From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 6 15:49:01 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:49:01 +0200 Subject: Ressources: New resources in TRACTOR Message-ID: TRACTOR is pleased to announce the availability of the following resources which have recently been deposited in the archive. See www.tractor.de for more information on these and the other resources: The East African Component of The International Corpus of English (ICE-EA) Corpus of written and spoken English of Tanzania and Kenya. Resource provider: Josef Schmied Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts Historical English corpus. Resource provider: Josef Scmied Corpus of Italian newspapers Newspaper texts of La Repubblica (26m words) and La Stampa (11m words) in ASCII files. Resource provider: Francois Esvan Slovene fiction Fiction texts and poetry in HTML format. Resource provider: Miran Hladnik Database of Russian Family Names Resource provider: Serge A. Yablonsky Finnish poetry and word databases Resource provider: Kimmo Kettunen Entropizer 1.1 Resource provider: Aris Xanthos Bigram Statistics package (BSP) Resource provider: Ted Pedersen Reverse Italian lexicon Resource provider: Rodolfo Delmonte MULTEXT-EAST Corpus. Corpora, tools and alignments in many European languages. Resource provider: THE MULTEXT EAST Consortium Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation Corpus (STOP) A corpus of modern British English narrative texts (260,000 words) representing news, fiction and biography (including autobiography). Forms of speech, thought and writing presentation have been manually annotated in the corpus. Resource providers: Elena Semino, Mick Short and Martin Wynne of the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University Free Britain Corpus A corpus of recent texts written by Eurosceptics about Britain and the European Union, containing approx. 2 million words. Resource provider: Wolfgang Teubert EU enlargement corpus Journalism articles about EU enlargement, c. 600,000 words, HTML. Resource provider: Centre for Corpus Linguistics, Department of English, University of Birmingham. In order to access these resources you need to be a member of the TRACTOR User Community. To join, fill in the user agreement form (available on the website) and then pay the annual administrative fee of 50 euros (20 euros to Central and Eastern European countries). If you want to deposit some resources in the archive, you can join for free, so this method is recommended! Users have free, unlimited access to all the resources. See http://www.tractor.de/faq.htm for more information on TRACTOR and email any queries to helpdesk at tractor.de. -- Martin Wynne Centre for Corpus Research, Coordinator, TRACTOR Network Department of English, www.tractor.de Birmingham University Tel: +44 (0)121 414 2763 Birmingham Fax: +44 (0)121 414 6053 UK - B15 2TT email: martin at clg.bham.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 6 15:56:36 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:56:36 +0200 Subject: Appel: COLING-2002 Message-ID: ================================================================ Please redistribute the following CFP for COLING 2002. Thanks. Apologies for multiple posts. ================================================================ COLING-2002 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics August 24 -- September 1, 2002 Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan ================================================================ Organized by: Academia Sinica, ACLCLP and National Tsing Hua University Under the Auspices of: The International Committee on Computational Linguistics http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ Call for Papers (No.1. May-30-01) COLING is the most prominent conference in the field of Computational Linguistics. In its 40 plus years of existence, the biennial COLING has been a productive forum for scholars all over the world to exchange original research papers on a broad range of topics in computational linguistics. COLING is an international forum for discussion and presentation representing the current state of the art and determining standards of computational linguistics research. In 2002, Taiwan will host the 19th COLING conference. This will be the first time that COLING is held outside Europe, North America, or Japan. It will be a chance for participants to experience the energy behind Taiwan's vibrant growth in knowledge technology, as well as the natural beauty of Formosa and its rich cultural heritage. Submitted papers should describe original work, completed or in progress, rather than merely planned, and clearly indicate the current state of advancement of the work. No previously published papers should be submitted. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is allowed provided it is explicitly indicated on the identification page. In line with the practice established in previous COLING conferences, authors will be asked to place their submission in one of two categories: 1. Regular papers, of not more than seven pages, presenting results of original complete research, and 2. Project notes, of five pages or less, describing ongoing research or demonstrating a system. Method of Submission: o Complete a Paper Submission Form (http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/). This form may be updated up to the deadline for paper submissions (February 15, 2002). o For your paper use the layout and format of papers described in the LATEX or Microsoft Word Style sheets, as well as ACL Bibliography Style sheets. (For more details on paper submission see http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/). o Electronic submissions of papers are strongly preferred. Papers should be sent to coling2002 at ikp.uni-bonn.de o Hard copy papers are also accepted. Further details will be available later. Call for Workshop-Proposals The Program committee welcomes submissions of proposals for workshops with focus on computational linguistics. A separate Call for Workshops will be sent soon. For details on Workshop submission please contact Workshop Chair: Antonio Zampolli (E-mail: pisa at ilc.pi.cnr.it). Important Dates: Deadline for Workshop Proposals: January 15, 2002 Deadline for paper submission: February 15, 2002 Notification of Workshops: February 15, 2002 Notification to authors: May 1, 2002 Arrival of final camera-ready copy and registration of authors: June 15, 2002 Tutorials: August 24 - 25, 2002 (Academia Sinica) Conference: August 26 - 30, 2002 (Howard International House) Post-Conference Workshops: August 31, September 1, 2002 (Academia Sinica) Reviewing: Reviewing of papers will be done by an International Program Committee consisting of Program Chairs and a team of reviewers. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers (For details please go to: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/). Program Committee: Winfried Lenders (Chair), University of Bonn, Germany Susan Armstrong, ETI/ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland Christian Boitet, Joseph Fourier University, France Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University, USA Jun-Ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan Hans Uszkoreit, University of Saarbrucken, Germany Yorik Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK Local Organization: The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica National Tsing Hua University Organizing Committee: Chu-Ren Huang (Chair), Academia Sinica Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University Jing-Shin Chang, National Chi-Nan University Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University Keh-Jiann Chen, Academia Sinica Kuang-Hua Chen, National Taiwan University Sin-Horng Chen, National Chiao Tung University Lee-Feng Chien (Executive secretary), Academia Sinica Zhao-Ming Gao, National Taiwan University Sue-Jin Ker, Soochow University Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation Shu-Chuan Tseng (Executive secretary), Academia Sinica Hsiao-Chuan Wang, National Tsing Hua University Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica Jhing-Fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University Contacts: Program: Winfried Lenders Institut fur Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik University of Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn Germany Lenders at uni-bonn.de Organization: Jen-Yi Lin Chinese Knowledge Information Processing Group Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica Nankang, Taipei 11529 Taiwan COLING02 at sinica.edu.tw ================================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 6 15:57:28 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:57:28 +0200 Subject: Publications: ROBUSTNESS IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY Message-ID: **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 17 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis ROBUSTNESS IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY edited by Jean-Claude Junqua Speech Technology Laboratory, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Gertjan van Noord University of Groningen, The Netherlands In this book we address robustness issues at the speech recognition and natural language parsing levels, with a focus on feature extraction and noise robust recognition, adaptive systems, language modeling, parsing, and natural language understanding. This book attempts to give a clear overview of the main technologies used in language and speech processing, along with an extensive bibliography to enable topics of interest to be pursued further. It also brings together speech and language technologies often considered separately. 'Robustness in Language and Speech Technology' serves as a valuable reference and although not intended as a formal university textbook, contains some material that can be used for a course at the graduate or undergraduate level. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6790-1 February 2001, 280 pp. EUR 100.00 / USD 100.00 / GBP 57.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS 1. Introduction; J.-C. Junqua, G. van Noord. 2. Acoustic Features and Distance Measure; J. de Veth, et al. 3. Speaker Compensation in Automatic Speech Recognition; D.T. Merino. 4. Robustness in Statistical Language Modeling; J.R. Bellegarda. 5. Improving Robustness by Modeling Spontaneous Speech Events; P.A. Heeman, J.F. Allen. 6. Regular Approximation of Context-Free Grammars; M. Mohri, M.-J. Nederhof. 7. Weighted Grammar Tools: The GRM Library; M. Mohri. 8. Robust Parsing and Beyond; J.-P. Chanod. 9. Robust Parsing of Word Graphs; G. van Noord. 10. Balancing Robustness and Efficiency; C. Penstein Rosé, A. Lavie. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Volume 13: Parallel text processing: Alignment and use of translation corpora Jean Véronis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6546-1, August 2000. Volume 14: Prosody: theory and experiment Studies Presented to Gösta Bruce Merle Horne (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6579-8, August 2000. Volume 15: Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology Antonis Botinis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0, October 2000. Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5, October 2000. Volume 16: Advances in probabilistic and other parsing technologies Harry Bunt, Anton Nijholt (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6616-6, October 2000. http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 6 15:58:28 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:58:28 +0200 Subject: Conf: DCAGRS_2001 Message-ID: Dear Colleague, this is to inform you that the programme of the workshop Descriptional Complexity for Automata, Grammars and Related Structures (July 20-22, 2001, Vienna, Austria) is now fixed and available at the URL of the workshop http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcagrs01/ We want to note that a registration by June 10, 2001, will safeguard a discount on the registration fee. Thank you very much for your attention. Yours sincerely, Bernd Reichel ************************************************************************ Dr. Bernd Reichel Fakult"at f"ur Informatik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universit"at Magdeburg Postfach 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany Tel.: +49-391-67-12851; FAX: -11250; Tel.(privat): +49-391-5051515 reichel at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~reichel Building 18 Room 232 ************************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 6 16:01:11 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:01:11 +0200 Subject: Jobs: 2 offres Message-ID: 1/ TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY at SAIL LABS Barcelona 2/ PhD funding University of Sheffield ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ Openings in TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY at SAIL LABS Barcelona Sail Labs is one of the world's leading R&D companies in the field of "Natural Language Understanding". With the slogan "Innovation in Understanding", the company is focusing on three core development areas: * Speech technology * Translation technology * Content technology In the Munich head office and in its branches in Berlin, Barcelona, and Vienna, 190 developers are working on solutions, products and components related to the understanding of natural languages. For the further expansion of our highly motivated team in Barcelona we are looking for qualified professionals for the area of translation technologies. Candidate tasks and profiles: ***************************************** COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (ref. CL) ***************************************** Your tasks: * Design, development and maintenance of formal grammars for our several new or existing translation engines. * Design and development of the linguistic components of our new generation of translation systems. Your profile: * University degree in philosophy, linguistics, computational linguistics or equivalent, with a strong background in natural language processing. * Native proficiency in English or German and excellent knowledge of some other western European language. * Programming experience. * Effective communication skills in written and spoken English. * Experience in machine translation and/or developing formal grammars for natural language processing applications will be a plus. * Knowledge of other languages will also be a plus. Working language: English Starting date: September/October 2001 Office location: Center of Barcelona (in the charming 19th century district Eixample, within walking distance from the old part of the city and from the famous 'Las Ramblas') You will join a young, international, and highly motivated team. SAIL LABS combines research and development of market-ready products. This will thus offer a great opportunity to those people who want to apply their acquired knowledge and skills in real-world conditions. More information about SAIL LABS can be found at the web page << http://www.sail-labs.com >>. If you are interested, send CV and cover letter in English by email to: albert.llorens at sail-labs.es indicating on the envelope or in the subject of the email the job reference. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ This is a re-advertisement. Apologies for cross-postings. The University of Sheffield has PhD funding available (starting September 2001) for a project involving the British National Corpus. The studentship is jointly held by the departments of English Language and Linguistics and Information Studies. A suitable candidate would have a project in mind involving the BNC and be able to draw on expertise from both of these departments. We welcome proposals in the following areas of corpus linguistics: lexical statistics, word frequency, lexical innovation, lexicography text type/register/genre analysis stylistics discourse analysis variation and change text retrieval, text processing text markup computing in the humanities Please note that this is a university studentship and so fees are paid at the home rate only. If the candidate is not from the EU, funding must be available to make up the difference between home and overseas fees. Arrangements for supervision: The successful candidate will be a member of the Department of English Language and Linguistics which forms part of the School of English. The project will be jointly supervised by Dr Claire Cowie and Dr Claire Warwick from the department of Information Studies. Dr Cowie works on word-formation and lexical innovation in historical corpora, with particular reference to register differences. Dr Warwick works on humanities computing, with a particular interest in the application of computers to the study of English literature and language. She was previously part of the BNC project team. More information about the departments may be found at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/language/index.html and http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is. Application forms and further details can be obtained from: Fozia Yasmin, Graduate Research Office Graduate Research Office 156 Broomspring Lane Sheffield S10 2FE Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 1404 Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 1420 Email : grad.school at sheffield.ac.uk To discuss the project informally, please contact Claire Cowie (0114 2220217- c.s.cowie at sheffield.ac.uk) or Claire Warwick (0114 222 2632 - c.warwick at sheffield.ac.uk). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 11 16:24:15 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:24:15 +0200 Subject: Appel: Esslli 2002 (Trento, Italy) Message-ID: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Fourteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2001 August 13-24, 2002, Trento, Italy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% PRELIMINARY CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------------------- The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-2002 is organised under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). The ESSLLI-2002 Programme Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 14th annual Summer School on a wide range of topics in the following fields: LANGUAGE & COMPUTATION LANGUAGE & LOGIC LOGIC & COMPUTATION In addition to courses and workshops there will be a Student Session. A Call for Papers for the Student Session will be distributed separately. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals have to be submitted through a web form whose location will be announced in a later CfP and at the web site for ESSLLI-2002 . All proposals should be submitted no later than July 22, 2001. Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than September 17, 2001. Proposers should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate can not be considered. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: Anyone interested in lecturing or organising a workshop during ESSLLI-2002, please read the following information carefully. ALL COURSES: Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers. They typically consist of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course). Each session lasts 90 minutes. Timetable for Course Proposal Submission: Jul 22, 2001: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 17, 2001: Notification Nov 15, 2001: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s) information, course description and prerequisites Jun 1, 2002: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are really elementary courses not assuming any background knowledge. They are intended for people to get acquainted with the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key competences of neighbouring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses may presuppose some experience with scientific methods in general, so as to be able to concentrate on the issues that are germane to the area of the course. INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are intended to equip students and young researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques. Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and Computation, can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared to standard texts in the area. ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or PhD students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in some detail. WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work. A workshop has a theme. At most one organiser is paid. The organisers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop and give a general introduction in the first session. They are also responsible for the programme of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers. Each workshop organiser will be responsible for producing a Call for Papers for the workshop by November 15, 2001. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the LLI community. It should also note that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop) or ten sessions (a two-week workshop). Sessions are normally 90 minutes. Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions Jul 22, 2001: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 15, 2001: Notification Nov 15, 2001: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers Dec 1, 2001: Send out Call for Papers Mar 15, 2002: Deadline for Papers (suggested) May 1, 2002: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested) May 15, 2002: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Programme Jun 1, 2002: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of Workshop notes Jun 1, 2002: Deadline for Final Workshop Programme FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS: The web-based form for submitting course and workshop proposals will be made accessible through the ESSLLI-2002 page at . You will be required to submit the following information: * Name (name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser) * Address (contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser; where possible, please include phone and fax numbers) * Title (title of proposed course/workshop) * Type (is this a workshop, a foundational course, an introductory course, or an advanced course?) * Section (does your proposal fit in Language & Computation, Language & Logic or Logic & Computation? name only one) * Description (describe the proposed contents in at most 150 words) * External funding (will you be able to find external funding to help fund your travel and accommodation expenses? if so, how?) * Further particulars (any further information that is required by the above guidelines should be included here) FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Prospective lecturers and workshop organisers should be aware that all teaching and organising at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible. Lecturers and organisers are not paid for their contribution, but are reimbursed for travel and accommodation. Please note the following: In case a course is to be taught by two lecturers, a lump sum is paid to cover travel and accommodation expenses. The splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers. However, please note that the organisers highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and workshop organisers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses. Workshop speakers are required to register for the Summer School; however, workshop speakers will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined by the Organising Committee. Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School can in general guarantee only to reimburse travel costs for travel from destinations within Europe to Trento. Exceptions will be made depending on the financial situation. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Claire Gardent (chair) Attn: ESSLLI-2002 LORIA BP 239 Campus Scientifique 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (France) Tel: +33-3-83-59-2039 Fax: +33-3-83-27-5652 Email: claire.gardent at loria.fr Local co-chair: Paolo Bouquet Language & Computation: Hinrich Schuetze Gerry Altmann Language & Logic: Fabio Pianesi Steve Pullman Logic & Computation: Simon Parsons Frank Wolter ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Luciano Serafini (chair) Email: serafini at itc.it FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information, visit the web site for ESSLLI-2002 . For this year's summer school, please see the web site for ESSLLI-2001 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 11 16:25:46 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:25:46 +0200 Subject: Appel: Journée Linguistique de Corpus Message-ID: APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS A brief summary in English follows. Journée « Linguistique de Corpus et Linguistique Appliquée » Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient, 14 septembre 2001 Cette journée, organisée par l'Association Française de Linguistique Appliquée en association avec les Départements LEA et LLCE de l'Université de Bretagne Sud, le Centre de Recherche en Littératures, Linguistique Civilisations (CRELLIC) et le groupe Analyse Linguistique et Pratiques Langagières (ALPL), se veut un lieu de rencontre entre tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la linguistique de corpus du point de vue des applications de la linguistique : chercheurs en linguistique, enseignants de langues, traducteurs et lexicographes...Il s'agira d'offrir un forum d'échange d'expériences à ceux qui travaillent sur des corpus textuels plutôt que sur le développement d'outils informatiques. La journée prendra la forme d'exposés sur des travaux en cours, sous forme de posters affichés ou d'interventions orales, et s'achèvera par une table ronde sur les perspectives de développement de cette discipline en France. La journée s'adresse principalement aux chercheurs et enseignants intéressés par l'utilisation de l'informatique comme outil d'analyse et utilisant des corpus électroniques pour l'étude lexicographique, la traduction ou l'enseignement des langues.Vous aurez la possibilité de présenter vos travaux sous forme de communication affichée, par poster d'environ 1m2 ou sous forme d'intervention orale d'une vingtaine de minutes. Veuillez envoyer un résumé d'une page environ accompagné d'une page de renseignements pratiques comprenant : le mode de communication souhaité, votre nom, affiliation, téléphone, adresse postale et électronique, à l'adresse ci-dessous : Journée « Linguistique de corpus » Geoffrey Williams Département LEA U.F.R. Lettres et Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay BP 92116 56321 LORIENT Cedex ou par courrier électronique à Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr Pour tous renseignements : afla at linguist.jussieu.fr Le programme sera communiqué sur le site http://www.univ-ubs.fr/crellic/agendaDATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : 15 août 2001 Comité d'organisation : G. Williams, J. Peeters, C. Ropers, E. Canut, N. Garric, P Boucher, C Sionis Association Française de Linguistique Appliquée.Tour Centrale, 9e ét. / Case 7003,2, place Jussieu75251 Paris Cedex 05 This workshop aims to bring together researchers working with electronic corpora and lexical resources in France or in the French Language. It is aimed principally at those working in teaching, translating, lexicography and applied linguistics. The language of the workshop will be French. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 11 16:27:42 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:27:42 +0200 Subject: Conf: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Message-ID: EXETER CALL 2001 UNIVERSITY OF EXETER September 1- 3 2001 Conference on CALL - The Challenge of Change http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/announcements/CALL.html 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.... To mark the opening of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, the conference will include an optional workshop on 'Arabic meeting the challenge of CALL' on September 3. DRAFT PROGRAMME 1 'New Techniques for New Students : Adapting Language Instruction to Technology' Monique Adriaen, Roberta Sinyor York University, Canada 2 'Extensions to Computer-Assisted Oral Reading to Help Children Learn Vocabulary' Gregory Aist Carnegie Mellon University, USA 3 'Applying HCI Principles to CALL design' Paul Allum Japan 4 'Investigating Syntax Priming in an E-mail Tandem Language Learning Environment' Christine Appel, Carl Vogel Dublin City University, Ireland 5 'Utilising ICT Resources for ELT in Technical Institutions : a case study of India' K M Baharul Islam Kigali, Ruanda 6 'Integrating IT in English Language Curriculae' Inas Barsoum Ain Shams University, Cairo 7 'Reading Comprehension : CALL and NLP' Caroline Barriere, Lise Duquette University of Ottawa, Canada 8 'The Chronicle of ATLAS or Keeping Pace with Change' Ilse Bockstael, Jozef Colpaert, Wilfried Decoo, Linde Van Ishoven Belgium 9 'Conversation Classes Across Europe: A Challenge For Video Conferencing' John Buckett, Naciketa Datta, Derek Lewis, Hartmut Plehn, Peter Ruff, Gary Stringer, Peter Tscherner, Werner Wegstein University of Exeter, England and University of Wuerzburg, Germany 10 'Shared Electronic Spaces for Constructing Written Russian' Lydia Buravova, Jane Hughes University College London, England 11 'An Experiment In Computerised Teaching of English as a Second Language' Evelyne Cauvin France 12 'Web Server Based Architectures for Language Learning: LARFLAST Agents generating CALL Dialogues'. Stefano Cerri, Svetlana Dikareva, Daniele Maraschi, Stefan Trausan Matu Montpellier (F), Bucharest (RO), Simferopol (UK) 13 'British Higher Education and the 21st Century' Catherine Chabert Cardiff University, Wales 14 'Language Learning with Native Speakers in a MOO Community : Real or Virtual?' Lien Goedeme University of Antwerp, Belgium 15 'Using CALL to Change Student Learning' Randall P Donaldson, Margaret Haggstrom US Embassy, Paris and USA 16 'EFL Acquisition Through Computer Support : A Practical Proposal' Patricia Edwards, Mercedes Rico University of Extremadura and University of Merida, Spain 17 'Guidance and Autonomy: A Web-Coordinated Course for Students in Difficulty' Faina Furman, Isabella Kreindler University of Haifa, Israel 18 'What Factors Affect The Use Of Computers In The EFL/EAP Setting?' Rehab Ghazal American University in Cairo, Egypt 19 'CALL Material for Engineering' M. Perera Goma, Miguel Mora, Asuncion Pastor 20 'What Constitutes a Good Internet Research Project' Hideto Harashima Maebashi I.T., Japan 21 'User-Centred Sound Authoring on the Web : New Scopes to Meet the Interactive Challenge' Dominique Hemard London Guildhall University, England 22 'Can We Have More Customised CD-Roms Please?' Martin Herles, Ruth Trinder Vienna University of Economics, Austria 23 'Change Management and Implementation : Empowering the Tutor Through Informed Choice' Sue Hewer, Lesley Shield The Open University, England 24 'Web-Based Learning System for Sociolinguistic Skills in Japanese' Naoya Hirata, Yasuschi Inoguchi, Hiroshi Kamiyama, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Yoshiro Ogawara, Izumi Saita Tohoku University, Japan 25 'Learning Foreign Languages Together With Others Across the Internet' Shirley Holst, Jutta Maria Fleschutz Darmstadt, Germany 26 'CALL Labs : Have They Run Their Course?' Lawrie Hunter Kochi University of Technology, Japan 27 'Effective Use of 'Web CALL' in TEFL Jun Iwata Matsue N. C. T., Japan 28 'Implementing a Web-Based Course for Ab Initio Students of German' Paul Joyce, Derek Lewis University of Exeter, England 30 'Word Processors in an English as a Foreign Language : Context Writing Strategies in a Revised Text : A Qualitative Analysis' Olga Kehagia University of Thessaly, Greece 31 'Music, Language and the Foreign Language Learner: Creating Learning Space with CALL Software' Charles King Colorado, USA 32 'Teaching Students to Find Internet Resources Related to Culture' Kenji & Kathleen Kitao Doshisha University, Japan 33 'Online Lessons - Using the Internet to Help the Coursebook' Jarek Krajka Lublin, Poland 34 'Teacher Belief Systems Towards Computer-Mediated Language Learning: College ESL Instruction' Geoff Lawrence University of Toronto, Canada 35 Electronic Role-Play as a Means for Collaborative Construction of Knowledge On-Line Christine Leahy Nottingham Trent University, England 36 'Integration of CD-Roms Produced by the Language Instructor into the Language Curriculum - A Canterbury Innovation' Vera Leier University of Canterbury, New Zealand 37 'From Symptoms to Diagnosis' Geoff Lessard, Michael Levison Queen's University, Canada 38 'Bridging the Gulf Between Language Teachers and Computers - How to Expend Understanding and Promote Competent and Successful Use of CALL In Your Institution' Sarah Levi Walworth Barbour American School, Israel 39 'Coherence and Direction in CALL Research' Michael Levy University of Queensland, Australia 40 'Innovations in CALL: Are Teachers Managing It? Jamaluddin Mohaidin, Norhisham Mohamad University Sains, Malaysia 41 'EASE: A Multi-Media Materials Development Project' Hilary Nesi University of Warwick, England 42 'Network-Based Language Learning At Coventry University: Managing Change Via WebCT' Marina Orsini-Jones Coventry University, England 43 'Human Instructor/Virtual Tutor : Replacement or Replication?' Timothy F Pope University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada 44 'The Cloud Around Development and Exploiting CALL Material' Christine Sabieh Notre Dame University, Lebanon 45 'Online Filmography' Michael Shawback, Mitch Terhune Ritsumeikan University, Japan 46 'Orality in MOO: Rehearsing Speech in Text' Lesley Shield, Markus Weininger The Open University, England 47 'Graded Reading System on Line' Tadashi Shiozawa Chubu University, Japan 48 'CALL - A Way to Solve Some of the Language Learning / Teaching Problems in Tertiary Education in South Africa' Michelle Sprackett 49 'Using Electronic Dictionaries as CALL Material' Cornelia Tschichold University of Neuchtel, Switzerland 50 'Designing a Multimedia Feedback Tool for Developing Oral Skills' Michio Tsutsui, Masashi Kato, University of Washington, USA 51 'The Future, Electronic English Learner's Dictionary' Birgit Winkler The Open University, England 52 'Change Management In Moving Towards On-Line Learning In Higher Education' Masoud Yazdani University of the West of England 53 'Web-Based Instruction for Interactive Learning in Reading Class' Helen Shu-Chin Yen 54 'Real Media-Based Language Instruction for CALL Environments' Yuichiro Yoshinari Tokyo, Japan 55 'Short and Long-Term Memory Feedback in CALL' George Ypsilandis University of Macedonia, Greece SHORT PROPOSALS 56 'Teaching and Learning Danish in a Virtual Department' Jane Hughes, Claire McAvinia, Jannie Roed University College London, England ARABIC WORKSHOP 57 'Internet-Based Teaching of Arabic as a Second Language' Ibrahim Suliman Ahmed International Islamic University, Malaysia 58 'Changing Teacher Roles and Input-Feedback Medium: Authorware and Web-Based-Assisted Learning of Arabic as a Foreign Language' Mohammed T. Alhawary American University, Washington, USA 59 'Arabic CALL: Lessons from the Past, Opportunities for the Future' R. Kirk Belap Brigham Young, Provo, USA 60 'The Use of Java Programming Language in Solving Problems Associated with Producing CALL Material in Arabic' Steve Cushion, Dominique Hemard London Guildhall University, England 61 'CALL and Students' Motivation: A Case Study at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at IIUM-Malaysia' Ibtisam.M.H.Naji IIUM, Malaysia 62 'Arabic Grammar on the Internet' Helle Nielsen University of Southern Denmark, Denmark 63 'Developing a Website for Teaching Arabic: Technical Issues' Iman Saad, Heba Salem American University in Cairo, Egypt for further information: SEE http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/announcements/CALL.html and/or CONTACT K.C.Cameron at ex.