à niveau, et permet ainsi dÂ’intégrer une formation propédeutique à la formation doctorale. Les activités du Département de Linguistique relèvent principalement de trois domaines thématiques, qui correspondent aux trois pôles de spécialisation du Département : la linguistique informatique, la syntaxe comparative et lÂ’analyse du discours. La linguistique informatique, dont le lieu de recherche est constitué par le LATL (Labo-ratoire dÂ’Analyse et de Traitement du Langage), a pour principales activités de recherche lÂ’analyse et la génération automatiques des langues naturelles, les outils dÂ’aide à la traduc-tion et le traitement de la parole (responsable : professeur Eric Wehrli, Eric.Wehrli at lettres.unige.ch). La syntaxe comparative, dont les pôles empiriques sont les langues romanes, germaniques et sémitiques, regroupe des recherches dans le domaine de la théorie des principes et des paramètres (grammaire générative) (responsable : professeur Luigi Rizzi, Luigi.Rizzi at lettres.unige.ch). LÂ’analyse du discours regroupe des recherches sur les différents plans dÂ’organisation du discours dans le cadre de lÂ’analyse modulaire du discours ainsi que des recherches sur la modélisation des inférences temporelles dans le discours (responsable : professeur Eddy Roulet, Eddy.Roulet at lettres.unige.ch). 2. Enseignements Les séminaires de DEA (en principe dÂ’une durée dÂ’un semestre) sont répartis sur les semestres dÂ’hiver et d’été. Dans le cadre du DEA, l’étudiant est libre de choisir une spécialisation, ou d’élaborer son programme à la carte, avec lÂ’accord dÂ’un professeur respon-sable dÂ’un domaine. En plus des séminaires spécialisés, le DEA de linguistique offre un ensemble de cours de mise à niveau en syntaxe, sémantique et pragmatique, informatique, et des séminaires de recherche dans lesquels des conférenciers extérieurs seront invités tout au long de lÂ’année académique. Analyse du discours - Analyse conversationnelle, analyse du discours et pragmatique du discours (Eddy Roulet, po) - Pragmatique du discours : inférences directionnelles et représentations mentales (Jacques Moeschler, pt) - Organisation prosodique du dialogue (Antoine Auchlin, mer) - Sémantique et pragmatique de la particularisation (Emilio Manzotti, po) - Structure de lÂ’action et structure du discours (Jean-Paul Bronckart, po, FPSE) - Communication politique et communication médiatique (Uli Windisch, po) Syntaxe comparative - Syntaxe comparative (Luigi Rizzi, pae) - Syntaxe sémitique et comparative (Ur Shlonsky, mer) - Syntaxe des quantificateurs (Genoveva Puskas Nerima, ce) - Syntaxe formelle et études comparatives (Christopher Laenzlinger, mas) Linguistique informatique - Traitement automatique du langage naturel (Eric Wehrli, po) - Aspects psycholinguistiques du traitement automatique du langage naturel (Catherine Walther Green, mas) - Prolog et lÂ’analyse du langage naturel (Paola Merlo, mas) Cours de mise à niveau - Mise à niveau en syntaxe formelle (Christopher Lænzlinger, mas) - Mise à niveau en sémantique et en pragmatique (Jacques Moeschler, pt) - Mise à niveau en informatique (Paola Merlo, mer) Séminaires de recherche - Séminaire de recherche en analyse du discours (Eddy Roulet, Antoine Auchlin, Jacques Moeschler et conférenciers invités) - Séminaire de recherche en syntaxe comparative (Ur Shlonsky, Genoveva Puskas Neri-ma et conférenciers invités) - Séminaire de recherche en linguistique informatique (Eric Wehrli, Christopher Lænzlinger et conférenciers invités) Contacts Professeur Jacques Moeschler Département de linguistique 2, rue de Candolle Faculté des Lettres, Université CH-1211 Genève 4 Jacques.Moeschler at lettres.unige.ch http://www.unige.ch/lettres/linge/ tél. +41 22 705 72 76 fax + 41 22 705 79 31 --Boundary_(ID_5/f2wIOw6ybcbB7GbIXE9g) Content-type: text/x-vcard; name=laenzlinger.vcf; charset=us-ascii Content-description: Card for laenzlinger Content-disposition: attachment; filename=laenzlinger.vcf Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT begin:vcard n:Christopher;Laenzlinger tel;home:2 rue de Candolle, 1211 Genève-4, Swizerland tel;work:Linguistics and Computational Linguistics x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:laenzlinger at latl.unige.ch fn:Laenzlinger Christopher end:vcard --Boundary_(ID_5/f2wIOw6ybcbB7GbIXE9g)-- ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Mar 2 13:03:05 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:03:05 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 7 Offers Message-ID: [Certaines de ces annonces sont transf?r?es de la liste LINGUIST, avec l'autorisation de ses ?diteurs. PB] [Some of these annoucements are forwarded from the LINGUIST list, by courtesy of its editors. PB] _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Alexander Franz" Subject: NLP Position at Sony US Research Labs, San Jose, CA 2/ From: Torsten Schaub Subject: Two open research positions 3/ From: "Shinya Nakagawa" Subject: Job Opportunities in Natural Language Processing 4/ From: Dan Faulkner Subject: TTS and Linguistics: Aculab plc, Buckinghamshire UK 5/ From: Dorothy.SENEZ at cec.eu.int Subject: Translation services 6/ From: Wei Li Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at Cymfony Inc. 7/ From: Peter Chane Subject: Computational Linguist at Thrownet, San Francisco _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Alexander Franz" Subject: NLP Position at Sony US Research Labs, San Jose, CA The Spoken Language Technology group at Sony's US Research Laboratories, located in San Jose, CA, has an immediate opening for a natural language processing specialist. The successful applicant will perform research and development in robust language analysis and spoken language translation. Applicants should be creative problem solvers, strong team players, and good communicators, and they should be self-motivated and flexible. Desired qualifications include experience in NLP, MT, search, statistical language modelling, and speech recognition-NLP integration. Applicants should hold an advanced degree (ideally PhD) in NLP, CS, Computational Linguistics, or a related field. Desired skills include strong programming skills in C/C++, and familiarity with Unix, UNIX/Windows cross-platform development, and software engineering. Please send inquiries or resumes to: Alexander Franz Sony US Research Labs Email: amf at slt.sel.sony.com Fax: +1 (408) 955-6848 --------------------------- _______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Torsten Schaub Subject: Two open research positions [Please forward the following to anybody who you think may be interested. Apologies if you have already seen this.] ======================================================================== Two Research Positions Available Department of Informatics, University of Potsdam, Germany The Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group at the University of Potsdam offers two research positions within the project ``Nonmonotonic inference systems for reasoning with conflictual rules''. Apart from the development and implementation of corresponding reasoning techniques, a particular emphasis lies on the integration of flexible conflict resolution mechanisms that are in turn applied to modeling conflictual knowledge bases found in linguistics. The project is part of the Research Group ``Conflictual rules'' (in German: Forschergruppe ``Konfligierende Regeln''), funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG). This research group offers an interdisciplinary context comprising adjacent research projects from Linguistics, Psychology, Physics, and Informatics. Applicants must hold a master's degree (Diplom, DEA, or equivalent) and should preferably have a PhD in Informatics/Computer Science or Mathematics, although a PhD project is also conceivable. A suitable candidate is expected to have good communication skills (though fluency in German is not required) and research experience in at least one area, relevant to logic-based knowledge representation and reasoning, eg. nonmonotonic reasoning, logic programming, automated deduction, argumentation systems, deductive databases, etc. However, highly motivated and academically strong applicants interested in getting into nonmonotonic reasoning/logic programming are also encouraged to apply. The positions are available immediately; they will be filled for a period of up to 24+12 months in the first instance, with a likely extension by three additional years. Salary is according to the German BAT scale (Bat-O IIa), depending on age and family status. Candidates should send a curriculum vitae, a list of publications, references, and a statement of research interests to: Prof. Torsten Schaub phone (+49) 331 977 1163/1057 Universit?t Potsdam fax (+49) 331 977 1720 Institut f?r Informatik mail torsten at cs.uni-potsdam.de Am Neuen Palais 10 url http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~torsten D-14469 Potsdam An hyperlinked version of this offer is available at http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~torsten/jobs. If you need more information just give me a call or send me an email. Torsten Schaub 2000-02-15 _______________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: "Shinya Nakagawa" Subject: Job Opportunities in Natural Language Processing Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Japan is looking for candidates who are interested in research positions in Tokyo, Japan in the area of natural language processing. This is an exciting opportunity to work with Hewlett-Packard in areas of text processing applied to corpus data and mobile appliances. Profile: - Degree in computational linguistics - Experience in language engineering such as morphological analysis, knowledge extraction and information retrieval. - High-level programming skill in C and C++ on both Windows and UNIX(HP-UX and Linux) environments. - Experience with development of software packages. - Native English For consideration, send your resume via email to marc at jp.hpl.hp.com +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Marc McEachern Phone: +81-44-812-5920 | | Hewlett-Packard Labs Japan Fax: +81-44-812-5247 | | 3-29-21 Takaido-Higashi, Suginami-Ku e-mail: marc at jp.hpl.hp.com | | Tokyo 168-8585 JAPAN | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Dan Faulkner Subject: TTS and Linguistics: Aculab plc, Buckinghamshire UK Rank of Job: n/a Areas Required: TTS and Linguistics Other Desired Areas: prosody, phonetics, languages University or Organization: Aculab plc Department: DSP Research & Development State or Province: Buckinghamshire Country: UK Final Date of Application: asap Contact: Dan Faulkner Dan.Faulkner at aculab.com Address for Applications: Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire MK1 1PT UK ____________Italian Linguist Engineer_____________ Aculab is a leading provider of components and systems for the Computer Telephony industry. With branches throughout the World, Aculab's R&D is based in Milton Keynes, UK. Both Aculab and Milton Keynes are rapidly expanding, providing an exciting and challenging environment. Our products include the Prosody (TM) speech processing platform, running World-class multi-channel speech recognition and synthesis algorithms. We currently have a vacancy for a Linguist Engineer to join our text-to-speech R&D team. The successful applicant will be responsible for the development and specification of the text and linguistic processing algorithms for Italian text-to-speech conversion. He or she should be aware of the key issues in text-to-speech synthesis. A wide range of linguistic knowledge is necessary, but some specialisation in phonetics and/or phonology would be advantageous, as would knowledge of prosody (e.g. intonation, rhythm and duration modelling). The position would be suitable for somebody with a masters degree or higher in a relevant field, although other graduates will be considered if they possess relevant commercial experience. Programming skills are not essential, but some knowledge – particularly of C and/or C++ - would be an advantage. We enjoy a relaxed working environment and an extremely flat management structure, so candidates must also possess good organisational skills, as there will be a high degree of responsibility for the project from the start. For further details about Aculab, see http://www.aculab.com Please apply to Dan Faulkner with a current CV and a cover letter. Applications may be sent electronically to Dan.Faulkner at aculab.com, or write to: Aculab plc Lakeside Bramley Road Mount Farm Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire MK1 1PT UK _______________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: Dorothy.SENEZ at cec.eu.int Subject: Translation services The TRANSLATION SERVICE of the EUROPEAN COMMISSION wishes to recruit 3 temporary officials (grade LA7/LA6 ) for its Development of multilingual tools and Informatics units. Applicants must be nationals of one of the Member States of the European Union. Applicants should hold a university degree and have a thorough and proven knowledge of computational linguistics. A minimum of three years' experience managing projects in fields relating to the posts is required. Applications should be sent no later than 10 March 2000 (the postmark serving as proof). Applicants may apply for several posts, provided they complete a separate application form for each post and attach the necessary supporting documents to each form. Post 76T/SdT/99 Translation Service, AGL Directorate (General and Language Matters), Unit 04 (Development of multilingual tools): machine translation team. Task : developing the language pairs of the Commission's machine translation system. Requirements: detailed knowledge of the Internet, programming languages (C/C++, Perl, Java, etc.) and markup languages (HTML, SGML, XML, etc.). Knowledge of the technologies used for representing multilingual data on different computer platforms. The European Commission has acquired development licences for the Systran machine translation (MT) system. Every Commission official has access to the system via e-mail or through a Web interface. 18 language pairs are offered (of which 2 on a test basis), and the level of quality varies. Language pairs with English, French or Spanish provide the best results. The service enjoys great success - it translated some 600 000 pages in 1999. Since the old MT server is to be phased out within the next few years, the SdT undertook in 1999 to migrate the existing EC Systran system by building on the techniques, experience and results gained during Systran S.A.'s migration of the commercial system developed at La Jolla, California, several years ago. A Luxembourg-based contractor is in charge of this migration, which has just entered its final phase. We want one specialist to join the team which monitors this project and works on the development of new language pairs. He/she must have a good knowledge of machine translation systems as well as a solid technical and managerial profile and a good team spirit. Place of employment : Luxembourg Contact: Dimitrios.Theologitis at cec.eu.int Poste 77T/SdT/99 Translation Service, AGL Directorate (General and Language Matters), Unit 04 (Development of multilingual tools): terminological tools team. Task: development of terminological tools (acquisition, management and provision of terminological data). Requirements: as in post 76T above, plus knowledge of database management systems (Oracle, Oracle-Context, Fulcrum, etc.) and search engines. The specialist we are looking for is to join a parallel team developing terminological tools for the Translation Service. He/she shall have good knowledge in the field of language engineering (automated terminology management, linguistic databases and translation memories). Tasks will cover: follow-up of the migration of the EC's Eurodicautom terminology database to a Unix platform; collaboration on an interinstitutional terminology database; follow-up of the development/implementation of new access interfaces to terminological resources (e-mail, Web browsers, terminology editor, and integration with word-processing systems); evaluations, tests and technology watch; analysis of user feedback. Place of employment : Luxembourg Contact: Dimitrios.Theologitis at cec.eu.int Poste 78T/SdT/99 Translation Service, Unit 02 (Informatics) Tasks: development of multilingual documentation and translation aids, management of multilingual documentation. Requirements: as in post 77T above. Place of employment: Luxembourg or Brussels Contact: Francisco.Garcia-Moran at cec.eu.int General information: A perfect command of one of the official languages of the European Union as well as a thorough knowledge of at least two other official languages is required. One of the three languages must be French or English. The maximum term of a contract is 3 years, with one possible extension of up to one year. A request for further information regarding this notice does not exempt you from submitting a duly completed application form, together with the necessary supporting documents, by 10 March 2000 (the postmark serving as proof). An application form is attached below. EUROPEAN COMMISSION APPLICATION FORM SELECTION OF TEMPORARY OFFICIALS Selection 1. Surname: ............................................................................ ........................... Forenames: ............................................................................ ........................ 2. Address for correspondence and for the invitation: Street and number: ............................................................................ ............. Town/region: ............................................................................ ..................... Postcode: ............................ Country: ........................................................... Telephone No: ............................................................................ ................... Fax No: ............................................................................ .............................. All correspondence will be sent to you at the above address. Please inform us immediately of any change of address. Name and telephone number of a person we can contact in your absence: .. ............................................................................ ............................................ 3. Date of birth: ............................................................................ ...................... Nationality: ............................................. Sex: .............................................. 4. Language knowledge: ............................................................................ ....... ............................................................................ ............................................ Please attach a curriculum vitae in English or French, copies of diplomas required for admission to the selection, and any documents proving the quality and duration of your professional experience and send, before 10 March 2000, to: European Commission Translation Service - SdT 01 - JECL 4/29 Ref. Selection 76T/SdT/99 or 77T/SdT/99 or 78T/SdT/99 Rue de la Loi 200 B - 1049 Brussels _______________________________________________________________________ 6/ From: Wei Li Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at Cymfony Inc. Rank of Job: Rsearch Scientist Areas Required: Computational Linguist Other Desired Areas: Natural Language Processing University or Organization: Cymfony Inc. Department: State or Province: New York State Country: USA Final Date of Application: July 2000 Contact: Wei Li wei at cymfony.com Address for Applications: 5500 Main Street Williamsville NY 14221 USA Computational Linguists Needed Cymfony, located in suburban Buffalo, New York State, USA, is a leader in technology pertaining to intelligent search and retrieval, including question answering systems. This fast-growing company has IMMEDIATE OPENINGS for research scientists in natural language processing. SEVERAL POSITIONS ARE AVAILABLE. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree in Computer Science or related field with experience in natural language processing, computational linguistics, or information retrieval. Proficiency in C++ programming is required. Salary will be commensurate with education and experience. Cymfony also offers an attractive benefits package. All positions are full-time. Please forward CV with references to: Cymfony, Inc. Attn: Wei Li 5500 Main Street, Suite 206 Williamsville, NY 14221, USA Email: wei at cymfony.com Fax: (716)-565-0308 _______________________________________________________________________ 7/ From: Peter Chane Subject: Computational Linguist at Thrownet, San Francisco Rank of Job: Areas Required: Computational Linguist Other Desired Areas: Computational Lexicographer University or Organization: Thrownet Department: Product Development State or Province: San Francisco, CA Country: USA Final Date of Application: ASAP Contact: Peter Chane jobs at thrownet.com Address for Applications: 85 Columbia Square San Francisco CA 94103 USA Thrownet, a startup company located in San Francisco's South of Market district has many openings for a Computational Linguist, Computational Lexicographer, and Information Science specialists. Thrownet is developing technology to enable users to find an answer to a question by utilizing proprietary search and information retrieval technology. Specific details of our plans can be discussed under NDA. See http://www.thrownet.com for details. Send resumes to jobs at thrownet.com. Please note that the positions are full-time positions in San Francisco. No telecommuting positions are available at this time. ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Mar 2 13:07:30 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:07:30 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journees INTEX Message-ID: From: Anne Dister 3es Journ?es INTEX Deuxi?me appel ? communication Second Call For Papers (see English version below) ====================== Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2000 ************************************************************************** 3es Journ?es INTEX Li?ge, les 13 et 14 juin 2000 ************************************************************************** Les troisi?mes Journ?es INTEX auront lieu ? l'Universit? de Li?ge, les 13 et 14 juin 2000. INTEX est une plate-forme d'ing?nierie linguistique permettant de d?velopper des ressources linguistiques ? large couverture et de les appliquer sur de vastes corpus. Ces ressources peuvent prendre la forme de dictionnaires ?lectroniques, biblioth?ques de graphes et bases de donn?es mopho-syntaxiques du type lexique-grammaire. INTEX int?gre les dictionnaires ?lectroniques du LADL (s?rie des dictionnaires DELA) : il s'agit de vastes bases de donn?es lexicales comportant pour chaque entr?e une s?rie d'informations morphologiques, syntaxiques et dans certains cas s?mantiques. Les dictionnaires fran?ais ont ?t? d?velopp?s au LADL et, dans le cadre du r?seau europ?en de laboratoires RELEX, des ressources linguistiques compatibles (c'est-?-dire utilisant le m?me formalisme) ont ?t? d?velopp?es pour une dizaine d'autres langues (italien, portugais, espagnol, anglais, grec, etc.). De nouveaux travaux ont r?cemment ?t? entrepris pour le norv?gien et le slovaque. L'une des particularit?s du syst?me INTEX est son ouverture : les utilisateurs peuvent ajouter leurs propres ressources au syst?me et m?me r?utiliser s?par?ment les diff?rents programmes dont il se compose dans leurs propres applications. 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 encore d'enseignant. Elles seront ?galement l'occasion de pr?senter les nouvelles fonctionnalit?s d'INTEX issues des r?cents d?veloppements. Pour les nouveaux utilisateurs ou les chercheurs travaillant avec d'autres syst?mes, ces journ?es offrent la possibilit? de d?couvrir un panel diversifi? de domaines d'application d'INTEX. En plus des communications portant sur des recherches ou d?veloppements en cours, une s?rie de s?ances d'initiation et de d?monstration permettront d'exp?rimenter concr?tement le logiciel. ********************* Appel ? communication ********************* Les soumissions de communication (titre + une page maximum) sont ? envoyer, de pr?f?rence par email, ? Anne Dister (adister at ulg.ac.be) Universit? de Li?ge - CIPL Quai Roosevelt 1b (B?t. A4) B. 4000 Li?ge Belgique Dates importantes : Date de soumission : 1er mars 2000 Date d'acceptation : 1er avril 2000 R?ception des versions d?finitives des textes pour publication : 30 juin 2000. Les actes seront publi?s dans RISSH, Revue : Informatique et Statistiques dans les Sciences Humaines. ************************************ English version 3rd INTEX Workshop INTEX is a linguistic development environment which includes large-coverage dictionaries and grammars, and which parse texts of several million words in real time. INTEX includes tools for creating and maintain lexical resources (such as dictionaries of compound nouns), as well as morphological and syntactic grammars. Dictionaries and grammars are applied to texts in order to locate morphological, lexical and syntactic patterns, to remove ambiguities, and to tag simple and compound words. INTEX can build lemmatized concordances and indices of large texts with respect to Finite State patterns whether defined by regular expressions or by finite automata. INTEX is used in more than 50 research centers as an information retrieval system, to analyze literary texts, to quantify language variations, to teach second languages, as a terminological extractor, as well as to teach computational linguistics to graduate students. INTEX integrates the electronic dictionaries of the LADL. These dictionaries are lexical databases that provide for each item morphological, syntactic and semantic information. French dictionaires have been developed at the LADL and within the European RELEX network, compatible linguistic resources (i.e. that use the same format) have been built for several languages: Bulgarian, English, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. New studies have been started for Norvegian and Slovak. One interesting characteristic of INTEX is that the system is "open": users can add their own resources and use the INTEX programs to build new applications. This third Workshop will offer the INTEX users the opportunity to meet and share their INTEX experience in development, teaching and research. New features of INTEX will be presented during demonstration sessions. For new INTEX users or researchers who work with other systems, the Workshop will be an opportunity to discover a wide spectrum of research projects that have recourse to INTEX. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2000 Notification of acceptance for papers: April 1, 2000 Definitive version of paper due: June 30, 2000 **************************************************** ********************** Informations pratiques ********************** Il est imp?ratif de r?server une chambre d'h?tel dans les plus brefs d?lais. En effet, en juin se d?roulera ? Li?ge la phase finale de l'Euro 2000, et l'on attend des milliers de supporters. Des pr?r?servations ont ?t? faites dans certains h?tels (situation centrale, tr?s proches de l'Universit?), qui accordent par ailleurs des tarifs pr?f?rentiels pour les participants aux colloques organis?s ? l'Universit? de Li?ge. (N'oubliez pas de le mentionnez lors de votre r?servation. La pr?r?servation est faite sous le nom Colloque INTEX - ULG) Les prix comprennent le petit-d?jeuner. Un Euro = 40.3399 FB 1) H?tel Ibis chambre single : 2600 FB chambre double : 2900 FB t?l : 0032-4-230.33.33 fax : 0032-4-223.04.81 2) H?tel La Passerelle chambre single : 1950 FB chambre double : 2400 FB t?l : 0032-4-341.20.20 fax : 0032-4-344.36.43 3) Le Cygne d'Argent chambre single : 2170 FB chambre double : 2650 FB t?l : 0032-4-223.70.01 fax : 0032-4-222.49.66 4) Eurotel (m?me chose que La Passerelle, mais un peu plus ?loign?) chambre single : 1950 FB chambre double : 2400 FB t?l : 0032-4-341.16.27 fax : 0032-4-344.36.43 Pour plus d'informations et une situation des h?tels, vous pourvez consulter le site suivant http://www.ulg.ac.be/info-gen/hotels.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 Thu Mar 2 13:07:51 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:07:51 +0100 Subject: Resources: XML Version of the CES Message-ID: From: "Nancy M. Ide" ******** XCES ******** XML version of the Corpus Encoding Standard BETA RELEASE http://www.cs.vassar.edu/XCES We are pleased to announce the availability of a Beta release of XCES, which instantiates the Corpus Encoding Standard (CES) DTDs for linguistic corpora endorsed by the Expert Advisory Group for Language Engineering Standards (EAGLES). XCES was developed by the Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, and Equipe Langue et Dialogue, LORIA/CNRS. The current version includes a set of XSL stylesheets for cesDoc documents. We are in the process of developing stylesheets for cesAna and cesAlign documents. We appreciate feedback on XCES. Please contact Nancy Ide (ide at cs.vassar.edu) or Patrice Bonhomme (bonhomme at loria.fr). ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Mar 2 13:08:16 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:08:16 +0100 Subject: Conf: LREC-2000 Message-ID: From: Jeff ALLEN [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies] Call for Participation - 2nd international Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2000) Year 2000 marks the beginning of a new era for Human Language Technology and Language Engineering. The European Commission and the US National Science Foundation have announced Multilinguality as one of their main action points. The 2nd international Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC2000), the second of a series of leading biennial events representing cross-sectoral research and development in speech, text, multi-media, and multi-modal processing, is committed to promoting the language engineering initiatives of these and similar organizations. LREC2000, scheduled to take place 29 May - 2 June 2000 in Athens, Greece, has accepted nearly 300 papers for presentation at the main conference. About 10 pre- and post-conference satellite workshops will also take place. Many commercial and research systems for speech and natural language processing will be demonstrated at the LREC2000 Exhibition in parallel with the conference sessions. From 500 to 700 conference delegates are expected to attend this conference, with half coming from the corporate and industrial sectors and half coming from the academic field. For more information with regard to LREC2000, please contact: LREC2000 Conference Secretariat Institute for Language and Speech Processing 6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str. 15125 Marousi Athens, Greece Tel: (+301) 6800959 Fax: (+301) 6856794 E-mail: LREC2000 at ilsp.gr LREC2000 Web site: http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html For more information about the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), please contact: Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO 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 ELRA Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.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 Thu Mar 2 13:07:07 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:07:07 +0100 Subject: Appel: RECITAL-2000 Message-ID: From: Damien Genthial ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Appel ? communications R?CITAL-2000 Rencontre des Etudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (Suisse) du 16 au 18 octobre 2000 http://www-clips.imag.fr/RECITAL-2000 RECITAL-2000 at imag.fr conjointement ? TALN-2000 http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000 La quatri?me ?dition du colloque RECITAL se tiendra conjointement ? la conf?rence TALN-2000 (Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles), ? Lausanne (Suisse) du 16 au 18 octobre 2000. Le colloque RECITAL-2000 donne aux jeunes chercheurs l'occasion de se rencontrer, de pr?senter leurs travaux et de comparer leurs approches. L'exp?rience tr?s r?ussie du couplage RECITAL-TALN en 1999 sera renouvel?e cette ann?e encore et devrait l'?tre syst?matiquement ? l'avenir.Ce couplage permet aux participants d'acqu?rir une vision plus globale sur les avanc?es th?oriques les plus r?centes, ainsi que sur des applications industrielles actuellement d?velopp?es. Il favorise ?galement les ?changes avec les chercheurs confirm?s qui participent ? TALN. * Th?mes indicatifs Probl?matiques classiques : - Analyse et compr?hension de textes - G?n?ration d'?nonc?s en LN - Traduction automatique - Production de r?sum?s - Correction automatique - Dialogue humain/machine Probl?matiques connexes : - Ressources linguistiques (lexiques, dictionnaires ?lectroniques, corpus etc.) - S?mantique lexicale (polys?mie, cat?gorisation, etc.) - S?mantique du temps et de l'espace (repr?sentation et raisonnement) - Logique (argumentation, mod?lisation des intentions et des croyances, etc.) - Architectures d?di?es au TAL (syst?mes multi-agents, r?seaux neuromim?tiques) - Acquisition et apprentissage automatique de ressources ou de connaissances (? partir de corpus, ou de l'interaction humain/machine) - Relations entre TAL et reconnaissance de la parole Cette liste n'est pas exhaustive et l'ad?quation d'une proposition de communication ? la conf?rence sera jug?e par le comit? de programme. * Soumissions Les soumissions (de 6 pages maximum en Times 12) devront ?tre r?dig?es en fran?ais ou en anglais par de jeunes chercheurs (th?se en cours ou bien soutenue apr?s septembre 1998) et accompagn?es d'un r?sum? de 200 mots. RECITAL-2000 est la session pour ?tudiants de TALN-2000 et il est possible pour un auteur de soumettre ? plusieurs manifestations (TAL, RECITAL, ateliers). Dans ce cas, la double soumission doit appara?tre clairement dans le courrier adress? aux deux comit?s de programme. Les soumissions ? RECITAL-2000 ne seront pas anonymes. Les relecteurs seront encourag?s ? signer leurs rapports. Les soumissions seront exclusivement ?lectroniques et devront ?tre envoy?es en fichier attach? ? : RECITAL-2000 at imag.fr. Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission en PostScript, en RTF ou en PDF. Une feuille de style LaTeX et un mod?le Word sont disponibles sur les pages web de TALN-2000 (voir ci-dessus). Les articles retenus seront pr?sent?s lors des sessions RECITAL sous la forme d'une communication orale d'une vingtaine de minutes et figureront dans les actes de TALN-2000. * Dates importantes (calendrier identique ? celui de TALN-2000) Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2000 Notification aux auteurs : 23 juin 2000 Version finale (pr?t-?-clicher): 4 ao?t 2000 Conf?rence : 16-18 octobre 2000 * Comit? de programme Responsable : Damien Genthial (mailto:Damien.Genthial at imag.fr) Pascal Amsili (TALANA, Paris) Pierre Beust (GREYC, Caen) Jean Caelen (CLIPS, Grenoble) Paul Del?glise (LIUM, Le Mans) C?cile Fabre (ERSS, Toulouse) Bertrand Gaiffe (LORIA, Nancy) Emmanuel Giguet (GREYC, Caen) St?phane Ferrari (GREYC, Caen) Brigitte Grau (LIMSI, Orsay) Maurice Gross (LADL, Paris) Jean-Luc Husson (LORIA, Nancy Eric Laporte (Marne la Vall?e) J?rome Lehuen (LIUM, Le Mans) G?rard Ligozat (LIMSI, Orsay) Daniel Luzzati (LIUM, Le Mans) Denis Maurel (LI, Tours) Reza Mir-Samii (LIUM, Le Mans) Jacques Moeschler (Gen?ve) Philippe Muller (IRIT, Toulouse) Anne Nicolle (GREYC, Caen) Didier Pernel (L&H, Belgique) C?cile Fabre (ERSS, Toulouse) Violaine Prince (Paris 8) Martin Rajman (EPFL, Lausanne) Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy) Azim Roussanaly (LORIA, Nancy) G?rard Sabah (LIMSI, Orsay) Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse) Jean Senellart (LADL, Paris) Jacques Siroux (IRISA LLI/CORDIAL, Rennes) Max Silberztein (LADL, Paris) Jacques Vergne (GREYC, Caen) Jean V?ronis (LPL, Aix) Anne Vilnat (LIMSI, Orsay) Michael Zock (LIMSI, Orsay) * Comit? d'organisation Responsable : Jos? Rouillard (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Pierre Beust (GREYC Caen) Peggy Cadel (LILLA Nice) Jean Caelen (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Damien Genthial (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) St?phanie Pouchot (CRISTAL-GRESEC Grenoble) Dominique Vaufreydaz (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Pour tous renseignements : Page web de R?CITAL-2000 : http://www-clips.imag.fr/RECITAL-2000 Adresse ?lectronique de R?CITAL-2000 : RECITAL-2000 at imag.fr Adresse courrier: Colloque R?CITAL-2000 ? l'attention de Damien Genthial CLIPS, IMAG-Campus BP 53 38040 Grenoble cedex * Information Pratiques Pour toute information pratique concernant l'h?bergement, l'acc?s au site ? Lausanne, etc, nous vous renvoyons aux pages web de TALN (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- TRILAN/CLIPS/IMAG, (lundis et jeudis) | IUT de Valence (les autres jours) T?l : 04 76 51 49 15 | T?l : 04 75 41 88 00 ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Sat Mar 4 16:22:39 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:22:39 +0100 Subject: Appel: ESSLLI Student Session Message-ID: From: Catherine Piliere ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science --- --- Thank you to circulate and post among students --- ======================================================================= THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION August 6-18 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain Submission Deadline : March 15th, 2000 http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/ESSLLI-2000.html ======================================================================= We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI-2000) organized by the University of Birmingham and located at the same University in August 2000 (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli). We will welcome submission of papers for presentation at the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session and for appearance in the proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PURPOSE This fifth ESSLLI Student Session will provide, like the other editions, an opportunity for ESSLLI participants who are students to present their own WORK IN PROGRESS and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. It is desired that papers presenting creative and innovative ideas will be submitted. The ESSLLI-2000 Student Session encourages submissions from students at any level, from undergraduates - before completion of the Master Thesis as well as postgraduates - before completion of the PhD degree. Papers co-authored by non-students will not be accepted. The ESSLLI Student Session consists of paper presentations and has its own timeslot in the summerschool's schedule: 60 minutes every day for two weeks, provided that a sufficient number of good quality papers is accepted. Each presentation will last 30 minutes (including 10 minutes of discussion). The accepted papers will be published in the ESSLLI-2000 Student Session proceedings, which will be made available during ESSLLI-2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KLUWER BEST PAPER AWARD As in previous editions of ESSLLI, the best paper will be selected by the program committee and will be offered a prize by Kluwer Academic Publishers. The prize of 1000 Dfl consists of a free choice of Kluwer books to be displayed during the school. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ REQUIREMENTS The Student Session papers should describe original, unpublished work, completed or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity and promise. No previously published papers should be submitted. Papers will cover topics within the six ESSLLI subject areas (Logic, Language, Computation, Logic & Language, Logic & Computation, Language & Computation). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FORMAT OF SUBMISSION Student authors should submit an anonymous extended abstract headed by the paper title, not to exceed 5 pages of length exclusive of references and send a separate identification page (see below). Note that the length of the full papers will not be allowed to exceed 10 pages. Since reviewing will be blind, the body of the abstract should omit author names and addresses. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., " We previously showed (Smith, 1991)... ") should be avoided. It is possible to use instead references like " Smith (1991) previously showed...". For any submission, a plain ASCII text version of the identification page should be sent SEPARATELY, using the following format: Title: Author: <firstname lastname of the first author> Address: <address of the first author> .. Author: <firstname lastname of the last author> Address: <address of the last author> Short summary (5 lines): <summary> Subject area (one of): Logic | Language | Computation | Logic and Language | Logic and Computation | Language and Computation. The submission of the extended abstract should be in one of the following formats: 1) SELF-CONTAINED LATEX SOURCE (the most encouraged): The LaTeX source should use the standard article document-class, with A4 paper size and 12pt font size. The source should not refer to any other external files or styles, except for the standard styles for LaTeX2e. The bibliography for a LaTeX submission cannot be submitted as separate .bib file: the actual bibliography entries must be inserted in the submitted LaTeX source file. 2) POSTSCRIPT: PostScript submissions must use a standard font and A4 (8 1/4 " x 11 3/4 ") size pages. Please avoid the default letter page size if submitting from outside Europe. 3) ASCII text. Submissions outside the specified length and formatting requirements will be subject to rejection without review. The extended abstract and separate identification page must be sent by e-mail to: Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr by March 15, 2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION INFORMATION In order to present a paper at ESSLLI-2000 Student Session, at least one student author of each accepted paper has to register as a participant at ESSLLI-2000. Nevertheless, the authors of accepted papers will be eligible for reduced registration fees. For all information, please consult the ESSLLI-2000 web site (it will be regularly updated): http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission: March 15, 2000. Authors notifications: May 14, 2000. Final version due: June 11, 2000. ESSLLI-2000 Student Session: August 6-18, 2000. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Catherine Pili?re (chair), LORIA - University Henri Poincar?, Nancy, France; Manuel Bodirsky, Programming Systems Lab, University of Saarbr?cken, Germany; Mohamed Zakaria Kurdi, IMAG, Grenoble, France; Paola Maneggia, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Great Britain; Vincenzo Pallotta, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland; Sylvain Pogodalla, Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France; Kristina Striegnitz, Computational Linguistics, University of Saarbr?cken, Germany. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For any specific question concerning ESSLLI-2000 Student Session, please, do not hesitate to contact the chair: Catherine Pili?re LORIA Campus Scientifique BP 239 54 506 VANDOEUVRE-LES-NANCY Cedex France Tel. +33 (0)3 83 59 20 22 E-mail Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Sat Mar 4 16:22:43 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:22:43 +0100 Subject: Appel: TAPD-2000 Message-ID: <SAT.4.MAR.2000.172243.