From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct  9 12:06:35 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:06:35 +0200
Subject: Appel: 4th Corpus Linguistics Symposium
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From: "Tony Berber Sardinha" <tony4 at uol.com.br>


(Sorry if you receive this more than once)
Call for Papers
Corpus Linguistics Symposium
4 or 5 May 2001
To be held in conjunction with 11th InPLA Applied Linguistics Meeting
Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

The fourth edition of the Corpus Linguistics Symposium in Sao Paulo, Brazil,
invites papers in all areas of Corpus Linguistics, including language
description, corpus design, tagging, parsing, language teaching, discourse
analysis, phraseology, translation, lexicography, NLP applications, MDA,
corpus
linguistics theory and methodology, etc. As in previous years, we welcome
submissions by researchers and students. Papers may be delivered in
Portuguese
or English and may focus on corpora of any language, written or spoken. For
a
selection of online papers presented in a previous edition, see
www.corpus.f2s.com/trabalhos_online.htm
The exact date and duration of the symposium will be announced later, as
these
will be set by the organizers of the Applied Linguistics Meeting, which the
symposium is part of.

If you are interested in presenting a 30-minute paper (including questions),
please email the details below to Tony Berber Sardinha at tony4 at uol.com.br
by 1
November 2000. Notice of acceptance / rejection will be sent back by 7
November
2000. All presenters will need to register for the InPLA meeting- please
check
details at www.inpla.f2s.com

Name:
Instituion:
Address:
City:
Country:
Postcode:
Email:
Title of paper:
Abstract (300 words):



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct  9 12:06:31 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:06:31 +0200
Subject: Appel: Corpus Linguistics 2001
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From: Dr Tony McEnery <mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk>


FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS

CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001

Lancaster (UK), 30 March - 2 April 2001

Incorporating a celebration of the life and works of Geoffrey Leech, with
invited talks from:

Prof. Douglas Biber - TBA

Prof. Jennifer Thomas - "Negotiating meaning: a pragmatic analysis of
indirectness in political interviews"

Prof. Geoffrey Sampson - "Thoughts on Twenty Years of Drawing Trees"

Prof. Mick Short - "Style in Fiction and Non-fiction: A Corpus-based
approach to Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation"

Corpus Linguistics 2001 will be a forum for all concerned with the
computer-assisted empirical analysis of natural language. Our
definition of 'corpus' is broad, and we therefore welcome those working on
substantial literary texts or other kinds of text collection as well as
more 'traditional' corpus linguists.

Similarly, we wish to encourage further cross-fertilization between work
occurring in language engineering (e.g. information extraction,
parsing) and linguistics. We believe that corpus linguists should be aware
of the latest developments in language processing. We also believe that
language engineers should be aware of the findings and needs of corpus
linguists.

The aims of Corpus Linguistics 2001 are:

1. to encourage dialogue between those working on similar issues in
different languages and between areas with a (perhaps as yet
untapped) potential to interact.

2. to encourage dialogue between researchers using corpora in linguistics
and those using corpora in language engineering.

3. to celebrate the life and works of Geoffrey Leech.

Geoffrey Leech reaches 65 in 2001, and as part of the celebrations for
this event, a special series of lectures will be given during the
conference by four invited speakers who have worked closely with Geoff at
various stages in his career: Doug Biber, Jenny Thomas, Geoff Sampson and
Mick Short.

For the main conference, papers of ca. 20 minutes are invited on topics
such as:

- corpus-based studies of any language level in any language
- contrastive corpus linguistics
- computer-aided studies of style
- corpus- or text-based lexicography
- corpus/text building, encoding and annotation
- development of corpus-based language engineering tools
- applications of computer-aided text analysis in non-linguistic fields
  (market research, advertising, media studies, sociology, psychology,
  etc.)

Proposals for workshops (half day or full day) are also invited. Topics
broadly in line with the theme of the conference will be
considered. Workshops will be held on the 29th March. The conference
language will be English.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

Papers:

Abstracts of up to one page should be submitted to the Programme Committee
by 1st Dec 2000.  As well as an outline of the paper, the abstract should
include the authors' names, affiliations, and contact addresses (including
e-mail and fax numbers).

Workshops:

Abstracts of two pages should be submitted to the Programme Committee by
1st Dec 2000. The abstract should include the names of the organizers,
their contact details, and the projected number of papers to be presented
at the workshop. Workshop organizers should also indicate whether they
wish to generate a set of proceedings for their workshop.

Those proposing a software demonstration should additionally indicate in
detail what (if any) hardware and software requirements they have.

Proceedings

Proceedings will be produced from the conference. Additionally, selected
papers will appear in an edited collection to be published in honour of
Geoffrey Leech.

DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2000

Proposers notified of acceptance of workshops: 8 December 2000

Authors notified of acceptance of papers: 15 December 2001

Deadline for full papers (for proceedings): 13 February 2001
[Full details will be sent with notices of acceptance.]

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Local committee

Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University)

General committee

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Lodz University)
Jock McNaught (UMIST)
Charles Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton University)
Wolf-Dieter Syring (Greifswald University)

ADDRESS

Programme Committee
Corpus Linguistics 2001
Department of Linguistics and MEL
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
UK

Tel: +44 1524 843085
Fax: +44 1524 593024
E-mail: mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct  9 12:06:55 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:06:55 +0200
Subject: Soft :  KALI (TTS)
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From: Jacques Vergne - GREYC - UMR 6072 <Jacques.Vergne at info.unicaen.fr>


Bonjour

The demo of the text-to-speech system KALI is now available on the web :

http://www.crisco.unicaen.fr/KaliDemo.html

This TTS system is the result of a collaboration between the Université de
Caen (GREYC + Elsap-Crisco) with Electrel (regional company :
http://www.electrel.fr) and the CMS (blind users association).

You can paste a text (less than 200 char.). (Remove return characters in
sentences, interpreted as sentence end).
You have access to all parameters :

  volume, rate of flow (from half to 3 times), pitch, voice (2 males, 1
female), prosody (from none to much), way of reading (literary, medium,
computer)

You recieve .wav files (about 50 Kbyte/s).

This TTS system favours the intelligibility, mainly at high rate, and long
readings of long texts (newspapers, books).

The French TTS is available (and marketed), the English one is in gestation.

You can send your reactions to Michel Morel (morel at crisco.unicaen.fr).

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




                                                  Jacques Vergne

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct  9 12:12:42 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:12:42 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers
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____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Elisabet Engdahl <elisabet.engdahl at svenska.gu.se>
   Subject: Job announcement: Chair in NLP

2/ From:  Roy J.Byrd <byrd at watson.ibm.com>
   Subject:  Research Associate at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

3/ From: E S Atwell <eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk>
   Subject: Leeds University, Yorkshire

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Elisabet Engdahl <elisabet.engdahl at svenska.gu.se>
   Subject: Job announcement: Chair in NLP

Göteborg University  announces a position as Professor of Natural Language
Processing at the Faculty of Humanities.

Application deadline 26 October 2000.

http://spraakbanken.gu.se/sd/chair.html

Elisabet Engdahl


____________________________________________________________________________

2/ From:  Roy J.Byrd <byrd at watson.ibm.com>
   Subject:  Research Associate at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Rank of Job: Research Associate
Areas Required: Computational Linguistics
Other Desired Areas: Grammar Writing; Lexicography
University or Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Department: Knowledge Management Technologies
State or Province: New York
Country: U. S. A.
Final Date of Application: November 2000
Contact: Roy J. Byrd byrd at watson.ibm.com

Address for Applications:
P. O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights
New York 10598
U. S. A.

The Text Analysis and Language Engineering project at IBM Research,
in New York, wishes to hire a computational linguist or lexicographer
who will be responsible for a focused activity leading to the design
and implementation of a functionally complete library of linguistic
resources for American English.  This person will develop electronic
dictionaries and finite-state grammars for use with the Intex NLP
system.  Candidates must be native speakers of American English.
They must also possess basic skills in a second language and be
sensitive to the requirements for linguistic analysis in multiple
languages.  Finally, they must be able to program in script languages
(e.g. in Perl) for research and prototyping purposes.

The ideal candidate will also be able to program in C, speak and read
French and be familiar with the Lexicon-Grammar methodology in
general and with the Intex system in particular.

Skill and Proficiency Levels (1 to 5, with 5 highest):

natural language processing and parsing systems - 5
finite state syntax - 5
specific experience with the Intex system - 4
terminology management - 3
multilingual NLP - 3

____________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: E S Atwell <eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk>
   Subject: Leeds University, Yorkshire


Please forward this job advert to any computational linguist or computer
scientist looking for a tenured academic post; my Department has secured
significant increase in recurrent funding, allowing us to expand our
permanent staff.
Note: although this is not specifically stated as a requirement,
candidates are unlikely to be appointed unless they have published at
least 4 papers in internationally-excellent journals or conference
proceedings in the period 1996-2000.  This is to comply with the
regulations for the UK national 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.
(candidates can be any nationality, but must comply with UK RAE2001)

--
Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor
School of Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT
TEL: (44)113-2335430  FAX: (44)113-2335468
WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric  EMAIL: eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk

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School of Computing, University of Leeds, Yorkshire, England

5 tenured posts: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader

These permanent posts are available in our expanding School, with the
possibility of appointment at Senior Lecturer/Reader level (these posts
are in addition to several Lecturers appointed over the summer).
You will be required to undertake leading-edge research and teaching of
the highest standard within our broadly based degree programmes and should
strengthen one of our existing research groups:

 Constraint Programming and Operational Research,
 Knowledge Representation and Reasoning,
 Multi-disciplinary Informatics,
 Perception and Language,
 Scientific Computation and Visualization,
 Theoretical Computer Science.

Prior experience in teaching, preferably in higher education, would be
an advantage. Applicants should have a Ph.D. (or equivalent experience) in a
relevant discipline. Preference may be given to candidates who can
strengthen our teaching across our four B.Sc. and two MSc. degree
programmes.

The School and the University have made a strategic commitment to
developing multidisciplinary research activity through the formation of an
Informatics Research Institute and applicants who can contribute to its
development are especially welcome.

Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Tony Cohn (tel:0113-233-5482;
fax: 0113-233-5468; e-mail:recruit at comp.leeds.ac.uk).
See http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/vacancies/agc_lectureships_000921.html
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/vacancies/agc_lectureships_000921_f_particulars.
html
for further information about the School and these positions.

Salary: Lecturer A/B (18,731 - 30,967 p.a). For exceptionally well
qualified candidates appointment at Senior Lecturer or Reader level is
possible (32,510 - 39,718 p.a). At least one position will be filled at
lecturer (A/B) level.

Further details are available from http://www.leeds.ac.jobbox.net or
contact Human Resources tel: 0113 233 5771
(textphone for deaf applicants only: 0113 233 4353), e-mail:
recruitment at adm.leeds.ac.uk

Job ref: 048-166-002-009 Closing date: 19 October 2000

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct  9 12:08:40 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:08:40 +0200
Subject: Livres: 2 books
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____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Jean-Marie PIERREL <Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr>
   Subject: Livre "ingénierie des langues"

2/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Parallel text processing

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Jean-Marie PIERREL <Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr>
   Subject: Livre "ingénierie des langues"

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

Vient de paraitre aux editions Hermes sciences (8 quai du Marché Neuf 75004
Paris, tel 01 53 10 15 20, fax 01 53 10 15 21, www.hermes-science.com), un
ouvrage de synthèse

Ingénierie des langues
Coordinateur : Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA Université Henri Poincaré  Nancy 1
360 pages, ISBN 2-7462-0113-5, octobre 2000
Résumé :
L'information traitée par les systèmes informatiques est de plus en en plus
sur support textuel, l'ingénierie des langues devient donc incontournable
en traitement de cette information. Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de faire le
point sur l'état actuel de ce domaine, en en précisant les acquis et les
limites.
Il se structure en trois grandes parties : tout d'abord une présentation
des principaux outils et formalismes pour le traitement des langues au
niveau lexical, syntaxique et sémantique, puis une présentation des outils
actuels de création et de gestion de ressources linguistiques
indispensables dans de nombreux projets d'ingénierie des langues, enfin une
présentation des principaux domaines applicatifs que sont la construction
de terminologie, l'indexation et la recherche d'informations textuelles, le
résumé automatique, la traduction assistée par ordinateur, la compréhension
et la génération de textes, et enfin le dialogue homme-machine.

Sommaire :
 Introduction (J.M. Pierrel)
 Première Partie : Outils et formalismes pour le traitement de la langue
   Chapitre 1 : Mots et niveau lexical (E Laporte)
   Chapitre 2 : Grammaires et analyseurs syntaxiques (A. Abeillé, Ph Blache)
   Chapitre 3 : Sens et traitements automatiques des langues (G. Sabah)
 Seconde Partie : Création et gestion de ressources linguistiques
   Chapitre 4 : Annotation automatique de corpus panorama et état de la
technique (J. Véronis)
   Chapitre 5 : Etiquetage morpho-syntaxique (P. Paroubek, M. Rajman)
   Chapitre 6 : Alignement de corpus multilingues (J. Véronis)
   Chapitre 7 : Codage et normalisation de ressources textuelles (P.
Bonhomme)
   Chapitre 8 : Outils d'accès à des ressources linguistiques (L. Romary)
Troisième partie : Bilan des grands domaines applicatifs de l'ingénierie
des langues
   Chapitre 9 : Construction de ressources terminologiques (D. Bourigault,
C. Jacquemin
   Chapitre 10 : Indexation et recherche d'informations textuelles (C.
Fluhr)
   Chapitre 11 : Résumé automatique et Filtrage sémantique de textes (JP
Descles, JL Minel)
   Chapitre 12 : Traduction assistée par ordinateur (C. Boitet)
   Chapitre 13 : Compréhension automatique de textes (G. Sabah, B. Grau)
   Chapitre 14 : Génération Automatique de Textes (L. Danlos, L. Roussarie)
   Chapitre 15 : Dialogue Homme-machine (JM Pierrel, L. Romary)
Bibliographie - index
========================================

===========================================
Jean-Marie Pierrel, Professeur UHP-Nancy 1
Equipe "Langue et Dialogue"
LORIA UMR 7503 (Universités, CNRS, INRIA)
Campus Scientifique
B.P. 239
F-54 506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy
Tel : (33) (0)3 83 59 20 01
Fax : (33) (0)3 83 41 30 79
email : Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr
==============================================

____________________________________________________________________________


2/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Parallel text processing


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



                        KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
                   TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                               Volume 13
              Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis




                            PARALLEL TEXT PROCESSING
                    Alignment and Use of Translation Corpora

                                    edited by
                                   JEAN VÉRONIS
                 Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France


With the rising importance of multilingualism in language industries,
brought about by global markets and world-wide information exchange,
parallel corpora, i.e. corpora of texts accompanied by their translation,
have become key resources in the development of natural language processing
tools. The applications based upon parallel corpora are numerous and
growing in number: multilingual lexicography and terminology, machine and
human translation, cross-language information retrieval, language learning,
etc.

The book's chapters have been commissioned from major figures in the field
of parallel corpus building and exploitation, with the aim of showing the
state of the art in parallel text alignment and use ten to fifteen years
after the first parallel-text alignment techniques were developed. Within
the book, the following broad themes are addressed: (i) techniques for the
alignment of parallel texts at various levels such as sentence, clause, and
word; (ii) the use of parallel texts in fields as diverse as translation,
lexicography, and information retrieval; (iii) available corpus resources
and the evaluation of alignment methods.

The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of
computational linguistics, terminology, lexicography and translation, both
in academia and industry.


Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht

      Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6546-1
      August 2000, 428 pp.
      NLG 300.00 / USD 160.00 / GBP 99.00

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                               CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS


Foreword.

Terminological note.

Preface by M. Kay.

Contributors.

Introduction.

     1. From the Rosetta stone to the information society.
        A survey of parallel text processing; J. Véronis.

Alignment Methodology.

     2. Pattern recognition for mapping bitext correspondence;
        I.D. Melamed.

     3. Multilingual text alignment. Aligning three or more
        versions of a text; M. Simard.

     4. A comprehensive bilingual word alignment system.
        Application to disparate languages: Hebrew and English;
        Y. Choueka, E. S. Conley, I. Dagan

     5. A knowledge-lite approach to word alignment;
        L. Ahrenberg, M. Andersson, M. Merkel

     6. From sentences to words and clauses; S. Piperidis, H. Papageorgiou,
        S. Boutsis

     7. Bracketing and aligning words and constituents in parallel
        text using Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars; D. Wu.

     8. The translation network. A model for a fine-grained description
        of translations; D. Santos.

     9. Parallel text alignment using crosslingual information retrieval
        techniques; C. Fluhr, F. Bisson, F. Elfateb

     10. Parallel alignment of structured documents;
         L. Romary, P. Bonhomme.

Applications.

     11. A statistical view on bilingual lexicon extraction.
         From parallel corpora to non-parallel corpora; P. Fung.

     12. Terminology extraction from parallel technical texts; I. Blank.

     13. Term alignment in use. Machine-aided human translation;
         É. Gaussier, D. Hull, S. Ait-Mokhtar

     14. Automatic dictionary extraction for cross-language information
         retrieval; R.D. Brown, J. Carbonell, Y. Yang

     15. Parallel text in computer-assisted language learning;
         J. Nerbonne.

Resources and Evaluation.

     16. Japanese-English aligned bilingual corpora; H. Isahara,
         M. Haruno.

     17. Building a parallel corpus of English/Panjabi; S. Singh,
         T. McEnery, P. Baker

     18. Sharing of translation memory databases derived from aligned
         parallel text; A.K. Melby.

     19. Evaluation of parallel text alignment systems.
         The ARCADE project; J. Véronis, P. Langlais.

Index of terms.

Index of authors.

Index of languages and writing systems.

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                            PREVIOUS VOLUMES


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

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

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

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

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

    Volume 6:  Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
               Lexical Knowledge Bases
               Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998

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

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

    Volume 9:  Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
               Hans van Halteren (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999

    Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons
               Viegas, E. (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999

    Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
               Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P.,
               Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (Eds.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999

    Volume 12: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing
               Frank van Eynde & Dafydd Gibbon (Eds.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X, April 2000.


Check the series Web page for order information:

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

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 12 11:40:40 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:40:40 +0200
Subject: Appel: NAACL'2001
Message-ID: <THU.12.OCT.2000.134040.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>

          PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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

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

===== SUBMISSION FORMAT

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

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

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

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

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

===== SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

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

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

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

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

===== DEADLINES

Electronic submission notification deadline: 6-Nov-00
Hardcopy paper submission deadline: 9-Nov-00
Notification of acceptance for papers: 24-Jan-01
Camera ready papers due: 27-Feb-01
Regular sessions begin: 5-Jun-01
A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final
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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:40:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: CLUK
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From: Diana Maynard <d.maynard at dcs.shef.ac.uk>

====================================================
                    4th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium

                           Call for Participation

                             10-11 January 2000

                           University of Sheffield

====================================================
Introduction

Computational Linguistics UK (CLUK) aims to provide a forum for the
Computational Linguistics community in the UK. The Annual CLUK Colloquium
offers PhD students in Natural Language Processing and related disciplines
an opportunity to present and discuss their work with members of the wider
research community. The colloquium is organised as a mini-conference.
Presentations are held in conference-style sessions, to which senior
established researchers are invited, and there will be opportunities for
general discussion. Papers on any topic within the area of Computational
Linguistics, NLP and Language Engineering are welcome.

This year we are pleased to announce the following invited speakers:

Donia Scott - University of Brighton
Massimo Poesio - University of Edinburgh (to be confirmed)
Keith Preston - BT (to be confirmed)


Submission of papers

Authors are requested to submit an abstract (approx. 1000 words). Each
submission should include the following
information: title, a short abstract, names and affiliations of the authors,
and the full address of the primary author, including email.

Submissions should be sent to:

Diana Maynard
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
211 Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 4DP

email: diana at dcs.shef.ac.uk

Submissions as emailed ASCII text or postscript are preferred, but
hardcopy format will be accepted.
Abstracts will be refereed by the Programme Committee.


Deadlines

Abstract submission deadline: Friday 10 November 2000
Notification of acceptance: Friday 1 December 2000
Camera ready papers due: Friday 15 December 2000
Colloquium: 10-11 January 2001


Programme Committee

John Carroll - University of Sussex
Anne De Roeck - University of Essex
Jon Herring - University of Brighton
Elenor Maclaren -Brunel University
Diana Maynard - University of Sheffield
Mark Moens - University of Edinburgh
Nicholas Ostler - Linguacubun Ltd.
Darren Pearce - University of Sussex
John Tait - University of Sunderland
Aline Villavicencio - Cambridge University
Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield

email: cluk-group at dcs.shef.ac.uk


Local arrangements:

The colloquium will be held at Stevenson Hall, University of Sheffield.

Cost of participation is 55 pounds and includes a copy of the proceedings,
tea/coffee and lunch.

Further details and online registration will be available soon from the CLUK
website:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/cluk


Local organisation:

Gillian Callaghan
Paul Clough
Diana Maynard
Nick Webb
Yorick Wilks

email: cluk4 at dcs.shef.ac.uk

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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:40:55 +0200
Subject: Ecole: Eurolan 2001
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From: amalia at liia.u-strasbg.fr


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                                EUROLAN 2001

                              Summer Institute on
          "Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources"
                              30 July - 11 August 2001
                                  Romania


The Eurolan series of summer schools was established in 1993 and has been
held every other year, with the goal of stimulating young researchers from
all over the world to pursue high-level research in natural language
processing and language technology.


