From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 6 17:42:46 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:42:46 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 5 offres Message-ID: 1/ European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) JRC-Ispra site near the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy. 2/ The University of Liverpool Research and Development Unit for English Studies 3/ Groningen (The Netherlands) Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen Postdocs and Graduate Students 4/ Educational Testing Service Research Scientist Princeton New Jersey 5/ EU funded project searching of multiple multimedia digital libraries department of Information Studies at Sheffield --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) is looking for a one-year Auxiliary Agent, starting approximately in May 2001, to contribute to its Language Technology projects at the JRC-Ispra site near the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy. The candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary and international team of scientists and developers and will contribute to two projects. The first one is concerned with the automatic assignment of keywords from a multilingual thesaurus to text, using statistical methods and a manually indexed text collection. The second project has the aim of gathering potentially user-relevant documents from the internet and to analyse, classify and store them. The ideal candidate has a practical approach and knows how to use, integrate and optimise different tools in the Windows NT environment. Requirements: Degree in Computational Linguistics or related areas; PERL programming experience; working knowledge of English; experience of working with large corpora or data collections; citizenship of a EU country. Desirable knowledge: Knowledge of statistics for automatic classification and similar applications; knowledge of French, German, Italian or other European languages; experience with further programming languages such as C or Java; knowledge of HTML and XML. Remuneration depends on age, family status, experience and current residence. The salary for a single person currently residing outside Italy is approximately 3.000 Euro per month net (after taxes). We offer interesting work in an expanding team and in an attractive setting. The JRC employs altogether 2400 staff from many different countries. 1800 of these work at the Ispra site in Northern Italy, about 60 km West of the city of Milan. If you are interested or have questions, please contact Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger at jrc.it). The deadline for applications is 18.03.2001. Electronic applications are preferred. Dr. Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger at jrc.it) European Commission, Joint Research Centre (http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/jrc) Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety (ISIS) RMDS - Project 25 T.P. 361 I - 21020 Ispra (VA) Tel: + 39 - 0332 78 6271 Fax: + 39 - 0332 78 9098 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ The University of Liverpool Research and Development Unit for English Studies RESEARCH ASSOCIATE/FELLOW Initial salary within the range £16,775 - £22,245 pa A vacancy has arisen in the Unit for a software developer with WWW programming skills and a good grasp of the nature of the English language. The post will initially run for 2 years, and relates primarily to two EPSRC-funded research projects concerning the extraction of linguistic information from the World Wide Web (http://www.webcorp.org.uk) and the retrieval of related documents from textual databases. Experience with CGI programming, Perl and information retrieval/search-engine technology is preferable, and familiarity with C/C++ and standard Unix tools is also desirable. The starting date will be as soon as possible. Quote Ref: A/882 Closing date: 23 March 2001 Further particulars and details of the application procedure may be requested from the Director of Personnel, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom on 0151 794 2210 (24 hr answerphone) or via email: jobs at liv.ac.uk COMMITTED TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES University web site: http://www.liv.ac.uk/ RDUES web site: http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ Groningen (The Netherlands) Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen Postdocs and Graduate Students Two Graduate Students, two Postdocs ----------------------------------- The Center for Language and Cognition, Groningen (CLCG) has openings for two graduate students (four-year positions) and two postdocs (two-year positions). We invite qualified applications for these positions. The postdoc positions are in projects investigating the visualization of language variation and connectionist language learning, and the Ph.D. positions are in the computational simulation of phonological learning and in neurolinguistics. Details are available at www.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne/clcg/posities01.html Applications preferably by Mar. 14, 2001. John Nerbonne Dir., CLCG nerbonne at let.rug.nl --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4/ Educational Testing Service, an international leader in the field of educational measurement, has a Research Scientist opening in the Center for Assessment and Design, part of the Statistics and Research Division. The Scientist position involves applying scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting natural language processing research studies and in developing and contributing to the development of new products or services for education. REQUIREMENTS A doctoral degree in Computer Science or Linguistics with solid computational linguistics experience and an interest in natural language processing research for purposes of automated writing analysis, instruction and scoring are required. Evidence of independent substantive research experience is required and the successful candidate is expected to be able to contribute to new or modified theories of natural language processing as applied to educational and psychological processes. ETS offers competitive salaries, outstanding benefits, a stimulating work environment, and attractive growth potential. ETS is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Please send resume including salary requirements to: Mike Smith Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road, MS 02-D Princeton, NJ 08541 Email: mlsmith at ets.org Fax: (609) 497-6022 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5/ As a follow up to an earlier advert, the MIND RA post is now officially being advertised. MIND (http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/mind/) A 27-month multi-site EU funded project investigating the searching of multiple multimedia digital libraries (i.e. search and meta search engines) over a wide area network. Sheffield?s main task focuses on searching libraries of speech documents. Emphasis will be on information retrieval and interface design over actual speech recognition. The fusing of results from multiple libraries will also be examined. Candidates with a relevant post graduate degree with some or all of the following experience should apply: Java or C++ programming; HCI and user testing; information retrieval; and speech recognition. Pay range £16,775 - £21,435. The department of Information Studies at Sheffield has consistently gained the highest possible research rating and has a long tradition of high quality Information Retrieval research. It has strong links with the internationally renowned natural language processing and speech research groups within the Computer Science department. Closing date for applications: 29 March 2001 Reference Number: RW2293 See the following Web site for details on how to apply: http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/acadjobs/rw2293.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Mark Sanderson, Room 303 Tel : +44 (0) 114 22 22648 Department of Information Studies Fax : +44 (0) 114 27 80300 University of Sheffield, Western Bank mailto:m.sanderson at shef.ac.uk Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Good judgement comes from experience but experience comes from bad judgement --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 6 17:43:09 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:43:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: 5 conferences Message-ID: 1/ The Fourth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation 2/ Corpus Linguistics 2001 Workshop Announcement Lancaster University 29 March 2001 Title: XML Markup Technologies for Working with Linguistic Data 3/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop ARABIC Language Processing: Status and Prospects 4/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 5/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop 8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ Borjomi, Georgia September 23-28, 2001 www.illc.uva.nl/borjomi The fourth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held in the mountain resort Likani, situated in the Borjomi Canyon, from 23 to 28 September. The Symposium is organized by the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech at the Tbilisi State University in conjunction with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. The 2001 forum is the fourth instalment of a series of biannual Symposia. The preceding ones took place in the Georgian mountain resort Gudauri (1995), at the capital of Georgia Tbilisi (1997) and in the Black sea cost resort Chakvi (1999). The success of this triad encourages us to continue this series. THEMES The Symposium welcomes papers on current research in all aspects of Linguistics, Logic and Computation, including but not limited to: Natural language semantics/pragmatics Algebraic and relational semantics Natural language processing Logic in AI and natural language Natural language and logic programming Automated reasoning Natural language and databases Information retrieval from text Natural language and internet Constructive and modal logic In line with the main trend in this field we strongly encourage the submission of papers concerning applications of logic to computation and the application of logic and computation to language description and modelling. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Abstracts of papers submitted for presentation should not exceed 2 000 words. The abstracts should include, on the first page: title, author's name, affiliation, complete mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail address, an abstract of 200 words maximum, and up to five key- words. The preferred method of submission is electronically through the website www.illc.uva.ml/borjomi Only persons without access to the web can submit a hard copy. These hard copies should be submitted to the following address: Ingrid van Loon ILLC Plantage Muidergracht 24 NL-1018 TV Amsterdam The Netherlands The collection volume of the short versions will be available during the Symposium. The printing of the proceedings with full size (8-12 pages) papers is planned immediately after the Symposium. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 30, 2001 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2001 Registration deadline: August 15, 2001 Symposium: September 23-28, 2001 TUTORIALS In parallel with the Symposium tutorials will be given by outstanding scholars for students and post-graduates. They are explicitly meant to address Interdisciplinary issues in the fields of language, logic and computation. Johan van Benthem (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) will give a tutorial on Logic, Patrick Blackburn (INRIA, Lorraine) on Computation and Irene Heim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be confirmed) on Language. INVITED SPEAKERS Ju. Apresjan (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) R. Cooper (University of Goteborg) M. Krifka (Humboldt University Berlin ) B. Partee (University of Massachusetts) D. Pearce (to be confirmed) Y. Venema (University of Amsterdam, to be confirmed) A. Voronkov (The University of Manchester) M. Zakharyaschev (King's College, London) SCIENTIFIC BOARD chairs Th. Gamkrelidze (Tbilisi State University) D. de Jongh (University of Amsterdam) members Matthias Baaz (Technical University of Vienna) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University) Wim Blok (The University of Illinois at Chicago) Igor Boguslavskij (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) George Chikoidze (Georgian Academy of Sciences) Robin Cooper (Göteborg University) Leo Esakia (Georgian Academy of Sciences) Eva Hajicova (Charles University) Georgi Japaridze (Villanova University) Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University Berlin) Igor Melchuk (Montreal University) Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts) Carl Vogel (Trinity College Dublin) ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE T. Khurodze (pro-rector of the Tbilisi State University, Chair) P. Dekker, I. van Loon, M. Marx, H. Zeevat (University of Amsterdam) N. Amirezashvili, R. Asatiani, N. Bezhanishvili, G. Chikoidze, R. Grigolia, M. Ivanishvili, N. Javashvili, L. Lortkipanidze(Georgian Academy of Sciences) N. Chanishvili, K. Phkhakadze, Kh. Rukhaia, N. Shengelaia (Tbilisi State University) FEES The participant's fee is 200 EURO. This fee is not obligatory forparticipants from Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States. TRAVEL By plane to Tbilisi and then by bus (3-4 hours) to Likani; a special bus trip is planned which will start inTbilisi at Sunday September 23. A visa can be obtained at the airport. All participants will get a letter of invitation to facilitate the procedure of getting a visa. LOCATION Georgia is an ancient country situated between Black and Kaspian Seas, Caucasus Mountains and Turkey. This is the country of the Golden Fleece, myth of Argonauts, Jason and Medea, Promethee, chained to the Caucasus Mountains. Georgia is famous for its high quality wines, exquisite cuisine and cordial hospitality. The Symposium will be hosted by the Tbilisi State University, the chief centre of education in the country which has several outstanding scholars in science, art and politics among its graduates. The Fourth Tbilisi Symposium will be held in Likani, a group of sanatoriums and hotels situated in the famous mountain resort Borjomi. Borjomi (175 km west from Tbilisi) is the largest mountain spa in Georgia, whose name is a synonym for mineral water throughout Georgia. The surrounding countryside with many good walks in the hills and several attractive parks is a nature reserve. Borjomi Canyon slopes are covered by mixed forest, variegated in the autumn; somewhat higher in the Canyon is the ski resort Bakuriani and at a distance of 150 km the medieval cave-city Vardzia. From the monuments in Borjomi the most important is one of the residencies of Russian Kings. EXCURSIONS Short excursions are planned to the ski resort Bakuriani and cave-city Vardzia. As one of the options of return to Tbilisi a two-day trip is planned to the second town of Georgia, Kutaisi, and the mountain resort Shovi situated on the south slopes of the main Caucasus ridge. INFORMATION www.illc.uva.nl/borjomi For more information one may also contact: George Chikoidze Dept. of Language Modelling Institute of Control Systems Georgian Academy of Sciences 34, K. Gamsakhurdia 380060 Tbilisi Georgia phone: +995 32 382136 fax: +995 32 942391 chiko at contsys.acnet.ge or: Ingrid van Loon Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24 NL-1018 TV Amsterdam The Netherlands phone: +31 20 525 6519 fax: +31 20 525 5206 borjomi at wins.uva.nl ABOUT GEORGIA/BORJOMI Web sites: www.parliament.ge www.parliament.ge/~nino/borjomi/borjomi.html avkl.narod.ru/gallery/georgia/english.html www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gg.html www.grida.no/enrin/htmls/georgia/soegeor/english/biodiv/reserves/borjomi.htm www.sakartvelo.com dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Georgia/ Travel guide: "Georgia; The Bradt Travel Guide" by Tim Burford (published by Bradt in 1999); ISBN I 898323 98 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ Corpus Linguistics 2001 Workshop Announcement Lancaster University 29 March 2001 Title: XML Markup Technologies for Working with Linguistic Data Time: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. 29 March 2001 (half day) Organisers: Jean Carletta and Henry Thompson, The Language Technology Group of the University of Edinburgh and W3C For details, please see http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~jeanc/corpus-linguistics -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop ARABIC Language Processing: Status and Prospects Toulouse, France, Friday 6 July 2001 Co-organized by: ELSNET NAPLUS WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION: The objective of the workshop is threefold. * First of all we want to bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic language and/or speech processing in a mono- or multilingual context, and give them an opportunity to report on completed and ongoing work as well as on the availability of products and core technologies. This should enable the participants to develop a common view on where we stand with respect to Arabic language processing. * Secondly, we want to identify problems of common interest, and possible mechanisms to move towards solutions, such as sharing of tools and resources, moving towards standards, sharing and dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of current best practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer mechanisms, etc. * Third, we would like to enhance collaboration between the Arabic NLP community and the NLP community at large. The workshop program will include the following components: * Introduction * Overview talks * Scientific papers * Short presentations of projects, core technologies and products * A panel session and/or a round table discussion * Conclusions SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: Papers are solicited that address all aspects of Arabic language processing in a mono- or multilingual context, including tools, resources and standards. Papers will have to be original and report on completed research. Submissions of scientific papers should not exceed eight (8) pages. Please provide a list of keywords in the separate header page. Further submission details below. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SHORT PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS, CORE TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS: Short presentations serve to give the audience an impression of ongoing activities and projects, and of existing core technologies and products, with a view to possible collaboration and synergies (i.e. NO commercial product presentations). Submissions of short presentations should not exceed two (2) pages. Short presentations will be reviewed on the basis of relevance and clarity of presentation. REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Submissions should not exceed the length indicated above, including references. You can download the appropriate style or template files using the following link: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. Submission and presentation language is English. In case of problems with the submission format, please contact steven.krauwer at elsnet.org. Submissions should be sent to steven.krauwer at elsnet.org. All submissions will be acknowledged. DEADLINES FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: * Submission deadline: 6th April 2001 * Notification date: 27th April 2001 * Camera-ready papers due: 16th May 2001 * Workshop date: 6th July 2001 CONFIRMED CORE PROGRAMME/ORGANISATION COMMITTEE: * Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan (Co-chair, myaseen at cbj.gov.jo) * Joseph Dichy, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2, France (Co-chair, dichy at univ-lyon2.fr) * Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University / ELSNET, The Netherlands (Contact person, steven.krauwer at elsnet.org) * Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia (adn at gnet.tn) * Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia (ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn) * Humoud Al-Sadoun, Ministry of Education, Kuwait (hbh at moe.edu.kw) * Jean Senellart, SYSTRAN, France (senellart at systran.fr) * Nadia Hegazy, ERI, Egypt (nhegazy at idsc.gov.eg) * Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France (choukri at elda.fr) * Malek Boualem, FTRD/DMI/LAN, France (malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr) * Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, (e.ditters at let.kun.nl) WORKSHOP URL: http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-arabic.html CONTACT INFO: Steven Krauwer email: steven.krauwer at elsnet.org ELSNET / UiL OTS www: http://www.elsnet.org Trans 10 phone: +31 30 253 6050 3512 JK Utrecht, NL fax: +31 30 253 6000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4/ WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ACL'2001 Conference Toulouse, France July 6-7, 2001 Human language technologies promise solutions to challenges in human computer interaction, information access, and knowledge management. Advances in technology areas such as indexing, retrieval, transcription, extraction, translation, and summarization offer new capabilities for learning, playing and conducting business. This includes enhanced awareness, creation and dissemination of enterprise expertise and know-how. This workshop aims to bring together the community of computational linguists working in a range of areas (e.g., speech and language processing, translation, summarization, multimedia presentation, content extraction, dialog tracking) both to report advances in human language technology, their application to knowledge management and to establish a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade. The road map will comprise an analysis of the present situation, a vision of where we want to be in ten years from now, and a number of inter-mediate milestones that would help in setting intermediate goals and in measuring our progress towards our goals. The workshop will be structured into two days, the first which will address new research in human language tech-nology for knowledge management that addresses problems including but not limited to: * Expert Discovery: Modeling, cataloguing and tracking of distributed organizations and communities of experts. * Knowledge Discovery: Identification and classification of knowledge from unstructured multimedia data. * Knowledge Sharing: Awareness of and access to enterprise expertise and know-how. Human language technology promises solutions to these challenges through technologies such as: * Automated retrieval, extraction, and enrichment of information and knowledge from multimedia, multilin-gual, and multiparty information sources. * Translingual or crosslingual retrieval, presentation, and sharing of knowledge. * Automated detection and tracking of emerging topics from unstructured multimedia data (e.g., documents, web, video news broadcasts). * Use of knowledge sources to facilitate knowledge mapping and access (e.g., lexicosemantic such as Word-Net, semantic such as geospatial Gazetteers, semistructured such as thesauri, encyclopedia, fact books) * Automated question-answering from heterogeneous source * Intelligent tools that support the automated bibliometrics and document analysis/understanding in support of discovery of distributed experts and communities of expertise * Summarization and presentation generation of knowledge (e.g., knowledge maps, lessons learned). * Modeling of user knowledge, beliefs, plans, (dis)abilities and preferences from queries, created artifacts, and human computer interactions. The second day of the workshop will target the formulation and refinement of a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade. Participants will help formulate grand challenge problems, discuss possible data sets and/or evaluation metrics/methods that could form the basis of more scientific methods, articulate the role of and necessary advances in human language technology to solve these challenges, as well as identify and characterize early innovations and issues (e.g., robustness, scalability, ontology, privacy). PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Dr. Mark Maybury (Chair), The MITRE Corporation, maybury at mitre.org * Niels Ole Bernsen (Co-chair), University of Southern Denmark, nob at nis.sdu.dk * Steven Krauwer, ELSNET, U. Utrecht, steven.krauwer at let.uu.nl * Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, becferi at fiu.edu * Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler-Chrysler Research Ulm, paul.heisterkamp at daimlerchrysler.com * Arjan van Hessen, COMSYS / U. Twente, hessen at cs.utwente.nl * Pierre Isabelle, XEROX Grenoble, pierre.isabelle at xrce.xerox.com * Enrico Motta, The Open University, e.motta at open.ac.uk * Jose Pardo, ELSNET, Univ.Politecnica Madrid, pardo at die.upm.es * Oliviero Stock, IRST Trento, stock at itc.it * Henry Thompson HCRC LTG, University of Edinburgh, ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk * Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, uszkoreit at dfki.de * Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk * Rick Wojcik, Boeing Phantom Works, richard.h.wojcik at boeing.com * Antonio Zampolli, ELSNET, U. Pisa, pisa at ilc.pi.cnr.it TARGET AUDIENCE The target audience of the workshop includes active researchers, developers, appliers/entrepreneurs and funders of human language technology in general as well as how it is applied to knowledge management applications. While we project a high degree of interest in this topic, we intend to restrict attendance based upon the quality of paper submissions to foster high quality interchange and progress. SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS Both papers and demonstration submissions are encouraged, either on HLT in general or its application to KM systems. Papers targeted at the first day on HLT for KM should clearly articulate the knowledge management problem addressed, the technical approach to solving that, the novelty of the approach, its relation to previous work, the evaluation or performance of the system or method, and discussion of limitations. Papers targeted at the second day of on human language technology direction should be authored so they could be integrated into a more general HLT roadmap and so should include a definition of the HLT area addressed (e.g., information ex-traction, translation, speech recognition), a statement of the grand challenges or problems in the subfield, an ar-ticulation/analysis of the current state of the art, a vision of where the community wants to be in ten years from now, a set of intermediate milestones that would help to set intermediate goals and measure/evaluate progress toward these goals. Submissions must be in English, no more than 8 pages long, and in the two-column format prescribed by ACL'2001. Please see http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ for the detailed guidelines. Submissions should be sent elec-tronically in Word (preferably) or PDF or ASCII text format to arrive no later than April 2, 2001 to Paula MacDonald (pmmmac at mitre.org). As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send a brief email indicating their intention to participate to include their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submission. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance, innovation, quality, and presentation according to the schedule below. SCHEDULE + Submission Deadline: 2 April 2001 + Notification : 30 April 2001 + Camera Ready Papers Due: 16 May 2001 WORKSHOP DATE July 6 and 7, 2001 WORKSHOP URL http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-hlt+km.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop 8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION 6-7 July 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Natural language generation (NLG) constitutes the production of meaningful texts in natural languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the automated production of language is associated with a large number of highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include content selection, text organization, the production of referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well as coordination with other media. This workshop is part of a bi-annual series of workshops about natural language generation that runs since 1987. Previous European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse. The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. The workshop will focus on the following topics: * Search methods for NLG (in content planning and realization) There seems to be a substantial discrepancy between application-oriented systems and principled approaches to NLG. Accomodating a standard pipeline architecture with suitable heuristic preferences to the intended functionality of a system stands in contrast to several principled approaches to searching which have been tried out so far. These include blackboard architectures, constraint propagation and, more recently genetic algorithms and statistical techniques. A comparison of these methods in terms of their potential and limitations is likely to improve understanding about this issue. Gained insights could prove fruitful for building applications in a more general and, thus, better reusable way, especially in large-scale applications such as summarization and machine translation. * Differences in information organization between source and presentation specifications (and methods to bridge between these) Whether the generation task is to verbally express contents of some knowledge base or to produce multi-lingual presentations from language-neutral or similar representations, there are strong similarities in building the target representations: In the overwhelming number of cases, the ordering and embedding of elements in the source representation is reflected by the ordering and embedding of their corresponding realizations at the surface. Often, this reflection is systematic, many times even simple. But a few cases prove complex and involve a major restructuring of the surface structure when compared to the source structure. A major emphasis of this topic is on collecting such complex cases, identifying commonalities between them and discussing restructuring techniques. Accepted papers on these topics will be scheduled for presentation. The majority of the time will be devoted to discussions, either in sequence or in parallel, depending on the number of participants. We are considering organizing a panel. For the focus topics above, we will contact a number of competent researchers to address the topic from a specific perspective according to their experience. In addition, we will ask some of them to prepare material / concrete examples for discussions. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Helmut Horacek Univ. of the Saarland Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Leo Wanner Univ. of Stuttgart PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman Univ. of Bremen Dan Cristea Univ. of Iasi Robert Dale Macquarie University Laurence Danlos Universite Paris 7 Marc Dymetman Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion Univ. Kristiina Jokinen Univ. of Art and Design Helsinki Richard Kittredge Univ. of Montreal & CoGenTex Daniel Marcu ISI, Univ. of Southern California Chris Mellish Univ. of Edinburgh Sergei Nirenburg CRL, New Mexico Owen Rambow AT&T Research Ehud Reiter Univ. of Aberdeen Manfred Stede Technical University of Berlin Michael Zock LIMSI, CNRS SUBMISSIONS Papers describing original work in the area of NLG in particular related to the workshop focus topics above should be submitted electronically. Papers should be 6-8 pages long in PDF format. We recommend a A4, two-column format like the ACL proceedings: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ We also invite poster submissions (free format, up to 6 page, PDF). The submissions should be associated with a cover email containing the following information (ASCII text): # TITLE: # AUTHORS: <list of authors> # EMAIL: <email of author(s) for correspondence> # KEYWORDS: <keywords, topic sub-areas, ...> # ABSTRACT: <abstract of the paper> Send your submission to Leo Wanner <wannerlo at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions *** 6 April 2001 *** Notification of acceptance 27 April 2001 Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001 Registration deadline as ACL Workshop dates 6-7 July 2001 REGISTRATION The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage. The registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL site and indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop. People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate, work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for discussions about one of the topics. This informationn will help with the organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly interactive character of the workshop. Notifications of attendance should be sent to Helmut Horacek <horacek at cs.uni-sb.de>. MORE INFORMATION Check the following web site for updates about the NLG workshop: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 6 17:43:46 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:43:46 +0100 Subject: Conf: 3 conferences Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2001.184346.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/ 2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing *** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EMNLP 2001 *** (includes submission instructions; note notification deadline) 2/ ***********PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION******************* Language Technologies 2001: Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3/ * THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS * third workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EMNLP 2001 *** (includes submission instructions; note notification deadline) 2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Sponsored by SIGDAT and the Intelligent Information Systems Institute (IISI). SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2001. The conference will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA on June 3 and 4, immediately preceding the meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL). We are interested in papers from academia, government, and industry on all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned fields, including but not limited to: * information extraction * information retrieval * language and dialog modeling * lexical acquisition * machine translation * multilingual technologies * question answering * statistical parsing * summarization * tagging * term and named-entity extraction * word sense disambiguation * word, term, and text segmentation Also, to encourage reflection on the current state of the art in corpus-based methods, the conference will have the following theme: "What Works and What Doesn't: Successes and Challenges" Successes --- We solicit papers showing the success of empirical methods in and across application settings. Examples include improvements in information retrieval performance due to employing language modeling techniques; effective use of statistical word segmentation algorithms in machine translation systems; and increased speech recognition accuracy through the incorporation of statistical parsing. Challenges --- It is clear that empirical and corpus-based methods have enjoyed many successes over the past years; but in looking to future accomplishments, the community needs to be aware of the limitations of various techniques and paradigms. We welcome papers that carefully expose and study such limitations. Examples include the identification and exploration of: classes of domains or problems in which popular techniques perform poorly; significant gaps between human and machine performance on tasks where statistical approaches have made great progress; and important practical situations where common assumptions fail to hold. *** We emphasize that we seek submissions that thoughtfully document fundamental limitations, rather than simply report on unsuccessful experiments. *** It is desired that such papers contain thorough examination, via careful experimentation, of the critical factors contributing to the "negative" result. SUBMISSIONS: Requirements: Submissions must describe original, completed, unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when appropriate. Papers being submitted to other meetings must provide this information (see submission format); in the event of multiple acceptances, authors are requested to immediately notify the EMNLP program chair (llee at cs.cornell.edu) and choose which meeting to present and publish the work at as soon as possible --- EMNLP cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Submission Format: Submissions must be hardcopy, and consist of full papers of not more than 3200 words (exclusive of references). Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style files or MSWord equivalents available from the EMNLP website -- these formats will ease the transition to the proceedings version. Reviewing will be blind. No information identifying the authors should be in the paper: this includes not only the authors' names and affilations, but also self-references that reveal authors' identities; for example, "We have previously shown (Smith 1999)" should be changed to "Smith (1999) has previously shown". A separate identification page is required: see below. Submission procedure: First, an electronic notice of intent to submit is required. Please email llee at cs.cornell.edu (subject line EMNLP 2001 ITS) by March 9 with the following information: Paper title Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses Contact author A short list of keywords A short (no more than 5 lines) summary of the contents Whether or not the paper is under consideration for other conferences (please specify) Then, six hardcopies of the paper together with a single separate page listing *all* the information from the notice of intent to submit (i.e., title, authors, contact author, keywords, summary, and multiple-submission information -- a printout of the notice of intent to submit suffices) must be received by March 13 at the following address: EMNLP 2001 Submissions Lillian Lee 4130 Upson Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-7501 USA The EMNLP committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mail problems. Papers will not be accepted electronically, and submissions that do not conform to the guidelines above are subject to rejection without review. IMPORTANT DATES: Notification deadline: March 9, 2001 Submission deadline: March 13, 2001 Acceptance notification: April 13, 2001 Camera-ready copy due: May 3, 2001 Conference: June 3-4, 2001 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Lillian Lee (chair), Cornell University, llee at cs.cornell.edu Donna Harman (co-chair), NIST, donna.harman at nist.gov CONFERENCE URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ ***********PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION******************* Language Technologies 2001: Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics June 2-7, 2001 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA ***********PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION******************* The second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, June 2-7, 2001. We have a diverse selection of tutorials, workshops, talks, and exhibits, not to mention a fun opening picnic and a banquet in the grand and elegant Carnegie Museum of Natural History. We will be joined by EMNLP (June 3 and 4) and the Workshop on Language Modelling and Information Retrieval (May 31-June 1). The conference also features CD ROM proceedings, wireless internet access throughout the CMU campus (please register your WaveLAN device in advance), email room, and ethernet connections for laptops. While you are in Pittsburgh, don't miss the Three Rivers Arts Festival (June 1-17) featuring visual arts, artists market, and over 100 free performances. WEB SITE: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html REGISTRATION DATES: Early registration (on line or by mail): March 15-April 30 Late registration (on line or by mail): May 1-26 On site registration: June 2-7 REGISTRATION FEES: Regular ACL member $250 (early) $300 (late, on location) Regular Non-ACL member $310 (early) $370 (late) - includes ACL memb dues Student ACL member $100 (early) $125 (late) Student Non-ACL member $130 (early) $155 (late) - includes ACL memb dues Workshops (each, 1 day) $50 (early) $75 (late) EMNLP (2 days) $100 (early) $150 (late) Tutorials (each, 1/2 day) $100 (early) $125 (late) student $75 (early) $100 (late) Banquet tickets $65 (regular) $40 (student) ***************** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ************************ TUTORIALS, June 2 Morning: "How May I Help You?": Automated Customer Service via Natural Spoken Dialog. Alicia Abella, Allen Gorin, Guiseppe Riccardi, Tirso Alonso, Jerry Wright, AT&T Shannon Laboratory Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: What's Happened Since the First SIGDAT Meeting? Kenneth Ward Church, AT&T Labs-Research Afternoon Building Synthetic Voices. Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo, Carnegie Mellon University Open-Domain Textual Question Answering. Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University WORKSHOPS, June 3 and 4 Please see the web site (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html) for individual submission deadlines. Sunday, June 3 Automatic Summarization, Jade Goldstein and Chin-Yew Lin, co-chairs Workshop on MT Evaluation: Hands-On Evaluation Eduard Hovy and Florence Reeder, co-chairs WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 1) Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and Yorick Wilks, co-chairs Monday, June 4 Student Research Workshop Krzysztof Czuba and Lisa Michaud, co-chairs Adaptation in Dialogue Systems, Cindi Thompson, Tim Paek, and Eric Horvitz, co-chairs WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 2) Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and Yorick Wilks, co-chairs EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, June 3 and 4 Deadline for submissions, March 13 DEMOS, June 5-7 Deadline for submissions, March 2 INDUSTRY EXHIBITS, June 6 A highlight of this year's conference will be the prominent role given to industrial sponsors and exhibitors, aimed at attracting the latest commercial trends in language technology. A number of companies have already signed up to participate: EXHIBITORS (to date): Transclick Nuance Multicorpora R&D Inc. Trados Corporation SPONSORS (to date): GOLD: LingoMotors SILVER: IISI BRONZE: Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs Nuance SRA, International TRADOS AT&T Pending and new exhibitors and sponsors, please contact Lynn Carlson (lmcarls at super.org) or Kurt Godden (kgodden at justtalk.com). LIST OF MAIN SESSION PAPERS, June 5-7 Invited Speakers: Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University Other invited speakers to be announced. Natural Language Generation Instance-Based Natural Language Generation (Sebastian Varges, Chris Mellish) Corpus-based NP Modifier Generation (Hua Cheng, Massimo Poesio, Renate Henschel, Chris Mellish) A Trainable Sentence Planner (Marilyn A. Walker, Owen C. Rambow, Monica Rogati) Information Retrieval and Machine Learning Why Inverse Document Frequency? (Kishore Papineni) Question Answering Using Maximum-Entropy Components (Abraham Ittycheriah, Martin Franz, Wei-Jing Zhu, Adwait Ratnaparkhi) Transformation Based Learning in the Fast Lane (Grace Ngai, Radu Florian) Dialog Identifying User Corrections Automatically in Spoken Dialogue Systems (Julia Hirschberg, Diane Litman, Marc Swerts) Learning Optimal Dialogue Management Rules by Using Reinforcement Learning and Inductive Logic Programming (Renaud Lecoeuche) Word Meaning A Corpus-based Account of Regular Polysemy: The Case of Context-Sensitive Adjectives (Maria Lapata) Tree-Cut and a Lexicon Based on Systematic Polysemy (Noriko Tomuro) A Decision Tree of Bigrams is an Accurate Predictor of Word Sense (Ted Pedersen) Semantics An Algorithm for Aspects of Semantic Interpretation Using an Enhanced WordNet (Fernando Gomez) Class-Based Probability Estimation Using a Semantic Hierarchy (Stephen Clark, David Weir) Identifying Cognates by Phonetic and Semantic Similarity (Grzegorz Kondrak) Speech Synthesis and Recognition Re-engineering Letter-to-Sound Rules (Martin Jansche) Edit Detection and Parsing for Transcribed Speech (Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson) Generating Training Data for Medical Dictations (Sergey Pakhomov, Michael Schonwetter, Joan Bachenko) Machine Translation A Finite-State Approach to Machine Translation (Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Riccardi) Information-Based Machine Translation (Keiko Horiguchi) Multipath Translation Lexicon Induction (Gideon S. Mann and David Yarowsky) Parsing A Probabilistic Earley Parser as a Psycholinguistic Model (John Hale) Refining Tabular Parsers for TAGs (Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie) Applying Co-Training Methods to Statistical Parsing (Anoop Sarkar) Refining Tabular Parsers for TAGs (Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie) Language Modeling A Structured Language Model Based on Context-Sensitive Probabilistic Left-Corner Parsing (Dong Hoon Van Uytsel, Dirk Van Compernolle, Filip Van Aelten) Do CFG-Based Language Models Need Agreement Constraints? (Manny Rayner, Genevieve Gorrell, Beth Ann Hockey, John Dowding, Johan Boye) Naive Bayes Detection of Non-Native Utterances (Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Rosie Jones) Names and Coreference Unsupervised Learning of Name Structure From Coreference Data (Eugene Charniak) Text and Knowledge Mining for Coreference Resolution (Sanda Harabagiu, Razvan Bunescu, Steve Maiorano) Chunking and Morphology Knowledge-Free Induction of Inflectional Morphologies (Patrick Schone, Daniel Jurafsky) Chunking with Support Vector Machines (Taku Kudo, Yuji Matsumoto) Inducing Multilingual POS Taggers and NP Bracketers via Robust Projection Across Aligned Corpora (David Yarowsky, Grace Ngai) ****************************************** CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS General Chair, Lori Levin Program, Kevin Knight Local Arrangements, Alon Lavie Tutorials, Dekang Lin Workshops, Lillian Lee Student Workshop, Lisa Michaud and Krzysztof Czuba Student Workshop Advisor, Deborah Dahl Demos, Ronnie Smith Exhibits, Lynn Carlson Sponsorships, Kurt Godden Publicity, Ralf Brown Web Master, Bob Frederking SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eric Brill Ann Copestake Marti Hearst Aravind Joshi Andrew Kehler Elliot Macklovitch Fernando Pereira Owen Rambow Elizabeth Shriberg Ralph Weischedel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ * THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS * third workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-3 Siena, Italy, June 18-20, 2001 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kohlhase/event/icos3/ (Submission deadline: March 15, 2001) ABOUT ICoS ---------- Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely and easily available. A wide variety of new tools (statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics. Most importantly of all, computational semantics seems to have reached the stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its most pressing tasks - and there's a lot of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously. The Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS) intends to bring researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic together, in order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural language semantics. ICoS-1 took place in Amsterdam on August 15, 1999 with an attendance of over 50 researchers. A selection of the papers presented at ICoS-1 has been published in a special issue of the Journal of Language and Computation. ICoS-2 took place in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, on July 29-30, 2000. Although the attendance was only 30, it was an intense and communicative meeting. A selection of the papers presented at ICoS-2 will be published in the Journal of Language and Computation. ICoS-3 will be co-located with the the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2001, which takes place June 18-23, 2001 at Siena, Italy. IJCAR is a joint meeting of all major conferences on automated theorem proving (CADE, FTP, TABLEAUX), and is therefore a good chance to meet the theorem proving community. ICoS-3 is endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics. DATES ----- People who would like to submit a paper, system descriptions or who would like to attend the workshop should consider the following dates: Submission Deadline: March 15, 2001. Notification: April 15, 2001. Final Versions: May 15. 2001. Early Registration until: June 1., 2001. ICoS-3 Tutorials June 18, 2001. ICoS-3 Workshop: June 19-20, 2001. IJCAR: June 18-23, 2001 INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- The invited speakers at ICoS-3 are: David Israel (SRI International) Alexander Koller (Saarbruecken) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester) Tutorials --------- We will start off the workshop with two tutorials on June 18. This gives the researchers from automated reasoning and computational semantics respectively to get an understanding of the other field before the actual workshop. The tutorials will given by Claire Gardent (CNRS, Nancy): Computational Semantics for automated reasoners Uli Furbach (Univ. Koblenz): Automated Reasoning for computational semanticists PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- The program committee for ICoS-3 consists of the following people: Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine (co-chair) Michael Kohlhase, Carnegie-Mellon University (co-chair) Johan Bos, Edinburgh Peter Baumgartner, Koblenz David Beaver, Stanford Dick Crouch, Xerox Parc Maarten de Rijke, Amsterdam Nissim Francez, Haifa Udo Hahn, Freiburg Gerard Huet, INRIA Rocquencourt Dale Miller, State College Martha Palmer, UPenn Stephen Pulman, Oxford Matthew Stone, Rutgers Univ Jun-ichi Tsuji, Tokyo Bonnie Webber, Edinburgh SUBMISSIONS ----------- We invite three kinds of submissions (LaTeX2e, 11pt, one column, a4paper (not a4wide.sty)): - research papers on inference methods in computational semantics as well as their applications (15 pages), - system descriptions (6 pages), System descriptions should focus on actual implementations, explaining system architecture issues and specific implementation techniques. Every system description should be accompanied by a system demo at ICoS-3. - system demos (2 page abstracts): People who would like demonstrate systems that address inference in computational semantics should send two-page abstracts. Research papers and system descriptions will be peer-refereed by the programme committee above, system demos are only screened for appropriateness by the program chairs. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15, 2001. NOTIFICATION: April 15, 2001. The primary means of submission will be electronic, in PostScript format. Submissions should be sent to the organizers.icos3 at ags.uni-sb.de In addition to the (informal) workshop proceedings, we plan to publish a special issue of the Journal of Language and Computation devoted to ICoS-3. Shortly after the workshop, authors will be contacted by the editors for special issue, inviting them to contribute; we may ask you to incorporate comments/discussions/... arising during ICoS-3 into your paper. Details on the publication schedule for the special issue as well as formatting instructions will be announced at the workshop. Registration and Further Information If you have any questions, please contact the local organizers at icos3 at ags.uni-sb.de. FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------- If you have any questions, please contact the local organizers Patrick Blackburn and Michael Kohlhase via icos3 at ags.uni-sb.de. For actual information concerning ICoS-3 please consult http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kohlhase/event/icos3/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 6 17:44:18 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:44:18 +0100 Subject: Ecole: 2 ecoles d'ete Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2001.184418.