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" <alonso at dc.fi.udc.es> [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies] ====================================================================== 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/tapd2000/ Following TAPD'98 in Paris (France) next TAPD event will be held in Vigo (Spain) in September, 2000. The conference will be previous to SEPLN 2000 (http://coleweb.dc.fi.udc.es/sepln2000/), the conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing. MOTIVATIONS: 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. Different approaches, including for example Chart Parsing, Magic-Set rewriting, Memoization, and Dynamic Programming, have been proposed whose key idea is to keep traces of computations to achieve computation sharing and loop detection. Tabulation also offers more flexibility to investigate new parsing or proof strategies and to represent ambiguity by shared structures. The first objective of this workshop is to compare and discuss these different approaches. The second objective is to present tabulation and tabular systems to potential users in different application areas such as natural language processing, picture parsing, genome analysis, or complete deduction techniques. TOPICS (not exclusive): -- 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 or 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. WORKSHOP FORMAT: The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as group discussions. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors are invited to submit before April 28 a 4-page position paper or abstract concerning a theoretical contribution or a system to be presented. Due to tight time constraints, submission and reviewing will be handled exclusively electronically (LaTeX, PostScript, dvi or ascii format). Submission should include the title, authors' names, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail. The submissions must be sent to David S. Warren (warren at cs.sunysb.edu) in gziped encoded postscript. SCHEDULE: Submission of contributions: April 28, 2000 Notification of acceptance: June 1, 2000 Final versions due: June 30, 2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: David S. Warren -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 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, US Terrance Swift -- Univ. New York at Stony Brook, US Manuel Vilares -- Univ. Vigo, Spain David Weir -- Univ. Sussex, UK ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR: Manuel Vilares -- Univ. Vigo, Spain ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Miguel A. Alonso -- Univ. Coruna, Spain Eric de la Clergerie -- INRIA, France David Cabrero -- Univ. Vigo, Spain Victor M. Darriba -- Univ. Coruna, Spain David Olivieri -- Univ. Vigo, Spain Francisco J. Ribadas -- Univ. Coruna, Spain Leandro Rodriguez -- Univ. Vigo, Spain PUBLICATION: Papers accepted by the Program Committee must be presented at the conference and will appear in a proceedings volume. The format for camera-ready manuscripts will be available from the web page of the event. LOCATION: Auditorio del Centro Cultural Caixavigo e Ourense Marques de Valladares Vigo, Spain FURTHER 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 <LN at cines.fr> 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 Sat Mar 4 16:21:01 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:21:01 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 6 Offers Message-ID: <SAT.4.MAR.2000.172101.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Albert Llorens" <Albert_Llorens at sail-labs.es> Subject: Sail Labs: Openings in TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY (Spain) 2/ From: VINESSE Jerome CNET/DMI/LAN <jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr> Subject: Jobs in CNET - Emplois au CNET 3/ From: "Vanessa Combet" <combet at sinequa.com> Subject: Jobs : 2 offers (German, Spanish) 4/ From: "Bill Hutchison" <bill.hutchison at wordmap.com> Subject: JOBS: Natural language Web search 5/ From: Yorick Wilks <y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE/NLP 6/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Modern Lang. IT Officer, LeedsU ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Albert Llorens" <Albert_Llorens at sail-labs.es> Subject: Sail Labs: Openings in TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY (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: ************************************ PROJECT LEADERS (ref. PL) ************************************ Your tasks: * Manage and coordinate development projects in the area of natural language processing technology and systems. Your profile: * An advanced degree in a relevant field (Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, etc.). * A minimum of four years experience in systems design and development, from design to product delivery. * Previous experience as a project leader. * Good knowledge of and experience in natural language processing applications. * Native or near-native proficiency in at least two of the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. * Fluency in English. * Experience in object oriented programming will be a plus. ************************************************************ SENIOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (ref. SCL) ************************************************************ Your tasks: * Design, development and maintenance of formal grammars for our several new or existing translation engines. * 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. * 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 in at least two of the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. * Effective communication skills in written and spoken English. **************************************************************************** LINGUISTS FOR LEXICON AND GRAMMAR DEVELOPMENT (ref. LEX/GR) **************************************************************************** Your tasks: * Development and maintenance of grammars and lexicons for our new and existing translation engines. Your profile: * University degree in philology, linguistics, languages, computational linguistics or equivalent * Native or near-native proficiency in at least two of the following languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese. * 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. 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: VINESSE Jerome CNET/DMI/LAN <jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr> Subject: Jobs in CNET - Emplois au CNET > FRENCH VERSION - ENGLISH VERSION BELOW > ************************************************************ > > L'unit? de Recherche et D?veloppement "Langues Naturelles" du CNET, centre > de recherche de France T?l?com, propose ? Lannion (C?tes d'Armor, France), > quatre postes : > 1. un poste d'ing?nieur de recherche ? dur?e ind?termin?e "langues > naturelles et commerce ?lectronique multilingue" > 2. un poste d'ing?nieur de recherche ? dur?e ind?termin?e "extraction > automatique d'informations multilm?dia" > 3. un Postdoc d'une dur?e d'un an "recherche d'information en langue > arabe" > 4. un stage bac+5 d'une dur?e de 5 ? 6 mois "traduction automatique > fran?ais/anglais sur un corpus sp?cialis?" > > Les postes sont d?taill?s ci-dessous > > > 1. Ing?nieur de recherche "langues naturelles et commerce ?lectronique > multilingue" > > Dans le cadre des d?veloppements de nouveaux services offerts aux clients > de FT et int?grant des technologies avanc?es de langage naturel, le Cnet > recrute un jeune ing?nieur de R&D informaticien. Il contribue ? > l'application des techniques de traitement du langage naturel aux services > de commerce ?lectronique, en prenant part ? des projets europ?ens dans ce > domaine. L'objectif est de mettre en correspondance les demandes des > clients et les catalogues des marchands, l'ensemble ?tant exprim? sous > forme textuelle, et dans des langues diff?rentes. > > Il participe au d?veloppement de nouvelles m?thodes et ? l'am?lioration > des techniques existantes d'interpr?tation du contenu textuel, pour leur > utilisation dans des plates-formes de commerce ?lectronique multilingue. > > - Contrat ? dur?e ind?termin?e : > - Comp?tences requises : > * D?veloppement logiciel en C++ > * Informatique avanc?e (traitement de la langue, intelligence > artificielle, ontologies, agents intelligents) > * Commerce ?lectronique > * Culture g?n?rale en linguistique, logique, statistique > * Technologies li?es ? Internet (HTML, XML, serveurs, protocoles, Java) > * Langues ?trang?res, anglais indispensable > * Travail en ?quipe, contacts fr?quents avec des partenaires europ?ens, > des clients internes > > Contact (envoyer un CV d?taill?) : > J?r?me Vinesse > CNET - France T?l?com - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.38.92 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > > 2. Ing?nieur de recherche "extraction automatique d'informations > multimedia" > > La disponibilit? de grands corpus de textes ou de contenus multim?dia (sur > le Web ou sur support CD) exige d'explorer de nouvelles voies de recherche > sur l'extraction automatique des connaissances par analyse desdits corpus. > C'est dans ce cadre des ?tudes sur la recherche d'informations que le CNET > a d?velopp? des techniques d'analyse en vue d'extraire automatiquement ? > partir de corpus des "r?seaux s?mantiques" de grande taille pour cerner le > sens des documents. > > Le Cnet recrute un ing?nieur R&D informaticien, pour mettre en oeuvre ces > techniques de fouille de donn?es (datamining) pour des besoins internes ? > France T?l?com (gestion intelligente de documents,...) ou pour l'offre de > services de France T?l?com (offre Wanadoo Education,...). Ce poste > contribue au transfert rapide de ces technologies vers les entit?s > d'exploitation de FT. > > - Contrat ? dur?e ind?termin?e > - Comp?tences requises : > * D?veloppement logiciel en C > * Fortes connaissances en algorithmique, en apprentissage > * Bonnes connaissances en statistiques * Connaissances en d?veloppement d'applications multimedia appr?ci?es (HTTP, CGI, Java) * Connaissances en syst?me et architectures distribuees appr?ci?es > Contact (envoyer un CV d?taill?) : > J?r?me Vinesse > CNET - France T?l?com - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.38.92 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > > 3. Post-Doc "recherche d'information en langue arabe" > > - Sujet: Moteur de recherche en langue arabe. > - Activit?s : > * localisation d'un moteur de recherche en langue arabe, > * recherche d'information en cross-language (fran?ais, arabe), > * dictionnaire(s) bilingue(s), > * ?tude de la faisabilit? d'une traduction automatique de textes, > * ?tude des outils web d'entr?e/sortie et de codage de textes arabes, > * ?tude de la morphologie de l'arabe. > > - Profil requis: > * Exp?rience en d?veloppement d'outils linguistiques. > * Connaissance des probl?mes li?s au multilinguisme et ? l'arabe. > * Connaissance des outils Web appliqu?s ? l'arabe (navigateurs, ?diteurs > de documents). > * Morphologie de l'arabe. > * Comp?tences en int?gration d'outils sur le web. > * Recherche d'information > * Traduction automatique ou TAO (souhait?e). > * Unix, C++, Java, HTML. > > - Dur?e : 12 mois (d?but d?s que possible, Mars/Avril 2000). > > Contact (envoyer un CV d?taill?) : > Malek Boualem > CNET - France T?l?com - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.29.83 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > > 4. Stage de DEA ou DESS ou Ing?nieur en traduction automatique > > - Sujet: traduction automatique fran?ais vers anglais sur corpus > sp?cialis?. > - Dur?e: 5 ? 6 mois, r?mun?r?. > - D?but du stage : Mars ou Avril 2000. > - Th?se apr?s le stage envisageable mais non garantie. > - Connaissances requises : traduction automatique ou TAO, > processus d'analyse du langage naturel, syntaxe, langage C++. > > Contact (envoyer un CV d?taill?): > Malek Boualem > CNET - France T?l?com - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.29.83 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > ************************************************************ > ENGLISH VERSION > ************************************************************ > > The Natural Language Processing R&D unit of CNET France Telecom research > center in Lannion (Brittany, France), invites applications for several > positions: > 1. a position of research engineer "natural language processing and > multilingual e-commerce" > 2. a position of research engineer "automatic extraction of multimedia > information" > 3. a one-year post-doctoral position "information retrieval in Arabic > language" > 4. a 5 or 6 month placement for DEA, DESS, engineer or other postgraduate > technical degree (Master of Science) student, "french/english machine > translation on a specialised corpus" > > The positions are detailed hereafter : > > > 1. Research engineer "natural language processing and multilingual > e-commerce" > > While developing new services for the customers of France Telecom, we > integrate natural language processing technologies. CNET is looking for a > young R&D software engineer, who will contribute to this integration for > electronic commerce services, taking part in European projects in this > field. Our aim is to match customers needs with the available catalogs, > both being expressed by text, and possibly in different languages. > > The successful candidate will participate in developing new methods and > improving existing techniques for textual content interpretation, in order > to use them on multilingual e-commerce platforms. > > - Permanent (open-ended) contract : > - Required skills : > * C++ software development > * Advanced computer science (natural language processing, artificial > intelligence, ontologies, software agents) > * Electronic commerce > * General knowledge in linguistics, logics, statistics > * Internet technologies (HTML, XML, server, protocols, Java) > * French and English required, other languages appreciated > * Team work, frequent contacts with European partners and internal > customers > > Contact for applications (please send a detailed CV): > J?r?me Vinesse > CNET - France T?l?com - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.38.92 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > > 2. Research engineer "automatic extraction of multimedia information" > > The availability of large corpora and multimedia content (on the Web or > CD-ROM) means new research directions for the automatic extraction of > knowledge from such corpora need to be considered. In the context of > information retrieval studies, the CNET has developed analysis techniques > aimed at automatically extracting large "semantic networks" for corpora, > in order to represent the sense of documents. > > We are looking for a software engineer, who will apply these dataming > techniques to France Telecom's needs. This includes internal needs > (advanced management of documents,...) as well as creation of new services > on the Web (Wanadoo Education,...). This position will contribute to a > rapid use of these technologies in operational divisions of France > Telecom. > > - Permanent (open-ended) contract > - Required skills : > * C Software development > * Strong skill in algorithmics and machine learning > * Good knowledge of statistics * Knowledge in multimedia applications development (HTTP, CGI, Java) appreciated * Knowledge in systems and sitributed architectures appreciated > Contact for applications (please send a detailed CV) : > J?r?me Vinesse > CNET - France T?l?com - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.38.92 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: jerome.vinesse at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > > 3. Post-doctoral position "Information retrieval in Arabic language". > > - Topic: Research engine for Arabic language. > - Activity: > * localization of a search engine into Arabic, > * cross-language information retrieval (French, Arabic), > * multilingual dictionary. > * Prospection of machine translation of texts. > * Prospection of web tools for Arabic texts input/output. > * Study of the Arabic morphology. > > - Required knowledge: > * Ph.D. level with a strong background in computer science and NLP. > * Problems related to multilinguality and to Arabic. > * Arabic related web tools (browsers, text editors). > * Arabic morphology. > * Integration of applications to the web. > * Information retrieval > * Machine translation (if possible). > * Unix, C++, Java, HTML. > > Address for Applications (please send a detailed CV): > Malek Boualem > CNET - France Telecom - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 - Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86 > Email: malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr > > > 4. Training for DEA or DESS or Engineer or other postgraduate technical > degree (Master of Science) in Machine Translation. > - Topic: MT from French to English based on a specialized corpus. > - Financing: 5 to 6 months. > - Starting date: March or April 2000. > - Possibility of PhD in October (but not guaranteed). > - Required knowledge: MT, NLP, syntax, C++. > > Contact (please send a detailed CV): > Malek Boualem > CNET - France Telecom - DMI/GRI > 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France > Tel: 02.96.05.29.83 - Fax: 02.96.05.32.86 > Email: malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr > ___________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: "Vanessa Combet" <combet at sinequa.com> Subject: Jobs : 2 offers (German, Spanish) SINEQUA (anciennement CORA-SA), start-up dynamique d=E9veloppant des = logiciels, en=20 particulier pour le e-commerce et Internet, qui int=E8grent des = techniques d'analyses=20 linguistiques, recherche : ***************************************************** un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne) sp=E9cialiste de = l'allemand et=20 un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne) sp=E9cialiste de = l'espagnol. ****************************************************** Description du poste : Vous serez en charge de la cr=E9ation, l'enrichissement et la = maintenance des ressources=20 lexico-s=E9mantiques n=E9cessaires au traitement de l'espagnol et de = l'allemand par notre moteur=20 de recherche d'informations Intuition. Par ailleurs, vous serez = =E9galement amen=E9(e) =E0 adapter=20 notre =E9tiqueteur morpho-syntaxique pour le traitement de ces langues, = ce qui implique, entre=20 autres, d'=E9crire des grammaires de d=E9sambigu=EFsation ou encore de = pr=E9parer des corpus pour=20 entra=EEner notre analyseur. Enfin, vous serez directement impliqu=E9(e) = dans les divers projets de=20 recherche men=E9s par nos =E9quipes de linguistes et d'informaticiens. Comp=E9tences requises : * parfaite ma=EEtrise de l'espagnol ou de l'allemand (langue maternelle) = et bonne=20 connaissance du fran=E7ais ; * formation universitaire sup=E9rieure en linguistique informatique ou = linguistique=20 (DESS, DEA, doctorat) ; * autonomie en mati=E8re de programmation, c'est-=E0-dire que vous = =EAtes capable=20 d'=E9laborer vos propres outils pour constituer, traiter et exploiter = des ressources=20 linguistiques (dictionnaires, corpus, grammaires) ; * une bonne connaissance et/ou exp=E9rience dans les domaines suivants = seront=20 particuli=E8rement appr=E9ci=E9es : lexicographie, terminologie, = recherche=20 d'informations, extraction d'informations, multilinguisme dans les = syst=E8mes de=20 recherche d'informations, autres langues... Aspects pratiques : La r=E9mun=E9ration sera fonction de l'exp=E9rience et des comp=E9tences = des candidats. Le lieu de travail est =E0 Ivry sur Seine, en proche banlieue = parisienne. Les candidats doivent avoir le droit de travailler en France. Merci d'envoyer votre candidature par courrier =E9lectronique ou postal = =E0 : Vanessa Combet-Meunier SINEQUA (Cora-SA) 51, rue Ledru Rollin 94 200 Ivry sur Seine combet at sinequa.com http://www.sinequa.com =20 SINEQUA (formerly CORA-SA), a dynamic software company developing = Natural=20 Language products for e-commerce and the Web in particular, has the = following openings for: ***************************** a German computational linguist; a Spanish computational linguist. ***************************** Position description: The successful candidates will be required to create, enhance and = maintain the lexical and=20 semantic Spanish and German databases used by our search engine = Intuition. The candidates=20 will also be responsible for training our part-of-speech tagger for = these languages, which=20 means being able to write disambiguation grammars, to edit corpora to = ensure the successful=20 training of out tagger, etc. The candidates will directly be involved in = the different research=20 projects our linguists and computer scientists carry out. Skills required: * (near) native speaker of Spanish or German and a good command of = French; * relevant university degree in (computational) linguistics; * sufficient programming abilities to be able to build your own tools = for the=20 constitution and processing of linguistic resources; * good knowledge of and/or experience in the following areas are = considered an=20 asset: lexicography, terminology, information retrieval and extraction, = cross-language=20 information retrieval, other languages. Practical aspects: Salary according to experience and qualifications. The post is based in Ivry sur Seine (near Paris). The candidates must have a work permit for France. Please send your application letter and detailed resume by email or = snail mail to: Vanessa Combet-Meunier SINEQUA (Cora-SA) 51, rue Ledru Rollin 94 200 Ivry sur Seine combet at sinequa.com=20 http://www.sinequa.com ___________________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: "Bill Hutchison" <bill.hutchison at wordmap.com> Subject: JOBS: Natural language Web search Please accept our apologies if you receive more than one copy of this message. If you know of anyone who may be interested in these opportunities, please pass the message on SENIOR ENGINEERS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE IR APPLICATIONS Wordmap is a pre-launch start-up developing a set of technologies that will revolutionise Web search. The company is now looking to recruit several senior engineers to take a prototype developed in partnership with Sheffield University to beta launch on the Web. Wordmap offers its engineers an opportunity to innovate in an area that also has significant commercial potential. Backed by one of the UK's leading venture capitalists and with significant interest among information industry players, the resources to pursue exciting product developments are now available. The attributes we are seeking are: - proven record in natural language/IR/search technology development - BSc(Hons) or MSc from a top ranking institution - ideally, commercial sector experience - Hands-on coding ability C/C++; database skills; XML; UNIX/Linux. Working knowledge of other key skills areas eg Java/Script, ASP, Perl - Interest in key areas of text/Web development We are looking for highly disciplined, motivated team players. They will have curious and creative minds and a desire to make a real difference to Web technology. We offer competitive salaries and a generous stock option and bonus scheme. Location: Bath, UK """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Bill Hutchison Chief Executive Wordmap Limited, 1 Fairfield Villas, Bath BA2 6LT, UK email bill.hutchison at wordmap.com """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" ___________________________________________________________________________ 5/ From: Yorick Wilks <y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk> Subject: RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE/NLP University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science RESEARCH DEGREES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE This department intends to recruit a number of postgraduate research students to begin studies in October 2000 or before. Successful applicants will read for an M.Phil or Ph.D. The department has research groups in: Natural Language Processing Verification and Testing Communications and Distributed Systems Speech and Hearing Computer Graphics Machine Learning Neurocomputing and Robotics UK, EU and overseas candidates with research interests in any relevant area are encouraged to apply. Candidates for all awards should have a good honours degree in a relevant discipline (not necessarily Computer Science), or should attain such a degree by September 1999. Part-time registration is a possibility. A number of EPSRC awards are available, which are available for UK students' fees and support and, on a fees-only basis, for EU students. More details of our research, and application forms, are on our world-wide-web site: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk. Hard copy application forms and further particulars are available from the Research Admissions Secretary, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello St, Sheffield S1 4DP. All applicants should quote reference number ST051. Informal enquiries may be addressed to: Professor Yorick Wilks: +44 114 222 1804, yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk ___________________________________________________________________________ 6/ From: eric at scs.leeds.ac.uk Subject: Modern Lang. IT Officer, LeedsU University of Leeds http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ SCHOOL OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES http://www.leeds.ac.uk/sml/sml.html IT OFFICER http://www.leeds.ac.uk/jobadverts/mod1a.htm Computer Staff 2/3 (?18,915 - ?30,065p.a.) Working for this dynamic, multidisciplinary School, you will provide a comprehensive and high quality IT support service to the SMLC, planning and overseeing the implementation of agreed strategies with respect to the School's state-of the-art language IT facility and at-desk use of I.T. by staff and students. You will have a minimum of 2 years experience working in an IT support role, preferably in an educational context; this will have included working in a heterogeneous network environment. Experience of managing a multi-server Windows NT domain is essential. An interest in multi-lingual software would be an advantage, as would knowledge of Linux or another BSD-style UNIX system. Enthusiasm, a co-operative and flexible approach, and the ability to communicate with non-specialists are also highly desirable qualities for this post. The post is available on a 3 year rolling contract basis. Informal enquiries to Rowena Armstrong, Planning & Resources Officer on (00 44) 113 233 3364 or email r.armstrong at leeds.ac.uk ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Sat Mar 4 16:22:50 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:22:50 +0100 Subject: Appel: Translating and the Computer Message-ID: <SAT.4.MAR.2000.172250.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Nicole Adamides <nicole at aslib.co.uk> Apologies if you receive more than one copy of this announcement - it has been sent to several lists. ************************************************************* 22nd Conference "Translating 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 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 22 May 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.co.uk WWW: http://www.aslib.co.uk The full-length versions of the accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Sat Mar 4 16:29:00 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:29:00 +0100 Subject: Varia: 3 annoucements Message-ID: <SAT.4.MAR.2000.172900.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: kilgarriff <A.Kilgarriff at bton.ac.uk> Subject: SENSEVAL 2/ From: "Linguistic Studies" <linguistic.studies at insead.edu.sg> Subject: Stats on Linguistic Groups 3/ From: JA/AM <mance at elda.fr> Subject: ELRA/ELDA On-line Survey ___________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: kilgarriff <A.Kilgarriff at bton.ac.uk> Subject: SENSEVAL SENSEVAL 2 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Following the success of the first SENSEVAL in 1998, we are now beginning the planning for SENSEVAL-2. As before, it will proceed as an ACL-SIGLEX activity. The evaluation will take place over a year, concluding with a workshop in Pisa in Spring 2001. Last time, there were evaluations for English, French and Italian. We are keen to encourage evaluations for further languages, so would particularly like to hear from people who are interested in setting up evaluations for the language they work in. If you wish to join the discussion group that works out how the evaluation should proceed (and were not on the mailing list for the first SENSEVAL) please let me know and I will add you to the list. Adam Kilgarriff SENSEVAL co-ordinator adam at itri.bton.ac.uk ___________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: "Linguistic Studies" <linguistic.studies at insead.edu.sg> Subject: Stats on Linguistic Groups I thought you might find my recent monograph of interest: Linguistic Cultures of the World: A Statistical Reference (Greenwood Press) The book gives over 150,000 stats covering 500+ language groups worldwide (demographics, economics, geography, etc.). I would be glad to send to you an EXCEL spreadsheet of the raw data (or to any researcher who may find it of interest). Otherwise, the link below to Amazon gives more qualitative details; the book, however, is largely covered in the spreadsheet which is complementary to researchers/scholars. Regards, Phil Parker Professor of Economics and International Studies UCSD & INSEAD http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/031329769X/icongroupinterna ___________________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: JA/AM <mance at elda.fr> Subject: ELRA/ELDA On-line Survey GEMA Users? Survey The European Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) is conducting another user needs survey within the framework of the European Commission funded GEMA (Gates for an Enhanced Multilingual resource Access) project (http://www..linglink.lu/hlt/projects/GEMA-M2/ and http://www.elda.fr/proj/gema.html). We encourage all people who use the internet for locating and accessing terminological data (for example, linguists, lexicographers, terminologists, technical writers, translators, documentation specialists, and others) to participate. An on-line version of the survey can be found at the following page: http://www.elda.fr/proj/gemasurv.html This survey is conducted in cooperation with SALT project (see http://www.ttt.org/salt or http://www.linglink.lu/hlt/projects/salt/summary.asp) Thank you in advance for your participation. Best, The ELDA team ----------------------------------- All specific answer will remain confidential. Only statistics from this study will be reproduced in project reports. ----------------------------------- Please place an x in the boxes below that are relevant to you or your organisation and return your completed questionnaire to <mance at elda.fr> ----------------------------------- Your name: Your organisation: E-mail: 1. About Yourself 1.1. Are you : [ ] A translator [ ] A technical writer [ ] A terminologist [ ] A lexicographer [ ] A linguistic tools developer [ ] A localizer [ ] Other - please specify ______________________ 1.2. Do you work in a [ ] free-lance position? [ ] in-house position? [ ] linguistic department of a company / organisation? [ ] documentation department? [ ] localization department? [ ] translation agency? [ ] publishing house? [ ] Other - please specify ____________________ [ ] academia? [ ] research [ ] teaching [ ] Other - please specify ______________ 1.3. What fields do you work in? [ ] Administrative [ ] Aeronautics [ ] Agriculture [ ] Architecture/construction [ ] Arts [ ] Automobile [ ] Biology [ ] Business [ ] Chemistry [ ] Computing and Information technology [ ] Economics & finance [ ] Education & pedagogy [ ] Electrical engineering [ ] Electronics [ ] Food sciences [ ] Geography [ ] Geology [ ] Heavy-machinery [ ] History [ ] Insurance [ ] Law [ ] Leisure [ ] Medicine [ ] Navigation [ ] Pharmaceutical [ ] Physics [ ] Psychology [ ] Sociology [ ] Sports [ ] Tourism [ ] Telecommunications [ ] General (any domain) [ ] Other - please specify ________________ 1.4. What languages do you work in? [ ] Arabic [ ] Chinese [ ] Danish [ ] Dutch [ ] English [ ] Finnish [ ] French [ ] German [ ] Greek [ ] Italian [ ] Japanese [ ] Polish [ ] Portuguese [ ] Russian [ ] Spanish [ ] Swedish [ ] Other- please specify __________________ 2. The language resources you use 2.1. What types of language resources do you use? [ ] dictionaries [ ] glossaries [ ] monolingual glossaries [ ] bilingual glossaries [ ] multilingual glossaries [ ] lexicographical databases [ ] monolingual corpora [ ] multilingual corpora (non parallel, but same domain) [ ] terminological databases [ ] monolingual databases [ ] bilingual databases [ ] multilingual databases [ ] translation memories / parallel texts 2.2. How do you currently obtain language resources? [ ] purchases [ ] exchanges with other producers [ ] consulting of experts / technicians [ ] free-of-charge consulting (via Internet, libraries) [ ] in-house 2.3. On what media are these resources available? [ ] CD [ ] Internet [ ] Intranet [ ] Paper [ ] Other - please specify _______________________ 2.4. What are they used for? [ ] to provide information on specific fields for translation and domain understanding [ ] to elaborate glossaries, dictionaries, databases [ ] to be integrated in machine translation systems [ ] to be integrated in translation memory systems [ ] to supply a terminology management system with data [ ] to be incorporated in a Language Engineering system - please specify ______________ 3. In the case of in-house resources 3.1. What types of language resources do you produce? [ ] glossaries [ ] terminological databases [ ] dictionaries [ ] corpora [ ] monolingual [ ] multilingual [ ] Other - please specify __________________ 3.2. What tools do you use to store your data? [ ] ACCESS [ ] DBase [ ] WORD [ ] EXCEL [ ] Multiterm [ ] Other - please specify _______________________ 3.3. What interchange formats do you use? [ ] GENETER [ ] IIF [ ] MARTIF [ ] MATER [ ] OLIF [ ] In-house, SGML-based format [ ] Other - please specify ________________________ 3.4. Would you be willing to make your resources available to others according to a negotiated standardised distribution agreement? [ ] Yes [ ] for consultation only [ ] for sale [ ] No 3.5. If no, what are the reasons for not distributing your resources? [ ] technical [ ] commercial (pricing policy) [ ] legal (Copyright, Industrial / intellectual property rights) [ ] strategic [ ] Other - please specify _________________ 3.6. If Yes, whom would you be ready to sell your resources to? [ ] end-users [ ] tool developers [ ] researchers 3.7. Would you be ready to provide data samples for format conversion? [ ] Yes [ ] No 3.8. Would you be ready to provide documents describing your data?s structure? [ ] Yes [ ] No 4. Language resources on the Internet 4.1. For consulting resources on the Internet, what sites do you use? [ ] linguistic sites / portals with general information [ ] linguistic sites with links to glossaries and lexicons [ ] linguistic sites dedicated to specific fields (economics, sciences...) [ ] non linguistic sites dedicated to specific fields (economics, sciences...) [ ] non linguistic sites with links to glossaries and lexicons [ ] non linguistic but reference sites (from companies / industries / organisations) [ ] terminological databases [ ] Other - please specify _____________ 4.2. Why do you consult these sites (please, select only 3 propositions)? [ ] They cover the fields you work in [ ] The data are provided by official terminology centres or international / national organisations [ ] The data are provided by technical / scientific organisations or companies / industries [ ] They are accessible free of charge [ ] Resources or tools can be downloaded [ ] The interface is user-friendly 4.3. How do you find your language resources on the Internet? [ ] by doing your own search with search engines (Altavista, Yahoo...) [ ] by using portals dedicated to language(s) 4.4. In the case of portals, what services do they systematically offer? [ ] Language / terminological Resources [ ] on-line-consultation [ ] on-line acquisition [ ] On-line acquisition of linguistic tools [ ] Value-added services [ ] validation or consolidation of existing tools / resources [ ] resource creation support [ ] Information [ ] newsgroups [ ] forum [ ] technical / scientific / business information (reports, articles) [ ] job offers [ ] Other - please specify ____________________ 4.5. What services would you like to find more often on these portals? [ ] Language / terminological Resources [ ] on-line-consultation [ ] on-line acquisition [ ] On-line acquisition of linguistic tools [ ] Value-added services [ ] validation or consolidation of existing tools / resources [ ] resource creation support [ ] Information [ ] newsgroups [ ] forum [ ] technical / scientific / business information (reports, articles) [ ] job offers [ ] Other - please specify ____________________ 4.6. How valuable are Language Resources on the Internet? [ ] very valuable [ ] valuable [ ] poorly valuable 4.7. Rank the following scenarios in order of preference, with 1 as highest preference and 3 as lowest preference: [ ] a paying access to a site without advertising [ ] access at a lower cost, with advertising for linguistic-related products [ ] an access free of charge, with a significant amount of advertising 4.8. What type of subscription is reasonable for you to access language resources? [ ] A set fee for: [ ] less than 100 searches (please, suggest a price___________Euro) [ ] between 100 & 1 000 searches (please, suggest a price___________Euro) [ ] between 1 000 & 10 000 searches (please, suggest a price___________Euro) [ ] Payment per view [ ] Annual subscription (please, suggest a price___________Euro) 5. Contact details 5.1. Are you member of any association related to Language Resources, Translation, Terminology...? If Yes, which one(s)? 5.2. Do you wish to be kept informed of any further developments concerning this project? [ ] Yes [ ] No 5.3. Would you like to be contacted for other surveys in relation to language resources/terminology and this particular project? [ ] Yes [ ] No ------------------- Please return this questionnaire to mance at elda.fr ------------------ --------------------------------------------------- Jeff Allen mail: jeff at elda.fr GEMA: http://www.linglink.lu/hlt/Projects/GEMA-M2/ GEMA - USERS' SURVEY: http://www.elda.fr/proj/gema.html ELRA/ELDA tel.: 33 1 43 13 33 33 fax: 33 1 43 13 33 30 ---------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 8 22:14:45 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:14:45 +0100 Subject: Q: Systeme d'annotations tagging Message-ID: <WED.8.MAR.2000.231445.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 14:11:44 +0100 From: "braulin" <braulin at tiscalinet.it> Message-Id: <007301bf876f$c06000e0$c2020a3e at oemcomputer> Est-ce que quelqu'un aurait d?j? un syst?me d'annotation pour un corpus anglais ce que les anglais appellent tagging, je dois faire un travail s?mantique sur les annotations, et je ne voudrais pas faire le d?j? fait, c'est-?-dire des annotations. Je vous serai tr?s reconnaissante. Ce que je puis faire en ?change c'est de vous envoyer mes r?sultats. Salutations distingu?es. Et merci d?j?. Monique Frei ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 8 22:28:38 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:28:38 +0100 Subject: Q: French corpus for machine translation evaluation Message-ID: <WED.8.MAR.2000.232838.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:29:29 +0100 From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr> Message-Id: <26F7C2E07274D311A6D80060080C3EEE5EF0AA at l-mhs5.lannion.cnet.fr> Je recherche un corpus fran?ais afin de comparer des syst?mes de traduction du fran?ais vers l'anglais. Le corpus, ?ventuellement d?di? ? cette t?che, doit contenir une quantit? de phrases suffisante et vari?e et il peut ?tre sp?cialis? ou non. Merci d'avance. Malek Boualem Here my message translated from French to English using MT system 1: I look for a French corpus to compare systems of translation of French towards English. The corpus, possibly dedicated to this task, has to contain a quantity of sufficient and varied sentences and it can be specialized or not. Thank you beforehand. Here my message translated from French to English using MT system 2: I seek a French corpus in order to compare translation systems of French into English. The corpus, possibly dedicated to this task, must contain a quantity of sentences sufficient and varied and it can be specialized or not. Thank you in advance. And just for fun, translation crossing between system 1 and 2: Here English text 1 translated again into French by system 2: Je recherche un corpus fran?ais pour comparer des syst?mes de traduction du fran?ais vers l'anglais. Le corpus, probablement consacr? ? cette t?che, doit contenir une quantit? de suffisamment et des phrases diverses et lui peuvent ?tre sp?cialis?s ou pas. Merci ? l'avance. Here English text 2 translated again into French by system 1: Je cherche un corpus fran?ais pour comparer les syst?mes de traduction de fran?ais dans l'Anglais. Le corpus, probablement consacr? ? cette t?che, doit contenir une quantit? de phrases(sentences) suffisantes et diverses et il peut ?tre sp?cialis? ou non. Merci d'avance. Conclusion: Personally I think that MT has made much progress within the last decade. Malek Boualem ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 8 22:30:56 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:30:56 +0100 Subject: Q: Hierarchie de themes lies au TALN et au multilinguisme Message-ID: <WED.8.MAR.2000.233056.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:59:48 +0100 From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr> Message-Id: <26F7C2E07274D311A6D80060080C3EEE5EF0A7 at l-mhs5.lannion.cnet.fr> Dans une perspective de mettre en place une organisation documentaire en TALN et en multilinguisme, je recherche une hi?rarchie de th?mes li?s ? ces domaines. Si vous en avez une en anglais, je suis ?galement preneur. Merci d'avance. Malek Boualem ------------------------------------------------ France Telecom - CNET - DMI/GRI 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86 Email: malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr ------------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 8 22:48:35 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:48:35 +0100 Subject: LN: Fin de panne Message-ID: <WED.8.MAR.2000.234835.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> [English information below] Cher(e)s abonn?(e)s, ? la suite d'un changement de version du logiciel de distribution de LN (et LN-FR), nous n'avons pas ?t? en mesure ces derniers temps diffuser de messages sur ces listes -- ni de vous informer de cette situation par le m?me canal ! 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The moderators In case of problem, directly contact the moderators: Philippe Blache LPL- Universit? de Provence 29, Avenue Robert Schuman 13621 Aix-en-Provence E-mail: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr Tel: +33 (0)4 92 96 73 98 Fax: +33 (0)4 42 59 50 96 all topics Pierre Zweigenbaum DIAM - SIM/AP-HP 91, boulevard de l'H?pital F-75634 Paris Cedex 13 E-mail: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tel: +33 (0)1 45 83 67 28 Fax: +33 (0)1 45 86 80 68/ 45 86 56 85 queries and answers, subscription problems ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 8 23:03:35 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:03:35 +0100 Subject: Q: Information sur des corpus de francais ecrit Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.000335.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 14:46:19 +0000 From: "Victoria.Kelly" <Victoria.Kelly at ul.ie> Message-Id: <D842D4FDC431D2119E9E00609762F28B287B2B at exch-staff2.ul.ie> Bonjour ? tous, Je viens de m'abonner ? la liste. Je suis une ?tudiante inscrit en doctorat ? l'Universit? de Limerick, Irlande. L'objet de ma recherche est l'analyse du 'fran?ais des affaires'. Je suis en train de compiler ma propre corpus d'un million de mots. En ce moment, je suis en train d'?crire un chapitre sur les linguistiques de corpus et il me faut plus d'informations sur des corpus ?crits. J'ai d?j? consult? le num?ro 2 de la Revue Fran?aise de Linguistique Appliqu?e, consacr? justement aux corpus, la bibliograbhie d'Ambrose, l'excellent livre de Habert et al. et des sites web consacr?s aux corpus mais l'accent est mis soit aux corpus litt?raires comme Le Tr?sor de la Langue Fran?aise soit sur des corpus de fran?ais parl?. Je vous serai tr?s reconnaissante de me fournir tout renseignement que vous jugez utile. Merci Victoria Kelly ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Wed Mar 8 23:33:30 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:33:30 +0100 Subject: Q: Reconnaissance parole, informations phonologiques Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.003330.