Theme

The goal of Eurolan 2001 is to provide participants with a background in
the theory, methodology, and technology for creating and using annotated
language resources for language engineering research. Tutorials on a
variety of topics will be accompanied with hands-on experience using tools
for resource annotation, as well as techniques for using these resources to
augment the performance of language engineering applications such as IR,
IE, MT, speech understanding etc.

The main topics will be:

Annotation formalisms and standards for NLP (XML, XCES)
Sub-syntactic annotation (tokenization, part of speech tagging,
shallow-parsing - chunking)
Annotation of syntax (tree banks)
Annotation of semantics, word sense disambiguation, semantic roles of verbs
Annotation of discourse (structure, co-reference, deep understanding)
Symbolic and qualitative approaches
Exploitation for information extraction and information retrieval
Exploitation for summarization, discourse interpretation and data mining
Exploitation for machine translation
Creation and exploitation tools in cross-lingual application

Invited Lecturers

Eurolan 2001 tutorials and practical work will be delivered/conducted by a
series of prestigious professors and researchers from all over the world:

Catalina Barbu - Universities of Iasi & Wolverhampton
Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbr¸cken
Dan Cristea - University of Iasi
Hamish Cunningham - University of Sheffield
Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science - Tokyo
Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto
Eduard Hovy - University of Southern California
Nancy Ide - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
Adam Kilgarriff - University of Brighton
Daniel Marcu - University of Southern California
Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton
Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University
Massimo Poesio - University of Edinburgh
Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy
Valentin Tablan - Universities of Iasi & Sheffield
Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy
Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken
Piek Vossen - Sail-labs, Antwerp-Berchem
Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield

Program

Eurolan 2001 will take place between 30 July and 11 August 2001.

The summer institute will be organized to allow for both lectures and
hands-on experience for each of the areas covered. Morning sessions will be
devoted to tutorials, followed by an afternoon session at which students
will work in collaboration with professors on practical applications. The
institute will also include workshops and round tables on topics of
particular interest.

On Sunday, 5 August, a trip to significant Romanian landmarks will be
organized.

Registration and Fees

Information about registration and fees will be posted at a later date and
will also be available at http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001

Organizing Committee

Nancy IDE - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
Dan CRISTEA - University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" of Iasi
Dan TUFIS - Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Laurent ROMARY - LORIA laboratories, Nancy
Daniel MARCU - University of Southern California

Information on previous Eurolan events can be consulted at the address:
http://www.infoiasi.ro/eurolan/ann.html


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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:40:43 +0200
Subject: Appel: PAKDD-01
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From: Graham Williams <Graham.Williams at cmis.csiro.au>


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    Second Call for Papers

     Submission Deadline 12 November

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

         The Fifth

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

                    Hong Kong, April 16 - 18, 2001

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

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

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


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

  Two keynote presentations from international leaders in Knowledge
  Discovery and Data Mining have been confirmed:

  Ronny Kohavi, Director of Data Mining, Blue Martini Software

  Ronny Kohavi is well known for his work on the Silicon Graphics
  MineSet project for data mining and visualization.  He joined
  Silicon Graphics after getting a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from
  Stanford University, where he led the MLC++ project, the Machine
  Learning library in C++.  Kohavi co-chaired the KDD 99 industrial
  track and KDD Cup 2000.  He co-edited a special issue of the journal
  Machine Learning on Applications of Machine Learning and the special
  issue of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal on
  Applications of Data Mining to Electronic Commerce.

  Professor H. V. Jagadish, University of Michigan

  Professor Jagadish obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford and spent
  several years as head of the database department at AT&T. Prior to
  Michigan he was at the University of Illinois. His research spans
  many aspects of database systems, particularly in the context of the
  internet and XML.


SUBMISSION by 12 November 2000

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

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

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


AWARDS AND JOURNAL PUBLICATION

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

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


TOPICS

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

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


TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

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

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

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


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

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


DEMONSTRATIONS

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

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

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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


ORGANIZATION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Treasurer:
 Ada Fu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 12 11:40:32 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:40:32 +0200
Subject: Appel: IWCS-4
Message-ID: <THU.12.OCT.2000.134032.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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



    +----------------------------------------------------------------+
    |                                                                |
    |  IWCS-4: CALL FOR POSTERS/SHORT PAPERS                         |
    |                                                                |
    |  The deadline for submitting full papers has passed, but it    |
    |  is still possible to submit 3-page abstracts for a poster     |
    |  presentation combined with a very short, lightning-speed      |
    |  presentation of the essence of the work in a plenary session  |
    |  (see below).                                                  |
    |                                                                |
    +----------------------------------------------------------------+


                    Fourth International Workshop on

                    COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS (IWCS-4)


                         January 10-12, 2001
                       Tilburg, The Netherlands

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

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

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


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

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

                         TOPICS OF INTEREST

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

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


                       SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The deadline for submitting papers for full plenary presentation has
passed, but it is still possible to submit 3-page abstracts for a
poster presentation combined with a very short, lightning-speed
presentation of the essence of the work in a plenary session. The
3-page abstracts of the accepted submissions will be published in the
workshop proceedings.

Authors are invited to submit an abstract of maximally 3 A4 pages
before Monday 6 November by email to Computational.Semantics at kub.nl
in Postscript form. Submissions should be in standard LaTeX in the
same style as full papers - see the guidelines for submissions at the
IWCS-4 web site:

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


                        PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

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


                         ORGANISING COMMITTEE

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


                           IMPORTANT DATES

          6 November   2000 Deadline for short presentation/poster
                            abstract submission
         15 November   2000 Notification of acceptance
         22 November   2000 Deadline for submitting final version of
                            abstract for proceedings
         10-12 January 2001 Workshop


                         FURTHER INFORMATION

         Conference Secretariat: Carol McGregor
                                 Department of Linguistics
                                 Tilburg University
                                 PO Box 90153
                                 5000 LE Tilburg
                                 The Netherlands
         Email: Computational.Semantics at kub.nl
         Phone: +31-13 466 30 60
         Fax:   +31-13 466 31 10

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

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

 Harry C. Bunt
 Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
 Tilburg University
 P.O. Box 90153
 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
 Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
                     2568 (Dean's office)
                     2653 (office, room B 310)
 Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
 Harry.Bunt at kub.nl
 WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm
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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:53:43 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 5 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.24.OCT.2000.195343.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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   Subject: Annonce de poste

2/ From: Celine ANCE FTRD/DIH/DIPS <celine.ance at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: France Télécom

3/ From: Carlos Martin Vide <cmv at correu.urv.es>
   Subject: research positions, Spain

4/ From: "Granger Sylviane" <granger at lige.ucl.ac.be>
   Subject: Vacant academic position

5/ From: "mj1" <mj1 at lx.cog.brown.edu>
   Subject: Graduate scholarships and postdocs for CL at Brown

_________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Guy Lapalme <lapalme at IRO.UMontreal.CA>
   Subject: Annonce de poste


Le Département d¹informatique et de recherche opérationnelle (DIRO) de
l'Université de Montréal sollicite des candidatures pour des postes de
professeur adjoint en informatique commençant le 1er juin 2001.  La priorité
sera accordée aux candidats dont les activités de recherche s¹inscrivent
dans l¹un des domaines suivants ou connexes à ceux-ci:
      - Informatique-linguistique;
      - Bioinformatique;
      - Génie logiciel;
      - Téléinformatique;
      - Informatique théorique et quantique.

Une expertise regroupant plus d¹un de ces domaines serait un atout. Les
candidats devront démontrer une excellente aptitude en recherche et en
enseignement, ainsi qu'une bonne connaissance de la langue française.
Pour plus d¹information, consulter le site :
                       http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/

Fonction :   Enseignement aux trois cycles, recherche et direction
             d¹étudiants aux cycles supérieurs.
Exigences :  Doctorat en informatique ou dans un domaine connexe.
Traitement : L¹Université de Montréal offre un salaire concurrentiel,
             jumelé à une gamme complète d¹avantages sociaux.

Les personnes intéressées doivent faire parvenir un curriculum vitae, une
description du plan de recherche, au moins trois lettres de recommandation,
et au maximum trois tirés à part des plus importantes contributions à:

Sang Nguyen, professeur et directeur
Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, FAS
Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, Succ. ŒCentre-Ville¹
Montréal (Québec), H3C 3J7

au plus tard le 1er décembre 2000.  Nous considérerons les applications
reçues après cette date seulement si les postes demeurent vacants.

Conformément aux exigences prescrites en matière d'immigration au Canada,
cette annonce s'adresse, en priorité, aux citoyens canadiens et aux
immigrants reçus. L'Université de Montréal souscrit à un programme d'accès à
l'égalité en emploi pour les femmes et aux principes d'équité en matière
d'emploi.

_________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: Celine ANCE FTRD/DIH/DIPS <celine.ance at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: France Télécom

France Télécom R&D

Direction Interactions Humaines (DIH)
Laboratoire " Dialogue et intermediations intelligentes " (D2I)


SUJET DE STAGE
Développement d'une application d'agent de traduction automatique en
contexte de dialogue


Mots clefs : dialogue personne-machine, traitement automatique des
langues naturelles, traduction.

Sujet :
Le sujet proposé s'inscrit dans le domaine du développement
d'applications de dialogue personne-machine en langue naturelle. France
Télécom R&D dispose d'une technologie de dialogue coopératif
intelligent. Cette technologie est fondée sur une modélisation des
principes primitifs qui régissent le comportement rationnel et traite
ainsi le fait de communiquer comme une action à part entière, que l'on
appelle acte de dialogue. Le noyau d'un système de dialogue fondé sur
cette approche opère sur une représentation logique des connaissances.
Son exploitation réelle est alors conditionnée par l'existence de
mécanismes permettant de construire à partir d'un message de
l'utilisateur une forme logique des actes de dialogue qu'il véhicule et,
inversement, à partir d'une forme logique des actes de dialogue le
message du système qui la réalise. Cette technologie est actuellement
illustrée sur plusieurs applications.

L'objectif de ce stage est de réaliser un 'interprète' (un agent de
traduction) permettant l'interaction de deux interlocuteurs de langues
différentes dans un domaine spécifique.
Afin de développer cet agent interlangue, le candidat devra définir les
stratégies de dialogue et les données de l'application afin d'enrichir
de mécanismes additionnels les composants existants.
Le développement se déroulera en plusieurs étapes. Dans un premier
temps, le stagiaire devra concevoir et mettre en ?uvre des mécanismes de
gestion de l'interaction à trois intervenants (prise de parole,
traitement des références, etc.).
Le stagiaire devra également définir l'ensemble complet des paramètres
d'adaptation et d'intégration des données multilingues existantes
(établir les ressources lexicales nécessaires à l'application, mettre en
place des mécanismes permettant d'avoir une couverture linguistique
identique d'une langue à une autre, etc.).
La dernière étape consistera à évaluer l'application de traduction (mise
en place de procédure de testing).


Pour tous renseignements, contacter :

Franck Panaget
FTR&D/DIH/D2I -- Dialogue et intermediations intelligentes
2, avenue Pierre Marzin
22307 Lannion Cedex
Tél   : 02 96 05 28 52
Télécopie : 02 96 05 35 30
Email  : franck.panaget at cnet.francetelecom.fr

Céline Ancé
FTR&D/DIH/D2I -- Dialogue et intermediations intelligentes
2, Avenue Pierre Marzin
22307  Lannion Cedex
Tél  : 02 96 05 35 04
Télécopie  : 02 96 05 13 69
Email  : celine.ance at rd.francetelecom.fr

_________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Carlos Martin Vide <cmv at correu.urv.es>
   Subject: research positions, Spain


          Please, distribute to whom might be interested. Thanks.


                       ROVIRA I VIRGILI UNIVERSITY
               RESEARCH GROUP ON MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS
                            Tarragona, Spain
            http://www.urv.es/centres/Grups/grlmc/grlmc.html


2 visiting research positions available for 2001-2003 in formal language
theory and applications, starting not earlier than July 2001:

- 1 senior research position (for somebody who got his/her PhD degree
before 1992):

 3-12 months
 monthly salary in the interval USA $ 2,000-2,750
 travel grant: not more than USA $ 1,300
 health insurance

- 1 junior research position (for somebody who got his/her PhD degree after
January 1st, 1992):

 12-18 months
 monthly salary in the interval USA $ 1,500-2,000
 travel grant: not more than USA $ 1,300
 health insurance

For queries, please contact Carlos Martin-Vide at any of the e-addresses
below.

-----------------------------------------------------
Carlos Martin-Vide
Head, Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Head, Department of Romance Philologies
Rovira i Virgili University
Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559-543
Fax: +34-977-559-597
E-mail: cmv at correu.urv.es, cmv at nil.fut.es
Web: http://www.urv.es/centres/Grups/grlmc/grlmc.html
-----------------------------------------------------


_________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: "Granger Sylviane" <granger at lige.ucl.ac.be>
   Subject: Vacant academic position


The Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) is officially announcing a
full time academic position.

DESCRIPTION OF THE POST
As Director of the Research Centre for Natural Language Processing at the
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, you will be responsible for:
-       Organising the centre and related activities
-       Directing and  running a team of  IT personnel
-       Developing research projects in the Faculty in collaboration with
the centre's scientific committee
-       Developing the centre's technical expertise in compiling and
analysing electronic linguistic resources (written and spoken text corpora,
lexica, grammars and terminological data necessary for natural language
processing, multilingual resources/processing). Key activities will include
database compilation (lexica, grammars and corpora), software development
(lemmatization, tagging and parsing, etc.) and statistical analysis.
-       Keeping abreast of developments in the field of computational
linguistics, guiding the activities of the centre and personnel accordingly
and ensuring that new developments are reflected in Faculty research
projects.
-       Teaching computational linguistics, in particular with relation to
the fields outlined above.

REQUESTED QUALIFICATIONS
-       PhD (or equivalent) combined with recognised expertise and/or a
qualification in computational linguistics
-       Thorough knowledge of programming languages, web technologies and
operating systems
-       Experience in research and team work
-       Scientific publications in the field
-       Good command of French and English

More information is available at:

http://www2.crct.ucl.ac.be/crct/

(post reference: FLTR 2001/01)



%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Professor Sylviane Granger
Université Catholique de Louvain
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
Collège Erasme
Place Blaise Pascal 1
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
Fax: + 3210474942
http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/ETAN/CECL/cecl.html


_________________________________________________________________________

5/ From: "mj1" <mj1 at lx.cog.brown.edu>
   Subject: Graduate scholarships and postdocs for CL at Brown



Brown University has a very active computational linguistics program.
We are recruiting post-docs (US citizens or permanent residents) and
grad students (any nationality).  If you're interested, you can apply
either through the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences department or
through the Computer Science department.  The following ad describes
one of our training programs that supports computational linguistics.
Email me if you want more information about Computational Linguistics
at Brown.

Mark Johnson
mark_johnson at brown.edu

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



LEARNING AND ACTION IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY
   Brown University Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program

                    Deadline for Applications: January 1, 2001

Brown University is actively recruiting graduate students for an
NSF-supported Interdisciplinary Graduate Education, Research and
Training (IGERT) program in "Learning and Action in the Face of
Uncertainty: Cognitive, Computational and Statistical Approaches".

The use of probabilistic models and statistical methods has had a
major impact on our understanding of language, vision, action, and
reasoning.  This training program provides students with the
opportunity to integrate a detailed study of human or artificial
systems for language acquisition and use, visual processing, action,
and reasoning with appropriate mathematical and computational
models. Students will be enrolled in one of the three participating
departments (Applied Mathematics, Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences, or
Computer Science) and will follow an interdisciplinary program of
courses in topics such as statistical estimation, cognitive processes,
linguistics, and computational models. The aim of this program is to
provide promising students with a mix of mathematical, computational
and experimental expertise to carry out multidisciplinary
collaborative research across the disciplines of Applied Mathematics,
Computer Science, and Cognitive Science.

Interested students should apply to the participating department
closest to their area of interest and expertise, and should indicate
their interest in the IGERT training program in their application.
These NSF funded positions are restricted to US citizens and permanent
residents. Brown University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer.

For additional information about the program, application procedures,
and ongoing research initiatives please visit our website at:
http://www.cog.brown.edu/IGERT

or download our brochure at:
http://www.cog.brown.edu/IGERT/IGERT-flyer.pdf

or contact:

 Prof. Fulvio Domini
 Department of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences
 Brown University, Box 1978
 Providence, RI 02912
 USA

Fulvio_Domini at brown.edu



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 24 17:57:43 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:57:43 +0200
Subject: Appel: ATALA Workshop (Collocation)
Message-ID: <TUE.24.OCT.2000.195743.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  Beatrice.Daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr

[Version française en fin de message]

ATALA One-day workshop
Call for papers

  http://www.atala.org/je/appel-collocation.html

Theme: Collocation

Organisers : Béatrice Daille (IRIN-University of Nantes)
            Geoffrey Williams (University of Bretagne Sud)

Date : Saturday 13 January 2001

Summary:

The term "collocation" was introduced in the nineteen thirties by  J. R.
Firth, founder member of the British Contextualist school, to
characterise
certain linguistic phenomena of cooccurrence that stem principally from
the linguistic competence of native speakers. By its very nature
collocation remains a relatively fuzzy concept, the consequence of which
being that traditional grammarians and semanticists have tended to
ignore it, the exception being some lexical semanticists as Cruse
(1986).
The study of collocation is above all a practical one aimed at assisting
language learners and translators in their tasks.

Two main schools of thought may be distinguished:
- the lexicographical school which seeks to formalise collocations so as
to include them in dictionaries. This approach takes in the theoretical
work of Hausmann (1985), the production of learner's dictionaries for
English (Benson 1985), and of theoretical formal dictionaries as that of
Mel'cuk (1984);
- the contextualist school (Sinclair, 1991) considers collocation as a
textual phenomenon and defines them in function of significant
cooccurrence within a predefined window. The study of collocation in
large quantities of texts has lead naturally to the need for statistical
tools for the isolation of collocations (Church and Hanks,1990),
(Smadja,
1990).

Up to now the majority of studies have tended to deal with European
languages, English in particular. A real discussion as to the nature of
this phenomenon in all its forms and in a multilinguistic environment
has yet to take place, in the meanwhile, the aim of this workshop  is to
review the situation for the study and identification of collocation in
NLP and to endeavour to answer the following questions:

- What stage are we at concerning the formal description and definition
of collocation ?
- What methods are being adopted for the identification of collocation
in corpora (linguistic, statistical, mixed) ?
- How are collocations being used and for what tasks?
- Is collocation a universal phenomenon ?

This workshop aims to see to what extent the role of collocation as a
phenomenon in applied linguistics is being taken into account in
theoretical linguistics. A special issue of the journal TAL on corpus
linguistics will be published during the summer 2001. Authors will
be encouraged to submit an extended version of their paper to this issue.


Submission:

A two to four page abstract must be sent before the 11th November 2000

- either by email to:
          daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr
 AND to
     Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr
  (formats RTF, PDF, post-script exclusively),

- or by post to:
   Béatrice Daille
   IRIN - Université de Nantes
   2, rue de la Houssiniere, BP 92208, F44322 Nantes Cedex 3, FRANCE

Notification of acceptance will be given end of November 2000.


-----------------------------------------------
ATALA http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/ATALA/
------------------------------------------------

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

Journée de l'ATALA

Appel à communications


  http://www.atala.org/je/appel-collocation.html

Thème : La collocation


Responsables : Béatrice Daille (IRIN-Université de Nantes)
               Geoffrey Williams (Université de Bretagne Sud)


Date : Samedi 13 Janvier 2001


Présentation :

Le terme "collocation" a été introduit dans les années 30 par J. R.
Firth, membre-fondateur de l'École Contextualiste anglaise, pour
caractériser certains phénomènes linguistiques de cooccurrence qui
relèvent essentiellement de la compétence linguistique des locuteurs
natifs. La notion de collocation étant floue par nature, les
grammairiens et sémanticiens traditionnels ont eu tendance à l'ignorer à
l'exception de
quelques sémanticiens tel que Cruse (1986).
L'étude de la collocation est donc avant tout une pratique, destinée à
aider les apprenants d'une langue et les traducteurs.
Deux grandes tendances peuvent être distinguées :
 - la tendance lexicographique qui tend à une formalisation des
collocations
pour les inclure dans des dictionnaires. Cette approche regroupe les
études théoriques de Hausmann (1985), la réalisation de dictionnaires
pour apprenants
d'anglais de Benson (1985), ou les dictionnaires théoriques et formels
de Mel'cuk (1984) ;
- la tendance contextualiste (Sinclair, 1991) qui considère les
collocations comme un phénomène textuel et les définit en fonction de
l'apparition de cooccurrences significatives à l'intérieur d'une
fenêtre. Ces études au travers de grandes quantités de textes a produit
des méthodes d'identification des collocations à l'aide de mesures de
statistiques lexicales (Church and
Hanks,1990), (Smadja, 1990).

Jusqu'ici la majorité des études a eu tendance à analyser les langues
européennes, l'anglais en particulier. En attendant une véritable
concertation sur la nature de ce phénomène linguistique dans toutes ses
formes et à travers le multilinguisme, l'objectif de cette journée est
de faire le point sur l'étude et l'identification des collocations dans
une perspective TAL et plus particulièrement de répondre aux questions
suivantes :
- Quelles sont les avancées dans la description et la formalisation des
collocations ?
- Quelles sont les méthodes pour les identifier en corpus
(linguistiques,
statistiques, mixtes) ?
- Comment ces collocations formalisées ou non sont-elles exploitées et
pour
quelles taches ?
- La collocation possède-t-elle un caractère universel ?