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/ The Interactivist Summer Institute 2001 July 23-27, 2001 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA 2/ 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ The Interactivist Summer Institute 2001 July 23-27, 2001 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA GENERAL INFORMATION (This Call for Participation, along with related information, can also be viewed at http://www.lehigh.edu/~interact/isi2001.html). It's happening: research threads in multiple fields scattered across the mind-sciences seem to be converging towards a point where the classical treatment of representation within the encodingist framework is felt as an impasse. A rethinking of the methods, concepts, arguments, facts, etc. is needed and, so it seems, is being found in the interactivist approach. From research in human cognition, motivation, and development, through consciousness, sociality, and language, to artificial intelligence, post-behaviorist cognitive robotics, and interface design, we are witnessing the appearance of projects where the assumptions of interactivism are embraced. More often then not, this is in an implicit manner, so that at a superficial level those projects (the problems they deal with, the methods they use) seem to be incommensurable. However, underneath, one can feel their interactivist gist. The time is right (and ripe) we felt, to articulate this "irrational" (in Feyerabendian sense) pressure for change at a programmatic level, and this is what we want to accomplish with the present workshop. The workshop will be preceded by a Summer School in Interactivism featuring several tutorials which are meant to provide the needed theoretical background, based mainly on Mark Bickhard and his collaborators' work. The intention is for this Institute to become a traditional annual meeting where those sharing the core ideas of interactivism will meet and discuss their work, try to reconstruct its historical roots, put forward current research in different fields that fits the interactivist framework, and define research topics for prospective graduate students. People working in philosophy of mind, linguistics, social sciences, artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, and other fields related to the sciences of mind are invited to send their statement of interest for participation to the organizers (see details below). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mark Bickhard <mhb0 at lehigh.edu> John C. Christopher <jcc at montana.edu> Wayne Christensen <plwdc at alinga.newcastle.edu.au> Robert Campbell <campber at clemson.edu> Georgi Stojanov <geos at cerera.etf.ukim.edu.mk> Goran Trajkovski <gtrajkovski at alpha.wvup.wvnet.edu> MAJOR THEMES * Foundations of Interactivism * Naturalism * Emergence * Process metaphysics * Cognition and Representation * Representation emergent in action systems * Dissolution of problems of skepticism, error, Chinese room, etc. * Concepts * Memory * Learning * Heuristic learning * Metaphor * Rationality and negative knowledge * Agents * Interaction * Motivation * Emotions * Autonomous agents * Persons * Development * Consciousness * Sociality * Language * Ethics * Social processes and realities ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC CO-SPONSORS Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA Institute for Interactive Studies Cognitive Science Program Humanities Research Center SS Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia West Virginia University at Parkersburg CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Participation will be limited to 30 people and by invitation only; People wishing to participate should submit a short curriculum vitae and a statement of interest to Interactivist Summer Institute. Please include e-mail address and/or fax number, if available. Applications should be received by March 15, 2001. Notification of acceptance will be provided by April 15, 2001. The meeting will take place in the conference room The Governor's Suite, Iaccoca Hall (tentative). A small number of scholarships for partial financial support will be provided by the organizers for graduate students or postdocs. CALL FOR PAPERS If you are interested in the issues mentioned above and wish to share your thoughts and research results with like-minded people, please submit an extended abstract or full paper via email with attached files (in ASCII, RTF, or Word) to: Interactivist Summer Institute (interact at lehigh.edu) Abstracts and papers should be sent taking into account the following format: 1. Major theme of the paper, related to the major themes given above. 2. Paper title. 3. Extended abstract of 500 to 1500 words and/or paper drafts of 2000 to 5000 words, in English. 4. Author or co-authors with names, addresses, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. All abstracts will be refereed by an independent panel of experts. The judgments of the referees will determine the list of papers to be presented at the conference. DEADLINES Applications: March 15 Submission of papers: March 15 Notification date: April 15 Receipt of registration fee: May 1 On campus housing reservation (see below): June 30 Off campus housing reservation (see below): June 22 CONFERENCE FEES Standard registration fee: $150 Student registration fee: $100 Checks should be made out to: Interactivist Summer Institute. Mail to: Mark H. Bickhard Interactivist Summer Institute 17 Memorial Drive East Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA For wire transfers: Wire address: First Union National Bank Funds Transfer Department Attention: NC0803 1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28288-0803 ABA # 031201467 Account # 2100012444293 Account Name: Lehigh University For international wires, these additional identification numbers are required: CHIPS Participant #0509 Swift TID #PNBPUS33 You must include your name and identify that the transfer is for the Interactivist Summer Institute. HOUSING Housing is available both on campus and off campus. Off campus housing is with Comfort Suites, and is within easy walking distance of the main Lehigh campus. The rates are $80/night for a single and $85/night for a double. Please contact: Comfort Suites 120 W 3rd Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA 610-882-9700 On campus housing is available both air-conditioned (Trembly Park) and not air-conditioned (Gamma Phi Beta). For on campus housing, please fill out and return the Interactivist Summer Institute housing form. This can be obtained from the Web site as a PDF file or a Word file. TRAVEL The easiest way to get to Bethlehem is to fly into Lehigh Valley International Airport (known as ABE, from Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton - LVI is already taken by Las Vegas International Airport). There are direct flights from Chicago, for example, for those coming from the west, and also flights from the South (e.g., Atlanta). Flying into New York, particularly Newark Airport, also works well. There are buses to Bethlehem from Newark Airport and from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan. So, from Kennedy or LaGuardia, you first go the Port Authority, and then get a bus to Bethlehem. The bus company is: Trans Bridge Lines 2012 Industrial Drive Bethlehem 610-868-6001 800-962-9135 The Industrial Drive terminal is the main bus terminal, and taxis are available to the Lehigh campus. Lehigh Valley Taxi: 610-867-6000 Quick Service Taxi: 610-434-8132 Airport Taxi Service: 610-231-2000 There is also a South Bethlehem terminal that is within walking distance of Comfort Suites and of campus (though it would a little long with luggage), but fewer buses make that stop. Philadelphia airport is closer than Newark airport, but getting to Bethlehem from there is harder than from Newark. You get to the Philadelphia bus station (probably by taxi, though there is a train to downtown Philadelphia), and then take a bus (Bieber Tours) to Bethlehem: it's roughly the equivalent in complication of coming through Kennedy airport -- Robert L. Campbell Professor, Psychology Brackett Hall 410A Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-1355 USA phone (864) 656-4986 fax (864) 656-0358 http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/ - If you want to receive detailed information including the ESSLLI 2001 poster please send us (esslli at helsinki.fi) your complete address. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CALL FOR REGISTRATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2001 University of Helsinki FINLAND August 13-24, 2001 http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli ** Early registration deadline: 30 April 2001 ** GENERAL INFORMATION The 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'01) will take place at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, during two weeks in August, from August 13 until 24. The ESSLLI Summer Schools are organised under the auspices of FoLLI (http://www.folli.uva.nl), the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. The main focus of the European Summer Schools is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses, workshops and special events cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: * Logic * Language * Computation * Logic and Language * Logic and Computation * Language and Computation The number of courses offered is over 50. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students, researchers and IT professionals interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. In addition to courses, workshops and evening lectures there will be a Student Session and a social program. COURSE PROGRAM The full scientific program can be found at our home page. Evening Lectures are given by * Edward L. Keenan "Spinoza Lecture" (UCLA) * Yannis Moschovakis "Vienna Circle Lecture" (UCLA) * Keith Devlin (Saint Mary's College, California) * Jaakko Hintikka (Boston & Helsinki) * Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh) WORKSHOPS There are currently several Calls for Workshop Papers. Please visit our home page for detailed information. TRAVEL AND LOCAL INFORMATION By plane to Helsinki airport and then a 30-minute nonstop coach or taxi service to the main railway station. From the railway station 5-minute walk to the university. A gateway between East and West, the city of Helsinki (population 1M) is the capital of Finland and one of the nine European Cities of Culture for the millennium. It is located at the warm and sunny south coast of Finland, within an easy reach from the main airports worldwide, or inside Europe by car or regular train services, or using the ferry services operating within the Baltic region. The scientific program of ESSLLI'01 will be held in the University Main Building, located on the University city campus at the very centre of Helsinki. The accommodation will be arranged at the University Summer Hotel close to the city campus. The accommodation includes sauna and breakfast. REGISTRATION ESSLLI 2001 is now open for registration. The registration fee for students is just ECU 190, for scholars ECU 350, and for industrial affiliates ECU 600. Please visit our home page for the on-line registration form and detailed instructions. ** Early registration deadline: 30 April 2001 ** All participants will get a letter of invitation to facilitate the procedure of getting a visa. GRANTS There will be a limited number of grants available, to partially support travel, registration and accommodation for ESSLLI'01. Instructions for grant applications are found at our home page. ** Deadline for grant applications: 31 May 2001 ** SPEACIAL EVENTS During ESSLLI, special "Finnish for Foreigners" language courses will be organised, as well as various excursions and other social events. Helsinki Summer School (http://summerschool.helsinki.fi) will offer special deals for ESSLLI participants who want to choose some of their courses and earn credits. SATELLITE EVENTS The Association for the Mathematics of Language will stage its annual meeting (MoL7) in conjunction with ESSLLI'01 in Helsinki, in the weekend preceding ESSLLI in August 10-12, and the affiliated Formal Grammar Conference will be held in conjunction with the Mathematics of Language Conference. ESSLLI participants are entitled to reduced registration fees. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marcus Kracht (Chair) <kracht at math.fu-berlin.de> Jouko Väänänen (Logic) Bonnie Webber (Language) Claude Kirchner (Computation) Michael Moortgat (Logic and Language) Steffen Hölldobler (Computation and Logic) Claire Gardent (Language and Computation) CONTACT ADDRESSES Please visit ESSLLI'01 Home Page http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli for updated information concerning the scientific program, registration fees and procedures, grants, accommodation, satellite events, and other practical information. For further enquiries concerning ESSLLI'01, please contact the Organising Committee at <esslli at helsinki.fi>, or write to ESSLLI 2001 Secretariat C/o Department of Philosophy P.O. Box 24 00014 Helsinki University Finland ESSLLI'01 is organised by the Department of Philosophy (coordinator), the Department of Mathematics, the Department of General Linguistics, and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Gabriel Sandu (Chair, Philosophy) Jouko Väänänen (Mathematics) Fred Karlsson (General Linguistics) Ilkka Niiniluoto (Philosophy) Martti Tienari (Computer Science) Ahti Pietarinen (Philosophy, secretariat) <esslli at helsinki.fi> ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 9 18:45:48 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:45:48 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 3 offres Message-ID: <FRI.9.MAR.2001.194548.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/LexiQuest - English grammar manager 2/INRIA - 6 Junior Researcher Positions 3/WHITE ROSE PhD STUDENTSHIP AT UNIVERSITIES OF LEEDS AND SHEFFIELD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ LexiQuest an NLP company founded in 1977 ( http://www.lexiquest.com ), is currently seeking to fill the position of its English grammar manager. The candidates should have a good knowledge of computational linguistics and preference will be given to native English speakers. Programming skills (preferably an experience with Java) are an advantage. The work consists in "house-keeping" and enriching the different grammatical resources (morphology, syntax, terminology extraction, named entities identification, etc ...) used by our products. We are are planning short and longer term evolutions in the theoretical approcahes and formalisms currently used. This position offers the interesting possibilities of combining the knowledge of linguitic theories in confrontation with real language in an industrial environment. The work location is Montreuil (a suburb adjacent to the city of Paris, France). If interested please send any questions and/or a resume to Antoine Ogonowski <Antoine.Ogonowski at lexiquest.fr> LEXIQUEST 261 rue de Paris 93556 Montreuil Cedex FRANCE tel: 33-(0)1-49-93-39-00 fax: 33-(0)1-49-93-39-39 <http://www.lexiquest.