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 11 16:28:17 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:28:17 +0200 Subject: Conf: TALN 2001 Message-ID: ********************************************************************** * * TALN 2001 * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * Universite de Tours * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 * * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ * mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ********** TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL A PARTICIPATION ********** ----> INSCRIPTION PREFERENTIELLE AVANT le 15 JUIN 2001 <---- ----> SUR LE SITE <--- TALN 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001, organise par le LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université de Tours) et l'axe LTI (Langues et Technologies de l'information). La conference TALN 2001 comprendra 30 communications scientifiques, 2 conferenciers invites, des seances de demonstration et posters, ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conference sont le francais et l'anglais. TALN 2001 est organisee sous l'egide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et se tiendra conjointement a la conference pour jeunes chercheurs RECITAL 2001. ********** THEMES ********** Les communications porte sur tous les themes habituels du TALN, incluant, de facon non limitative: lexique morphologie syntaxe semantique pragmatique discours analyse generation resume dialogue traduction automatique approches logiques, symboliques et statistiques TALN 2001 accueillera egalement des travaux de domaines proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un role important, dans la mesure ou l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : traitement de la parole (prosodie, linguistique, pragmatique) traitement de l'ecrit aspects cognitifs terminologie acquisition de connaissances a partir de textes extraction d'information recherche documentaire linguistique de corpus utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la modelisation linguistique ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> INSCRIPTION PREFERENTIELLE AVANT le 15 JUIN 2001 <---- ----> SUR LE SITE <--- Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** DEMONSTRATIONS ET POSTERS ********** Une seance specifique est prevue pour des demonstrations (presentations logicielles) et des posters (85 x 120 cm). ********** CRITERES DE SELECTION ********** Nous avons eu 58 soumissions pour le congres TALN 2001, pour 30 plages disponibles, ce qui nous a oblige a une grande selection, parfois difficile entre des propositions de bonne qualite. Les 12 meilleurs papiers ecartes ont cependant ete retenus pour une seance de posters. Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la conference qui seront distribues a tous les participants. ********************************************************************** * * ENGLISH VERSION * ********************************************************************** ********** TALN 2001 :2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********** ----> PREFERENTIAL RATE BEFORE 6-15-2001 ON THE WEB <--- TALN 2001 will be held at Tours on July, 2 - 5 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and Information Technologies). The conference includes 30 paper presentations, 2 invited speakers, tutorials and software demonstrations. The official conference languages are French and English. TALN 2001 is organized in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) and will be held jointly with the young researcher conference RECITAL 2001 (a separate call for papers will follow). ********** TOPICS ********** Papers are in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to): lexicon morphology syntax semantics pragmatics discourse parsing generation abstraction/summarisation dialogue translation logical, symbolical and statistical approaches TALN 2001 has also invited contributions in fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as these contributions emphasize their NLP dimension : speech processing text processing cognition terminology knowledge acquisition information retrieval documentary research corpus-based linguistics management and acquisition of linguistic resources NLP tools for linguistic modelization ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> PREFERENTIAL RATE BEFORE 6-15-2001 ON THE WEB <--- Conference : 7/2-5/2001 ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** We received 58 papers for 30 accepted. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference given to all participants. ********** COMITE DE PROGRAMME ********** ********** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********** (le comite de programme a ete entoure d'un large comite de lecture) (the program committee has been supervised by a broad reviewing committee) Pascal Amsili, TALaNa Frederic Bechet, LIA Philippe Blache, LPL Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO Beatrice Daille, IRIN Laurence Danlos, LORIA/TALaNa Claire Gardent, LORIA Eric Laporte, CERIL Denis Maurel, LI (president) Piet Mertens, CCL Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA Martin Rajman, EPFL Owen Rambow, ATT Labs-Research Jacques Siroux, IRISA LLI/CORDIAL Jean Veronis, LPL Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM ********** COMITE D'ORGANISATION ********** ********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********** Claire Agafonov, LTI Beatrice Bouchou, LI Alain Cambourian, LTI Alain Delplanque, LTI Nathalie Friburger, LI Nathalie Garric, LTI Paul Gaudin, LTI Manuel Gonzales de Avila, Ciremia Thierry Grass, LTI Denis Maurel, LI (president) Nathalie Rossi, LTI Mohamed Slimane, LI Nicole Vincent, LI ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 11 16:30:22 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:30:22 +0200 Subject: Bourses: University of Edinburgh PhD STUDENTSHIP Message-ID: Division of Informatics and Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh PhD STUDENTSHIP for February 1st 2002. Application deadline: July 15th 2001. Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed. The Institute of Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) within the Division of Informatics and the Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC) invites applications for a three-year EPSRC studentship award to commence in February 2002. The successful applicant will work on a project entitled "Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text". A summary of the aims of this project are as follows: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ROBUST PRAGMATICS FOR NARRATIVE TEXT: PROJECT SUMMARY The proposed project is concerned with the design, implementation and evaluation of a system that analyses the discourse structure of narrative text and the temporal order of its events. BROAD COVERAGE: Existing approaches recognise discourse structure only when signalled by discourse connectives. We'll broaden coverage to cases where such cues are absent by developing a probabilistic model of discourse structure from large language corpora. ROBUSTNESS: Computing rhetorical relations is a knowledge intensive task driven primarily by pragmatic information. Our aim is to use data-intensive methodologies to automatically approximate this information from large language corpora, and therefore to produce a fully automatic system. ENGINEERING: Existing language technology, with a few notable exceptions, tends to take either a symbolic or a probabilistic approach to semantics. We aim to interface a probabilistic component with a symbolic one, proposing a novel approach to the demanding task of semantic interpretation which is both robust and linguistically informed. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or Linguistics. Applicants with strong programming skills (e.g., Perl, C++, Java) and expertise in any of the following will be preferred: o Statistical modelling o Semantic theories of tense and aspect o Theories of discourse structure o Pragmatics (in particular, speech act theory and implicatures) The EPSRC baseline rate of maintenance is currently approx. 7,500 pounds, and the studentship will also pay the three years' tuition fees at home/EU rates. ICCS and HCRC have close research links with a number of other academic institutions (e.g., Universitat Saarlandes, DFKI, Stanford University) and companies from which the student will benefit. For more information about ICCS and HCRC, see the following home pages: http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Information about students, the PhD Programme, and how to apply for a PhD can be found by following the various links from the following URL: http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/prospectus/graduate/research.html Please note that applicants must fill in the faculty's postgraduate application form, which is available online from the above URL. If we already have your application on file for consideration for a PhD commencing October 2001, you do not need to apply again. Deadline for applications: July 15th 2001 Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed. For additional advice and information on how to apply for this PhD studentship, please contact: Admissions Chair The Graduate School Division of Informatics The University of Edinburgh 2, Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5AZ, Scotland, UK Email: phd-admissions at inf.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 5156 Fax: +44 131 667 7209 PLEASE MARK "Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text" ON THE APPLICATION. For additional information on the project "Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text", please contact: Alex Lascarides ICCS, Division of Informatics The University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Email: alex at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 4428 Fax: +44 131 650 6626 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 11 16:30:55 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:30:55 +0200 Subject: Conf: BISFAI-01 Message-ID: Shalom/Hello. For the latest BISFAI-01 (Bar-Ilan Symposium on AI) please see http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~bisfai/ Ariel J. Frank Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty of Exact Sciences Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel 52900 Tel: (972-3-) 5317780, Fax: (972-3-) 5353325 E-mail: ariel at cs.biu.ac.il ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 14 16:27:10 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:27:10 +0200 Subject: [Fwd: AnnouncEcole: Speech and Language Engineering Evaluation Message-ID: ----- ***** Please accept our apologies in case of multiple reception *****----- The CLASS and ELSNET projects organize an International Bullet Course on Speech and Language Engineering Evaluation in Paris at the CNRS headquarters, on Monday July 02nd (afternoon) and Tuesday July 03rd (full day). contact: Patrick Paroubek at pap at limsi.fr, Registration is NOW OPEN at: http://www.limsi.fr/TLP/CLASS/eval_course_reg_form.[ps|pdf] Registration Fee: Regular: 230 Euros, ELSNET: 200 Euros, Projects involved in CLASS: 200 Euros, Student: 100 Euros Some of the organizers of the most famous large scale evaluation programs for Speech and Language Technologies will present an overview of the issue of evaluation for Speech and Language processing. The questions that will be addresssed are: - How does evaluation relates with pre and post activities? - What are the interest and benefits of evaluation for language engineering? - What methodologies exists and how are they deployed? - Relationship with basic research, development and market prospection? - How is it deployed in the different domains (speech and text processing)? - What form should it take? Technology evaluation or field/user Evaluation? - What are the current open issues? - What metric exists? Are they satisfactory and sufficient? - How can we take into account or abstract from the subjective human factors? - What about language resources? Our aim is to reach high-level executive, decision makers, project managers but also developer and scientist who want to have a birds-eye view on Evaluation in Language Engineering presented by people who have been involved in practical deployement of large scale evaluation programs in language engineering in the past 10 years. The course contributors are: J. Mariani (MR/FR), H. Steenecken (TNO/NL), D. Pallett (NIST/USA), P. Paroubek (Limsi-CNRS/FR), P. Resnik (UMIACS/USA), Beth Sundheim (SPAWAR/USA), K. Stibler (LMCo/USA), J. Garofolo (NIST/USA), N. O. Bernsen (NIS/DK), K. Choukri (ELRA/FR). ----- Patrick Paroubek / Limsi-CNRS (pap at limsi.fr) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 14 16:27:45 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:27:45 +0200 Subject: Conf: SEMPRO-2001 Message-ID: Preliminary Call for Participation SEMPRO-2001: COGNITIVELY PLAUSIBLE MODELS OF SEMANTIC PROCESSING (A workshop in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society) July 31st, University of Edinburgh http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~sempro/ The goal of this workshop is to be a forum and a meeting point for researchers developing models of semantic / pragmatic processing (computational and non-computational) motivated by psychological evidence or corpus studies, with a focus on human language processing. This year's workshop will feature papers on: - incrementality and underspecification in semantic processing - lexical access and disambiguation - anaphora resolution - scope assignment We would especially like to encourage the exchange of results between psychological experimentation, computational modelling, and corpus-based work. INVITED SPEAKERS: Julie Sedivy (Brown), Tony Sanford (Glasgow). ACCEPTED PAPERS: the workshop will include both presentations and a poster session. A preliminary list of accepted papers is available at http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~sempro/program.html REGISTRATION: The registration fee will be £40 for regular participants, £20 for students. The fee covers lunch. ACCOMODATION: Several types of accomodation are listed in the pages for the Cognitive Science conference, http://www.scot-mur.demon.co.uk/coginfo.htm. We strongly encourage the participants to book early - accomodation in Edinburgh in that period is hard to find! PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Massimo Poesio (local organizer), Alan Garnham, Maria Lapata, Julie Sedivy, Rosemary Stevenson, Peter Wiemer-Hastings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 14 16:28:44 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:28:44 +0200 Subject: Appel: IRCS WORKSHOP ON LINGUISTIC DATABASES Message-ID: IRCS WORKSHOP ON LINGUISTIC DATABASES University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA 11-13 December 2001 http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/database/ Organized by: Steven Bird, Peter Buneman and Mark Liberman Department of Computer and Information Science, Department of Linguistics, and the Linguistic Data Consortium University of Pennsylvania Funded by the National Science Foundation CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PROPOSALS Linguistic databases are digital repositories of structured information intended to document natural language and natural communicative interaction. Over the last decade, linguistic databases have come to stand at the center of empirical research in the language sciences, and in the development of new human language technologies. Like genomic databases, linguistic databases are complex, evolving and richly annotated repositories, and pose interesting challenges for efficient representation, indexing and query. And like most scientific databases, linguistic databases have made little use of standard database technology. The goals of the workshop are to take stock of existing research in linguistic databases, to identify the key problems, and to explore applications of current database research to these problems. More broadly, the workshop will help define the research questions of a new "linguistic database community" and initiate the ongoing interchange of relevant problems and results between this community and the database community at large. The workshop is expected to attract participants from a range of specialties including databases, linguistics, computational linguistics, annotation and markup. There will be tutorial-style presentations on relevant models in each of these areas. The workshop will address a selection of the following topics: MODELS * models for text databases, speech databases, multimodal databases, typological databases, geographical databases (language maps), and metadata repositories * relational, object-oriented and semi-structured models for representing linguistic annotations * representations for specific linguistic datatypes (e.g. databases of aligned parallel text) * modelling temporal and (geo)spatial structure * critical analysis of existing linguistic databases * special problems for systematic data representation posed by linguistic fieldwork LANGUAGES * query of multilayer annotations * linguistic applications/extensions of XML query languages * analysis of existing ad hoc query languages * queries over temporal and (geo)spatial structure OTHER TOPICS * database support (e.g. what standard database technology has proven worthwhile for linguistic databases?) * systematic methods for populating linguistic databases * appropriate indexing methods for linguistic strings and structures * archiving and preservation * metadata standards serving as finding aids for linguistic databases * data provenance / data lineage * annotation servers PROGRAM The program will have a varied format, designed to maximize cross-fertilization among the various specialties, and to allow extended open discussion. Components of the program will include: * tutorials on relevant models from linguistics, databases or annotation, e.g. the structure of lexical entries, semi-structured query languages, models of text and signal annotation * panel sessions on annotated text and lexicons (and possibly others), with position papers and panel discussion, to evaluate competing approaches * full papers reporting new research * demonstrations of systems for creating and/or managing linguistic data TIMETABLE Expressions of interest are welcome anytime, please see the form on the workshop website. If you have any suggestions concerning the workshop, please email the organizers. FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER Proposals for tutorials and position papers - please email the organizers FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER Abstracts for papers (400 words) and demonstrations (200 words) FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30 Final papers (10 page limit) Registration will be open in September. Please note that participation will be limited by space. PROCEEDINGS The papers will be published in web and hardcopy form (the latter just for workshop attenders). Papers submitted in HTML should be written with the hardcopy version in mind, so a text string which anchors a hyperlink should be directly interpretable, rather than e.g. "visit this link". VENUE The workshop will be held at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, USA. Workshop sessions will take place in IRCS conference rooms, located on the fourth floor of 3401 Walnut Street, adjacent to the university campus, which is two miles west of the city center. The main meeting rooms will be equipped with the usual presentation facilities, including projection and audio facilities. SPONSORSHIP The workshop is being funded by some NSF grants to the University of Pennsylvania. There will be no registration fee, and hotel accomodation will be covered for presenters. USEFUL WEBSITES http://db.cis.upenn.edu Database Research at Penn http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/ Linguistic Annotation http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/ Linguistic Exploration http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/ IRCS homepage http://www.talkbank.org/ NSF TalkBank Project http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb/isle.html NSF ISLE Project http://www.language-archives.org/ Open Language Archives Community http://www.upenn.edu/philadelphia/ Philadelphia http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/visitUs/ Getting to Penn ORGANIZERS Steven Bird http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb/ Peter Buneman http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~peter/ Mark Liberman http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/ ---- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 14 16:29:51 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:29:51 +0200 Subject: Bourses: University of Wolverhampton, Computational Linguistics Message-ID: AHRB RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP The University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences invites applications for an AHRB-funded research studentship in Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate will work on the development of a user-friendly environment which will assist different users in the production of abstracts of scholarly papers. In particular, the research of the student will focus on designing and implementing discourse strategies for summarisation. We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Information Sciences, with programming skills and some experience in Natural Language Processing. Candidates with a background predominantly in linguistics are also encouraged to apply provided they are willing to be involved in programming in the course of the work. The AHRB studentships are subject to residence restrictions in that the candidate must be either a UK citizen or must have been a resident in the UK for at least three years (1 year for EC citizens). Information on eligibility with respect to residence is available at http://www.clg.wlv.ac.uk/news/page1.htm Applications should be sent to Prof. R. Mitkov School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB and must include - completed application form - a CV - copy of university degree - evidence of postgraduate qualification or experience - proof of nationality or residence status - a covering letter in which candidates explain why they have applied for the studentship, give details of their research interests/experience, background, programming skills and an outline of any experience in Natural Language Processing or Linguistics. The application form can be downloaded from http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/AHRB_app_form.doc The closing date for applications is 12 July 2001. The short-listed applicants will be interviewed in the week starting 23 July. The AHRB maintenance grant amounts to 7 500 GBP in the first year, 8 200 GBP in the second year and 9 000 GBP in the third year. The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship on 1 October 2001, joining the Research Group in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton (http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/). For further information/queries, please contact Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Jun 15 16:27:39 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:27:39 +0200 Subject: Conf: IWPT'01 short paper deadline extended Message-ID: [ Aplogies for multiple copies] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- C a l l f o r S h o r t P a p e r s ----------------------- ! EXTENDED DEADLINE ! ----------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 17-19 October, 2001 Beijing, China -------------- The deadline for submitting SHORT PAPERS for IWPT 2001 in Beijing has been extended to JUNE 23. Short papers will be presented at the workshop in the form of a poster plus a summary oral presentation in a short-paper session; two-page summaries will be published in the workshop proceedings. Prospective authors are invited to send their submissions to the IWPT'01 programme chairman Giorgio Satta. Short papers can be anything in size between 3 and 8 pages. Submission is electronically, in postscript form. Only in case electronic submission is impossible, four (4) hard copies of the paper should be sent. Submisison short arrive no later than JUNE 23. Send papers to: iwpt2001 at dei.unipd.it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Web site: http://www.icl.pku.edu.cn/iwpt2001.html ~~~~ General Information ------------------- The Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University, Beijing, China, will host the 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'01) from 17 to 19 October, 2001. IWPT'01 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997; and Trento (Italy) in 2000. Topics of interest for IWPT'01 -------------------------------- Topics of interest for IWPT'01 include, but are not limited to: theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences, speech input, multi-dimensional (pictorial) languages, multimedia (web) documents, and parsing issues arising or viewed in a multimodal context. Both grammar-based and statistical approaches are welcome. Submitting Papers ----------------- Two types of submissions are distinguished: - Full papers, to be presented as such during the workshop and to be published in the workshop proceedings (maximally 12 pages). Submission of full papers is no longer possible (deadline was June 5). - Short papers, to be presented at the workshop in the form of a poster plus a summary oral presentation in a short-paper session; two-page summaries will be published in the workshop proceedings. Submission is electronically, in postscript form. Only if electronic submission is impossible, four (4) hard copies of the paper should be sent. Send papers to: iwpt2001 at dei.unipd.it Giorgio Satta (IWPT'01 programme chair) Universita` di Padova Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica via Gradenigo 6/A I-35131 Padova, Italy Time schedule: Deadline for full paper submission : June 5 Deadline for short paper submission : June 23 Notification of full paper acceptance : July 18 Notification of short paper acceptance: July 30 Final papers due : August 27 Instruction for authors ----------------------- Detailed formatting and submission instructions for authors are available through the IWPT'01 home page at: http://www.icl.pku.edu.cn/iwpt2001.html or can be obtained from the programme chairman (see address above). Programme Committee ------------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed by (or under the supervision of) the international IWPT'01 Programme Committee, consisting of the following members: Shuo Bai (Ministry of Information Industry, China) Eric Brill (Microsoft Research, USA) Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Bob Carpenter (SpeechWorks International Inc., USA) John Carroll (University of Sussex, UK) Ken Church (AT&T Labs - Research, USA) Mark Johnson (Brown University, USA) Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Ronald Kaplan (Xerox PARC, USA) Martin Kay (Xerox PARC, USA) Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Mark-Jan Nederhof (DFKI GmbH, Germany) Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Netherlands) Christer Samuelsson (Inzigo, Canada) Satoshi Sekine (New York University, USA) Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK) Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST, Italy) Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Masaru Tomita (Keio University, Japan) Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI GmbH and Univeritat des Saarlandes, Germany) Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, France) Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, USA) David Weir (University of Sussex, UK) Mats Wiren (Telia Research, Sweden) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) Tiejun Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology, China) Organization ------------ General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Programme Chair: Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy) Local Organizing Committee: Fuliang Weng (ICRC/Intel Corp, Beijing, China, Co-Chair) Shiwen Yu (Peking University, Beijing, China, Co-Chair) Youqi Cao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) Qunxiu Chen (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) Houfeng Wang (Secretariat, wanghf at pku.edu.cn, Peking University, China) Further information ------------------- Additional information about IWPT'01 is available at the URL: http://www.icl.pku.edu.cn/iwpt2001.html At the site http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ you can also obtain information about previous IWPTs, proceedings, books based on IWPTs, and SIGPARSE related activities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Jun 15 16:28:15 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:28:15 +0200 Subject: Conf: TALN 2001 Message-ID: Le programme de TALN 2001 est maintenant disponible sur le site: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ Si vous vous etes inscrits sans avoir recu de confirmation, c'est qu'il y a eu un probleme de compatibilite entre votre navigateur et votre courrier... 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Ce réseau d'innovation technologique est lancé sous la forme d'un appel à propositions "à guichet unique et permanent". Le programme de la journée de présentation est le suivant : 9h00 - 9h30 : accueil des participants 9h30 - 11h : présentation du RIAM par Christophe Digne, Chargé de la Sous-Direction Réseaux et Multimédia (DIGITIP), Ministère de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie, Joseph Mariani, Directeur du Département "Informatique et Télécommunications", Direction de la Technologie, Ministère de la Recherche et Jean Menu, Directeur du multimédia (CNC), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication 11h - 11h30 : dialogue avec la salle 11h30 - 12h30 : présentation de projets soutenus (notamment, le projet TDF/CST de "Plate-forme d'expérimentation de la chaîne de diffusion du cinéma numérique") Lancé le 20 février 2001 par Catherine Tasca, ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg, ministre de la Recherche et Christian Pierret, secrétaire d'Etat à l'Industrie, RIAM a pour vocation de créer un lieu de rencontre et d'échanges au sein de la communauté des acteurs du domaine et d'encourager financièrement la réalisation de projets de recherche en audiovisuel et multimédia. L'appel à projets du réseau RIAM s'adresse aussi bien aux professionnels des technologies de l'information et de la communication qu'aux chercheurs en technologies et en sciences humaines, aux formateurs, aux partenaires institutionnels associés. Il valorise les coopérations entre laboratoires de recherche et entreprises dans les domaines du cinéma, de l'audiovisuel et du multimédia. En 2001, RIAM est doté d'un montant total de plus de 20 millions d'euros (135 MF) pour soutenir des projets innovants. Les dossiers de candidature peuvent être retirés tout au long de l'année sur le site du réseau RIAM, (http://www.cnc.fr/riam). Contacts presse : Ministère de la Culture et de la communication (CNC) : Caroline Cesbron, 01 44 34 34 71 Ministère de la Recherche : Claire Cayol, 01 55 55 99 12 Secrétariat d'Etat à l'Industrie : Annie Duperray, 01 53 18 79 29 Secrétariat du réseau RIAM CNC / Direction du multimédia - 11, rue Galilée / 75116 Paris : Tel. : 01.44.34.34.63 - Mél : riam at cnc.fr ******************************************* Stéphane CHAUDIRON Chargé de mission "Information scientifique et technique - Ingénierie linguistique" tél. : 33 (0)1 55 55 80 37 fax : 33 (0)1 55 55 83 58 Ministère de la Recherche Direction de la technologie Département "Technologies de l'information et de la communication" 1, rue Descartes - 75231 PARIS cedex 05 http://www.recherche.gouv.fr ******************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Jun 15 16:36:28 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:36:28 +0200 Subject: Ressources: ELRA News Message-ID: ************************************************************* ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ************************************************************** ELRA informs you that the ECI/MCI European Corpus Initiative, resource W0004 in the catalogue, costs 50 ? (instead of 45 ?). Reminder: this corpus contains over 98 million words, covering most of the major European languages, as well as Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Malay and even more languages. ************************************************************* ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ************************************************************* We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA: ELRA S0107 Flemish SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 ELRA S0108 Belgian-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 ELRA S0109 Luxemburgish-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 ELRA S0110 Luxemburgish-German SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 A description of each database is given below. ELRA S0107 Flemish SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 This database is comprised of telephone recordings from 1023 Flemish speakers (461 Males, 562 Females) recorded directly over the Belgian fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about 5 times. ELRA S0108 Belgian-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 The Belgian-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 comprises 1011 Belgian-French speakers (493 Males, 518 Females) recorded over the Belgian fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about 2 times. ELRA S0109 Luxemburgish-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 The Luxembourgish-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 comprises 614 Luxembourgish-French speakers (246 Males, 368 Females) recorded over the Luxembourgish fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about 3 times. ELRA S0110 Luxemburgish-German SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 This database comprises 560 Luxembourgish-German speakers (247 Males, 313 Females) recorded over the Luxembourgish fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about one time. ===================================== For further information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France Tel +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax +33 01 43 13 33 30 E-mail mapelli at elda.fr or visit the online catalogue on our Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr ===================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Jun 15 16:37:03 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:37:03 +0200 Subject: Conf: LACL 2001 Message-ID: *********************************************************************** *** Last Call for Participation - Program *** LACL 2001 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic (on the ocean coast, nearby Nantes), France http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Thank you in advance to circulate among interested people --- ************************************************************************** *** Practical information, schedule, on-line registration: http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 http://www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2001/LACL2001 *** Contact: Christele Soulas csoulas at irisa.fr Elisabeth Lebret lebret at irisa.fr *************************************************************************** -- LACL 2001 PROGRAM -- *************************************************************************** --- Invited speakers ----------------------------- Geoffrey K. PULLUM, Barbara C. SCHOLZ : On the distinction between Model-theoretic and Generative-enumerative syntactic frameworks Michael MOORTGAT : Structural Reasoning in Categorial Learning Mark STEEDMAN : Reconciling Type-Logical and Combinatory Extensions of Categorial Grammar --- Contributed papers ------------------------- M. A. ALONSO, E. DE LA CLERGERIE, M. VILARES : A formal definition of Bottom-up Embedded Push-Down Automata and their tabulation technique D. BARGELLI, J. LAMBEK : An algebraic Approach to French Sentence Structure P. BOTTONI, B. MEYER, K. MARRIOTT, F. PARISI PRESICCE : Deductive Parsing of Visual Languages W. BUSZKOWSKI : Lambek Grammars based on Pregroups C. CASADIO, J. LAMBEK : An Algebraic Analysis of Clitic Pronouns in Italian C. COSTA FLORENCIO : Consistent Identification in the Limit of any of the Classes k-Valued is NP-hard A.DIKOVSKY : Polarized Non-projective Dependency Grammars A. FORET : Mixing Deduction and Substitution in Lambek Categorial Grammars, some investigations C. FOX, S. LAPPIN : Framework for the Hyperintensional Semantics of Natural Language with Two Implementations H. HARKEMA : A Characterization of Minimalist Languages T. LAGER, J. NIVRE : Part of Speech Tagging from a Logical Point of View J. MICHAELIS : Transforming Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems into Minimalist Grammars E. STABLER : Recognizing Head Movement J. VILLADSEN : Combinators for Paraconsistent Attitudes J. VILLANEAU, J.