Cette journée voudrait faire le point sur la prise en compte de la
collocation, phénomène de la linguistique appliquée, dans la
linguistique théorique. Un numéro spécial de la revue Traitement
automatique des langues sur les corpus est prévu pour l'automne 2001,
les orateurs de la journée seront encouragés à y soumettre des versions
étendues de leurs communications.




Soumission (modalités) :

Un résumé de deux à quatre pages doit être envoyé avant le
11 Novembre 2000

- soit par courrier électronique à :
         daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr
ET à
        Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr
 (formats RTF, PDF, post-script exclusivement),

- soit par courrier régulier à
  Béatrice Daille
  IRIN - Universite de Nantes
   2, rue de la Houssiniere, BP 92208, F44322 Nantes Cedex 3, FRANCE

Les notifications d'acceptation seront données fin novembre 2000.


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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:58:06 +0200
Subject: Appel: HTL 2001
Message-ID: <TUE.24.OCT.2000.195806.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles <aussenac at irit.fr>



CALL FOR PAPERS

           HLT 2001, Human Language Technology Confererence
                          March 18-21, 2001
                        San Diego, California

                          http://hlt2001.org


Human Language Technology brings together researchers in a broad
spectrum of fields, all of which are working toward enabling computers
to interact with humans using natural language capabilities.  The HLT
Conference is a forum for researchers in those fields to present
high-quality, cutting-edge work, and to exchange ideas and explore
directions for further research.  The Conference will also foster
opportunities for international collaboration within language
technology.  The Conference and Program Chairs invite submissions from
researchers in computer science, linguistics, engineering, psychology,
etc., who are exploring methods for enabling better use of language
technology for human-computer interaction.  Further information is
available at the Conference web site, http://hlt2001.org.

The Conference will span four days, running from Sunday afternoon
through mid-day Wednesday.  It will include peer-reviewed research
presentations, posters, demonstrations, panel sessions, and time for
discussion.  Sessions will cover not only research, but also
developments in related government funding programs.

HLT submissions should be in areas such as the following:
Computational linguistics, Computational support for learning,
Cross-language and multilingual systems, Dialogue interaction, Formal
methods for NLP, HLT architectures, HLT evaluation, HLT resource
development, HLT standards, Human-computer interaction, Information
Retrieval, Information extraction, Machine translation, Question
answering, Rule-based natural language processing, Speech and language
applications, Speech generation, Speech recognition, Speech synthesis,
Statistical NLP, and Summarization.

Space at the Conference is restricted.  Authors of accepted papers,
posters, and demonstrations are automatically invited.  Individuals or
groups interested in attending otherwise should see the Conference web
site for contact information.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS

Submissions will be electronic, in PostScript or PDF.  Complete
submission information will be available at http://hlt2001.org.

HLT submissions are due on or before January 9, 2001.  Submissions
will be 3-4 page extended abstracts (not to exceed 1500 words) of the
proposed presentation and must include enough information for the
reviewers to judge the applicability and novelty of the work.  It is
expected that the Conference will include diverse areas within HLT and
preference will be given to papers that will appeal to multiple
fields.  Submissions should indicate the preferred and acceptable
presentation methods: paper, poster, or demonstration.  The Program
Committee will select a presentation method for accepted submissions
based on what fits the program best.

In order to encourage late-breaking research results, the submission
deadline for HLT 2001 is very close to the Conference.  There is
insufficient time to produce a bound proceedings for the Conference.
Instead, all accepted papers, posters, and demonstrations will have
their extended abstracts (revised based on reviewer comments)
published in notebook proceedings that will be available at the
Conference.  After the Conference, authors will have an opportunity to
revise their papers for the final bound proceedings.


CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

General chair: James Allan, University of Massachusetts (USA)
Co-chair:      Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania (USA)

Executive Program Committee:
   Rob Gaizauskas, Sheffield University (UK)
   Jean-Luc Gauvain, LIMSI (France)
   Marti Hearst, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
   Eduard Hovy, ISI (USA)
   David D. Lewis, AT&T Labs Research (USA)
   Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University (USA)
   Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington (USA)
   Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo (Japan) and UMIST (UK)
   Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
   Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO (Australia)

Demonstration Co-chairs:
   Clifford Weinstein, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (USA)
   Bob Younger, SPAWAR Systems Center (USA)


CONFERENCE VENUE

The HLT Conference will be held at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San
Diego, California.  The famous San Diego Zoo is the home of Hua Mei,
the only baby giant panda to be born in the US (she will be 18 months
old at HLT).  Sea World is one of the area's better known attractions,
where you can see the killer whale Shamu.  San Diego also houses
Balboa Park, the largest urban cultural park.  You can stroll through
the Gaslamp Quarter or through Old Town.  Nearby La Jolla houses the
Birch Aquarium, and Carlsbad houses Legoland.  Heading south gets you
to Tijuana, Mexico.

IMPORTANT DATES (all dates are in 2001)

January 9      Extended abstract submissions due
February 15    Notification of acceptance
March 6        Camera-ready "notebook" papers due
March 18-21    Conference
April 17       Final copy of proceedings papers due
July 20        Proceedings published

FURTHER INFORMATION

Up-to-date information about the Conference can be found at
http://hlt2001.org

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 24 17:59:41 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:59:41 +0200
Subject: Appel: CALL 2001
Message-ID: <TUE.24.OCT.2000.195941.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: K.C.Cameron at exeter.ac.uk (K. C. Cameron)

CALL FOR PAPERS


EXETER CALL 2001

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER



September 1- 3 2001


Conference on

CALL- The Challenge of Change
EXETER CALL 2001

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER


FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

September 1-3 2001

Conference on

CALL- The Challenge of Change

This will be the ninth biennial conference to be held in Exeter on Computer
Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Previous conferences have allowed not
only experts in the field, but all interested parties, to meet and discuss
problems and progress in CALL in a relaxed atmosphere. Many of the papers
have been published in Computer Assisted Language Learning. An
International Journal (Swets & Zeitlinger), and bear witness to the weighty
discoveries and research into this important area of modern education. If
we are to work together and share our knowledge, an occasion such as the
next conference provides a wonderful forum for us to do so.

To mark the opening of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, the
conference will be followed by an optional workshop on 'Arabic meeting the
challenge of CALL' on the afternoon of September 3.

The estimated cost is 165 (one hundred and sixty-five pounds sterling) for
en-suite accommodation in the Postgraduate Centre or 135 (one hundred and
thirty-five pounds sterling) for standard accommodation in Mardon Hall.
Both the Postgraduate Centre and Mardon Hall are centrally situated on the
University campus, and the prices include full board, the Conference fee
and a copy of the Proceedings  - 100 pounds is the charge for
non-residents.

Proposals (c.100-150 words) are invited by February 1 2001 for papers (25
mins) on any aspect of research in CALL which fits into the general theme
of 'CALL - The Challenge of Change'.

For further information, please return the form below to :

(Professor) Keith Cameron, CALL 2001 Conference, School of Modern
Languages, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, (UK);
tel/fax (0)1392 264221/2; email <K.C.Cameron at ex.ac.uk>

CALL 2001, Exeter,
CALL - The Challenge of Change


NAME
        ..........................................
        ..........................................

ADDRESS
        ..........................................
        ..........................................
        ..........................................
        ..........................................

*I wish to attend the CALL conference September 1-3 2001

*I wish to attend the CALL conference Arabic Workshop September 3 (p.m.)
2001

* Special dietary requirements:

*Please invoice me for *en-suite / *standard accommodation

*I wish to propose a paper on:






*Please send further particulars about the conference
(* Delete as necessary)

-------------
Keith Cameron

Professor of French and Renaissance Studies,
FRHistS, Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes academiques

Editor of:
- Computer Assisted Language Learning,
(http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/call.html);
- Exeter Textes litteraires, (http://www.ex.ac.uk/uep/french.htm);
- Exeter Tapes, (http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/staff/cameron/ExTapes.html);
- EUROPA - online & European Studies Series,
(http://www.intellect-net.com/europa/index.htm);
- Elm Bank Modern Language Series,
(http://www.intellect-net.com/elm/index.htm)

Department of French, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH,
G.B.
WWW (http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/)
Tel: 01392 264221 / + 44 1392 264221;Fax: 01392 264222 / + 44 (19) 1392
264222
E/mail: K.C.Cameron at ex.ac.uk


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 24 17:58:36 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:58:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: WI'2001
Message-ID: <TUE.24.OCT.2000.195836.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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


[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

        ************************************************
        *                  Second                      *
        *              CALL FOR PAPERS                 *
        *                                              *
        *     The First Asia-Pacific Conference on     *
        *         Web Intelligence (WI'2001)           *
        *         ==========================           *
        *                                              *
        *     Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan    *
        *             October 23-26, 2001              *
        ************************************************

          Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/wi01

           Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2001
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

              WI'2001 will be jointly held with
             The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on
             Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'2001)
             =======================================

          WI'2001 and IAT'2001 Joint Keynote Speakers:
   Edward A. Feigenbaum (Turing Award Winner), Stanford University
   Benjamin Wah (2001 IEEE Computer Society President), University of
Illinois

                    WI'2001 Invited Speakers:
       W. Lewis Johson (University of Southern California, USA)
       Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
       Patrick S. P. Wang (Northeastern University, USA)


The 21st century is the age of Internet and World Wide Web. The Web
revolutionizes the way we gather, process, and use information. At the
same time, it also redefines the meanings and processes of business,
commerce, marketing, finance, publishing, education, research,
development, as well as other aspects of our daily life.  Although
individual Web-based information systems are constantly being
deployed, advanced issues and techniques for developing and for
benefiting from Web intelligence still remain to be systematically
studied.

Broadly speaking, Web Intelligence (WI) exploits AI and advanced
information technology on the Web and Internet.  It is the key and the
most urgent research field of IT for business intelligence.

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) is an
international forum for researchers and practitioners

(1) to present the state-of-the-art in the development of Web intelligence;
(2) to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in
    Web-based intelligent information technology;
(3) to cross-fertilize ideas on the development of
    Web-based intelligent information systems among different domains.

By idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying foundations and the
enabling technologies of Web intelligence, WI'2001 is expected to
stimulate the future development of new models, new methodologies, and
new tools for building a variety of embodiments of Web-based
intelligent information systems.

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) is
a high-quality, high-impact biennial conference series.
It will be jointly held with the Asia-Pacific Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT).

TOPICS
======

WI'2001 welcomes submissions of original papers. The technical issues to
be addressed include, but not limited to:

* Web Human-Media Engineering:

  - Art of Web Page Design
  - Multimedia Information Representation
  - Multimedia Information Processing
  - Visualization of Web Information
  - Web-Based Human Computer Interface

* Web Information Management:

  - Data Quality Management
  - Information Transformation
  - Internet and Web-Based Data Management
  - Multi-Dimensional Web Databases and OLAP
  - Multimedia Information Management
  - New Data Models for the Web
  - Object Oriented Web Information Management
  - Personalized Information Management
  - Semi-Structured Data Management
  - Use and Management of Metadata
  - Web Knowledge Management
  - Web Page Automatic Generation and Updating
  - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

* Web Information Retrieval:

  - Approximate Retrieval
  - Conceptual Information Extraction
  - Image Retrieval
  - Multi-Linguistic Information Retrieval
  - Multimedia Retrieval
  - New Retrieval Models
  - Ontology-Based Information Retrieval
  - Automatic Web Content Cataloging and Indexing

* Web Agents:

  - Dynamics of Information Sources
  - E-mail Filtering
  - E-mail Semi-Automatic Reply
  - Global Information Collecting
  - Information Filtering
  - Navigation Guides
  - Recommender Systems
  - Remembrance Agents
  - Reputation Mechanisms
  - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
  - Web-Based Cooperative Problem Solving

* Web Mining and Farming:

  - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  - Hypertext Analysis and Transformation
  - Learning User Profiles
  - Multimedia Data Mining
  - Regularities in Web Surfing and Internet Congestions
  - Text Mining
  - Web-Based Ontology Engineering
  - Web-Based Reverse Engineering
  - Web Farming
  - Web-Log Mining
  - Web Warehousing

* Web Information System Environment and Foundations:

  - Competitive Dynamics of Web Sites
  - Emerging Web Technology
  - Network Community Formation and Support
  - New Web Information Description and Query Languages
  - Theories of Small World Web
  - Web Information System Development Tools
  - Web Protocols

* Web-Based Applications:

  - Business Intelligence
  - Computational Societies and Markets
  - Conversational Systems
  - Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  - Direct Marketing
  - Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business
  - Electronic Library
  - Information Markets
  - Price Dynamics and Pricing Algorithms
  - Measuring and Analyzing Web Merchandising
  - Web-Based Decision Support Systems
  - Web-Based Distributed Information Systems
  - Web-Based EDI
  - Web-Based Learning Systems
  - Web Marketing
  - Web Publishing


PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION
==============================

High quality full-length papers in all WI related areas are solicited.
Papers exploring new directions are most welcome and will receive a
careful and supportive review.  All submitted papers will be reviewed
on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and
clarity.  Electronic submission is encouraged and preferred.  Please
send LaTex (MS-Words, or PDF) and PostScript versions of your paper,
and an ASCII version of the cover page (in separate email), by March
20, 2001 to:

           wi01 at cs.uregina.ca

Four (4) hardcopies of the paper by regular mail are also requested
if electronic submission is not possible.
Please send hardcopies of your paper by March 20, 2001 to:

                Prof. Yiyu Yao (WI'2001)
                Department of Computer Science
                University of Regina
                Regina, Saskatchewan
                Canada S4S 0A2

                E-mail: yyao at cs.uregina.ca
                Phone: (306) 585-5226
                Fax: (306) 585-4745

The ASCII version of a cover page must include author(s) full address,
email, paper title and a 200 word abstract, and up to 5 keywords.

Accepted papers are expected to be published in the conference
proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence series (LNCS/LNAI).  A selected number of WI'2001
accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in
"Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by
Springer-Verlag and in "International Journal of Pattern Recognition
and Artificial Intelligence" by World Scientific. WI best paper award
will be conferred on the author(s) of the best papers at the
conference.

Please follow the instructions supplied by Springer-Verlag
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) when preparing your
manuscript. LaTeX2e, LaTeX, TeX, and Microsoft Word Macros for
preparing your manuscript are available. Please use the style files
provided by Springer-Verlag for Proceedings and Other Multi-Author
Volumes in preparing your manuscripts
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings).


DEMO SESSION
============

WI'2001 also welcomes submissions of research projects, research prototypes,
experimental systems, and commercial products for
demonstrations at the conference. Each submission should include a
title page containing a title, a 200-300 word abstract, a list of
keywords, the names, mailing addresses, and Email addresses of the
presenters, and a two-page description of the demo system. Submissions
should reach the WI'2001 Demos Chair:

 Dr. Yiming Ye (WI'2001)
 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
 30 Saw Mill River Road (Route 9A)
 Hawthorne, N.Y. 10532
 USA

 Tel: (914) 784-7460
 Email: yiming at watson.ibm.com

by July 2, 2001

Authors of accepted WI'2001 papers will be invited to
demonstrate their systems at the conference.

It is understood that once a submission is selected for demonstration
at the conference, the presenter(s) of the demo will be responsible for
bringing necessary software/hardware equipment.


IMPORTANT DATES
===============

     March 20, 2001   Paper submission deadline
       May 20, 2001   Notification of paper acceptance mailed
      June 20, 2001   Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due
       July 2, 2001   Demo submission deadline
     August 3, 2001   Notification of demo acceptance mailed
October 23-26, 2001   Conference technical sessions


CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
=====================

WI'2001 Conference Organizing Committee
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
General Chairs:
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan

Program Chairs:
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

Demos and Exhibits Chair:
Yiming Ye, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Local Organizing Chair:
Nobuo Otani, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan


International Advisory Board:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada
Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan
Ryuichi Oka, Real World Computing Partnership, Japan
Nobuo Otani, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina, USA
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Philip Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Program Committee:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cory Butz (U. Ottawa, Canada)
Keith Chan  (Hong Kong Polytechnic U.)
Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan U.)
Jingde Cheng (Saitama U., Japan)
David Cheung (Hong Kong U.)
Robert Cooley (U. Minnesota, USA)
Liya Ding (National U. Singapore)
Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser U., Canada)
Bernardo A. Huberman (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)
W. Lewis Johnson  (U. South California, USA)
Tomonari Kamba (NEC Human Media Research Labs., Japan)
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (U. Melbourne, Australia)
Bing Liu (National U. Singapore)
Chunnian Liu (Beijing Poly. U., China)
Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist U.)
Brien R. Maguire (U. Regina, Canada)
Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
Yukio Ohsawa (U. Tsukuba, Japan)
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (Kowlegde Stream, USA)
Mohamed Quafafou (U. Nantes, France)
Qiang Shen (U. Edinburgh, UK)
Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang U., Taiwan)
Myra Spiliopoulou (U. Magdeburg, Germany)
Jaideep Srivastava (U. Minnesota, USA)
Yasuyuki Sumi (ATR Lab. Japan)
Einoshin Suzuki (Yokohama National U., Japan)
Roman W. Swiniarski (San Diego State U., USA)
Atsuhiro Takasu (National Inst. Informatics, Japan)
Pierre Tchounikine (U. Maine, France)
Hiroshi Tsukimoto (Toshiba Corp., Japan)
Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane Medical U., Japan)
Lipo Wang (Nanyang Tech. U., Singapore)
Takashi Washio (Osaka U., Japan)
Michael S.K. Wong (U. Regina, Canada)
Graham Williams (CSIRO, Australia)
Seiji Yamada (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)
Yoneo Yano (Tokushima U., Japan)
Yiyu Yao (U. Regina, Canada)
Yiming Ye (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Yasuhiko Kitamura (Osaka City U., Japan)
Tetuya Yoshida (Osaka U., Japan)
Lizhu Zhou (Tsinghua U., China)
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Inst. Tech., Japan)
Wojciech  Ziarko (U. Regina, Canada)

Local Organizing Committee:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hisao Machida (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Tadaomi Miyazaki (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Nobuo Otani (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Sean M. Reedy (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Yukio Kanazawa (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan)
Seiji Murai (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan)
Kanehisa Sekine (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan)
Midori Asaka (Information Technology Agency (IPA), Japan)
Yoshitsugu Kakemoto (Japan Research Institute, Limited, Japan)

CONFERENCE SITE
===============

The WI'2001 and IAT'2001 will take place in Maebashi. Maebashi, the
capital of Gumma Prefecture, is called the `City of water, greenery,
and poetry'.  Maebashi is an `International Convention City'
designated by the Ministry of Transportation.

Maebashi and the neighboring areas in Gunma is a land of greenery
blessed with the wonders of natural beauty and more than a hundred hot
springs offering relaxation and peace of mind.  WI'2001 and IAT'2001
will organize a tour during the conference to a resort hotel with hot
spring in Ikaho that is one of the most famous hot springs areas in
Japan.

Maebashi is positioned nearly in the center of the Japan Archipelago.
Only a hundred kilometers from Japan's capital city of Tokyo and
reachable in an hour by bullet train or high-speed expressway, a
variety of favorable land conditions lead to flourishing economic
activity.  Maebashi City and the neighboring areas in Gunma are
expected to further develop into an IT conurbation with highly
advanced information technology.


FURTHER INFORMATION
===================

Please send suggestions and inquiries regarding WI'2001 to:

Prof. Ning Zhong (WI'2001)
Department of Information Engineering
Maebashi Institute of Technology
460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816
Japan

TEL&FAX: +81-27-265-7366
E-mail: zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Oct 27 16:51:51 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:51:51 +0200
Subject: Appel: LACL-2001
Message-ID: <FRI.27.OCT.2000.185151.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Catherine Piliere <Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr>




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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

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                            LACL 2001

                 4th International Conference on
           LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
                        June 27 -- 29, 2001
                        Le Croisic, France

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HISTORY

The LACL series of conferences aims at providing a forum for the
presentation and discussion of current research in all the formal
and logical aspects of computational linguistics.  It started as a
workshop held in Nancy (France), in 1995.  Due to its success, it
was turned, the next year, into a international conference.  LACL'96
and'97 have both been held in Nancy (France).  LACL'98 has been held
in Grenoble (France).  Selected papers from LACL'95 appear in a special
issue of Journal of Logic Language and Information, 7(4), 1998.
The proceedings of LACL'96 and 97 appear as volumes 1328 and 1582
of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.  The proceedings of LACL'98
are in press with the same series.


SCOPE

Typical topics include, but are not limited to:

   Categorial grammars, Categorial type logics, Compositionality,
   Discourse representation theory, Dynamics, Feature Logics,
   Formal language theory, Game-theoretical semantics, Grammatical
   inference, Learning theory, Linear logical frameworks, Minimalism,
   Modal logics, Montague semantics, Parsing as deduction, Proof-
   theoretic approaches, Situation semantics and situation theory,
   Type-theoretic approaches.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 15 standard
A4 or US quarto pages.  The paper should allow the Programme
Committee to assess the merits of the work.  In particular,
references and comparisons with related work should be included.
Submission of material already published or submitted to other
conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.

Electronic submission is highly recommended.  A postscript version
of the paper should be sent as an e-mail to:

   <morrill at lsi.upc.es>

to arrive by January 29, 2001.

Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer
llncs class file <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html>

In addition, a separate e-mail containing the title of the paper,
authors' names and addresses, and a short abstract in plain ASCII
format should be sent to the same e-mail address.