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:11:06 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois=20G=E9rard?= <Francois.Gerard at s2.chalmers.se> Message-ID: <3891BF9A.8136310 at s2.chalmers.se> Je recherche un syst?me de reconnaissance de la parole continue (pour le fran?ais) qui fournirait, ? partir du signal audio, une suite d'informations phonologiques (les phon?mes et leur taux de reconnaissance mais aussi si possible des informations sur la prosodie), mais dont le traitement s'arreterait l?, c'est-?-dire qui ne chercherait pas ? reconnaitre les mots. Merci d'avance, Fran?ois G?rard ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Thu Mar 9 09:23:14 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:23:14 +0100 Subject: R: Systeme d'annotations tagging Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.102314.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:29:01 +0200 (EET) From: Fredrik Westerlund <fwesterl at lingsoft.fi> ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:47:35 +0100 (MET) From: "Abolfazl.Fatholahzadeh" <afzadeh at afzadeh.ese-metz.fr> ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:29:01 +0200 (EET) From: Fredrik Westerlund <fwesterl at lingsoft.fi> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003090925500.581-100000 at stoker.lingsoft.fi> X-url: http://www.lingsoft.fi/doc/engcg/ Il me semble que notre produit ENGCG <http://www.lingsoft.fi/doc/engcg/> pourrait ?tre quelque chose pour vous. Etudiez notre documentation sur le web et faites-moi savoir si cela vous int?resse. Salutations distingu?es --Fredrik Westerlund -- Fredrik Westerlund * Produktchef * Tuotep??llikk? * Product Manager fredrik.westerlund at lingsoft.fi Lingsoft Ab * Lingsoft Oy * Lingsoft, Inc. * http://www.lingsoft.fi/ Tfn/Puh./Tel. +358 9 668 9280 * Fax +358 9 6689 2898 ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:47:35 +0100 (MET) From: "Abolfazl.Fatholahzadeh" <afzadeh at afzadeh.ese-metz.fr> Message-ID: <14535.25324.922099.264814 at afzadeh.ese-metz.fr> Bonjour, Vous pouvez le demander, par exemple, ? Tony McEnery (mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk), Dept. Linguistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster,LA1 4YT, UK. Bien ? vous, A. Fatholahzadeh (http://www.ese-metz/~afzadeh) Supelec, Campus Metz 2, rue Edouard Belin 57000 Metz France ________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Thu Mar 9 10:03:51 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:03:51 +0100 Subject: R: Systeme d'annotations tagging Message-ID: <THU.9.MAR.2000.110351.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:39:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Jennifer.Pearson at dcu.ie Message-id: <0003099525.AA952594804 at ccmail.dcu.ie> Bonjour Monique, Le Corpus Linguistics group a l'universite de Birmingham pourrait peut-etre vous aider. Ils offraient un service de tagging gratuit l'annee derniere. Leur adresse: clg at bham.ac.uk. Ils font partie du departement d'anglais. Jennifer Pearson, Dublin City University ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 10 16:45:05 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:45:05 +0100 Subject: Q: Thésaurus français Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAR.2000.174505.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 14:18:23 +0100 From: Styve Jaumotte <Styve.Jaumotte at info.univ-angers.fr> Message-Id: <38C7A49F.9A904971 at info.univ-angers.fr> Bonjour, Je suis ?tudiant au Leria (Angers) et je recherche un th?saurus en fran?ais. Je suis preneur de toutes informations ? ce sujet. Merci, Styve Jaumotte ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 10 16:49:21 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:49:21 +0100 Subject: R: Information sur des corpus de francais ecrit Message-ID: <FRI.10.MAR.2000.174921.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:04:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Jennifer.Pearson at dcu.ie ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:05:36 +0100 From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr> ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 15:04:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Jennifer.Pearson at dcu.ie Message-id: <0003099526.AA952614317 at ccmail.dcu.ie> There is a journal called Terminologies Nouvelles (http:www.rint.org) published by the Reseau International de neologie et de terminologie which may be of interest to you. . (Issues 17, 18 and 19 in particular) Also, some other starting points might be: the CNRS at the University of Toulouse (Anne Condamines and Didier Bourigault), the Universite de Nantes (Beatrice Daille), and the CTN Villetaneuse (John Humbley) all of whom conduct research on special purpose corpora. Jennifer Pearson Dublin City University ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 17:05:36 +0100 From: BOUALEM Malek CNET/DMI/LAN <malek.boualem at cnet.francetelecom.fr> Message-Id: <26F7C2E07274D311A6D80060080C3EEE5EF0E7 at l-mhs5.lannion.cnet.fr> Ne cherchez plus, voil? votre site: http://cedric.cnam.fr/ABU/ Malek Boualem France Telecom R&D ________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 13 09:04:45 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:04:45 +0100 Subject: Appel: Linguistic Theory and Grammar Implementation (ESSLLI) Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.100445.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Detmar Meurers <dm at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de> ESSLLI'2000 Workshop on LINGUISTIC THEORY AND GRAMMAR IMPLEMENTATION August 14 - 18, 2000 A workshop held as part of the Twelfth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2000 August 6-18, 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain ** Second Call For Papers ** -- Note the EXTENDED DEADLINE (15. April) and FUNDING INFORMATION -- ORGANIZERS: Erhard Hinrichs, Detmar Meurers (Universitaet Tuebingen) Shuly Wintner (University of Pennsylvania) DESCRIPTION: Partially in response to data-oriented methods, grammar-based approaches to Natural Language Processing in recent years have made significant advances in terms of linguistic coverage, wealth of analysis, efficiency of processing and grammar engineering techniques. The workshop is intended as a forum for this ongoing work in declarative, constraint- and resource-based approaches, informed by linguistic theory. It will cover various aspects of the computational implementation of grammars based on linguistic knowledge, and in particular address: - grammar coverage as a major emphasis in practical projects - efficiency of processing (e.g., grammar compilation techniques, abstract machine implementations) - implementations of novel grammar architectures and mechanisms (e.g., glue languages, defaults, optimality-theoretic constraint ranking, underspecification) - hybrid architectures combining shallow parsing and deep analysis (e.g., finite state pre-processors for deep analysis) - grammar development tools (e.g., test methodology, profiling, visualization tools, grammar debugging and validation) - modularity in grammar design (e.g., definition of modules in grammars, separate and incremental compilation of grammars, architectures for grammar organization) - mathematical, logical and computational aspects of linguistic formalisms (e.g., semantics of linguistic formalisms, adaptation of techniques from programming languages to linguistic formalisms) SUBMISSION: All researchers in the area, but especially Ph.D. students and young researchers, are invited to submit a paper. Electronic submissions are highly encouraged (preferably as plain ASCII or Postscript). Submissions should not exceed 10 (A4 or letter) pages, typeset in 10-12 points, with at least 2.5 cm / 1 inch margins. Submitted papers should be anonymous and be accompanied by an e-mail listing the following details: - Title - Authors' names and affiliation - Address - E-mail addresses All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee: Philippe Blache Miriam Butt Jo Calder Ann Copestake Nissim Francez Erhard Hinrichs Suresh Manandhar Detmar Meurers, co-chair Stefan Mueller Tsuneko Nakazawa Louisa Sadler Shuly Wintner, co-chair The accepted papers will be made available in a summer school reader. If sufficiently many high-quality papers are submitted, we intend to publish them in an edited volume. Submissions should be sent before April 15, 2000 to one of the following two organizers: Detmar Meurers Shuly Wintner Universitaet Tuebingen Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Seminar fuer Sprachwissenschaft University of Pennsylvania Kleine Wilhelmstr. 113 3401 Walnut Street, Suite 400A D-72074 Tuebingen Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 Germany USA dm at sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de shuly at linc.cis.upenn.edu If electronic submission is impossible, please send four copies of the paper to one of these two organizers. Informal enquiries by e-mail to the organizers are welcome. IMPORTANT DATES: Apr 15, 2000: Deadline for submissions May 15, 2000: Notification of acceptance Jun 15, 2000: Final version due Aug 14, 2000: Start of workshop FUNDING: Some funding is available to reimburse the ESSLLI registration fees for PhD students presenting in the workshop. We are grateful to the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) of the University of Pennsylvania for their financial support. FURTHER INFORMATION: All information concerning this workshop is available at: http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/~dm/events/esslli00/ To obtain further information about ESSLLI'2000 please visit http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli/ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 13 09:07:57 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:07:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: NLDB-2000 Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.100757.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Odile Piton <Odile.Piton at univ-paris1.fr> Second C A L L F O R P A P E R S (deadline March 12th,2000) N L D B ' 2 0 0 0 5th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems Versailles (France), June 28-30, 2000 http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/dataware/confs/nldb00/ Since 1995 the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researchers, industrial and potential users interested in various applications of NATURAL LANGUAGE in the DATABASE and information systems field. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for a long time. Nowadays, this is an accessible convergent point on which a lot of researchers are focusing, mainly due to the large progress of research in natural language and to the development of new technologies which allow the storage of real semantic electronic dictionaries. Each aspect of an information system life cycle may be improved by natural language techniques: database design (specification, validation, conflict resolution), database query languages and application programming that use new software engineering research (e.g. natural language program specifications). As information systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems. SETTING: Versailles is an historical city famous for its palace and gardens. Half an hour separates Versailles from Paris which is one of the most charming cities in the world. MAJOR TOPICS OF INTEREST : * Natural Language for WEB Databases Semantic information retrieval Semi-structured models and associated languages * Natural Language Resources for Integration in Multi-Sources Systems Linguistic aspects of view integration Linguistic aspects of data warehouse Natural language queries to multi-databases systems Data integration and data cleaning * Natural Language in Conceptual Modeling Requirement engineering Analysis of natural language descriptions Verification, consistency checking Paraphrasing Dynamic modeling * Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying Natural languages interfaces for database querying Verification of database queries by paraphrasing Semantic analysis for information retrieval * Hypertext and Hyperbases Hypertext as a navigation tool Generating hypertext from data sources * Large-Scale Online Linguistic Resources Question-answer corpora Electronic dictionaries Ontologies * Natural Language for Reuse Application dictionaries Reusable components in database design * Textual Databases Indexing Retrieval * Multilingual Issues Machine translation Multilingual information systems SUPPORTING EVENTS: The organizers would like to provide for opportunities to disseminate work in a variety of ways. Those interested in preparing tutorials or panel discussions are invited to contact the program chair. Demonstrations of prototypes or tools are also welcome. Previous conferences have been held in Versailles (France), Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Vancouver (Canada) and Klagenfurt (Austria), and have attracted researchers from all the continents. In addition to a conference proceedings, selected papers have in the past been submitted for review and publication in special editions of the Journal of Data and Knowledge Engineering. CONFERENCE CHAIR : Mokrane Bouzeghoub, Universit? de Versailles, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE chair: Elisabeth Metais, Universit? de Versailles, France Alfs T. Berztiss, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM, Universit? de Versailles, France Hans Burg, Ordina Alignment Consulting, The Netherlands Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, Universit? de Cergy, France G?nther Fliedl, Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria Nicola Guarino, CNR, Padova, Italy Jon Atle Gulla, Borvegian Institute of Technology, Norway Udo Hahn, Freiburg University, Germany Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Zoubida Kedad, PRiSM, Universit? de Versailles, France Christian Kop, Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria Paul McFetridge, Simon Fraser University, Canada Henrich Mayr, Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Odile Piton, Universit? de Paris 1, France Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ans Steuten, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Veda Storey, Rochester University, Canada Bernhard Thalheim, University of Cottbus, Germany Roland Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Christian Winkler, Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland ORGANIZING COMMITTEE chair: Zoubida Kedad, Universit? de Versailles, France Chantal Ducoin, Universit? de Versailles, France Paul Schmidt, IAI, Germany INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: To contribute, please submit 4 copies of a paper which does not exceed 5000 words, including a short abstract, to the program committee chair : Elisabeth Metais laboratoire PRiSM 45 avenue des Etats-Unis F-78035 Versailles France Elisabeth.Metais at prism.uvsq.fr phone: +33 (0) 1 39 25 40 53 fax: +33 (0) 1 39 25 40 57 IMPORTANT DATES : PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 12th, 2000 Notification of acceptance: April 15th, 2000 Camera-ready paper: May 8th, 2000 Odile PITON ---> ---> ---> attention nouvelle numerotation tel au labo :01 44 07 83 05 fax du labo : 01 44 07 83 01 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 13 09:08:08 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:08:08 +0100 Subject: Appel: Ontology Learning (ECAI) Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.100808.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Alexander Maedche <ama at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> ********************************************************************* *********** Call for Papers: Ontology Learning ****************** ******************** ECAI-2000 Workshop ************************** ********************************************************************* ******************** August 22, 2000 ************************** ********************************************************************* Comprehensive information to be found at http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de Workshop Summary Ontologies serve as a means for establishing a conceptually concise basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. In recent years, we have seen a surge of interest that deals with the discovery and automatic creation of complex, multirelational knowledge structures. For example, the natural language community tries to acquire word semantics from natural language texts, database researchers tackle the problem of schema induction and integration, and people building intelligent information agents research the learning of complex structures from semi-structured input (HTML, XML). All the while, efforts in the machine learning community pursue the induction of more concise and more expressive knowledge structures (e.g., relational learning) in general. For the workshop we intend to gather a diverse range of participants interested in the learning of ontologies. In particular, we are also interested in the maintenance (revision, incrementality) and integration (from various sources) aspects of learning ontologies. We want to further, or even establish, the exchange of ideas between these communities --- and maybe even others that we have not thought of. Hence, we solicit papers that present innovative approaches to ontology learning that are to be discussed in the workshop, system demonstrations and applications or position statements. Important Dates Deadline for paper submission 1 April 2000 Notification of acceptance 1 May 2000 Deadline final contributions 1 June 2000 All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. In addition, a few selected best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue about Ontology Learning of Elsevier's Journal "Data and Knowledge Engineering". Submission Information We invite contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in topics related to the purpose of the workshop. Persons interested in participating should submit either a technical paper (less than 5000 words) or a position paper (less than 1500 words) addressing new research issues. In addition, we solicit proposals for panel discussions and break-out groups that work towards visions for ontology learning. Submit before April 1, 2000 in electronic form (strongly preferred!) in postscript or pdf in the final ECAI style format (cf. http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/style.html) to: ama at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de or send three hard copies of your submission to: "Ontology Learning" Steffen Staab and Alexander Maedche Institute AIFB, Karlsruhe University, D-76128 Karlsruhe, Germany Organizing Committee Steffen Staab (Contact), AIFB, Karlsruhe University, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany email: sst at aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de phone: +49-721-608 4751 fax: +49-721-693 717 Alexander Maedche, AIFB, Karlsruhe University Claire Nedellec, Inference and Machine Learning Group, LRI, Universit? Paris Sud Peter Wiemer-Hastings, Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Program Committee Illarramendi Echave Arantxa, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain Dieter Fensel, Free University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL Nicola Guarino, National Research Council, Padova, Italy Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Udo Hahn, CLIF, University of Freiburg, Germany Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester, UK Paul Johannson, University of Stockholm, Sweden J?rg-Uwe Kietz, Swiss Life, Zurich, Switzerland Yves Kodratoff, LRI, France Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Christine Parent, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Marie-Christine Rousset, LRI, France Rudi Studer, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Stefan Wrobel, University of Magdeburg, Germany ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 13 09:07:52 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:07:52 +0100 Subject: Appel: Human-Computer Conversation Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.100752.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Yorick Wilks <y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk> SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Apologies if you receive this from more than one source THIRD WORKSHOP ON HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy 3-5 July, 2000 Everything is on the website, including registration information on line, hotels (from simple to sumptious), the glorious site etc. The key date is 8 April when abstracts are due. Hotel accomodation should be booked as soon as possible. www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/units/ilash/Meetings/bellagio/ Invited speakers include (not all have yet accepted): Dr B Alabiso, Microsoft, USA Dr J Hutchens, UWA, Australia Prof. G Leech, University of Lancaster, UK Dr U Reithinger, DFKI-Saarbruecken, DE Dr. T. Strzalkowski, General Electric, USA Prof. D. Traum, U Maryland, USA The Workshops on Human-Computer Conversation in Bellagio, Italy, took place in 1997 and 1998, as small groups of experts from industry and academia met to discuss this pressing question for the future of Language Engineering, not as an academic question only, but chiefly to bring forward for discussion computer demonstrations and activities within company laboratories that were not being published or discussed. The Workshops were highly successful in these aims and we now wish to widen participation and add distinguished speakers, as well as introducing more theoretical topics, though without losing the practical emphasis. The site remains one of the finest in the world, and it promoted excellent and intimate discussions in 1997 and 1998. The emphasis this year will take note of the CE Fifth Framework calls announced under Human Language Technology and in particular the emphasis on interactivity. We also plan to emphasise (in invited talks) the issue of politeness and whether it is crucial or dispensible to conversation, as well as recent results on statistical/empirical work on dialogue corpora, and on deriving marked up dialogue corpora. All details, including previous programs, program committee, accomodation and travel and details of registration are on the web site. Contributions are invited on any aspect of human-computer conversation, as are demonstrations. Two page abstracts should be sent by mail or email to the address at the bottom according to the following timetable: Deadline for submission: 8 April 2000 Notice of acceptance: 8 May 2000 Camera ready paper due: 8 June 2000 The European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), SigDial and ELSNET have endorsed the meeting. Submissions and further enquiries to: hccw at dcs.shef.ac.uk Yorick Wilks HCCW 2000 Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield 211 Portobello St., Sheffield S1 4DP UK phone: (44) 114 222 1814 fax: (44) 114 222 1810 email: hccw at dcs.shef.ac.uk www: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 13 09:14:18 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:14:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: Comlex'2000 Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.101418.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr> First Call for Papers 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 Encyclopedic 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 center 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 center of Western Greece. Apart from its beautiful landscape, Patras is close to the famous archeological 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"at 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 (Universite de Provence) Zampolli Antonio (University of Pisa) INVITED SPEAKERS Cristos Faloutsos, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University. "Multimedia Information Retrieval" Dafydd Gibbon Fakulta t fur Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft, Universitat Bielefeld. "Progress in Computational Lexicography" Jean Veronis, Centre Informatique pour les Lettres et Science Humaines, Universite 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 E-mail: electronic mail address of main author (for contact), followed by other authors (if any) 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 26500, 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. REGISTRATION FEES Registration fees will be around 150 EURO with special prices for students and a 10% early registration discount. Fees include welcome reception, two meals, banquet, and coffee breaks. 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. web site : http://www.wcl2.ee.upatras.gr/comlex2000.htm ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 13 09:14:21 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 10:14:21 +0100 Subject: Appel: Information Doors Message-ID: <MON.13.MAR.2000.101421.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Einat Amitay <einat at ics.mq.edu.au> 2nd CFP -- Please accept our apology for multiple postings. ======================= Information Doors -- Where Information Search and Hypertext Link May 30th 2000 San Antonio, Texas, USA http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat/info_doors/ A workshop held in conjunction with the ACM Hypertext conference (www.ht00.org/) ======================= Introduction The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the context of search results. Online search results are, no doubt, a form of hypertext created on-the-fly. Search results pages are also probably the most frequently seen hypertext form of writing nowadays. However, the research community tends to identify the presentation search results with Information Retrieval research. This workshop will consider search results as a form of hypertext, encouraging discussion about the nature of this dynamically created textual point-of-departure. The task of reading from a screen is not a trivial one, nor is the task of navigating between online texts. Even less trivial is creating a new text to represent other texts that are interconnected. In the case of hypertext representation of search results these tasks are combined to create a new on-screen text that describes and links other texts or entities. The purpose of this workshop is to tackle the problem of creating new hypertexts on-the-fly for representing other hypertext documents in the context of search results. The workshop will focus on the textual aspects of the problem: - How texts are read online? - How previously unseen documents might be presented in text to people who search for information? - How people navigate through textual search results? - What are the informative role and value of the newly created intermediate page? - Does it influence the reading of the documents followed by users? - Does it change the focus and the meaning of the texts as they are perceived by readers? - Are there any emerging textual or language conventions of presentation within hypertext systems and among hypertext authors that can be used in order to facilitate navigation through search results (e.g. naming of links conventions on the web, similarities in annotation patterns in annotation systems, use of titles and paragraph arrangements and positioning, use of lists and preferred methods of list ordering, and authors' frequent vocabulary choices). The workshop aims to bring together participants from many disciplines such as Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI), Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Digital Library (DL), applied psychology and psycho-linguistics, to discuss the nature of one of the most frequently seen hypertext presentation in recent years -- online search results. It will address the problem of textual presentation and hypertext representations of search results by looking at evaluations and studies of hypertext representations, studies about interaction with texts, how text representations should be designed in terms of language coherence and on-screen/online reading limitations, how to improve navigation with a smarter choice of textual representation, etc. The term 'textual representation' relates to how a document or a group-of-documents is represented in text (short or long texts, coherently summarised or organised by fixed fields like author, title, last updated, citations, generating descriptions, extracting passages, and so on). We will aim for gathering our knowledge to enhance and integrate our experience about hypertext in order to improve the options users are presented with while searching for information. The goal of the workshop is to create an interdisciplinary community that is able to address issues concerning search results presentation in the context of an online hypertext system. The workshop will specifically focus on the textual representation of results. It will not look at graphical representations of search results unless these shed new light on a textual issue, such as a comparison between textual and graphical representations of documents. The following list of suggested topics is only a short one and authors are encouraged to add more related issues and directions of investigations that are missing from it. Topics Issues of presentation - Choosing what information to show about found entities (summaries, titles, links, annotations, additional related information, etc.) - Grouping of results - Labelling Groups of documents - Creating hierarchies of results - Comparisons between textual & graphical representations of results Issues of results refinement - Similarities detected between results (represented in text) - Query refinement (textual options) Issues of evaluation - How results are read - Does presentation change users navigation experience - Different users - different presentations? - Large scale studies - Task-specific studies Issues of speed and efficiency Commercial applications Important Dates Submission of papers - 5 April 2000 Notification of acceptance - 30 April 2000 Workshop - 30 May 2000 Submission Papers are due on the 5th of April 2000. All papers should be submitted electronically via email (sent to einat at ics.mq.edu.au). PDF submissions are preferred (if this is not possible then try to send it as a .txt, .ps or MSWord file). Papers should be no longer than 6 pages. Workshop Organiser: Einat Amitay (Macquarie University & CSIRO) einat at ics.mq.edu.au Committee: Chaomei Chen (IS & Computing, Brunel University) Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft) Andrew Dillon (SLIS, Indiana University) Sue Dumais (Microsoft) Raya Fidel (SLIS, University of Washington) Gene Golovchinsky (FXPAL) Stephen Green (Sun Microsystems) Christina Haas (English, Kent State University) Johndan Johnson-Eilola (English, Purdue University) Chris Manning (CS & Linguistics, Stanford University) Vibhu Mittal (Just Research) -- Einat Amitay einat at ics.mq.edu.au http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~einat ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 14 12:19:25 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:19:25 +0100 Subject: Appel: LLL Message-ID: <TUE.14.MAR.2000.131925.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Claire Nedellec <Claire.Nedellec at lri.fr> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC (LLL) WORKSHOP 13th - 14th September 2000, Lisbon - Portugal Co-located with ICGI and CoNLL http://www.lri.fr/~cn/LLL-2000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Presentation ------------ Our purpose is to provide a forum for discussion on all aspects of learning linguistic knowledge in logic. This workshop is a follow-up of the succesful LLL workshop held in 1999 in Bled, (Slovenia) and co-located with ICML (http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/mlg/lll/workshop/). It will be co-located with the International Conference on Grammar Inference (ICGI) (http://vinci.inesc.pt/icgi-2000/) and the Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) (http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/conll2000/cfp.html). Aims and scope of the conference -------------------------------- The fact that more and more people are interested in the automatic acquisition of lexicons is due to the progress in the development of applications in NLP, terminology acquisition, indexing, information extraction, retrieval, question-answering, etc. Relational learning seems like a valuable alternative to data analysis in some NLP domains. This is clearly shown by the recent success of both NLP methods based on ILP or non-classic logics, and hybrid methods. Interest in learning linguistic knowledge has grown steadily over the last 15 years. As compared to manual acquisition, specialized resources can be learned, revised and extended with respect to the task at hand for much less cost. Despite the degree of variation in the applications and resources we want to acquire, most of them are learned in the same way: by observing regularities among the co-occurence of phenomena in the corpus. Therefore, a large amount of work is naturally based on statistics, and attempts to develop robust and large-scale methods. Moreover, relational learning and logic-based learning have proved their capacity to learn complex structured knowledge from structured data and explicit background knowledge. Compared to data analysis, some of the major advantages here are: a better means to express the representation; a method that is easier to understand; and a comprehensible learning result. As a consequence, interest is growing for a corpus-based learning of structures that represent linguistic resources such as predicate-argument structures, grammars, ontologies, etc. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from many subfields of AI who are working on learning from text, while emphasizing the logic-based learning techniques and algorithms. These techniques include, * Instance-based and clustering approaches in relational learning * Scalability issues (applying Logic-based methods to large data sets) * Logical approaches to statistical NLP * Theory revision * Explanation-based learning * Higher-order logic for LLL * Handling very complex terms * Multi-predicate learning * Collaborative and interactive learning * Learning in description logics * Combinations of approaches and multi-strategy learning * Evaluation techniques * Information indexing, filtering, retrieval, extraction * Text classification methods * Question answering * Learning ontologies, thesauri and lexicon * Learning terminology * Learning predicate-argument structure * Shallow parsing * Learning grammar * Learning subcategorisation frames * Part-of-speech tagging * Morphosyntactic tagging * Morphological analysis In addition to these topics, the workshop covers all theoretical and methodological issues concerning learning from text using logic- based techniques. Submissions describing innovative applications are also encouraged. Important dates --------------- Submission of papers by May, 15, 2000 Acceptance notices mailed by June, 19, 2000 Final, camera-ready papers due by July, 14, 2000 Organization ------------ The workshop will be two full days, including invited talks, paper presentations, poster presentations, and numerous opportunities for discussion. There will be joint sessions with the workshop "International Conference on Grammar Inference" (ICGI) and the "Conference on Natural Language Learning" (CoNLL) on topics of common interest. Joint sessions will include invited talks and paper presentations, depending on submissions. Submission procedure ------------------- Full papers may be up to 10 pages, short papers up to 6 pages, both in a 11 point font and single-spaced. We accept either electronic submission (preferred), in Postscript, PDF or Word format, or paper submissions (in 4 copies) to the following address: Claire Nedellec LLL workshop LRI, Bat 490 e-mail: cn at lri.fr Universite Paris-Sud Tel: +33 (0)1 69 15 66 26 F-91405 Orsay Fax: +33 (0)1 69 15 65 86 FRANCE Program committee ----------------- Program chair ------------- Claire Nedellec (LRI, University of Paris-Sud, France) Members ------- Pieter Adriaans (Syllogic and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) Roberto Basili (University of Roma, Italy) Gilles Bisson (INRIA, Grenoble, France) Henrik Bostr?m (University of Stockholm, Sweden) Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen, Netherlands) James Cussens (University of York, UK) Tomaz Erjavec (Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, University Paris-Nord, France) Suresh Manandhar (University of York, UK) Guenter Neumann (DFKI, Germany) Steve Pulman (University of Cambridge, UK) Christer Samuelsson (XRCE, Grenoble, France) Stefan Wrobel (University of Magdeburg, Germany) Organization ------------ Arlindo Oliveira (INESC, Lisbon, Portugal) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Claire Nedellec Inference and Machine Learning Group e-mail: cn at lri.fr LRI, Bat 490 Tel: +33 (0)1 69 15 66 26 Universite Paris-Sud Fax: +33 (0)1 69 15 65 86 F-91405 Orsay FRANCE Web : http://www.lri.fr/~cn ------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 14 12:19:04 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:19:04 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers Message-ID: <TUE.14.MAR.2000.131904.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 1/ From: Eduard Hovy <hovy at ISI.EDU> Subject: Job in SPEECH RECOGNITION and DIALOGUE PROCESSING 2/ From: Linguist jobs <linguist_jobs at logos-usa.com> Subject: Jobs for French-language linguists 3/ From: Shira Blumenstein <resumes at dragonsys.com> Subject: NLP: Research Scientist at Dragon Systems, Inc., Massachusetts 4/ From: "Chan, Ruby" <rchan at ets.org> Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 1/ From: Eduard Hovy <hovy at ISI.EDU> Subject: Job in SPEECH RECOGNITION and DIALOGUE PROCESSING Job posting We are looking for a dynamic research scientist with expertise in SPEECH RECOGNITION and DIALOGUE PROCESSING to help start a new research project at the recently formed Institute for Creative Technologies of the University of Southern California in Marina del Rey, CA. The system being built incorporates speech processing, dialogue, agent-based reasoning, virtual reality, and sophisticated immersive multimedia displays in a large-scale new project that has links to research at several USC centers including the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and the Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC). The candidate should have a Ph.D. in either Speech Recognition or Natural Language Processing (with emphasis on discourse) and strong abilities in the both areas. The successful candidate may choose to join the Computer Science faculty of USC as well, and eventually supervise graduate students in addition to performing the research. Please contact both William Swartout Eduard Hovy USC/ICT USC/ISI 13274 Fiji Way 4676 Admiralty Way Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 Marina del Rey CA 90292-6695 tel: 310-574-5705 tel: 310-448-8731 email: swartout at ict.usc.edu email: hovy at isi.edu ========================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eduard Hovy email: hovy at isi.edu USC Information Sciences Institute tel: 310-448-8731 4676 Admiralty Way fax: 310-823-6714 Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6695 project homepage: http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 2/ From: Linguist jobs <linguist_jobs at logos-usa.com> Subject: Jobs for French-language linguists We would appreciate your assistance in circulating this job posting among the candidates who you think are most appropriate and interested. Logos Corporation, a leading developer of machine translation software, has openings for energetic (Computational) Linguists and Lexicographers specialized in French or German at its Technology Development Center, which is situated less than an hour from New York City in a pleasant residential area. This positions' responsibilities include: * Development and maintenance of computational grammars for our translation engine; * Developing effective strategies for dictionary development by mining parallel and monolingual corpora or machine readable glossaries and dictionaries; * Design and development of other linguistic components for our translation system; * Providing linguistic expertise for the development of other linguistic products and tools. The ideal candidate will have: * Native or near-native proficiency in English and in French or German. * An advanced university degree, with a strong background in linguistics and natural language processing. * Experience in language engineering in an industrial or commercial setting. * Experience in one or more of the following knowledge areas: machine translation, corpus linguistics, statistical language processing, contrastive linguistics, translation, computational lexicography, project management, tools development. * Ability to work independently and in a team. * Programming skills in Java, C++ and/or Perl. Send r?sum? and cover letter to: Director of Linguistic Development Logos Corporation 100 Enterprise Drive, Suite 501 Rockaway, NJ 07866 Or by e-mail to: linguist_jobs at logos-usa.com ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 3/ From: Shira Blumenstein <resumes at dragonsys.com> Subject: NLP: Research Scientist at Dragon Systems, Inc., Massachusetts Rank of Job: PhD Areas Required: Natural Language Processing Other Desired Areas: Computational Linguistics University or Organization: Dragon Systems, Inc. Department: Research State or Province: MA Country: USA Final Date of Application: open Contact: Shira Blumenstein resumes at dragonsys.com Address for Applications: 320 Nevada Street Newton MA 02460 USA Senior Research Scientist (NLP) Responsibilities: - Join an exciting new effort in Natural Language Processing (NLP)/Natural Language Understanding (NLU). - Major focus on developing the capability to reliably infer the intent behind a variety of types of utterances and commands. - Focus on bringing higher level linguistic knowledge to bear in speech recognition and speech synthesis. Requirements: - Candidate should be conversant with all stages of language processing, from morphological analysis through discourse, including knowledge of a broad array of parsing techniques and grammar formulations, both deterministic and probabilistic. - A strong programming background in C/C++ is essential. - The ideal candidate will be comfortable with the idea of automatically extracting linguistic information via the statistical analysis of corpora, and eager to assist in the design and collection of such corpora. - More junior candidates are also invited to apply. If you are interested in joining an exciting, cutting edge company that is changing the way we use technology, please email your resume (MS Word format or text) with job code "NLP-ll" and last name in the subject line to: resumes at dragonsys.com. EOE. Visit our website at http://www.dragonsys.com. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 4/ From: "Chan, Ruby" <rchan at ets.org> Subject: Comp Ling: Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service Research Position available at Educational Testing Service THE CENTER FOR ASSESSMENT DESIGN AND SCORING The Research Division at Educational Testing Service is seeking a junior to mid-level research scientist with the following qualifications: a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Linguistics with solid computational linguistics experience and an interest in natural language processing research for purposes of automated writing analysis, instruction and scoring. The work involves the ability to apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting natural language processing research studies and in developing and contributing to the development of new products or services for education. Evidence of independent substantive research experience is required and the successful candidate is expected to be able to contribute to new or modified theories of natural language processing as applied to educational and psychological processes. ETS is located near Princeton, NJ, and offers a competitive salary, commensurate with experience, an attractive benefits package, and ample opportunity for professional growth. For confidential consideration, please send resume, including salary history to: Ruby Chan, MS 14-R, ETS, Rosedale Road, Princeton, NJ 08540. Email: rchan at ets.org. Fax: (609) 734-5010. ETS is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 14 12:19:27 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:19:27 +0100 Subject: Appel: CL Special Issue Message-ID: <TUE.14.MAR.2000.131927.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Ruslan Mitkov <R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk> *** Reminder: Submission Deadline is 1 April 2000 *** Call for Papers Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution Guest editors: Ruslan Mitkov, Branimir Boguraev, Shalom Lappin Anaphora and ellipsis both account for cohesion in text and are phenomena of active study in formal and computational linguistics alike. The correct interpretation of anaphora and ellipsis, as well as the understanding of the relationship between them, is vital for Natural Language Processing. After considerable initial research, and after years of relative silence in the early eighties, these issues have attracted the attention of many researchers in the last 10 years and much promising work on the topic has been reported. Discourse-orientated theories and formalisms such as DRT and Centering have inspired new research on the computational treatment of anaphora. The drive towards corpus-based robust NLP solutions has further stimulated interest, for alternative and/or data-enriched approaches. In addition, application-driven research in areas such as automatic abstracting and information extraction, has independently identified the importance of (and boosted the research in) anaphora and coreference resolution. Ellipsis resolution too, being of particular importance to a number of Natural Language Understanding applications such as dialogue and discourse processing, has received increasing attention. The growing interest in anaphora and ellipsis resolution has been demonstrated clearly over the last 4--5 years through the MUC coreference task projects and at a number of related fora (workshops, conferences, etc.). Against this background of expanding research and growing interest, this special issue offers the opportunity for a high quality, and timely, collection of papers on anaphora and ellipsis resolution. Topics The call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel and challenging work/results in anaphora and ellipsis resolution. The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited to: o new anaphora and ellipsis resolution algorithms, o factors in anaphora resolution: salience and interaction of factors, o techniques in ellipsis resolution, o use of theories and formalisms in anaphora resolution, o use of theories and formalisms in ellipsis resolution, o applications of anaphora/coreference resolution, o applications of ellipsis resolution, o multilingual anaphora resolution, o evaluation issues, o use/production of annotated corpora for anaphora and ellipsis. In addition, we expect papers addressing various issues of debate related to the resolution of anaphora and ellipsis, such as: o Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora resolution? o When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit "constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"? o What is the case for languages other than English? o What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential" factors? How should weights best be determined? What empirical data can be brought to bear on this? o What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple factors? Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting the antecedent? o Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts? o Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora automatically? o Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements from an anaphora resolution module? What kind(s) of compromises might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for particular type(s) of input text? o Should ellipsis resolution be handled by syntactic or semantic reconstruction? o Is it necessary to retrieve both syntactic and semantic properties of the antecedent in the reconstructed representation of the elided structure? Finally, we invite discussion on various open questions from both theoretical and computational point of view such as whether we should construe ellipsis as entirely distinct from anaphora. Submissions and Reviewing The submission deadline is 1 April 2000. Authors can submit either electronically or send 6 hard copies of their paper (for format and style details, see http://www.aclweb.org/cl) to: Ruslan Mitkov (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk) School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB United Kingdom Please note that in addition to the submission, a 100-word abstract and details of the author (following the format given at http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt) should be emailed to R.Mitkov. Each submission will be reviewed both by experts appointed by the editor of the journal and by members of the guest editorial board of the special issue. In addition to the guest editors, Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) and Shalom Lappin (University of London), the guest editorial board includes the following members: Nicholas Asher (University of Texas), Amit Bagga (GE CRD), Claire Cardie (Cornell University), David Carter (Speech Machines, Malvern), Eugene Charniak (Brown University), Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp), Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC), Dan Hardt (Villanova University), Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto), Jerry Hobbs (SRI International), Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania), Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Center Europe), Andrew Kehler (SRI International), Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University), Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh), Monique Rolbert (University of Marseille), Stuart Shieber (Harvard University), Candy Sidner (Lotus Research), Marilyn Walker (AT&T). This call for paper is also available at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/text.html --=====================_1882718==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <font size=3>*** Reminder: Submission Deadline is 1 April 2000 ***<br> <br> <br> <br>             &nbs p; & nbsp;             ; &n bsp; Call for Papers<br> <br> Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Anaphora and Ellipsis Resolution <br> <br> Guest editors:  Ruslan Mitkov, Branimir Boguraev, Shalom Lappin<br> <br> <br> Anaphora and ellipsis both account for cohesion in text and are phenomena<br> of active study in formal and computational linguistics alike.  The<br> correct interpretation of anaphora and ellipsis, as well as the<br> understanding of the relationship between them, is vital for Natural<br> Language Processing.<br> <br> After considerable initial research, and after years of relative silence<br> in the early eighties, these issues have attracted the attention of many<br> researchers in the last 10 years and much promising work on the topic has<br> been reported.  Discourse-orientated theories and formalisms such as DRT<br> and Centering have inspired new research on the computational treatment<br> of anaphora.  The drive towards corpus-based robust NLP solutions has<br> further stimulated interest, for alternative and/or data-enriched<br> approaches.  In addition, application-driven research in areas such as<br> automatic abstracting and information extraction, has independently<br> identified the importance of (and boosted the research in) anaphora and<br> coreference resolution.  Ellipsis resolution too, being of particular<br> importance to a number of Natural Language Understanding applications<br> such as dialogue and discourse processing, has received increasing<br> attention.  The growing interest in anaphora and ellipsis resolution has<br> been demonstrated clearly over the last 4--5 years through the MUC<br> coreference task projects and at a number of related fora (workshops,<br> conferences, etc.).<br> <br> Against this background of expanding research and growing interest, this<br> special issue offers the opportunity for a high quality, and timely,<br> collection of papers on anaphora and ellipsis resolution.<br> <br> <br> Topics<br> <br> The call for papers invites submissions of papers describing recent novel<br> and challenging work/results in anaphora and ellipsis resolution.<br> The range of topics to be covered will include, but will not be limited<br> to:<br> <br>   o  new anaphora and ellipsis resolution algorithms,<br>   o  factors in anaphora resolution: salience and interaction of factors,<br>   o  techniques in ellipsis resolution,<br>   o  use of theories and formalisms in anaphora resolution,<br>   o  use of theories and formalisms in ellipsis resolution,<br>   o  applications of anaphora/coreference resolution,<br>   o  applications of ellipsis resolution,<br>   o  multilingual anaphora resolution,<br>   o  evaluation issues,<br>   o  use/production of annotated corpora for anaphora and ellipsis.<br> <br> <br> In addition, we expect papers addressing various issues of debate related<br> to the resolution of anaphora and ellipsis, such as:<br> <br>   o  Is it possible to propose a core set of factors used in anaphora<br>      resolution?<br>   o  When dealing with real data, is it at all possible to posit<br>      "constraints", or should all factors be regarded as "preferences"?<br>   o  What is the case for languages other than English?<br>   o  What degree of preference (weight) should be given to "preferential"<br>      factors?  How should weights best be determined?  What empirical<br>      data can be brought to bear on this?<br>   o  What would be an optimal order for the application of multiple<br>      factors?  Would this affect the scoring strategies used in selecting<br>      the antecedent?<br>   o  Is it realistic to expect high precision over unrestricted texts?<br>   o  Is it realistic to determine anaphoric links in corpora<br>      automatically?<br>   o  Are all CL applications 'equal' with respect to their requirements<br>      from an anaphora resolution module?  What kind(s) of compromises<br>      might be possible, depending on the NLP task, and how would<br>      awareness of these affect the tuning of a resolution algorithm for<br>      particular type(s) of input text?<br>   o  Should ellipsis resolution be handled by syntactic or semantic<br>      reconstruction?<br>   o  Is it necessary to retrieve both syntactic and semantic properties of<br>      the antecedent in the reconstructed representation of the elided<br>      structure?<br> <br> Finally, we invite discussion on various open questions from both<br> theoretical and computational point of view such as whether we should<br> construe ellipsis as entirely distinct from anaphora.<br> <br> <br> Submissions and Reviewing<br> <br> The submission deadline is 1 April 2000.  Authors can submit either<br> electronically or send 6 hard copies of their paper (for format and style<br> details, see <a href="http://www.aclweb.org/cl" eudora="autourl">http://www.aclweb.org/cl</a>) to:<br> <br>   Ruslan Mitkov   (R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk) <br>   School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences <br>   University of Wolverhampton <br>   Stafford St.<br>   Wolverhampton WV1 1SB<br>   United Kingdom <br> <br> Please note that in addition to the submission, a 100-word abstract and<br> details of the author (following the format given at<br> <a href="http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt" eudora="autourl">http://www.aclweb.org/cl/submit.txt</a>) should be emailed to R.Mitkov.<br> <br> Each submission will be reviewed both by experts appointed by the editor<br> of the journal and by members of the guest editorial board of the special<br> issue.  In addition to the guest editors, <br> <br>   Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), <br>   Branimir Boguraev (IBM Research, Yorktown Heights) and<br>   Shalom Lappin (University of London), <br> <br> the guest editorial board includes the following members:<br> <br>   Nicholas Asher (University of Texas),<br>   Amit Bagga (GE CRD), <br>   Claire Cardie (Cornell University), <br>   David Carter (Speech Machines, Malvern),<br>   Eugene Charniak (Brown University),<br>   Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp), <br>   Mary Dalrymple (Xerox PARC), <br>   Dan Hardt (Villanova University), <br>   Graeme Hirst (University of Toronto), <br>   Jerry Hobbs (SRI International), <br>   Aravind Joshi (University of  Pennsylvania),<br>   Lauri Karttunen (Xerox Research Center Europe), <br>   Andrew Kehler (SRI International), <br>   Christopher Kennedy (Northwestern University), <br>   Massimo Poesio (University of Edinburgh), <br>   Monique Rolbert (University of Marseille), <br>   Stuart Shieber (Harvard University),<br>   Candy Sidner (Lotus Research), <br>   Marilyn Walker (AT&T).<br> <br> This call for paper is also available at <br> <a href="http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/text.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/text.html</a><br> </font><br> </html> --=====================_1882718==_.ALT-- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 14 12:19:35 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:19:35 +0100 Subject: Ecole: LE for Lesser-Studied Languages Message-ID: <TUE.14.MAR.2000.131935.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Kemal Oflazer <ko at cs.bilkent.edu.tr> NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES July 3 - 14, 2000 BILKENT UNIVERSITY ANKARA, TURKEY Co-directors: Kemal Oflazer (Bilkent University), Sergei Nirenburg (New Mexico State University), Oleg Kapanadze (Tbilisi State University). NEW Important Information about travel support for Greek, Portugese, Turkish and US Participants is available at the end of the announcement. We are pleased to announce that the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Language Engineering for Lesser-studied Languages will be held on the campus of Bilkent University in Turkey, July 3rd through July 14th, 2000. The ASI program will comprise the following courses on the state-of-the-art in various aspects of language engineering. Currently, the following courses are planned: * Introduction to languages and language engineering, Nicholas Ostler (Linguacubun, UK) Sergei Nirenburg (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) * Text processing ecology, Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab,, NMSU, USA) * Computational tools and resources, Remi Zajac (Computing Research Lab,, NMSU, USA) * Computational morphology and finite state methods, Ken Beesley (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) * Statistical methods and corpus linguistics, Christer Samuelsson (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France) * Lexical acquisition, Victor Raskin (Purdue University, USA) Sergei Nirenburg (Computing Research Lab,, NMSU, USA) * Grammar and grammar writing, Svetlana Sheremetyeva (Computing Research Lab,, NMSU, USA) * Machine translation, Harold Somers (CCL,UMIST, UK) * Information extraction, Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) * Information retrieval. Jim Cowie (Computing Research Lab, NMSU, USA) The ASI will feature a number of participant workshops. These workshops will provide a forum for participants to present their work on language engineering and receive feedback from colleagues. Applicants are strongly suggested to submit an abstract of their presentation in their application. Abstracts will be selected for presentation in the workshops after a review process. Full versions of these presentations will be expected to be submitted before the ASI starts. The ASI will also feature discussion panel which will enable participants to discuss specific issues in language engineering with experts in the field. The ASI will admit a limited number of qualified participants from NATO countries (1) Partner countries (2), and Mediterranean dialogue countries (3). Depending on the specific circumstances, funding for living and lodging expenses of such participants will be available. Participants from commercial/industrial institutions may attend provided they cover their travel and living expenses. Please inquire with natoasi at cs.bilkent.edu.tr for the details of such participation. Since there are a limited number of participant slots, admission to the ASI will be strictly on a competitive basis taking into account the participants' background, their potential contribution and the benefit they may draw from the meeting. All courses and presentations will be conducted in English. We acknowledge the additional support provided by Bilkent University, Computing Research Lab, NMSU, and EACL- European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. This information and the application form can be found at http://www.nlp.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/ASI and on mirror sites listed there ------------------------------------------------------------------------ APPLICATIONS TO THE ASI Please fill out the application form and send by electronic mail to natoasi at cs.bilkent.edu.tr. Application by fax or mail will only be considered in exceptional circumstances. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2000. Applicants will be notified of the results of their application by April 17, 2000. Applicants are expected to secure financial support for travel to/from Ankara, Turkey, from outside sources. Support for living and lodging expenses during the ASI will be available to qualified applicants on a case by case basis. TRAVEL SUPPORT FOR GREEK, PORTUGESE, TURKISH AND U.S. PARTICIPANTS NATO provides limited additional funds to ensure the participation of some young scientists from Greece, Portugal and Turkey, who might otherwise be prevented from NATO Advanced Study Institutes. These funds are administered on NATO's behalf, by a National Administrator in each of the three countries. These funds are requested by the ASI on behalf of the accepted participants and not by individual participants, but individuals looking for further information regarding these funds can contact: in Greece: Mrs. M. Bofakou, Ministry of Industry, General Secretariat of Research and Technology International Organisations Departments, Messogion, 14-18, 11527 Athens Tel: 30-1 775 2222, Fax: 30-1 775 3872 in Portugal Dr. L. Floxo Instituto de Coopera?ao Cientifica e Tecnologica Internacional Rua Castilho, 5-4, 1250-066 Lisbon Tel: 351-1, 358 5303, Fax: 351-1 315 4065 in Turkey Prof.H. Arici, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, T?BITAK Atat?rk Bulvari, 221, Kavaklidere, Ankara Tel: 90-312-426 6846, Fax: 90-312- 427 2382 The US NSF may also provide travel awards for a limited number of US student participants in selected Advanced Study Institutes conducted in NATO countries other than Canada and US. The awards consist of round trip tickets issued directly to participants by a travel agency acting for NSF. The ASI Organization will contact the NSF on behalf of the selected US Participants. Citizens of Greece, Portugal, Turkey and the US may indicate that they would like to apply for these additional grants on their application forms. After the participants are selected, the relevant national offices will be contacted by the NATO ASI Organization in due time with the names of the participants from the respective countries for additional travel support. ---- (1) NATO Countries: Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, and USA. (2) Partner Countries eligible for support: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrghyzistan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Tadjikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (*), Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. ((*) Turkey recognizes the Republic of Macedonia with its constitutional name.) (3) Mediterranean Dialogue Countries eligible for support: Egypt, Israel. ------ ------ NATO ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE ON LANGUAGE ENGINEERING FOR LESSER-STUDIED LANGUAGES July 3 - July 14, 2000 Bilkent University Ankara, Turkey APPLICATION FORM Please use as much space as necessary. Send completed form by electronic mail to natoasi at cs.bilkent.edu.tr. Do not send a hardcopy by mail or fax. Please take as much space as you feel is necessary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NAME OF THE APPLICANT: STREET ADDRESS: CITY/STATE/COUNTRY: CITIZENSHIP: E-MAIL: WEB URL: TELEPHONE: FAX: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SHORT BIOGRAPHY AND BACKGROUND Please summarize your educational and work background and experience especially pointing out experience and publications (if any) relevant to language engineering. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STATEMENT OF PURPOSE Please give a short summary of why you would want to attend the NATO ASI and what do you expect to gain from it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PARTICIPANT WORKHOP SUBMISSION Would you like to submit a paper for consideration for presentation in Participant Workshops? If so, please provide a title, and an abstract. Please note that submitting a paper does not have any impact on the criteria to be used in selecting participants. TITLE: AUTHOR(S): ABSTRACT: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 14 12:19:31 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 13:19:31 +0100 Subject: Ecole: ESSLLI 2000 in Birmingham Message-ID: <TUE.14.MAR.2000.131931.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: ESSLLI 2000 in Birmingham <esslli2000 at cs.bham.ac.uk> ESSLLI 2000 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 6-18th August 2000 Birmingham, England A two week summer school which offers 42 courses at various levels and six workshops in the areas of Logic, Computation, and Language. 77 lecturers from all over the world. A phenomenally low registration fee and accommodation costs. Bursaries for participants from non-OECD countries available. Visit http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli for the full programme, descriptions of lecture courses and a registration form. REGISTER NOW! Early registration deadline for reduced registration fee of 95 Pounds is MAY 31, 2000. After this the registration fee will be 150 Pounds. Applications for bursaries need to be received by MAY 31, 2000. Please mail esslli at cs.bham.ac.uk for any queries. LECTURERS AND WORKSHOP ORGANISERS: Jos? J?lio Alferes, Lisboa Peter K?hnlein, Bielefeld Carlos Areces, Amsterdam Agnes Kurucz, London Brandon Bennett, Leeds Marta Kwiatkowska, Birmingham Jean-Yves B?ziau, Petropolis Rob Malouf, Groningen Patrick Blackburn, Saarbr?cken Carlos Mart?n-Vide, Tarragona Hendrik Blockeel, Heverlee Maarten Marx, Amsterdam Paolo Bouquet, Trento Ralph Matthes, M?nchen Krysia Broda, London Mary McGee Wood, Manchester Greg Carlson, Rochester Detmar Meurers, T?bingen Ann Copestake, Stanford Wilfried Meyer-Viol, London Richard Crouch, Xerox PARC Angelo Montanari, Udine James Cussens, York Christof Monz, Amsterdam Anuj Dawar, Cambridge Andrew Moshier, Orange Denys Duchier, Saarbr?cken Stephen Muggleton, York Gisbert Fanselow, Potsdam Stephan Oepen, Saarbr?cken Caroline F?ry, Potsdam Marc Pauly, Amsterdam Hana Filip, Evanston David Pearce, Saarbr?cken Dan Flickinger, Stanford Alberto Pettorossi, Roma Dov Gabbay, London Paul Piwek, Brighton Bart Geurts, Nijmegen Alberto Policriti, Udine Anastasia Giannakidou, Groningen Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Manchester Valentin Goranko, Johannesburg Maurizio Proietti, Roma Fritz Hamm, T?bingen Christian Retor?, Rennes Erhard Hinrichs, T?bingen Hannes Rieser, Bielefeld Martin Hofmann, Edinburgh Mark Ryan, Birmingham Kenneth Holmqvist, Lund Luciano Serafini, Povo Richard Hudson, London Aaron Sloman, Birmingham Mateja Jamnik, Birmingham Mike Squire, Warwick Neil D Jones, Copenhagen Johan van Benthem, Amsterdam Reinhard Kahle, T?bingen Josef van Genabith, Dublin Sara Kalvala, Warwick Robert van Rooy, Amsterdam Ruth Kempson, London Yde Venema, Amsterdam Manfred Kerber, Birmingham Andrei Voronkov, Manchester Paul John King, T?bingen Shuly Wintner, Philadelphia Valia Kordoni, T?bingen Frank Wolter, Leipzig Emiel Krahmer, Eindhoven John H Woods, Lethbridge Bob Krovetz, Princeton Michael Zakharyaschev, Leeds Geert-Jan Kruijff, Prague Thomas E Zimmermann, Frankfurt ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 16 15:16:33 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:16:33 +0100 Subject: Appel: Linguistique de Corpus Appliqué e aux Langues Romanes Message-ID: <THU.16.MAR.2000.161633.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr> 1re Rencontre fribourgeoise de la Linguistique de Corpus Appliqu?e aux Langues Romanes Corpus oraux des langues romanes Etat de la recherche, projets et nouvelles perspectives Universit? Albert-Ludwig Fribourg-en-Brisgau Allemagne) D?partement de Philologie Romane 6 - 8 octobre 2000 Depuis longtemps, la linguistique romane s'occupe du langage parl?, mais c'est surtout ? partir des ann?es 60 que la recherche dans ce domaine a pris un essor remarquable. L'enregistrement, la transcription et l'analyse syst?matiques de l'oral ont ?t? entrepris dans plusieurs langues romanes. Pourtant, la linguistique romane a pris du retard concernant la quantit?, la dimension et l'accessibilit? des corpus oraux, notamment sur support ?lectronique. La Rencontre fribourgeoise souhaite r?unir les sp?cialistes dans les langues romanes qui eux-m?mes ?tablissent ou travaillent sur des corpus de la langue parl?e. Les communications porteront sur les aspects suivants : r?flexions th?oriques et m?thodologiques concernant l'enqu?te, la transcription, la documentation et l'analyse des donn?es langagi?res orales pr?sentation de corpus en cours d'?laboration ou achev?s et des outils d'analyse des corpus ?lectroniques r?sultats de projets de recherche r?cents pour lesquels des corpus oraux ont ?t? d?pouill?s. Date et lieu du colloque : Le colloque aura lieu du 6 au 8 octobre 2000 dans le b?timent ? Wilhelmstrasse 26 ? de l'Universit? Albert-Ludwig, Domaine Universitaire des Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Geisteswissenschaftliches Universit?tszentrum; voir le plan de l'universit?). L'arr?t le plus proche des transports publics est ? Stadttheater ?, ? 300 m. Communications : Tous les conf?renciers disposent d'un total de 50 minutes et sont pri?s d'envoyer leur proposition de communication (avec titre, nom et r?sum? d'une page A4 environ), accompagn?e d'un formulaire d'inscription rempli (? demander par courrier ?lectronique), au coordinateur du colloque. La date limite de r?ception est fix?e au 17 mars 2000. Les communications peuvent ?tre pr?sent?es en allemand, en anglais ou dans la langue romane de votre choix. Vous recevrez la confirmation d'acceptation de votre communication avant la fin de mars. Ech?ances : 17.3.2000: Fin d'inscription pour les participants qui souhaitent pr?senter une communication; dernier d?lai pour envoyer le r?sum? (aussi par courrier ?lectronique). avant 30.3.2000: Confirmation d'acceptation des propositions de communication 1.6.2000: Dernier d?lai de r?servation pour les chambres ? tarif sp?cial au City-Hotel 15.8.2000: Fin d'inscription pour les participants sans communication; dernier d?lai de r?ception des frais d'inscription. Pour toute question, contactez, s'il vous pla?t, le coordinateur du colloque : Claus D. Pusch Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Romanisches Seminar Werthmannplatz 3 D-79085 Freiburg im Breisgau Fax ++49 / 7 61 / 2 03 31 95 E-mail pusch at uni-freiburg.de site web: http://omnibus.uni-freiburg.de/~pusch/korpus_2000/francais.htm ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 16 15:16:14 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:16:14 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 Announcements Message-ID: <THU.16.MAR.2000.161614.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 1/ From: Adelina Ivanova <Adelina.Ivanova at issco.unige.ch> Subject: Job Add Posting 2/ From: Robert Stumberger <robst at MICROSOFT.com> Subject: Position as Program Manager for linguistic Search team at Microsoft ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 1/ From: Adelina Ivanova <Adelina.Ivanova at issco.unige.ch> Subject: Job Add Posting LCG TMR Network - Post-doc researcher at ISSCO, Geneva The Institute for Cognitive and Semantic Studies (ISSCO), University of Geneva, has a vacancy for a qualified and motivated young post-doc researcher to join the LCG project. Leaning Computational Grammars (LCG) is a research network funded by the EC Training and Mobility of Researchers programme and involves 7 partner sites. LCG researchers the application of a variety of machine learning techniques from neural networks, statistical and symbolic learning. Currently efforts focus on comparison of results based on attempts to learn noun phrase structure in English, but work on other languages is possible. More information on the project can be found at: http://lcg-www.uia.ac.be/lcg ISSCO offers a stimulating and multidisciplinary environment and possibility for collaboration with experts in NLP, linguistics, psycholinguistics and translation. There will be also opportunities to collaborate with other LCG researchers at the partner sites. The candidate should be able to demonstrate strong computational skills and interest in multi-lingual issues. The post is available as of 1.04.00 until the end of the project - September, 2001. Further information can be obtained by sending an e-mail with specific questions to <Adelina.Ivanova at issco.unige.ch> (subject TMR) or by phone (+ 41 22 7058690). If you are interested, please send to Professor Susan Armstrong (Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch) the following: a CV, list of publications, the names and addresses of two referees and a short expose outlining your interest in LCG, how it relates to your previous research and the special expertise you will bring to the project. *** Please accept our apologies if you have seen this message more than once. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 2/ From: Robert Stumberger <robst at MICROSOFT.com> Subject: Position as Program Manager for linguistic Search team at Microsoft (Apologies for multiple postings) Microsoft has an opening for a Program Manager to help guide linguistic search technology in the Natural Language Group (NLG). The Search team ships components built on our language analysis engine that help Microsoft products deliver higher search precision to end users. NLG is the central organization for shipping advanced linguistic technology in Microsoft's key applications and system products, including Office, Windows, and several consumer applications. As a Program Manager, you will deliver updates to existing components, pursue new features, and advance the underlying technology as we move to higher-precision search results and question answering. Responsibilities include specification and scheduling of search features; coordination with internal clients on feature requirements and schedules; and communications with team, management, and clients. You will work closely with the development and test teams to prototype and deliver technology improvements such as word-sense disambiguation. Preferred experience includes an MS in either Computer Science or Linguistics and 2-3 years as a program manager, or equivalent industry experience. Knowledge of computational linguistics, information retrieval, or information extraction is highly desirable. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity. Please send your CV, in ASCII text or as a Word attachment, to nljobs at microsoft.com, and reference job number N054N-03-1399. Robert Stumberger Natural Language Group Microsoft Corporation email: robst at microsoft.com ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 16 15:16:37 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:16:37 +0100 Subject: Conf: CLAW-2000 Message-ID: <THU.16.MAR.2000.161637.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: MIT2USA at aol.com [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] Dear all, This message is posted on behalf of the CLAW2000 committee. Marilyn Mason Mason Integrated Technologies Ltd (MIT2) http://hometown.aol.com/mit2usa/Index2.html ---------- ***** CLAW2000 - Call for Participation ***** The 3rd international Controlled Language Applications Workshop (CLAW2000) Web page has been updated: (http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/claw2000/) Registration for CLAW2000 can be done on-line at: (http://www2.gte.com/claw/index.html). Registration for ANLP and NAACL is not required to attend CLAW2000. Only registration for CLAW is necessary. ACL membership is included with CLAW2000 registration. NOTE: Early registration deadline is 28 March 2000. A block of hotel rooms for ANLP/NAACL/CLAW has been reserved until 28 March. General information and hotel reservations for CLAW2000 are available through the ANLP/NAACL page. From the CLAW registration page, a small link ("Back to Conference home") at the left takes you back to the main web page for ANLP/NAACL 2000: http://www.gte.com/anlp-naacl2000 Or go directly to: General local arrangements information: http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/arrangements.html Hotel reservations: http://www.gte.com/AboutGTE/gto/anlp-naacl2000/arrangements.html#hotel Regards, CLAW2000 Committee ---------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 16 15:16:43 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:16:43 +0100 Subject: Livre: Breadth and depth of semantic lexicons Message-ID: <THU.16.MAR.2000.161643.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr> Subject: Book: Breadth and depth of semantic lexicons Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mime-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hermes.cines.fr id IAA11594 **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 10 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V?ronis BREADTH AND DEPTH OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS Edited by EVELYNE VIEGAS Computing Research Laboratory New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA Most of the books about computational (lexical) semantic lexicons deal with the depth (or content) aspect of lexicons, ignoring the breadth (or coverage) aspect. This book presents a first attempt in the community to address both issues: content and coverage of computational semantic lexicons, in a thorough manner. Moreover, it addresses issues which have not yet been tackled in implemented systems such as the application time of lexical rules. Lexical rules and lexical underspecification are also contrasted in implemented systems. The main approaches in the field of computational (lexical) semantics are represented in the present book (including Wordnet, CyC, Mikrokosmos, Generative Lexicon). This book embraces several fields (and subfields) as different as: linguistics (theoretical, computational, semantics, pragmatics), psycholinguistics, cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, statistics and natural language processing. The book also constitutes a very good introduction to the state of the art in computational semantic lexicons of the late 1990s. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7 November 1999, 352 pp. NLG 270.00 / USD 144.00 / GBP 89.00 CONTENTS Preface vii Contributors ix Introduction xi Evelyne Viegas I. LEXICAL RULES AND UNDERSPECIFICATION Categorization of Types and Application of Lexical Rules 3 Boyan A. Onyshkevych The Lexical Semantics of English Count and Mass Nouns 19 Brendan S. Gillon Lexical Rules and Lexical Organization: Productivity in the Lexicon 39 Onur T. Sehitoglu and Cem Bozsahin Word Disambiguation by Lexical Underspecification 59 Antonio Sanfillippo II. BREADTH OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS Acquisition of Semantic Lexicons: Using Word Sense Disambiguation to Improve Precision 79 Bonnie J. Dorr and Doug Jones Lexical Rules for Deverbal Adjectives 99 Victor Raskin and Sergei Nirenburg Building and Maintaining a Semantically Adequate Lexicon Using CYC 121 Kathy J. Burns and Anthony R. Davis III. DEPTH OF SEMANTIC LEXICONS The Adjective "Vieux": The Point of View of "Generative lexicon" 147 Pierrette Bouillon Qualia Structures and the Compositional Interpretation of Compounds 167 Michael Johnston and Federica Busa Integrating Machine Readable Dictionary and Thesaurus for Conceptual Context Representation of Word Sense 189 J.N. Chen and J.S. Chang Using Lexical Semantic Techniques to Classify Free-Responses 227 Jill Burstein, Susanne Wolff and Chi Lu IV. LEXICAL SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS Semantics via Conceptual and Lexical Relations 247 Christiane Fellbaum Opening the World with Active Words and Concept Triggers 263 Evelyne Viegas Supply-Side and Demand-Side Lexical Semantics 283 Sergei Nirenburg and Victor Raskin Lexical Rules is Italicized 299 Stephen Helmreich and David Farwell Subject Index 321 Author Index 325 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora Susan Armstrong, Kenneth Ward Church, Pierre Isabelle, Sandra Manzi, Evelyne Tzoukermann, David Yarowsky (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 <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 16 15:16:39 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:16:39 +0100 Subject: Conf: Evolang Message-ID: <THU.16.MAR.2000.161639.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Conference Evolang <evolang at infres.enst.fr> ( Apologies for multiple copies ) *********************************************** ****** Evolution of Language Conference ****** *********************************************** Paris, 3-6 April CALL FOR PARTICIPATION This is the third conference in a series concerned with the evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives with those of modern Darwinism. The aim is to bring together linguists, computer scientists, anthropologists, palaeontologists, ethologists, geneticists, neuroscientists, and other scientists who are concerned with the question of the origin and evolution of language. All useful information (scientific programme, registration information) can be found at the following address: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang Scientific programme: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/program.html Registration information: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/registration.html You may send a message to: evolang-registration at cwtfrance.com or write to Wagonlit Evenements, 16, Rue Ballu - 75009 Paris, France We invite you to consider sending your registration before March 15 to benefit from reduced rates (155 Euros, instead of 230 Euros after this date). The number of available places is limited, and priority will be given to early registrations. Jean-Louis Dessalles ================================================= Conference : The Evolution of Language April 3rd - 6th , 2000 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications Paris - France http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang ================================================= ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 16 15:16:49 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 16:16:49 +0100 Subject: Appel: CIAA-2000 Message-ID: <THU.16.MAR.2000.161649.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Sheng Yu <syu at csd.uwo.ca> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata (CIAA 2000, Formerly WIA) http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000 July 24-25, 2000 University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada This conference concerns research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures. The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research, and industrial community who have an interest in implementation and application of automata to demonstrate and analyze their work and to explain the problems they have been solving. In conjunction with this conference, there will be two other events at the University of Western Ontario: A one-day symposium entitled "Half Century of Automata Theory" (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~automata) will be held on July 26, 2000, and a workshop on "Descriptional Complexity of Automata, Grammars, and Related Structures" (http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs) will be on July 27-29, 2000. SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE We solicit papers and demos on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are requested to submit an electronic version (in postscript or latex form) or six hard copies of an extended abstract (arriving) by April 3, 2000. An extended abstract should start with the title, each author's name, affiliation, and e-mail address, and a brief summary of the results and ideas, and be sent to: CIAA2000 at csd.uwo.ca or CIAA 2000 Department of Computer Science University of Western Ontario London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5B7 The extended abstract should provide sufficient detail to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance to the conference. The extended abstract should be at most ten pages long using 11-point font with ample margins. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by May 17, 2000. Final copies of accepted papers must be submitted by June 2, 2000. We expect the proceedings to appear in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series after the conference. (See, e.g., LNCS 1260, 1436, and 1660 for the proceedings of the previous conferences.) We will distribute a preproceedings for participants at the conference. Extended versions of selected papers from the conference series will be solicited for publication in special issues of Theoretical computer Science (TCS) and International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS), alternately, with the CIAA 2000 special issue appearing in IJFCS. DEMOS We encourage the submission of software demos. Developers wishing to demonstrate their software should submit a two-page description to the preceding address by April 3, 2000, outlining the design of their system and their computing needs (if any). INVITED SPEAKER David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel CIAA 2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE (A Tentative list) J.-M. Champarnaud (Rouen) M. Crochemore (Marne la Vallee) F. Gunthner (Ludwig Maximillian) O. Ibarra (UCSB) H. Jurgensen (Potsdam) L. Karttunen (Xerox) D. Maurel (Tours) M. Mohri (AT&T) J.