-Y. ANTOINE, O. RIDOUX : Combining Syntax and Semantical Knowledge for Semantic Analysis of Spoken Language R. ZUBER : Atomicity of Some Categorially Polyvalent Modifiers --- Panel discussion : Logic in Contemporary Linguistics and Computational Linguistics ************************************************************************ *** Organizers: IRISA (INRIA, CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, INSA) IRIN (Université de Nantes) *** Sponsors: France Telecom R&D Xerox Loire Atlantique Pays de la Loire Ville de Nantes Université de Rennes 1 Université de Nantes *** Book and journal exhibition: Elsevier Hermes Kluwer Lincom Europa MIT Press Springer-Verlag World Scientific Publishing Company *** Other events in computational linguistics in France, early July: 2-5 july, Tours, TALN & RECITAL 2001: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ 6-11 july, Toulouse, ACL 2001: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html *************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 18 16:01:07 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:01:07 +0200 Subject: Appel: LLL'01 (3rd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC WORKSHOP) Message-ID: Please find below the CFP on works in progress in learning language in logic (LLL). Our idea is to map main research streams in LLL. So even submission submitted/accepted elsewhere can be accepted if a vision of a future work will be well-expressed. Best regards Lubos Popelinsky and Miloslav Nepil 3rd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC (LLL) WORKSHOP http://www.fi.muni.cz/ilpnet2/LLL2001 8th - 9th September 2001, Strasbourg Co-located with ILP 2001 CALL FOR WORK-IN-PROGRESS PAPERS -------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS Please submit by sending electronically to lll01 at fi.muni.cz a full paper (PS or PDF format) up to 12 pages in LNCS/LNAI Springer style. Paper submission deadline: June, 24 Notification of acceptance: July, 9 Final version due: July, 27 Works in progress will be published in working notes (Technical Report of FI MU Brno). PRESENTATION Our purpose is to provide a forum for discussion on all aspects of learning language in logic. It is the follow-up of the previous LLL workshops held in 1999 in Bled, Slovenia, and in 2000 in Lisboa, Portugal. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are working on learning from text, while emphasizing the logic-based learning techniques and algorithms. We strongly encourage contributions concerning semantic analysis of natural languages, describing logic-based learning techniques alternative to ILP, employing active learning or solving tasks for other languages than English. These techniques include but are not limited to: - Combinations of approaches and multi-strategy learning - Instance-based and clustering approaches in relational learning - Scalability issues (applying logic-based methods to large data sets) - Logical approaches to statistical NLP - Higher-order logic for LLL - Handling very complex terms - Collaborative and interactive learning - Shallow parsing - Grammar learning - Learning subcategorisation frames - Part-of-speech tagging - Morphosyntactic tagging - Morphological analysis - Information indexing, filtering, retrieval, extraction - Text classification methods - Question answering - Learning ontologies, thesauri and lexicon - Extracting predicate-argument structure PROGRAM CHAIR Lubos Popelinsky (Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia) MEMBERS Pieter Adriaans (Syllogic and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) James Cussens (University of York, UK) Martin Eineborg (University of Stockholm, Sweden) Tomaz Erjavec (Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia) Suresh Manandhar (University of York, UK) Claire Nedellec (LRI, University of Paris-Sud, France) Guenter Neumann (DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany) Stefan Wrobel (University of Magdeburg, Germany) ORGANIZATION Nicolas Lachiche (LSIIT Strasbourg, France) SUPPORT LLL 2001 is financially supported by the Network of Excellence in Inductive Logic Programming ILPnet2 funded under the European Union's INCO program. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lubos Popelinsky Voice: +420 5 41512 324 Dept. of Comp.Sci., Faculty of Informatics Fax : +420 5 4121 2568 Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a Email: popel at fi.muni.cz CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic www.fi.muni.cz/~popel -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 18 16:01:42 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:01:42 +0200 Subject: Ressources: New Release from the LDC Message-ID: The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the availability of the 2000 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Corpus. http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001S97.html This eight CD-ROM publication contains the data used for the 2000 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation which is part of an ongoing series of yearly evaluations conducted by NIST. These evaluations provide an important contribution to the direction of research efforts and the calibration of technical capabilities. They are intended to be of interest to all researchers working on the general problem of text independent speaker recognition. To this end the evaluation was designed to be simple, to focus on core technology issues, to be fully supported, and to be accessible. This publication consists of 10,328 single channel SPHERE files encoded in 8-bit mulaw containing a total of approximately 4.31 Gbytes of data covering 148.9 hours of audio. Supporting documentation for this evaluation may be found on the 2000 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation website. http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.01/tests/spk/2000/index.htm Please note that there was an optional additional corpus in the original Evaluation. If you are interested in this "AHUMADA" corpus, please contact Javier Ortega- Garcia of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Information on how to contact Dr. Ortega-Garcia is available at 2000 NIST Resources. http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/spk/2000/resource/index.htm Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2001 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge. Nonmembers may purchase this publication for $1600. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to . If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215)573-1275. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 18 16:02:51 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:02:51 +0200 Subject: Appel: SPECIAL ISSUE of MACHINE TRANSLATION Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE of MACHINE TRANSLATION Embedded MT Systems: Leveraging for Real World Applications http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems/ GUEST EDITORS: Carol Van Ess-Dykema, U.S.Department of Defense,cjvanes at afterlife.ncsc.mil Clare R. Voss, Army Research Laboratory, voss at arl.army.mil An "embedded machine translation (MT) system" is a computational system with one or more MT engines embedded among its components. These systems accept various well-formed and degraded types of multilingual and multi-modal input, including * hard-copy pages (original and OCR-ed image), * online files (web pages, word processing files, email), * video (image and text), * speech (natural signal and transcribed). >>From this range of input, such systems enable users to access the original, foreign language information in their own language. Traditionally, the term "MT" has been associated with the task of single document translation. More recently, MT engines within embedded larger systems have been used to facilitate tasks that require processing multilingual information both within and across documents. Several real-world applications have led to the widespread use of embedded MT systems for cross-language tasks, such as: * content extraction * document filtering * information retrieval * question-answering * summarization This call is for original or updated research articles on embedded MT systems. Authors should address two or more of the following foci in their papers: 1. Input Focus, such as - Processing methods for range of system input - Real-time analysis of input - Channel-specific feedback processes from system components to correct noisy input - Multiple document or channel input integration for summarization or other tasks 2. MT Methods Focus, such as - Symbolic, statistical, or hybrid techniques for translation - Machine learning applied to construction of MT engine components - Weighting of candidates for selection of high quality MT output - Quick ramp-up MT engines 3. System Design Focus, such as - Architectures to support novel cross-language tasks - Systems with multiple MT engines - Pre-MT compensation components or strategies that adjust speech and OCR degraded input - Post-MT processing of output for display to user - Integration of system output within application software 4. Evaluation Focus, such as - Linguistic measures of MT component performance - Task-based measures of system effectiveness - Experimental designs for assessing or comparing system effectiveness - Software tools for assisting or automating evaluation process - Algorithms The idea of this special issue originates from workshops at ANLP/NAACL-2000 and AMTA-98. Authors from these workshops are encouraged to submit papers describing progress on their systems and incorporating feedback from workshop participants. We also encourage other researchers developing embedded MT systems to submit papers. Note that, for this special issue, two types of papers will be considered for review: long papers (20 pages or more) and short papers (less than 20 pages). Longer papers are advised for research projects that have been implemented and evaluated. Shorter papers are appropriate for recent research initiatives. We would ideally like to have papers of both types in the journal. SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW BOARD Lynn Carlson, U.S. Department of Defense Gary Coen, Boeing Mathematical and Computing Technologies Mike Dillinger, Logos Corporation Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University Laurie Gerber, Language Technology Broker Ulf Hermjakob, ISI/University of Southern California Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University Kathryn Taylor, Georgetown University Takehito Utsuro, Toyohashi University of Technology Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University Joe F. Zhou, Intel China Research Center SCHEDULE Call for papers issued: 1 June 2001 Papers due: 19 October 2001 Notification to authors: 22 February 2002 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Initial submissions should be sent to: 1. Guest Editors cjvanes at afterlife.ncsc.mil, voss at arl.army.mil 2. Publishing Editor tamara.welschot at wkap.nl For initial submissions only, authors should send electronic copies (postscript, pdf, rtf, or doc) to the Guest Editors AND the Publishing Editor. Please indicate that the submission is for the Special Issue of Machine Translation on Embedded MT Systems: Leveraging for Real World Applications. Details concerning the format for initial submissions forthcoming and will be posted on the homepage: http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems/ Formatting instructions for final submissions will be made available with acceptance. The Guest Editors will notify the submitters of the acceptance status of their papers. All other information concerning the Special Issue will be posted on the homepage. Questions about submissions should be directed to the two Guest Editors by email, rather than the Journal or Publishing Editors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 18 16:06:18 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:06:18 +0200 Subject: Bourses: 2 offres Message-ID: 1/ University of Edinburgh - PhD STUDENTSHIP for February 1st 2002. 2/ Universiteit van Amsterdam - Two Fully Funded PhD Positions in the Computational and Applied Logic Group ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ Division of Informatics and Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh PhD STUDENTSHIP for February 1st 2002. Application deadline: July 15th 2001. Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed. The Institute of Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) within the Division of Informatics and the Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC) invites applications for a three-year EPSRC studentship award to commence in February 2002. The successful applicant will work on a project entitled "Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text". A summary of the aims of this project are as follows: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ROBUST PRAGMATICS FOR NARRATIVE TEXT: PROJECT SUMMARY The proposed project is concerned with the design, implementation and evaluation of a system that analyses the discourse structure of narrative text and the temporal order of its events. BROAD COVERAGE: Existing approaches recognise discourse structure only when signalled by discourse connectives. We'll broaden coverage to cases where such cues are absent by developing a probabilistic model of discourse structure from large language corpora. ROBUSTNESS: Computing rhetorical relations is a knowledge intensive task driven primarily by pragmatic information. Our aim is to use data-intensive methodologies to automatically approximate this information from large language corpora, and therefore to produce a fully automatic system. ENGINEERING: Existing language technology, with a few notable exceptions, tends to take either a symbolic or a probabilistic approach to semantics. We aim to interface a probabilistic component with a symbolic one, proposing a novel approach to the demanding task of semantic interpretation which is both robust and linguistically informed. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or Linguistics. Applicants with strong programming skills (e.g., Perl, C++, Java) and expertise in any of the following will be preferred: o Statistical modelling o Semantic theories of tense and aspect o Theories of discourse structure o Pragmatics (in particular, speech act theory and implicatures) The EPSRC baseline rate of maintenance is currently approx. 7,500 pounds, and the studentship will also pay the three years' tuition fees at home/EU rates. ICCS and HCRC have close research links with a number of other academic institutions (e.g., Universitat Saarlandes, DFKI, Stanford University) and companies from which the student will benefit. For more information about ICCS and HCRC, see the following home pages: http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Information about students, the PhD Programme, and how to apply for a PhD can be found by following the various links from the following URL: http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/prospectus/graduate/research.html Please note that applicants must fill in the faculty's postgraduate application form, which is available online from the above URL. If we already have your application on file for consideration for a PhD commencing October 2001, you do not need to apply again. Deadline for applications: July 15th 2001 Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed. For additional advice and information on how to apply for this PhD studentship, please contact: Admissions Chair The Graduate School Division of Informatics The University of Edinburgh 2, Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5AZ, Scotland, UK Email: phd-admissions at inf.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 5156 Fax: +44 131 667 7209 PLEASE MARK "Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text" ON THE APPLICATION. For additional information on the project "Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text", please contact: Alex Lascarides ICCS, Division of Informatics The University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Email: alex at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 4428 Fax: +44 131 650 6626 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ Two Fully Funded PhD Positions in the Computational and Applied Logic Group Institute for Logic, Language and Computation Universiteit van Amsterdam The Computational and Applied Logic Group at the University of Amsterdam is searching for highly motivated candidates with a first degree in computer science, computational linguistics, or a related discipline, for two fully funded four-year PhD positions, one in each of the following research areas: o computational logic (with an emphasis on implementation and evaluation of automated reasoning systems) o natural language processing (with an emphasis on logic-based approaches to information retrieval tasks such as question-answering, navigation, and summarization) Applicants should have a strong interest in experimental evaluation and validation of theoretical findings. Programming skills, preferably in perl, java, C or C++, are essential. Familiarity with current trends in automated reasoning (for the computational logic position) or statistical and symbolic models of natural language processing (for the NLP position) is a distinct advantage. These positions are funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and the University of Amsterdam, as part of the `Pionier' project `Computing with Meaning.' This is an interdisciplinary project aimed at identifying and using meaningful information in natural language texts. The project will experiment with computational logic architectures that can handle linguistic information structures at various levels of detail; this involves new systems of flexible logics and algorithms, suitably combined. The project has a generous equipment and travel budget. Please consult http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Projects/ComputingwithMeaning/ for more information about the project. Both positions are four-year positions, and are expected to lead to a PhD degree. Candidates may be asked to assist with courses related to their research areas. The salary will range from 3159 Guilders (during the first year) to 4511 Guilders (during the fourth year), gross per month. Knowledge of Dutch is not a prerequisite, and candidates can be of any nationality. The starting date should be between September 1, 2001 and January 1, 2002. Anyone interested in these positions is invited to contact Maarten de Rijke at mdr at science.uva.nl. Applicants should submit a full resume including a statement of research interests, and the names and email addresses of at least three references to the same address by July 15, 2001. Research interests within the Computational and Applied Logic group range from automated reasoning, constraint programming, satisfability checking, and formal verification to digital libraries, information retrieval, computational semantics, and knowledge engineering. The group is strongly internationally oriented, and currently consists of 15 people; it is expected to grow substantially over the next year. Further details on the group can be found at http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/CALG/. -- Maarten de Rijke | Computational and Applied Logic Group | ILLC U of Amsterdam | Plantage Muidergracht 24 | 1018 TV Amsterdam | NL Phone: +31 20 525 6511 / +31 6 28 194 881 | Fax: +31 20 525 5101 E-mail: mdr at science.uva.nl | URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 18 16:07:34 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:07:34 +0200 Subject: Publications: John Benjamins NLP series (NLP-2) Message-ID: ***************************************************** BOOK SERIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING ***************************************************** John Benjamins NLP series (NLP-2) Book series editor Ruslan Mitkov = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = RECENT ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin and Marie-Claude L'Homme (Eds) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = == = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Coming out on 25 June 2001 !!! Table of contents Akiko Aizawa and Kyo Kageura - A graph-based approach to the automatic generation of multilingual keyword clusters Peter G.Anick - The automatic construction of faceted terminological feedback for interactive document retrieval M.Teresa Cabre Castellvi, Rosa Estopa Bagot and Jordi Vivaldi Palatresi - Automatic term detection:A review of current systems Lee-Feng Chien and Chun-Liang Chen Incremental extraction of domain-specific terms from online text resources James J.Cimino - Knowledge-based terminology management in medicine Anne Condamines and Josette Rebeyrolle - Searching for and identifying conceptual relationships via a corpus-based approach to a Terminological Knowledge Base (CTKB): Method and Results Beatrice Daille - Qualitative terminology extraction: Identifying relational adjectives Eric Gaussier - General considerations on bilingual terminology extraction Thierry Hamon and Adeline Nazarenko - Detection of synonymy links between terms:Experiment and results Toru Hisamitsu and Yoshiki Niwa - Extracting useful terms from parenthetical expressions by combining simple rules and statistical measures:A comparative evaluation of bigram statistics David A.Hull - Software tools to support the construction of bilingual terminology lexicons Hongyan Jing and Evelyne Tzoukermann - Determining semantic equivalence of terms in information retrieval:An approach based on context distance and morphology Diana Maynard and Sophia Ananiadou - Term extraction using a similarity-based approach Ingrid Meyer - Extracting knowledge-rich contexts for terminography: a conceptual and methodological framework Hiroshi Nakagawa - Experimental evaluation of ranking and selection methods in term extraction A.Nazarenko,P.Zweigenbaum,B.Habert and J.Bouaud - Corpus-based extension of a terminological semantic lexicon Michael P.Oakes and Chris.D.Paice - Term extraction for automatic abstracting ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 20 16:31:50 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:31:50 +0200 Subject: Appel: Literature Data Mining for Biology Message-ID: ************************************************************************ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Literature Data Mining for Biology A special session within the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2002 January 3-7, 2002 Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club A large part of the information required for biology research can only be found in free-text form, as in MEDLINE abstracts, or in comment fields of relevant reports, as in GenBank feature table annotations. This information is important for many types of analysis, such as classification of proteins into functional groups, discovery of new functional relationships, maintenance of information on material and methods, increased precision and relevance of hits returned by BLAST, extraction of protein interaction information, and so on. However, information in free-text form or in comment fields is very difficult for automated systems to use. In addition, the extracted information may need further enrichment, for example, the inclusion of quantitative information about the interaction. This session will investigate how natural language and data mining techniques can provide and structure information relevant to biological applications. The session solicits papers on techniques and applications of natural language processing to the extraction of biological information from free text, including literature abstracts (e.g., MEDLINE), database annotations (e.g., GENBANK or PIR), and other relevant biology sources. It will emphasize the combination of natural language techniques with other biological information sources, such as database and sequence searches, to facilitate collection and organization of information about particular genes, proteins, or pathways. In particular, we are interested in: * Novel ways of combining text data mining and more conventional bioinformatics search techniques; * Use of text data mining techniques for consistency checking and error detection in annotation of existing data bases; * Biological problems where extraction of text-based information can provide quantitative performance gains; * Evaluations of the utility of text data mining techniques and components; * Extraction and organization of text-based information facilitated by ontologies and data exchange standards; * Creation of structured resources (databases) through the use of text data mining and information extraction techniques. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Session co-chairs * Lynette Hirschman, MITRE lynette at mitre.org * Jong C. Park, KAIST park at nlp.kaist.ac.kr * Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo tsujii at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp * Limsoon Wong, KRDL limsoon at krdl.org.sg * Cathy Wu, National Biomedical Research Foundation & Georgetown University wuc at nbrf.georgetown.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission information Submissions are due 16 July 2001 Decisions are announced 31 August 2001 Camera ready copy due 24 September 2001 Poster abstracts due 5 November 2001 Further information http://psb.stanford.edu All papers must be submitted to russ.altman at stanford.edu in electronic format. The file formats we accept are: postscript (*.ps), adobe acrobat (*.pdf) and Microsoft Word documents (*.doc). Attached files should be named with the last name of the first author (e.g. altman.ps, altman.pdf, or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed TEX or LATEX files will be rejected without review. Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter must state the following: * The email address of the corresponding author * The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract * The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is not currently under consideration elsewhere. * All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper. Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication format. Please format your paper according to instructions found at ftp://ftp-smi.stanford.edu/pub/altman/psb. If figures can not be easily resized and placed precisely in the text, then it should be clear that with appropriate modifications, the total manuscript length would be within the page limit. Color pictures can be printed at the expense of the authors. The fee is $500 per page of color pictures, payable at the time of camera ready submission. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 20 16:32:46 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:32:46 +0200 Subject: Ressources: HCRC Map Task Corpus XML annotations Message-ID: The Human Communication Research Centre is pleased to announce the availability of the HCRC Map Task Corpus XML annotations, at http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/maptask/ In 1992, the HCRC publicly released the HCRC Map Task Corpus, a corpus of task-oriented dialogues, on CD. The CDs contained the sound files, dialogue transcription, and the materials which subjects used to complete the task. We are now making HCRC's annotations of the Map Task Corpus publicly available. These annotations include updated transcription of the speech, dialogue structure at three levels (moves, games, and transactions), part of speech tags, syntax,gaze, landmark references, and when the participants were using their pens. The annotations are represented in XML using a technique called ``stand-off annotation'' (see http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/maptask/bidialog-paper.ps). Pointers to times in the original sound files allow the speech material to be located easily. Jean Carletta Amy Isard Henry S. Thompson Human Communication Research Centre University of Edinburgh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 20 16:34:16 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:34:16 +0200 Subject: Publications: Revue ALSIC Message-ID: ************************************************************ Veuillez nous excuser en cas de receptions multiples de ce message en provenance de sources differentes. -------------------------------------------- REVUE ALSIC Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication (http://alsic.org) Le numero 7 (volume 4, numero 1) de juin 2001 de la revue ALSIC est paru. -------------------------------------------- Les articles sont accessibles directement. ** Sommaire du volume 4, numero 1 : * Editorial : de Marie-Noelle Lamy * Rubrique Pratique et Recherche : - Une experience de recherche documentaire sur Internet en classe de langue : propositions de modelisation didactique de Alain Verreman * Rubrique Analyse de livres - Integrer les nouvelles technologies de l'information : quel cadre pedagogique ? de Jacques Tardif par Maguy Pothier - Apprendre une langue dans un environnement multimedia dirige par L. Duquette et M. Laurier par Manuela Zeilinger-Trier * Rubrique Analyse de sites et logiciels - VOICEbook coordonnee par Cecile Poussard - Advanced Italian par L. Desmarais et R. Imbrogno-Levin * Rubrique Fiche Pratique - Francaises d'alors et d'aujourd'hui : des femmes liberees ? Chansons et sites Internet comme supports pedagogiques de Geraldine Enjelvin * Rubrique Points de vue, echanges - "Le Devoir conjugal" : de la conceptualisation a la diffusion de Martin Beaudoin * Toiltheque mise a jour le 15 juin 2001 coordonnee par Delphine Renie ** Fin -- ---------------------------------------------------- Revue ALSIC : Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication Toile : http://alsic.org Courriel : infos at alsic.org Telecopie : 03 81 66 64 50 (+ 33 3 81 66 64 50) ---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 21 20:09:07 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:09:07 +0200 Subject: Jobs: poste de PRAG a l'INaLCO Message-ID: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ln] Article a approuver Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:48:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: SYMPA To: "Moderateurs de la liste ln" Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hermes.cines.fr (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5LDmNm30610; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:48:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from tom.biomath.jussieu.fr (root at tom.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.8]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.11.3/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id f5LDoMv35101 ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:50:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from glenan.biomath.jussieu.fr (ngr at glenan.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.37]) by tom.biomath.jussieu.fr (8.8.7/mailhost/jtpda-5.2/af19990603) with ESMTP id PAA18779 ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:49:47 +0100 (WET) From: ngr at biomath.jussieu.fr (GRABAR Natalia) Poste de Prag disponible à l'INaLCO au sein du Centre de recherches en ingénierie multilingue (CRIM). Nous recherchons un enseignant de l'enseignement secondaire titulaire d'une agrégation ou d'un CAPES de langue pour participer à la coordination des activités d'enseignement et de recherche et encadrer les travaux dirigés de l'atelier "outils TAL". Profil recherché : - très bonnes connaissances en informatique pour la gestion de site Web, la création et la gestion de bases de données, - bonne culture en linguistique informatique, familiarité avec les outils standard, - très motivé par la coordination des activités d'enseignement et de recherche, sens de l'organisation, goût pour le travail d'équipe. Contact : Monique.Slodzian at inalco.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 21 20:14:04 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:14:04 +0200 Subject: Conf: ACL 2001 Tutorial Message-ID: CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS AND RESOURCE LOGICS: FROM FUNDAMENTALS TO SOME RECENT ADVANCES Christian Retoré -- INRIA & Université de Nantes http://www.irisa.fr/paragraphe/Christian.Retore This tutorial will first provide an overview of standard results on the logical view of categorial grammars (including a brief account oftheir relation to Montague semantics). Then it will focus on a selection of recent advances in categorial grammars coming out of their relation to resource logics: the existence of learning algorithms (following the Gold paradigm), the proof-nets of linear logic (which provide a new interesting kind of parse structures), and finally a logical account of parts of Chomsky's minimalist program (via Stabler's minimalist grammars). 1 FUNDAMENTALS ---------------- Classical categorial grammars (AB-grammars) - From semantic categories to AB-categorial grammars - AB-grammars and their relation to CFGs - Examples and limitation of AB-grammars A logic for categorial grammars: Lambek calculus - Syntactic properties and parsing - String semantics for the Lambek calculus, completeness - Weak and strong generative capacity Relation to Montague semantics 2 SOME RECENT ADVANCES ------------------------ Learning algorithms Linear-logic proof-nets as parse structures - Lambek calculus and Linear Logic - Proof-nets and human-processing complexity - Proof-net grammars and TAGs Relation to Chomsky's minimalist program - Stabler's minimalist grammars - A logical account of minimalist grammars more informations on the ACL2001 website: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 25 16:03:51 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:03:51 +0200 Subject: Publications: Spotting and Discovering Terms through Natural Language Processing Message-ID: Spotting and Discovering Terms through Natural Language Processing Christian Jacquemin MIT-Press In this book Christian Jacquemin shows how the power of natural language processing (NLP) can be used to advance text indexing and information retrieval (IR). Jacquemin's novel tool is FASTR, a parser that normalizes terms and recognizes term variants. Since there are more meanings in a language than there are words, FASTR uses a metagrammar composed of shallow linguistic transformations that describe the morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic variations of words and terms. The acquired parsed terms can then be applied for precise retrieval and assembly of information. The use of a corpus-based unification grammar to define, recognize, and combine term variants from their base forms allows for intelligent information access to, or "linguistic data tuning" of, heterogeneous texts. FASTR can be used to do automatic controlled indexing, to carry out content-based Web searches through conceptually related alternative query formulations, to abstract scientific and technical extracts, and even to translate and collect terms from multilingual material. Jacquemin provides a comprehensive account of the method and implementation of this innovative retrieval technique for text processing. Christian Jacquemin is Professor at the University of Paris 11 and Researcher in Computer Science at CNRS-LIMSI (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur). 