If electronic submission is not possible, authors may submit four
hard copies of the paper by post to the following address:

   LACL 2001 (Attention: G. Morrill)
   UPC, Departament de LSI
   Campus Nord - Modul C6
   Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3
   E-08034 Barcelona - Espanya


IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for Submissions:   January 29, 2001
Notification to Authors:    March 26, 2001
Final Versions due:         April 20, 2001


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

The accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer
Lecture Notes in AI. This will be available at the time of the
conference.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 W. Buszkowski (Poznan)
 R. Crouch, (Palo Alto)
 A. Dikovsky (Nantes)
 M. Dymetman (Grenoble)
 C. Gardent (Saarbrucken)
 P. de Groote (Nancy), co-chair
 M. Kanazawa (Tokyo)
 G. Morrill (Barcelona), co-chair
 R. Muskens (Tilburg)
 F. Pfenning (Pittsburgh)
 B. Rounds, (Ann Arbor)
 E. Stabler (Los Angeles)


ORGANIZING COMITTEE

 B. Daille (Nantes)
 A. Dikovsky (Nantes)
 A. Foret (Rennes)
 E. Lebret (Rennes)
 C. Piliere (Nancy), publicity chair
 C. Retore (Rennes), chair
 P. Sebillot (Rennes)

URL

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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:53:11 +0200
Subject: Appel: PACLING-2001
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                               PACLING 2001
                            First Call For Papers
                              September 11-14, 2001
                  Kitakyushu International Conference Center
                               Kitakyushu, Japan

History and Aims

   PACLING(Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics)has grown
out of the very successful Japan-Australia joint symposia on natural
language processing held in November 1989 in Melbourne, Australia
and in October in Iizuka, Japan in 1991. The following four meetings
of the retitled PACLING, a name designed to express the wider
membership, took place in Vancouver, Canada in 1993, Brisbane,
Australia in 1995, Ohme, Japan in1997 and Waterloo, Canada in 1999.

   PACLING '01 will be a low-profile, high-quality, workshop-oriented
meeting whose aim is to promote friendly scientific relations among Pacific
Rim countries, with emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific exchange
showing openness towards good research falling outside current dominant
 "schools of thought, " and on technological transfer within the Pacific
region. The conference is a unique forum for scientific and technological
exchange, being small than ACL, COLING, or Applied NLP, and also more
regional with extensive representation from the Pacific.

Topics

Original papers are invited on any topic in computational linguistics (and
strongly related areas) including (but not limited to) the following:

   phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics,
dialogues, spoken languages, corpora, text and message understanding
and generation, language translation and translation aids, language
learning and learning aids, question-answering systems, interfaces to
(multimedia) databases language and input/output devides, natural-
language-based software, information retrieval using natural language
interface, and statistical methods for large corpora.

Submission of Papers

Authors should prepare extended abstracts, in English, not more than
6 pages including figures and tables using standard fonts of 11 points
or bigger one. It should include author's name, postal address, e-mail
address (if possible), telehone and facsimile numbers; a brief 100-200
word summary; and some key words for classifying the submission.

  Papers that are being submitted to other conferences, whether
verbatim or in essence, must reflect this fact after key words. If a
paper appears at another conference, it must be withdrawn from
PACLING'01. Papers that violate these requirements are subject to
rejection without review.

 Please send four copies of each submission to one of the following
two addresses. Sending by email is also accepted(we will request the
author to send copies when the email submitted is not completely
visualized because of word processor problems or language font
problems):
     Prof. Shun Ishizaki
     Keio University
     5322 Endoh, Fujisawa,
     KANAGAWA 252-8520, JAPAN
     Telephone: +81 466 48 6101,  Fax: +81 466 48 6101
     E-mail:  ishizaki at sfc.keio.ac.jp

   *or*

     Prof. Nick Cercone
     Department of computer Science
     William Davis Comp. Research Centre
     University of Waterloo
     Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
     Canada
     Telephone:(519)888-4567, Ext 3292 Fax:(519)885-1208
     E-mail: ncercone at uwaterloo.ca

Schedule

     Submission deadline:          March 17 2001
     Notification of acceptance:   May 19 2001
     Camera-ready copy due:        July 21 2001

Organization
        President   Naoyuki okada (kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

 Organizing committee
        Members  Hirosi Sakaki (Meisei University, Japan)
        Christian Matthiessen (Macquarie University, Australia)
        Nick Cercone (University of Regina, Canada)
        Charles Fillmore (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
 Conference committee
        Chair    Shun Ishizaki (Keio University, Japan)
        Program coordinators
                 Shun Ishizaki (Keio University, Japan)
                 Kiyoshi Kogure (NTT, Japan)
                 Hideki Hirakawa (Toshiba Co., Japan)
                 Nick Cercone (University of Regina, Canada)
        Local coordinators
                 Tsutomu Endo (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
                 Kenji Itoh (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
                 Masami Suzuki (KDD, Japan)
                 Kentaro Inui (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
        Members(including program committee and local comittee members)
                 Christian Boitet (Imag. France)
                 Francis Bond (NTT,Japan)
                 Sandra Carberry (University of Delaware, U.S.A.)
                 Robin Cohen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
                 Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University,Canada)
                 Hercules Dalianis (Royal Institute of Technology, DSV-KTH,
                                    Sweden)
                 Chrysanne DiMarco (University of Waterloo,Canada)
                 Kohji Dohsaka (NTT, Japan)
                 Tsutomu Endo (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
                 Hideki Hirakawa (Toshiba Co., Japan)
                 Satoru Ikehara (Tottori University, Japan)
                 Naoki Inoue (KDD, Japan)
                 Kentaro Inui (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
                 Shun Ishizaki (Keio University, Japan)
                 Kenji Itoh (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
                 Hiroyuki Kameda (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)
                 Vlado Keiselj (University of Waterloo, Canada)
                 Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal, Canada)
                 Kiyoshi Kogure (NTT, Japan)
                 Guy Lapalme (University of Montreal, Canada)
                 Charles Ling (University of Western Ontario,Canada)
                 Fumito Masui (Mie University, Japan)
                 Stan Matwin (University of Ottawa, Canada)
                 Gordon McCalla (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
                 Paul McFetridge (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
                 Paul Mc Kevitt (University of Ulster(Magee), United
                                 Kingdom)
                 Jin-ichi Murakami (Tottori University, Japan)
                 Hiromi Nakaiwa (NTT, Japan)
                 Jun-ichi Nakamura (University of Kyoto, Japan)
                 Kentaro Ogura (NTT, Japan)
                 Minako O'Hagen (The Global University, New Zealand)
                 Naoyoki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
                 Kyonghee Paik (USA)
                 Emmanuel Planas (Imag. France)
                 Fred Popowich (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
                 Hirosi Sakaki (Meisei University, Japan)
                 L.K.Schubert (University of Rochester, USA)
                 Akira Shimazu (JAIST, Japan)
                 Masami Suzuki (KDD, Japan)
                 Naoto Takahashi (Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan)
                 Kumiko Tanaka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
                 Hiroaki Tsurumaru (University of Nagasaki,  Japan)
                 Peter van Beek (University of Alberta, Canada)
                 Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
                 Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia)

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Oct 27 16:52:15 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:52:15 +0200
Subject: Appel: TIA-2001
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From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at biomath.jussieu.fr>




[please see English version below]
*********************************************************************
   Appel à communication
          TIA-2001
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  Quatrième rencontre « Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle »
       3-4 mai 2001, Nancy, France


Sous l'effet de l'information en réseau, institutions, entreprises et
laboratoires se trouvent aujourd'hui confrontés aux problèmes considérables
posés par la taille et la diversité des documents spécialisés. Accéder à
ces corpus textuels, les filtrer, les traiter, les stocker, les implémenter
sur des systèmes informatiques, telles sont, entre autres, les tâches
auxquelles doit répondre la terminologie. Devant de tels enjeux, la
terminologie, en tant que discipline, doit établir des relations
coopératives avec un ensemble de disciplines allant de la linguistique à
l'ingénierie des connaissances en passant par les sciences de
l'information.

La pratique terminologique fait notamment appel à des techniques
linguistiques et /ou numériques pour manipuler les unités de la langue
naturelle (en particulier les terminologies) et à des techniques
d'intelligence artificielle pour la formalisation de ces données.

Ces techniques partagent des méthodes, des objectifs et une même finalité :

 - même point de départ : elles partent de corpus pour l'acquisition de
données linguistiques destinées à la constitution de terminologies ;
 - même objectif : la modélisation de domaines à partir de corpus, sans
formalisation dans le cas d'une production linguistique, avec formalisation
du domaine dans le cas d'une application requérant les techniques de l'I.A ;
 - même visée applicative : ressources terminologiques, dictionnaires
électroniques pour la traduction automatique, pour l'indexation, pour le
filtrage, etc., ontologies, systèmes à base de connaissances, mémoires
d'entreprise (dans le cadre d'applications relevant de l'I.A).

L'objectif de la conférence TIA est de faire émerger les convergences et
les coopérations possibles entre ces disciplines pour élaborer et tester
des méthodes de travail sur corpus, associées à des techniques de
traitement automatique de la langue et d'intelligence artificielle, afin de
constituer, de manière systématique, les données terminologiques
pertinentes en fonction des applications.

Les quatrièmes rencontres TIA serviront à explorer les nombreuses questions
restées ouvertes en matière d'acquisition de connaissances terminologiques
à partir de corpus, d'analyse du fonctionnement lexicologique en corpus
spécialisé, de modélisation et de formalisation de ces connaissances,
toujours dans le cas d'applications précises.

Vous êtes invité à y participer en proposant une communication sur l'un des
thèmes ci-dessous :

 - Théories du sens et la question des textes spécialisés
 - Terminologie et ontologies
 - Exploitation de l'extraction de termes en corpus
 - Terminologie et modélisation / formalisation des connaissances
 - Bases de connaissances terminologiques
 - Ressources terminologiques pour la recherche d'information
 - Problèmes de la terminologie multilingue
 - Réutilisabilité en ingénierie linguistique et ingénierie des
connaissances
 - Outils et applications

Le Groupe TIA (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/), est organisateur de
cette conférence qui fait suite aux
conférences TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) et TIA'99 (Nantes).
Fondé sous l'égide du PRC-IA et de l'AFIA en 1994, à présent groupe
AFIA/PRC-I3, ce groupe rassemble des chercheurs en linguistique, en
intelligence artificielle et en traitement automatique des langues. Il a
été créé pour permettre une confrontation entre les cadres théoriques et
méthodologiques ainsi qu'entre les pratiques développées dans chaque
discipline.

Les propositions de communications (en anglais ou en français) seront
soumises à un comité de programme international constitué des membres du
groupe TIA et d'experts des domaines concernés.


Comité de programme

Présidente : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris)

 Sophia Ananiadou (European Media Laboratory,Allemagne)
 Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse)
 Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne)
 Roberto Basili (Université de Rome)
 Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse)
 Brigitte Biébow (LIPN, Villetaneuse
 Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM DSI/AP-HP, Paris)
 Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM DSI/AP-HP, Paris)
 Stéphane Chaudiron (Ministère de la Recherche, Université Paris 10)
 Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse)
 Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis)
 Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes)
 Gregory Greffenstette (Centre de Recherche Rank Xerox, Grenoble)
 Benoît Habert (UMR 9952, ENS Fontenay St Cloud)
 Udo Hahn (Université de Fribourg)
 John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse)
 Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse)
 Ingrid Meyer (Université d'Ottawa)
 Jennifer Pearson (Université de Dublin)
 François Rastier (INALF, Paris)
 François Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg)
 Jean Royauté (INIST, Nancy)
 Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse)
 Philippe Thoiron (Université Louis Lumière, Lyon)
 Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy)
 Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles)
 Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM DSI/AP-HP, Paris)


Comité d'organisation :

Jean Royauté (Président), Dominique Besagni, Claire François, Patricia
Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, CNRS-INIST),  Filelia
Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Université Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA)

Calendrier :
Date limite de soumission : 15 janvier 2001
Notification aux auteurs : 25 février 2001
Date de réception des versions définitives ; 15 mars 2001

Les rencontres se dérouleront à l'INIST - Nancy (Institut de l'Information
Scientifique et Technique du CNRS) et seront aussi l'occasion de mettre en
évidence les convergences entre documentation et terminologie.

Les détails concernant le calendrier de soumission et l'organisation de la
conférence seront diffusés ultérieurement sur la toile et sur différentes
listes.

http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm et

http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/

Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royauté - URI-INIST-CNRS
          2 allée du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex
          Tél : +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr


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      Call for papers
          TIA-2001
************************************************************************


 4th meeting "Terminology and Artificial Intelligence"
       3-4 May 2001, Nancy, France

Due to the availability of ever-increasing amount of information
institutions, companies and laboratories are facing new problems related in
particular to scale effects and the diversity of technical texts. A full
range of tasks, from accessing text corpora to processing lexical data, is
now being entrusted to terminology. As a result, terminology has to enrich
and strengthen its links with related disciplines, including linguistics,
knowledge engineering and information sciences. Thus, terminological work
makes use of linguistic and /or numeric techniques to process natural
language items (especially terms) and of artificial intelligence techniques
for their formalization.

These techniques share a number of methods and objec tives as well as a
common goal:

 - the same starting point: corpus-based data acquistion;
 - the same objectives: corpus-based domain modeling with or without
formalization, depending on the type of application (artificial
intelligence or not);
 - the same goal: production of terminological resources (machine-readable
dictionaries for machine translation, indexing, filtering); ontologies,
knowledge-based systems, corporate memories.

The TIA Conference aims at promoting convergence and synergy among such
disciplines in order to develop and evaluate corpus-processing
methodologies, requiring refined natural language processing and artificial
intelligence techniques. The end results of those investigations should
help build relevant terminological data for specific applications on a
systematic basis.

The 4th TIA Conference will be an opportunity to explore some of the
unsolved problems raised in corpus-based acquisition of terminological
data, in the analysis of lexical behavior in specialized corpora, in
knowledge modeling and formalization of the resulting data.

You are invited to propose a paper in the following topics:

 - Meaning theories and the question of specialized texts;
 - Terminology and ontologies;
 - Exploitation of corpus-based term extraction;
 - Terminology and knowledge modeling / formalization
 - Terminological knowledge bases;
 - Terminological resources for information retrieval;
 - Problems of multilingual terminology;
 - Reusability in linguistic and knowledge engineering
 - Tools and applications.

This TIA Conference, which follows TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse)
and TIA'99 (Nantes), is organized by the TIA Working Group
(http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/). This group gathers researchers in
linguistics, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. It
was created to allow a confrontation between the theoretical and
methodological frameworks as well as between the practices developed in
each discipline. Submitted papers (in French or in English) will be
reviewed by an international program committee composed of members of the
TIA Working Group and of invited experts.


Program Committee:

Chair : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris)

 Sophia Ananiadou (European Media Laboratory,Germany)
 Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
 Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne, France)
 Roberto Basili (University of Rome, Italy)
 Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse, France)
 Brigitte Biébow (LIPN, Villetaneuse, France)
 Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM DSI/AP-HP, Paris, France)
 Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM DSI/AP-HP, Paris, France)
 Stéphane Chaudiron (Ministry of Research, University Paris 10, France)
 Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse, France)
 Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France)
 Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes, France)
 Gregory Greffenstette (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France)
 Benoît Habert (UMR 9952, ENS Fontenay St Cloud, France)
 Udo Hahn (Freiburg University, Germany)
 John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse, France)
 Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse, France)
 Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa, France)
 Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University, Ireland )
 François Rastier (INALF, Paris, France)
 François Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg, France)
 Jean Royauté (INIST, Nancy, France)
 Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse, France)
 Philippe Thoiron (Louis Lumière University, Lyon, France)
 Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France)
 Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Brussels, Belgium)
 Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM DSI/AP-HP, Paris, France)


Organizing Committee:

Jean Royauté (Organizing chair), Dominique Besagni, Claire François,
Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, CNRS-INIST), Filelia
Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Université Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA)

The conference will take place at INIST, the Institute for Scientific and
Technical Information of the French National Center for Scientific Research
(CNRS), in Nancy, and will also offer the opportunity to highlight the
convergence between documentation and terminology.


Deadlines

Submission due date: January 15, 2001
Notification date: February 25, 2001
Camera ready date: March 15, 2001

Details concerning paper submission and the conference organization will be
given later on the conferences websites.

http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm and

http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/ and on various lists.

Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royauté - URI-INIST-CNRS
          2 allée du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex
          Tel.: +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr
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CNRS/INIST http://www.inist.fr
Unité Recherche et Innovation (URI)
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F-54514 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy
Tel: (+33) 03 83 50 46 00 / Fax : (+33) 83 50 46 50

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Oct 27 16:54:11 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:54:11 +0200
Subject: Conf: CLIN-2000
Message-ID: <FRI.27.OCT.2000.185411.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "J. Zavrel" <Jakub.Zavrel at kub.nl>



CLIN 2000 -- The Eleventh
             Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Meeting

             Friday, 3 November, 2000

             Department of Computational Linguistics,
             Tilburg University


The goal of the CLIN meeting is to bring together the Computational
Linguistics research community in the Netherlands (in the broadest
possible sense of the words `Netherlands', `computational' en
`linguistics'). The talks at the CLIN meeting are short, informal, and
cover many diverse subareas of the field.

This years meeting will be hosted by the Department of Computational
Linguistics at Tilburg University. The meeting will take place in
building Y on the campus of Tilburg University. The languages of the
conference will be Dutch and English.


The keynote lecture of CLIN 2000 is:

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


There will be three parallel sessions with tracks on Machine
Translation, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, HPSG,
Parsing, Semantics, Machine Learning, Generation, Grammar, Finite
State Automata, POS tagging, Annotation, WWW, Dialogue and diverse
other topics. The full preliminary programme of the conference is
available at the CLIN2000 homepage (http://ilk.kub.nl/clin2000).

We are planning to provide the opportunity for companies with research
and development efforts in Computational Linguistics to present
themselves in a poster-session. Those who wish to participate in this
should contact Jakub Zavrel (zavrel at kub.nl) for more information.

A volume with proceedings of the tenth CLIN meeting (held 10 December
1999, in Utrecht) will be available at this year's meeting.

The conference fee, hfl.65.-, can be paid in cash at the registration
desk. No pre-registration is required. This fee includes the
abovementioned volume of proceedings from the tenth CLIN, lunch, and a
reception afterward. Proceedings of older CLIN editions will be for sale at
the
registration desk. This year's proceedings will be available at CLIN 2001.

The local organisation committee of this year's meeting consists of
Walter Daelemans, Khalil Sima'an, Jorn Veenstra, and Jakub
Zavrel. Questions about the conference can be sent to clin2000 at kub.nl.

You can find this information, the preliminary conference program, and
hotel and travel information for Tilburg University on the CLIN 2000
webpage (http://ilk.kub.nl/clin2000/). General information on CLIN can
be found at http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/clin/.


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Oct 27 16:54:29 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:54:29 +0200
Subject: Conf: ASSETS-2000
Message-ID: <FRI.27.OCT.2000.185429.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "Ephraim P. Glinert" <glinert at cs.rpi.edu>

********* PLEASE DISTRIBUTE IN YOUR DEPT. OR ORGANIZATION! *********

Apologies if this reaches you in error or multiple times...

ASSETS'2000, the 4th International ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive
Technologies, will be held November 12-13, 2000, in Arlington, VA (a
suburb of Washington DC, just minutes from Reagan National Airport).

Don't miss this unique and exciting opportunity to participate in ACM's
PREMIER CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH RELATED TO ASSISTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES AND UNIVERSAL ACCESS, which is nevertheless a small and
intimate event where meals are taken together and you have a chance to
really talk to people.

THIS YEAR'S CONFERENCE HOTEL is connected by sky-bridge to the National
Science Foundation, so attendees can plan to take advantage of any free
time to meet with NSF staff and learn about funding opportunities in
their research areas (it is best to make an appointment before-hand).
It is also located directly atop a Metro station, so sight-seeing in
DC is easy.

And if you ACT NOW there's still time to take advantage of DISCOUNTED
EARLY REGISTRATION RATES for the conference!

FOR MORE INFORMATION, please see:

               http://www.acm.org/sigs/conferences/assets00

We look forward to seeing you next month at ASSETS'2000!

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct  9 12:06:35 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:06:35 +0200
Subject: Appel: 4th Corpus Linguistics Symposium
Message-ID: <MON.9.OCT.2000.140635.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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


(Sorry if you receive this more than once)
Call for Papers
Corpus Linguistics Symposium
4 or 5 May 2001
To be held in conjunction with 11th InPLA Applied Linguistics Meeting
Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

The fourth edition of the Corpus Linguistics Symposium in Sao Paulo, Brazil,
invites papers in all areas of Corpus Linguistics, including language
description, corpus design, tagging, parsing, language teaching, discourse
analysis, phraseology, translation, lexicography, NLP applications, MDA,
corpus
linguistics theory and methodology, etc. As in previous years, we welcome
submissions by researchers and students. Papers may be delivered in
Portuguese
or English and may focus on corpora of any language, written or spoken. For
a
selection of online papers presented in a previous edition, see
www.corpus.f2s.com/trabalhos_online.htm
The exact date and duration of the symposium will be announced later, as
these
will be set by the organizers of the Applied Linguistics Meeting, which the
symposium is part of.