-E. Pin (Paris) K. Salomaa (Queen's) W. Thomas (Aachen) B. Watson (Pretoria) D. Wood (Hong Kong) S. Yu (chair, Western Ontario) IMPORTANT DATES April 3, 2000 Submission deadline May 17, 2000 Acceptances and rejections sent out June 2, 2000 Submission deadline for preproceedings July 24-26, 2000 Conference dates (including HCAT) Sept. 29, 2000 Submission deadline for SV-LNCS Tri-Event Organizing Committee: John Hart Helmut Jurgensen (co-chair) Lila Kari Kai Salomaa Stephen Watt Sheng Yu (co-chair) RELATED WEBSITES Half Century of Automata Theory: "http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~automata" CIAA 2000: "http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000" DCAGRS 2000: http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~dcagrs ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 17 08:11:33 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:11:33 +0100 Subject: Q: CES and XCES Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.091133.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:58:01 -0500 From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu> Message-Id: <200003170358.WAA01694 at fac58> I am attempting to make up a list of projects that use the Corpus Encoding Standard (CES) or its XML version, XCES. I would appreciate it if those who have used the CES could send me (not this list) a short description of the project and/or a link to a site that describes it. Thanks, Nancy Ide ======================================================= Nancy Ide Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0520 USA Tel: +1 914 437-5988 Fax: +1 914 437-7498 ide at cs.vassar.edu Chercheur Invite Equipe Langue et Dialogue, LORIA/CNRS Campus Scientifique - BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 83 59 20 47 Fax: +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 ide at loria.fr ======================================================= ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Fri Mar 17 15:51:59 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 16:51:59 +0100 Subject: R: Thésaurus français Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.165159.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:19:51 +0100 (CET) From: Philippe Monnier <monnier at cmc.fr> ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 02:12:12 +0000 From: habert <Benoit.Habert at limsi.fr> ________________________________________________________________ 3/Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:02:43 +0100 From: "Dominique Dutoit" <dutoit at info.unicaen.fr> ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:19:51 +0100 (CET) From: Philippe Monnier <monnier at cmc.fr> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0003101816420.24748-100000 at trinity.inside.cmc> Bonjour, Le CNDP diffuse un thesaurus en usage dans le monde de la documentation "MOTBIS", un CDROM est fourni avec pour un usage manuel. ISBN : 2-240-71661-4 prix de vente 3 tomes : 600 francs. Il devrait etre disponible dans toute bonne bibliotheque. Philippe Monnier mailto:phmonnier at cmc.fr * Philippe Monnnier * mailto:monnier at inf.enst.fr http://www.cmc.fr * CMC Dir. Rech.60, rue de Ponthieu 75008 Paris France http://www.inf.enst.fr * ENST Infres 46 rue Barrault 75634 Paris cedex 13 * CMC T?l. (33)156432405 Fax ~2425 * ENST T?l. (33)145817588 Fax ~3119 ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 02:12:12 +0000 From: habert <Benoit.Habert at limsi.fr> Message-ID: <38CC4E7C.1563C9C1 at limsi.fr> @Book{pechoin92, editor = {Daniel P?choin}, title = {Th?saurus {Larousse} -- des id?es aux mots, des mots aux id?es}, publisher = {Larousse}, year = 1992, address = {Paris}, edition = {2?me} } -- Ce sont ces sous-bassements pol?miques des sociolinguistiques, et eux seuls, qui seront discut?s ici, amicalement, mais avec minutie et pugnacit? - sinon, ? quoi bon discuter ? Pierre Corbin},"Regard sur le regard sociolinguistique sur la linguistique << ordinaire >>, Langage et soci?t? 16, juin 1981, pp. 3-65. Beno?t Habert - UMR 8503 Analyses de corpus (ENS de Fontenay St Cloud 31 avenue Lombart F-92260 Fontenay-aux-Roses) et universit? Paris X Tel : vendredi (33 1) 41 13 24 63 (fax 25 99) / lundi 41 12 36 35 (fax 36 30) / jeudi 69 85 80 22 (fax 80 88) - Mel : habert at limsi.fr NE PLUS ECRIRE ? bh at ens-fcl.fr ________________________________________________________________ 3/Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:02:43 +0100 From: "Dominique Dutoit" <dutoit at info.unicaen.fr> Message-ID: <09f001bf8dd7$1dc50740$548f8aa4 at platon> X-url: http://www.memodata.com/ MEMODATA propose pas mal de choses dans ce domaine. Bien cordialement Dominique Dutoit __________________________________________________________________________ Web site : http://www.memodata.com MEMODATA Tel: (33)02.31.35.75.21 Language Dpt fax: (33)02.31.35.75.28 17 rue Dumont d'Urville Mail dutoit at info.unicaen.fr 14000 CAEN The INTEGRAL DICTIONARYtm DICOLOGICtm : the largest world model for linguistic computing and semantic analysis. Computational semantic with the SEMIOGRAPHtm for five languages (French, English, German, Italian, Spanish) Semantic modelization with LEXIDIOMtm. ________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 17 16:40:38 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:40:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: IMPACTS in NLG Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.174038.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Stephan Busemann <busemann at dfki.de> WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Impacts in Natural Language Generation NLG Between Technology and Applications July 24-28, 2000 Schloss Dagstuhl, Saarland, Germany - immediately preceding COLING 2000 - Homepage: http://impacts.dfki.de The tension between theoretical work and its implementation has often been considered fruitful. In the field of Natural Language Generation, it is now complemented by another tension, the one between technologies and applications: "I have invented a new technique for NLG!" - "What is its impact on applications?" "I have built a new NLG application!" - "What is its impact on the technology?" Much of NLG technology is based on a theoretical understanding of the process of language generation, whereas the applications strongly rely on practical requirements. There are not many theoretically well-motivated technologies that can straightforwardly be employed within specific applications. For this workshop, we adopt a broad notion of application by including pieces of software containing NLG technology that currently are used by others in order to solve real-world tasks. Some NLG application developers find it preferable to not reuse existing technology. This is often due to the lack of solutions for the knowledge bottleneck and for the input formation bottleneck: NLG technology lacks the power of dealing with external conceptual lexical knowledge bases, and it also lacks standards of representing inputs at a suitable specificity. 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, - providers of large conceptual lexicons usable by NLG, and - developers of systems that deal with the input specificity problem. We invite original and unpublished contributions from all areas of NL generation, either from the technological side or from the applications point of view. They must state clearly how they relate to the respective counterpart, hence addressing one of the above questions. "IMPACTS" will take place from July 24-28, 2000 at International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl. It 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. Dates: 24.-28. July 2000: Workshop at Schloss Dagstuhl 15. June 2000: Camera-ready copies 20. May 2000: Notification of acceptance 01. April 2000: Deadline for submissions 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, Microsoft Research Institute, 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 More information can be found at the Workshop homepage, which is located at http://impacts.dfki.de and which will be extended during the next months. -- Dr. Stephan Busemann, DFKI GmbH Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, D-66123 Saarbruecken phone: (+49 681) 302-5286, fax: (+49 681) 302-5338 web: http://www.dfki.de/~busemann ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 17 16:40:35 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:40:35 +0100 Subject: Appel: MT 2000 Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.174035.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "Roger Harris" <rwsh at dircon.co.uk> 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. 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 Terminology Lexicography 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 * Invited speakers Martin Kay (Xerox Parc) Jun-ichi Tsujii (UMIST and University of Tokyo) Yorick Wilks (Sheffield University) * Programme Committee 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 (SDLX, Maidenhead ) 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) 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) 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) * 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: 1 June 2000 Notification of Acceptance: 1 August Camera-ready Paper Due: 30 September 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 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 17 16:40:40 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:40:40 +0100 Subject: Appel: ISSC Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.174040.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION CENTER OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS On its 30th Anniversary SANTIAGO DE CUBA JANUARY 23-26, 2001 The Center of Applied Linguistics of the Santiago de Cuba's branch of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, is pleased to announce on the occasion of its 30 Anniversary, the Seventh International Symposium on Social Communication. The event will be held in Santiago de Cuba January 23rd through the 26th, 2001. This interdisciplinary event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Medicine, Voice Processing, Mass Media, and Ethnology and Folklore. The Symposium will be also sponsored by: .. University of Oriente, Cuba .. Higher Institute for Medical Sciences, Santiago de Cuba .. Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais', Santiago de Cuba .. Information for Development Agency, Cuba .. University of Twente, The Netherlands .. National Council of Scientific Research, Italy .. University of Leon, Spain .. University of Malaga, Spain .. University of Granada, Spain .. Humboldt University, Germany Authors will be allowed to present only one paper pertaining to the following disciplines: 1. Applied Linguistics: - Spanish and foreign language teaching - Spanish as a second language - Phonetics and Phonology - Lexicology and Lexicography - Morphology and Syntax - Sociolinguistics - Psycholinguistics - Textual Linguistics and Pragmalinguistics - Terminology - Translations 2. Computational Linguistics: - Software related to linguistic research - Automated grammatical tagging of texts - Automated dictionaries - Software related to the teaching of mother tongues and foreign languages - Related issues 3. Voice Processing: - Research related to Cry Analysis - Applications of analysis, synthesis and voice-recognition - Artificial intelligence and voice processing 4. Medical specialties related to speech and voice and with Social Communication in general: - Logopedy and Phoniatry - Neurology - Otorhinolaringology - Stomatology - Child Psychiatry - Pediatrics - Cronobiology 5. Mass Media: - Linguistic research related to the speech of journalists, actors and radio and television announcers. - Textual Analysis of radio and television programs, and of print and electronic media articles 6. Ethnology and Folklore: - Research related to Social Communication Activities that will take place within the event are: - Pre-Symposium seminars - Discussion of papers in commissions - Master conferences - Workshops - Posters PRE-SYMPOSIUM SEMINARS The Symposium will be preceded by two seminars that will be taught by prestigious specialists to be announced. The seminars will take place Monday, January 22nd of 2001 and will focus on the following subjects: - Spanish as a second language - Latest trends in Computational Linguistics Participants should say in advance what pre-symposium seminars they want to take part in. An additional fee of 20.00 USD will be charged for each seminar. Participation certificates will be available. WORKSHOP A workshop entitled 'Applied Linguistics in the Spanish-speaking World' will be held on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the Center of Applied Linguistics. MASTER LECTURES During the symposium four master lectures will be delivered by: - Prof. Dr. Anton Nijholt, Professor and Researcher, Twente University, Enschede, Holland. - Dr. Hiroto Ueda, Professor and Researcher, Department of Spanish, Tokyo University, Japan. - Dr. Mercedes Cathcart Roca, Professor and Researcher, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. - Dr. Manuel Vilares Ferro, Professor and Researcher, Vigo University, Spain. ABSTRACTS The deadline of submission of paper abstracts is July 1st, 2000. They should not exceed 250 words. Notification of acceptance of a paper by the Symposium's Scientific Committee will be sent before July 30th, 2000. PAPERS To enable the Organizing Committee to include the Proceedings as part of the Symposium's documentation, accepted papers must be sent before September 1st, 2000, with the following requirements: 1. The paper will not exceed 5 pages including graphics, footnotes and bibliography. 2. It should be written using Word 6.0 or Word 7.0 for Windows and sent to the Symposium's Executive Secretary either via e-mail (attachment) or by mailing a 3?-inch diskette. 3. Each page must be written in an A4 (mail type) format with left, right, top, and bottom margin of 2.5 cm. 4. The paper must be written in one of the event's official languages: Spanish, English or French. Instructions for paper submission: 1. Write down the authors' names, one under the other, at the left top of the first page, all in Arial bold capital letters, 10 points (Word 6.0 or 7.0). Under the authors' names should appear in bold (only initials capital letters) the institution, city, country and e-mail address if available. 2. In a separate line, at the center, the title of the paper must be written in Arial bold, Italics, 11 points size letters. 3. The text will follow -not in bold- with the same Arial letter, 10 points size and leaving one space between lines. 4. Paragraphs will have no indentation. Spaces between paragraphs will be of 3 points. 5. Section titles will be written in Arial bold, and sub-sections titles will be written in Arial Italic. 6. Footnotes will appear at the end of each page in Arial 9 points size letters. Presentation time will be 15 minutes and 5 minutes for discussion. Authors must advise in advance if they will need a tape recorder, video set, computer or other kind of equipment for presentation. POSTERS Posters should be 1 meter wide and 1.2 meter high. Authors will be responsible of displaying them in the morning of the presentation. Abstract submission should include the word POSTERS. For proceedings, follow instructions above. Notice: unlike full papers, posters will not exceed 3 pages. All mail or inquiries should be addressed to: Dr. Eloina Miyares Bermudez Secretaria Ejecutiva Comite Organizador VII Simposio Internacional de Comunicacion Social Centro de Linguistica Aplicada Apartado Postal 4067, Vista Alegre Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba 90400 Telephones: (53-226) 42760 or (53-226) 41081 Fax: (53-226) 41579 E-mail: leonel at lingapli.ciges.inf.cu http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/Cuba/index.html OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: Spanish, English and French REGISTRATION FEE Speakers and Delegates 160.00 USD Companions 80.00 USD Payment must be in cash during registration and it covers a copy of the Proceedings, all other documentation related to the event, speaker's certificate, welcome cocktail, concert and tours. Companions will have access to all of the above, except copies of the proceedings. ACCOMODATION The Organizing Committee guarantees accommodation in 3, 4, and 5 star hotels with preferential prices for participants in the event. IMPORTANT REMINDERS - Abstract Submission deadline: July 1st, 2000 - Notification on paper's approval by Scientific Committee: by July 30, 2000 - Delivery of papers either by e-mail or by mail using 3?-inch diskette: September 1st, 2000 - Pre-Symposium seminars: January 22nd, 2001 - 7th International Symposium on Social Communication: January 23rd through 26th, 2001 OTHER ASPECTS OF INTEREST Santiago de Cuba, located at some 900 kms from Havana, is Cuba's second largest city. Its economic, cultural and social importance in Cuban history is unquestionable. Santiago is also the capital of the province with the same name. Surrounded by the green mountains of the Sierra Maestra range and the Caribbean Sea, Santiago is unique in its geography and beautiful landscape. Its surroundings make the city one of the most important tourist attractions on the entire island. The Organizing Committee, in coordination with the city's tourist agencies will offer visiting delegates a host of options allowing participants to enjoy the city's beauty and charm. SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANIZING COMMITTEE President of Honor: Dr. Rosa Elena Simeon Negrin Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment Republic of Cuba Aida Almaguer Furnaguera Representative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Santiago de Cuba Cuba Gerardo Garcia Cabrera President of Information for Development Agency Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment Havana Cuba Vitelio Ruiz Hernandez Member of the Academy of Science of Cuba Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Leonel Ruiz Miyares Director of Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Eloina Miyares Bermudez Executive Secretary of the Seventh International Symposium on Social Communication Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Marcos Cortina V. Rector University of Oriente Ministry of Higher Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Nayra Pujals Rector Higher Institute for Medical Sciences Ministry of Public Health Santiago de Cuba Cuba Cesar Torres Rector Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais' Ministry of Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba Anton Nijholt Professor and Researcher Twente University Enschede, Holland Kathleen Wermke Professor and Researcher Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Renate Siegmund Professor and Researcher Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Mercedes Cathcart Roca Professor and Researcher Faculty of Humanities University of Oriente Santiago de Cuba Cuba Daniela Ratti Researcher National Council of Scientific Research Genoa, Italy Lucia Marconi Researcher National Council of Scientific Research Genoa, Italy Claudia Rolando Researcher National Council of Scientific Research Genoa, Italy Jose Ramon Morala Rodriguez Professor and Researcher University of Leon Spain Gloria Corpas Pastor Professor and Researcher University of Malaga Spain Daniel Madrid Vicedean of International Relations Faculty of Education University of Granada Spain Ercilia Estrada Estrada Scientific Council Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Nancy Alamo Suarez Researcher Center of Applied Linguistics Santiago de Cuba Cuba Humberto Oca?a Dayar Professor and Researcher Pedagogical University 'Frank Pais' Santiago de Cuba Cuba Miladys Diodene Adame Ministry of Education Santiago de Cuba Cuba SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOCIAL COMMUNICATION REGISTRATION FORM Mr./Ms. ___________________ Organization: _____________ Title: ____________________ Business address: ______________ City: _______ Telefax: _________ Phone: ___________ E-Mail:_________________________ Home address: __________________ City: ________ Telephone: ______ I wish to participate in Pre-Symposium seminars (optional) ___Spanish as a second language ___Latest trends in Computational Linguistics Paper title: _________________ Date: ________________ Signature: ___________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 17 16:40:46 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:40:46 +0100 Subject: Conf: Cross Language Evaluation Forum Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.174046.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jeff ALLEN <jeff at elda.fr> [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] This message is posted by ELRA/ELDA for Carol Peters. ------------------------- CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM CALL FOR PARTICIPATION A Cross-Language System Evaluation activity is now being launched in Europe. The activity is sponsored by the DELOS Network of Excellence for Digital Libraries in collaboration with the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the TREC Conferences. The Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) will run three main evaluation tracks in 2000, testing multilingual, bilingual and monolingual (non-English) information retrieval systems. There will also be a special sub-task for domain-specific cross-language evaluation. For further information, see <http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/DELOS/CLEF>. The results of the activity will be presented during a two-day Workshop on Multilingual Information Access, 21-22 September in Lisbon, Portugal, immediately after the fourth European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL2000: see <http://www.bn.pt/org/agenda/ecdl2000>). Those intending to participate in CLEF 2000 are requested to send an e-mail to Carol Peters (carol at iei.pi.cnr.it), as soon as possible, indicating in which task(s) they intend to participate. IMPORTANT DATES: Data Release - 1 April 2000 Topic Release - 8 May 2000 Receipt of results from participants - 1 July 2000 Release of relevance assessments and individual results - 15 August 2000 Submission of paper for Working Notes - 5 September 2000 Workshop - 21-22 September 2000 ------------------------------------------- Carol Peters Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (or IEI-CNR) Area della Ricerca di Pisa Via Alfieri, 1 56010 Ghezzano, PISA, Italy Tel: +39 050 315 2897 Fax: +39 050 315 2810 E-mail:carol at iei.pi.cnr.it http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/Personal/carol.html ================================================= Jeff ALLEN - Technical Manager/Directeur Technique European Language Resources Association (ELRA) & European Language resources - Distribution Agency (ELDA) (Agence Europe'enne de Distribution des Ressources Linguistiques) 55, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1.43.13.33.33 - Fax: (+33) 1.43.13.33.30 mailto:jeff at elda.fr http://www.elda.fr/ *** See the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) 2000 Web site: http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html *** ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 17 16:40:44 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:40:44 +0100 Subject: Ecole: ESSLLI 2000 in Birmingham Message-ID: <FRI.17.MAR.2000.174044.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "Geert-Jan M. Kruijff" <gj at Kwetal.ms.mff.cuni.cz> PLEASE POST - WE APOLOGIZE FOR MULTIPLE COPIES - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ESSLLI 2000 12th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 6-18th August 2000 Birmingham, England A two week summer school which offers 42 courses at various levels and six workshops in the areas of Logic, Computation, and Language. 77 lecturers from all over the world. A phenomenally low registration fee and accommodation costs. Bursaries for participants from non-OECD countries available. Visit http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~esslli for the full programme, descriptions of lecture courses and a registration form. REGISTER NOW! Early registration deadline for reduced registration fee of 95 Pounds is MAY 31, 2000. After this the registration fee will be 150 Pounds. Applications for bursaries need to be received by MAY 31, 2000. Please mail esslli at cs.bham.ac.uk for any queries. LECTURERS AND WORKSHOP ORGANISERS: Jos? J?lio Alferes, Lisboa Agnes Kurucz, London Carlos Areces, Amsterdam Marta Kwiatkowska, Birmingham Brandon Bennett, Leeds Rob Malouf, Groningen Jean-Yves B?ziau, Petropolis Carlos Mart?n-Vide, Tarragona Patrick Blackburn, Saarbr?cken Maarten Marx, Amsterdam Hendrik Blockeel, Heverlee Ralph Matthes, M?nchen Paolo Bouquet, Trento Mary McGee Wood, Manchester Krysia Broda, London Detmar Meurers, T?bingen Greg Carlson, Rochester Wilfried Meyer-Viol, London Ann Copestake, Stanford Angelo Montanari, Udine Richard Crouch, Xerox PARC Christof Monz, Amsterdam James Cussens, York Andrew Moshier, Orange Anuj Dawar, Cambridge Stephen Muggleton, York Denys Duchier, Saarbr?cken Stephan Oepen, Saarbr?cken Gisbert Fanselow, Potsdam Marc Pauly, Amsterdam Caroline F?ry, Potsdam David Pearce, Saarbr?cken Hana Filip, Evanston Alberto Pettorossi, Roma Dan Flickinger, Stanford Paul Piwek, Brighton Dov Gabbay, London Alberto Policriti, Udine Bart Geurts, Nijmegen Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Manchester Anastasia Giannakidou, Groningen Maurizio Proietti, Roma Valentin Goranko, Johannesburg Christian Retor?, Rennes Fritz Hamm, T?bingen Hannes Rieser, Bielefeld Erhard Hinrichs, T?bingen Mark Ryan, Birmingham Martin Hofmann, Edinburgh Luciano Serafini, Povo Kenneth Holmqvist, Lund Aaron Sloman, Birmingham Richard Hudson, London Mike Squire, Warwick Mateja Jamnik, Birmingham Johan van Benthem, Amsterdam Neil D Jones, Copenhagen Josef van Genabith, Dublin Reinhard Kahle, T?bingen Robert van Rooy, Amsterdam Sara Kalvala, Warwick Yde Venema, Amsterdam Ruth Kempson, London Andrei Voronkov, Manchester Manfred Kerber, Birmingham Shuly Wintner, Philadelphia Valia Kordoni, T?bingen Frank Wolter, Leipzig Emiel Krahmer, Eindhoven John H Woods, Lethbridge Bob Krovetz, Princeton Michael Zakharyaschev, Leeds Geert-Jan Kruijff, Prague Thomas E Zimmermann, Frankfurt Peter K?hnlein, Bielefeld ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 20 08:57:35 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:57:35 +0100 Subject: Appel: ACL2000 (Papers+Workshops) Message-ID: <MON.20.MAR.2000.095735.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: ACL2000 Call for Papers 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: ACL2000 Call for Workshops __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: ACL2000 Call for Papers ACL 2000 Call For Papers 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3--6 October, 2000 Hong Kong The Association for Computational Linguistics invites the submission of papers for its 38th Annual Meeting. As was the case with last year's ACL conference, the technical sessions of the conference will be of two kinds. There will be General Sessions as well as a number of special Thematic Sessions organized around themes proposed by members of the computational linguistics community. For the General Sessions, papers are invited on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax and the lexicon; phonetics, phonology and morphology; interpreting and generating spoken and written language; linguistic, mathematical and psychological models of language; language-oriented information retrieval and information extraction; corpus-based language modeling; multi-lingual processing, machine translation and translation aids; natural language interfaces and dialogue systems; approaches to coordinating the linguistic with other modalities in multi-media systems; message and narrative understanding systems; tools and resources; and evaluation of systems. Papers submitted to the Thematic Sessions are more narrowly targeted at specific topics. The list of Thematic Sessions is as follows: T1: NLP and Open-Domain Question Answering from Text T2: Machine Learning and Statistical NLP for Dialogue T3: Text Summarization T4: Theoretical and Technical Approaches for Asian Language Processing -- Similarities and Differences among Languages Further information on the individual themes and topics appropriate to each can be obtained from the ACL-2000 conference website (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). Requirements Requirements are the same regardless of whether you are submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions; a separate Call for Student Workshop papers will provide the information on requirements for the Student Workshop submissions. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. A paper accepted for presentation at the ACL Meeting cannot be presented or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available published proceedings. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must indicate this on the title page. (See Submission Format below.) Reviewing The reviewing of the papers submitted to the General Sessions and the Thematic Sessions will be blind. Reviewing of papers submitted to the General Sessions will be managed by an international Conference Program Committee consisting of Area Chairs, each of whom will have the assistance of a team of reviewers. The Area Chairs are: Key-Sun Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Walter Daelemans University of Antwerp, Belgium Dan Jurafsky University of Colorado, USA Yuji Matsumoto Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan Johanna Moore University of Edinburgh, UK Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania, PA Ellen Riloff University of Utah, USA Giorgio Satta Universita` di Padova, Italy Reviewing of papers for the Thematic Sessions will be managed by the chairs of the Thematic Sessions, with the assistance of teams of reviewers. Final decisions on the technical program (both General Sessions and Thematic Sessions) will be made by the Conference Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Submission Procedure The format of submissions is the same regardless of whether you are submitting a paper to the General Sessions or the Thematic Sessions. Papers may not exceed 3200 words (exclusive of title page and references). Papers outside the specified length are subject to be rejected without review. We strongly recommend the use of ACL latex style files or Microsoft Word Style files tailored for this year's conference. These are available from the ACL-2000 Conference Website (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). These style files include a place for the paper ID code (see below) and word count and allow for a graceful transition to the style required for publication. A description of the format is also available in case you are unable to use these style files directly. If you are unable to access this webpage, please send email to acl2k at cis.udel.edu. The reviewing of papers submitted to the General Session or the Thematic Sessions will be blind. Hence the title page and paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity (e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...") should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". You must first register your submission. This can be done by filling out an electronic form that is accessible from the conference webpage (http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/). The form requires a specification of the title and authors of the paper, as well as a preliminary abstract and list of keywords. Submitting the form will return to you via email a paper ID code which must appear on your submission. Also, please use the paper ID code in all correspondences with the program committee co-chairs. If you have any difficulty using the electronic registration form, please send email to acl2k at cis.udel.edu with all of the title page information (see below) plus the authors' names and affiliations. As reviewing will be blind, a separate title page and identification page will be required. The title page should include the following information: Title: Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration) Topic Area: one or two general topic areas Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area Which Session: T1, T2, T3, T4, or G (you must choose one) Word Count, excluding title page and references: Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify): Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) T1, T2, T3, and T4 correspond to the four Theme Sessions and G corresponds to the General Session. A paper can be submitted to at most one session. The identification page should contain all of the information in the title page, but in addition must include the authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses. The format for the identification page should be as follows: Title: Paper ID Code: (generated upon paper registration) Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses Topic Area: one or two general topic areas Keywords: Up to 5 keywords specifying subject area Which Session: T1, T2, T3, T4, or G (you must choose one) Word Count, excluding title page and references: Under Consideration for other Conferences (specify): Abstract: short summary (up to 5 lines) Submissions must be received by April 7th, 2000. Late submissions (those arriving on or after April 8th) will be rejected without review. The Program Committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mailing problems. Six (6) paper copies (printed on both sides of the page if possible) including the title page should be submitted to the following address: ACL-2000 Submission c/o K. Vijay-Shanker 103 Smith Hall Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 USA Two of the six copies must have the identification page attached. In addition, strictly for the purposes of partially-automated routing of papers to area chairs and reviewers, authors should send an electronic version of the paper (without the identification page) to acl-routing at cis.udel.edu. Please include the paper ID code in the subject line of your email. Latex, postscript, pdf, Microsoft word and plain text are all acceptable formats for the electronic version. The electronic version should also be received by April 7, 2000. Please note that as the electronic version will only be used to assist the PC in distributing the papers to appropriate reviewers, this supplementary electronic version in no way replaces the required hardcopy submissions. If you have any difficulty in submitting the electronic version, please send mail to the pc co-chairs at acl2k at cis.udel.edu. Acknowledgment of receipt of the hardcopy submission will be emailed soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance will be sent to authors (by email) around June 15, 2000. Detailed formatting guidelines for the preparation of the final camera-ready copy will be provided to authors with their acceptance notice. Authors of accepted papers will have to submit a signed copyright release statement along with the final camera-ready papers. The dates here pertain only to the General Sessions and Thematic sessions. Paper registration deadline: March 31, 2000 Paper submissions deadline: April 7, 2000 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2000 ACL 2000 Conference: October 3--6, 2000 Submission Questions Authors unable to comply with the above submission procedure should contact the program committee co-chairs sufficiently ahead of the submission deadline so that alternate arrangements can be made. All queries regarding the General Sessions and Thematic sessions of ACL-2000 should be sent to acl2k at cis.udel.edu; this forwards to both PC co-chairs. Changning Huang (PC Co-Chair) K. Vijay-Shanker (PC Co-Chair) Microsoft Research, China CIS Department 5F, Beijing Sigma Center University of Delaware No.49, Zhichun Road Newark, DE 19716, USA Beijing 100080, P.R.C cnhuang at microsoft.com vijay at cis.udel.edu Tel: +86 10 6261-7711 -5760 Tel: +1 302 831 1952 Fax: +86 10 8809-7305 Fax: +1 302 831 8458 Hitoshi Iida (General Chair) Aravind K. Joshi (Honorary Chair) Speech and Language Information Department of Computer and Processing Lab Information Sciences SONY Computer Science Labs, Inc. University of Pennsylvania Tokyo 141-0022, Japan Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA iida at csl.sony.co.jp joshi at linc.cis.upenn.edu Tel: +81 3 5448 4380 Tel: +1 215 898 0359 Fax: +81 3 5447 1942 Fax: +1 215 573 9247 __________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: ACL2000 Call for Workshops ACL 2000 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3-6 October, 2000 Hong Kong http://www.cs.ust.hk/acl2000/ Call for Workshop Proposals Workshop Chair: Nicoletta Calzolari Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa glottolo at ilc.pi.cnr.it Call The ACL'2000 Program Committee invites proposals for Workshops to be held in conjunction with the ACL'2000 Conference. Areas of Interest We welcome proposals on any topic of interest to the ACL community. In addition to the traditional workshops areas, including both core issues in CL and NLP applications (such as MT, CLIR, speech related applications, etc.), we encourage proposals for workshops focussing on Asian language processing and fostering communication and cooperation between Western and Eastern (Asian) CL communities. Dates The Conference will be held October 3-6; Workshop dates will be scheduled before and/or after the conference. Venue Pre/Post Conference Workshop/Tutorials will be held at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Reviewing Reviewing of Workshop proposals will be managed by an international Workshop Program Committee. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Submission Details Proposals for workshops should contain: Scientific part: * A title and brief (about 500 word) content description of the workshop topic. Organizational part: * Length of workshop (from half a day to 2 days). * The target audience and expected number of participants. * Estimate of special costs, such as invited speakers (if any). * Any outside financial support for the workshop. * Any special requirements for technical needs (computer infrastructure, etc.). * Food/beverage requirements for the workshop. Proposals should be submitted by electronic mail, in plain ASCII text, as soon as possible, but no later than April 18. The subject line should be: "ACL 2000 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL". Please submit your proposals and any inquiries to: Nicoletta Calzolari, ACL 2000 Workshop Chair glottolo at ilc.pi.cnr.it Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa Via Alfieri 1 Localita' San Cataldo 56010 Ghezzano - Pisa - Italy Tel: +39 050 315-2870 (direct); -2836 or -2835 (secr.) Fax: +39 050 315-2834 Important Dates Submission Deadline for Workshop Proposal: Apr 18 Notification of acceptance of Workshop Proposal: May 10 Workshop descriptions due to Workshop Chair: July 10 Workshop material for reproduction: around the beginning of September (more information will be provided later) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 20 08:57:41 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:57:41 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 Offers Message-ID: <MON.20.MAR.2000.095741.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Chan, Ruby" <rchan at ets.org> Subject: Job announcement 2/ From: Oxford Text Archive <info at ota.ahds.ac.uk> Subject: IT posts at Oxford University __________________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Chan, Ruby" <rchan at ets.org> Subject: Job announcement Research Position available at Educational Testing Service THE CENTER FOR ASSESSMENT DESIGN AND SCORING The Research Division at Educational Testing Service is seeking a junior to mid-level Research Scientist with the following qualifications: a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Linguistics with solid computational linguistics experience and an interest in natural language processing research for purposes of automated writing analysis, instruction and scoring. The work involves the ability to apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting natural language processing research studies and in developing and contributing to the development of new products or services for education. Evidence of independent substantive research experience is required and the successful candidate is expected to be able to contribute to new or modified theories of natural language processing as applied to educational and psychological processes. ETS is located near Princeton, NJ, and offers a competitive salary, commensurate with experience, an attractive benefits package, and ample opportunity for professional growth. For confidential consideration, please send resume, including salary requirements to: Ruby Chan, MS 14-R, ETS, Rosedale Road, Princeton, NJ 08540. Email: rchan at ets.org. Fax: (609) 734-5010. ETS is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Research Position available at Educational Testing Service THE CENTER FOR ASSESSMENT DESIGN AND SCORING __________________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Oxford Text Archive <info at ota.ahds.ac.uk> Subject: IT posts at Oxford University apologies for any cross-posting. NEW JOBS AT OXFORD'S HUMANITIES COMPUTING UNIT We are pleased to announce two exciting new positions for imaginative IT developers, involving hands-on experience and state-of- the-art technologies, and located in the intellectually challenging environment of Oxford University's Humanities Computing Unit. If you feel that there is more to life than payroll and e-commerce, enjoy the challenge of working in a small research-oriented team, and would like to apply your technical expertise to support research and teaching in the Humanities at one of the world's most famous Universities then we'd like to hear from you. You must be a graduate, with demonstrable experience of relevant technologies, and you must be a good team-worker, a good communicator, and ready to learn. We promise to stretch your understanding and give you valuable practical experience with a wide range of new technologies. The two jobs currently advertised are both available for one year in the first instance on Research Grade RS1A (16286-24479) and located in Central Oxford. Detailed job descriptions for each post are available from http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jobs/ and are briefly summarized below: 1. HCDT Project Officer - project developer to work on an exciting range of teaching and research projects - experience of HTML and Javascript, PERL and/or ASP essential - develop new skills as part of a small team 2. HCU/TEI Development Officer - software developer with expertise in open software tools, XML and web technologies - will provide support for Oxford's Text Encoding Initiative activities - initially to work on the EU-funded MASTER project INTERESTED? If you'd like to discuss either post informally, please email humanities at oucs.ox.ac.uk. If you'd like to apply, please request an application form from : Mrs Nicky Tomlin, Oxford University Computing Services, 13 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN, UK. tel: +44[0]1865-273230 fax: +44 [0]1865-273275 e-mail: nicky.tomlin at oucs.ox.ac.uk Completed applications must be received by 4.00 pm on 14 April 2000, and we hope to interview during the first week of May. *** The Humanities Computing Unit, based at Oxford University Computing Services, brings together a number of local, national and international facilities providing support for Humanities Computing at Oxford. These include the Centre for Humanities Computing; the Humanities Computing Development Team; the Humbul Humanities Hub; the Oxford Text Archive and a range of other projects. Its activities and strategies are described at http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 20 08:57:18 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:57:18 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN 2000 Message-ID: <MON.20.MAR.2000.095718.