7 x 9, 357 pp., 71 illus., cloth, ISBN 0-262-10085-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/JACDHS01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 25 16:08:36 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:08:36 +0200 Subject: Conf: TSD 2001 Message-ID: _____________________________________________________________________ This message is posted to several lists. We apologize if you receive multiple copies. Please forward it to everyone who might be interested. _____________________________________________________________________ An International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialog (TSD 2001) September 10-13, 2001 Plzen, Czech Republic _____________________________________________________________________ C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N _____________________________________________________________________ TSD 2001 will be an international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. The TSD2001 Conference continues the tradition of annual international workshops devoted to the natural language processing (corpora, texts and transcription; speech analysis, recognition and synthesis; their intertwinnig within NL dialogue systems),started by the SQEL Workshop in 1997. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multilingual issues, especially multilingual dialog systems; information retrieval and text/topic summarization; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; speech and motions; dialog systems; development of dialog strategies; assistive technologies based on speech and dialog; applied systems and software. TUTORIALS --------- - E. NOETH and W. ECKERT (University of Erlangen-Nuermberg, Germany): Spoken Dialogue Systems - I. KOPECEK, R.BATUSEK, P.GAURA, P. NYGRYN (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Rep.) Dialogue systems for Impaired People - T. HARISSIS (Systema Informatics, S.A., Athens, Greece) Force Feedback Haptic Devices - N. BRAUN (ZGDV e. V., Darmstadt, Germany) Modeling of Conversational User Interface INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- - FREDERICK JELINEK (Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, USA): The Spreading USE of Grammer in Language Modeling - HYNEK HERMANSKY (Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, USA): Recognition of Speech from Temporal Patterns of Frequency Localized Spectral Energy - EVA HAJICOVA et al (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic): The Current Status of the Prague Dependency Treebank - FRANTISEK CERMAK (Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep.): Language Corpora: The Czech Case - ELMAR NOETH et al (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany): Research Issues for the Next Generation Spoken Dialogue Systems Revisited - ENEKO AGIRRE (University of the Basque, Domstia, Spain): Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation - TARAS K. VINTSIUK (NAS Institute of Cybernetics & UNESCO/IIP International Research-Training Centre for Information Technologies and Systems, Kyjiv, Ukraine) Generative Phoneme-Threephone Model for ASR ACCEPTED PAPERS --------------- A complete list of accepted papers is on-line available at: http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001/program.htm CONFERENCE PROGRAM ------------------ The conference program will include tutorials, invited papers given by keynote speakers, oral presentations of accepted submissions of several kinds, short poster presentations and poster sessions. The conference will also include social events (welcome reception, conference banquet, bartender show) and trips to some of the most popular places in Sumava Mountains- Sumava National Park, Black and Devil's lake (12km hiking tour), the Laka lake (10 km hiking tour), bus-trip to the city of Klatovy and Klenova castle, and 20km hiking tour to Grosser Osser, Grosser Arber and Arbersee im Bayerischer Wald on the German side of the border. To obtain the more detailed program and to fill registration form check please the web page of the conference at: < http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001/ >. Registration deadline: July 31, 2001. Registration fee ---------------- * full participant - $220 * student - $160 The fee should be paid directly by bank transfer to: Komercni banka Plzen-mesto, Goethova 1, CZ-305 95 Plzen account number : 4811530257/0100 purchase order : 5204/0003/00 special ID code: your birth date in the form YYMMDD (year - month - day), e.g. 550425 account holder : University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 8, CZ - 306 14 Plzen stating: TSD 2001 and your name -------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Chair: FREDERICK JELINEK ----------------- Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, USA Conference Executive: HYNEK HERMANSKY --------------------- Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, USA: International program committee: -------------------------------- Frederick Jelinek, USA - general chair Hynek Hermansky, USA - executive chair Genevieve Baudoin, France Frantisek Cermak, Czech Rep. Attila Ferencz, Romania, South Korea Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. Patrick Hanks, GB, USA Eduard Hovy, USA Adam Kilgariff, GB Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep. Steven Krauwer, Netherland Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep. Rosamund Moon, GB Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Pala, Czech Rep. Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep. Josef Psutka, Czech Rep. E.G. Schukat-Tallamazini, Germany Pavel Skrelin, Russia Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine Yorick Wilks, GB Organizing Committee < tsd2001 at kiv.zcu.cz > -------------------- Vaclav Matousek (chair), Helena Benesova, Kamil Ekstein, Jana Hesova, Svatava Kindlova, Jana Kleckova, Ivan Kopecek, Jana Krutisova, Josef Masek, Pavel Mautner, Roman Moucek, Jana Ocelikova, Karel Pala, Pavel Slavik, Petr Sojka Karel Tauser ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 25 16:20:34 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:20:34 +0200 Subject: conf: MT Summit VIII Message-ID: MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001 The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites you to participate in the Eighth "Machine Translation Summit" which is being held in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain from the 18th to the 22nd September 2001. The MT Summit conferences bring together the global MT community to review the state of the art of machine translation, computer-aided translation support tools and multilingual tools, both in the commercial world and in the research sphere. It is a unique opportunity to learn about the latest developments in the field, for researchers, users and vendors to exchange experiences and to get valuable feedback, and for meeting others involved in this technology. There will be a full programme of papers, presentations by invited speakers, panel sessions, exhibitions, demonstrations, and workshops (on the day preceding the conference and on the final day). There will be excursions, a banquet and a folk music performance, and also some activities for spouses and partners of delegates. LIST OF PAPERS now on website. VENUE The conference is taking place in Santiago de Compostela in North West Spain(Galicia), famous as a pilgrimage destination since the early Middle Ages, a city full of ancient buildings, from its eleventh-century cathedral to its seventeenth and eighteenth century houses, convents and palaces. The old town has been listed as a 'world heritage city' by Unesco. The venue for the conference is the Hostal de los Reyes Católicos (Hostal dos Reis Católicos), originally founded in 1499 as a Royal hospital for pilgrims, a magnificent building in the Spanish Renaissance style. It is now both the oldest and one of the most impressive hotels in the world. The opening session and the banquet will take place in the Comedor Real, other sessions will be in the hotel's auditorium and other rooms, and the exhibition and demonstrations will be housed in the Chapel. The opening reception will take place in the Pazo de Raxoi (City Council), an 18th century building next to the Hostal. HOTELS Santiago de Compostela is a major tourist centre attracting many visitors throughout the year. We have reserved accommodation in the Hostal itself and in a number of hotels close by (many restored 17th and 18th century buildings). All except one are within walking distance of the Hostal venue. (A bus will be provided for the Hotel Puerta del Camino). Because of the high demand for hotel rooms in Santiago and the substantial deposits, we ask for about half the full hotel charge when booking, and we encourage you to book early to be certain of your preference. Hotels are now getting full. Please register and book as soon as possible. WEBSITE INFORMATION For details of the hotels, excursions and workshops see the MT Summit website (www.eamt.org/summitVIII) or send email to: summitVIII at eamt.org. REGISTRATION Registration should preferably be made via the MT Summit website. Alternatively, you may ask for a registration form from: Carlos Paz (MT Summit Registration), Service de Traduction, European Commission, Rue de la Loi 200 - JECL 4/200, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium (Fax: +32-2-296.59.68; Telephone: +32-2-296.05.59; Email: Carlos.Paz-Carneiro at cec.eu.int). CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Tuesday, 18 September Workshops, welcome reception, opening of exhibitions Wednesday, 19 September opening session, first day of conference Thursday, 20 September Second day of conference Friday, 21 September Third day of conference, IAMT general assembly, folk music entertainment Saturday, 22 September Workshops, excursion to Coruna, special panel, banquet Sunday, 23 September Excursion to southern Galicia and northern Portugal CONFERENCE FEES The registration fees for the conference (19-22 September) are: IAMT members* Non-members Before 15 July Euro 275 Euro 325 After 15 July Euro 325 Euro 375 * members of the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) One Euro is approximately 0.90 US dollar. Note: The conference fees do not include meals, but there are numerous good-value restaurants nearby in the city, which you will have opportunity to enjoy during the conference. CANCELLATIONS Before 15 July: 75% of the registration fee will be refunded After 15 July and before 1 September: 50% of the registration fee will be refunded After 1 September: no refunds. EXHIBITIONS Exhibition space will be provided in the Chapel of the Hostal for up to 25 companies and will be active throughout the conference. Fees for exhibitors will be Euro 1200. Contact Joerg Schuetz (joerg at iai.uni-sb.de) for details, or look at the Summit website (www.eamt.org/summitVIII). WORKSHOPS [for more details see Summit website] Tuesday 18 September fee Towards a Roadmap for MT (half day) Euro 25 Organiser: Steven Krauwer Example-based machine translation (full day) Euro 50 Organisers: Andrew Way and Michael Carl Saturday 22 September Teaching machine translation (all day) Euro 50 Organisers: Mikel Forcada and Derek Lewis MT evaluation: who did what to whom (Fourth ISLE workshop) (all day) Euro 50 Organisers: Ed Hovy, Maghi King, Sandra Manzi and Florence Reeder OPEN MEETING on terminology exchange and synchronization (SALT, OSCAR, OLIF), Saturday 22 Sept (all day) Euro 50 [for more information see http://www.ttt.org] FLIGHT DISCOUNTS. Iberia Airlines is offering participants a 25% discount (or more) on many of its flights (for details see: www.eamt.org/summitVIII). On registration you will be sent a password, in order to take advantage of this offer. ORGANISERS John Hutchins (general chair): EAMT/IAMT president Bente Maegaard (programme chair) Joerg Schuetz (exhibitions) Harold Somers (workshops) Carlos Paz (registration and local arrangements) Anthony Clarke (finance): EAMT treasurer Viggo Hansen (publicity): EAMT secretary Colin Brace (website) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Tue Jun 26 22:53:59 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:53:59 +0100 Subject: Q: Corpus de resumes automatiques Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:23:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: outremanfb at club-internet.fr Message-Id: Bonjour, Etudiante en maîtrise des Sciences de l'Information et de la Documentation, je suis actuellement en stage en centre de documentation; dans ce cadre, je réfléchis au passage du panorama de presse papier à une revue de presse numérique. J'aborde dans mon étude la possibilité d'utiliser les outils linguistiques pour la réalisation de résumés d'articles de presse. Pouvez-vous me renseigner, s'il vous plaît , sur l'existence de sites qui proposent des résumés automatiques ? En existe-t-il qui soient pertinents ? Je vous remercie. Béatrice Outreman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 28 14:00:12 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:00:12 +0200 Subject: Publications: Spoken Language Processing ... Message-ID: Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development by Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Hardcover - 960 pages 1 edition (April 25, 2001) Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0130226165 ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.03 x 9.50 x 7.34 >>From the Inside Flap Preface Our primary motivation in writing this book is to share our working experience to bridge the gap between the knowledge of industry gurus and newcomers to the spoken language processing community. Many powerful techniques hide in conference proceedings and academic papers for years before becoming widely recognized by the research community or the industry. We spent many years pursuing spoken language technology research at Carnegie Mellon University before we started spoken language R&D at Microsoft. We fully understand that it is by no means a small undertaking to transfer a state-of-the-art spoken language research system into a commercially viable product that can truly help people improve their productivity. Our experience in both industry and academia is reflected in the context of this book, which presents a contemporary and comprehensive description of both theoretic and practical issues in spoken language processing. This book is intended for people of diverse academic and practical backgrounds. Speech scientists, computer scientists, linguists, engineers, physicists, and psychologists all have a unique perspective on spoken language processing. This book will be useful to all of these special interest groups. Spoken language processing is a diverse subject that relies on knowledge of many levels, including acoustics, phonology, phonetics, linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. The diverse nature of spoken language processing requires knowledge in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, syntax, and psychology. There are a number of excellent books on the subfields of spoken language processing, including speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and spoken language understanding, but there is no single book that covers both theoretical and practical aspects of these subfields and spoken language interface design. We devote many chapters systematically introducing fundamental theories needed to understand how speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and spoken language understanding work. Even more important is the fact that the book highlights what works well in practice, which is invaluable if you want to build a practical speech recognizer, a practical text-to-speech synthesizer, or a practical spoken language system. Using numerous real examples in developing Microsoft's spoken language systems, we concentrate on showing how the fundamental theories can be applied to solve real problems in spoken language processing. >>From the Back Cover New advances in spoken language processing: theory and practice In-depth coverage of speech processing, speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken language understanding, and speech interface design Many case studies from state-of-the-art systems, including examples from Microsoft's advanced research labs Spoken Language Processing draws on the latest advances and techniques from multiple fields: computer science, electrical engineering, acoustics, linguistics, mathematics, psychology, and... Regards, XD ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 28 14:07:27 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:07:27 +0200 Subject: Doc/Post-Doc : 3 offres Message-ID: 1/ 2 new funded PhD studentships in Computing - University of Sunderland 2/ NLP postdoc position - University of Maryland 3/ PhD positions on "Information and Communication Technologies" - The University of Trento and ITC-irst ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ With respect to this email list I would like to encourage applications from computing students for 2 PhD studentships in intelligent systems (e.g. neural networks, hybrid systems, cognitive neuroscience, neuro/fuzzy systems, machine learning, with applications in e.g. in natural language processing or robotics) General application text for all areas of interest below Stefan Wermter ------------------------------------- Funded Phd Opportunities in Computing, Engineering & Technology The School of Computing, Engineering & Technology at the University of Sunderland is seeking high quality, motivated applicants wishing to gain a PhD or MPhil in the disciplines of Computing, Mathematical Sciences, Engineering and Technology. The school has a strong and growing research profile with EPSRC-funded research, numerous EU-funded projects and a vibrant community of over 100 researchers. The School is well-resourced and offers excellent facilities with much state-of the art computing equipment and not only offers high quality postgraduate but also undergraduate programmes accredited by professional societies. We look for applications in both computing and mathematics as well as general engineering for two fully-funded PhD studentships. Students wishing to apply for the 2 funded places should look at the list of proposed projects available at http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/postgrad/projects.html and indicate in their application which of these projects they would wish to undertake. The closing date for the 2 funded places is 8/7/01. Self-funding MPhil & PhD students are also welcome to apply at any time for full-time, part-time and distance learning research degrees in any of the areas detailed below. The main research groups in computing & mathematics are: intelligent systems (major strengths in neural networks, natural language engineering, hybrid systems, cognitive neuroscience, neuro/fuzzy systems, machine learning: Professor Stefan Wermter - stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5153279); http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/Projects/suggested_topics_titles.html human computer systems (includes themes such as multimedia, computer-aided learning, computing for the disabled and human computer interaction evaluation methodologies: Professor Gilbert Cockton - gilbert.cockton at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5153394); software engineering (focussed on practical areas especially software testing·and the organisational·risks of implementing information systems, methodologies and solutions for industry: Professor Helen Edwards helen.edwards at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5152786 or Professor Barrie Thompson barrie.thompson at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5152769); electronic commerce (encompasses the development and promotion of standards in this·dynamic area with a special interest in the area of electronic procurement: Kevin Ginty - kevin.ginty at sunderland.ac.uk or Albert Bokma albert.bokma at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5153233); decision support systems (covers a diverse range of activities·in statistics & mathematics at the boundary of·Computer Science and Statistics and Operational Research: Professor Eric Fletcher eric.fletcher at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5152822 or Professor Alfredo Moscardini alfredo.moscardini at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5152763); In order to apply please send a full CV (including 2 referees and indicating the project for which you wish to apply) to the address below. You may also find out more about either our PhD or MPhil research degrees, the current studentships and grants available by looking at: http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/postgrad or getting in touch with: Dr. Chris. Bowerman - Principal Lecturer in Research Student Management School of Computing, Engineering & Technology, University of Sunderland, Informatics Centre, St Peter's Way, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, GB-SR6 0DD Email: chris.bowerman at sunderland.ac.uk -------------------------------------------- *************************************** Professor Stefan Wermter Research Chair in Intelligent Systems University of Sunderland Centre of Informatics, SCET St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 3553 email: stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ **************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SEEKS POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER ---------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Maryland is seeking a bright and energetic postdoc to work on research in computational linguistics, information retrieval, and related areas. Our laboratory has several cutting-edge projects that explore a wide range of natural language processing issues. Some of our top current interests include: - Acquisition of lexicons - Computational psycholinguistics - Cross-language information retrieval - Human-computer interaction - Lexical semantics - Machine learning in NLP - Multimedia search - Question answering - Statistical machine translation - Stochastic parsing - Web as a linguistic resource - Word sense disambiguation We offer a friendly working environment with extensive interaction across academic departments and neighboring institutions. To apply, please send a resume and a description of your research interests to Denise Best (denise at cfar.umd.edu). We're looking forward to hearing from you. Cheers, David Doermann (http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~doermann/) Bonnie Dorr (http://umiacs.umd.edu/~bonnie/) Rebecca Hwa (http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hwa/) Gina Levow (http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~gina/cv/) Doug Oard (http://glue.umd.edu/~oard/) Philip Resnik (http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/) Amy Weinberg (http://umiacs.umd.edu/~weinberg/) UMIACS strongly encourages applications from minorities and women. EOE/AA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ The University of Trento and ITC-irst announce the availability of PhD positions on "Information and Communication Technologies". Of particular interest for users of this list might be the possibility of applying for positions in the "Human Language Technology", and "Pattern Recognition" areas, directly financed by ITC-irst. More information can be found at the following address: http://ict.unitn.it Best regards alberto lavelli ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 28 14:08:42 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:08:42 +0200 Subject: Appel: 6th Int. Conf. on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data Message-ID: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS - JADT 2002 - March 13-15, 2002 6th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data March 13-15, 2002 Palais du Grand Large St-Malo / France The International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data provides a workshop-style forum to all scholars, statisticians, computer scientists, linguists..., working in the vast field of textual data analysis ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of data to content analysis. Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), Nice (1998) and Lausanne (2000), the 6th International Conference will be held in Saint-Malo, France on march 13-15 2002. Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 1, 2001 Notification: October 30, 2001 Camera ready papers: December 15, 2001 Conference: March 13-15, 2002 Website: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt e-mail address: jadt2002 at irisa.fr Submission: Submissions should be limited to original work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous works. Participants wishing to submit a paper should send to the organization committee (via email jadt2002 at irisa.fr) a first version of their paper for review by September 1, 2001, giving the following information: - Name, affiliation and full postal address (fax and/or e-mail) of authors - Title of the proposed paper with keywords - A first version of the paper (12 pages max.) emphasizing the purpose of the paper - An abstract in the paper language - An abstract in English (maximum 300 words) - Bibliographical references A format (identical for the final version) is proposed on the Website (for LaTeX and Word), http://www.irisa.fr/jadt/authors.htm). Topics: Topics of interest of the conference concern the application of statistical models and tools in the following domains: - Exploratory Textual Data Analysis - Textual Statistics - Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions - Natural Language Processing - Stylometry - Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis - Textual Classification - Text Corpora and Text Encoding - Frequency Dictionaries - Lemmatization, automatic categorization - Information Retrieval - Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors on October 30, 2001. Final versions (camera-ready papers) should conform to the format that is provided on the Website (12 pages max.) and reach the committee no later than December 15, 2001. Accepted papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the participants at the start of the conference. Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of these languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract. As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided. Program Committee: Ramon Alvarez, Univ. of Leon, Spain Harald Baayen, Univ. of Nimègue, The Netherlands Monica Bécue, Polyt. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain Sergio Bolasco, Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy Étienne Brunet, Univ. of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Annibale Elia, Univ. of Salerno, Italy Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, France Dominique Labbé, Univ. of Grenoble, France Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST Paris, France (Président) Alain Lelu Univ. of Franche Comté, France Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, France Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, France Martin Rajman, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. of Versailles SQY, France André Salem, Univ. Paris 3, France Pascale Sébillot, IRISA, France Fiona Tweedie, Univ. of Glasgow, UK Organization Committee: Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr Pascale Sebillot, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr organized by IRISA/INRIA Rennes -- Pascale SEBILLOT IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes cedex, France tel: (33|0) 2 99 84 73 17, fax: (33|0) 2 99 84 71 71 email: sebillot at irisa.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 28 14:10:03 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:10:03 +0200 Subject: Conf: FGMOL '01 Call for Participation Message-ID: FGMOL'01 FORMAL GRAMMAR / MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE CONFERENCE Friday morning (9.00) August 10--Sunday afternoon (17.50) August 12, 2001 Helsinki in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI XIII) ************************************************************************* AIMS & SCOPE FGMOL'01 will provide a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar and mathematical aspects of language, especially with regard to the application of formal methods to natural language analysis. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to: * formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; * model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; * constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; * foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar; * mathematical properties of linguistic frameworks; * theories and models of natural language processing and generation; * parsing theory; * statistical and quantitative models of language. ************************************************************************ PRACTICAL INFORMATION Conference Description and Program: http://sfinx.let.uu.nl/users/fgmol01prog.pdf Registration and Accommodation via ESSLLI: http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli Registration fee: 50 euros. ************************************************************************ PROGRAM ----- INVITED LECTURES Friday, August 10, 14.00-15.00: Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) Some issues concerning strong generative capacity Saturday, August 11, 14.00-15.00: Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University) Negation in logic and in natural language ---- Sunday, August 12, 14.00-17.50: SYMPOSIUM Model-Theoretic Syntax Geoffrey Pullum (Santa Cruz) Formal grammar without formal languages: the surprisingly radical implications of model-theoretic syntax Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) Why model-theoretic syntax? James Rogers (Earlham) A hierarchy of degrees of constituency Uwe Moennich (Tuebingen) A model-theoretic description of TAGs ---- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS Carlos Areces (Amsterdam), Raffaella Bernardi and Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Galois Connections in Categorial Type Logic Gilad Ben-Avi and Yoad Winter (Technion) A Characterization of Monotonicity with Collective Quantifiers Pierre Boullier (INRIA) From Contextual Grammars to Range Concatenation Grammars Lukasz Debowski (Polish Academy of Sciences) A Revision of Coding Theory for Learning from Language Philippe de Groote & Guillaume Bonfante (LORIA) Stochastic Categorial Grammars Denys Duchier (Saarbruecken) Lexicalized Syntax and Topology for Non-projective Dependency Grammar Annie Foret (INRIA) The emptiness of intersection problem for k-valued categorial grammars (classical and Lambek) is undecidable. Sean A. Fulop (Chicago) Learnability of type-logical grammars Kim Gerdes (Paris) TAG and Topology: Problems and Proposals for German Masami Ito (Kyoto), Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona), and Victor Mitrana (Bucharest) Chomsky-Schutzenberger Type Characterizations of Poly-Slender and Parikh Slender Context-Free Languages Stephan Kepser (Tuebingen) On the Complexity of RSRL Matthias Trautner Kromann (Copenhagen) Local optimality parsing in Discontinuous Grammar Yves Lepage (ATR) Analogies and formal languages Arthur Merin (Stuttgart) The Measure of All Things Jens Michaelis (Potsdam) Observations on Strict Derivational Minimalism Stefan Mueller (DFKI) An HPSG Analysis of German Depictive Secondary Predicates Anne Neville and Patrizia Paggio (Copenhagen) Developing a Danish grammar in the GRASP project: A construction-based approach to topology and extraction Rainer Osswald (Hagen) Classifying Classification Adi Palm (Passau) Model-theoretic Syntax and Parsing: An Application to Temporal Logic Gerald Penn (Toronto) A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Polynomial-Time Recognition with the Lambek Calculus Wiebke Petersen (Duesseldorf) A Set-Theoretical Approach for the Induction of Inheritance Hierarchies Carl Pollard (Ohio State) Higher-Order Grammar Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer (Tuebingen) Polish Negation and Lexical Resource Semantics Balder ten Cate (Amsterdam) The dynamics of information exchange dialogues **************************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE Anne Abeill'e (Paris) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) Gosse Bouma (Groningen) Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc) Elisabet Engdahl (Gotenborg) Nissim Francez (Haifa) Thilo Goetz (IBM) David Johnson (IBM) Mark Johnson (Brown) Gerhard Jaeger (Utrecht) Aravind Joshi (UPenn) Ruth Kempson (London) Alain Lecomte (LORIA) Uwe Moennich (Tuebingen) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen) Owen Rambow (Cogentex) James Rogers (Earlham) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) **************************************************************** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Geert-Jan Kruijff (Saarbruecken) Larry Moss (Indiana) Dick Oehrle (Oakland) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 28 14:11:04 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:11:04 +0200 Subject: Ressources: New Release from the LDC Message-ID: The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the availability of the Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE) Vo-Coder Training Audio. http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001S99.html This eight CD-ROM publication contains the Speech in Noisy Environments 2 (SPINE2) Training Audio Corpus created for the Department of Defense (DoD) Digital Voice Processing Consortium (DDVPC) by Arcon Corp. The transcripts for this corpus are available in two LDC publications, Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE1) Training Transcripts LDC2000T49 and Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE1) Evaluation Transcripts LDC2000T54. For an example transcription please visit: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/desc/addenda/LDC2000T54.html This corpus contains a total of 260 files, one "game" each, for a rough total of 19 hours and 59 minutes (~4.6 GBytes) of audio data. SPINE Vo-Coder Training Audio supports the 2000 and 2001 Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE1 and SPINE2) evaluation. The Second Speech in Noisy Environments Evaluation (SPINE2) will provide a continuing forum for assessing the state of the art and practice in speech recognition technology for noisy military environments and for exchanging information on innovative speech recognition technology in the context of fully implemented systems that perform realistic tasks. The evaluation will provide researchers, potential sponsors, and customers with a quantitative means to appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of the technologies, and the results reported on will invite customer interest in the potential utility of the technologies. More information on this evaluation is available from the Naval Research Laboratory website by visiting: http://elazar.itd.nrl.navy.mil/spine/index.html Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2001 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge. Nonmembers may purchase this publication for $1600. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to . 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See www.tractor.de for more information on these and the other resources: The East African Component of The International Corpus of English (ICE-EA) Corpus of written and spoken English of Tanzania and Kenya. Resource provider: Josef Schmied Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts Historical English corpus. Resource provider: Josef Scmied Corpus of Italian newspapers Newspaper texts of La Repubblica (26m words) and La Stampa (11m words) in ASCII files. Resource provider: Francois Esvan Slovene fiction Fiction texts and poetry in HTML format. Resource provider: Miran Hladnik Database of Russian Family Names Resource provider: Serge A. Yablonsky Finnish poetry and word databases Resource provider: Kimmo Kettunen Entropizer 1.1 Resource provider: Aris Xanthos Bigram Statistics package (BSP) Resource provider: Ted Pedersen Reverse Italian lexicon Resource provider: Rodolfo Delmonte MULTEXT-EAST Corpus. Corpora, tools and alignments in many European languages. Resource provider: THE MULTEXT EAST Consortium Speech, Thought and Writing Presentation Corpus (STOP) A corpus of modern British English narrative texts (260,000 words) representing news, fiction and biography (including autobiography). Forms of speech, thought and writing presentation have been manually annotated in the corpus. Resource providers: Elena Semino, Mick Short and Martin Wynne of the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University Free Britain Corpus A corpus of recent texts written by Eurosceptics about Britain and the European Union, containing approx. 