If you are interested in presenting a 30-minute paper (including questions),
please email the details below to Tony Berber Sardinha at tony4 at uol.com.br
by 1
November 2000. Notice of acceptance / rejection will be sent back by 7
November
2000. All presenters will need to register for the InPLA meeting- please
check
details at www.inpla.f2s.com

Name:
Instituion:
Address:
City:
Country:
Postcode:
Email:
Title of paper:
Abstract (300 words):



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct  9 12:06:31 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:06:31 +0200
Subject: Appel: Corpus Linguistics 2001
Message-ID: <MON.9.OCT.2000.140631.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Dr Tony McEnery <mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk>


FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS

CORPUS LINGUISTICS 2001

Lancaster (UK), 30 March - 2 April 2001

Incorporating a celebration of the life and works of Geoffrey Leech, with
invited talks from:

Prof. Douglas Biber - TBA

Prof. Jennifer Thomas - "Negotiating meaning: a pragmatic analysis of
indirectness in political interviews"

Prof. Geoffrey Sampson - "Thoughts on Twenty Years of Drawing Trees"

Prof. Mick Short - "Style in Fiction and Non-fiction: A Corpus-based
approach to Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation"

Corpus Linguistics 2001 will be a forum for all concerned with the
computer-assisted empirical analysis of natural language. Our
definition of 'corpus' is broad, and we therefore welcome those working on
substantial literary texts or other kinds of text collection as well as
more 'traditional' corpus linguists.

Similarly, we wish to encourage further cross-fertilization between work
occurring in language engineering (e.g. information extraction,
parsing) and linguistics. We believe that corpus linguists should be aware
of the latest developments in language processing. We also believe that
language engineers should be aware of the findings and needs of corpus
linguists.

The aims of Corpus Linguistics 2001 are:

1. to encourage dialogue between those working on similar issues in
different languages and between areas with a (perhaps as yet
untapped) potential to interact.

2. to encourage dialogue between researchers using corpora in linguistics
and those using corpora in language engineering.

3. to celebrate the life and works of Geoffrey Leech.

Geoffrey Leech reaches 65 in 2001, and as part of the celebrations for
this event, a special series of lectures will be given during the
conference by four invited speakers who have worked closely with Geoff at
various stages in his career: Doug Biber, Jenny Thomas, Geoff Sampson and
Mick Short.

For the main conference, papers of ca. 20 minutes are invited on topics
such as:

- corpus-based studies of any language level in any language
- contrastive corpus linguistics
- computer-aided studies of style
- corpus- or text-based lexicography
- corpus/text building, encoding and annotation
- development of corpus-based language engineering tools
- applications of computer-aided text analysis in non-linguistic fields
  (market research, advertising, media studies, sociology, psychology,
  etc.)

Proposals for workshops (half day or full day) are also invited. Topics
broadly in line with the theme of the conference will be
considered. Workshops will be held on the 29th March. The conference
language will be English.

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION

Papers:

Abstracts of up to one page should be submitted to the Programme Committee
by 1st Dec 2000.  As well as an outline of the paper, the abstract should
include the authors' names, affiliations, and contact addresses (including
e-mail and fax numbers).

Workshops:

Abstracts of two pages should be submitted to the Programme Committee by
1st Dec 2000. The abstract should include the names of the organizers,
their contact details, and the projected number of papers to be presented
at the workshop. Workshop organizers should also indicate whether they
wish to generate a set of proceedings for their workshop.

Those proposing a software demonstration should additionally indicate in
detail what (if any) hardware and software requirements they have.

Proceedings

Proceedings will be produced from the conference. Additionally, selected
papers will appear in an edited collection to be published in honour of
Geoffrey Leech.

DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2000

Proposers notified of acceptance of workshops: 8 December 2000

Authors notified of acceptance of papers: 15 December 2001

Deadline for full papers (for proceedings): 13 February 2001
[Full details will be sent with notices of acceptance.]

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Local committee

Tony McEnery (Lancaster University)
Andrew Wilson (Lancaster University)
Paul Rayson (Lancaster University)

General committee

Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (Lodz University)
Jock McNaught (UMIST)
Charles Meyer (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Ruslan Mitkov (Wolverhampton University)
Wolf-Dieter Syring (Greifswald University)

ADDRESS

Programme Committee
Corpus Linguistics 2001
Department of Linguistics and MEL
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YT
UK

Tel: +44 1524 843085
Fax: +44 1524 593024
E-mail: mcenery at comp.lancs.ac.uk


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct  9 12:06:55 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:06:55 +0200
Subject: Soft :  KALI (TTS)
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From: Jacques Vergne - GREYC - UMR 6072 <Jacques.Vergne at info.unicaen.fr>


Bonjour

The demo of the text-to-speech system KALI is now available on the web :

http://www.crisco.unicaen.fr/KaliDemo.html

This TTS system is the result of a collaboration between the Universit? de
Caen (GREYC + Elsap-Crisco) with Electrel (regional company :
http://www.electrel.fr) and the CMS (blind users association).

You can paste a text (less than 200 char.). (Remove return characters in
sentences, interpreted as sentence end).
You have access to all parameters :

  volume, rate of flow (from half to 3 times), pitch, voice (2 males, 1
female), prosody (from none to much), way of reading (literary, medium,
computer)

You recieve .wav files (about 50 Kbyte/s).

This TTS system favours the intelligibility, mainly at high rate, and long
readings of long texts (newspapers, books).

The French TTS is available (and marketed), the English one is in gestation.

You can send your reactions to Michel Morel (morel at crisco.unicaen.fr).

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




                                                  Jacques Vergne

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct  9 12:12:42 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:12:42 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 3 Offers
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1/ From: Elisabet Engdahl <elisabet.engdahl at svenska.gu.se>
   Subject: Job announcement: Chair in NLP

2/ From:  Roy J.Byrd <byrd at watson.ibm.com>
   Subject:  Research Associate at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

3/ From: E S Atwell <eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk>
   Subject: Leeds University, Yorkshire

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Elisabet Engdahl <elisabet.engdahl at svenska.gu.se>
   Subject: Job announcement: Chair in NLP

G?teborg University  announces a position as Professor of Natural Language
Processing at the Faculty of Humanities.

Application deadline 26 October 2000.

http://spraakbanken.gu.se/sd/chair.html

Elisabet Engdahl


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2/ From:  Roy J.Byrd <byrd at watson.ibm.com>
   Subject:  Research Associate at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Rank of Job: Research Associate
Areas Required: Computational Linguistics
Other Desired Areas: Grammar Writing; Lexicography
University or Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Department: Knowledge Management Technologies
State or Province: New York
Country: U. S. A.
Final Date of Application: November 2000
Contact: Roy J. Byrd byrd at watson.ibm.com

Address for Applications:
P. O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights
New York 10598
U. S. A.

The Text Analysis and Language Engineering project at IBM Research,
in New York, wishes to hire a computational linguist or lexicographer
who will be responsible for a focused activity leading to the design
and implementation of a functionally complete library of linguistic
resources for American English.  This person will develop electronic
dictionaries and finite-state grammars for use with the Intex NLP
system.  Candidates must be native speakers of American English.
They must also possess basic skills in a second language and be
sensitive to the requirements for linguistic analysis in multiple
languages.  Finally, they must be able to program in script languages
(e.g. in Perl) for research and prototyping purposes.

The ideal candidate will also be able to program in C, speak and read
French and be familiar with the Lexicon-Grammar methodology in
general and with the Intex system in particular.

Skill and Proficiency Levels (1 to 5, with 5 highest):

natural language processing and parsing systems - 5
finite state syntax - 5
specific experience with the Intex system - 4
terminology management - 3
multilingual NLP - 3

____________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: E S Atwell <eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk>
   Subject: Leeds University, Yorkshire


Please forward this job advert to any computational linguist or computer
scientist looking for a tenured academic post; my Department has secured
significant increase in recurrent funding, allowing us to expand our
permanent staff.
Note: although this is not specifically stated as a requirement,
candidates are unlikely to be appointed unless they have published at
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Mon Oct  9 12:08:40 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:08:40 +0200
Subject: Livres: 2 books
Message-ID: <MON.9.OCT.2000.140840.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Jean-Marie PIERREL <Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr>
   Subject: Livre "ing?nierie des langues"

2/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Parallel text processing

____________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Jean-Marie PIERREL <Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr>
   Subject: Livre "ing?nierie des langues"

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

Vient de paraitre aux editions Hermes sciences (8 quai du March? Neuf 75004
Paris, tel 01 53 10 15 20, fax 01 53 10 15 21, www.hermes-science.com), un
ouvrage de synth?se

Ing?nierie des langues
Coordinateur : Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA Universit? Henri Poincar?  Nancy 1
360 pages, ISBN 2-7462-0113-5, octobre 2000
R?sum? :
L'information trait?e par les syst?mes informatiques est de plus en en plus
sur support textuel, l'ing?nierie des langues devient donc incontournable
en traitement de cette information. Cet ouvrage a pour objectif de faire le
point sur l'?tat actuel de ce domaine, en en pr?cisant les acquis et les
limites.
Il se structure en trois grandes parties : tout d'abord une pr?sentation
des principaux outils et formalismes pour le traitement des langues au
niveau lexical, syntaxique et s?mantique, puis une pr?sentation des outils
actuels de cr?ation et de gestion de ressources linguistiques
indispensables dans de nombreux projets d'ing?nierie des langues, enfin une
pr?sentation des principaux domaines applicatifs que sont la construction
de terminologie, l'indexation et la recherche d'informations textuelles, le
r?sum? automatique, la traduction assist?e par ordinateur, la compr?hension
et la g?n?ration de textes, et enfin le dialogue homme-machine.

Sommaire :
 Introduction (J.M. Pierrel)
 Premi?re Partie : Outils et formalismes pour le traitement de la langue
   Chapitre 1 : Mots et niveau lexical (E Laporte)
   Chapitre 2 : Grammaires et analyseurs syntaxiques (A. Abeill?, Ph Blache)
   Chapitre 3 : Sens et traitements automatiques des langues (G. Sabah)
 Seconde Partie : Cr?ation et gestion de ressources linguistiques
   Chapitre 4 : Annotation automatique de corpus panorama et ?tat de la
technique (J. V?ronis)
   Chapitre 5 : Etiquetage morpho-syntaxique (P. Paroubek, M. Rajman)
   Chapitre 6 : Alignement de corpus multilingues (J. V?ronis)
   Chapitre 7 : Codage et normalisation de ressources textuelles (P.
Bonhomme)
   Chapitre 8 : Outils d'acc?s ? des ressources linguistiques (L. Romary)
Troisi?me partie : Bilan des grands domaines applicatifs de l'ing?nierie
des langues
   Chapitre 9 : Construction de ressources terminologiques (D. Bourigault,
C. Jacquemin
   Chapitre 10 : Indexation et recherche d'informations textuelles (C.
Fluhr)
   Chapitre 11 : R?sum? automatique et Filtrage s?mantique de textes (JP
Descles, JL Minel)
   Chapitre 12 : Traduction assist?e par ordinateur (C. Boitet)
   Chapitre 13 : Compr?hension automatique de textes (G. Sabah, B. Grau)
   Chapitre 14 : G?n?ration Automatique de Textes (L. Danlos, L. Roussarie)
   Chapitre 15 : Dialogue Homme-machine (JM Pierrel, L. Romary)
Bibliographie - index
========================================

===========================================
Jean-Marie Pierrel, Professeur UHP-Nancy 1
Equipe "Langue et Dialogue"
LORIA UMR 7503 (Universit?s, CNRS, INRIA)
Campus Scientifique
B.P. 239
F-54 506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy
Tel : (33) (0)3 83 59 20 01
Fax : (33) (0)3 83 41 30 79
email : Jean-Marie.Pierrel at loria.fr
==============================================

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2/ From: Jean Veronis <Jean.Veronis at newsup.univ-mrs.fr>
   Subject: Book: Parallel text processing


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



                        KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
                   TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
                               Volume 13
              Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V?ronis




                            PARALLEL TEXT PROCESSING
                    Alignment and Use of Translation Corpora

                                    edited by
                                   JEAN V?RONIS
                 Universit? de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France


With the rising importance of multilingualism in language industries,
brought about by global markets and world-wide information exchange,
parallel corpora, i.e. corpora of texts accompanied by their translation,
have become key resources in the development of natural language processing
tools. The applications based upon parallel corpora are numerous and
growing in number: multilingual lexicography and terminology, machine and
human translation, cross-language information retrieval, language learning,
etc.

The book's chapters have been commissioned from major figures in the field
of parallel corpus building and exploitation, with the aim of showing the
state of the art in parallel text alignment and use ten to fifteen years
after the first parallel-text alignment techniques were developed. Within
the book, the following broad themes are addressed: (i) techniques for the
alignment of parallel texts at various levels such as sentence, clause, and
word; (ii) the use of parallel texts in fields as diverse as translation,
lexicography, and information retrieval; (iii) available corpus resources
and the evaluation of alignment methods.

The book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of
computational linguistics, terminology, lexicography and translation, both
in academia and industry.


Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht

      Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6546-1
      August 2000, 428 pp.
      NLG 300.00 / USD 160.00 / GBP 99.00

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                               CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS


Foreword.

Terminological note.

Preface by M. Kay.

Contributors.

Introduction.

     1. From the Rosetta stone to the information society.
        A survey of parallel text processing; J. V?ronis.

Alignment Methodology.

     2. Pattern recognition for mapping bitext correspondence;
        I.D. Melamed.

     3. Multilingual text alignment. Aligning three or more
        versions of a text; M. Simard.

     4. A comprehensive bilingual word alignment system.
        Application to disparate languages: Hebrew and English;
        Y. Choueka, E. S. Conley, I. Dagan

     5. A knowledge-lite approach to word alignment;
        L. Ahrenberg, M. Andersson, M. Merkel

     6. From sentences to words and clauses; S. Piperidis, H. Papageorgiou,
        S. Boutsis

     7. Bracketing and aligning words and constituents in parallel
        text using Stochastic Inversion Transduction Grammars; D. Wu.

     8. The translation network. A model for a fine-grained description
        of translations; D. Santos.

     9. Parallel text alignment using crosslingual information retrieval
        techniques; C. Fluhr, F. Bisson, F. Elfateb

     10. Parallel alignment of structured documents;
         L. Romary, P. Bonhomme.

Applications.

     11. A statistical view on bilingual lexicon extraction.
         From parallel corpora to non-parallel corpora; P. Fung.

     12. Terminology extraction from parallel technical texts; I. Blank.

     13. Term alignment in use. Machine-aided human translation;
         ?. Gaussier, D. Hull, S. Ait-Mokhtar

     14. Automatic dictionary extraction for cross-language information
         retrieval; R.D. Brown, J. Carbonell, Y. Yang

     15. Parallel text in computer-assisted language learning;
         J. Nerbonne.

Resources and Evaluation.

     16. Japanese-English aligned bilingual corpora; H. Isahara,
         M. Haruno.

     17. Building a parallel corpus of English/Panjabi; S. Singh,
         T. McEnery, P. Baker

     18. Sharing of translation memory databases derived from aligned
         parallel text; A.K. Melby.

     19. Evaluation of parallel text alignment systems.
         The ARCADE project; J. V?ronis, P. Langlais.

Index of terms.

Index of authors.

Index of languages and writing systems.

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                            PREVIOUS VOLUMES


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

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

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

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

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

    Volume 6:  Predicative Forms in Natural Language and in
               Lexical Knowledge Bases
               Patrick Saint-Dizier (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5499-0, December 1998

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

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

    Volume 9:  Syntactic Wordclass Tagging
               Hans van Halteren (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-5896-1, August 1999

    Volume 10: Breadth and Depth of Semantic Lexicons
               Viegas, E. (Ed.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6039-7, November 1999

    Volume 11: Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora
               Armstrong, S., Church, K.W., Isabelle, P.,
               Manzi, S., Tzoukermann, E., Yarowsky, D. (Eds.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6055-9, November 1999

    Volume 12: Lexicon Development for Speech and Language Processing
               Frank van Eynde & Dafydd Gibbon (Eds.)
               Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6368-X, April 2000.


Check the series Web page for order information:

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

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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:40:40 +0200
Subject: Appel: NAACL'2001
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From: Priscilla Rasmussen <rasmusse at cs.rutgers.edu>

          PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

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

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

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

===== SUBMISSION FORMAT

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

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

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

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

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

===== SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

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

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

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

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

===== DEADLINES

Electronic submission notification deadline: 6-Nov-00
Hardcopy paper submission deadline: 9-Nov-00
Notification of acceptance for papers: 24-Jan-01
Camera ready papers due: 27-Feb-01
Regular sessions begin: 5-Jun-01
A signed copyright release statement will be needed along with the final
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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:40:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: CLUK
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From: Diana Maynard <d.maynard at dcs.shef.ac.uk>

====================================================
                    4th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium

                           Call for Participation

                             10-11 January 2000

                           University of Sheffield

====================================================
Introduction

Computational Linguistics UK (CLUK) aims to provide a forum for the
Computational Linguistics community in the UK. The Annual CLUK Colloquium
offers PhD students in Natural Language Processing and related disciplines
an opportunity to present and discuss their work with members of the wider
research community. The colloquium is organised as a mini-conference.
Presentations are held in conference-style sessions, to which senior
established researchers are invited, and there will be opportunities for
general discussion. Papers on any topic within the area of Computational
Linguistics, NLP and Language Engineering are welcome.

This year we are pleased to announce the following invited speakers:

Donia Scott - University of Brighton
Massimo Poesio - University of Edinburgh (to be confirmed)
Keith Preston - BT (to be confirmed)


Submission of papers

Authors are requested to submit an abstract (approx. 1000 words). Each
submission should include the following
information: title, a short abstract, names and affiliations of the authors,
and the full address of the primary author, including email.

Submissions should be sent to:

Diana Maynard
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
211 Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 4DP

email: diana at dcs.shef.ac.uk

Submissions as emailed ASCII text or postscript are preferred, but
hardcopy format will be accepted.
Abstracts will be refereed by the Programme Committee.


Deadlines

Abstract submission deadline: Friday 10 November 2000
Notification of acceptance: Friday 1 December 2000
Camera ready papers due: Friday 15 December 2000
Colloquium: 10-11 January 2001


Programme Committee

John Carroll - University of Sussex
Anne De Roeck - University of Essex
Jon Herring - University of Brighton
Elenor Maclaren -Brunel University
Diana Maynard - University of Sheffield
Mark Moens - University of Edinburgh
Nicholas Ostler - Linguacubun Ltd.
Darren Pearce - University of Sussex
John Tait - University of Sunderland
Aline Villavicencio - Cambridge University
Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield

email: cluk-group at dcs.shef.ac.uk


Local arrangements:

The colloquium will be held at Stevenson Hall, University of Sheffield.

Cost of participation is 55 pounds and includes a copy of the proceedings,
tea/coffee and lunch.

Further details and online registration will be available soon from the CLUK
website:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/cluk


Local organisation:

Gillian Callaghan
Paul Clough
Diana Maynard
Nick Webb
Yorick Wilks

email: cluk4 at dcs.shef.ac.uk

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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:40:55 +0200
Subject: Ecole: Eurolan 2001
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                                EUROLAN 2001

                              Summer Institute on
          "Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources"
                              30 July - 11 August 2001
                                  Romania


The Eurolan series of summer schools was established in 1993 and has been
held every other year, with the goal of stimulating young researchers from
all over the world to pursue high-level research in natural language
processing and language technology.


Theme

The goal of Eurolan 2001 is to provide participants with a background in
the theory, methodology, and technology for creating and using annotated
language resources for language engineering research. Tutorials on a
variety of topics will be accompanied with hands-on experience using tools
for resource annotation, as well as techniques for using these resources to
augment the performance of language engineering applications such as IR,
IE, MT, speech understanding etc.

The main topics will be:

Annotation formalisms and standards for NLP (XML, XCES)
Sub-syntactic annotation (tokenization, part of speech tagging,
shallow-parsing - chunking)
Annotation of syntax (tree banks)
Annotation of semantics, word sense disambiguation, semantic roles of verbs
Annotation of discourse (structure, co-reference, deep understanding)
Symbolic and qualitative approaches
Exploitation for information extraction and information retrieval
Exploitation for summarization, discourse interpretation and data mining
Exploitation for machine translation
Creation and exploitation tools in cross-lingual application

Invited Lecturers

Eurolan 2001 tutorials and practical work will be delivered/conducted by a
series of prestigious professors and researchers from all over the world:

Catalina Barbu - Universities of Iasi & Wolverhampton
Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbr?cken
Dan Cristea - University of Iasi
Hamish Cunningham - University of Sheffield
Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science - Tokyo
Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto
Eduard Hovy - University of Southern California
Nancy Ide - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
Adam Kilgarriff - University of Brighton
Daniel Marcu - University of Southern California
Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton
Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University
Massimo Poesio - University of Edinburgh
Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy
Valentin Tablan - Universities of Iasi & Sheffield
Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy
Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken
Piek Vossen - Sail-labs, Antwerp-Berchem
Yorick Wilks - University of Sheffield

Program

Eurolan 2001 will take place between 30 July and 11 August 2001.

The summer institute will be organized to allow for both lectures and
hands-on experience for each of the areas covered. Morning sessions will be
devoted to tutorials, followed by an afternoon session at which students
will work in collaboration with professors on practical applications. The
institute will also include workshops and round tables on topics of
particular interest.

On Sunday, 5 August, a trip to significant Romanian landmarks will be
organized.