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: TALN2000 <taln2000 at lia.di.epfl.ch> ********************************************************************** * ##### ### ### ### * * ##### ## # # # # # # # # # # # * * # # # # ## # # # # # # # # * * # # # # # # # ##### # # # # # # * * # ###### # # # # # # # # # # # * * # # # # # ## # # # # # # # * * # # # ###### # # ####### ### ### ### * * * * * * TALN 2000 * * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * * * ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne * * du 16 au 18 octobre 2000 * * * * http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/ * * * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) RAPPEL ? COMMUNICATIONS CALENDRIER Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2000 Notification aux auteurs : 23 juin 2000 Version finale (pr?t-?-clicher): 4 ao?t 2000 Conf?rence : 16-18 octobre 2000 Conjointement organis?e par l'?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne et l'Universit? de Gen?ve, la septi?me ?dition de la conf?rence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2000) se tiendra, du 16 au 18 octobre 2000, ? l'?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, Suisse. La conf?rence comprendra des communications scientifiques, des conf?rences invit?es, des s?ances de d?monstration ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conf?rence sont le fran?ais et l'anglais. TALN 2000 est organis?e sous l'?gide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et se tiendra conjointement ? la conf?rence pour jeunes chercheurs RECITAL 2000 (appel ? communications a para?tre s?parement). TH?MES Les communications, d'une dur?e de trente minutes, questions comprises, pourront porter sur tous les th?mes habituels du TALN, incluant, de fa?on non limitative: lexique morphologie syntaxe s?mantique pragmatique discours analyse g?n?ration r?sum? dialogue traduction automatique approches logiques, symboliques et statistiques TALN 2000 souhaite ?galement accueillir des travaux de domaines proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un r?le important, dans la mesure o? l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : traitement de la parole (prosodie, linguistique, pragmatique) traitement de l'?crit aspects cognitifs terminologie, acquisition de connaissances ? partir de textes extraction d'information recherche documentaire linguistique de corpus linguistique math?matique utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la mod?lisation linguistique enseignement assist?, enseignement des langues. Sont aussi attendus des travaux sur des applications du TALN, impl?ment?es et ?valu?es, faisant ressortir leurs aspects scientifiques et les enseignements tir?s. Des d?monstrations de syst?mes pourront ?tre propos?es, ind?pendamment ou en compl?ment d'articles scientifiques. L'emploi du temps de la conf?rence comprendra une session pour ces d?monstrations. Le comit? de programme s?lectionnera parmi les communications accept?es deux articles pour publication (dans une version ?tendue) dans la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (t.a.l.). Ces articles seront consid?r?s par la revue comme "accept?s sous r?serve de modification", la modification ?tant la mise au format de la revue. CRIT?RES DE S?LECTION Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre des travaux de recherche originaux, n'ayant pas fait l'objet de publications ant?rieures. Les soumissions seront examin?es par au moins deux sp?cialistes du domaine. Seront consid?r?es en particulier : - l'importance et l'originalit? de la contribution, - la correction du contenu scientifique et technique, - la discussion critique des r?sultats, en particulier par rapport aux autres travaux du domaine, - la situation des travaux dans le contexte de la recherche internationale, - l'organisation et la clart? de la pr?sentation, - l'ad?quation aux th?mes de la conf?rence. Les articles s?lectionn?s seront publi?s dans les actes de la conf?rence. MODALIT?S DE SOUMISSION Les articles soumis ne devront pas d?passer 10 pages en Times 12, espacement simple, soit environ 3000 mots, figures, exemples et r?f?rences compris. Les propositions de d?monstrations ne devront pas d?passer 3 pages. Une feuille de style LaTeX et un mod?le Word seront disponibles sur le site web de la conf?rence (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/). Les articles devront parvenir au comit? d'organisation avant le 21 avril 2000, sous forme ?lectronique, ? l'adresse suivante : taln2000 at latl.unige.ch En cas d'impossibilit? d'envoi par courrier ?lectronique, une soumission "papier" pourra ?tre admise. 3 exemplaires papier de la contribution devront ?tre envoy?s ? l'adresse suivante: Eric Wehrli - TALN 2000 D?pt. de linguistique - LATL Universit? de Gen?ve 2, rue de Candolle CH-1211 Gen?ve 4 Suisse Format pour les soumissions : Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission sous la forme d'un document attach? ? un courrier ?lectronique ayant pour titre "TALN submission" et contenant le titre de la communication, le nom, l'affiliation, l'adresse postale, l'adresse ?lectronique, le num?ro de t?l?phone et le fax de l'auteur principal. Les soumissions devront ?tre anonymes et ne devront donc comporter aucun nom d'auteur ni auto-citation. L'un des formats suivants devra IMP?RATIVEMENT ?tre employ?: - source LaTeX auto-suffisant (les styles non standards ou diff?rents de ceux fournis pour TALN 2000 devront ?tre inclus dans le fichier source) ET PostScript - RTF (Word) ET PostScript ou PDF Les versions PostScript devront ?tre au format A4 et non Lettre US. INFORMATIONS PRATIQUES Les informations pratiques seront pr?cis?es ult?rieurement, notamment sur le site web de la conf?rence (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (voir version fran?aise au dessus) SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS TALN 2000 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland 16-18 October 2000 CALENDAR submission deadline : April 21st, 2000 notification to authors : June 23th, 2000 final version due (camera-ready): August 4th, 2000 conference: 16-18 October, 2000 Jointly organised by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne) and the University of Geneva the Seventh Conference on Natural Language Processing (TALN 2000) will be held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, (Lausanne, Switzerland), on October 16-18, 2000. The conference includes paper presentations, invited speakers, tutorials and software demonstrations. The official conference languages are French and English. TALN 2000 is organised in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) and will be held jointly with the young researcher conference RECITAL 2000 (a separate call for papers will follow). TOPICS Papers are invited for 30-minutes talks (including questions) in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to): lexicon morphology syntax semantics pragmatics discourse parsing generation abstraction/summarisation dialogue translation logical,symbolical and statistical approaches mathematical linguistics TALN 2000 also welcomes contributions in fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as these contributions emphasise their NLP dimension : speech processing text processing cognition terminology, knowledge acquisition information retrieval documentary research corpus-based linguistics mathematical linguistics management and acquisition of linguistic resources computer assisted learning NLP tools for linguistic modelization TALN 2000, also welcomes submissions focusing on NLP applications that have been implemented, tested and evaluated and emphasising the scientific aspects and conclusions drawn. Software demonstrations can be proposed, either independently or in connection with a paper proposal. Specific sessions for the demos will be scheduled in the program of the conference. The program committee will select 2 papers among the accepted papers for publication (in an extended version) in the journal "Traitement Automatique des Langues" (t.a.l.). For the journal, these papers will have the status "accepted, subject to modifications", the modifications being the formatting according to the style of the journal. SELECTION Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists of the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria : - importance and originality of the paper - soundness of the scientific and technical content - comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work - clarity - relevance to the topics of the conference Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, in Times 12 (approx. 3000 words), single spaced, including figures, examples and references. The maximum length for demo proposals is 3 pages. A LaTeX style file and a Word template will be available on the web site of the conference (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000). Electronic submissions must reach the organising committee before April 21st, 2000 to the latest, at the following address: taln2000 at latl.unige.ch If electronic submission is not possible, 3 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organising committee before April 21st 2000, at the following address: Eric Wehrli - TALN 2000 D?pt. de linguistique - LATL Universit? de Gen?ve 2, rue de Candolle CH-1211 Gen?ve 4 Suisse File format for electronic submissions: Authors should send their submission as a file attached to an e-mail, with the subject field "TALN submission" and containing the following information: submission title, first author's name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, phone and fax number. The submissions are ANONYMOUS, and should therefore not include the author's name, or any self-reference. One of the following formats MUST be used: - self-contained LaTeX source (including non standard styles) AND PostScript version. - RTF (Word) document AND PostScript or PDF version. All the PostScript versions must be for A4 paper and not US letter. PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS: Practical information will be detailed shortly on the conference WEB page site (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COMIT? DE PROGRAMME/PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pascal Amsili, TALaNa (Paris) Susan Armstrong, ISSCO (Gen?ve) Nicholas Asher, University of Texas (Austin) Afzal Ballim, EPFL (Lausanne) Philippe Blache, LPL (Aix-en-Provence) Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA (Grenoble) Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO (Gen?ve) Didier Bourigault (CNRS, Paris) Jean-Pierre Chanod, XEROX Research Center (Grenoble) C?dric Chappelier, EPFL (Lausanne) B?atrice Daille, IRIN (Nantes) Dominique Estival, University of Melbourne Claire Gardent, Universit?t des Saarlandes (Sarrbr?cken) Damien Genthial, IUT (Valence) Gregory Grefenstette (XEROX) Michael Hess, Uni Zurich Pierre Isabelle, XEROX Research Center (Meylan) Daniel Kayser, LIPN (Paris) Brigitte Zellner Keller (UNIL, Lausanne) Geert-Jan Kruijff, Univerzita Karlova (Praha) Eric Laporte, CERIL, Universit? de Marne la Vall?e Paola Merlo, LATL (Gen?ve) Piet Mertens, CCL K.U. Leuven Jacques Moeschler, LATL (Gen?ve) C?cile Paris, CSIRO (Sidney) Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA (Nancy) Alain Polgu?re, Universit? de Montr?al Martin Rajman, EPFL (Lausanne) Owen Rambow, ATT Labs-Research G?rard Sabah, LIMSI (Paris) Jacques Savoy, Uni Neuchatel Jacques Vergne, GREYC (Caen) Jean V?ronis, LPL (Aix-en-Provence) Eric Wehrli, LATL (Gen?ve) Francois Yvon, ENST (Paris) Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM (Paris) COMIT? D'ORGANISATION/ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Eric Wehrli (Pr?sident/President) Martin Rajman Cristian Ciressan Jean-C?dric Chappelier Marie Decrauzat Paola Merlo Christopher Laenzlinger ********************************************************************** * Contact: * * * * Eric Wehrli - TALN 2000 * * D?pt. de linguistique - LATL * * Universit? de Gen?ve * * 2, rue de Candolle * * CH-1211 Gen?ve 4 * * Switzerland * * * * Tel: +41-22-705.73.63 * * Fax: +41-22-705.79.31 * * email: taln2000 at latl.unige.ch * * * * http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000/ * ********************************************************************** ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 20 08:58:09 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 09:58:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: Finite-State Phonology (SIGPHON 2000) Message-ID: <MON.20.MAR.2000.095809.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Jason Eisner <jason at cs.rochester.edu> ----------------------------------------------- FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS FINITE-STATE PHONOLOGY : SIGPHON 2000 Fifth Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Phonology A full-day workshop held at COLING 2000 Luxembourg, 6 August 2000 ----------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION -------------------- The workshop will focus on the growing role of finite-state methods in computational phonology. Excellent papers in other areas of computational phonology are also welcome. Sample topics: * Finite-state formalizations of phonological frameworks * Algorithms and theorems about finite-state phonological formalisms * Embedding finite-state phonology in NLP or speech systems * The application of finite-state methods to empirical description (including difficulties, representational encodings, and software tools) * Phonologically motivated extensions to finite-state techniques * Research bearing on whether the finite-state assumptions are empirically adequate or computationally necessary A principal goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers who are working in different phonological frameworks: Finite-state methods have been more-or-less persuasively applied to a range of frameworks, from derivational approaches to Optimality Theory. This shared formal underpinning exposes crucial differences among the frameworks (Frank & Satta 1998), and also suggests deep similarities (Karttunen 1998). We hope that the workshop's focus on formalizations using finite-state techniques, which are well understood in themselves, will facilitate further discussion of the theoretical and empirical virtues of different frameworks. We are particularly interested in the potential for new or hybrid frameworks. ORGANIZERS AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------------- Lauri Karttunen, Xerox Research Centre France (program chair) Markus Walther, University of Marburg (local chair) Jason Eisner, University of Rochester (organization) Alain Theriault, Universite de Montreal (administration) Daniel Albro, University of California at Los Angeles Steven Bird, University of Pennsylvania John Coleman, University of Oxford Dan Jurafsky, University of Colorado Andras Kornai, Belmont Research, Cambridge MA Reviewing will be blind. The program chair may invite additional reviewers as necessary to obtain relevant expertise and avoid conflicts of interest. Questions and correspondence may be sent to: Jason Eisner Department of Computer Science University of Rochester P.O. Box 270226 Rochester, NY 14627 USA tel: +1 (716) 275-5671 fax: +1 (716) 461-2018 email: sigphon2000 at cs.rochester.edu More information about SIGPHON is available at http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon. PAPER SUBMISSION ---------------- Content: Papers should be original, topical, and clear. Completed work is preferable to intended work, but in any event the paper should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Length: Submissions should be full-length papers, up to a maximum of 10 pages. (The final version in the proceedings should incorporate reviewers' suggestions and may be up to 12 pages.) Layout: Except for length, papers should adhere to Coling 2000 formatting guidelines, at http://www.coling.org/format.html. Be careful not to disclose authorship. Electronic submission procedure: 1. Turn your paper into a PDF file, or if necessary a Postscript file. See http://www.coling.org/postscript.html for help. 2. Email this file as an attachment to theriaal at magellan.umontreal.ca (Alain Theriault) The body of the email should give title, author(s), abstract, and contact information. The subject line should include the word "SIGPHON." Hardcopy submission procedure: If electronic submission is impossible, please send FOUR hardcopies to Alain Theriault Departement de linguistique et de traduction Universite de Montreal C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montreal, Quebec H3C 3J7 CANADA along with a page giving title, author(s), abstract, and contact information. Note that electronic submission is strongly preferred! IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Mon. 1 May Deadline for receipt of submissions Wed. 24 May Authors notified of acceptance Wed. 21 June Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy Sun. 6 Aug. Workshop held in Luxembourg at Coling 2000 Coling 2000 - http://www.coling.org SIGPHON - http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/sigphon Luxembourg - http://www.coling.org/lux-links.html Registration fees and details - http://www.coling.org/reg.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Mon Mar 20 16:19:47 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:19:47 +0100 Subject: Q: Question and Answer NLP Devices Message-ID: <MON.20.MAR.2000.171947.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:44:08 -1000 From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." <bralich at hawaii.edu> Message-Id: <4.1.20000317113453.0625d0f0 at pop-server.hawaii.edu> X-url: http://www.ergo-ling.com/ I am currently trying to put together a focused and complete list of Question and Answer dialog systems that exist as for sale products on the web or as stand alone products. The list I am compiling will include products that can be purchased or downloaded as well as much larger projects that require a long term commitment of resources for both the developer and the client. The list should include search engine projects such as "Ask Jeeves" or those efforts that are proposing even more targeted question and answer systems than that company. Though I am primarily interested in working, ready to go products, promised products are also of interest. Also early stage start ups (e.g. ThrowNet.com) will be included as well. Please send your responses to me privately and I will post a summary to the list. University research may also be included, but I am primarily interested in work being done by the private sector. Phil Bralich Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. President and CEO Ergo Linguistic Technologies 2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175 Honolulu, HI 96822 Tel: (808)539-3920 Fax: (808)539-3924 bralich at hawaii.edu http://www.ergo-ling.com ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Mar 21 16:18:41 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:18:41 +0100 Subject: Q: Identification de la langue en LN ecrit Message-ID: <TUE.21.MAR.2000.171841.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:47:16 +0100 From: "laurent charnay" <laurent.charnay at arisem.com> Message-Id: <000901bf934c$bc775d00$5700000a at ARISEM> bonjour, une des methodes pour identifier la langue d'un document ecrit se fonde sur les trigrammes, i.e. sur les frequences statistiques d'occurence de sequences de 3 caracteres, caracteristiques d'une langue. Je cherche les tables de frequence caracteristiques des principales langues europeennes (Francais, Anglais, Allemand, Espagnol, Italien...) et eventuellement un logiciel libre qui les mettrait en oeuvre... merci d'avance bien cordialement ---------------------------------------------- Laurent Charnay ARISEM laurent.charnay at arisem.com 01 44 88 99 66 ---------------------------------------------- [le message d'origine contenait ?galement l'info suivante : -- pz] Par ailleurs, j'ai mis en ligne une partie de ma these qui contient un etat de l'art et une biblio sur le Dialogue Homme-machine et sur la problematique Explication dans les systemes experts. Ceci peut interesser des doctorants dans ces domaines : http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/charnay/WWW/thIndex.htm ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 pz at biomath.jussieu.fr Tue Mar 21 17:40:32 2000 From: pz at biomath.jussieu.fr (Pierre Zweigenbaum) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:40:32 +0100 Subject: R: Identification de la langue en LN ecrit Message-ID: <TUE.21.MAR.2000.184032.0100.PZ@BIOMATH.JUSSIEU.FR> ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:28:30 -0500 From: Ismail Biskri <Ismail_Biskri at UQTR.UQuebec.CA> ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:08:23 -0500 From: "Patrick Andries" <pandries at iti.qc.ca> ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 1/Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 11:28:30 -0500 From: Ismail Biskri <Ismail_Biskri at UQTR.UQuebec.CA> Message-Id: <38D7A32E.456BF4C6 at uqtr.uquebec.ca> Bonjour Laurent il me semble que Grefenstete presente ces tables dans un article paru au jadt de 1995. vous pourrez egalement consulter cet article sur le site francais de XEROX. j espere que ca vous aidera. bye -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Isma?l BISKRI, Ph.D. Professeur D?partement de Math?matiques et d'Informatique Universit? du Qu?bec ? Trois-Rivi?res C.P. 500, Trois-Rivi?res, Qu?bec, G9A 5H7, Canada T?l?phone: 1 819 376 5011 # 3837 T?l?copie: 1 819 376 5185 www.uqtr.uquebec.ca/~biskri --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ 2/Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 12:08:23 -0500 From: "Patrick Andries" <pandries at iti.qc.ca> Message-Id: <004101bf9358$108b8f50$9a01020a at dolphinsoftware.com> X-url: http://www.cafi.org/normes_et_standards/iso639-2.fr.html X-url: http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso15924/document/pre-dis15924.pdf Pour les langues : http://www.cafi.org/normes_et_standards/iso639-2.fr.html Pour les ?critures : Voir http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso15924/document/pre-dis15924.pdf Patrick Andries ________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 22 18:39:32 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:39:32 +0100 Subject: Appel: SEPLN Message-ID: <WED.22.MAR.2000.193932.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "Miguel A. Alonso Pardo" <alonso at dc.fi.udc.es> ====================================================================== Final CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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 in September 2000. 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. MOTIVATIONS: 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. PROJECTS AND DEMOS: The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of oral presentations, some session may be reserved to this purpose. For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information must be included: - Project title - Funding institution - Participant groups in the project - Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the director of the project. - Abstract (2 pages maximum). - If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be included, as indicated below. For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory: - Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors. - Abstract (2 pages maximum). - Time estimation for the whole presentation. This information must be received by June 4, 2000. CONFERENCE FORMAT: The workshop will be a 3-day event that provides a forum for individual presentations of the accepted contributions as well as project an demos presentations and group discussions. INVITED SPEAKERS: -- Daniel Tapias Merino Telefonica investigaci?n y desarrollo (Spain) -- Christopher S. Butler Univ. of Wales Swansea SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Authors are invited to submit an abstract about a system to be presented, or a paper concerning a theoretical contribution. Submission and paper reviews shall be handled exclusively electronically (PostScript or PDF format). Submission should include a separate file with the title, authors, affiliations, addresses, and e-mail. Papers, in a second file, should be anonymous, excluding autoreferences in the text. Accepted works must be presented at the congress and adhere to certain rules: - They must include an abstract (150 word maximum). - The proposed area of interest must be included. - Maximum length is 3500 words, abstract included. - Accepted papers must follow format rules that will be given in the conference web page (http://coleweb.ei.uvigo.es/sepln2000/). Submissions must be sent to sepln-submit at ei.uvigo.es SCHEDULE: - XVI SEPLN Conference: September 26-28 2000 - Submission of contributions: April 14, 2000 - Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2000 - Final versions due: June 30, 2000 - Projects and demos submission: June 4, 2000 - Early registration: before July 14, 2000 - Late registration: after July 14, 2000 AREAS OF INTEREST AND COMMITTEE: 1. Linguistic, mathematic and psicolinguistic models of languages Miguel A. Alonso Pardo Univ. of A Coru?a Toni Badia Univ. Pompeu Fabra 2. Corpus linguistics Jos? M? Garc?a-Miguel Gallego Univ. of Vigo Guillermo Rojo Sanchez Univ. of Santiago de Compostela 3. Information extraction and retrieval Manuel de Buenaga Rodr?guez Univ. Europea de Madrid Mar?a Felisa Verdejo Maillo UNED 4. Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis Manuel Palomar Sanz Univ. of Alicante Manuel Vilares Ferro Univ. of Vigo 5. Computational lexicography Margarita Alonso Ramos Univ. of A Coru?a Xabier Artola Univ. of Pa?s Vasco Jorge Gra?a Gil Univ. of A Coru?a 6. Monolingual and multilingual textual generation Lydia Moreno Boronat Univ. Polit?cnica de Valencia 7. Machine translation Ines Diz Univ. of Vigo Javier G?mez Guinovart Univ. of Vigo 8. Speech synthesis and recognition Carmen Garc?a Mateo Univ. of Vigo Joaquim Llisterri Univ. Aut?noma de Barcelona 9. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse Joseba Abaitua Univ. of Deusto M. Antonia Mart? Anton?n Univ. of Barcelona ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Chair: Manuel Vilares Ferro Univ. of Vigo Members: David Cabrero Souto Univ. of Vigo V?ctor Darriba Bilbao Univ. of A Coru?a Javier G?mez Guinovart Univ. of Vigo Manuel J. Ma?a Univ. of Vigo David N. Olivieri Univ. of Vigo Javier P?rez Guerra Univ. of Vigo Francisco Jos? Ribadas Pena Univ. of A Coru?a Leandro Rodr?guez Li?ares Univ. of Vigo LOCATION: Sala de Conferencias del Centro Cultural Caixavigo e Ourense Policarpo Sanz, 13 Vigo FURTER 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 <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 22 18:39:48 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:39:48 +0100 Subject: Conf: ECAI-2000 Message-ID: <WED.22.MAR.2000.193948.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "ECAI 2000 Publicity [Markus Hannebauer]" <hannebau at first.gmd.de> [Please accept our apologies for multiple copies of this call.] ------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 roughly a third can be accepted for presen- tation. 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 given by distinguished scientists, master-class lectures in 10 tutorials and serious discussions of hot new research topics in 34 work- shops. 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" --------- 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) Submission date: March 28th, 2000 http://www-is.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~sauer/puk2000/index.html W2: Configuration Submission date: April 16th, 2000 http://www.cs.hut.fi/u/pdmg/ECAI2000WS W3: Agent-oriented Software Management (AOSM) Submission date: March 31st, 2000 http://www.wirtschaft.tu-ilmenau.de/wi/wi2/ECAI2000-AOSE W4: Cognitive Robotics Submission date: April 7th, 2000 http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/LuFG/cogrob2000 W5: Current Issues in Spatio-Temporal Reasoning Submission date: March 31st, 2000 http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~hans/spacetime W6: Local Search for Planning & Scheduling Submission date: May 1st, 2000 http://www.ai-center.com/events/ecai-2000-ws W7: 2nd ECAI Workshop on Binding Environmental Sciences and Artificial Intelligence (BESAI 2000) Submission date: expired http://www.lsi.upc.es/~webia/besai/besai2000.html W8: Scientific Reasoning in AI and Philosophy of Science Submission date: April 7th, 2000 http://www.compulog.org/workshops/ecai W9: Application of Ontologies and Problem Solving Methods Submission date: March 29th, 2000 http://delicias.dia.fi.upm.es/WORKSHOP/ECAI00/index.html W10: Engineering Societies in the Agents' World (ESAW 00) Submission date: April 7th, 2000 http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00 W11: Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory Submission date: expired http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/WORKSHOPS/ECAI2000-OM/call.html W12: Knowledge Representation and Ontologies in Education Submission date: expired http://virtcampus.cl-ki.uni-osnabrueck.de/ecai-2000 W13: Agent Technologies and Their Application Scenarios in Logistics Submission date: May 31st, 2000 http://www.tzi.de/ecai00-mas W14: Multi-Agent Systems and Geographical Information Systems Submission date: April 3rd, 2000 http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/MAGMA/ECAI00/ecai-ws.html W15: Foundations of Connectionist-Symbolic Integration: Representation, Paradigms, and Algorithms Submission date: March 31st, 2000 http://www.dsi.unifi.it/~paolo/ECAI2000 W16: Machine Learning for Information Extraction Submission date: expired http://ecate.itc.it:1024/cirave/ecai-workshop.html W17: AI in Product Data Management: Modelling and Reasoning about Product Data in e-Commerce and e-Business (AiPDM) Submission date: May 5th, 2000 http://www.zurich.ibm.com/pub/Other/AiPDM W18: Knowledge Representation Meets Databases (KRDB-2000) Submission date: March 20th, 2000 http://www-lti.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/KRDB2000 W19: Applied Semiotics: Control Problems (ASC2000) Submission date: expired http://www.iitp.ru/asc2000 W20: Service Robotics - Applications and Safety Issues in an Emerging Market Submission date: March 31st, 2000 http://www.uni-bremen.de/~sppraum/sr00.htm W21: Workshop on Bayesian and Causal Networks: From Inference to Data Mining Submission date: expired http://www.lsi.upc.es/~sanguesa/CaNew2000.html W22: Computational Dialectics: Models of Argumentation, Negotiation and Decision Making Submission date: April 8th, 2000 http://www.philos.rug.nl/~gerard/cd2000 W23: Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology (IDAMAP-2000) Submission date: April 20th, 2000 http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/idamap-2000 W24: Ontology Learning Submission date: April 1st, 2000 http://ol2000.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de W25: Modelling and Solving Problems with Constraints Submission date: May 5th, 2000 http://www.iiia.csic.es/ecai2000 W26: Analysis and Modelling of Collaborative Learning Interactions Submission date: expired http://collide.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/ecai-2000 W27: Machine Learning in Computer Vision (MLCV) Submission date: March 20th, 2000 http://www.di.uniba.it/~malerba/ws-ecai2000 W28: Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations Submission date: April 7th, 2000 http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jonker/masho-ecai2000 W29: Balancing Reactivity and Social Deliberation in Multi-Agent Systems Submission date: May 1st, 2000 http://www.first.gmd.de/plan/ecai-2000-ws.html W30: Flexible Strategies for Maintaining Knowledge Containers Submission date: April 17th, 2000 http://www.ecai2000.hu-berlin.de/mkc-ws W31: Knowledge-Based Systems for Model-Based Engineering Submission date: April 10th, 2000 http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/event/ecai2000-kbsmbe W32: Artificial Intelligence in Mobile Systems (AIMS 2000) Submission date: April 21st, 2000 http://www.eml.org/aims2000 W33: AI in Agriculture and Natural Resources Submission date: April 3rd, 2000 http://www-bia.inra.fr/T/decision/WS-ECAI2000 W34: Empirical Methods in Artificial Intelligence Submission date: May 5th, 2000 http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hoos/ecai2000-empai ------------ REGISTRATION ------------ The details given here are for your information only. 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No extra charge for late workshop registrations. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - "At the change of ages we will make ECAI 2000 in Berlin a special conference" ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 22 18:39:45 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:39:45 +0100 Subject: Appel: ESSLLI-2000 Student Session Message-ID: <WED.22.MAR.2000.193945.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Catherine Piliere <Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Concerns all students in Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science --- --- Thank you to circulate and post among students --- ================================================= LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ESSLLI-2000 STUDENT SESSION August 6-18 2000, Birmingham, Great Britain EXTENTED Deadline : March 26th, 2000 http://www.loria.fr/~piliere/ESSLLI-2000.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 22 18:40:54 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 19:40:54 +0100 Subject: Conf: "Corpora and NLP" SESSION / ACIDCA'2000 International Conference Message-ID: <WED.22.MAR.2000.194054.0100.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Lamia Hadrich Belguith <l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn> ****************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION "Corpora and NLP" SESSION of ACIDCA'2000 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE <http://www.chez.com/acidca2000> Monastir (Tunisia), 22-24 March 2000 ***************************************************************** Organised by: University of Sfax (ENIS & FSEGS) Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT - Tunisia) Supported by: Minstry of Higher Education Ministry of Tourism, Leisure and Handicrafts Ministry of Communications State Secretary of Scientific Research and Technology Sfax Ville and Monastir Ville Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers European Language Resources Assocition Sponsored by : Groupe Affes POULINA IDERYET Mac UNIVERS POINT/POINT IMPRIMERIE RELIURE D'ART OMEGA ACADEMIC PRESS Session Program: Wednesday 22, March 2000 9:00 am - 9:30 am, Opening 9:30 am - 10:30 am, Plenary Lecture 1 "From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words From Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions", by L.A. Zadeh (USA) 10:30 am - 12:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit 12:30 am - 2:30 pm, Lunch 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Session NLP-1 : Morphosyntactic Analysis Chairs: Pieter Seuren (The Netherlands), Lamia H. Belguith (Tunisia) 1. "Morphosyntactic Specifiers to be Associated to Arabic Lexical Entries-Methodological and Theoretical Aspects", by Joseph Dichy (France) 2. "An Efficient Arabic Morphological Analysis Technique for Information Retrieval Systems", by Imed A. Al sughaiyer and Ibrahim A. Al kharashi (Saudi Arabia ) 3. "Chunking, marking and searching a morphosyntactically annotated corpus for French", by Lionel Cl?ment and Alexandra Kinyon (France) 3:30 - 4:00 pm, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP- KL1 : "Handling texts and corpuses in Ariane-G5, a complete environment for multilingual MT", by Christian Boitet (France). Chairs: Ruslan Mitkov (UK) and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia) 5:00 - 6:00 pm, Session NLP-2 : Exploitation of Corpora 1. "Exploring Annotated Arabic Corpora, Preliminary Results", by Mark Van Mol (Belgium) 2. "On the Complexity of Queries for Structurally Annotated Linguistic Data", by Laura Kallmeyer (Germany) 3. "How to Improve Descriptive Texts Generation thanks to Corpus Analyses", by Laurence Balicco and St?phanie Pouchot (France) 6:00 - 7:00 pm, Free Activity 7:00 pm, Monastir City Reception Thursday 23, March 2000 8:00 - 9:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP- KL2 : "Automatic Extraction of information from textual data", by J.-P. Descles (France) 9:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-3-A: Text analysis and syntax Chairs: Jean-Guy Meunier (Canada) and Seham El Kareh (Egypt) 1. "Text Analysis as a Prerequisite for building Adequate Text Knowledge Bases", by Udo Hahn and Martin Romacker (Germany) 2. "Basic Structures of Modern Standard Arabic Syntax in terms of Functions and Categories", by Everhard Ditters (The Netherlands) 3. "Towards a more Efficient Linguistic Recovery of Handwriting Recognition", by Chafik Aloulou, Lamia Hadrich Belguith and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia) 9:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-3-B: Anaphora resolution Chairs: Dan Tufis (Romania) & Key-Sun Choi (Korea) 1. "Dialogue Structure as a Preference in Anaphora Resolution Systems", by Patricio Martinez-Barco (Spain). 2. "Semantic Compatibility Techniques for Anaphora Resolution", by Maximiliano Saiz-Noeda, Jesus Peral and Armando Suarez (Spain) 3. ""VASISTH" an Anaphora Resolution System for Indian Languages", by Sobha L, B. N. Patnaik (India) 10:00 - 10:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit 10:30 - 11:30 am, Session NLP-4-A (enlver la lettre "A"): Term extraction and automatic abstracting Chairs: Udo Hahn (Germany), Maria Teresa Pazienza (Italy) 1. "Automatic Text Extraction Based on Classification of Extract's Population", by Maher Jaoua and Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou (Tunisia) 2. "A Hybrid Technique for Automatic Term Extraction", by Byron Georgantopoulos and Stelios Piperidis (Greece) 3. "An extraction method for text summarisation", by Guillermo Moncecchi and Juan Jos? Prada (Uruguay). 11:30 am - 12:30 am, Plenary Lecture 2 "Categorial and Mathematical classification in Natural Language Processing", by J.G. Meunier (Canada) 12:30 am - 2:30 pm, Lunch 2:30 - 3:30 pm, Session NLP-5 : Tagging Chairs: Joseph Dichy (France), Hanene Ben Abdallah (Tunisia) 1. "Evaluating POS tagging under sub-optimal conditions. Or: Does meticulousness pay ?", by Sandra K?bler and Andreas Wagner (Germany) 2. "An Arabic Interactive Multi-feature POS Tagger", by Seham El-Kareh and Sameh Al Ansary (Egypt) 3. "High Accuracy Tagging with Large Tagsets", by Dan Tufis (Romania) 3:30 - 4:00 pm, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit 4:00 - 5:00 pm, Keynote Lecture NLP-KL3: "An Extended Boolean Algebra for PPC3", by Pieter A.M Seuren (The Netherlands) Chairs: Christian Boitet (France), Jean-Pierre Descles (France) 5:00 - 6:20 pm, Session NLP-6 : Text segmentation and Lexis 1. "A hybrid method for clause splitting in unrestricted English texts", by Costantin Orasan (UK) 2. "Sub-Technical Lexis in English : A Case Study Using Corpus Linguistics", by M. Bahloul and G. Greenall (USA) 3. "Normalisation of Association Measures for Multiword Lexical Unit Extraction", by Ga?l Dias, Jos? Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Portugal) and Sylvie Guillor? (France). 4. "Word Alignment for Different Language Family Based on Linguistic Knowledge", by Jin-Xia Huang (China) and Key-Sun Choi (Korea) 6:20 - 8:00 pm, Free Activity 8:00 pm, Conference Dinner Friday 24, March 2000 8:00 - 10:00 am, Session NLP-7 : NLP Tools Chairs: Everhard Ditters (The Netherlands), Fumiyo Fukumoto (Japan) 1. "IBI: A NLP Approach to Question Answering Systems", by Jose L. Vicedo and Antonio Ferrandez (Spain) 2. "Automatic Annotation of HTML Documents to Improve the Web Research Pertinence", Omar Mazhoud and Lamia Hadrich Belguith (Tunisia) 3. "Correlating Newswire Articles with TV News Story using Features of TV News", by Yoshimi Suzuki and Yoshihiro Sekiguchi (Japan) 4. "Softening Fuzzy Knowledge Representation Tool with the Learning of New Words in Natural Language ", by Mohamed-Nazih Omri (Tunisia) 5. "A Logic Programming Approach to Word Expert Engineering", by Torbj?rn Lager (Sweden) 10:00 - 10:30 am, Coffee Break & Exhibition Visit 10:30 - 11:30 am, Session NLP-8 : Chairs: Ruslan Mitkov (UK), Belguith lamia(Tunisia) 1. "Resolving Overt Pronouns in Japanese using Hierarchical VP Structures" by Fumiyo Fukumoto, Hiroyasu Yamada (Japan) and Ruslan Mitkov (UK) 2. "Identification and Classification of Italian Complex Proper Names", by Maria Teresa Pazienza and Michele Vindigni (Italy) 3. "Definite Description Resolution in Spanish" by Rafael Munoz and Antonio Ferrandez (Spain) 11:30 - 12:30 am, Round Table & Closing 12:30 am- 2:30 pm, Lunch ********************************** Honorary Chairs --------------- Ghlem Dabbeche - Association for Innovation and Technology (AIT)-Tunisia Lotfi A. Zadeh - University of California, Berkeley General Chairs -------------- Adel Alimi, National School of engineering of Sfax (ENIS) Lamia Belguith Hadrich, LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science and Management of Sfax (FSEGS) Abdelmajid Ben Hamadou, LARIS Laboratory - Faculty of Economic Science and Management of Sfax (FSEGS) Programme Committee ------------------- Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Chair Roberto Basili (Universita di Tor Vergata, Rom) Philippe Blache (Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence) Christian Boitet (GETA, Grenoble) Rebecca Bruce (University of North Carolina at Asheville) Jean-Pierre Chanod (Xerox, Grenoble) Khalid Choukri (ELRA, Paris) Fathi Debili (IRMC, Tunis) Jean-Pierre Descles (CAMS/Universite de Sorbonne, Paris) Joseph Dichy (Lumiere University, Lyon) Everhard Ditters (University of Nijemegen) Fumiyo Fukumoto (University of Yamanashi) Eric Gaussier (Xerox, Grenoble) Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg) Nancy Ide (Vassar College, New York) Genevieve Lallich-Boidin (Stendhal University, Grenoble) Bente Maegaard (Centre for Language Technology, Copenhagen) Chafia Mankai (ISG, University of Tunis) Tony McEnery (Lancaster University) Jean-Guy Meunier (LANCI UQUAM, Montreal) Andrei Mikheev (Harlequin Co., Edinburgh & University of Edinburgh) Jean Luc Minel (CAMS/CNRS, Paris) Manolo Palomar (University of Alicante, Spain) Maria Teresa Pazienza (University of Roma, Tor Vergata) Stelios Piperidis (ILPS, Athens) Horacio Rodriguez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona) Mike Rosner (University of Malta) Monique Rolbert (Universite de Marseille) Pieter Seuren (University of Nijemegen) Harold Somers (UMIST, Manchester) Keh-Yih Su (National Tsing Hua University, Taipei) Isabelle Trancoso (INESC, Lisbon) Agnes Tutin (Stendhal University, Grenoble) Evelyne Tzoukermann (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill) Jacques Virbel (IRIT, France) Atro Voutilainen (Conexor, Helsinki) Additional Reviewers -------------------- Amit Bagga (USA) Costantin Orasan (UK) Catalina Barbu (UK) Hanene Ben Abdallah (Tunisia) Kalina Bontcheva (UK) Lamia Labed (Tunisia) Richard Evans (UK) Rim Faiz (Tunisia) Wahiba ben Abdessalem (Tunisia) Ahmed Hadj Kacem (Tunisia) Local Organising Committee -------------------------- Walid Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Masmoudi (ENIS, Sfax) - Chairs H. Abdelkafi (FLSHS, Sfax), Chafik Aloulou (FSEGS, Sfax), Najoua Ben Amara (ENIM, Monastir), Maher Ben Jemaa (ENIS, Sfax), Habib Bouchhima (SEREPT, Sfax), Mohamed Chtourou (ISETG, Gabes), Faez Gargouri (FSEGS, Sfax), Ahmed Hadj Kacem (FSEGS, Sfax), Maher Jaoua (FSEGS, Sfax), Mohamed Jmaiel (ENIS, Sfax), Anas Kamoun (ENIS, Sfax), Omar Mazhoud (FSEGS, Sfax), Houssem Miled (IPEIS, Sousse), Feriel Mouria-Beji (ENSI, Tunis), Hafedh Trabelsi (ISET, Gafsa), Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax) Mongi Triki (FSEGS, Sfax) International Organising Committee ---------------------------------- Fathi Ghorbel (Rice University, USA), Fakhreddine Karray (University of Waterloo, Canada) - Chairs Faouzi Bouslama (Hiroshima City University, Japan), Adel Cherif (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), Faouzi Derbel (University of Muenchen, Germany), Olfa Kanoun (University of Muenchen, Germany), Slim Kanoun (University of Rouen, France), Mansour Karkoub (Kuwait University), Mohamed Ali Khabou (University of Missouri Columbia, USA) Samir Lejmi (Synopsis Inc., USA) Christian Olivier (University of Poitiers, France) Tarek Werfelli (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble) Ismail Timimi (Cristal/Stendhal University, Grenoble) Sofiane Sahraoui (University of Bahrain) For any Information ------------------- Please contact : Lamia Belguith e-mail: l.belguith at fsegs.rnu.tn Mobile : (216) 9 411 060 Fax : (216) 4 279 139 Web site of the conference : <http://www.chez.com/acidca2000> ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 27 08:24:51 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:24:51 +0200 Subject: Project: CES Message-ID: <MON.27.MAR.2000.102451.