2 million words. Resource provider: Wolfgang Teubert EU enlargement corpus Journalism articles about EU enlargement, c. 600,000 words, HTML. Resource provider: Centre for Corpus Linguistics, Department of English, University of Birmingham. In order to access these resources you need to be a member of the TRACTOR User Community. To join, fill in the user agreement form (available on the website) and then pay the annual administrative fee of 50 euros (20 euros to Central and Eastern European countries). If you want to deposit some resources in the archive, you can join for free, so this method is recommended! Users have free, unlimited access to all the resources. See http://www.tractor.de/faq.htm for more information on TRACTOR and email any queries to helpdesk at tractor.de. -- Martin Wynne Centre for Corpus Research, Coordinator, TRACTOR Network Department of English, www.tractor.de Birmingham University Tel: +44 (0)121 414 2763 Birmingham Fax: +44 (0)121 414 6053 UK - B15 2TT email: martin at clg.bham.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 6 15:56:36 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:56:36 +0200 Subject: Appel: COLING-2002 Message-ID: ================================================================ Please redistribute the following CFP for COLING 2002. Thanks. Apologies for multiple posts. ================================================================ COLING-2002 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics August 24 -- September 1, 2002 Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan ================================================================ Organized by: Academia Sinica, ACLCLP and National Tsing Hua University Under the Auspices of: The International Committee on Computational Linguistics http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ Call for Papers (No.1. May-30-01) COLING is the most prominent conference in the field of Computational Linguistics. In its 40 plus years of existence, the biennial COLING has been a productive forum for scholars all over the world to exchange original research papers on a broad range of topics in computational linguistics. COLING is an international forum for discussion and presentation representing the current state of the art and determining standards of computational linguistics research. In 2002, Taiwan will host the 19th COLING conference. This will be the first time that COLING is held outside Europe, North America, or Japan. It will be a chance for participants to experience the energy behind Taiwan's vibrant growth in knowledge technology, as well as the natural beauty of Formosa and its rich cultural heritage. Submitted papers should describe original work, completed or in progress, rather than merely planned, and clearly indicate the current state of advancement of the work. No previously published papers should be submitted. Simultaneous submission to other conferences is allowed provided it is explicitly indicated on the identification page. In line with the practice established in previous COLING conferences, authors will be asked to place their submission in one of two categories: 1. Regular papers, of not more than seven pages, presenting results of original complete research, and 2. Project notes, of five pages or less, describing ongoing research or demonstrating a system. Method of Submission: o Complete a Paper Submission Form (http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/). This form may be updated up to the deadline for paper submissions (February 15, 2002). o For your paper use the layout and format of papers described in the LATEX or Microsoft Word Style sheets, as well as ACL Bibliography Style sheets. (For more details on paper submission see http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/). o Electronic submissions of papers are strongly preferred. Papers should be sent to coling2002 at ikp.uni-bonn.de o Hard copy papers are also accepted. Further details will be available later. Call for Workshop-Proposals The Program committee welcomes submissions of proposals for workshops with focus on computational linguistics. A separate Call for Workshops will be sent soon. For details on Workshop submission please contact Workshop Chair: Antonio Zampolli (E-mail: pisa at ilc.pi.cnr.it). Important Dates: Deadline for Workshop Proposals: January 15, 2002 Deadline for paper submission: February 15, 2002 Notification of Workshops: February 15, 2002 Notification to authors: May 1, 2002 Arrival of final camera-ready copy and registration of authors: June 15, 2002 Tutorials: August 24 - 25, 2002 (Academia Sinica) Conference: August 26 - 30, 2002 (Howard International House) Post-Conference Workshops: August 31, September 1, 2002 (Academia Sinica) Reviewing: Reviewing of papers will be done by an International Program Committee consisting of Program Chairs and a team of reviewers. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers (For details please go to: http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/coling2002/). Program Committee: Winfried Lenders (Chair), University of Bonn, Germany Susan Armstrong, ETI/ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland Christian Boitet, Joseph Fourier University, France Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University, USA Jun-Ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan Hans Uszkoreit, University of Saarbrucken, Germany Yorik Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK Local Organization: The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica National Tsing Hua University Organizing Committee: Chu-Ren Huang (Chair), Academia Sinica Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University Jing-Shin Chang, National Chi-Nan University Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University Keh-Jiann Chen, Academia Sinica Kuang-Hua Chen, National Taiwan University Sin-Horng Chen, National Chiao Tung University Lee-Feng Chien (Executive secretary), Academia Sinica Zhao-Ming Gao, National Taiwan University Sue-Jin Ker, Soochow University Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation Shu-Chuan Tseng (Executive secretary), Academia Sinica Hsiao-Chuan Wang, National Tsing Hua University Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica Jhing-Fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University Contacts: Program: Winfried Lenders Institut fur Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik University of Bonn Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D-53115 Bonn Germany Lenders at uni-bonn.de Organization: Jen-Yi Lin Chinese Knowledge Information Processing Group Institute of Information Science Academia Sinica Nankang, Taipei 11529 Taiwan COLING02 at sinica.edu.tw ================================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 6 15:57:28 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:57:28 +0200 Subject: Publications: ROBUSTNESS IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY Message-ID: **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 17 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V?ronis ROBUSTNESS IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH TECHNOLOGY edited by Jean-Claude Junqua Speech Technology Laboratory, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Gertjan van Noord University of Groningen, The Netherlands In this book we address robustness issues at the speech recognition and natural language parsing levels, with a focus on feature extraction and noise robust recognition, adaptive systems, language modeling, parsing, and natural language understanding. This book attempts to give a clear overview of the main technologies used in language and speech processing, along with an extensive bibliography to enable topics of interest to be pursued further. It also brings together speech and language technologies often considered separately. 'Robustness in Language and Speech Technology' serves as a valuable reference and although not intended as a formal university textbook, contains some material that can be used for a course at the graduate or undergraduate level. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6790-1 February 2001, 280 pp. EUR 100.00 / USD 100.00 / GBP 57.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS 1. Introduction; J.-C. Junqua, G. van Noord. 2. Acoustic Features and Distance Measure; J. de Veth, et al. 3. Speaker Compensation in Automatic Speech Recognition; D.T. Merino. 4. Robustness in Statistical Language Modeling; J.R. Bellegarda. 5. Improving Robustness by Modeling Spontaneous Speech Events; P.A. Heeman, J.F. Allen. 6. Regular Approximation of Context-Free Grammars; M. Mohri, M.-J. Nederhof. 7. Weighted Grammar Tools: The GRM Library; M. Mohri. 8. Robust Parsing and Beyond; J.-P. Chanod. 9. Robust Parsing of Word Graphs; G. van Noord. 10. Balancing Robustness and Efficiency; C. Penstein Ros?, A. Lavie. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Volume 13: Parallel text processing: Alignment and use of translation corpora Jean V?ronis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6546-1, August 2000. Volume 14: Prosody: theory and experiment Studies Presented to G?sta Bruce Merle Horne (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6579-8, August 2000. Volume 15: Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology Antonis Botinis (Ed.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0, October 2000. Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5, October 2000. Volume 16: Advances in probabilistic and other parsing technologies Harry Bunt, Anton Nijholt (Eds.) Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6616-6, October 2000. http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 6 15:58:28 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:58:28 +0200 Subject: Conf: DCAGRS_2001 Message-ID: Dear Colleague, this is to inform you that the programme of the workshop Descriptional Complexity for Automata, Grammars and Related Structures (July 20-22, 2001, Vienna, Austria) is now fixed and available at the URL of the workshop http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/dcagrs01/ We want to note that a registration by June 10, 2001, will safeguard a discount on the registration fee. Thank you very much for your attention. Yours sincerely, Bernd Reichel ************************************************************************ Dr. Bernd Reichel Fakult"at f"ur Informatik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universit"at Magdeburg Postfach 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany Tel.: +49-391-67-12851; FAX: -11250; Tel.(privat): +49-391-5051515 reichel at iws.cs.uni-magdeburg.de http://theo.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~reichel Building 18 Room 232 ************************************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 6 16:01:11 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 18:01:11 +0200 Subject: Jobs: 2 offres Message-ID: 1/ TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY at SAIL LABS Barcelona 2/ PhD funding University of Sheffield ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ Openings in TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY at SAIL LABS Barcelona Sail Labs is one of the world's leading R&D companies in the field of "Natural Language Understanding". With the slogan "Innovation in Understanding", the company is focusing on three core development areas: * Speech technology * Translation technology * Content technology In the Munich head office and in its branches in Berlin, Barcelona, and Vienna, 190 developers are working on solutions, products and components related to the understanding of natural languages. For the further expansion of our highly motivated team in Barcelona we are looking for qualified professionals for the area of translation technologies. Candidate tasks and profiles: ***************************************** COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTS (ref. CL) ***************************************** Your tasks: * Design, development and maintenance of formal grammars for our several new or existing translation engines. * Design and development of the linguistic components of our new generation of translation systems. Your profile: * University degree in philosophy, linguistics, computational linguistics or equivalent, with a strong background in natural language processing. * Native proficiency in English or German and excellent knowledge of some other western European language. * Programming experience. * Effective communication skills in written and spoken English. * Experience in machine translation and/or developing formal grammars for natural language processing applications will be a plus. * Knowledge of other languages will also be a plus. Working language: English Starting date: September/October 2001 Office location: Center of Barcelona (in the charming 19th century district Eixample, within walking distance from the old part of the city and from the famous 'Las Ramblas') You will join a young, international, and highly motivated team. SAIL LABS combines research and development of market-ready products. This will thus offer a great opportunity to those people who want to apply their acquired knowledge and skills in real-world conditions. More information about SAIL LABS can be found at the web page << http://www.sail-labs.com >>. If you are interested, send CV and cover letter in English by email to: albert.llorens at sail-labs.es indicating on the envelope or in the subject of the email the job reference. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ This is a re-advertisement. Apologies for cross-postings. The University of Sheffield has PhD funding available (starting September 2001) for a project involving the British National Corpus. The studentship is jointly held by the departments of English Language and Linguistics and Information Studies. A suitable candidate would have a project in mind involving the BNC and be able to draw on expertise from both of these departments. We welcome proposals in the following areas of corpus linguistics: lexical statistics, word frequency, lexical innovation, lexicography text type/register/genre analysis stylistics discourse analysis variation and change text retrieval, text processing text markup computing in the humanities Please note that this is a university studentship and so fees are paid at the home rate only. If the candidate is not from the EU, funding must be available to make up the difference between home and overseas fees. Arrangements for supervision: The successful candidate will be a member of the Department of English Language and Linguistics which forms part of the School of English. The project will be jointly supervised by Dr Claire Cowie and Dr Claire Warwick from the department of Information Studies. Dr Cowie works on word-formation and lexical innovation in historical corpora, with particular reference to register differences. Dr Warwick works on humanities computing, with a particular interest in the application of computers to the study of English literature and language. She was previously part of the BNC project team. More information about the departments may be found at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/english/language/index.html and http://www.shef.ac.uk/~is. Application forms and further details can be obtained from: Fozia Yasmin, Graduate Research Office Graduate Research Office 156 Broomspring Lane Sheffield S10 2FE Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 1404 Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 1420 Email : grad.school at sheffield.ac.uk To discuss the project informally, please contact Claire Cowie (0114 2220217- c.s.cowie at sheffield.ac.uk) or Claire Warwick (0114 222 2632 - c.warwick at sheffield.ac.uk). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 11 16:24:15 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:24:15 +0200 Subject: Appel: Esslli 2002 (Trento, Italy) Message-ID: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Fourteenth European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI-2001 August 13-24, 2002, Trento, Italy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% PRELIMINARY CALL FOR COURSE and WORKSHOP PROPOSALS -------------------------------------------------- The main focus of the European Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses together with workshops cover a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting up to 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students and researchers interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. ESSLLI-2002 is organised under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). The ESSLLI-2002 Programme Committee invites proposals for foundational, introductory, and advanced courses, and for workshops for the 14th annual Summer School on a wide range of topics in the following fields: LANGUAGE & COMPUTATION LANGUAGE & LOGIC LOGIC & COMPUTATION In addition to courses and workshops there will be a Student Session. A Call for Papers for the Student Session will be distributed separately. PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals have to be submitted through a web form whose location will be announced in a later CfP and at the web site for ESSLLI-2002 . All proposals should be submitted no later than July 22, 2001. Authors of proposals will be notified of the committee's decision no later than September 17, 2001. Proposers should follow the guidelines below while preparing their submissions; proposals that deviate can not be considered. GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: Anyone interested in lecturing or organising a workshop during ESSLLI-2002, please read the following information carefully. ALL COURSES: Courses are taught by 1 or max. 2 lecturers. They typically consist of five sessions (a one-week course) or ten sessions (a two-week course). Each session lasts 90 minutes. Timetable for Course Proposal Submission: Jul 22, 2001: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 17, 2001: Notification Nov 15, 2001: Deadline for receipt of title, abstract, lecturer(s) information, course description and prerequisites Jun 1, 2002: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready course material FOUNDATIONAL COURSES: These are really elementary courses not assuming any background knowledge. They are intended for people to get acquainted with the problems and techniques of areas new to them. Ideally, they should allow researchers from other fields to acquire the key competences of neighbouring disciplines, thus encouraging the development of a truly interdisciplinary research community. Foundational courses may presuppose some experience with scientific methods in general, so as to be able to concentrate on the issues that are germane to the area of the course. INTRODUCTORY COURSES: Introductory courses are central to the activities of the Summer School. They are intended to equip students and young researchers with a good understanding of a field's basic methods and techniques. Introductory courses in, for instance, Language and Computation, can build on some knowledge of the component fields; e.g., an introductory course in computational linguistics should address an audience which is familiar with the basics of linguistics and computation. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the level of the course as compared to standard texts in the area. ADVANCED COURSES: Advanced courses should be pitched at an audience of advanced Masters or PhD students. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in some detail. WORKSHOPS: The aim of the workshops is to provide a forum for advanced Ph.D. students and other researchers to present and discuss their work. A workshop has a theme. At most one organiser is paid. The organisers should be specialists in the theme of the workshop and give a general introduction in the first session. They are also responsible for the programme of the workshop, i.e., for finding speakers. Each workshop organiser will be responsible for producing a Call for Papers for the workshop by November 15, 2001. The call must make it clear that the workshop is open to all members of the LLI community. It should also note that all workshop contributors must register for the Summer School. A workshop consists of five sessions (a one-week workshop) or ten sessions (a two-week workshop). Sessions are normally 90 minutes. Timetable for Workshop Proposal Submissions Jul 22, 2001: Proposal Submission Deadline Sep 15, 2001: Notification Nov 15, 2001: Deadline for receipt of Call for Papers Dec 1, 2001: Send out Call for Papers Mar 15, 2002: Deadline for Papers (suggested) May 1, 2002: Notification of Workshop Contributors (suggested) May 15, 2002: Deadline for Provisional Workshop Programme Jun 1, 2002: Deadline for receipt of camera-ready copy of Workshop notes Jun 1, 2002: Deadline for Final Workshop Programme FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS: The web-based form for submitting course and workshop proposals will be made accessible through the ESSLLI-2002 page at . You will be required to submit the following information: * Name (name(s) of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser) * Address (contact addresses of proposed lecturer(s)/organiser; where possible, please include phone and fax numbers) * Title (title of proposed course/workshop) * Type (is this a workshop, a foundational course, an introductory course, or an advanced course?) * Section (does your proposal fit in Language & Computation, Language & Logic or Logic & Computation? name only one) * Description (describe the proposed contents in at most 150 words) * External funding (will you be able to find external funding to help fund your travel and accommodation expenses? if so, how?) * Further particulars (any further information that is required by the above guidelines should be included here) FINANCIAL ASPECTS: Prospective lecturers and workshop organisers should be aware that all teaching and organising at the summer schools is done on a voluntary basis in order to keep the participants fees as low as possible. Lecturers and organisers are not paid for their contribution, but are reimbursed for travel and accommodation. Please note the following: In case a course is to be taught by two lecturers, a lump sum is paid to cover travel and accommodation expenses. The splitting of the sum is up to the lecturers. However, please note that the organisers highly appreciate it if, whenever possible, lecturers and workshop organisers find alternative funding to cover travel and accommodation expenses. Workshop speakers are required to register for the Summer School; however, workshop speakers will be able to register at a reduced rate to be determined by the Organising Committee. Finally, it should be stressed that while proposals from all over the world are welcomed, the Summer School can in general guarantee only to reimburse travel costs for travel from destinations within Europe to Trento. Exceptions will be made depending on the financial situation. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Claire Gardent (chair) Attn: ESSLLI-2002 LORIA BP 239 Campus Scientifique 54506 Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy (France) Tel: +33-3-83-59-2039 Fax: +33-3-83-27-5652 Email: claire.gardent at loria.fr Local co-chair: Paolo Bouquet Language & Computation: Hinrich Schuetze Gerry Altmann Language & Logic: Fabio Pianesi Steve Pullman Logic & Computation: Simon Parsons Frank Wolter ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Luciano Serafini (chair) Email: serafini at itc.it FURTHER INFORMATION: To obtain further information, visit the web site for ESSLLI-2002 . For this year's summer school, please see the web site for ESSLLI-2001 . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 11 16:25:46 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:25:46 +0200 Subject: Appel: Journée Linguistique de Corpus Message-ID: APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS A brief summary in English follows. Journ?e ? Linguistique de Corpus et Linguistique Appliqu?e ? Universit? de Bretagne Sud, Lorient, 14 septembre 2001 Cette journ?e, organis?e par l'Association Fran?aise de Linguistique Appliqu?e en association avec les D?partements LEA et LLCE de l'Universit? de Bretagne Sud, le Centre de Recherche en Litt?ratures, Linguistique Civilisations (CRELLIC) et le groupe Analyse Linguistique et Pratiques Langagi?res (ALPL), se veut un lieu de rencontre entre tous ceux qui s'int?ressent ? la linguistique de corpus du point de vue des applications de la linguistique : chercheurs en linguistique, enseignants de langues, traducteurs et lexicographes...Il s'agira d'offrir un forum d'?change d'exp?riences ? ceux qui travaillent sur des corpus textuels plut?t que sur le d?veloppement d'outils informatiques. La journ?e prendra la forme d'expos?s sur des travaux en cours, sous forme de posters affich?s ou d'interventions orales, et s'ach?vera par une table ronde sur les perspectives de d?veloppement de cette discipline en France. La journ?e s'adresse principalement aux chercheurs et enseignants int?ress?s par l'utilisation de l'informatique comme outil d'analyse et utilisant des corpus ?lectroniques pour l'?tude lexicographique, la traduction ou l'enseignement des langues.Vous aurez la possibilit? de pr?senter vos travaux sous forme de communication affich?e, par poster d'environ 1m2 ou sous forme d'intervention orale d'une vingtaine de minutes. Veuillez envoyer un r?sum? d'une page environ accompagn? d'une page de renseignements pratiques comprenant : le mode de communication souhait?, votre nom, affiliation, t?l?phone, adresse postale et ?lectronique, ? l'adresse ci-dessous : Journ?e ? Linguistique de corpus ? Geoffrey Williams D?partement LEA U.F.R. Lettres et Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay BP 92116 56321 LORIENT Cedex ou par courrier ?lectronique ? Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr Pour tous renseignements : afla at linguist.jussieu.fr Le programme sera communiqu? sur le site http://www.univ-ubs.fr/crellic/agendaDATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : 15 ao?t 2001 Comit? d'organisation : G. Williams, J. Peeters, C. Ropers, E. Canut, N. Garric, P Boucher, C Sionis Association Fran?aise de Linguistique Appliqu?e.Tour Centrale, 9e ?t. / Case 7003,2, place Jussieu75251 Paris Cedex 05 This workshop aims to bring together researchers working with electronic corpora and lexical resources in France or in the French Language. It is aimed principally at those working in teaching, translating, lexicography and applied linguistics. The language of the workshop will be French. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 11 16:27:42 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:27:42 +0200 Subject: Conf: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Message-ID: EXETER CALL 2001 UNIVERSITY OF EXETER September 1- 3 2001 Conference on CALL - The Challenge of Change http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/announcements/CALL.html 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.... To mark the opening of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, the conference will include an optional workshop on 'Arabic meeting the challenge of CALL' on September 3. DRAFT PROGRAMME 1 'New Techniques for New Students : Adapting Language Instruction to Technology' Monique Adriaen, Roberta Sinyor York University, Canada 2 'Extensions to Computer-Assisted Oral Reading to Help Children Learn Vocabulary' Gregory Aist Carnegie Mellon University, USA 3 'Applying HCI Principles to CALL design' Paul Allum Japan 4 'Investigating Syntax Priming in an E-mail Tandem Language Learning Environment' Christine Appel, Carl Vogel Dublin City University, Ireland 5 'Utilising ICT Resources for ELT in Technical Institutions : a case study of India' K M Baharul Islam Kigali, Ruanda 6 'Integrating IT in English Language Curriculae' Inas Barsoum Ain Shams University, Cairo 7 'Reading Comprehension : CALL and NLP' Caroline Barriere, Lise Duquette University of Ottawa, Canada 8 'The Chronicle of ATLAS or Keeping Pace with Change' Ilse Bockstael, Jozef Colpaert, Wilfried Decoo, Linde Van Ishoven Belgium 9 'Conversation Classes Across Europe: A Challenge For Video Conferencing' John Buckett, Naciketa Datta, Derek Lewis, Hartmut Plehn, Peter Ruff, Gary Stringer, Peter Tscherner, Werner Wegstein University of Exeter, England and University of Wuerzburg, Germany 10 'Shared Electronic Spaces for Constructing Written Russian' Lydia Buravova, Jane Hughes University College London, England 11 'An Experiment In Computerised Teaching of English as a Second Language' Evelyne Cauvin France 12 'Web Server Based Architectures for Language Learning: LARFLAST Agents generating CALL Dialogues'. Stefano Cerri, Svetlana Dikareva, Daniele Maraschi, Stefan Trausan Matu Montpellier (F), Bucharest (RO), Simferopol (UK) 13 'British Higher Education and the 21st Century' Catherine Chabert Cardiff University, Wales 14 'Language Learning with Native Speakers in a MOO Community : Real or Virtual?' Lien Goedeme University of Antwerp, Belgium 15 'Using CALL to Change Student Learning' Randall P Donaldson, Margaret Haggstrom US Embassy, Paris and USA 16 'EFL Acquisition Through Computer Support : A Practical Proposal' Patricia Edwards, Mercedes Rico University of Extremadura and University of Merida, Spain 17 'Guidance and Autonomy: A Web-Coordinated Course for Students in Difficulty' Faina Furman, Isabella Kreindler University of Haifa, Israel 18 'What Factors Affect The Use Of Computers In The EFL/EAP Setting?' Rehab Ghazal American University in Cairo, Egypt 19 'CALL Material for Engineering' M. Perera Goma, Miguel Mora, Asuncion Pastor 20 'What Constitutes a Good Internet Research Project' Hideto Harashima Maebashi I.T., Japan 21 'User-Centred Sound Authoring on the Web : New Scopes to Meet the Interactive Challenge' Dominique Hemard London Guildhall University, England 22 'Can We Have More Customised CD-Roms Please?' Martin Herles, Ruth Trinder Vienna University of Economics, Austria 23 'Change Management and Implementation : Empowering the Tutor Through Informed Choice' Sue Hewer, Lesley Shield The Open University, England 24 'Web-Based Learning System for Sociolinguistic Skills in Japanese' Naoya Hirata, Yasuschi Inoguchi, Hiroshi Kamiyama, Yoshiyuki Kawazoe, Yoshiro Ogawara, Izumi Saita Tohoku University, Japan 25 'Learning Foreign Languages Together With Others Across the Internet' Shirley Holst, Jutta Maria Fleschutz Darmstadt, Germany 26 'CALL Labs : Have They Run Their Course?' Lawrie Hunter Kochi University of Technology, Japan 27 'Effective Use of 'Web CALL' in TEFL Jun Iwata Matsue N. C. T., Japan 28 'Implementing a Web-Based Course for Ab Initio Students of German' Paul Joyce, Derek Lewis University of Exeter, England 30 'Word Processors in an English as a Foreign Language : Context Writing Strategies in a Revised Text : A Qualitative Analysis' Olga Kehagia University of Thessaly, Greece 31 'Music, Language and the Foreign Language Learner: Creating Learning Space with CALL Software' Charles King Colorado, USA 32 'Teaching Students to Find Internet Resources Related to Culture' Kenji & Kathleen Kitao Doshisha University, Japan 33 'Online Lessons - Using the Internet to Help the Coursebook' Jarek Krajka Lublin, Poland 34 'Teacher Belief Systems Towards Computer-Mediated Language Learning: College ESL Instruction' Geoff Lawrence University of Toronto, Canada 35 Electronic Role-Play as a Means for Collaborative Construction of Knowledge On-Line Christine Leahy Nottingham Trent University, England 36 'Integration of CD-Roms Produced by the Language Instructor into the Language Curriculum - A Canterbury Innovation' Vera Leier University of Canterbury, New Zealand 37 'From Symptoms to Diagnosis' Geoff Lessard, Michael Levison Queen's University, Canada 38 'Bridging the Gulf Between Language Teachers and Computers - How to Expend Understanding and Promote Competent and Successful Use of CALL In Your Institution' Sarah Levi Walworth Barbour American School, Israel 39 'Coherence and Direction in CALL Research' Michael Levy University of Queensland, Australia 40 'Innovations in CALL: Are Teachers Managing It? Jamaluddin Mohaidin, Norhisham Mohamad University Sains, Malaysia 41 'EASE: A Multi-Media Materials Development Project' Hilary Nesi University of Warwick, England 42 'Network-Based Language Learning At Coventry University: Managing Change Via WebCT' Marina Orsini-Jones Coventry University, England 43 'Human Instructor/Virtual Tutor : Replacement or Replication?' Timothy F Pope University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada 44 'The Cloud Around Development and Exploiting CALL Material' Christine Sabieh Notre Dame University, Lebanon 45 'Online Filmography' Michael Shawback, Mitch Terhune Ritsumeikan University, Japan 46 'Orality in MOO: Rehearsing Speech in Text' Lesley Shield, Markus Weininger The Open University, England 47 'Graded Reading System on Line' Tadashi Shiozawa Chubu University, Japan 48 'CALL - A Way to Solve Some of the Language Learning / Teaching Problems in Tertiary Education in South Africa' Michelle Sprackett 49 'Using Electronic Dictionaries as CALL Material' Cornelia Tschichold University of Neuchtel, Switzerland 50 'Designing a Multimedia Feedback Tool for Developing Oral Skills' Michio Tsutsui, Masashi Kato, University of Washington, USA 51 'The Future, Electronic English Learner's Dictionary' Birgit Winkler The Open University, England 52 'Change Management In Moving Towards On-Line Learning In Higher Education' Masoud Yazdani University of the West of England 53 'Web-Based Instruction for Interactive Learning in Reading Class' Helen Shu-Chin Yen 54 'Real Media-Based Language Instruction for CALL Environments' Yuichiro Yoshinari Tokyo, Japan 55 'Short and Long-Term Memory Feedback in CALL' George Ypsilandis University of Macedonia, Greece SHORT PROPOSALS 56 'Teaching and Learning Danish in a Virtual Department' Jane Hughes, Claire McAvinia, Jannie Roed University College London, England ARABIC WORKSHOP 57 'Internet-Based Teaching of Arabic as a Second Language' Ibrahim Suliman Ahmed International Islamic University, Malaysia 58 'Changing Teacher Roles and Input-Feedback Medium: Authorware and Web-Based-Assisted Learning of Arabic as a Foreign Language' Mohammed T. Alhawary American University, Washington, USA 59 'Arabic CALL: Lessons from the Past, Opportunities for the Future' R. Kirk Belap Brigham Young, Provo, USA 60 'The Use of Java Programming Language in Solving Problems Associated with Producing CALL Material in Arabic' Steve Cushion, Dominique Hemard London Guildhall University, England 61 'CALL and Students' Motivation: A Case Study at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at IIUM-Malaysia' Ibtisam.M.H.Naji IIUM, Malaysia 62 'Arabic Grammar on the Internet' Helle Nielsen University of Southern Denmark, Denmark 63 'Developing a Website for Teaching Arabic: Technical Issues' Iman Saad, Heba Salem American University in Cairo, Egypt for further information: SEE http://www.ex.ac.uk/french/announcements/CALL.html and/or CONTACT K.C.Cameron at ex.