Registration and Fees

Information about registration and fees will be posted at a later date and
will also be available at http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001

Organizing Committee

Nancy IDE - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
Dan CRISTEA - University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" of Iasi
Dan TUFIS - Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Laurent ROMARY - LORIA laboratories, Nancy
Daniel MARCU - University of Southern California

Information on previous Eurolan events can be consulted at the address:
http://www.infoiasi.ro/eurolan/ann.html


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 12 11:40:43 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:40:43 +0200
Subject: Appel: PAKDD-01
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From: Graham Williams <Graham.Williams at cmis.csiro.au>


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    Second Call for Papers

     Submission Deadline 12 November

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         The Fifth

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

                    Hong Kong, April 16 - 18, 2001

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

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

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


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

  Two keynote presentations from international leaders in Knowledge
  Discovery and Data Mining have been confirmed:

  Ronny Kohavi, Director of Data Mining, Blue Martini Software

  Ronny Kohavi is well known for his work on the Silicon Graphics
  MineSet project for data mining and visualization.? He joined
  Silicon Graphics after getting a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from
  Stanford University, where he led the MLC++ project, the Machine
  Learning library in C++.? Kohavi co-chaired the KDD 99 industrial
  track and KDD Cup 2000.? He co-edited a special issue of the journal
  Machine Learning on Applications of Machine Learning and the special
  issue of the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery journal on
  Applications of Data Mining to Electronic Commerce.

  Professor H. V. Jagadish, University of Michigan

  Professor Jagadish obtained his Ph.D. from Stanford and spent
  several years as head of the database department at AT&T. Prior to
  Michigan he was at the University of Illinois. His research spans
  many aspects of database systems, particularly in the context of the
  internet and XML.


SUBMISSION by 12 November 2000

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

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

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


AWARDS AND JOURNAL PUBLICATION

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

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


TOPICS

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

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


TUTORIALS AND WORKSHOPS

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

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

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


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

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


DEMONSTRATIONS

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

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


IMPORTANT DATES

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

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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


ORGANIZATION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Treasurer:
 Ada Fu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Thu Oct 12 11:40:32 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:40:32 +0200
Subject: Appel: IWCS-4
Message-ID: <THU.12.OCT.2000.134032.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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



    +----------------------------------------------------------------+
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    |  IWCS-4: CALL FOR POSTERS/SHORT PAPERS                         |
    |                                                                |
    |  The deadline for submitting full papers has passed, but it    |
    |  is still possible to submit 3-page abstracts for a poster     |
    |  presentation combined with a very short, lightning-speed      |
    |  presentation of the essence of the work in a plenary session  |
    |  (see below).                                                  |
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                    Fourth International Workshop on

                    COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS (IWCS-4)


                         January 10-12, 2001
                       Tilburg, The Netherlands

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

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

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


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

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

                         TOPICS OF INTEREST

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

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


                       SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

The deadline for submitting papers for full plenary presentation has
passed, but it is still possible to submit 3-page abstracts for a
poster presentation combined with a very short, lightning-speed
presentation of the essence of the work in a plenary session. The
3-page abstracts of the accepted submissions will be published in the
workshop proceedings.

Authors are invited to submit an abstract of maximally 3 A4 pages
before Monday 6 November by email to Computational.Semantics at kub.nl
in Postscript form. Submissions should be in standard LaTeX in the
same style as full papers - see the guidelines for submissions at the
IWCS-4 web site:

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


                        PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

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


                         ORGANISING COMMITTEE

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


                           IMPORTANT DATES

          6 November   2000 Deadline for short presentation/poster
                            abstract submission
         15 November   2000 Notification of acceptance
         22 November   2000 Deadline for submitting final version of
                            abstract for proceedings
         10-12 January 2001 Workshop


                         FURTHER INFORMATION

         Conference Secretariat: Carol McGregor
                                 Department of Linguistics
                                 Tilburg University
                                 PO Box 90153
                                 5000 LE Tilburg
                                 The Netherlands
         Email: Computational.Semantics at kub.nl
         Phone: +31-13 466 30 60
         Fax:   +31-13 466 31 10

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

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

 Harry C. Bunt
 Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science
 Tilburg University
 P.O. Box 90153
 5000 LE Tilburg, the Netherlands
 Phone: +31 - 13 466.3060 (secretary Anne Andriaensen)
                     2568 (Dean's office)
                     2653 (office, room B 310)
 Fax: +31 - 13 466.3110
 Harry.Bunt at kub.nl
 WWW: http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/general/people/bunt/index.stm
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 24 17:53:43 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:53:43 +0200
Subject: Jobs: 5 Offers
Message-ID: <TUE.24.OCT.2000.195343.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

_________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Guy Lapalme <lapalme at IRO.UMontreal.CA>
   Subject: Annonce de poste

2/ From: Celine ANCE FTRD/DIH/DIPS <celine.ance at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: France T?l?com

3/ From: Carlos Martin Vide <cmv at correu.urv.es>
   Subject: research positions, Spain

4/ From: "Granger Sylviane" <granger at lige.ucl.ac.be>
   Subject: Vacant academic position

5/ From: "mj1" <mj1 at lx.cog.brown.edu>
   Subject: Graduate scholarships and postdocs for CL at Brown

_________________________________________________________________________

1/ From: Guy Lapalme <lapalme at IRO.UMontreal.CA>
   Subject: Annonce de poste


Le D?partement d?informatique et de recherche op?rationnelle (DIRO) de
l'Universit? de Montr?al sollicite des candidatures pour des postes de
professeur adjoint en informatique commen?ant le 1er juin 2001.  La priorit?
sera accord?e aux candidats dont les activit?s de recherche s?inscrivent
dans l?un des domaines suivants ou connexes ? ceux-ci:
      - Informatique-linguistique;
      - Bioinformatique;
      - G?nie logiciel;
      - T?l?informatique;
      - Informatique th?orique et quantique.

Une expertise regroupant plus d?un de ces domaines serait un atout. Les
candidats devront d?montrer une excellente aptitude en recherche et en
enseignement, ainsi qu'une bonne connaissance de la langue fran?aise.
Pour plus d?information, consulter le site :
                       http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/

Fonction :   Enseignement aux trois cycles, recherche et direction
             d??tudiants aux cycles sup?rieurs.
Exigences :  Doctorat en informatique ou dans un domaine connexe.
Traitement : L?Universit? de Montr?al offre un salaire concurrentiel,
             jumel? ? une gamme compl?te d?avantages sociaux.

Les personnes int?ress?es doivent faire parvenir un curriculum vitae, une
description du plan de recherche, au moins trois lettres de recommandation,
et au maximum trois tir?s ? part des plus importantes contributions ?:

Sang Nguyen, professeur et directeur
D?partement d'informatique et de recherche op?rationnelle, FAS
Universit? de Montr?al
C.P. 6128, Succ. ?Centre-Ville?
Montr?al (Qu?bec), H3C 3J7

au plus tard le 1er d?cembre 2000.  Nous consid?rerons les applications
re?ues apr?s cette date seulement si les postes demeurent vacants.

Conform?ment aux exigences prescrites en mati?re d'immigration au Canada,
cette annonce s'adresse, en priorit?, aux citoyens canadiens et aux
immigrants re?us. L'Universit? de Montr?al souscrit ? un programme d'acc?s ?
l'?galit? en emploi pour les femmes et aux principes d'?quit? en mati?re
d'emploi.

_________________________________________________________________________

2/ From: Celine ANCE FTRD/DIH/DIPS <celine.ance at rd.francetelecom.fr>
   Subject: France T?l?com

France T?l?com R&D

Direction Interactions Humaines (DIH)
Laboratoire " Dialogue et intermediations intelligentes " (D2I)


SUJET DE STAGE
D?veloppement d'une application d'agent de traduction automatique en
contexte de dialogue


Mots clefs : dialogue personne-machine, traitement automatique des
langues naturelles, traduction.

Sujet :
Le sujet propos? s'inscrit dans le domaine du d?veloppement
d'applications de dialogue personne-machine en langue naturelle. France
T?l?com R&D dispose d'une technologie de dialogue coop?ratif
intelligent. Cette technologie est fond?e sur une mod?lisation des
principes primitifs qui r?gissent le comportement rationnel et traite
ainsi le fait de communiquer comme une action ? part enti?re, que l'on
appelle acte de dialogue. Le noyau d'un syst?me de dialogue fond? sur
cette approche op?re sur une repr?sentation logique des connaissances.
Son exploitation r?elle est alors conditionn?e par l'existence de
m?canismes permettant de construire ? partir d'un message de
l'utilisateur une forme logique des actes de dialogue qu'il v?hicule et,
inversement, ? partir d'une forme logique des actes de dialogue le
message du syst?me qui la r?alise. Cette technologie est actuellement
illustr?e sur plusieurs applications.

L'objectif de ce stage est de r?aliser un 'interpr?te' (un agent de
traduction) permettant l'interaction de deux interlocuteurs de langues
diff?rentes dans un domaine sp?cifique.
Afin de d?velopper cet agent interlangue, le candidat devra d?finir les
strat?gies de dialogue et les donn?es de l'application afin d'enrichir
de m?canismes additionnels les composants existants.
Le d?veloppement se d?roulera en plusieurs ?tapes. Dans un premier
temps, le stagiaire devra concevoir et mettre en ?uvre des m?canismes de
gestion de l'interaction ? trois intervenants (prise de parole,
traitement des r?f?rences, etc.).
Le stagiaire devra ?galement d?finir l'ensemble complet des param?tres
d'adaptation et d'int?gration des donn?es multilingues existantes
(?tablir les ressources lexicales n?cessaires ? l'application, mettre en
place des m?canismes permettant d'avoir une couverture linguistique
identique d'une langue ? une autre, etc.).
La derni?re ?tape consistera ? ?valuer l'application de traduction (mise
en place de proc?dure de testing).


Pour tous renseignements, contacter :

Franck Panaget
FTR&D/DIH/D2I -- Dialogue et intermediations intelligentes
2, avenue Pierre Marzin
22307 Lannion Cedex
T?l   : 02 96 05 28 52
T?l?copie : 02 96 05 35 30
Email  : franck.panaget at cnet.francetelecom.fr

C?line Anc?
FTR&D/DIH/D2I -- Dialogue et intermediations intelligentes
2, Avenue Pierre Marzin
22307  Lannion Cedex
T?l  : 02 96 05 35 04
T?l?copie  : 02 96 05 13 69
Email  : celine.ance at rd.francetelecom.fr

_________________________________________________________________________

3/ From: Carlos Martin Vide <cmv at correu.urv.es>
   Subject: research positions, Spain


          Please, distribute to whom might be interested. Thanks.


                       ROVIRA I VIRGILI UNIVERSITY
               RESEARCH GROUP ON MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS
                            Tarragona, Spain
            http://www.urv.es/centres/Grups/grlmc/grlmc.html


2 visiting research positions available for 2001-2003 in formal language
theory and applications, starting not earlier than July 2001:

- 1 senior research position (for somebody who got his/her PhD degree
before 1992):

 3-12 months
 monthly salary in the interval USA $ 2,000-2,750
 travel grant: not more than USA $ 1,300
 health insurance

- 1 junior research position (for somebody who got his/her PhD degree after
January 1st, 1992):

 12-18 months
 monthly salary in the interval USA $ 1,500-2,000
 travel grant: not more than USA $ 1,300
 health insurance

For queries, please contact Carlos Martin-Vide at any of the e-addresses
below.

-----------------------------------------------------
Carlos Martin-Vide
Head, Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics
Head, Department of Romance Philologies
Rovira i Virgili University
Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1
43005 Tarragona, Spain
Phone: +34-977-559-543
Fax: +34-977-559-597
E-mail: cmv at correu.urv.es, cmv at nil.fut.es
Web: http://www.urv.es/centres/Grups/grlmc/grlmc.html
-----------------------------------------------------


_________________________________________________________________________

4/ From: "Granger Sylviane" <granger at lige.ucl.ac.be>
   Subject: Vacant academic position


The Universit? Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) is officially announcing a
full time academic position.

DESCRIPTION OF THE POST
As Director of the Research Centre for Natural Language Processing at the
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, you will be responsible for:
-       Organising the centre and related activities
-       Directing and  running a team of  IT personnel
-       Developing research projects in the Faculty in collaboration with
the centre's scientific committee
-       Developing the centre's technical expertise in compiling and
analysing electronic linguistic resources (written and spoken text corpora,
lexica, grammars and terminological data necessary for natural language
processing, multilingual resources/processing). Key activities will include
database compilation (lexica, grammars and corpora), software development
(lemmatization, tagging and parsing, etc.) and statistical analysis.
-       Keeping abreast of developments in the field of computational
linguistics, guiding the activities of the centre and personnel accordingly
and ensuring that new developments are reflected in Faculty research
projects.
-       Teaching computational linguistics, in particular with relation to
the fields outlined above.

REQUESTED QUALIFICATIONS
-       PhD (or equivalent) combined with recognised expertise and/or a
qualification in computational linguistics
-       Thorough knowledge of programming languages, web technologies and
operating systems
-       Experience in research and team work
-       Scientific publications in the field
-       Good command of French and English

More information is available at:

http://www2.crct.ucl.ac.be/crct/

(post reference: FLTR 2001/01)



%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
Professor Sylviane Granger
Universit? Catholique de Louvain
Centre for English Corpus Linguistics
Coll?ge Erasme
Place Blaise Pascal 1
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
Fax: + 3210474942
http://www.fltr.ucl.ac.be/FLTR/GERM/ETAN/CECL/cecl.html


_________________________________________________________________________

5/ From: "mj1" <mj1 at lx.cog.brown.edu>
   Subject: Graduate scholarships and postdocs for CL at Brown



Brown University has a very active computational linguistics program.
We are recruiting post-docs (US citizens or permanent residents) and
grad students (any nationality).  If you're interested, you can apply
either through the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences department or
through the Computer Science department.  The following ad describes
one of our training programs that supports computational linguistics.
Email me if you want more information about Computational Linguistics
at Brown.

Mark Johnson
mark_johnson at brown.edu

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



LEARNING AND ACTION IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY
   Brown University Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program

                    Deadline for Applications: January 1, 2001

Brown University is actively recruiting graduate students for an
NSF-supported Interdisciplinary Graduate Education, Research and
Training (IGERT) program in "Learning and Action in the Face of
Uncertainty: Cognitive, Computational and Statistical Approaches".

The use of probabilistic models and statistical methods has had a
major impact on our understanding of language, vision, action, and
reasoning.  This training program provides students with the
opportunity to integrate a detailed study of human or artificial
systems for language acquisition and use, visual processing, action,
and reasoning with appropriate mathematical and computational
models. Students will be enrolled in one of the three participating
departments (Applied Mathematics, Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences, or
Computer Science) and will follow an interdisciplinary program of
courses in topics such as statistical estimation, cognitive processes,
linguistics, and computational models. The aim of this program is to
provide promising students with a mix of mathematical, computational
and experimental expertise to carry out multidisciplinary
collaborative research across the disciplines of Applied Mathematics,
Computer Science, and Cognitive Science.

Interested students should apply to the participating department
closest to their area of interest and expertise, and should indicate
their interest in the IGERT training program in their application.
These NSF funded positions are restricted to US citizens and permanent
residents. Brown University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer.

For additional information about the program, application procedures,
and ongoing research initiatives please visit our website at:
http://www.cog.brown.edu/IGERT

or download our brochure at:
http://www.cog.brown.edu/IGERT/IGERT-flyer.pdf

or contact:

 Prof. Fulvio Domini
 Department of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences
 Brown University, Box 1978
 Providence, RI 02912
 USA

Fulvio_Domini at brown.edu



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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 24 17:57:43 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:57:43 +0200
Subject: Appel: ATALA Workshop (Collocation)
Message-ID: <TUE.24.OCT.2000.195743.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From:  Beatrice.Daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr

[Version fran?aise en fin de message]

ATALA One-day workshop
Call for papers

  http://www.atala.org/je/appel-collocation.html

Theme: Collocation

Organisers : B?atrice Daille (IRIN-University of Nantes)
            Geoffrey Williams (University of Bretagne Sud)

Date : Saturday 13 January 2001

Summary:

The term "collocation" was introduced in the nineteen thirties by  J. R.
Firth, founder member of the British Contextualist school, to
characterise
certain linguistic phenomena of cooccurrence that stem principally from
the linguistic competence of native speakers. By its very nature
collocation remains a relatively fuzzy concept, the consequence of which
being that traditional grammarians and semanticists have tended to
ignore it, the exception being some lexical semanticists as Cruse
(1986).
The study of collocation is above all a practical one aimed at assisting
language learners and translators in their tasks.

Two main schools of thought may be distinguished:
- the lexicographical school which seeks to formalise collocations so as
to include them in dictionaries. This approach takes in the theoretical
work of Hausmann (1985), the production of learner's dictionaries for
English (Benson 1985), and of theoretical formal dictionaries as that of
Mel'cuk (1984);
- the contextualist school (Sinclair, 1991) considers collocation as a
textual phenomenon and defines them in function of significant
cooccurrence within a predefined window. The study of collocation in
large quantities of texts has lead naturally to the need for statistical
tools for the isolation of collocations (Church and Hanks,1990),
(Smadja,
1990).

Up to now the majority of studies have tended to deal with European
languages, English in particular. A real discussion as to the nature of
this phenomenon in all its forms and in a multilinguistic environment
has yet to take place, in the meanwhile, the aim of this workshop  is to
review the situation for the study and identification of collocation in
NLP and to endeavour to answer the following questions:

- What stage are we at concerning the formal description and definition
of collocation ?
- What methods are being adopted for the identification of collocation
in corpora (linguistic, statistical, mixed) ?
- How are collocations being used and for what tasks?
- Is collocation a universal phenomenon ?

This workshop aims to see to what extent the role of collocation as a
phenomenon in applied linguistics is being taken into account in
theoretical linguistics. A special issue of the journal TAL on corpus
linguistics will be published during the summer 2001. Authors will
be encouraged to submit an extended version of their paper to this issue.


Submission:

A two to four page abstract must be sent before the 11th November 2000

- either by email to:
          daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr
 AND to
     Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr
  (formats RTF, PDF, post-script exclusively),

- or by post to:
   B?atrice Daille
   IRIN - Universit? de Nantes
   2, rue de la Houssiniere, BP 92208, F44322 Nantes Cedex 3, FRANCE

Notification of acceptance will be given end of November 2000.


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Journ?e de l'ATALA

Appel ? communications


  http://www.atala.org/je/appel-collocation.html

Th?me : La collocation


Responsables : B?atrice Daille (IRIN-Universit? de Nantes)
               Geoffrey Williams (Universit? de Bretagne Sud)


Date : Samedi 13 Janvier 2001


Pr?sentation :

Le terme "collocation" a ?t? introduit dans les ann?es 30 par J. R.
Firth, membre-fondateur de l'?cole Contextualiste anglaise, pour
caract?riser certains ph?nom?nes linguistiques de cooccurrence qui
rel?vent essentiellement de la comp?tence linguistique des locuteurs
natifs. La notion de collocation ?tant floue par nature, les
grammairiens et s?manticiens traditionnels ont eu tendance ? l'ignorer ?
l'exception de
quelques s?manticiens tel que Cruse (1986).
L'?tude de la collocation est donc avant tout une pratique, destin?e ?
aider les apprenants d'une langue et les traducteurs.
Deux grandes tendances peuvent ?tre distingu?es :
 - la tendance lexicographique qui tend ? une formalisation des
collocations
pour les inclure dans des dictionnaires. Cette approche regroupe les
?tudes th?oriques de Hausmann (1985), la r?alisation de dictionnaires
pour apprenants
d'anglais de Benson (1985), ou les dictionnaires th?oriques et formels
de Mel'cuk (1984) ;
- la tendance contextualiste (Sinclair, 1991) qui consid?re les
collocations comme un ph?nom?ne textuel et les d?finit en fonction de
l'apparition de cooccurrences significatives ? l'int?rieur d'une
fen?tre. Ces ?tudes au travers de grandes quantit?s de textes a produit
des m?thodes d'identification des collocations ? l'aide de mesures de
statistiques lexicales (Church and
Hanks,1990), (Smadja, 1990).

Jusqu'ici la majorit? des ?tudes a eu tendance ? analyser les langues
europ?ennes, l'anglais en particulier. En attendant une v?ritable
concertation sur la nature de ce ph?nom?ne linguistique dans toutes ses
formes et ? travers le multilinguisme, l'objectif de cette journ?e est
de faire le point sur l'?tude et l'identification des collocations dans
une perspective TAL et plus particuli?rement de r?pondre aux questions
suivantes :
- Quelles sont les avanc?es dans la description et la formalisation des
collocations ?
- Quelles sont les m?thodes pour les identifier en corpus
(linguistiques,
statistiques, mixtes) ?
- Comment ces collocations formalis?es ou non sont-elles exploit?es et
pour
quelles taches ?
- La collocation poss?de-t-elle un caract?re universel ?


Cette journ?e voudrait faire le point sur la prise en compte de la
collocation, ph?nom?ne de la linguistique appliqu?e, dans la
linguistique th?orique. Un num?ro sp?cial de la revue Traitement
automatique des langues sur les corpus est pr?vu pour l'automne 2001,
les orateurs de la journ?e seront encourag?s ? y soumettre des versions
?tendues de leurs communications.




Soumission (modalit?s) :

Un r?sum? de deux ? quatre pages doit ?tre envoy? avant le
11 Novembre 2000

- soit par courrier ?lectronique ? :
         daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr
ET ?
        Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr
 (formats RTF, PDF, post-script exclusivement),

- soit par courrier r?gulier ?
  B?atrice Daille
  IRIN - Universite de Nantes
   2, rue de la Houssiniere, BP 92208, F44322 Nantes Cedex 3, FRANCE

Les notifications d'acceptation seront donn?es fin novembre 2000.