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: "Nancy M. Ide" <ide at cs.vassar.edu> A list of projects using the Corpus Encoding Standard (CES) is now available through the CES web page: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/CES If you have a CES-based project that is not on the list, please contact ide at cs.vassar.edu. ======================================================= Nancy Ide Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0520 USA Tel: +1 914 437-5988 Fax: +1 914 437-7498 ide at cs.vassar.edu Chercheur Invite Equipe Langue et Dialogue, LORIA/CNRS Campus Scientifique - BP 239 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy FRANCE Tel: +33 (0)3 83 59 20 47 Fax: +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79 ide at loria.fr ======================================================= ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 27 08:23:23 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:23:23 +0200 Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers Message-ID: <MON.27.MAR.2000.102323.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Vanessa Combet" <combet at sinequa.com> Subject: SINEQUA 2/ From: Jian Su <sujian at krdl.org.sg> Subject: NLP:Researcher at Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Singapore 3/ From: Larry Pasquale <jobs at ingenuity.com> Subject: Comp Linguist (Bio-Medical) at InGenuity Systems, California ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: "Vanessa Combet" <combet at sinequa.com> Subject: SINEQUA SINEQUA (anciennement CORA-SA), start-up dynamique developpant des logiciels, en particulier pour le e-commerce et Internet, qui integrent des techniques d'analyses linguistiques, recherche : ********************************* un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne) specialiste de l'allemand et un(e) linguiste informaticien(ne) specialiste de l'espagnol. ********************************* Description du poste : Vous serez en charge de la creation, l'enrichissement et la maintenance des ressources lexico-semantiques necessaires au traitement de l'espagnol et de l'allemand par notre moteur de recherche d'informations Intuition. Par ailleurs, vous serez egalement amene(e) a adapter notre etiqueteur morpho-syntaxique pour le traitement de ces langues, ce qui implique, entre autres, d'ecrire des grammaires de desambigu?sation ou encore de preparer des corpus pour entrainer notre analyseur. Enfin, vous serez directement implique(e) dans les divers projets de recherche menes par nos equipes de linguistes et d'informaticiens. Competences requises : * parfaite maitrise de l'espagnol ou de l'allemand (langue maternelle) et bonne connaissance du francais ; * formation universitaire superieure en linguistique informatique ou linguistique (DESS, DEA, doctorat) ; * autonomie en matiere de programmation, c'est-a-dire que vous etes capable d'elaborer vos propres outils pour constituer, traiter et exploiter des ressources linguistiques (dictionnaires, corpus, grammaires) ; * une bonne connaissance et/ou experience dans les domaines suivants seront particulierement appreciees : lexicographie, terminologie, recherche d'informations, extraction d'informations, multilinguisme dans les systemes de recherche d'informations, autres langues... Aspects pratiques : La remuneration sera fonction de l'experience et des competences des candidats. Le lieu de travail est a Ivry sur Seine, en proche banlieue parisienne. Les candidats doivent avoir le droit de travailler en France. Merci d'envoyer votre candidature par courrier electronique ou postal a : Vanessa Combet-Meunier SINEQUA (Cora-SA) 51, rue Ledru Rollin 94 200 Ivry sur Seine combet at sinequa.com http://www.sinequa.com SINEQUA (formerly CORA-SA), a dynamic software company developing Natural Language products for e-commerce and the Web in particular, has the following openings for: ************************* a German computational linguist; a Spanish computational linguist. ************************* Position description: The successful candidates will be required to create, enhance and maintain the lexical and semantic Spanish and German databases used by our search engine Intuition. The candidates will also be responsible for training our part-of-speech tagger for these languages, which means being able to write disambiguation grammars, to edit corpora to ensure the successful training of out tagger, etc. The candidates will directly be involved in the different research projects our linguists and computer scientists carry out. Skills required: * (near) native speaker of Spanish or German and a good command of French; * relevant university degree in (computational) linguistics; * sufficient programming abilities to be able to build your own tools for the constitution and processing of linguistic resources; * good knowledge of and/or experience in the following areas are considered an asset: lexicography, terminology, information retrieval and extraction, cross-language information retrieval, other languages... Practical aspects: Salary according to experience and qualifications. The post is based in Ivry sur Seine (near Paris). The candidates must have a work permit for France. Please send your application letter and detailed resume by email or snail mail to: Vanessa Combet-Meunier SINEQUA (Cora-SA) 51, rue Ledru Rollin 94 200 Ivry sur Seine combet at sinequa.com http://www.sinequa.com ______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: Jian Su <sujian at krdl.org.sg> Subject: NLP:Researcher at Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore Singapore Rank of Job: researcher Areas Required: NLP on English and Chinese Other Desired Areas: Text Mining University or Organization: Kent Ridge Digital Labs Department: Knowledge Lab State or Province: Singapore Country: Singapore Final Date of Application: Open Contact: Jian Su sujian at krdl.org.sg Address for Applications: Kent Ridge Digital Labs, 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore Singapore 119613 Singapore NLP(English & Chinese) researchers are needed: Kent Ridge Digital Labs (KRDL)(http://www.krdl.org.sg/) is the premier national R&D organisation spearheading the research and development of information and networking technology. With an international team of 400 research scientists and engineers, KRDL offers industry partners the technology and technical leadership to become global players in the IT market: life sciences, information, education, transportation & logistics, and electronic commerce. At KRDL, we are committed to creating new breakthrough technologies that make a significant difference in the quality of life in the information age. At KRDL, you will find a community of unique individuals who know how to work hard, and play hard. We have the world -- in our hands. KRDL - the cradle for new technologies for the digital age. Position: Researcher Your responsibility will include research into English & Chinese entity recognition, coreference and other technologies; Requirements: Master/PhD Degree in Computer Science, preferably in NLP related area; Experience in Chinese/English NLP, especially entity recognition/coreference, etc; Good C/C++ programming skill Good communication skill and initiative CONTACT: *********** Su Jian Tel:(65) 874 2533 Email: sujian at krdl.org.sg ______________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Larry Pasquale <jobs at ingenuity.com> Subject: Comp Linguist (Bio-Medical) at InGenuity Systems, California Rank of Job: Mid to Senior Level Areas Required: Bio-medical Other Desired Areas: Science, Chemistry, Internet, NLP University or Organization: InGenuity Systems Department: Knowledge Engineering/Acquisition State or Province: California Country: United States Final Date of Application: April 30, 2000 Contact: Larry Pasquale jobs at ingenuity.com Address for Applications: 500 Ellis Street Mt. View California 94043 United States Computational Linguist Join a leading-edge team that is developing NLP systems to facilitate automatic information extraction from the biomedical literature. As a Computational Linguist. Your responsibilities will include: Design and implementation of an information extraction system for biomedical literature. Formulation, editing, and evaluation grammar rules for text-based biological data mining. Projects involving search, retrieval, and presentation of information from the InGenuity knowledge base Education: Master or Ph.D. in Computer Science or Linguistics with a focus on Natural Language Processing Requirements: At least two years of experience in developing applications for text-processing, information retrieval, or other related products. Knowledge of and experience with tagging, parsing, semantic processing, language generation, NL querying, and information extraction. Good analytic and problem-solving skills Working knowledge of PERL, C/C++, or Java Preferred: Familiarity with biomedical literature and vocabulary a plus Knowledge of and experience with existing NLP tools ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Mar 27 08:23:40 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 10:23:40 +0200 Subject: Appel: 2 INLG'2000 workshops Message-ID: <MON.27.MAR.2000.102340.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Svetlana Sheremetyeva <lana at crl.NMSU.Edu> Objet?: workshop deadline extended 2/ From: ralf.klabunde at t-online.de (Ralf Klabunde) Subject: Cognitive modeling/NLG systems (INLG'2000) ______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: Svetlana Sheremetyeva <lana at crl.NMSU.Edu> Objet?: workshop deadline extended WORKSHOP DEADLINE EXTENDED Call for papers Analysis for Generation a Workshop in conjunction with The International Conference on Natural Language Generation INLG'2000 (June 13-14) June 12, 20000, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel 1. The reasons why the workshop is of interest at this time. The last decade has seen an explosion in the work done in the field of NLG with the emphasis on the development of independent NLG applications rather than generation modules of MT systems. While it seems natural to consider problems of analysis and generation as two sides of a coin in such NLP applications as MT, researchers working on "pure" generation systems sometimes treat problems arising at every stage of generation^content specification, sentence planning, and surface realization^as independent. Time may be ripe for examining the mutual utility of analysis and generation in greater detail. The impetus is, as can be expected, the goal of minimizing system-building efforts in language engineering. 2. A brief technical description of the issues the workshop will address. The workshop proposes to address: ^ issues connected to the needs of analysis in generation systems as well as ^ issues of interrelation between generation and analysis from the standpoint of reusability and adaptability of analysis techniques and tools for generation. ^ issues of reusability of analysis knowledge and methodology of its acquisition for generation. Analysis as part of generation. A wide range of complex problems which are considered to be specific for generation^content specification, planning, and grammaticalization^may lead one to believe that generation is completely independent of analysis. Most generators tacitly assume that an intermediate system module can use the output of the preceding module as its input without any processing (that is, analysis) of this output. This is not, however, the case in practice. A modicum of analysis is, in fact, an essential part of every generation system. The input to generation systems such as raw data in tables, lists, diagrams, elements of various databases or even text snippets that are fed into the system directly by a user still must first be somehow processed, that is, analyzed. The analysis is needed to provide both the necessary content and, often, format for the content specification (see, for example, Dale 1995, Robin 1994, Kukich 1988, McKeown et al. 1994, Bateman and Teich 1995). This problem becomes especially important in those applications (including multilingual ones) in which at least some input to generation is in textual form (e.g., Sheremetyeva and Nirenburg 1996). Many NLG systems often use a variety of analysis techniques. The question arises whether it is possible to develop criteria to better choose and integrate analysis techniques which could be efficiently applied at different stages of generation. Reusability and adaptability of analysis techniques and tools for generation. While it is not uncommon to believe that generation and analysis are not reversible, a number of contributions over the years have discussed reversibility of analysis and generation resources, especially the grammars. Appelt 1987, Barnett and Mani 1990 and van Noord 1993, among others, demonstrate how the use of reversible grammars may lead to efficient and flexible natural language parsing and generation systems. It is worth discussing constraints on reversibility. Reusability of analysis knowledge and methodology of its acquisition for generation. Generation and analysis are closely related in that both processes use many similar resources, and often it is less expensive to reorganize an existing "analysis" resource (e.g., an analysis lexicon) than to acquire one for generation from scratch. (Allgayer et al. 1989, Viegas and Beale 1996, Sheremetyeva and Nirenburg 1999a, 1999b). It is worth discussing how to establish whether a resource built for analysis can be used for generation and at what price. In particular the workshop will seek to address the following issues: I. Applications of analysis in generation and types of analysis techniques used in NLG. II. Reusability and adaptability of knowledge resources in generation and analysis - knowledge representation - lexicon format and indexing - rule writing format - knowledge acquisition and adaptation - reversibility of grammars - use of microtheories - architectural issues - converting (morphological, syntactic, semantic, etc.) analyzers into generator modules - architectural peculiarities of systems involving both analysis and synthesis and reusability of their modules. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions should consist of full papers (maximum of 12 pages, including references, 12pt font size). Each submission should include a separate title page providing the following information: the title, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone, fax, and email. Please send your electronic submission (PostScript or PDF format) until APRIL,10 to: Svetlana Sheremetyeva Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University USA Box30001/Dept.3CRL/Las Cruces New Mexico 88003-8001 505 646 5466 (voice) 505 646 6218 (fax) lana at crl.nmsu.edu IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: APRIL, 10 (extended) Notification of acceptance: April 20 Final paper to workshop coordinator: April 28 Workshop: June 12 INLG 2000: June13 - June 16 3. Organizing Committee Svetlana Sheremetyeva, Chair and contact person Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, USA lana at crl.nmsu.edu Sergei Nirenburg Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, USA sergei at crl.nmsu.edu Richard Kittredge Department of Linguistics and Translation, University of Montreal kittredge at IRO.UMontreal.CA Anna Sagvall Hein Department of linguistics, Uppsala University Anna at ling.uu.se Evelyne Viegas Microsoft Corporation evelynev at microsoft.com Michael Zock Language & Cognition LIMSI - CNRS zock at limsi.fr ______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: ralf.klabunde at t-online.de (Ralf Klabunde) Subject: Cognitive modeling/NLG systems (INLG'2000) ********************************************************** Attention: workshop DEADLINE EXTENDED C A L L F O R P A P E R S Why care for cognitive modeling when building NLG systems ? Workshop to be held in conjunction with INLG 2000 International Conference on Natural Language Generation Workshop home page: http://pc03.idf.uni-heidelberg.de/~ralf/wkshop WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Natural Language Generation (NLG) exists now for many years as a subdiscipline of computational linguistics. Many systems have been built with different goals and from different perspectives. While some approaches are strongly driven by engineering concerns, others are more concerned with insights in human language production. By organizing this workshop we pursue three goals: (a) to show that cognitive and engineering approaches, rather then being mutually exclusive, are highly complementary; (b) to identify some of the loci where the human factor should be taken into account; (c) to discuss then what methods could be used in order to enhance current systems or architectures by means of cognitive models of human language generation. While there is no doubt that cognitive modeling is useful for testing theories of human behavior, it is probably also quite useful in cognitive engineering, that is, as a complementary methodology for building systems. If the engineering point of view is overemphasised, designers will be more concerned with the machine than with their final users: people. In order to build truly user-friendly NL-generators, i.e. systems which adapt themselves to users rather than the other way around, we need a deeper understanding of the knowledge and the processes that people use when producing language. These kinds of insights can profitably be used when building systems, especially if they are meant to be used by people. At present, we observe a strong tendency towards an engineering approach. While many researchers in the field have based their systems on empirical research, their approach still remains more motivated by engineering considerations (efficiency) then by psycho-linguistic factors (the problems people face). Yet we do believe, that integrating the human factor into the engineering approach would greatly enhance the overall quality (adequacy, flexibility, scope) of the existing systems. To approach these goals, the workshop invites full papers that deal with any aspect of the following topics: - ARCHITECTURE (flexibility, decomposition and control of the process) - CONTENT DETERMINATION / CONCEPTUALIZATION - NATURE OF THE INPUT (proximity to language) - OUTLINE PLANNING - NP-GENERATION (the problem of reference) - LEXICAL ACCESS For more information on the workshop and its topics have a look at the workshop homepage. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Gerard Kempen, University of Leiden, The Netherlands kempen at rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl Ralf Klabunde, University of Heidelberg, Germany (Chair) klabunde at novell1.gs.uni-heidelberg.de Koenraad de Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway deSmedt at hf.uib.no Michael Zock, LIMSI - CNRS, France zock at limsi.fr FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Paper submissions should consist of full papers (maximum of 10 pages including references, 12pt font size). Each submission should include a separate title page providing the following information: the title, a short abstract, names and affiliations of all the authors, the full address of the primary author (or alternate contact person), including phone, fax, and email. Electronic submissions should be sent to Ralf Klabunde until April 6. We strongly advise standard html, but PostScript or PDF form is also possible. Ralf Klabunde University of Heidelberg Center for Computational Linguistics Karlstr. 2 69117 Heidelberg, Germany klabunde at novell1.gs.uni-heidelberg.de IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline: April 6 ??????????? Notification of acceptance: April 14 Final paper to workshop?coordinator: May 2????????? Workshop: June 12 INLG 2000: June13 - June 16 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 31 10:17:57 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:17:57 +0200 Subject: Appel: RECITAL-2000 Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAR.2000.121757.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Damien Genthial <Damien.Genthial at imag.fr> 2?me Appel ? communications R?CITAL-2000 Rencontre des Etudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues ?cole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (Suisse) du 16 au 18 octobre 2000 http://www-clips.imag.fr/RECITAL-2000 RECITAL-2000 at imag.fr conjointement ? TALN-2000 http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000 La quatri?me ?dition du colloque RECITAL se tiendra conjointement ? la conf?rence TALN-2000 (Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles), ? Lausanne (Suisse) du 16 au 18 octobre 2000. Le colloque RECITAL-2000 donne aux jeunes chercheurs l'occasion de se rencontrer, de pr?senter leurs travaux et de comparer leurs approches. L'exp?rience tr?s r?ussie du couplage RECITAL-TALN en 1999 sera renouvel?e cette ann?e encore et devrait l'?tre syst?matiquement ? l'avenir.Ce couplage permet aux participants d'acqu?rir une vision plus globale sur les avanc?es th?oriques les plus r?centes, ainsi que sur des applications industrielles actuellement d?velopp?es. Il favorise ?galement les ?changes avec les chercheurs confirm?s qui participent ? TALN. * Th?mes indicatifs Probl?matiques classiques : - Analyse et compr?hension de textes - G?n?ration d'?nonc?s en LN - Traduction automatique - Production de r?sum?s - Correction automatique - Dialogue humain/machine Probl?matiques connexes : - Ressources linguistiques (lexiques, dictionnaires ?lectroniques, corpus etc.) - S?mantique lexicale (polys?mie, cat?gorisation, etc.) - S?mantique du temps et de l'espace (repr?sentation et raisonnement) - Logique (argumentation, mod?lisation des intentions et des croyances, etc.) - Architectures d?di?es au TAL (syst?mes multi-agents, r?seaux neuromim?tiques) - Acquisition et apprentissage automatique de ressources ou de connaissances (? partir de corpus, ou de l'interaction humain/machine) - Relations entre TAL et reconnaissance de la parole Cette liste n'est pas exhaustive et l'ad?quation d'une proposition de communication ? la conf?rence sera jug?e par le comit? de programme. * Soumissions Les soumissions (de 6 pages maximum en Times 12) devront ?tre r?dig?es en fran?ais ou en anglais par de jeunes chercheurs (th?se en cours ou bien soutenue apr?s septembre 1998) et accompagn?es d'un r?sum? de 200 mots. RECITAL-2000 est la session pour ?tudiants de TALN-2000 et il est possible pour un auteur de soumettre ? plusieurs manifestations (TAL, RECITAL, ateliers). Dans ce cas, la double soumission doit appara?tre clairement dans le courrier adress? aux deux comit?s de programme. Les soumissions ? RECITAL-2000 ne seront pas anonymes. Les relecteurs seront encourag?s ? signer leurs rapports. Les soumissions seront exclusivement ?lectroniques et devront ?tre envoy?es en fichier attach? ? : RECITAL-2000 at imag.fr. Les auteurs devront envoyer leur soumission en PostScript, en RTF ou en PDF. Une feuille de style LaTeX et un mod?le Word sont disponibles sur les pages web de TALN-2000 (voir ci-dessus). Les articles retenus seront pr?sent?s lors des sessions RECITAL sous la forme d'une communication orale d'une vingtaine de minutes et figureront dans les actes de TALN-2000. * Dates importantes (calendrier identique ? celui de TALN-2000) Date limite de soumission : 21 avril 2000 Notification aux auteurs : 23 juin 2000 Version finale (pr?t-?-clicher): 4 ao?t 2000 Conf?rence : 16-18 octobre 2000 * Comit? de programme Responsable : Damien Genthial (mailto:Damien.Genthial at imag.fr) Pascal Amsili (TALANA, Paris) Pierre Beust (GREYC, Caen) Jean Caelen (CLIPS, Grenoble) Paul Del?glise (LIUM, Le Mans) C?cile Fabre (ERSS, Toulouse) Bertrand Gaiffe (LORIA, Nancy) Emmanuel Giguet (GREYC, Caen) St?phane Ferrari (GREYC, Caen) Brigitte Grau (LIMSI, Orsay) Maurice Gross (LADL, Paris) Jean-Luc Husson (LORIA, Nancy Eric Laporte (Marne la Vall?e) J?rome Lehuen (LIUM, Le Mans) G?rard Ligozat (LIMSI, Orsay) Daniel Luzzati (LIUM, Le Mans) Denis Maurel (LI, Tours) Reza Mir-Samii (LIUM, Le Mans) Jacques Moeschler (Gen?ve) Philippe Muller (IRIT, Toulouse) Anne Nicolle (GREYC, Caen) Didier Pernel (L&H, Belgique) C?cile Fabre (ERSS, Toulouse) Violaine Prince (Paris 8) Martin Rajman (EPFL, Lausanne) Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy) Azim Roussanaly (LORIA, Nancy) G?rard Sabah (LIMSI, Orsay) Patrick Saint-Dizier (IRIT, Toulouse) Jean Senellart (LADL, Paris) Jacques Siroux (IRISA LLI/CORDIAL, Rennes) Max Silberztein (LADL, Paris) Jacques Vergne (GREYC, Caen) Jean V?ronis (LPL, Aix) Anne Vilnat (LIMSI, Orsay) Michael Zock (LIMSI, Orsay) * Comit? d'organisation Responsable : Jos? Rouillard (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Pierre Beust (GREYC Caen) Peggy Cadel (LILLA Nice) Jean Caelen (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Damien Genthial (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) St?phanie Pouchot (CRISTAL-GRESEC Grenoble) Dominique Vaufreydaz (CLIPS-IMAG Grenoble) Pour tous renseignements : Page web de R?CITAL-2000 : http://www-clips.imag.fr/RECITAL-2000 Adresse ?lectronique de R?CITAL-2000 : RECITAL-2000 at imag.fr Adresse courrier: Colloque R?CITAL-2000 ? l'attention de Damien Genthial CLIPS, IMAG-Campus BP 53 38040 Grenoble cedex * Information Pratiques Pour toute information pratique concernant l'h?bergement, l'acc?s au site ? Lausanne, etc, nous vous renvoyons aux pages web de TALN (http://liawww.epfl.ch/taln2000). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- TRILAN/CLIPS/IMAG, (lundis et jeudis) | IUT de Valence (les autres jours) T?l : 04 76 51 49 15 | T?l : 04 75 41 88 00 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 31 10:14:09 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:14:09 +0200 Subject: Jobs: 4 Offers Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAR.2000.121409.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: dirk.petry at systran.lu Subject: Job openings for language specialists at Systran Luxemburg 2/ From: betty at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Research Fellow in Probabilistic Natual Language Processing 3/ From: Ted Briscoe <Ted.Briscoe at cl.cam.ac.uk> Subject: Comp Ling/NLP: Lecturer at U of Cambridge 4/ From: Hassan Alam <hassana at bcl-computers.com> Subject: Comp Linguists/Project Manager at BCL Computers, California USA _______________________________________________________________________ 1/ From: dirk.petry at systran.lu Subject: Job openings for language specialists at Systran Luxemburg Job openings for language specialists at Systran Luxembourg S.A. Systran Luxembourg S.A., a Luxemburg-based company which has been developing machine translation systems for over fifteen years, is currently seeking three language specialists to join its team in Luxemburg on a full-time basis. 1. Two Dutch language specialists for the development of the English-Dutch resp. French-Dutch translation system, and particularly of the Dutch target. Profile: native Dutch excellent knowledge of English and/or French university degree in translating, phylology, computational linguistics or equivalent good knowledge/experience in one or more of the following areas would be considered an asset : programming in C or Perl, natural language processing, computational linguistics 2. One English language specialist for the development of the Dutch-English translation system, and particularly of the English target. Profile: native English excellent knowledge of Dutch university degree in translating, phylology, computational linguistics or equivalent good knowledge/experience in one or more of the following areas would be considered an asset : programming in C or Perl, natural language processing, computational linguistics If you are interested in one of these job opportunities and you believe to fulfil the required profile, please E-mail your CV, including full details of education, qualification and previous experience to : Pierre.Thillen at Systran.lu Alternatively, please send a paper copy to : Mr. Pierre Thillen Systran Luxembourg S.A. 12, rue de Vianden L - 2680 Luxembourg _______________________________________________________________________ 2/ From: betty at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Subject: Research Fellow in Probabilistic Natual Language Processing Dear All Following is a job advert which we would be obliged could be posted on. Apologies if you receive this message twice. Division of Informatics RESEARCH POSITION IN PROBABILISTIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING This project in the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) of the Division of Informatics is funded by EPSRC to investigate the use of Categorial Grammars to support wide coverage statistically guided natural language parsing. A large categorial lexicon will be induced from labelled treebank corpora and the project will extend head dependency-based techniques to the parsing of a wide variety of problematic constructions involving long-range dependencies, including relatives, parentheticals, non-constituent fragments, and varieties of coordinate structures. The parser will deliver both syntactic and semantic structure. Evaluation will be both by comparison to existing large coverage parsers using standard measures, and by application to information processing tasks. We seek an individual to join an existing team of staff and postgraduate students to assist development of such parsers and applications. The ideal candidate will hold a degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Linguistics, or Artificial Intelligence and have an in interest both in linguistic analysis and parsing technology. S/he will have practical experience in programming, developing grammars, parsers, and probability models, and analysing linguistic corpora. Salary scale: 16,286 - 18.185 pounds per annum. The post is for 3 years initially (subject to further funding). Additional information about The Division of Informatics (http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk), ICCS (http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk) and related groups such HCRC (http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/) and the Language Technology group (http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/overview.htm) is available from our website. Informal enquiries may be made to: Mark Steedman (steedman at cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Please quote reference number 306195WW Further particulars are available from, and applications should be sent to: Personnel University of Edinburgh 9-16 Chambers Street Edinburgh, EH1 1HT Tel: 0131 650 2511 (24 hour answering service). Closing date for applications is 4 April 2000. Further Particulars for the post of research associate in probablistic natural language processing, ICCS, Division of Informatics, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW This project in the Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) of the Division of Informatics is funded by EPSRC to investigate the use of Categorial Grammars to support wide coverage statistically guided natural language parsing. A large categorial lexicon will be induced from labelled treebank corpora and the project will extend head dependency-based techniques to the parsing of a wide variety of problematic constructions involving long-range dependencies, including relatives, parentheticals, non-constituent fragments, and varieties of coordinate structures. The parser will deliver both syntactic and semantic structure. Evaluation will be both by comparison to existing large coverage parsers using standard measures, and by application to information processing tasks. We seek an individual to join an existing team of staff and postgraduate students to assist development of such parsers and applications. The ideal candidate will hold a degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Linguistics, or Artificial Intelligence and have in interest both in linguistic analysis and parsing technology. S/he will have practical experience in programming, developing grammars, parsers, and probability models, and analysing linguistic corpora. Successful candidates will be hired on the AR1A researcher scale (16,286-18,185 pounds per annum) , depending on age and experience. They will be employed initially for a period of three years, starting as soon as possible. Additional information about The Division of Informatics (http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk), ICCS (http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk) and related groups such HCRC (http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/) and the Language Technology group (http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/overview.htm) is available from our website. The University The University of Edinburgh has a student population of around 15,000 and employs nearly 2,000 Academic and Related staff, and some 3,500 non-teaching staff in the Clerical, Technical and Manual categories. The main locations of the University are in the centre of the city (South Side) and at King's Buildings some 2.5 miles away. The Division of Informatics Informatics is the study of the structure, behaviour, and interactions of both natural and artificial computational systems. The Division was formed in 1998 by combining the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Artificial Intelligence, and the Centre for Cognitive Science. ICCS The Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) is dedicated to the pursuit of basic research into the nature of communication among humans and between humans and machines using text, speech, and graphics, and the design of interactive dialogue systems, using computational and algorithmic approaches, with applications including natural language processing, information retrieval and presentation, education, musical analysis, and instruction. The work of the Institute is crucially interdependent with work of units at Edinburgh outwith Informatics, notably the Linguistics, Philosophy, and Psychology Departments, with which it interacts via the cross faculty Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC). The members of ICCS comprise around forty-five academic and research staff doing basic and applied research in a wide range of topics in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Computer Science concerning dynamic aspects of cognition, including: computational syntax and semantics and their interaction in processing; human learning, human reasoning and psychologically realistic knowledge representation; the production and analysis of cooperative communication in a number of modalities including spoken and written text and dialogue, graphics design and multimedia, and music. The Language Technology Group pursues research within the Institute in a number of application domains, including instructional and educational systems, interactive information management systems and computer-assisted collaboration tools. Hours Fixed hours of attendance are not specified, you will be expected to work such hours, normally Monday to Friday, as are required from the proper discharge of your duties. The working week will average 35 hours. Part-time staff will be remunerated pro-rata to 35 hours. Application Procedure Please complete and return the Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form, and the Application Form to, Recruitment, The Personnel Department, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1HT by the closing date of 4 April 2000. We cannot guarantee to consider late applications. These particulars are issued by the Personnel Office, 9-16 Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1HT, and represent an accurate description of the duties at the time of writing, although this accuracy cannot be guaranteed. The University reserves the right to vary these particulars in making an appointment or to make no appointment at all. Neither in part nor in whole do these particulars form part of any contract between the University and any individual. This advert can also be found at: http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/ Betty Huyhes Institute Secretary _______________________________________________________________________ 3/ From: Ted Briscoe <Ted.Briscoe at cl.cam.ac.uk> Subject: Comp Ling/NLP: Lecturer at U of Cambridge The University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory has a vacancy for a University Lecturer or University Assistant Lecturer in the area of computational linguistics and natural language processing, to take up appointment on 1 October 2000 or as soon as possible thereafter. Candidates are expected to have a demonstrated ability or clear potential to conduct research at an international level of excellence in their chosen speciality. Candidates will also be expected to have proven teaching abilities. The person appointed will be required to make a significant contribution to the teaching and organisation of the MPhil in Computer Speech and Language Processing. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/DeptInfo/Jobs/ul-nlp.html _______________________________________________________________________ 4/ From: Hassan Alam <hassana at bcl-computers.com> Subject: Comp Linguists/Project Manager at BCL Computers, California USA Rank of Job: Areas Required: Project Manager and Computational Linguists Other Desired Areas: Knowledge-Base Construction University or Organization: BCL Computers Department: HCI Products State or Province: CA Country: USA Final Date of Application: 9/1/2000 Contact: Hassan Alam hassana at bcl-computers.com Address for Applications: 990 Linden Drive, Ste. 203 Santa Clara CA 95050 USA BCL is looking for people with experience in computational linguistics and linguistics to work on an exciting, cutting-edge project funded by the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) of the Department of Commerce. Positions include Project Manager, Researchers, Engineers, and Interns. The work involves developing and implementing linguistic models for spoken and written language for the Internet and handheld platforms. The ideal candidate will have a degree in computer science or linguistics. Experience in computational linguistics is a plus. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> 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 Fri Mar 31 10:17:08 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:17:08 +0200 Subject: Appel: ASE'00 Message-ID: <FRI.31.MAR.2000.121708.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR> From: Gerald Gannod <gannod at asu.edu> Automated Software Engineering --- ASE'00 15th IEEE International Conference September 11--15, 2000, Grenoble, France Abstracts due: March 24, 2000; Papers due: March 31, 2000 Latest information: http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ase/ Call for Papers The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering brings together researchers and practitioners to share ideas on the foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of automated software engineering technology. Both automatic systems and systems that support and cooperate with people are within the scope of the conference, as are models of software and software engineering activities. ASE'00 encourages contributions describing basic research, novel applications, and experience relevant to automating software engineering activities. Solicited topics include, but are not limited to: - Automated software specification - Automated software design and synthesis - Category-theoretic approaches - Computer-supported cooperative work - Domain modeling - Knowledge acquisition - Maintenance and evolution - Process and workflow management - Program understanding - Re-engineering - Requirements engineering - Reuse - Software architectures - Testing - Tutoring, help, documentation systems - Human computer interaction - Verification and validation The IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering was formerly known as the Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference. In conjunction with the name change three years ago, the conference expanded to encourage worldwide participation and to reach other scientific communities concerned with formal methods, partial evaluation, process support, human-computer interface support, requirements engineering, reverse engineering, testing, or verification & validation. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, at IEEE Computer Society Press. In addition, several of the highest quality papers will be selected for a special issue of the Journal of Automated Software Engineering (Kluwer). ASE'00 will also include invited talks, tutorials, panel discussions, a doctoral symposium, and project demonstrations, for which separate calls for participation will be issued. Papers should not exceed 6000 words, with full-page figures counting as 300 words. Papers that exceed the length restriction will not be reviewed. Papers will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. All papers, especially application papers and experience reports, should clearly identify their novel contributions. See http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ase/SubmissionPointers.html for guidelines. All papers should be submitted electronically to ase00 at ittc.ukans.edu in PostScript, MS Word, or PDF format, on or before March 31, 2000. In addition, a single hard copy should be mailed to Perry Alexander at the address below; it serves as a backup should printing problems occur, and it may arrive later than the electronic submission date. To expedite the review process, each paper's title, authors, abstract, keywords, and contact author's email address should be submitted by March 24, 2000 through http://www.dis.uu.se/ASE2000/ Use the returned paper number to identify your paper when submitting it. All subsequent communications will take place via email to the contact author. General Chair Yves Ledru IMAG Grenoble, France Yves.Ledru at imag.fr Program Co-Chairs Perry Alexander ITTC / The Univ. of Kansas 2291 Irving Hill Rd Lawrence, KS 66044-7321 Tel +1 785 864-7741 palexand at ukans.edu Pierre Flener Dept of Information Science Uppsala University, Box 513 S-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden Tel +46 18 471-1028 Pierre.Flener at dis.uu.se Program Committee: Perry Alexander, USA Daniel Berry, Israel Yves Deville, Belgium Steve Easterbrook, USA Wolfgang Emmerich, UK Martin Feather, USA Steve Fickas, USA Bernd Fischer, USA Pierre Flener, Sweden Alfonso Fuggetta, Italy Gerry Gannod, USA Michael Goedicke, Germany Joseph Goguen, USA Ian Green, UK John Grundy, New Zealand Robert Hall, USA Mehdi Harandi, USA Mats Heimdahl, USA Scott Henninger, USA Bernd Kraemer, Germany Kung-Kiu Lau, UK Baudouin Le Charlier, Belgium Yves Ledru, France Julio Leite, Brazil Mike Lowry, USA Tom Maibaum, UK Neil Maiden, UK Renaud Marlet, France Mihhail Matskin, Norway Ali Mili, USA Bashar Nuseibeh, UK Colin O'Halloran, UK Charles Pecheur, USA John Penix, USA Alex Quilici, USA David Redmiles, USA Arthur Reyes, USA Debra Richardson, USA Julian Richardson, UK Spencer Rugaber, USA Conor Ryan, Ireland Houari Sahraoui, Canada Akiyoshi Sato, Japan Dorothy Setliff, Australia Frank Shipman, USA Doug Smith, USA Kurt Stirewalt, USA Enn Tyugu, Sweden Jeff van Baalen, USA Richard Waldinger, USA Virginie Wiels, France Chris Welty, USA David Wile, USA --Boundary_(ID_qE758qqbRZFsD4tepk9MvQ) Content-type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version = 5.5.2651.75"> <TITLE>3rd CFP: Automated Software Engineering --- ASE'00