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 11 16:28:17 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:28:17 +0200 Subject: Conf: TALN 2001 Message-ID: ********************************************************************** * * TALN 2001 * Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel * * Universite de Tours * du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 * * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ * mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr * ********************************************************************** (see English version below) ********** TALN 2001 : 2eme APPEL A PARTICIPATION ********** ----> INSCRIPTION PREFERENTIELLE AVANT le 15 JUIN 2001 <---- ----> SUR LE SITE <--- TALN 2001 aura lieu a Tours du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001, organise par le LI (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Universit? de Tours) et l'axe LTI (Langues et Technologies de l'information). La conference TALN 2001 comprendra 30 communications scientifiques, 2 conferenciers invites, des seances de demonstration et posters, ainsi que des tutoriels. Les langues officielles de la conference sont le francais et l'anglais. TALN 2001 est organisee sous l'egide de l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) et se tiendra conjointement a la conference pour jeunes chercheurs RECITAL 2001. ********** THEMES ********** Les communications porte sur tous les themes habituels du TALN, incluant, de facon non limitative: lexique morphologie syntaxe semantique pragmatique discours analyse generation resume dialogue traduction automatique approches logiques, symboliques et statistiques TALN 2001 accueillera egalement des travaux de domaines proches dans lesquels le TALN joue un role important, dans la mesure ou l'accent est mis sur la composante TALN : traitement de la parole (prosodie, linguistique, pragmatique) traitement de l'ecrit aspects cognitifs terminologie acquisition de connaissances a partir de textes extraction d'information recherche documentaire linguistique de corpus utilisation d'outils de TALN pour la modelisation linguistique ********** CALENDRIER ********** ----> INSCRIPTION PREFERENTIELLE AVANT le 15 JUIN 2001 <---- ----> SUR LE SITE <--- Conference : du lundi 2 au jeudi 5 juillet 2001 ********** DEMONSTRATIONS ET POSTERS ********** Une seance specifique est prevue pour des demonstrations (presentations logicielles) et des posters (85 x 120 cm). ********** CRITERES DE SELECTION ********** Nous avons eu 58 soumissions pour le congres TALN 2001, pour 30 plages disponibles, ce qui nous a oblige a une grande selection, parfois difficile entre des propositions de bonne qualite. Les 12 meilleurs papiers ecartes ont cependant ete retenus pour une seance de posters. Les articles selectionnes seront publies dans les actes de la conference qui seront distribues a tous les participants. ********************************************************************** * * ENGLISH VERSION * ********************************************************************** ********** TALN 2001 :2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********** ----> PREFERENTIAL RATE BEFORE 6-15-2001 ON THE WEB <--- TALN 2001 will be held at Tours on July, 2 - 5 2001, organized by the LI (Computer Laboratory of Tours University) and LTI (Language and Information Technologies). The conference includes 30 paper presentations, 2 invited speakers, tutorials and software demonstrations. The official conference languages are French and English. TALN 2001 is organized in collaboration with ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des LAngues) and will be held jointly with the young researcher conference RECITAL 2001 (a separate call for papers will follow). ********** TOPICS ********** Papers are in all areas of NLP, including (but not limited to): lexicon morphology syntax semantics pragmatics discourse parsing generation abstraction/summarisation dialogue translation logical, symbolical and statistical approaches TALN 2001 has also invited contributions in fields for which NLP plays an important role, as long as these contributions emphasize their NLP dimension : speech processing text processing cognition terminology knowledge acquisition information retrieval documentary research corpus-based linguistics management and acquisition of linguistic resources NLP tools for linguistic modelization ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> PREFERENTIAL RATE BEFORE 6-15-2001 ON THE WEB <--- Conference : 7/2-5/2001 ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** We received 58 papers for 30 accepted. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference given to all participants. ********** COMITE DE PROGRAMME ********** ********** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********** (le comite de programme a ete entoure d'un large comite de lecture) (the program committee has been supervised by a broad reviewing committee) Pascal Amsili, TALaNa Frederic Bechet, LIA Philippe Blache, LPL Christian Boitet, CLIPS-GETA Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO Beatrice Daille, IRIN Laurence Danlos, LORIA/TALaNa Claire Gardent, LORIA Eric Laporte, CERIL Denis Maurel, LI (president) Piet Mertens, CCL Jean-Marie Pierrel, LORIA Martin Rajman, EPFL Owen Rambow, ATT Labs-Research Jacques Siroux, IRISA LLI/CORDIAL Jean Veronis, LPL Pierre Zweigenbaum, DIAM ********** COMITE D'ORGANISATION ********** ********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********** Claire Agafonov, LTI Beatrice Bouchou, LI Alain Cambourian, LTI Alain Delplanque, LTI Nathalie Friburger, LI Nathalie Garric, LTI Paul Gaudin, LTI Manuel Gonzales de Avila, Ciremia Thierry Grass, LTI Denis Maurel, LI (president) Nathalie Rossi, LTI Mohamed Slimane, LI Nicole Vincent, LI ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 11 16:30:22 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:30:22 +0200 Subject: Bourses: University of Edinburgh PhD STUDENTSHIP Message-ID: Division of Informatics and Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh PhD STUDENTSHIP for February 1st 2002. Application deadline: July 15th 2001. Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed. The Institute of Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) within the Division of Informatics and the Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC) invites applications for a three-year EPSRC studentship award to commence in February 2002. The successful applicant will work on a project entitled "Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text". A summary of the aims of this project are as follows: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ROBUST PRAGMATICS FOR NARRATIVE TEXT: PROJECT SUMMARY The proposed project is concerned with the design, implementation and evaluation of a system that analyses the discourse structure of narrative text and the temporal order of its events. BROAD COVERAGE: Existing approaches recognise discourse structure only when signalled by discourse connectives. We'll broaden coverage to cases where such cues are absent by developing a probabilistic model of discourse structure from large language corpora. ROBUSTNESS: Computing rhetorical relations is a knowledge intensive task driven primarily by pragmatic information. Our aim is to use data-intensive methodologies to automatically approximate this information from large language corpora, and therefore to produce a fully automatic system. ENGINEERING: Existing language technology, with a few notable exceptions, tends to take either a symbolic or a probabilistic approach to semantics. We aim to interface a probabilistic component with a symbolic one, proposing a novel approach to the demanding task of semantic interpretation which is both robust and linguistically informed. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or Linguistics. Applicants with strong programming skills (e.g., Perl, C++, Java) and expertise in any of the following will be preferred: o Statistical modelling o Semantic theories of tense and aspect o Theories of discourse structure o Pragmatics (in particular, speech act theory and implicatures) The EPSRC baseline rate of maintenance is currently approx. 7,500 pounds, and the studentship will also pay the three years' tuition fees at home/EU rates. ICCS and HCRC have close research links with a number of other academic institutions (e.g., Universitat Saarlandes, DFKI, Stanford University) and companies from which the student will benefit. For more information about ICCS and HCRC, see the following home pages: http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Information about students, the PhD Programme, and how to apply for a PhD can be found by following the various links from the following URL: http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/prospectus/graduate/research.html Please note that applicants must fill in the faculty's postgraduate application form, which is available online from the above URL. If we already have your application on file for consideration for a PhD commencing October 2001, you do not need to apply again. Deadline for applications: July 15th 2001 Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed. For additional advice and information on how to apply for this PhD studentship, please contact: Admissions Chair The Graduate School Division of Informatics The University of Edinburgh 2, Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5AZ, Scotland, UK Email: phd-admissions at inf.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 5156 Fax: +44 131 667 7209 PLEASE MARK "Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text" ON THE APPLICATION. For additional information on the project "Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text", please contact: Alex Lascarides ICCS, Division of Informatics The University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Email: alex at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 4428 Fax: +44 131 650 6626 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 11 16:30:55 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:30:55 +0200 Subject: Conf: BISFAI-01 Message-ID: Shalom/Hello. For the latest BISFAI-01 (Bar-Ilan Symposium on AI) please see http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~bisfai/ Ariel J. Frank Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Faculty of Exact Sciences Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel 52900 Tel: (972-3-) 5317780, Fax: (972-3-) 5353325 E-mail: ariel at cs.biu.ac.il ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 14 16:27:10 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:27:10 +0200 Subject: [Fwd: AnnouncEcole: Speech and Language Engineering Evaluation Message-ID: ----- ***** Please accept our apologies in case of multiple reception *****----- The CLASS and ELSNET projects organize an International Bullet Course on Speech and Language Engineering Evaluation in Paris at the CNRS headquarters, on Monday July 02nd (afternoon) and Tuesday July 03rd (full day). contact: Patrick Paroubek at pap at limsi.fr, Registration is NOW OPEN at: http://www.limsi.fr/TLP/CLASS/eval_course_reg_form.[ps|pdf] Registration Fee: Regular: 230 Euros, ELSNET: 200 Euros, Projects involved in CLASS: 200 Euros, Student: 100 Euros Some of the organizers of the most famous large scale evaluation programs for Speech and Language Technologies will present an overview of the issue of evaluation for Speech and Language processing. The questions that will be addresssed are: - How does evaluation relates with pre and post activities? - What are the interest and benefits of evaluation for language engineering? - What methodologies exists and how are they deployed? - Relationship with basic research, development and market prospection? - How is it deployed in the different domains (speech and text processing)? - What form should it take? Technology evaluation or field/user Evaluation? - What are the current open issues? - What metric exists? Are they satisfactory and sufficient? - How can we take into account or abstract from the subjective human factors? - What about language resources? Our aim is to reach high-level executive, decision makers, project managers but also developer and scientist who want to have a birds-eye view on Evaluation in Language Engineering presented by people who have been involved in practical deployement of large scale evaluation programs in language engineering in the past 10 years. The course contributors are: J. Mariani (MR/FR), H. Steenecken (TNO/NL), D. Pallett (NIST/USA), P. Paroubek (Limsi-CNRS/FR), P. Resnik (UMIACS/USA), Beth Sundheim (SPAWAR/USA), K. Stibler (LMCo/USA), J. Garofolo (NIST/USA), N. O. Bernsen (NIS/DK), K. Choukri (ELRA/FR). ----- Patrick Paroubek / Limsi-CNRS (pap at limsi.fr) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 14 16:27:45 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:27:45 +0200 Subject: Conf: SEMPRO-2001 Message-ID: Preliminary Call for Participation SEMPRO-2001: COGNITIVELY PLAUSIBLE MODELS OF SEMANTIC PROCESSING (A workshop in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society) July 31st, University of Edinburgh http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~sempro/ The goal of this workshop is to be a forum and a meeting point for researchers developing models of semantic / pragmatic processing (computational and non-computational) motivated by psychological evidence or corpus studies, with a focus on human language processing. This year's workshop will feature papers on: - incrementality and underspecification in semantic processing - lexical access and disambiguation - anaphora resolution - scope assignment We would especially like to encourage the exchange of results between psychological experimentation, computational modelling, and corpus-based work. INVITED SPEAKERS: Julie Sedivy (Brown), Tony Sanford (Glasgow). ACCEPTED PAPERS: the workshop will include both presentations and a poster session. A preliminary list of accepted papers is available at http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/~sempro/program.html REGISTRATION: The registration fee will be ?40 for regular participants, ?20 for students. The fee covers lunch. ACCOMODATION: Several types of accomodation are listed in the pages for the Cognitive Science conference, http://www.scot-mur.demon.co.uk/coginfo.htm. We strongly encourage the participants to book early - accomodation in Edinburgh in that period is hard to find! PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Massimo Poesio (local organizer), Alan Garnham, Maria Lapata, Julie Sedivy, Rosemary Stevenson, Peter Wiemer-Hastings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 14 16:28:44 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:28:44 +0200 Subject: Appel: IRCS WORKSHOP ON LINGUISTIC DATABASES Message-ID: IRCS WORKSHOP ON LINGUISTIC DATABASES University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, USA 11-13 December 2001 http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/database/ Organized by: Steven Bird, Peter Buneman and Mark Liberman Department of Computer and Information Science, Department of Linguistics, and the Linguistic Data Consortium University of Pennsylvania Funded by the National Science Foundation CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND PROPOSALS Linguistic databases are digital repositories of structured information intended to document natural language and natural communicative interaction. Over the last decade, linguistic databases have come to stand at the center of empirical research in the language sciences, and in the development of new human language technologies. Like genomic databases, linguistic databases are complex, evolving and richly annotated repositories, and pose interesting challenges for efficient representation, indexing and query. And like most scientific databases, linguistic databases have made little use of standard database technology. The goals of the workshop are to take stock of existing research in linguistic databases, to identify the key problems, and to explore applications of current database research to these problems. More broadly, the workshop will help define the research questions of a new "linguistic database community" and initiate the ongoing interchange of relevant problems and results between this community and the database community at large. The workshop is expected to attract participants from a range of specialties including databases, linguistics, computational linguistics, annotation and markup. There will be tutorial-style presentations on relevant models in each of these areas. The workshop will address a selection of the following topics: MODELS * models for text databases, speech databases, multimodal databases, typological databases, geographical databases (language maps), and metadata repositories * relational, object-oriented and semi-structured models for representing linguistic annotations * representations for specific linguistic datatypes (e.g. databases of aligned parallel text) * modelling temporal and (geo)spatial structure * critical analysis of existing linguistic databases * special problems for systematic data representation posed by linguistic fieldwork LANGUAGES * query of multilayer annotations * linguistic applications/extensions of XML query languages * analysis of existing ad hoc query languages * queries over temporal and (geo)spatial structure OTHER TOPICS * database support (e.g. what standard database technology has proven worthwhile for linguistic databases?) * systematic methods for populating linguistic databases * appropriate indexing methods for linguistic strings and structures * archiving and preservation * metadata standards serving as finding aids for linguistic databases * data provenance / data lineage * annotation servers PROGRAM The program will have a varied format, designed to maximize cross-fertilization among the various specialties, and to allow extended open discussion. Components of the program will include: * tutorials on relevant models from linguistics, databases or annotation, e.g. the structure of lexical entries, semi-structured query languages, models of text and signal annotation * panel sessions on annotated text and lexicons (and possibly others), with position papers and panel discussion, to evaluate competing approaches * full papers reporting new research * demonstrations of systems for creating and/or managing linguistic data TIMETABLE Expressions of interest are welcome anytime, please see the form on the workshop website. If you have any suggestions concerning the workshop, please email the organizers. FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER Proposals for tutorials and position papers - please email the organizers FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER Abstracts for papers (400 words) and demonstrations (200 words) FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30 Final papers (10 page limit) Registration will be open in September. Please note that participation will be limited by space. PROCEEDINGS The papers will be published in web and hardcopy form (the latter just for workshop attenders). Papers submitted in HTML should be written with the hardcopy version in mind, so a text string which anchors a hyperlink should be directly interpretable, rather than e.g. "visit this link". VENUE The workshop will be held at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science (IRCS) at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, USA. Workshop sessions will take place in IRCS conference rooms, located on the fourth floor of 3401 Walnut Street, adjacent to the university campus, which is two miles west of the city center. The main meeting rooms will be equipped with the usual presentation facilities, including projection and audio facilities. SPONSORSHIP The workshop is being funded by some NSF grants to the University of Pennsylvania. There will be no registration fee, and hotel accomodation will be covered for presenters. USEFUL WEBSITES http://db.cis.upenn.edu Database Research at Penn http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/annotation/ Linguistic Annotation http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/ Linguistic Exploration http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/ IRCS homepage http://www.talkbank.org/ NSF TalkBank Project http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb/isle.html NSF ISLE Project http://www.language-archives.org/ Open Language Archives Community http://www.upenn.edu/philadelphia/ Philadelphia http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/visitUs/ Getting to Penn ORGANIZERS Steven Bird http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/sb/ Peter Buneman http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~peter/ Mark Liberman http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/ ---- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 14 16:29:51 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:29:51 +0200 Subject: Bourses: University of Wolverhampton, Computational Linguistics Message-ID: AHRB RESEARCH STUDENTSHIP The University of Wolverhampton, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences invites applications for an AHRB-funded research studentship in Computational Linguistics. The successful candidate will work on the development of a user-friendly environment which will assist different users in the production of abstracts of scholarly papers. In particular, the research of the student will focus on designing and implementing discourse strategies for summarisation. We are looking for candidates with a good honours degree in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or Information Sciences, with programming skills and some experience in Natural Language Processing. Candidates with a background predominantly in linguistics are also encouraged to apply provided they are willing to be involved in programming in the course of the work. The AHRB studentships are subject to residence restrictions in that the candidate must be either a UK citizen or must have been a resident in the UK for at least three years (1 year for EC citizens). Information on eligibility with respect to residence is available at http://www.clg.wlv.ac.uk/news/page1.htm Applications should be sent to Prof. R. Mitkov School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences University of Wolverhampton Stafford St. Wolverhampton WV1 1SB and must include - completed application form - a CV - copy of university degree - evidence of postgraduate qualification or experience - proof of nationality or residence status - a covering letter in which candidates explain why they have applied for the studentship, give details of their research interests/experience, background, programming skills and an outline of any experience in Natural Language Processing or Linguistics. The application form can be downloaded from http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/AHRB_app_form.doc The closing date for applications is 12 July 2001. The short-listed applicants will be interviewed in the week starting 23 July. The AHRB maintenance grant amounts to 7 500 GBP in the first year, 8 200 GBP in the second year and 9 000 GBP in the third year. The successful candidate is expected to start the studentship on 1 October 2001, joining the Research Group in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton (http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/). For further information/queries, please contact Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, tel. 01902 322471, Email R.Mitkov at wlv.ac.uk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Jun 15 16:27:39 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:27:39 +0200 Subject: Conf: IWPT'01 short paper deadline extended Message-ID: [ Aplogies for multiple copies] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- C a l l f o r S h o r t P a p e r s ----------------------- ! EXTENDED DEADLINE ! ----------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 17-19 October, 2001 Beijing, China -------------- The deadline for submitting SHORT PAPERS for IWPT 2001 in Beijing has been extended to JUNE 23. Short papers will be presented at the workshop in the form of a poster plus a summary oral presentation in a short-paper session; two-page summaries will be published in the workshop proceedings. Prospective authors are invited to send their submissions to the IWPT'01 programme chairman Giorgio Satta. Short papers can be anything in size between 3 and 8 pages. Submission is electronically, in postscript form. Only in case electronic submission is impossible, four (4) hard copies of the paper should be sent. Submisison short arrive no later than JUNE 23. Send papers to: iwpt2001 at dei.unipd.it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Web site: http://www.icl.pku.edu.cn/iwpt2001.html ~~~~ General Information ------------------- The Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University, Beijing, China, will host the 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'01) from 17 to 19 October, 2001. IWPT'01 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997; and Trento (Italy) in 2000. Topics of interest for IWPT'01 -------------------------------- Topics of interest for IWPT'01 include, but are not limited to: theoretical and practical studies of parsing algorithms for natural language sentences, texts, fragments, dialogues, ill-formed sentences, speech input, multi-dimensional (pictorial) languages, multimedia (web) documents, and parsing issues arising or viewed in a multimodal context. Both grammar-based and statistical approaches are welcome. Submitting Papers ----------------- Two types of submissions are distinguished: - Full papers, to be presented as such during the workshop and to be published in the workshop proceedings (maximally 12 pages). Submission of full papers is no longer possible (deadline was June 5). - Short papers, to be presented at the workshop in the form of a poster plus a summary oral presentation in a short-paper session; two-page summaries will be published in the workshop proceedings. Submission is electronically, in postscript form. Only if electronic submission is impossible, four (4) hard copies of the paper should be sent. Send papers to: iwpt2001 at dei.unipd.it Giorgio Satta (IWPT'01 programme chair) Universita` di Padova Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica via Gradenigo 6/A I-35131 Padova, Italy Time schedule: Deadline for full paper submission : June 5 Deadline for short paper submission : June 23 Notification of full paper acceptance : July 18 Notification of short paper acceptance: July 30 Final papers due : August 27 Instruction for authors ----------------------- Detailed formatting and submission instructions for authors are available through the IWPT'01 home page at: http://www.icl.pku.edu.cn/iwpt2001.html or can be obtained from the programme chairman (see address above). Programme Committee ------------------- All submitted papers will be reviewed by (or under the supervision of) the international IWPT'01 Programme Committee, consisting of the following members: Shuo Bai (Ministry of Information Industry, China) Eric Brill (Microsoft Research, USA) Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Bob Carpenter (SpeechWorks International Inc., USA) John Carroll (University of Sussex, UK) Ken Church (AT&T Labs - Research, USA) Mark Johnson (Brown University, USA) Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Ronald Kaplan (Xerox PARC, USA) Martin Kay (Xerox PARC, USA) Sadao Kurohashi (Kyoto University, Japan) Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA) Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan) Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Mark-Jan Nederhof (DFKI GmbH, Germany) Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Netherlands) Christer Samuelsson (Inzigo, Canada) Satoshi Sekine (New York University, USA) Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand) Mark Steedman (University of Edinburgh, UK) Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST, Italy) Hozumi Tanaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Masaru Tomita (Keio University, Japan) Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI GmbH and Univeritat des Saarlandes, Germany) Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie (INRIA, France) Vijay-Shanker (University of Delaware, USA) David Weir (University of Sussex, UK) Mats Wiren (Telia Research, Sweden) Dekai Wu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China) Tiejun Zhao (Harbin Institute of Technology, China) Organization ------------ General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Programme Chair: Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy) Local Organizing Committee: Fuliang Weng (ICRC/Intel Corp, Beijing, China, Co-Chair) Shiwen Yu (Peking University, Beijing, China, Co-Chair) Youqi Cao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) Qunxiu Chen (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) Houfeng Wang (Secretariat, wanghf at pku.edu.cn, Peking University, China) Further information ------------------- Additional information about IWPT'01 is available at the URL: http://www.icl.pku.edu.cn/iwpt2001.html At the site http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ you can also obtain information about previous IWPTs, proceedings, books based on IWPTs, and SIGPARSE related activities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Jun 15 16:28:15 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:28:15 +0200 Subject: Conf: TALN 2001 Message-ID: Le programme de TALN 2001 est maintenant disponible sur le site: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ Si vous vous etes inscrits sans avoir recu de confirmation, c'est qu'il y a eu un probleme de compatibilite entre votre navigateur et votre courrier... Merci de prevenir par courriel: mailto::taln2001 at univ-tours.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Jun 15 16:34:10 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:34:10 +0200 Subject: Projet: Journée de présentation de RIAM Message-ID: ******************************************** Pr?sentation du R?seau d'innovation technologique RIAM ******************************************** le mardi 19 juin de 9h ? 12h pr?sentation du r?seau RIAM (Recherche et Innovation en Audiovisuel et Multim?dia) au cin?ma le Balzac 1, rue Balzac - 75008 Paris Le r?seau RIAM est particuli?rement destin? aux professionnels du multim?dia et de l'audiovisuel mais de nombreuses th?matiques concernent les acteurs de la communaut? de l'ing?nierie linguistique et documentaire (chercheurs, d?veloppeurs, int?grateurs, offreurs de nouveaux produits et/ou services dans le domaine de l'information ?lectronique). Ce r?seau d'innovation technologique est lanc? sous la forme d'un appel ? propositions "? guichet unique et permanent". Le programme de la journ?e de pr?sentation est le suivant : 9h00 - 9h30 : accueil des participants 9h30 - 11h : pr?sentation du RIAM par Christophe Digne, Charg? de la Sous-Direction R?seaux et Multim?dia (DIGITIP), Minist?re de l'Economie, des Finances et de l'Industrie, Joseph Mariani, Directeur du D?partement "Informatique et T?l?communications", Direction de la Technologie, Minist?re de la Recherche et Jean Menu, Directeur du multim?dia (CNC), Minist?re de la Culture et de la Communication 11h - 11h30 : dialogue avec la salle 11h30 - 12h30 : pr?sentation de projets soutenus (notamment, le projet TDF/CST de "Plate-forme d'exp?rimentation de la cha?ne de diffusion du cin?ma num?rique") Lanc? le 20 f?vrier 2001 par Catherine Tasca, ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, Roger-G?rard Schwartzenberg, ministre de la Recherche et Christian Pierret, secr?taire d'Etat ? l'Industrie, RIAM a pour vocation de cr?er un lieu de rencontre et d'?changes au sein de la communaut? des acteurs du domaine et d'encourager financi?rement la r?alisation de projets de recherche en audiovisuel et multim?dia. L'appel ? projets du r?seau RIAM s'adresse aussi bien aux professionnels des technologies de l'information et de la communication qu'aux chercheurs en technologies et en sciences humaines, aux formateurs, aux partenaires institutionnels associ?s. Il valorise les coop?rations entre laboratoires de recherche et entreprises dans les domaines du cin?ma, de l'audiovisuel et du multim?dia. En 2001, RIAM est dot? d'un montant total de plus de 20 millions d'euros (135 MF) pour soutenir des projets innovants. Les dossiers de candidature peuvent ?tre retir?s tout au long de l'ann?e sur le site du r?seau RIAM, (http://www.cnc.fr/riam). Contacts presse : Minist?re de la Culture et de la communication (CNC) : Caroline Cesbron, 01 44 34 34 71 Minist?re de la Recherche : Claire Cayol, 01 55 55 99 12 Secr?tariat d'Etat ? l'Industrie : Annie Duperray, 01 53 18 79 29 Secr?tariat du r?seau RIAM CNC / Direction du multim?dia - 11, rue Galil?e / 75116 Paris : Tel. : 01.44.34.34.63 - M?l : riam at cnc.fr ******************************************* St?phane CHAUDIRON Charg? de mission "Information scientifique et technique - Ing?nierie linguistique" t?l. : 33 (0)1 55 55 80 37 fax : 33 (0)1 55 55 83 58 Minist?re de la Recherche Direction de la technologie D?partement "Technologies de l'information et de la communication" 1, rue Descartes - 75231 PARIS cedex 05 http://www.recherche.gouv.fr ******************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Jun 15 16:36:28 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:36:28 +0200 Subject: Ressources: ELRA News Message-ID: ************************************************************* ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ************************************************************** ELRA informs you that the ECI/MCI European Corpus Initiative, resource W0004 in the catalogue, costs 50 ? (instead of 45 ?). Reminder: this corpus contains over 98 million words, covering most of the major European languages, as well as Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Malay and even more languages. ************************************************************* ELRA European Language Resources Association ELRA News ************************************************************* We are happy to announce a new resource available via ELRA: ELRA S0107 Flemish SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 ELRA S0108 Belgian-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 ELRA S0109 Luxemburgish-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 ELRA S0110 Luxemburgish-German SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 A description of each database is given below. ELRA S0107 Flemish SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 This database is comprised of telephone recordings from 1023 Flemish speakers (461 Males, 562 Females) recorded directly over the Belgian fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about 5 times. ELRA S0108 Belgian-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 The Belgian-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-1000 comprises 1011 Belgian-French speakers (493 Males, 518 Females) recorded over the Belgian fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about 2 times. ELRA S0109 Luxemburgish-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 The Luxembourgish-French SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 comprises 614 Luxembourgish-French speakers (246 Males, 368 Females) recorded over the Luxembourgish fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about 3 times. ELRA S0110 Luxemburgish-German SpeechDat(II) FDB-500 This database comprises 560 Luxembourgish-German speakers (247 Males, 313 Females) recorded over the Luxembourgish fixed telephone network. Each phrase or word was repeated about one time. ===================================== For further information, please contact: ELRA/ELDA 55-57 rue Brillat-Savarin F-75013 Paris, France Tel +33 01 43 13 33 33 Fax +33 01 43 13 33 30 E-mail mapelli at elda.fr or visit the online catalogue on our Web site: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html or http://www.elda.fr ===================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Jun 15 16:37:03 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:37:03 +0200 Subject: Conf: LACL 2001 Message-ID: *********************************************************************** *** Last Call for Participation - Program *** LACL 2001 4th International Conference on LOGICAL ASPECTS OF COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS June 27 -- 29, 2001 Le Croisic (on the ocean coast, nearby Nantes), France http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Thank you in advance to circulate among interested people --- ************************************************************************** *** Practical information, schedule, on-line registration: http://www.irisa.fr/LACL2001 http://www.irisa.fr/manifestations/2001/LACL2001 *** Contact: Christele Soulas csoulas at irisa.fr Elisabeth Lebret lebret at irisa.fr *************************************************************************** -- LACL 2001 PROGRAM -- *************************************************************************** --- Invited speakers ----------------------------- Geoffrey K. PULLUM, Barbara C. SCHOLZ : On the distinction between Model-theoretic and Generative-enumerative syntactic frameworks Michael MOORTGAT : Structural Reasoning in Categorial Learning Mark STEEDMAN : Reconciling Type-Logical and Combinatory Extensions of Categorial Grammar --- Contributed papers ------------------------- M. A. ALONSO, E. DE LA CLERGERIE, M. VILARES : A formal definition of Bottom-up Embedded Push-Down Automata and their tabulation technique D. BARGELLI, J. LAMBEK : An algebraic Approach to French Sentence Structure P. BOTTONI, B. MEYER, K. MARRIOTT, F. PARISI PRESICCE : Deductive Parsing of Visual Languages W. BUSZKOWSKI : Lambek Grammars based on Pregroups C. CASADIO, J. LAMBEK : An Algebraic Analysis of Clitic Pronouns in Italian C. COSTA FLORENCIO : Consistent Identification in the Limit of any of the Classes k-Valued is NP-hard A.DIKOVSKY : Polarized Non-projective Dependency Grammars A. FORET : Mixing Deduction and Substitution in Lambek Categorial Grammars, some investigations C. FOX, S. LAPPIN : Framework for the Hyperintensional Semantics of Natural Language with Two Implementations H. HARKEMA : A Characterization of Minimalist Languages T. LAGER, J. NIVRE : Part of Speech Tagging from a Logical Point of View J. MICHAELIS : Transforming Linear Context-Free Rewriting Systems into Minimalist Grammars E. STABLER : Recognizing Head Movement J. VILLADSEN : Combinators for Paraconsistent Attitudes J. VILLANEAU, J.