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ INRIA is an internationally recognized research institute in Computer Science and Automation, funded by the French government. It seeks outstanding candidates who have completed a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Signal and Image Processing, or Applied Mathematics. 6 Junior Researcher Positions are now open (deadline for submitting application forms: March 20, 2001, 4:00 pm in research units, or by registered mail, postmarked by midnight March 20, 2001) to French as well as foreign applicants, at IRISA/INRIA laboratory which is located in Rennes (Brittany, France). Applicants should have a commitment to research and have some expertise in the following areas: - Computational Linguistics, - Lexical Semantics, - Information Extraction, - Information Retrieval, - Machine Learning for NLP Schedule: Official opening of the competitive selection: February 2, 2001 (JO February 6, 2001, in French). Deadline for retrieving application forms: March 19, 2001, 5:00 pm. Deadline for submitting application forms: March 20, 2001, 4:00 pm in research units, or by registered mail, postmarked by midnight March 20, 2001. Publications of the results: end of June 2001. Candidates should add strengths to existing research directions, contribute to the innovation and development of the research projects, disseminate research results in major conferences and journals, and lead technology transfer to R&D industrial partners. Responsabilities also include graduate and undergraduate teaching and supervision of graduate students through thesis and project work. Openings may lead to permanent position after a period of 18 months. Applicants, no older than 31, must supply 7 copies of their application packet (including one copy with original signatures) described at: http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/chercheurs/concourscr2.en.html If you are interested by the job profile, please contact Pascale Sebillot (sebillot at irisa.fr) See http://www.irisa.fr for a complete description of the lab, http://www.irisa.fr/aida/aida-new/Eaida.html for a description of the AÏDA team interested by the job profile, and http://www.rennestelecom.com/index_map.htm where Irisa lab is located. -- Pascale SEBILLOT IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes cedex, France tel: 33 2 99 84 73 17, fax: 33 2 99 84 71 71 email: sebillot at irisa.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ WHITE ROSE PhD STUDENTSHIP AT UNIVERSITIES OF LEEDS AND SHEFFIELD The UK White Rose Initiative offers a 3-year PhD studentship in Natural Language Learning of generic language models from richly annotated dialogue corpus datasets Supervisors: Eric Atwell, School of Computing, University of Leeds eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/ and Prof Yorick Wilks, Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick For more details, see http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/eric/whiterose/ DEADLINE for applications: 31st March 2001 note also: Leeds OPEN DAY for PhD applicants, Thursday 22nd March 2001: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/eric/whiterose/openday.html -- Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor School of Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT TEL: 0113-2335430 MOBILE: 0775-1039104 FAX: 0113-2335468 WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric EMAIL: eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 9 18:46:08 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:46:08 +0100 Subject: Publication: Empirical Methods for Exploiting Parallel Texts Message-ID: <FRI.9.MAR.2001.194608.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> I thought readers of LN List might be interested in this book. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MELEHF00. Empirical Methods for Exploiting Parallel Texts I. Dan Melamed Parallel texts (bitexts) are a goldmine of linguistic knowledge, because the translation of a text into another language can be viewed as a detailed annotation of what that text means. Knowledge about translational equivalence, which can be gleaned from bitexts, is of central importance for applications such as manual and machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, and corpus linguistics. The availability of bitexts has increased dramatically since the advent of the Web, making their study an exciting new area of research in natural language processing. This book lays out the theory and the practical techniques for discovering and applying translational equivalence at the lexical level. It is a start-to-finish guide to designing and evaluating many translingual applications. I. Dan Melamed is a research scientist in the Computer Science Research Department of West Group, Minnesota. 6 x 9, 198pp., 75 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-13380-6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jud Wolfskill 617.253.2079 phone Associate Publicist 617.253.1709 fax MIT Press wolfskil at mit.edu 5 Cambridge Center http://mitpress.mit.edu Fourth Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 9 18:50:57 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:50:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: 4 confrences/workshops Message-ID: <FRI.9.MAR.2001.195057.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/ ACL'2001 Conference - WORKSHOP ON COLLOCATION 2/ 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO THE LEXICON 3/ FORMAL GRAMMAR/MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE CONFERENCE SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 4/ Workshop on 'Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing' SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ WORKSHOP ON COLLOCATION Computational Extraction, Analysis and Exploitation ACL'2001 Conference Toulouse, France July 7th, 2001 We invite papers on topics relating to the theme of collocation and more particularly their computational extraction, analysis and exploitation. This workshop follows the French ATALA workshop on collocation which took place in Paris, France on January 2001 and seeks to go forward so as to explore the wider perspective of computational linguistics. The term "collocation" was introduced in the nineteen thirties by J. R. Firth, founder member of the British Contextualist school, to characterise certain linguistic phenomena of cooccurrence that stem principally from the linguistic competence of native speakers (Firth 1957). By its very nature collocation remains a relatively fuzzy concept, the consequence of which being that traditional grammarians and semanticists have tended to ignore it, the exception being some lexical semanticists as Cruse (1986). The study of collocation is above all a practical one aimed at assisting language learners and translators in their tasks. Essentially idiomatic in nature, collocation defies rigid formalisation which explains the existence of different schools of thought between those seeking a descriptive contextualised view of linguistic phenomena and those who seeks formalised applications for translation, lexicography or computational purposes. This has led to a variety of approaches based around a general core meaning for the phenomenon. For several years, NLP has been concerned with collocation largely through the following fields: Formalisation through specialised formalisms for different NLP tasks: dictionary formalism such as lexical function; HPSG, LFG, TAG, ... formalisms for analysis or generation. Extraction from monolingual or bilingual texts or dictionairies using either raw statistics or statistics combined with linguistic information such as part-of-speech or grammar dependancy. Exploitation through specific NLP systems dedicated to second language learning or translation, or for such NLP tasks as information retrieval or thematic structuration. This workshop aims to guage the extend to which the role of collocation as a phenomenon in applied linguistics is now being taken into account in formal linguistics and NLP and addresses the following topics (not limitative): Formal description of collocation through existing or dedicated specialised formalisms New methods adopted for the identification of collocations. This would include statistics and also more linguistic oriented methods. NLP systems dedicated to collocation. Exploitation of collocations for other NLP tasks through monolingual or multilingual environments. This workshop addresses researchers in all fields of theoretical and applied computational linguistics and most particularly those working in automatic and assisted machine translation, dictionnary building and computationally assisted language teaching as well as those concerned with information retrieval and text mining. ORGANIZERS Béatrice Daille IRIN - University of Nantes, France - daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr Geoffrey Williams CRELLIC - University of Bretagne-Sud, France - Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jeremy Clear, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham Pernilla Danielsson, TELRI Chris Gledhill, University of St Andrews Syvain Kahane, LaTTiCe/TALaNa Marie-Claude L'Homme, University of Montreal Julia Pajzs, Hungarian Academy of Science Antoinette Renouf, University of Liverpool Alain Polguère, OLST - University of Montreal Laurent Romary, LORIA Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy - RACAI Jean Véronis, University of Provence Leo Wanner, University of Stuttgart SCHEDULE Workshop paper submissions April 8, 2001 Notification of acceptance April 30, 2001 Deadline for camera-ready papers May 13, 2001 WORKSHOP DATE July 7th, 2001 SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS Submissions must be in English, no more than 8 pages long, and in the two-column format prescribed by ACL'2001. Please see http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ for the detailed guidelines; however, please put the authors' names, rather than a paper id, since reviewing will not be blind. Submissions should be sent electronically in either Word, pdf, or postscript format (only) no later than April 8, 2001 to: Béatrice Daille daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ ============================================================================ GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO THE LEXICON ============================================================================ First call for participation April 26-28 2001 University of Geneva (Switzerland) http://issco-www.unige.ch/gl2001.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPIC The aim of this workshop is to bring together diverse contributions in philosophy, linguistics, computer science and lexicography to explore the lexicon from the point of view of generativity. The discussions will be centered, but are not limited to, the newly emerging view of Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovky, 1995). Topics include: - Philosophical Foundations of a Generative Approach - Representation of Word Meaning - Generative Lexicon Theory - Analysis of Linguistic Phenomena - Building Lexical Resources - Exploiting Lexical Resources in NLP Applications - Lexical Rules - Framework for Lexical Semantics - Critical Perspectives PROGRAM The program will include: - A SPECIAL TALK by James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Boston) - INVITED TALKS by Nicolletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) Ann Copestake (Cambridge University, Cambridge) Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto) Robert D. Van Vallin (University of Buffalo, Buffalo) Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Natural Language Group, Redmond) Piek Vossen (Sail-labs, Antwerpen) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, Sheffield) - 21 oral presentations (long (30 min) and short (20 min)) GL2001 is: - founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (FNRS) and the Communications Research Laboratory (Kyoto) - hosted by University of Geneva, ISSCO/TIM. Organizers: Pierrette Bouillon (ISSCO/TIM, University of Geneva, Geneva) Kyoko Kanzaki (Communications Research Laboratory, Kyoto) The GL2001 program and registration form are now available at: http://issco-www.unige.ch/gl2001.html ============================================================================= GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 ============================================================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ [apologies if you receive this more than once] FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FORMAL GRAMMAR/MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE CONFERENCE August 10--12, 2001 Helsinki, Finland SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the joint meeting of two conferences: the sixth conferene on Formal Grammar and the seventh on the Mathematics of Language. The joint meeting will be held just prior to the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. AIMS and SCOPE FGMOL'01 provides 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 SPECIAL SESSION on MODEL-THEORETIC SYNTAX There will be a special session of invited papers on model-theoretic syntax. The speakers will be Geoffrey K. Pullum (keynote), Patrick Blackburn, James Rogers, and Uwe Moennich. ADDITIONAL INVITED SPEAKERS to be announced. SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including questions, comments, and discussion). A submission should consist of two parts: - an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es) and a title; - an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages (including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI. Abstracts can be sent to fgmol at cs.indiana.edu ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE April 1, 2001 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE May 15, 2001 PROCEEDINGS A full version of each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full papers are due June 30, 2001. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Anne Abeill'e (Paris) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) Gosse Bouma (Groningen) Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc) Nissim Francez (Haifa) Thilo Goetz (IBM) David Johnson (IBM) Mark Johnso (Brown) Aravind Joshi (UPenn) Gerhard J"ager (Utrecht) Ruth Kempson (London) Alain Lecomte (LORIA) Uwe Moennich (T"ubingen) Glyn Morrill (U.P. Catalunya) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Owen Rambo (Cogentex) James Rogers (Earlham) Giorgio Satta (Padova) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) FURTHER INFORMATION Web site for ESSLLI XIII: http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/ Web site for FGMOL'01 :http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol7.html The organizers: Geert-Jan Kruijff gj at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Larry Moss lsm at cs.indiana.edu Dick Oehrle oehrle at linc.cis.upenn.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4/ ** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ** ** Please excuse any duplicate copies of this announcement ** ** you may have received through mailing lists. ** -------------------------------------------------- Workshop on 'Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing' Held as part of EUROLAN'01 Summer School July 30 - August 11 Iasi, Romania http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/ CALL FOR PAPERS The effectiveness of modular programming in designing software has long been acknowledged by the computer science community. However, the computational linguistics community preferred to develop components in isolation, without integrating existing modules into proposed systems. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, integration of different modules is not a trivial task, requiring a lot of time. Usually the major problem is the loss of information caused when the output of one module has to be converted to the input of another. Most research projects do not have the time or resources to concentrate on a real modular architecture, using trade offs (such as manually created inputs) instead. Secondly, most of the work in the research community is directed towards proposing and demonstrating new hypotheses, and not building robust and fully automatic applications. In many cases preprocessing steps, which produce the input data for the tested method, are considered trivial and accurate, and as a result replaced with hand produced data. Therefore, when a researcher needs a certain module for a method, s/he prefers to produce the output of that program manually, either because s/he is not aware of an existing implementation which performs the required task, or because the work involved in setting it up is greater than that involved in manually producing the output (usually because the implementation was developed and tested on a different platform). However, this situation has started to change rapidly. More and more researchers have appreciated the complexity of NLP tasks and the need to use modular programming. A quick look at the systems presented at the latest MUC indicated that they are complex systems which reuse previous research. Systems like GATE have been designed in order to help with the integration of different modules in a system. In addition, the research community is increasingly requiring the development of fully automatic applications. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between researchers involved in the development of automatic NLP systems and leading names in the field. We would like to invite all researchers to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - modular architectures for NLP - black/glass box evaluation measures - research on the influence of substitution and alternate combinations of modules on overall system performance - reusability - integration of resources (including conversion formats between modules) - platforms for developing modular applications - repositories Demos of the presented systems are encouraged. Submission Requirements Papers should describe original work in progress or completed work. The main purpose of presenting at the Workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work. The submissions should not exceed 10 pages with 12pt Times New Roman font including figures, references, and appendices. Authors will be sent details of the final format for camera-ready versions together with notification of acceptance. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Electronic submissions are encouraged but hard copies are acceptable. For electronic submission, papers should be in Postscript, PDF, Microsoft Word, or RTF format. For other formats, please contact the organising committee. All papers should be sent to workshop-eurolan at wlv.ac.uk Contact Address Constantin Orasan HLSS University of Wolverhampton Stafford Street Wolverhampton WV1 1SB UK. Email: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (please use 'EUROLAN WORKSHOP' in the subject line) Important Dates Submission Deadline: 1st April 2001 Notification of Acceptance: 4th May 2001 Camera-ready Papers: 1st June 2001 Workshop: To be announced Registration People wanting to attend the workshop must be registered in the Eurolan'01 School. Participation to the workshop is open to all Eurolan'01 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made available. Authors of the papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will benefit of early registration fee no matter the date they register. Organizing committee Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton Richard Evans - University of Wolverhampton Catalina Barbu - University of Wolverhampton Program committee Dan Cristea - University of Iasi Hamish Cunningham - University of Sheffield Le An Ha - University of Wolverhampton Nancy Ide - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Ramesh Krishnamurthy - University of Wolverhampton Daniel Marcu - University of Southern California Oliver Mason - University of Birmingham Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Maximilian Saiz Noeda - University of Alicante Chris Paice - Lancaster University Valentin Tablan - Universities of Iasi & Sheffield Doina Tatar - Babes-Bolyai University Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 13 18:56:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:56:05 +0100 Subject: Conf: Call for bids to host EACL'03 Message-ID: <TUE.13.MAR.2001.195605.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ______________________________________________ «?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«? ______________________________________________ Call for Bids to Host EACL'03 ______________________________________________ «?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«? ______________________________________________ The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (http://www.eacl.org/) invites proposals to host the 11th Meeting of the EACL (EACL'03). The EACL conferences are usually held during the spring. Proposal coming from any European country, but also from Middle-East and North-Africa are eligible. The conference format will consist of a main conference and up to 10 workshops and tutorials organized just before or after the conference. The proposal submission process is in two stages. First, draft proposals are sought from prospective proposers. Based on the evaluation of the draft proposals, selected proposers will be invited to submit full proposals. Draft proposals are due on 15 June 2001, and will be evaluated at the EACL Board Meeting on 7 July 2001. Selected proposers will be informed before end July 2001. Full proposals are due on 15 August 2001. Draft proposals should include: - Location (accessibility, conference venue, hotels, student dorms) - Local CL Community - Proposed Date - Meeting space (space for plenary sessions, tutorials, workshops, posters, exhibits, demos and small meetings) - A/V equipment - Food/Entertainment/Banquet/Receptions - Local Arrangements (chairs, committee, volunteer labour, registration handling) - Sponsorships - Budget estimates Proposals will be evaluated in relation to a number of site selection criteria (unordered): - Experience of Local Arrangement team. - Local CL community support. - Local government and industry support. - Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site. - Appropriateness of proposed dates. - Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants - Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in a range of price categories and close to the conference facilities. - Adequacy of budget projections and expected surplus. - Balance with regard to the geographical distribution of previous conferences. Draft proposals should be sent electronically to the EACL President: Prof. Donia Scott : donia.scott at itri.brighton.ac.uk Submission Dates: Draft proposals are due on 15 June 2001; Full proposals are due on 15 August 2001. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 13 19:01:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:01:05 +0100 Subject: jobs: 2 offres Message-ID: <TUE.13.MAR.2001.200105.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/statistical machine learning Xerox PARC 2/MPhil/PhD King's College, London ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ The Quantitative Content Analysis Area (QCA) at Xerox PARC is seeking researchers/developers who have a strong background (Ph.D or M.S.) in applying statistical machine learning or pattern recognition techniques to information access tasks, such as organization and mining of documents and document collections. We have developed methods in areas such as summarization, genre identification, use of multi-modal information in browsing, and topic identification. Our current focus is on interactive methods to extract information from large document collections and to restructure it based on the needs of individual users. We are building up a team composed of computer scientists and engineers, with specialists in natural language and machine learning. To be successful, candidates need to have strong programming skills (Java or C/C++), be able to develop algorithms as well as novel applications and work well with others on both foundational research and on more application-oriented research projects in a multidisciplinary (and multinational) setting. Experience and qualifications o PhD/M.S in computer science or related fields with a strong background in machine learning, pattern recognition, probability or statistics with strong programming skills (Java or C/C++) o Interest or experience in information access o Interest or experience in quantitative natural language analysis, image analysis and/or user interfaces a plus o Experience in working with large corpora and net applications is a plus To apply, please submit your resume via email to istlhiring at parc.xerox.com, and identify the position in the subject line as "Quantitative Content Analysis Area (QCA)". Xerox is an Equal Employment Opportunity company committed to the principles of workforce diversity. URL: http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/groups/qca/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ New MSc and MPhil/PhD Programs in Natural Language Processing in the Computer Science Dept. at King's College, London A new Natural Language Processing research group has been created in the Computer Science Department at King's College, London. This group is offering an MSc in Natural Language Processing, which will start in September 2001, and opportunities for MPhil/PhD studies. For information on the group and these new programes please consult our web site at www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/index.html. Inquiries can also be directed to Shalom Lappin (lappin at dcs.kcl.ac.uk) or Jonathan Ginzburg (ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk). The Department of Computer Science at King's College anticipates having two EPSRC funded quota PhD studentships for September, 2001. These will be awarded on a competitive basis to PhD applicants from any area of computer science. The holder of an EPSRC quota studentship must be a permanent resident of the UK to receive a tuition scholarship and a maintenance grant. Residents of a European Union country are eligible for a tuition scholarship only. Qualified PhD applicants interested in pursuing research in natural language processing will be considered for these grants. -- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 13 19:06:51 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:06:51 +0100 Subject: Publications: Discourse Parsing and Summarization Message-ID: <TUE.13.MAR.2001.200651.