Automated Software Engineering --- ASE'00
15th IEEE International Conference
September 11--15, 2000, Grenoble, France
Abstracts due: March 24, 2000; Papers due: March 31, = 2000
Latest information: http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ase/

Call for Papers

The IEEE International Conference on Automated = Software Engineering
brings together researchers and practitioners to = share ideas on the
foundations, techniques, tools, and applications of = automated software
engineering technology. Both automatic systems and = systems that
support and cooperate with people are within the = scope of the
conference, as are models of software and software = engineering
activities. ASE'00 encourages contributions = describing basic
research, novel applications, and experience = relevant to automating
software engineering activities. Solicited topics = include, but are not
limited to:

- Automated software specification
- Automated software design and synthesis
- Category-theoretic approaches
- Computer-supported cooperative work
- Domain modeling
- Knowledge acquisition
- Maintenance and evolution
- Process and workflow management
- Program understanding
- Re-engineering
- Requirements engineering
- Reuse
- Software architectures
- Testing
- Tutoring, help, documentation systems
- Human computer interaction
- Verification and validation

The IEEE International Conference on Automated = Software Engineering
was formerly known as the Knowledge-Based Software = Engineering
Conference. In conjunction with the name change = three years ago, the
conference expanded to encourage worldwide = participation and to reach
other scientific communities concerned with formal = methods, partial
evaluation, process support, human-computer = interface support,
requirements engineering, reverse engineering, = testing, or
verification & validation.

Accepted papers will be published in the conference = proceedings, at
IEEE Computer Society Press. In addition, several of = the highest
quality papers will be selected for a special issue = of the Journal of
Automated Software Engineering (Kluwer). ASE'00 will = also include
invited talks, tutorials, panel discussions, a = doctoral symposium, and
project demonstrations, for which separate calls for = participation
will be issued.

Papers should not exceed 6000 words, with full-page = figures counting
as 300 words. Papers that exceed the length = restriction will not be
reviewed. Papers will be reviewed by at least three = program committee
members. All papers, especially application papers = and experience
reports, should clearly identify their novel = contributions. See
http://sigart.acm.org/Conferences/ase/SubmissionPointe= rs.html for
guidelines.

All papers should be submitted electronically to = ase00 at ittc.ukans.edu
in PostScript, MS Word, or PDF format, on or before = March 31, 2000.
In addition, a single hard copy should be mailed to = Perry Alexander at
the address below; it serves as a backup should = printing problems
occur, and it may arrive later than the electronic = submission date.
To expedite the review process, each paper's title, = authors, abstract,
keywords, and contact author's email address should = be submitted by
March 24, 2000 through

          &nb= sp;            = http://www.dis.uu.se/ASE2000/

Use the returned paper number to identify your paper = when submitting it.
All subsequent communications will take place via = email to the
contact author.

General Chair
Yves Ledru
IMAG
Grenoble, France
Yves.Ledru at imag.fr

Program Co-Chairs
Perry Alexander
ITTC / The Univ. of Kansas
2291 Irving Hill Rd
Lawrence, KS 66044-7321
Tel +1 785 864-7741
palexand at ukans.edu

Pierre Flener
Dept of Information Science
Uppsala University, Box 513
S-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Tel +46 18 471-1028
Pierre.Flener at dis.uu.se

Program Committee:

Perry Alexander, USA
Daniel Berry, Israel
Yves Deville, Belgium
Steve Easterbrook, USA
Wolfgang Emmerich, UK
Martin Feather, USA
Steve Fickas, USA
Bernd Fischer, USA
Pierre Flener, Sweden
Alfonso Fuggetta, Italy
Gerry Gannod, USA
Michael Goedicke, Germany
Joseph Goguen, USA
Ian Green, UK
John Grundy, New Zealand
Robert Hall, USA
Mehdi Harandi, USA
Mats Heimdahl, USA
Scott Henninger, USA
Bernd Kraemer, Germany
Kung-Kiu Lau, UK
Baudouin Le Charlier, Belgium
Yves Ledru, France
Julio Leite, Brazil
Mike Lowry, USA
Tom Maibaum, UK
Neil Maiden, UK
Renaud Marlet, France
Mihhail Matskin, Norway
Ali Mili, USA
Bashar Nuseibeh, UK
Colin O'Halloran, UK
Charles Pecheur, USA
John Penix, USA
Alex Quilici, USA
David Redmiles, USA
Arthur Reyes, USA
Debra Richardson, USA
Julian Richardson, UK
Spencer Rugaber, USA
Conor Ryan, Ireland
Houari Sahraoui, Canada
Akiyoshi Sato, Japan
Dorothy Setliff, Australia
Frank Shipman, USA
Doug Smith, USA
Kurt Stirewalt, USA
Enn Tyugu, Sweden
Jeff van Baalen, USA
Richard Waldinger, USA
Virginie Wiels, France
Chris Welty, USA
David Wile, USA

--Boundary_(ID_qE758qqbRZFsD4tepk9MvQ)-- ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Fri Mar 31 10:18:43 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:18:43 +0200 Subject: Infos: Synapse Message-ID: From: "Dominique Laurent" Titre : Sous-entendus, tronquage et diffamation Canal+ a attaqu? notre soci?t?, Synapse d?veloppement, ? deux reprises le lundi 20 mars et le lundi 27 mars, dans l'?mission "Nulle part ailleurs". Nous avons ?t? trait?s de racistes et de fascistes ? propos d'une proposition de v?rification orthographique (comme si un v?rificateur faisait de la s?mantique et comme si on connaissait la s?mantique d'un mot inconnu !) et ? propos d'une liste des 3 seuls cas o? les noms propres de fonction individualis?s prennent une majuscule (F?hrer, Duce, Caudillo). Nos deux communiqu?s de presse en r?ponse ? ces attaques inou?es sont disponibles sur notre site : http://www.synapse-fr.com/CP01.htm http://www.synapse-fr.com/CP02.htm Nous sommes en discussions avec Canal+ pour un droit de r?ponse et nous envisageons des poursuites judiciaires. Nous avons en partie d?couvert qui tire les ficelles derri?re Vandel et, comme souvent, on trouve le m?lange de concurrents et de gesns qui veulent se faire de la pub. Mais, si je vous adresse ce message, en dehors du fait qu'il nous permet de pr?senter notre d?fense, ce que bien peu de m?dia nous ont permis jusqu'ici, c'est que ces deux affaires posent de vrais probl?mes de linguistique appliqu?e : comment les journalistes g?n?ralistes et le grand public per?oit les outils de correction et l'ordinateur, comment en utilisant quelques mots s?mantiquement forts et enlev?s de leur contexte, on peut monter une attaque (mais cela tous les totalitarismes l'avaient utilis?, ce n'est pas Canal+ qui l'a d?couvert !). Cordialement Le responsable du d?veloppement SYNAPSE D?veloppement 33, rue Mayanrd 31000 TOULOUSE 05-61-63-69-90 ___________________________________________________________________ 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 Fri Mar 31 10:18:04 2000 From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:18:04 +0200 Subject: Info: DEA, Genève Message-ID: From: laenzlinger *************************************************** Dipl?me d??tudes Approfondies (DEA) de Linguistique 2000-2001 Coordination : professeur Jacques Moeschler 1. Pr?sentation g?n?rale Le D?partement de Linguistique de l?Universit? de Gen?ve offre une formation post-grade en linguistique dans le cadre de la certification DEA (Dipl?me d??tudes Approfondies) de la Facult? des Lettres. Le DEA est la premi?re ?tape de la formation postgrade dont le terme est le doctorat. Il offre ?galement des cours de mise ? niveau, et permet ainsi d?int?grer une formation prop?deutique ? la formation doctorale. Les activit?s du D?partement de Linguistique rel?vent principalement de trois domaines th?matiques, qui correspondent aux trois p?les de sp?cialisation du D?partement : la linguistique informatique, la syntaxe comparative et l?analyse du discours. La linguistique informatique, dont le lieu de recherche est constitu? par le LATL (Labo-ratoire d?Analyse et de Traitement du Langage), a pour principales activit?s de recherche l?analyse et la g?n?ration automatiques des langues naturelles, les outils d?aide ? la traduc-tion et le traitement de la parole (responsable : professeur Eric Wehrli, Eric.Wehrli at lettres.unige.ch). La syntaxe comparative, dont les p?les empiriques sont les langues romanes, germaniques et s?mitiques, regroupe des recherches dans le domaine de la th?orie des principes et des param?tres (grammaire g?n?rative) (responsable : professeur Luigi Rizzi, Luigi.Rizzi at lettres.unige.ch). L?analyse du discours regroupe des recherches sur les diff?rents plans d?organisation du discours dans le cadre de l?analyse modulaire du discours ainsi que des recherches sur la mod?lisation des inf?rences temporelles dans le discours (responsable : professeur Eddy Roulet, Eddy.Roulet at lettres.unige.ch). 2. Enseignements Les s?minaires de DEA (en principe d?une dur?e d?un semestre) sont r?partis sur les semestres d?hiver et d??t?. Dans le cadre du DEA, l??tudiant est libre de choisir une sp?cialisation, ou d??laborer son programme ? la carte, avec l?accord d?un professeur respon-sable d?un domaine. En plus des s?minaires sp?cialis?s, le DEA de linguistique offre un ensemble de cours de mise ? niveau en syntaxe, s?mantique et pragmatique, informatique, et des s?minaires de recherche dans lesquels des conf?renciers ext?rieurs seront invit?s tout au long de l?ann?e acad?mique. Analyse du discours - Analyse conversationnelle, analyse du discours et pragmatique du discours (Eddy Roulet, po) - Pragmatique du discours : inf?rences directionnelles et repr?sentations mentales (Jacques Moeschler, pt) - Organisation prosodique du dialogue (Antoine Auchlin, mer) - S?mantique et pragmatique de la particularisation (Emilio Manzotti, po) - Structure de l?action et structure du discours (Jean-Paul Bronckart, po, FPSE) - Communication politique et communication m?diatique (Uli Windisch, po) Syntaxe comparative - Syntaxe comparative (Luigi Rizzi, pae) - Syntaxe s?mitique et comparative (Ur Shlonsky, mer) - Syntaxe des quantificateurs (Genoveva Puskas Nerima, ce) - Syntaxe formelle et ?tudes comparatives (Christopher Laenzlinger, mas) Linguistique informatique - Traitement automatique du langage naturel (Eric Wehrli, po) - Aspects psycholinguistiques du traitement automatique du langage naturel (Catherine Walther Green, mas) - Prolog et l?analyse du langage naturel (Paola Merlo, mas) Cours de mise ? niveau - Mise ? niveau en syntaxe formelle (Christopher L?nzlinger, mas) - Mise ? niveau en s?mantique et en pragmatique (Jacques Moeschler, pt) - Mise ? niveau en informatique (Paola Merlo, mer) S?minaires de recherche - S?minaire de recherche en analyse du discours (Eddy Roulet, Antoine Auchlin, Jacques Moeschler et conf?renciers invit?s) - S?minaire de recherche en syntaxe comparative (Ur Shlonsky, Genoveva Puskas Neri-ma et conf?renciers invit?s) - S?minaire de recherche en linguistique informatique (Eric Wehrli, Christopher L?nzlinger et conf?renciers invit?s) Contacts Professeur Jacques Moeschler D?partement de linguistique 2, rue de Candolle Facult? des Lettres, Universit? CH-1211 Gen?ve 4 Jacques.Moeschler at lettres.unige.ch http://www.unige.ch/lettres/linge/ t?l. +41 22 705 72 76 fax + 41 22 705 79 31 --Boundary_(ID_5/f2wIOw6ybcbB7GbIXE9g) Content-type: text/x-vcard; name=laenzlinger.vcf; charset=us-ascii Content-description: Card for laenzlinger Content-disposition: attachment; filename=laenzlinger.vcf Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT begin:vcard n:Christopher;Laenzlinger tel;home:2 rue de Candolle, 1211 Gen?ve-4, Swizerland tel;work:Linguistics and Computational Linguistics x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;;;;;; version:2.1 email;internet:laenzlinger at latl.unige.ch fn:Laenzlinger Christopher end:vcard --Boundary_(ID_5/f2wIOw6ybcbB7GbIXE9g)-- ___________________________________________________________________ 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/