-Y. ANTOINE, O. RIDOUX : Combining Syntax and Semantical Knowledge for Semantic Analysis of Spoken Language R. ZUBER : Atomicity of Some Categorially Polyvalent Modifiers --- Panel discussion : Logic in Contemporary Linguistics and Computational Linguistics ************************************************************************ *** Organizers: IRISA (INRIA, CNRS, Universit? de Rennes 1, INSA) IRIN (Universit? de Nantes) *** Sponsors: France Telecom R&D Xerox Loire Atlantique Pays de la Loire Ville de Nantes Universit? de Rennes 1 Universit? de Nantes *** Book and journal exhibition: Elsevier Hermes Kluwer Lincom Europa MIT Press Springer-Verlag World Scientific Publishing Company *** Other events in computational linguistics in France, early July: 2-5 july, Tours, TALN & RECITAL 2001: http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/taln-recital-2001/ 6-11 july, Toulouse, ACL 2001: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html *************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 18 16:01:07 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:01:07 +0200 Subject: Appel: LLL'01 (3rd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC WORKSHOP) Message-ID: Please find below the CFP on works in progress in learning language in logic (LLL). Our idea is to map main research streams in LLL. So even submission submitted/accepted elsewhere can be accepted if a vision of a future work will be well-expressed. Best regards Lubos Popelinsky and Miloslav Nepil 3rd LEARNING LANGUAGE IN LOGIC (LLL) WORKSHOP http://www.fi.muni.cz/ilpnet2/LLL2001 8th - 9th September 2001, Strasbourg Co-located with ILP 2001 CALL FOR WORK-IN-PROGRESS PAPERS -------------------------------- SUBMISSIONS Please submit by sending electronically to lll01 at fi.muni.cz a full paper (PS or PDF format) up to 12 pages in LNCS/LNAI Springer style. Paper submission deadline: June, 24 Notification of acceptance: July, 9 Final version due: July, 27 Works in progress will be published in working notes (Technical Report of FI MU Brno). PRESENTATION Our purpose is to provide a forum for discussion on all aspects of learning language in logic. It is the follow-up of the previous LLL workshops held in 1999 in Bled, Slovenia, and in 2000 in Lisboa, Portugal. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are working on learning from text, while emphasizing the logic-based learning techniques and algorithms. We strongly encourage contributions concerning semantic analysis of natural languages, describing logic-based learning techniques alternative to ILP, employing active learning or solving tasks for other languages than English. These techniques include but are not limited to: - Combinations of approaches and multi-strategy learning - Instance-based and clustering approaches in relational learning - Scalability issues (applying logic-based methods to large data sets) - Logical approaches to statistical NLP - Higher-order logic for LLL - Handling very complex terms - Collaborative and interactive learning - Shallow parsing - Grammar learning - Learning subcategorisation frames - Part-of-speech tagging - Morphosyntactic tagging - Morphological analysis - Information indexing, filtering, retrieval, extraction - Text classification methods - Question answering - Learning ontologies, thesauri and lexicon - Extracting predicate-argument structure PROGRAM CHAIR Lubos Popelinsky (Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia) MEMBERS Pieter Adriaans (Syllogic and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) James Cussens (University of York, UK) Martin Eineborg (University of Stockholm, Sweden) Tomaz Erjavec (Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia) Suresh Manandhar (University of York, UK) Claire Nedellec (LRI, University of Paris-Sud, France) Guenter Neumann (DFKI, Saarbr?cken, Germany) Stefan Wrobel (University of Magdeburg, Germany) ORGANIZATION Nicolas Lachiche (LSIIT Strasbourg, France) SUPPORT LLL 2001 is financially supported by the Network of Excellence in Inductive Logic Programming ILPnet2 funded under the European Union's INCO program. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lubos Popelinsky Voice: +420 5 41512 324 Dept. of Comp.Sci., Faculty of Informatics Fax : +420 5 4121 2568 Masaryk University, Botanicka 68a Email: popel at fi.muni.cz CZ-602 00 Brno, Czech Republic www.fi.muni.cz/~popel -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 18 16:01:42 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:01:42 +0200 Subject: Ressources: New Release from the LDC Message-ID: The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the availability of the 2000 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Corpus. http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001S97.html This eight CD-ROM publication contains the data used for the 2000 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation which is part of an ongoing series of yearly evaluations conducted by NIST. These evaluations provide an important contribution to the direction of research efforts and the calibration of technical capabilities. They are intended to be of interest to all researchers working on the general problem of text independent speaker recognition. To this end the evaluation was designed to be simple, to focus on core technology issues, to be fully supported, and to be accessible. This publication consists of 10,328 single channel SPHERE files encoded in 8-bit mulaw containing a total of approximately 4.31 Gbytes of data covering 148.9 hours of audio. Supporting documentation for this evaluation may be found on the 2000 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation website. http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.01/tests/spk/2000/index.htm Please note that there was an optional additional corpus in the original Evaluation. If you are interested in this "AHUMADA" corpus, please contact Javier Ortega- Garcia of the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. Information on how to contact Dr. Ortega-Garcia is available at 2000 NIST Resources. http://www.nist.gov/speech/tests/spk/2000/resource/index.htm Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2001 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge. Nonmembers may purchase this publication for $1600. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to . If you need additional information before placing your order, or would like to inquire about membership in the LDC, please send email or call (215)573-1275. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 18 16:02:51 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:02:51 +0200 Subject: Appel: SPECIAL ISSUE of MACHINE TRANSLATION Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE of MACHINE TRANSLATION Embedded MT Systems: Leveraging for Real World Applications http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems/ GUEST EDITORS: Carol Van Ess-Dykema, U.S.Department of Defense,cjvanes at afterlife.ncsc.mil Clare R. Voss, Army Research Laboratory, voss at arl.army.mil An "embedded machine translation (MT) system" is a computational system with one or more MT engines embedded among its components. These systems accept various well-formed and degraded types of multilingual and multi-modal input, including * hard-copy pages (original and OCR-ed image), * online files (web pages, word processing files, email), * video (image and text), * speech (natural signal and transcribed). >>From this range of input, such systems enable users to access the original, foreign language information in their own language. Traditionally, the term "MT" has been associated with the task of single document translation. More recently, MT engines within embedded larger systems have been used to facilitate tasks that require processing multilingual information both within and across documents. Several real-world applications have led to the widespread use of embedded MT systems for cross-language tasks, such as: * content extraction * document filtering * information retrieval * question-answering * summarization This call is for original or updated research articles on embedded MT systems. Authors should address two or more of the following foci in their papers: 1. Input Focus, such as - Processing methods for range of system input - Real-time analysis of input - Channel-specific feedback processes from system components to correct noisy input - Multiple document or channel input integration for summarization or other tasks 2. MT Methods Focus, such as - Symbolic, statistical, or hybrid techniques for translation - Machine learning applied to construction of MT engine components - Weighting of candidates for selection of high quality MT output - Quick ramp-up MT engines 3. System Design Focus, such as - Architectures to support novel cross-language tasks - Systems with multiple MT engines - Pre-MT compensation components or strategies that adjust speech and OCR degraded input - Post-MT processing of output for display to user - Integration of system output within application software 4. Evaluation Focus, such as - Linguistic measures of MT component performance - Task-based measures of system effectiveness - Experimental designs for assessing or comparing system effectiveness - Software tools for assisting or automating evaluation process - Algorithms The idea of this special issue originates from workshops at ANLP/NAACL-2000 and AMTA-98. Authors from these workshops are encouraged to submit papers describing progress on their systems and incorporating feedback from workshop participants. We also encourage other researchers developing embedded MT systems to submit papers. Note that, for this special issue, two types of papers will be considered for review: long papers (20 pages or more) and short papers (less than 20 pages). Longer papers are advised for research projects that have been implemented and evaluated. Shorter papers are appropriate for recent research initiatives. We would ideally like to have papers of both types in the journal. SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW BOARD Lynn Carlson, U.S. Department of Defense Gary Coen, Boeing Mathematical and Computing Technologies Mike Dillinger, Logos Corporation Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University Laurie Gerber, Language Technology Broker Ulf Hermjakob, ISI/University of Southern California Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University Kathryn Taylor, Georgetown University Takehito Utsuro, Toyohashi University of Technology Remi Zajac, New Mexico State University Joe F. Zhou, Intel China Research Center SCHEDULE Call for papers issued: 1 June 2001 Papers due: 19 October 2001 Notification to authors: 22 February 2002 SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Initial submissions should be sent to: 1. Guest Editors cjvanes at afterlife.ncsc.mil, voss at arl.army.mil 2. Publishing Editor tamara.welschot at wkap.nl For initial submissions only, authors should send electronic copies (postscript, pdf, rtf, or doc) to the Guest Editors AND the Publishing Editor. Please indicate that the submission is for the Special Issue of Machine Translation on Embedded MT Systems: Leveraging for Real World Applications. Details concerning the format for initial submissions forthcoming and will be posted on the homepage: http://lamp.cfar.umd.edu/Embedded_MT_Systems/ Formatting instructions for final submissions will be made available with acceptance. The Guest Editors will notify the submitters of the acceptance status of their papers. All other information concerning the Special Issue will be posted on the homepage. Questions about submissions should be directed to the two Guest Editors by email, rather than the Journal or Publishing Editors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 18 16:06:18 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:06:18 +0200 Subject: Bourses: 2 offres Message-ID: 1/ University of Edinburgh - PhD STUDENTSHIP for February 1st 2002. 2/ Universiteit van Amsterdam - Two Fully Funded PhD Positions in the Computational and Applied Logic Group ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ Division of Informatics and Human Communication Research Centre, University of Edinburgh PhD STUDENTSHIP for February 1st 2002. Application deadline: July 15th 2001. Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed. The Institute of Communicating and Collaborative Systems (ICCS) within the Division of Informatics and the Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC) invites applications for a three-year EPSRC studentship award to commence in February 2002. The successful applicant will work on a project entitled "Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text". A summary of the aims of this project are as follows: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ROBUST PRAGMATICS FOR NARRATIVE TEXT: PROJECT SUMMARY The proposed project is concerned with the design, implementation and evaluation of a system that analyses the discourse structure of narrative text and the temporal order of its events. BROAD COVERAGE: Existing approaches recognise discourse structure only when signalled by discourse connectives. We'll broaden coverage to cases where such cues are absent by developing a probabilistic model of discourse structure from large language corpora. ROBUSTNESS: Computing rhetorical relations is a knowledge intensive task driven primarily by pragmatic information. Our aim is to use data-intensive methodologies to automatically approximate this information from large language corpora, and therefore to produce a fully automatic system. ENGINEERING: Existing language technology, with a few notable exceptions, tends to take either a symbolic or a probabilistic approach to semantics. We aim to interface a probabilistic component with a symbolic one, proposing a novel approach to the demanding task of semantic interpretation which is both robust and linguistically informed. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or Linguistics. Applicants with strong programming skills (e.g., Perl, C++, Java) and expertise in any of the following will be preferred: o Statistical modelling o Semantic theories of tense and aspect o Theories of discourse structure o Pragmatics (in particular, speech act theory and implicatures) The EPSRC baseline rate of maintenance is currently approx. 7,500 pounds, and the studentship will also pay the three years' tuition fees at home/EU rates. ICCS and HCRC have close research links with a number of other academic institutions (e.g., Universitat Saarlandes, DFKI, Stanford University) and companies from which the student will benefit. For more information about ICCS and HCRC, see the following home pages: http://www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/ http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/ Information about students, the PhD Programme, and how to apply for a PhD can be found by following the various links from the following URL: http://www.informatics.ed.ac.uk/prospectus/graduate/research.html Please note that applicants must fill in the faculty's postgraduate application form, which is available online from the above URL. If we already have your application on file for consideration for a PhD commencing October 2001, you do not need to apply again. Deadline for applications: July 15th 2001 Applications received after this deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed. For additional advice and information on how to apply for this PhD studentship, please contact: Admissions Chair The Graduate School Division of Informatics The University of Edinburgh 2, Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH3 5AZ, Scotland, UK Email: phd-admissions at inf.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 5156 Fax: +44 131 667 7209 PLEASE MARK "Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text" ON THE APPLICATION. For additional information on the project "Robust Pragmatics for Narrative Text", please contact: Alex Lascarides ICCS, Division of Informatics The University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW Email: alex at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 650 4428 Fax: +44 131 650 6626 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ Two Fully Funded PhD Positions in the Computational and Applied Logic Group Institute for Logic, Language and Computation Universiteit van Amsterdam The Computational and Applied Logic Group at the University of Amsterdam is searching for highly motivated candidates with a first degree in computer science, computational linguistics, or a related discipline, for two fully funded four-year PhD positions, one in each of the following research areas: o computational logic (with an emphasis on implementation and evaluation of automated reasoning systems) o natural language processing (with an emphasis on logic-based approaches to information retrieval tasks such as question-answering, navigation, and summarization) Applicants should have a strong interest in experimental evaluation and validation of theoretical findings. Programming skills, preferably in perl, java, C or C++, are essential. Familiarity with current trends in automated reasoning (for the computational logic position) or statistical and symbolic models of natural language processing (for the NLP position) is a distinct advantage. These positions are funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and the University of Amsterdam, as part of the `Pionier' project `Computing with Meaning.' This is an interdisciplinary project aimed at identifying and using meaningful information in natural language texts. The project will experiment with computational logic architectures that can handle linguistic information structures at various levels of detail; this involves new systems of flexible logics and algorithms, suitably combined. The project has a generous equipment and travel budget. Please consult http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/Projects/ComputingwithMeaning/ for more information about the project. Both positions are four-year positions, and are expected to lead to a PhD degree. Candidates may be asked to assist with courses related to their research areas. The salary will range from 3159 Guilders (during the first year) to 4511 Guilders (during the fourth year), gross per month. Knowledge of Dutch is not a prerequisite, and candidates can be of any nationality. The starting date should be between September 1, 2001 and January 1, 2002. Anyone interested in these positions is invited to contact Maarten de Rijke at mdr at science.uva.nl. Applicants should submit a full resume including a statement of research interests, and the names and email addresses of at least three references to the same address by July 15, 2001. Research interests within the Computational and Applied Logic group range from automated reasoning, constraint programming, satisfability checking, and formal verification to digital libraries, information retrieval, computational semantics, and knowledge engineering. The group is strongly internationally oriented, and currently consists of 15 people; it is expected to grow substantially over the next year. Further details on the group can be found at http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/CALG/. -- Maarten de Rijke | Computational and Applied Logic Group | ILLC U of Amsterdam | Plantage Muidergracht 24 | 1018 TV Amsterdam | NL Phone: +31 20 525 6511 / +31 6 28 194 881 | Fax: +31 20 525 5101 E-mail: mdr at science.uva.nl | URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 18 16:07:34 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:07:34 +0200 Subject: Publications: John Benjamins NLP series (NLP-2) Message-ID: ***************************************************** BOOK SERIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING ***************************************************** John Benjamins NLP series (NLP-2) Book series editor Ruslan Mitkov = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = RECENT ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY Didier Bourigault, Christian Jacquemin and Marie-Claude L'Homme (Eds) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = == = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Coming out on 25 June 2001 !!! Table of contents Akiko Aizawa and Kyo Kageura - A graph-based approach to the automatic generation of multilingual keyword clusters Peter G.Anick - The automatic construction of faceted terminological feedback for interactive document retrieval M.Teresa Cabre Castellvi, Rosa Estopa Bagot and Jordi Vivaldi Palatresi - Automatic term detection:A review of current systems Lee-Feng Chien and Chun-Liang Chen Incremental extraction of domain-specific terms from online text resources James J.Cimino - Knowledge-based terminology management in medicine Anne Condamines and Josette Rebeyrolle - Searching for and identifying conceptual relationships via a corpus-based approach to a Terminological Knowledge Base (CTKB): Method and Results Beatrice Daille - Qualitative terminology extraction: Identifying relational adjectives Eric Gaussier - General considerations on bilingual terminology extraction Thierry Hamon and Adeline Nazarenko - Detection of synonymy links between terms:Experiment and results Toru Hisamitsu and Yoshiki Niwa - Extracting useful terms from parenthetical expressions by combining simple rules and statistical measures:A comparative evaluation of bigram statistics David A.Hull - Software tools to support the construction of bilingual terminology lexicons Hongyan Jing and Evelyne Tzoukermann - Determining semantic equivalence of terms in information retrieval:An approach based on context distance and morphology Diana Maynard and Sophia Ananiadou - Term extraction using a similarity-based approach Ingrid Meyer - Extracting knowledge-rich contexts for terminography: a conceptual and methodological framework Hiroshi Nakagawa - Experimental evaluation of ranking and selection methods in term extraction A.Nazarenko,P.Zweigenbaum,B.Habert and J.Bouaud - Corpus-based extension of a terminological semantic lexicon Michael P.Oakes and Chris.D.Paice - Term extraction for automatic abstracting ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 20 16:31:50 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:31:50 +0200 Subject: Appel: Literature Data Mining for Biology Message-ID: ************************************************************************ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS Literature Data Mining for Biology A special session within the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2002 January 3-7, 2002 Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club A large part of the information required for biology research can only be found in free-text form, as in MEDLINE abstracts, or in comment fields of relevant reports, as in GenBank feature table annotations. This information is important for many types of analysis, such as classification of proteins into functional groups, discovery of new functional relationships, maintenance of information on material and methods, increased precision and relevance of hits returned by BLAST, extraction of protein interaction information, and so on. However, information in free-text form or in comment fields is very difficult for automated systems to use. In addition, the extracted information may need further enrichment, for example, the inclusion of quantitative information about the interaction. This session will investigate how natural language and data mining techniques can provide and structure information relevant to biological applications. The session solicits papers on techniques and applications of natural language processing to the extraction of biological information from free text, including literature abstracts (e.g., MEDLINE), database annotations (e.g., GENBANK or PIR), and other relevant biology sources. It will emphasize the combination of natural language techniques with other biological information sources, such as database and sequence searches, to facilitate collection and organization of information about particular genes, proteins, or pathways. In particular, we are interested in: * Novel ways of combining text data mining and more conventional bioinformatics search techniques; * Use of text data mining techniques for consistency checking and error detection in annotation of existing data bases; * Biological problems where extraction of text-based information can provide quantitative performance gains; * Evaluations of the utility of text data mining techniques and components; * Extraction and organization of text-based information facilitated by ontologies and data exchange standards; * Creation of structured resources (databases) through the use of text data mining and information extraction techniques. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Session co-chairs * Lynette Hirschman, MITRE lynette at mitre.org * Jong C. Park, KAIST park at nlp.kaist.ac.kr * Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo tsujii at is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp * Limsoon Wong, KRDL limsoon at krdl.org.sg * Cathy Wu, National Biomedical Research Foundation & Georgetown University wuc at nbrf.georgetown.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission information Submissions are due 16 July 2001 Decisions are announced 31 August 2001 Camera ready copy due 24 September 2001 Poster abstracts due 5 November 2001 Further information http://psb.stanford.edu All papers must be submitted to russ.altman at stanford.edu in electronic format. The file formats we accept are: postscript (*.ps), adobe acrobat (*.pdf) and Microsoft Word documents (*.doc). Attached files should be named with the last name of the first author (e.g. altman.ps, altman.pdf, or altman.doc). Hardcopy submissions or unprocessed TEX or LATEX files will be rejected without review. Each paper must be accompanied by a cover letter. The cover letter must state the following: * The email address of the corresponding author * The specific PSB session that should review the paper or abstract * The submitted paper contains original, unpublished results, and is not currently under consideration elsewhere. * All co-authors concur with the contents of the paper. Submitted papers are limited to twelve (12) pages in our publication format. Please format your paper according to instructions found at ftp://ftp-smi.stanford.edu/pub/altman/psb. If figures can not be easily resized and placed precisely in the text, then it should be clear that with appropriate modifications, the total manuscript length would be within the page limit. Color pictures can be printed at the expense of the authors. The fee is $500 per page of color pictures, payable at the time of camera ready submission. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 20 16:32:46 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:32:46 +0200 Subject: Ressources: HCRC Map Task Corpus XML annotations Message-ID: The Human Communication Research Centre is pleased to announce the availability of the HCRC Map Task Corpus XML annotations, at http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/maptask/ In 1992, the HCRC publicly released the HCRC Map Task Corpus, a corpus of task-oriented dialogues, on CD. The CDs contained the sound files, dialogue transcription, and the materials which subjects used to complete the task. We are now making HCRC's annotations of the Map Task Corpus publicly available. These annotations include updated transcription of the speech, dialogue structure at three levels (moves, games, and transactions), part of speech tags, syntax,gaze, landmark references, and when the participants were using their pens. The annotations are represented in XML using a technique called ``stand-off annotation'' (see http://www.hcrc.ed.ac.uk/maptask/bidialog-paper.ps). Pointers to times in the original sound files allow the speech material to be located easily. Jean Carletta Amy Isard Henry S. Thompson Human Communication Research Centre University of Edinburgh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Wed Jun 20 16:34:16 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:34:16 +0200 Subject: Publications: Revue ALSIC Message-ID: ************************************************************ Veuillez nous excuser en cas de receptions multiples de ce message en provenance de sources differentes. -------------------------------------------- REVUE ALSIC Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication (http://alsic.org) Le numero 7 (volume 4, numero 1) de juin 2001 de la revue ALSIC est paru. -------------------------------------------- Les articles sont accessibles directement. ** Sommaire du volume 4, numero 1 : * Editorial : de Marie-Noelle Lamy * Rubrique Pratique et Recherche : - Une experience de recherche documentaire sur Internet en classe de langue : propositions de modelisation didactique de Alain Verreman * Rubrique Analyse de livres - Integrer les nouvelles technologies de l'information : quel cadre pedagogique ? de Jacques Tardif par Maguy Pothier - Apprendre une langue dans un environnement multimedia dirige par L. Duquette et M. Laurier par Manuela Zeilinger-Trier * Rubrique Analyse de sites et logiciels - VOICEbook coordonnee par Cecile Poussard - Advanced Italian par L. Desmarais et R. Imbrogno-Levin * Rubrique Fiche Pratique - Francaises d'alors et d'aujourd'hui : des femmes liberees ? Chansons et sites Internet comme supports pedagogiques de Geraldine Enjelvin * Rubrique Points de vue, echanges - "Le Devoir conjugal" : de la conceptualisation a la diffusion de Martin Beaudoin * Toiltheque mise a jour le 15 juin 2001 coordonnee par Delphine Renie ** Fin -- ---------------------------------------------------- Revue ALSIC : Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication Toile : http://alsic.org Courriel : infos at alsic.org Telecopie : 03 81 66 64 50 (+ 33 3 81 66 64 50) ---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 21 20:09:07 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:09:07 +0200 Subject: Jobs: poste de PRAG a l'INaLCO Message-ID: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [ln] Article a approuver Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:48:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: SYMPA To: "Moderateurs de la liste ln" Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hermes.cines.fr (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5LDmNm30610; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:48:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from tom.biomath.jussieu.fr (root at tom.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.8]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.11.3/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id f5LDoMv35101 ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:50:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from glenan.biomath.jussieu.fr (ngr at glenan.biomath.jussieu.fr [134.157.72.37]) by tom.biomath.jussieu.fr (8.8.7/mailhost/jtpda-5.2/af19990603) with ESMTP id PAA18779 ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 15:49:47 +0100 (WET) From: ngr at biomath.jussieu.fr (GRABAR Natalia) Poste de Prag disponible ? l'INaLCO au sein du Centre de recherches en ing?nierie multilingue (CRIM). Nous recherchons un enseignant de l'enseignement secondaire titulaire d'une agr?gation ou d'un CAPES de langue pour participer ? la coordination des activit?s d'enseignement et de recherche et encadrer les travaux dirig?s de l'atelier "outils TAL". Profil recherch? : - tr?s bonnes connaissances en informatique pour la gestion de site Web, la cr?ation et la gestion de bases de donn?es, - bonne culture en linguistique informatique, familiarit? avec les outils standard, - tr?s motiv? par la coordination des activit?s d'enseignement et de recherche, sens de l'organisation, go?t pour le travail d'?quipe. Contact : Monique.Slodzian at inalco.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 21 20:14:04 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 22:14:04 +0200 Subject: Conf: ACL 2001 Tutorial Message-ID: CATEGORIAL GRAMMARS AND RESOURCE LOGICS: FROM FUNDAMENTALS TO SOME RECENT ADVANCES Christian Retor? -- INRIA & Universit? de Nantes http://www.irisa.fr/paragraphe/Christian.Retore This tutorial will first provide an overview of standard results on the logical view of categorial grammars (including a brief account oftheir relation to Montague semantics). Then it will focus on a selection of recent advances in categorial grammars coming out of their relation to resource logics: the existence of learning algorithms (following the Gold paradigm), the proof-nets of linear logic (which provide a new interesting kind of parse structures), and finally a logical account of parts of Chomsky's minimalist program (via Stabler's minimalist grammars). 1 FUNDAMENTALS ---------------- Classical categorial grammars (AB-grammars) - From semantic categories to AB-categorial grammars - AB-grammars and their relation to CFGs - Examples and limitation of AB-grammars A logic for categorial grammars: Lambek calculus - Syntactic properties and parsing - String semantics for the Lambek calculus, completeness - Weak and strong generative capacity Relation to Montague semantics 2 SOME RECENT ADVANCES ------------------------ Learning algorithms Linear-logic proof-nets as parse structures - Lambek calculus and Linear Logic - Proof-nets and human-processing complexity - Proof-net grammars and TAGs Relation to Chomsky's minimalist program - Stabler's minimalist grammars - A logical account of minimalist grammars more informations on the ACL2001 website: http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 25 16:03:51 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:03:51 +0200 Subject: Publications: Spotting and Discovering Terms through Natural Language Processing Message-ID: Spotting and Discovering Terms through Natural Language Processing Christian Jacquemin MIT-Press In this book Christian Jacquemin shows how the power of natural language processing (NLP) can be used to advance text indexing and information retrieval (IR). Jacquemin's novel tool is FASTR, a parser that normalizes terms and recognizes term variants. Since there are more meanings in a language than there are words, FASTR uses a metagrammar composed of shallow linguistic transformations that describe the morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic variations of words and terms. The acquired parsed terms can then be applied for precise retrieval and assembly of information. The use of a corpus-based unification grammar to define, recognize, and combine term variants from their base forms allows for intelligent information access to, or "linguistic data tuning" of, heterogeneous texts. FASTR can be used to do automatic controlled indexing, to carry out content-based Web searches through conceptually related alternative query formulations, to abstract scientific and technical extracts, and even to translate and collect terms from multilingual material. Jacquemin provides a comprehensive account of the method and implementation of this innovative retrieval technique for text processing. Christian Jacquemin is Professor at the University of Paris 11 and Researcher in Computer Science at CNRS-LIMSI (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la M?canique et les Sciences de l'Ing?nieur). 