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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:58:06 +0200
Subject: Appel: HTL 2001
Message-ID: <TUE.24.OCT.2000.195806.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles <aussenac at irit.fr>



CALL FOR PAPERS

           HLT 2001, Human Language Technology Confererence
                          March 18-21, 2001
                        San Diego, California

                          http://hlt2001.org


Human Language Technology brings together researchers in a broad
spectrum of fields, all of which are working toward enabling computers
to interact with humans using natural language capabilities.  The HLT
Conference is a forum for researchers in those fields to present
high-quality, cutting-edge work, and to exchange ideas and explore
directions for further research.  The Conference will also foster
opportunities for international collaboration within language
technology.  The Conference and Program Chairs invite submissions from
researchers in computer science, linguistics, engineering, psychology,
etc., who are exploring methods for enabling better use of language
technology for human-computer interaction.  Further information is
available at the Conference web site, http://hlt2001.org.

The Conference will span four days, running from Sunday afternoon
through mid-day Wednesday.  It will include peer-reviewed research
presentations, posters, demonstrations, panel sessions, and time for
discussion.  Sessions will cover not only research, but also
developments in related government funding programs.

HLT submissions should be in areas such as the following:
Computational linguistics, Computational support for learning,
Cross-language and multilingual systems, Dialogue interaction, Formal
methods for NLP, HLT architectures, HLT evaluation, HLT resource
development, HLT standards, Human-computer interaction, Information
Retrieval, Information extraction, Machine translation, Question
answering, Rule-based natural language processing, Speech and language
applications, Speech generation, Speech recognition, Speech synthesis,
Statistical NLP, and Summarization.

Space at the Conference is restricted.  Authors of accepted papers,
posters, and demonstrations are automatically invited.  Individuals or
groups interested in attending otherwise should see the Conference web
site for contact information.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSIONS

Submissions will be electronic, in PostScript or PDF.  Complete
submission information will be available at http://hlt2001.org.

HLT submissions are due on or before January 9, 2001.  Submissions
will be 3-4 page extended abstracts (not to exceed 1500 words) of the
proposed presentation and must include enough information for the
reviewers to judge the applicability and novelty of the work.  It is
expected that the Conference will include diverse areas within HLT and
preference will be given to papers that will appeal to multiple
fields.  Submissions should indicate the preferred and acceptable
presentation methods: paper, poster, or demonstration.  The Program
Committee will select a presentation method for accepted submissions
based on what fits the program best.

In order to encourage late-breaking research results, the submission
deadline for HLT 2001 is very close to the Conference.  There is
insufficient time to produce a bound proceedings for the Conference.
Instead, all accepted papers, posters, and demonstrations will have
their extended abstracts (revised based on reviewer comments)
published in notebook proceedings that will be available at the
Conference.  After the Conference, authors will have an opportunity to
revise their papers for the final bound proceedings.


CONFERENCE COMMITTEES

General chair: James Allan, University of Massachusetts (USA)
Co-chair:      Mitch Marcus, University of Pennsylvania (USA)

Executive Program Committee:
   Rob Gaizauskas, Sheffield University (UK)
   Jean-Luc Gauvain, LIMSI (France)
   Marti Hearst, University of California, Berkeley (USA)
   Eduard Hovy, ISI (USA)
   David D. Lewis, AT&T Labs Research (USA)
   Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University (USA)
   Mari Ostendorf, University of Washington (USA)
   Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo (Japan) and UMIST (UK)
   Alex Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
   Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO (Australia)

Demonstration Co-chairs:
   Clifford Weinstein, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (USA)
   Bob Younger, SPAWAR Systems Center (USA)


CONFERENCE VENUE

The HLT Conference will be held at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San
Diego, California.  The famous San Diego Zoo is the home of Hua Mei,
the only baby giant panda to be born in the US (she will be 18 months
old at HLT).  Sea World is one of the area's better known attractions,
where you can see the killer whale Shamu.  San Diego also houses
Balboa Park, the largest urban cultural park.  You can stroll through
the Gaslamp Quarter or through Old Town.  Nearby La Jolla houses the
Birch Aquarium, and Carlsbad houses Legoland.  Heading south gets you
to Tijuana, Mexico.

IMPORTANT DATES (all dates are in 2001)

January 9      Extended abstract submissions due
February 15    Notification of acceptance
March 6        Camera-ready "notebook" papers due
March 18-21    Conference
April 17       Final copy of proceedings papers due
July 20        Proceedings published

FURTHER INFORMATION

Up-to-date information about the Conference can be found at
http://hlt2001.org

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 24 17:59:41 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:59:41 +0200
Subject: Appel: CALL 2001
Message-ID: <TUE.24.OCT.2000.195941.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: K.C.Cameron at exeter.ac.uk (K. C. Cameron)

CALL FOR PAPERS


EXETER CALL 2001

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER



September 1- 3 2001


Conference on

CALL- The Challenge of Change
EXETER CALL 2001

UNIVERSITY OF EXETER


FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

September 1-3 2001

Conference on

CALL- The Challenge of Change

This will be the ninth biennial conference to be held in Exeter on Computer
Assisted Language Learning (CALL). Previous conferences have allowed not
only experts in the field, but all interested parties, to meet and discuss
problems and progress in CALL in a relaxed atmosphere. Many of the papers
have been published in Computer Assisted Language Learning. An
International Journal (Swets & Zeitlinger), and bear witness to the weighty
discoveries and research into this important area of modern education. If
we are to work together and share our knowledge, an occasion such as the
next conference provides a wonderful forum for us to do so.

To mark the opening of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, the
conference will be followed by an optional workshop on 'Arabic meeting the
challenge of CALL' on the afternoon of September 3.

The estimated cost is 165 (one hundred and sixty-five pounds sterling) for
en-suite accommodation in the Postgraduate Centre or 135 (one hundred and
thirty-five pounds sterling) for standard accommodation in Mardon Hall.
Both the Postgraduate Centre and Mardon Hall are centrally situated on the
University campus, and the prices include full board, the Conference fee
and a copy of the Proceedings  - 100 pounds is the charge for
non-residents.

Proposals (c.100-150 words) are invited by February 1 2001 for papers (25
mins) on any aspect of research in CALL which fits into the general theme
of 'CALL - The Challenge of Change'.

For further information, please return the form below to :

(Professor) Keith Cameron, CALL 2001 Conference, School of Modern
Languages, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH, (UK);
tel/fax (0)1392 264221/2; email <K.C.Cameron at ex.ac.uk>

CALL 2001, Exeter,
CALL - The Challenge of Change


NAME
        ..........................................
        ..........................................

ADDRESS
        ..........................................
        ..........................................
        ..........................................
        ..........................................

*I wish to attend the CALL conference September 1-3 2001

*I wish to attend the CALL conference Arabic Workshop September 3 (p.m.)
2001

* Special dietary requirements:

*Please invoice me for *en-suite / *standard accommodation

*I wish to propose a paper on:






*Please send further particulars about the conference
(* Delete as necessary)

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Keith Cameron

Professor of French and Renaissance Studies,
FRHistS, Chevalier dans l'ordre des Palmes academiques

Editor of:
- Computer Assisted Language Learning,
(http://www.swets.nl/sps/journals/call.html);
- Exeter Textes litteraires, (http://www.ex.ac.uk/uep/french.htm);
- Exeter Tapes, (http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/staff/cameron/ExTapes.html);
- EUROPA - online & European Studies Series,
(http://www.intellect-net.com/europa/index.htm);
- Elm Bank Modern Language Series,
(http://www.intellect-net.com/elm/index.htm)

Department of French, Queen's Building, The University, EXETER, EX4 4QH,
G.B.
WWW (http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/)
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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Tue Oct 24 17:58:36 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:58:36 +0200
Subject: Appel: WI'2001
Message-ID: <TUE.24.OCT.2000.195836.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

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


[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

        ************************************************
        *                  Second                      *
        *              CALL FOR PAPERS                 *
        *                                              *
        *     The First Asia-Pacific Conference on     *
        *         Web Intelligence (WI'2001)           *
        *         ==========================           *
        *                                              *
        *     Maebashi TERRSA, Maebashi City, Japan    *
        *             October 23-26, 2001              *
        ************************************************

          Home Page: http://kis.maebashi-it.ac.jp/wi01

           Paper Submission Deadline: March 20, 2001
           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

              WI'2001 will be jointly held with
             The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on
             Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'2001)
             =======================================

          WI'2001 and IAT'2001 Joint Keynote Speakers:
   Edward A. Feigenbaum (Turing Award Winner), Stanford University
   Benjamin Wah (2001 IEEE Computer Society President), University of
Illinois

                    WI'2001 Invited Speakers:
       W. Lewis Johson (University of Southern California, USA)
       Riichiro Mizoguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
       Patrick S. P. Wang (Northeastern University, USA)


The 21st century is the age of Internet and World Wide Web. The Web
revolutionizes the way we gather, process, and use information. At the
same time, it also redefines the meanings and processes of business,
commerce, marketing, finance, publishing, education, research,
development, as well as other aspects of our daily life.  Although
individual Web-based information systems are constantly being
deployed, advanced issues and techniques for developing and for
benefiting from Web intelligence still remain to be systematically
studied.

Broadly speaking, Web Intelligence (WI) exploits AI and advanced
information technology on the Web and Internet.  It is the key and the
most urgent research field of IT for business intelligence.

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) is an
international forum for researchers and practitioners

(1) to present the state-of-the-art in the development of Web intelligence;
(2) to examine performance characteristics of various approaches in
    Web-based intelligent information technology;
(3) to cross-fertilize ideas on the development of
    Web-based intelligent information systems among different domains.

By idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying foundations and the
enabling technologies of Web intelligence, WI'2001 is expected to
stimulate the future development of new models, new methodologies, and
new tools for building a variety of embodiments of Web-based
intelligent information systems.

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Web Intelligence (WI) is
a high-quality, high-impact biennial conference series.
It will be jointly held with the Asia-Pacific Conference on
Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT).

TOPICS
======

WI'2001 welcomes submissions of original papers. The technical issues to
be addressed include, but not limited to:

* Web Human-Media Engineering:

  - Art of Web Page Design
  - Multimedia Information Representation
  - Multimedia Information Processing
  - Visualization of Web Information
  - Web-Based Human Computer Interface

* Web Information Management:

  - Data Quality Management
  - Information Transformation
  - Internet and Web-Based Data Management
  - Multi-Dimensional Web Databases and OLAP
  - Multimedia Information Management
  - New Data Models for the Web
  - Object Oriented Web Information Management
  - Personalized Information Management
  - Semi-Structured Data Management
  - Use and Management of Metadata
  - Web Knowledge Management
  - Web Page Automatic Generation and Updating
  - Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust

* Web Information Retrieval:

  - Approximate Retrieval
  - Conceptual Information Extraction
  - Image Retrieval
  - Multi-Linguistic Information Retrieval
  - Multimedia Retrieval
  - New Retrieval Models
  - Ontology-Based Information Retrieval
  - Automatic Web Content Cataloging and Indexing

* Web Agents:

  - Dynamics of Information Sources
  - E-mail Filtering
  - E-mail Semi-Automatic Reply
  - Global Information Collecting
  - Information Filtering
  - Navigation Guides
  - Recommender Systems
  - Remembrance Agents
  - Reputation Mechanisms
  - Resource Intermediary and Coordination Mechanisms
  - Web-Based Cooperative Problem Solving

* Web Mining and Farming:

  - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  - Hypertext Analysis and Transformation
  - Learning User Profiles
  - Multimedia Data Mining
  - Regularities in Web Surfing and Internet Congestions
  - Text Mining
  - Web-Based Ontology Engineering
  - Web-Based Reverse Engineering
  - Web Farming
  - Web-Log Mining
  - Web Warehousing

* Web Information System Environment and Foundations:

  - Competitive Dynamics of Web Sites
  - Emerging Web Technology
  - Network Community Formation and Support
  - New Web Information Description and Query Languages
  - Theories of Small World Web
  - Web Information System Development Tools
  - Web Protocols

* Web-Based Applications:

  - Business Intelligence
  - Computational Societies and Markets
  - Conversational Systems
  - Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  - Direct Marketing
  - Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business
  - Electronic Library
  - Information Markets
  - Price Dynamics and Pricing Algorithms
  - Measuring and Analyzing Web Merchandising
  - Web-Based Decision Support Systems
  - Web-Based Distributed Information Systems
  - Web-Based EDI
  - Web-Based Learning Systems
  - Web Marketing
  - Web Publishing


PAPER SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION
==============================

High quality full-length papers in all WI related areas are solicited.
Papers exploring new directions are most welcome and will receive a
careful and supportive review.  All submitted papers will be reviewed
on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance, and
clarity.  Electronic submission is encouraged and preferred.  Please
send LaTex (MS-Words, or PDF) and PostScript versions of your paper,
and an ASCII version of the cover page (in separate email), by March
20, 2001 to:

           wi01 at cs.uregina.ca

Four (4) hardcopies of the paper by regular mail are also requested
if electronic submission is not possible.
Please send hardcopies of your paper by March 20, 2001 to:

                Prof. Yiyu Yao (WI'2001)
                Department of Computer Science
                University of Regina
                Regina, Saskatchewan
                Canada S4S 0A2

                E-mail: yyao at cs.uregina.ca
                Phone: (306) 585-5226
                Fax: (306) 585-4745

The ASCII version of a cover page must include author(s) full address,
email, paper title and a 200 word abstract, and up to 5 keywords.

Accepted papers are expected to be published in the conference
proceedings by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence series (LNCS/LNAI).  A selected number of WI'2001
accepted papers will be expanded and revised for inclusion in
"Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal" by
Springer-Verlag and in "International Journal of Pattern Recognition
and Artificial Intelligence" by World Scientific. WI best paper award
will be conferred on the author(s) of the best papers at the
conference.

Please follow the instructions supplied by Springer-Verlag
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) when preparing your
manuscript. LaTeX2e, LaTeX, TeX, and Microsoft Word Macros for
preparing your manuscript are available. Please use the style files
provided by Springer-Verlag for Proceedings and Other Multi-Author
Volumes in preparing your manuscripts
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html#Proceedings).


DEMO SESSION
============

WI'2001 also welcomes submissions of research projects, research prototypes,
experimental systems, and commercial products for
demonstrations at the conference. Each submission should include a
title page containing a title, a 200-300 word abstract, a list of
keywords, the names, mailing addresses, and Email addresses of the
presenters, and a two-page description of the demo system. Submissions
should reach the WI'2001 Demos Chair:

 Dr. Yiming Ye (WI'2001)
 IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
 30 Saw Mill River Road (Route 9A)
 Hawthorne, N.Y. 10532
 USA

 Tel: (914) 784-7460
 Email: yiming at watson.ibm.com

by July 2, 2001

Authors of accepted WI'2001 papers will be invited to
demonstrate their systems at the conference.

It is understood that once a submission is selected for demonstration
at the conference, the presenter(s) of the demo will be responsible for
bringing necessary software/hardware equipment.


IMPORTANT DATES
===============

     March 20, 2001   Paper submission deadline
       May 20, 2001   Notification of paper acceptance mailed
      June 20, 2001   Camera-ready copies of accepted papers due
       July 2, 2001   Demo submission deadline
     August 3, 2001   Notification of demo acceptance mailed
October 23-26, 2001   Conference technical sessions


CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
=====================

WI'2001 Conference Organizing Committee
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
General Chairs:
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan

Program Chairs:
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada

Demos and Exhibits Chair:
Yiming Ye, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Local Organizing Chair:
Nobuo Otani, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan


International Advisory Board:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nick Cercone, University of Waterloo, Canada
Edward A. Feigenbaum, Stanford University, USA
T.Y. Lin, San Jose State University, USA
Jiming Liu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Setsuo Ohsuga, Waseda University, Japan
Ryuichi Oka, Real World Computing Partnership, Japan
Nobuo Otani, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
Zbigniew W. Ras, University of North Carolina, USA
Andrzej Skowron, Warsaw University, Poland
Xindong Wu, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Yiyu Yao, University of Regina, Canada
Philip Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan

Program Committee:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cory Butz (U. Ottawa, Canada)
Keith Chan  (Hong Kong Polytechnic U.)
Ming-Syan Chen (National Taiwan U.)
Jingde Cheng (Saitama U., Japan)
David Cheung (Hong Kong U.)
Robert Cooley (U. Minnesota, USA)
Liya Ding (National U. Singapore)
Jiawei Han (Simon Fraser U., Canada)
Bernardo A. Huberman (Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)
W. Lewis Johnson  (U. South California, USA)
Tomonari Kamba (NEC Human Media Research Labs., Japan)
Ramamohanarao Kotagiri (U. Melbourne, Australia)
Bing Liu (National U. Singapore)
Chunnian Liu (Beijing Poly. U., China)
Jiming Liu (Hong Kong Baptist U.)
Brien R. Maguire (U. Regina, Canada)
Akira Namatame (National Defense Academy, Japan)
Yukio Ohsawa (U. Tsukuba, Japan)
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro (Kowlegde Stream, USA)
Mohamed Quafafou (U. Nantes, France)
Qiang Shen (U. Edinburgh, UK)
Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang U., Taiwan)
Myra Spiliopoulou (U. Magdeburg, Germany)
Jaideep Srivastava (U. Minnesota, USA)
Yasuyuki Sumi (ATR Lab. Japan)
Einoshin Suzuki (Yokohama National U., Japan)
Roman W. Swiniarski (San Diego State U., USA)
Atsuhiro Takasu (National Inst. Informatics, Japan)
Pierre Tchounikine (U. Maine, France)
Hiroshi Tsukimoto (Toshiba Corp., Japan)
Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane Medical U., Japan)
Lipo Wang (Nanyang Tech. U., Singapore)
Takashi Washio (Osaka U., Japan)
Michael S.K. Wong (U. Regina, Canada)
Graham Williams (CSIRO, Australia)
Seiji Yamada (Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan)
Yoneo Yano (Tokushima U., Japan)
Yiyu Yao (U. Regina, Canada)
Yiming Ye (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Yasuhiko Kitamura (Osaka City U., Japan)
Tetuya Yoshida (Osaka U., Japan)
Lizhu Zhou (Tsinghua U., China)
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Inst. Tech., Japan)
Wojciech  Ziarko (U. Regina, Canada)

Local Organizing Committee:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hisao Machida (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Tadaomi Miyazaki (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Nobuo Otani (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Sean M. Reedy (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Ning Zhong (Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan)
Yukio Kanazawa (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan)
Seiji Murai (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan)
Kanehisa Sekine (Maebashi Convention Bureau, Japan)
Midori Asaka (Information Technology Agency (IPA), Japan)
Yoshitsugu Kakemoto (Japan Research Institute, Limited, Japan)

CONFERENCE SITE
===============

The WI'2001 and IAT'2001 will take place in Maebashi. Maebashi, the
capital of Gumma Prefecture, is called the `City of water, greenery,
and poetry'.  Maebashi is an `International Convention City'
designated by the Ministry of Transportation.

Maebashi and the neighboring areas in Gunma is a land of greenery
blessed with the wonders of natural beauty and more than a hundred hot
springs offering relaxation and peace of mind.  WI'2001 and IAT'2001
will organize a tour during the conference to a resort hotel with hot
spring in Ikaho that is one of the most famous hot springs areas in
Japan.

Maebashi is positioned nearly in the center of the Japan Archipelago.
Only a hundred kilometers from Japan's capital city of Tokyo and
reachable in an hour by bullet train or high-speed expressway, a
variety of favorable land conditions lead to flourishing economic
activity.  Maebashi City and the neighboring areas in Gunma are
expected to further develop into an IT conurbation with highly
advanced information technology.


FURTHER INFORMATION
===================

Please send suggestions and inquiries regarding WI'2001 to:

Prof. Ning Zhong (WI'2001)
Department of Information Engineering
Maebashi Institute of Technology
460-1, Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816
Japan

TEL&FAX: +81-27-265-7366
E-mail: zhong at maebashi-it.ac.jp

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Oct 27 16:51:51 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:51:51 +0200
Subject: Appel: LACL-2001
Message-ID: <FRI.27.OCT.2000.185151.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: Catherine Piliere <Catherine.Piliere at loria.fr>




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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

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                            LACL 2001

                 4th International Conference on
           LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
                        June 27 -- 29, 2001
                        Le Croisic, France

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HISTORY

The LACL series of conferences aims at providing a forum for the
presentation and discussion of current research in all the formal
and logical aspects of computational linguistics.  It started as a
workshop held in Nancy (France), in 1995.  Due to its success, it
was turned, the next year, into a international conference.  LACL'96
and'97 have both been held in Nancy (France).  LACL'98 has been held
in Grenoble (France).  Selected papers from LACL'95 appear in a special
issue of Journal of Logic Language and Information, 7(4), 1998.
The proceedings of LACL'96 and 97 appear as volumes 1328 and 1582
of Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.  The proceedings of LACL'98
are in press with the same series.


SCOPE

Typical topics include, but are not limited to:

   Categorial grammars, Categorial type logics, Compositionality,
   Discourse representation theory, Dynamics, Feature Logics,
   Formal language theory, Game-theoretical semantics, Grammatical
   inference, Learning theory, Linear logical frameworks, Minimalism,
   Modal logics, Montague semantics, Parsing as deduction, Proof-
   theoretic approaches, Situation semantics and situation theory,
   Type-theoretic approaches.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 15 standard
A4 or US quarto pages.  The paper should allow the Programme
Committee to assess the merits of the work.  In particular,
references and comparisons with related work should be included.
Submission of material already published or submitted to other
conferences with published proceedings is not allowed.

Electronic submission is highly recommended.  A postscript version
of the paper should be sent as an e-mail to:

   <morrill at lsi.upc.es>

to arrive by January 29, 2001.

Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer
llncs class file <http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html>

In addition, a separate e-mail containing the title of the paper,
authors' names and addresses, and a short abstract in plain ASCII
format should be sent to the same e-mail address.

If electronic submission is not possible, authors may submit four
hard copies of the paper by post to the following address:

   LACL 2001 (Attention: G. Morrill)
   UPC, Departament de LSI
   Campus Nord - Modul C6
   Jordi Girona Salgado, 1-3
   E-08034 Barcelona - Espanya


IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for Submissions:   January 29, 2001
Notification to Authors:    March 26, 2001
Final Versions due:         April 20, 2001


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

The accepted papers will be published as a volume of Springer
Lecture Notes in AI. This will be available at the time of the
conference.


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 W. Buszkowski (Poznan)
 R. Crouch, (Palo Alto)
 A. Dikovsky (Nantes)
 M. Dymetman (Grenoble)
 C. Gardent (Saarbrucken)
 P. de Groote (Nancy), co-chair
 M. Kanazawa (Tokyo)
 G. Morrill (Barcelona), co-chair
 R. Muskens (Tilburg)
 F. Pfenning (Pittsburgh)
 B. Rounds, (Ann Arbor)
 E. Stabler (Los Angeles)


ORGANIZING COMITTEE

 B. Daille (Nantes)
 A. Dikovsky (Nantes)
 A. Foret (Rennes)
 E. Lebret (Rennes)
 C. Piliere (Nancy), publicity chair
 C. Retore (Rennes), chair
 P. Sebillot (Rennes)

URL

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From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:53:11 +0200
Subject: Appel: PACLING-2001
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -



                               PACLING 2001
                            First Call For Papers
                              September 11-14, 2001
                  Kitakyushu International Conference Center
                               Kitakyushu, Japan

History and Aims

   PACLING(Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics)has grown
out of the very successful Japan-Australia joint symposia on natural
language processing held in November 1989 in Melbourne, Australia
and in October in Iizuka, Japan in 1991. The following four meetings
of the retitled PACLING, a name designed to express the wider
membership, took place in Vancouver, Canada in 1993, Brisbane,
Australia in 1995, Ohme, Japan in1997 and Waterloo, Canada in 1999.

   PACLING '01 will be a low-profile, high-quality, workshop-oriented
meeting whose aim is to promote friendly scientific relations among Pacific
Rim countries, with emphasis on interdisciplinary scientific exchange
showing openness towards good research falling outside current dominant
 "schools of thought, " and on technological transfer within the Pacific
region. The conference is a unique forum for scientific and technological
exchange, being small than ACL, COLING, or Applied NLP, and also more
regional with extensive representation from the Pacific.

Topics

Original papers are invited on any topic in computational linguistics (and
strongly related areas) including (but not limited to) the following:

   phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics,
dialogues, spoken languages, corpora, text and message understanding
and generation, language translation and translation aids, language
learning and learning aids, question-answering systems, interfaces to
(multimedia) databases language and input/output devides, natural-
language-based software, information retrieval using natural language
interface, and statistical methods for large corpora.

Submission of Papers

Authors should prepare extended abstracts, in English, not more than
6 pages including figures and tables using standard fonts of 11 points
or bigger one. It should include author's name, postal address, e-mail
address (if possible), telehone and facsimile numbers; a brief 100-200
word summary; and some key words for classifying the submission.

  Papers that are being submitted to other conferences, whether
verbatim or in essence, must reflect this fact after key words. If a
paper appears at another conference, it must be withdrawn from
PACLING'01. Papers that violate these requirements are subject to
rejection without review.

 Please send four copies of each submission to one of the following
two addresses. Sending by email is also accepted(we will request the
author to send copies when the email submitted is not completely
visualized because of word processor problems or language font
problems):
     Prof. Shun Ishizaki
     Keio University
     5322 Endoh, Fujisawa,
     KANAGAWA 252-8520, JAPAN
     Telephone: +81 466 48 6101,  Fax: +81 466 48 6101
     E-mail:  ishizaki at sfc.keio.ac.jp

   *or*

     Prof. Nick Cercone
     Department of computer Science
     William Davis Comp. Research Centre
     University of Waterloo
     Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
     Canada
     Telephone:(519)888-4567, Ext 3292 Fax:(519)885-1208
     E-mail: ncercone at uwaterloo.ca

Schedule

     Submission deadline:          March 17 2001
     Notification of acceptance:   May 19 2001
     Camera-ready copy due:        July 21 2001

Organization
        President   Naoyuki okada (kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

 Organizing committee
        Members  Hirosi Sakaki (Meisei University, Japan)
        Christian Matthiessen (Macquarie University, Australia)
        Nick Cercone (University of Regina, Canada)
        Charles Fillmore (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
 Conference committee
        Chair    Shun Ishizaki (Keio University, Japan)
        Program coordinators
                 Shun Ishizaki (Keio University, Japan)
                 Kiyoshi Kogure (NTT, Japan)
                 Hideki Hirakawa (Toshiba Co., Japan)
                 Nick Cercone (University of Regina, Canada)
        Local coordinators
                 Tsutomu Endo (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
                 Kenji Itoh (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
                 Masami Suzuki (KDD, Japan)
                 Kentaro Inui (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
        Members(including program committee and local comittee members)
                 Christian Boitet (Imag. France)
                 Francis Bond (NTT,Japan)
                 Sandra Carberry (University of Delaware, U.S.A.)
                 Robin Cohen (University of Waterloo, Canada)
                 Veronica Dahl (Simon Fraser University,Canada)
                 Hercules Dalianis (Royal Institute of Technology, DSV-KTH,
                                    Sweden)
                 Chrysanne DiMarco (University of Waterloo,Canada)
                 Kohji Dohsaka (NTT, Japan)
                 Tsutomu Endo (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
                 Hideki Hirakawa (Toshiba Co., Japan)
                 Satoru Ikehara (Tottori University, Japan)
                 Naoki Inoue (KDD, Japan)
                 Kentaro Inui (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
                 Shun Ishizaki (Keio University, Japan)
                 Kenji Itoh (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
                 Hiroyuki Kameda (Tokyo University of Technology, Japan)
                 Vlado Keiselj (University of Waterloo, Canada)
                 Richard Kittredge (University of Montreal, Canada)
                 Kiyoshi Kogure (NTT, Japan)
                 Guy Lapalme (University of Montreal, Canada)
                 Charles Ling (University of Western Ontario,Canada)
                 Fumito Masui (Mie University, Japan)
                 Stan Matwin (University of Ottawa, Canada)
                 Gordon McCalla (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
                 Paul McFetridge (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
                 Paul Mc Kevitt (University of Ulster(Magee), United
                                 Kingdom)
                 Jin-ichi Murakami (Tottori University, Japan)
                 Hiromi Nakaiwa (NTT, Japan)
                 Jun-ichi Nakamura (University of Kyoto, Japan)
                 Kentaro Ogura (NTT, Japan)
                 Minako O'Hagen (The Global University, New Zealand)
                 Naoyoki Okada (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
                 Kyonghee Paik (USA)
                 Emmanuel Planas (Imag. France)
                 Fred Popowich (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
                 Hirosi Sakaki (Meisei University, Japan)
                 L.K.Schubert (University of Rochester, USA)
                 Akira Shimazu (JAIST, Japan)
                 Masami Suzuki (KDD, Japan)
                 Naoto Takahashi (Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan)
                 Kumiko Tanaka (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
                 Hiroaki Tsurumaru (University of Nagasaki,  Japan)
                 Peter van Beek (University of Alberta, Canada)
                 Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)
                 Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University, Australia)

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Oct 27 16:52:15 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:52:15 +0200
Subject: Appel: TIA-2001
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From: Pierre Zweigenbaum <pz at biomath.jussieu.fr>




[please see English version below]
*********************************************************************
   Appel ? communication
          TIA-2001
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  Quatri?me rencontre ? Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle ?
       3-4 mai 2001, Nancy, France


Sous l'effet de l'information en r?seau, institutions, entreprises et
laboratoires se trouvent aujourd'hui confront?s aux probl?mes consid?rables
pos?s par la taille et la diversit? des documents sp?cialis?s. Acc?der ?
ces corpus textuels, les filtrer, les traiter, les stocker, les impl?menter
sur des syst?mes informatiques, telles sont, entre autres, les t?ches
auxquelles doit r?pondre la terminologie. Devant de tels enjeux, la
terminologie, en tant que discipline, doit ?tablir des relations
coop?ratives avec un ensemble de disciplines allant de la linguistique ?
l'ing?nierie des connaissances en passant par les sciences de
l'information.

La pratique terminologique fait notamment appel ? des techniques
linguistiques et /ou num?riques pour manipuler les unit?s de la langue
naturelle (en particulier les terminologies) et ? des techniques
d'intelligence artificielle pour la formalisation de ces donn?es.

Ces techniques partagent des m?thodes, des objectifs et une m?me finalit? :

 - m?me point de d?part : elles partent de corpus pour l'acquisition de
donn?es linguistiques destin?es ? la constitution de terminologies ;
 - m?me objectif : la mod?lisation de domaines ? partir de corpus, sans
formalisation dans le cas d'une production linguistique, avec formalisation
du domaine dans le cas d'une application requ?rant les techniques de l'I.A ;
 - m?me vis?e applicative : ressources terminologiques, dictionnaires
?lectroniques pour la traduction automatique, pour l'indexation, pour le
filtrage, etc., ontologies, syst?mes ? base de connaissances, m?moires
d'entreprise (dans le cadre d'applications relevant de l'I.A).

L'objectif de la conf?rence TIA est de faire ?merger les convergences et
les coop?rations possibles entre ces disciplines pour ?laborer et tester
des m?thodes de travail sur corpus, associ?es ? des techniques de
traitement automatique de la langue et d'intelligence artificielle, afin de
constituer, de mani?re syst?matique, les donn?es terminologiques
pertinentes en fonction des applications.

Les quatri?mes rencontres TIA serviront ? explorer les nombreuses questions
rest?es ouvertes en mati?re d'acquisition de connaissances terminologiques
? partir de corpus, d'analyse du fonctionnement lexicologique en corpus
sp?cialis?, de mod?lisation et de formalisation de ces connaissances,
toujours dans le cas d'applications pr?cises.

Vous ?tes invit? ? y participer en proposant une communication sur l'un des
th?mes ci-dessous :

 - Th?ories du sens et la question des textes sp?cialis?s
 - Terminologie et ontologies
 - Exploitation de l'extraction de termes en corpus
 - Terminologie et mod?lisation / formalisation des connaissances
 - Bases de connaissances terminologiques
 - Ressources terminologiques pour la recherche d'information
 - Probl?mes de la terminologie multilingue
 - R?utilisabilit? en ing?nierie linguistique et ing?nierie des
connaissances
 - Outils et applications

Le Groupe TIA (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/), est organisateur de
cette conf?rence qui fait suite aux
conf?rences TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) et TIA'99 (Nantes).
Fond? sous l'?gide du PRC-IA et de l'AFIA en 1994, ? pr?sent groupe
AFIA/PRC-I3, ce groupe rassemble des chercheurs en linguistique, en
intelligence artificielle et en traitement automatique des langues. Il a
?t? cr?? pour permettre une confrontation entre les cadres th?oriques et
m?thodologiques ainsi qu'entre les pratiques d?velopp?es dans chaque
discipline.

Les propositions de communications (en anglais ou en fran?ais) seront
soumises ? un comit? de programme international constitu? des membres du
groupe TIA et d'experts des domaines concern?s.


Comit? de programme

Pr?sidente : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris)

 Sophia Ananiadou (European Media Laboratory,Allemagne)
 Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse)
 Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne)
 Roberto Basili (Universit? de Rome)
 Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse)
 Brigitte Bi?bow (LIPN, Villetaneuse
 Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM DSI/AP-HP, Paris)
 Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM DSI/AP-HP, Paris)
 St?phane Chaudiron (Minist?re de la Recherche, Universit? Paris 10)
 Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse)
 Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis)
 Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes)
 Gregory Greffenstette (Centre de Recherche Rank Xerox, Grenoble)
 Beno?t Habert (UMR 9952, ENS Fontenay St Cloud)
 Udo Hahn (Universit? de Fribourg)
 John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse)
 Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse)
 Ingrid Meyer (Universit? d'Ottawa)
 Jennifer Pearson (Universit? de Dublin)
 Fran?ois Rastier (INALF, Paris)
 Fran?ois Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg)
 Jean Royaut? (INIST, Nancy)
 Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse)
 Philippe Thoiron (Universit? Louis Lumi?re, Lyon)
 Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy)
 Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles)
 Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM DSI/AP-HP, Paris)


Comit? d'organisation :

Jean Royaut? (Pr?sident), Dominique Besagni, Claire Fran?ois, Patricia
Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, CNRS-INIST),  Filelia
Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Universit? Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA)

Calendrier :
Date limite de soumission : 15 janvier 2001
Notification aux auteurs : 25 f?vrier 2001
Date de r?ception des versions d?finitives ; 15 mars 2001

Les rencontres se d?rouleront ? l'INIST - Nancy (Institut de l'Information
Scientifique et Technique du CNRS) et seront aussi l'occasion de mettre en
?vidence les convergences entre documentation et terminologie.

Les d?tails concernant le calendrier de soumission et l'organisation de la
conf?rence seront diffus?s ult?rieurement sur la toile et sur diff?rentes
listes.

http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm et

http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/

Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royaut? - URI-INIST-CNRS
          2 all?e du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex
          T?l : +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr


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      Call for papers
          TIA-2001
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 4th meeting "Terminology and Artificial Intelligence"
       3-4 May 2001, Nancy, France

Due to the availability of ever-increasing amount of information
institutions, companies and laboratories are facing new problems related in
particular to scale effects and the diversity of technical texts. A full
range of tasks, from accessing text corpora to processing lexical data, is
now being entrusted to terminology. As a result, terminology has to enrich
and strengthen its links with related disciplines, including linguistics,
knowledge engineering and information sciences. Thus, terminological work
makes use of linguistic and /or numeric techniques to process natural
language items (especially terms) and of artificial intelligence techniques
for their formalization.

These techniques share a number of methods and objec tives as well as a
common goal:

 - the same starting point: corpus-based data acquistion;
 - the same objectives: corpus-based domain modeling with or without
formalization, depending on the type of application (artificial
intelligence or not);
 - the same goal: production of terminological resources (machine-readable
dictionaries for machine translation, indexing, filtering); ontologies,
knowledge-based systems, corporate memories.

The TIA Conference aims at promoting convergence and synergy among such
disciplines in order to develop and evaluate corpus-processing
methodologies, requiring refined natural language processing and artificial
intelligence techniques. The end results of those investigations should
help build relevant terminological data for specific applications on a
systematic basis.

The 4th TIA Conference will be an opportunity to explore some of the
unsolved problems raised in corpus-based acquisition of terminological
data, in the analysis of lexical behavior in specialized corpora, in
knowledge modeling and formalization of the resulting data.

You are invited to propose a paper in the following topics:

 - Meaning theories and the question of specialized texts;
 - Terminology and ontologies;
 - Exploitation of corpus-based term extraction;
 - Terminology and knowledge modeling / formalization
 - Terminological knowledge bases;
 - Terminological resources for information retrieval;
 - Problems of multilingual terminology;
 - Reusability in linguistic and knowledge engineering
 - Tools and applications.

This TIA Conference, which follows TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse)
and TIA'99 (Nantes), is organized by the TIA Working Group
(http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/). This group gathers researchers in
linguistics, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. It
was created to allow a confrontation between the theoretical and
methodological frameworks as well as between the practices developed in
each discipline. Submitted papers (in French or in English) will be
reviewed by an international program committee composed of members of the
TIA Working Group and of invited experts.


Program Committee:

Chair : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris)

 Sophia Ananiadou (European Media Laboratory,Germany)
 Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France)
 Bruno Bachimont (INA, Bry sur Marne, France)
 Roberto Basili (University of Rome, Italy)
 Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse, France)
 Brigitte Bi?bow (LIPN, Villetaneuse, France)
 Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM DSI/AP-HP, Paris, France)
 Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM DSI/AP-HP, Paris, France)
 St?phane Chaudiron (Ministry of Research, University Paris 10, France)
 Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse, France)
 Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France)
 Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes, France)
 Gregory Greffenstette (Rank Xerox Research Centre, Grenoble, France)
 Beno?t Habert (UMR 9952, ENS Fontenay St Cloud, France)
 Udo Hahn (Freiburg University, Germany)
 John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse, France)
 Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse, France)
 Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa, France)
 Jennifer Pearson (Dublin City University, Ireland )
 Fran?ois Rastier (INALF, Paris, France)
 Fran?ois Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg, France)
 Jean Royaut? (INIST, Nancy, France)
 Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse, France)
 Philippe Thoiron (Louis Lumi?re University, Lyon, France)
 Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy, France)
 Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Brussels, Belgium)
 Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM DSI/AP-HP, Paris, France)


Organizing Committee:

Jean Royaut? (Organizing chair), Dominique Besagni, Claire Fran?ois,
Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, CNRS-INIST), Filelia
Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Universit? Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA)

The conference will take place at INIST, the Institute for Scientific and
Technical Information of the French National Center for Scientific Research
(CNRS), in Nancy, and will also offer the opportunity to highlight the
convergence between documentation and terminology.


Deadlines

Submission due date: January 15, 2001
Notification date: February 25, 2001
Camera ready date: March 15, 2001

Details concerning paper submission and the conference organization will be
given later on the conferences websites.

http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm and

http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/ and on various lists.

Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royaut? - URI-INIST-CNRS
          2 all?e du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex
          Tel.: +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr
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Jean Royaut? <royaute at inist.fr>
CNRS/INIST http://www.inist.fr
Unit? Recherche et Innovation (URI)
2, all?e du Parc de Brabois
F-54514 Vandoeuvre-l?s-Nancy
Tel: (+33) 03 83 50 46 00 / Fax : (+33) 83 50 46 50

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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Oct 27 16:54:11 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:54:11 +0200
Subject: Conf: CLIN-2000
Message-ID: <FRI.27.OCT.2000.185411.0200.PB@LPL.UNIVAIX.FR>

From: "J. Zavrel" <Jakub.Zavrel at kub.nl>



CLIN 2000 -- The Eleventh
             Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands Meeting

             Friday, 3 November, 2000

             Department of Computational Linguistics,
             Tilburg University


The goal of the CLIN meeting is to bring together the Computational
Linguistics research community in the Netherlands (in the broadest
possible sense of the words `Netherlands', `computational' en
`linguistics'). The talks at the CLIN meeting are short, informal, and
cover many diverse subareas of the field.

This years meeting will be hosted by the Department of Computational
Linguistics at Tilburg University. The meeting will take place in
building Y on the campus of Tilburg University. The languages of the
conference will be Dutch and English.


The keynote lecture of CLIN 2000 is:

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


There will be three parallel sessions with tracks on Machine
Translation, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, HPSG,
Parsing, Semantics, Machine Learning, Generation, Grammar, Finite
State Automata, POS tagging, Annotation, WWW, Dialogue and diverse
other topics. The full preliminary programme of the conference is
available at the CLIN2000 homepage (http://ilk.kub.nl/clin2000).

We are planning to provide the opportunity for companies with research
and development efforts in Computational Linguistics to present
themselves in a poster-session. Those who wish to participate in this
should contact Jakub Zavrel (zavrel at kub.nl) for more information.

A volume with proceedings of the tenth CLIN meeting (held 10 December
1999, in Utrecht) will be available at this year's meeting.

The conference fee, hfl.65.-, can be paid in cash at the registration
desk. No pre-registration is required. This fee includes the
abovementioned volume of proceedings from the tenth CLIN, lunch, and a
reception afterward. Proceedings of older CLIN editions will be for sale at
the
registration desk. This year's proceedings will be available at CLIN 2001.

The local organisation committee of this year's meeting consists of
Walter Daelemans, Khalil Sima'an, Jorn Veenstra, and Jakub
Zavrel. Questions about the conference can be sent to clin2000 at kub.nl.

You can find this information, the preliminary conference program, and
hotel and travel information for Tilburg University on the CLIN 2000
webpage (http://ilk.kub.nl/clin2000/). General information on CLIN can
be found at http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/clin/.


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From pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr  Fri Oct 27 16:54:29 2000
From: pb at lpl.univ-aix.fr (Philippe Blache)
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 18:54:29 +0200
Subject: Conf: ASSETS-2000
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From: "Ephraim P. Glinert" <glinert at cs.rpi.edu>

********* PLEASE DISTRIBUTE IN YOUR DEPT. OR ORGANIZATION! *********

Apologies if this reaches you in error or multiple times...

ASSETS'2000, the 4th International ACM/SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive
Technologies, will be held November 12-13, 2000, in Arlington, VA (a
suburb of Washington DC, just minutes from Reagan National Airport).

Don't miss this unique and exciting opportunity to participate in ACM's
PREMIER CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH RELATED TO ASSISTIVE
TECHNOLOGIES AND UNIVERSAL ACCESS, which is nevertheless a small and
intimate event where meals are taken together and you have a chance to
really talk to people.

THIS YEAR'S CONFERENCE HOTEL is connected by sky-bridge to the National
Science Foundation, so attendees can plan to take advantage of any free
time to meet with NSF staff and learn about funding opportunities in
their research areas (it is best to make an appointment before-hand).
It is also located directly atop a Metro station, so sight-seeing in
DC is easy.

And if you ACT NOW there's still time to take advantage of DISCOUNTED
EARLY REGISTRATION RATES for the conference!

FOR MORE INFORMATION, please see:

               http://www.acm.org/sigs/conferences/assets00

We look forward to seeing you next month at ASSETS'2000!

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