7 x 9, 357 pp., 71 illus., cloth, ISBN 0-262-10085-1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/JACDHS01 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 25 16:08:36 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:08:36 +0200 Subject: Conf: TSD 2001 Message-ID: _____________________________________________________________________ This message is posted to several lists. We apologize if you receive multiple copies. Please forward it to everyone who might be interested. _____________________________________________________________________ An International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialog (TSD 2001) September 10-13, 2001 Plzen, Czech Republic _____________________________________________________________________ C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N _____________________________________________________________________ TSD 2001 will be an international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue. The TSD2001 Conference continues the tradition of annual international workshops devoted to the natural language processing (corpora, texts and transcription; speech analysis, recognition and synthesis; their intertwinnig within NL dialogue systems),started by the SQEL Workshop in 1997. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ text corpora and tagging; transcription problems in spoken corpora; sense disambiguation; links between text and speech oriented systems; parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts; multilingual issues, especially multilingual dialog systems; information retrieval and text/topic summarization; speech modeling; speech segmentation; speech recognition; text-to-speech synthesis; speech and motions; dialog systems; development of dialog strategies; assistive technologies based on speech and dialog; applied systems and software. TUTORIALS --------- - E. NOETH and W. ECKERT (University of Erlangen-Nuermberg, Germany): Spoken Dialogue Systems - I. KOPECEK, R.BATUSEK, P.GAURA, P. NYGRYN (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Rep.) Dialogue systems for Impaired People - T. HARISSIS (Systema Informatics, S.A., Athens, Greece) Force Feedback Haptic Devices - N. BRAUN (ZGDV e. V., Darmstadt, Germany) Modeling of Conversational User Interface INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- - FREDERICK JELINEK (Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, USA): The Spreading USE of Grammer in Language Modeling - HYNEK HERMANSKY (Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, USA): Recognition of Speech from Temporal Patterns of Frequency Localized Spectral Energy - EVA HAJICOVA et al (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic): The Current Status of the Prague Dependency Treebank - FRANTISEK CERMAK (Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep.): Language Corpora: The Czech Case - ELMAR NOETH et al (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany): Research Issues for the Next Generation Spoken Dialogue Systems Revisited - ENEKO AGIRRE (University of the Basque, Domstia, Spain): Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation - TARAS K. VINTSIUK (NAS Institute of Cybernetics & UNESCO/IIP International Research-Training Centre for Information Technologies and Systems, Kyjiv, Ukraine) Generative Phoneme-Threephone Model for ASR ACCEPTED PAPERS --------------- A complete list of accepted papers is on-line available at: http://www.kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001/program.htm CONFERENCE PROGRAM ------------------ The conference program will include tutorials, invited papers given by keynote speakers, oral presentations of accepted submissions of several kinds, short poster presentations and poster sessions. The conference will also include social events (welcome reception, conference banquet, bartender show) and trips to some of the most popular places in Sumava Mountains- Sumava National Park, Black and Devil's lake (12km hiking tour), the Laka lake (10 km hiking tour), bus-trip to the city of Klatovy and Klenova castle, and 20km hiking tour to Grosser Osser, Grosser Arber and Arbersee im Bayerischer Wald on the German side of the border. To obtain the more detailed program and to fill registration form check please the web page of the conference at: < http://www-kiv.zcu.cz/events/tsd2001/ >. Registration deadline: July 31, 2001. Registration fee ---------------- * full participant - $220 * student - $160 The fee should be paid directly by bank transfer to: Komercni banka Plzen-mesto, Goethova 1, CZ-305 95 Plzen account number : 4811530257/0100 purchase order : 5204/0003/00 special ID code: your birth date in the form YYMMDD (year - month - day), e.g. 550425 account holder : University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 8, CZ - 306 14 Plzen stating: TSD 2001 and your name -------------------------------------------------------------------- Conference Chair: FREDERICK JELINEK ----------------- Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore, USA Conference Executive: HYNEK HERMANSKY --------------------- Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, USA: International program committee: -------------------------------- Frederick Jelinek, USA - general chair Hynek Hermansky, USA - executive chair Genevieve Baudoin, France Frantisek Cermak, Czech Rep. Attila Ferencz, Romania, South Korea Eva Hajicova, Czech Rep. Patrick Hanks, GB, USA Eduard Hovy, USA Adam Kilgariff, GB Ivan Kopecek, Czech Rep. Steven Krauwer, Netherland Vaclav Matousek, Czech Rep. Rosamund Moon, GB Elmar Noeth, Germany Karel Pala, Czech Rep. Nikola Pavesic, Slovenia Vladimir Petkevic, Czech Rep. Josef Psutka, Czech Rep. E.G. Schukat-Tallamazini, Germany Pavel Skrelin, Russia Taras Vintsiuk, Ukraine Yorick Wilks, GB Organizing Committee < tsd2001 at kiv.zcu.cz > -------------------- Vaclav Matousek (chair), Helena Benesova, Kamil Ekstein, Jana Hesova, Svatava Kindlova, Jana Kleckova, Ivan Kopecek, Jana Krutisova, Josef Masek, Pavel Mautner, Roman Moucek, Jana Ocelikova, Karel Pala, Pavel Slavik, Petr Sojka Karel Tauser ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Jun 25 16:20:34 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:20:34 +0200 Subject: conf: MT Summit VIII Message-ID: MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 18-22 September 2001 The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites you to participate in the Eighth "Machine Translation Summit" which is being held in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain from the 18th to the 22nd September 2001. The MT Summit conferences bring together the global MT community to review the state of the art of machine translation, computer-aided translation support tools and multilingual tools, both in the commercial world and in the research sphere. It is a unique opportunity to learn about the latest developments in the field, for researchers, users and vendors to exchange experiences and to get valuable feedback, and for meeting others involved in this technology. There will be a full programme of papers, presentations by invited speakers, panel sessions, exhibitions, demonstrations, and workshops (on the day preceding the conference and on the final day). There will be excursions, a banquet and a folk music performance, and also some activities for spouses and partners of delegates. LIST OF PAPERS now on website. VENUE The conference is taking place in Santiago de Compostela in North West Spain(Galicia), famous as a pilgrimage destination since the early Middle Ages, a city full of ancient buildings, from its eleventh-century cathedral to its seventeenth and eighteenth century houses, convents and palaces. The old town has been listed as a 'world heritage city' by Unesco. The venue for the conference is the Hostal de los Reyes Cat?licos (Hostal dos Reis Cat?licos), originally founded in 1499 as a Royal hospital for pilgrims, a magnificent building in the Spanish Renaissance style. It is now both the oldest and one of the most impressive hotels in the world. The opening session and the banquet will take place in the Comedor Real, other sessions will be in the hotel's auditorium and other rooms, and the exhibition and demonstrations will be housed in the Chapel. The opening reception will take place in the Pazo de Raxoi (City Council), an 18th century building next to the Hostal. HOTELS Santiago de Compostela is a major tourist centre attracting many visitors throughout the year. We have reserved accommodation in the Hostal itself and in a number of hotels close by (many restored 17th and 18th century buildings). All except one are within walking distance of the Hostal venue. (A bus will be provided for the Hotel Puerta del Camino). Because of the high demand for hotel rooms in Santiago and the substantial deposits, we ask for about half the full hotel charge when booking, and we encourage you to book early to be certain of your preference. Hotels are now getting full. Please register and book as soon as possible. WEBSITE INFORMATION For details of the hotels, excursions and workshops see the MT Summit website (www.eamt.org/summitVIII) or send email to: summitVIII at eamt.org. REGISTRATION Registration should preferably be made via the MT Summit website. Alternatively, you may ask for a registration form from: Carlos Paz (MT Summit Registration), Service de Traduction, European Commission, Rue de la Loi 200 - JECL 4/200, B-1049 Brussels, Belgium (Fax: +32-2-296.59.68; Telephone: +32-2-296.05.59; Email: Carlos.Paz-Carneiro at cec.eu.int). CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Tuesday, 18 September Workshops, welcome reception, opening of exhibitions Wednesday, 19 September opening session, first day of conference Thursday, 20 September Second day of conference Friday, 21 September Third day of conference, IAMT general assembly, folk music entertainment Saturday, 22 September Workshops, excursion to Coruna, special panel, banquet Sunday, 23 September Excursion to southern Galicia and northern Portugal CONFERENCE FEES The registration fees for the conference (19-22 September) are: IAMT members* Non-members Before 15 July Euro 275 Euro 325 After 15 July Euro 325 Euro 375 * members of the Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT), Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) One Euro is approximately 0.90 US dollar. Note: The conference fees do not include meals, but there are numerous good-value restaurants nearby in the city, which you will have opportunity to enjoy during the conference. CANCELLATIONS Before 15 July: 75% of the registration fee will be refunded After 15 July and before 1 September: 50% of the registration fee will be refunded After 1 September: no refunds. EXHIBITIONS Exhibition space will be provided in the Chapel of the Hostal for up to 25 companies and will be active throughout the conference. Fees for exhibitors will be Euro 1200. Contact Joerg Schuetz (joerg at iai.uni-sb.de) for details, or look at the Summit website (www.eamt.org/summitVIII). WORKSHOPS [for more details see Summit website] Tuesday 18 September fee Towards a Roadmap for MT (half day) Euro 25 Organiser: Steven Krauwer Example-based machine translation (full day) Euro 50 Organisers: Andrew Way and Michael Carl Saturday 22 September Teaching machine translation (all day) Euro 50 Organisers: Mikel Forcada and Derek Lewis MT evaluation: who did what to whom (Fourth ISLE workshop) (all day) Euro 50 Organisers: Ed Hovy, Maghi King, Sandra Manzi and Florence Reeder OPEN MEETING on terminology exchange and synchronization (SALT, OSCAR, OLIF), Saturday 22 Sept (all day) Euro 50 [for more information see http://www.ttt.org] FLIGHT DISCOUNTS. Iberia Airlines is offering participants a 25% discount (or more) on many of its flights (for details see: www.eamt.org/summitVIII). On registration you will be sent a password, in order to take advantage of this offer. ORGANISERS John Hutchins (general chair): EAMT/IAMT president Bente Maegaard (programme chair) Joerg Schuetz (exhibitions) Harold Somers (workshops) Carlos Paz (registration and local arrangements) Anthony Clarke (finance): EAMT treasurer Viggo Hansen (publicity): EAMT secretary Colin Brace (website) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr Tue Jun 26 22:53:59 2001 From: thierry.hamon at lipn.univ-paris13.fr (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:53:59 +0100 Subject: Q: Corpus de resumes automatiques Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:23:18 +0200 (MET DST) From: outremanfb at club-internet.fr Message-Id: Bonjour, Etudiante en ma?trise des Sciences de l'Information et de la Documentation, je suis actuellement en stage en centre de documentation; dans ce cadre, je r?fl?chis au passage du panorama de presse papier ? une revue de presse num?rique. J'aborde dans mon ?tude la possibilit? d'utiliser les outils linguistiques pour la r?alisation de r?sum?s d'articles de presse. Pouvez-vous me renseigner, s'il vous pla?t , sur l'existence de sites qui proposent des r?sum?s automatiques ? En existe-t-il qui soient pertinents ? Je vous remercie. B?atrice Outreman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 28 14:00:12 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:00:12 +0200 Subject: Publications: Spoken Language Processing ... Message-ID: Spoken Language Processing: A Guide to Theory, Algorithm and System Development by Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Hardcover - 960 pages 1 edition (April 25, 2001) Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0130226165 ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.03 x 9.50 x 7.34 >>From the Inside Flap Preface Our primary motivation in writing this book is to share our working experience to bridge the gap between the knowledge of industry gurus and newcomers to the spoken language processing community. Many powerful techniques hide in conference proceedings and academic papers for years before becoming widely recognized by the research community or the industry. We spent many years pursuing spoken language technology research at Carnegie Mellon University before we started spoken language R&D at Microsoft. We fully understand that it is by no means a small undertaking to transfer a state-of-the-art spoken language research system into a commercially viable product that can truly help people improve their productivity. Our experience in both industry and academia is reflected in the context of this book, which presents a contemporary and comprehensive description of both theoretic and practical issues in spoken language processing. This book is intended for people of diverse academic and practical backgrounds. Speech scientists, computer scientists, linguists, engineers, physicists, and psychologists all have a unique perspective on spoken language processing. This book will be useful to all of these special interest groups. Spoken language processing is a diverse subject that relies on knowledge of many levels, including acoustics, phonology, phonetics, linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse. The diverse nature of spoken language processing requires knowledge in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, syntax, and psychology. There are a number of excellent books on the subfields of spoken language processing, including speech recognition, text-to-speech conversion, and spoken language understanding, but there is no single book that covers both theoretical and practical aspects of these subfields and spoken language interface design. We devote many chapters systematically introducing fundamental theories needed to understand how speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and spoken language understanding work. Even more important is the fact that the book highlights what works well in practice, which is invaluable if you want to build a practical speech recognizer, a practical text-to-speech synthesizer, or a practical spoken language system. Using numerous real examples in developing Microsoft's spoken language systems, we concentrate on showing how the fundamental theories can be applied to solve real problems in spoken language processing. >>From the Back Cover New advances in spoken language processing: theory and practice In-depth coverage of speech processing, speech recognition, speech synthesis, spoken language understanding, and speech interface design Many case studies from state-of-the-art systems, including examples from Microsoft's advanced research labs Spoken Language Processing draws on the latest advances and techniques from multiple fields: computer science, electrical engineering, acoustics, linguistics, mathematics, psychology, and... Regards, XD ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 28 14:07:27 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:07:27 +0200 Subject: Doc/Post-Doc : 3 offres Message-ID: 1/ 2 new funded PhD studentships in Computing - University of Sunderland 2/ NLP postdoc position - University of Maryland 3/ PhD positions on "Information and Communication Technologies" - The University of Trento and ITC-irst ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ With respect to this email list I would like to encourage applications from computing students for 2 PhD studentships in intelligent systems (e.g. neural networks, hybrid systems, cognitive neuroscience, neuro/fuzzy systems, machine learning, with applications in e.g. in natural language processing or robotics) General application text for all areas of interest below Stefan Wermter ------------------------------------- Funded Phd Opportunities in Computing, Engineering & Technology The School of Computing, Engineering & Technology at the University of Sunderland is seeking high quality, motivated applicants wishing to gain a PhD or MPhil in the disciplines of Computing, Mathematical Sciences, Engineering and Technology. The school has a strong and growing research profile with EPSRC-funded research, numerous EU-funded projects and a vibrant community of over 100 researchers. The School is well-resourced and offers excellent facilities with much state-of the art computing equipment and not only offers high quality postgraduate but also undergraduate programmes accredited by professional societies. We look for applications in both computing and mathematics as well as general engineering for two fully-funded PhD studentships. Students wishing to apply for the 2 funded places should look at the list of proposed projects available at http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/postgrad/projects.html and indicate in their application which of these projects they would wish to undertake. The closing date for the 2 funded places is 8/7/01. Self-funding MPhil & PhD students are also welcome to apply at any time for full-time, part-time and distance learning research degrees in any of the areas detailed below. The main research groups in computing & mathematics are: intelligent systems (major strengths in neural networks, natural language engineering, hybrid systems, cognitive neuroscience, neuro/fuzzy systems, machine learning: Professor Stefan Wermter - stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5153279); http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/Projects/suggested_topics_titles.html human computer systems (includes themes such as multimedia, computer-aided learning, computing for the disabled and human computer interaction evaluation methodologies: Professor Gilbert Cockton - gilbert.cockton at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5153394); software engineering (focussed on practical areas especially software testing?and the organisational?risks of implementing information systems, methodologies and solutions for industry: Professor Helen Edwards helen.edwards at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5152786 or Professor Barrie Thompson barrie.thompson at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5152769); electronic commerce (encompasses the development and promotion of standards in this?dynamic area with a special interest in the area of electronic procurement: Kevin Ginty - kevin.ginty at sunderland.ac.uk or Albert Bokma albert.bokma at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5153233); decision support systems (covers a diverse range of activities?in statistics & mathematics at the boundary of?Computer Science and Statistics and Operational Research: Professor Eric Fletcher eric.fletcher at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5152822 or Professor Alfredo Moscardini alfredo.moscardini at sunderland.ac.uk +44 191 5152763); In order to apply please send a full CV (including 2 referees and indicating the project for which you wish to apply) to the address below. You may also find out more about either our PhD or MPhil research degrees, the current studentships and grants available by looking at: http://www.cet.sunderland.ac.uk/postgrad or getting in touch with: Dr. Chris. Bowerman - Principal Lecturer in Research Student Management School of Computing, Engineering & Technology, University of Sunderland, Informatics Centre, St Peter's Way, Sunderland, Tyne & Wear, GB-SR6 0DD Email: chris.bowerman at sunderland.ac.uk -------------------------------------------- *************************************** Professor Stefan Wermter Research Chair in Intelligent Systems University of Sunderland Centre of Informatics, SCET St Peters Way Sunderland SR6 0DD United Kingdom phone: +44 191 515 3279 fax: +44 191 515 3553 email: stefan.wermter at sunderland.ac.uk http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/~cs0stw/ http://www.his.sunderland.ac.uk/ **************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SEEKS POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER ---------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Maryland is seeking a bright and energetic postdoc to work on research in computational linguistics, information retrieval, and related areas. Our laboratory has several cutting-edge projects that explore a wide range of natural language processing issues. Some of our top current interests include: - Acquisition of lexicons - Computational psycholinguistics - Cross-language information retrieval - Human-computer interaction - Lexical semantics - Machine learning in NLP - Multimedia search - Question answering - Statistical machine translation - Stochastic parsing - Web as a linguistic resource - Word sense disambiguation We offer a friendly working environment with extensive interaction across academic departments and neighboring institutions. To apply, please send a resume and a description of your research interests to Denise Best (denise at cfar.umd.edu). We're looking forward to hearing from you. Cheers, David Doermann (http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~doermann/) Bonnie Dorr (http://umiacs.umd.edu/~bonnie/) Rebecca Hwa (http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hwa/) Gina Levow (http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~gina/cv/) Doug Oard (http://glue.umd.edu/~oard/) Philip Resnik (http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/) Amy Weinberg (http://umiacs.umd.edu/~weinberg/) UMIACS strongly encourages applications from minorities and women. EOE/AA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ The University of Trento and ITC-irst announce the availability of PhD positions on "Information and Communication Technologies". Of particular interest for users of this list might be the possibility of applying for positions in the "Human Language Technology", and "Pattern Recognition" areas, directly financed by ITC-irst. More information can be found at the following address: http://ict.unitn.it Best regards alberto lavelli ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 28 14:08:42 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:08:42 +0200 Subject: Appel: 6th Int. Conf. on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data Message-ID: 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS - JADT 2002 - March 13-15, 2002 6th International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data March 13-15, 2002 Palais du Grand Large St-Malo / France The International Conference on the Statistical Analysis of Textual Data provides a workshop-style forum to all scholars, statisticians, computer scientists, linguists..., working in the vast field of textual data analysis ranging from lexicography to the analysis of political discourse, from documentary research to marketing research, from computational linguistics to sociolinguistics, from the processing of data to content analysis. Following Barcelona (1990), Montpellier (1993), Rome (1995), Nice (1998) and Lausanne (2000), the 6th International Conference will be held in Saint-Malo, France on march 13-15 2002. Important Dates Submission Deadline: September 1, 2001 Notification: October 30, 2001 Camera ready papers: December 15, 2001 Conference: March 13-15, 2002 Website: http://www.irisa.fr/jadt e-mail address: jadt2002 at irisa.fr Submission: Submissions should be limited to original work. All papers should include background survey and/or reference to previous works. Participants wishing to submit a paper should send to the organization committee (via email jadt2002 at irisa.fr) a first version of their paper for review by September 1, 2001, giving the following information: - Name, affiliation and full postal address (fax and/or e-mail) of authors - Title of the proposed paper with keywords - A first version of the paper (12 pages max.) emphasizing the purpose of the paper - An abstract in the paper language - An abstract in English (maximum 300 words) - Bibliographical references A format (identical for the final version) is proposed on the Website (for LaTeX and Word), http://www.irisa.fr/jadt/authors.htm). Topics: Topics of interest of the conference concern the application of statistical models and tools in the following domains: - Exploratory Textual Data Analysis - Textual Statistics - Statistical Analysis of Responses to Open Questions - Natural Language Processing - Stylometry - Documentary and Bibliometric Statistical Analysis - Textual Classification - Text Corpora and Text Encoding - Frequency Dictionaries - Lemmatization, automatic categorization - Information Retrieval - Software for Lexical and Textual Analysis Notification of acceptance will be sent to the authors on October 30, 2001. Final versions (camera-ready papers) should conform to the format that is provided on the Website (12 pages max.) and reach the committee no later than December 15, 2001. Accepted papers will be collected and issued as proceedings to the participants at the start of the conference. Submissions, communications and presentations can be made in any one of these languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian All communications and presentations must contain an English abstract. As in the previous meetings, no translation will be provided. Program Committee: Ramon Alvarez, Univ. of Leon, Spain Harald Baayen, Univ. of Nim?gue, The Netherlands Monica B?cue, Polyt. Univ. of Catalunya, Spain Sergio Bolasco, Univ. of Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy ?tienne Brunet, Univ. of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Annibale Elia, Univ. of Salerno, Italy Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, France Dominique Labb?, Univ. of Grenoble, France Ludovic Lebart, CNRS, ENST Paris, France (Pr?sident) Alain Lelu Univ. of Franche Comt?, France Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, France Sylvie Mellet, CNRS, Nice, France Martin Rajman, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland Max Reinert, CNRS, Univ. of Versailles SQY, France Andr? Salem, Univ. Paris 3, France Pascale S?billot, IRISA, France Fiona Tweedie, Univ. of Glasgow, UK Organization Committee: Annie Morin, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr Michel Kerbaol, INSERM, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr Pascale Sebillot, IRISA, Univ. of Rennes 1, Fr organized by IRISA/INRIA Rennes -- Pascale SEBILLOT IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes cedex, France tel: (33|0) 2 99 84 73 17, fax: (33|0) 2 99 84 71 71 email: sebillot at irisa.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 28 14:10:03 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:10:03 +0200 Subject: Conf: FGMOL '01 Call for Participation Message-ID: FGMOL'01 FORMAL GRAMMAR / MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE CONFERENCE Friday morning (9.00) August 10--Sunday afternoon (17.50) August 12, 2001 Helsinki in conjunction with the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI XIII) ************************************************************************* AIMS & SCOPE FGMOL'01 will provide a forum for the presentation of new and original research on formal grammar and mathematical aspects of language, especially with regard to the application of formal methods to natural language analysis. Themes of interest include, but are not limited to: * formal and computational syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology; * model-theoretic and proof-theoretic methods in linguistics; * constraint-based and resource-sensitive approaches to grammar; * foundational, methodological and architectural issues in grammar; * mathematical properties of linguistic frameworks; * theories and models of natural language processing and generation; * parsing theory; * statistical and quantitative models of language. ************************************************************************ PRACTICAL INFORMATION Conference Description and Program: http://sfinx.let.uu.nl/users/fgmol01prog.pdf Registration and Accommodation via ESSLLI: http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli Registration fee: 50 euros. ************************************************************************ PROGRAM ----- INVITED LECTURES Friday, August 10, 14.00-15.00: Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania) Some issues concerning strong generative capacity Saturday, August 11, 14.00-15.00: Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University) Negation in logic and in natural language ---- Sunday, August 12, 14.00-17.50: SYMPOSIUM Model-Theoretic Syntax Geoffrey Pullum (Santa Cruz) Formal grammar without formal languages: the surprisingly radical implications of model-theoretic syntax Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) Why model-theoretic syntax? James Rogers (Earlham) A hierarchy of degrees of constituency Uwe Moennich (Tuebingen) A model-theoretic description of TAGs ---- CONTRIBUTED PAPERS Carlos Areces (Amsterdam), Raffaella Bernardi and Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Galois Connections in Categorial Type Logic Gilad Ben-Avi and Yoad Winter (Technion) A Characterization of Monotonicity with Collective Quantifiers Pierre Boullier (INRIA) From Contextual Grammars to Range Concatenation Grammars Lukasz Debowski (Polish Academy of Sciences) A Revision of Coding Theory for Learning from Language Philippe de Groote & Guillaume Bonfante (LORIA) Stochastic Categorial Grammars Denys Duchier (Saarbruecken) Lexicalized Syntax and Topology for Non-projective Dependency Grammar Annie Foret (INRIA) The emptiness of intersection problem for k-valued categorial grammars (classical and Lambek) is undecidable. Sean A. Fulop (Chicago) Learnability of type-logical grammars Kim Gerdes (Paris) TAG and Topology: Problems and Proposals for German Masami Ito (Kyoto), Carlos Martin-Vide (Tarragona), and Victor Mitrana (Bucharest) Chomsky-Schutzenberger Type Characterizations of Poly-Slender and Parikh Slender Context-Free Languages Stephan Kepser (Tuebingen) On the Complexity of RSRL Matthias Trautner Kromann (Copenhagen) Local optimality parsing in Discontinuous Grammar Yves Lepage (ATR) Analogies and formal languages Arthur Merin (Stuttgart) The Measure of All Things Jens Michaelis (Potsdam) Observations on Strict Derivational Minimalism Stefan Mueller (DFKI) An HPSG Analysis of German Depictive Secondary Predicates Anne Neville and Patrizia Paggio (Copenhagen) Developing a Danish grammar in the GRASP project: A construction-based approach to topology and extraction Rainer Osswald (Hagen) Classifying Classification Adi Palm (Passau) Model-theoretic Syntax and Parsing: An Application to Temporal Logic Gerald Penn (Toronto) A Graph-Theoretic Approach to Polynomial-Time Recognition with the Lambek Calculus Wiebke Petersen (Duesseldorf) A Set-Theoretical Approach for the Induction of Inheritance Hierarchies Carl Pollard (Ohio State) Higher-Order Grammar Frank Richter and Manfred Sailer (Tuebingen) Polish Negation and Lexical Resource Semantics Balder ten Cate (Amsterdam) The dynamics of information exchange dialogues **************************************************************** PROGRAM COMMITTEE Anne Abeill'e (Paris) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) Gosse Bouma (Groningen) Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc) Elisabet Engdahl (Gotenborg) Nissim Francez (Haifa) Thilo Goetz (IBM) David Johnson (IBM) Mark Johnson (Brown) Gerhard Jaeger (Utrecht) Aravind Joshi (UPenn) Ruth Kempson (London) Alain Lecomte (LORIA) Uwe Moennich (Tuebingen) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Mark-Jan Nederhof (Groningen) Owen Rambow (Cogentex) James Rogers (Earlham) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) **************************************************************** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Geert-Jan Kruijff (Saarbruecken) Larry Moss (Indiana) Dick Oehrle (Oakland) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Thu Jun 28 14:11:04 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:11:04 +0200 Subject: Ressources: New Release from the LDC Message-ID: The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) is pleased to announce the availability of the Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE) Vo-Coder Training Audio. http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/LDC2001S99.html This eight CD-ROM publication contains the Speech in Noisy Environments 2 (SPINE2) Training Audio Corpus created for the Department of Defense (DoD) Digital Voice Processing Consortium (DDVPC) by Arcon Corp. The transcripts for this corpus are available in two LDC publications, Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE1) Training Transcripts LDC2000T49 and Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE1) Evaluation Transcripts LDC2000T54. For an example transcription please visit: http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/desc/addenda/LDC2000T54.html This corpus contains a total of 260 files, one "game" each, for a rough total of 19 hours and 59 minutes (~4.6 GBytes) of audio data. SPINE Vo-Coder Training Audio supports the 2000 and 2001 Speech in Noisy Environments (SPINE1 and SPINE2) evaluation. The Second Speech in Noisy Environments Evaluation (SPINE2) will provide a continuing forum for assessing the state of the art and practice in speech recognition technology for noisy military environments and for exchanging information on innovative speech recognition technology in the context of fully implemented systems that perform realistic tasks. The evaluation will provide researchers, potential sponsors, and customers with a quantitative means to appreciate the strengths and weaknesses of the technologies, and the results reported on will invite customer interest in the potential utility of the technologies. More information on this evaluation is available from the Naval Research Laboratory website by visiting: http://elazar.itd.nrl.navy.mil/spine/index.html Institutions that have membership in the LDC during the 2001 Membership Year will be able to receive this corpus free of charge. Nonmembers may purchase this publication for $1600. If you would like to order a copy of this corpus, please email your request to . 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