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization Daniel Marcu Until now, most discourse researchers have assumed that full semantic understanding is necessary to derive the discourse structure of texts. This book documents the first serious attempt to construct automatically and use nonsemantic computational structures for text summarization. Daniel Marcu develops a semantics-free theoretical framework that is both general enough to be applicable to naturally occurring texts and concise enough to facilitate an algorithmic approach to discourse analysis. He presents and evaluates two discourse parsing methods: one uses manually written rules that reflect common patterns of usage of cue phrases such as "however" and "in addition to"; the other uses rules that are learned automatically from a corpus of discourse structures. By means of a psycholinguistic experiment, Marcu demonstrates how a discourse-based summarizer identifies the most important parts of texts at levels of performance that are close to those of humans. Marcu also discusses how the automatic derivation of discourse structures may be used to improve the performance of current natural language generation, machine translation, summarization, question answering, and information retrieval systems. Daniel Marcu is a Research Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California and Research Assistant Professor in the university's Department of Computer Science. 7 x 9, 272 pp., 68 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-13372-5 A Bradford Book ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 16 16:29:30 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:29:30 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 offres Message-ID: <FRI.16.MAR.2001.172930.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/LexiQuest, équipe d'Etudes avancées et spécifications linguistiques. 2/Educational Testing Service, SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST Natural Language Processing 3/Educational Testing Service, Research Scientists, Princeton, NJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ LexiQuest, société française spécialisée dans les produits TALN pour la recherche documentaire et les applications d'ingénierie multilingue dans le domaine de l'Internet, recherche de nouveaux collaborateurs pour rejoindre son équipe d'Etudes avancées et spécifications linguistiques. LexiQuest compte une centaine de collaborateurs en Europe et aux Etats-Unis, et développe des produits en 5 langues. PM/EA/6. un/une linguiste informaticien/ne Titulaire d'un DEA en TALN ou équivalent, disposant d'une expérience similaire d'au moins 3 ans. L'anglais est indispensable. La connaissance d'au moins une autre langue est souhaitée. Une expérience en étude de corpus, développement de grammaire, et / ou spécification linguistique sera particulièrement appréciée. Le poste est à pourvoir à Paris. Envoyez votre candidature à : _________________________________________________ José Coch, LexiQuest Le Méliès / 261, rue de Paris F-93556 Montreuil Cedex / FRANCE Tel: (33)-1-49 93 39 38 / Fax: (33)-1-49 93 39 39 E-mail: jose.coch at lexiquest.fr _________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST- Natural Language Processing The Research and Statistics Division at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey has a great opportunity for someone who wants a challenging and rewarding position. We are seeking a senior level Research Scientist with the following qualifications: a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or highly related field. The position will be with the Natural Language Processing Group in the Center for Assessment Design and Scoring. The Center conducts research on the integration of psychometrics, cognitive science and technology with the goal of enhancing the scientific and societal value of assessments. The work for this position involves the conceptualization and research of algorithms, processes, or systems using natural language methods to assist in the creation and analysis of test content (e.g., the automatic creation of test questions and the automatic analysis of test questions to characterize their difficulty). The work also involves the ability to apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting natural language processing research studies and in developing and contributing to the development of new products or services for education. Evidence of independent substantive research experience is required. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the application of natural language processing in the development of educational assessment products in a multidisciplinary environment. The supervision of a small number of staff may be required. ETS offers competitive salaries, outstanding benefits, two retirement plans, 3 weeks vacation, generous relocation, a stimulating work environment, and ample opportunity for professional growth. ETS is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Please send resume including salary requirements to: Mike Smith Email: mlsmith at ets.org attention: Dept LN or fax to Attention: Mike Smith Attn: Dept LN 609-4976-6022 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ Research Scientists: Princeton, NJ Educational Testing Service, the world's largest and best educational testing and assessment organization (developers of the SAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL and more) has immediate openings in our Princeton, NJ campus for Scientists with 1, 3 and 5+ years experience. This is an opportunity to join colleagues engaged in educational research, be personally responsible for specific research projects and to grow professionally. Join our Research Division where you will be engaged in Natural Language Processing research. You will need the ability to apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting natural language processing research studies and in developing and contributing to the development of new products or services for education. Evidence of independent substantive research experience is required and the successful candidate is expected to be able to contribute to new or modified theories of natural language processing as applied to educational and psychological processes The successful applicant will have the following qualifications: a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics with solid programming skills and an interest in natural language processing research for purposes of automated writing analysis, generation, instruction and scoring. Outstanding benefits, competitive salary, generous relocation, 3 weeks vacation, employee friendly policies, 403(b) with immediate eligibility, immediate matching and vesting, plus an ETS provided retirement plan. We support continuing professional development. Please send your resume including salary requirements to Mike Smith Attn: Dept LN to, mlsmith at ets.org. or fax to Mike Smith Dept LN 609-497-6022. ETS is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer M/F/H/V ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 16 16:29:59 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:29:59 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journees Prosodie Message-ID: <FRI.16.MAR.2001.172959.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> A DIFFUSER LARGEMENT SVP/ PLEASE POST ""Journees Prosodie"", 10-11 octobre 2001, Grenoble 1er APPEL A COMMUNICATION / First CALL FOR PAPERS Des " Journees Prosodie", organisees par l'action Phonologie Prosodique du Groupe De Recherche CNRS 1954 en Phonologie, auront lieu a Grenoble les 10 et 11 octobre 2001. Ces deux journées seront l'occasion d'une rencontre conviviale, ou les jeunes chercheurs seront particulierement les bienvenus. Elles permettront de faire le point sur les travaux menés par la communauté francophone en prosodie des langues. Des conferences invitees introduiront chaque session. Pourront etre abordees les thématiques suivantes, cette liste n'etant pas limitative : - représentation cognitive de la morphologie prosodique - représentations prosodiques et niveaux d'interprétation symbolique - approche hypothético-déductive vs inductive de la prosodie : fondement et légitimité théorique - les méthodes orientées corpus : approche analytique vs. statistique - acquisition de la prosodie - modelisation psycho-linguistique - mesures neurales - prosodie des emotions - prosodie articulatoire ... DATES A RETENIR / IMPORTANT DATES : Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre un résumé (maximum 600 mots), avant le 25 mai 2001. Notification des acceptations : 25 juin 2001 Date limite de reception des papiers complets : 25 septembre 2001 LANGUES / WORKING LANGUAGES : français Les questions et propositions de communications doivent être envoyées par courrier électronique, sous format Word ou postscript, à : GDRProso at icp.inpg.fr COMITE SCIENTIFIQUE V. Auberge(ICP, CNRS INPG/Université Stendhal Grenoble) G. Bailly (ICP, CNRS INPG/Université Stendhal Grenoble) A. Christophe (LSCP, CNRS, EHESS Paris) A Di Cristo (LPL, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence) D. Hirst (LPL, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence) A. Lacheret ( CRISCO, CNRS, Caen) Ph. Martin(Université de Toronto) A. Rialland (CNRS, Université de Paris III) J. Vaissiere (Université de Paris III) COMITE D'ORGANISATION V. Auberge (ICP, Grenoble) C. Brichet (ICP Grenoble) A. Lacheret (CRISCO, CNRS, Caen) H. Loevenbruck (ICP, Grenoble) K. Martel (laboratoire de Psychologie cognitive, Caen) A. Rilliard (ICP, Grenoble) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 16 16:30:37 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:30:37 +0100 Subject: Projet: groupe Handicap Message-ID: <FRI.16.MAR.2001.173037.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> From: "Emmanuel Bellengier" <ebellengier at hotmail.com> Bonjour à toutes et à tous, Voici le lien vers le nouveau site du groupe Handicap. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~handicap/ Les buts de notre site sont les suivants : Promouvoir une communication accrue entre les acteurs du groupe Handicap sous la forme de bulletin d'informations hebdomadaire. Diffuser le plus largement possible les activités du groupe ainsi que celles d'autres groupes. Mettre en place le plus rapidement possible une liste de diffusion modérée accueillant les acteurs du handicap francophones. Fédérer les acteurs de la communication assistée (malades, professionnels, chercheurs ...)afin de mettre en place des réseaux de communication utilisant les nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication. Mener une réflexion commune et constructive. Créer un portail recensant l'ensemble des activités liées au handicap présentes sur l'Internet. Fournir une information fiable et fréquemment mise à jour. J'attends avec impatience toutes vos remarques. Je vous souhaite d'y trouver toutes les informations que vous cherchez. Cordialement, Emmanuel Bellengier Webmestre ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 16 16:31:00 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:31:00 +0100 Subject: Conf: XII Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics Message-ID: <FRI.16.MAR.2001.173100.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> FROM FINITE TO UNCONVENTIONAL IN THE THEORY OF AUTOMATA AND COMPUTATION (XII Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics, FS&S) Sheng Yu Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario) March 26-30, 2001 Organized by the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University PROGRAMME Monday 26 15.30-17.30 Yu, Finite automata, regular expressions and lexical analysis 17.30-19.30 Kari, Introduction to DNA computing Tuesday 27 10.15-12.15 Yu, Transformation and minimization algorithms related to regular languages 12.15-14.15 Kari, Encoding information in DNA Wednesday 28 10.15-12.15 Yu, Finite transducers and finite transductions 12.15-14.15 Kari, Bio-operations Thursday 29 10.15-12.15 Yu, Finite languages and cover automata 12.15-14.15 Kari, DNA models of computation Friday 30 8-10 Yu, Fuzzy automata and metric lexical analysis 10-12 Kari, Computation in cells Place: Lecture Room, Department of Romance Philologies Rovira i Virgili University Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1 43005 Tarragona, Spain ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 16 16:31:14 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:31:14 +0100 Subject: Appel: 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies Message-ID: <FRI.16.MAR.2001.173114.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> C a l l f o r P a p e r s IWPT 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 17-19 October, 2001 Beijing, China http://www.icl.pku.edu.cn/iwpt2001.html ~~~~ 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 invited: - full papers, to be presented as such during the workshop and to be published in the workshop proceedings (maximally 12 pages); - 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 are published in the workshop proceedings. Prospective authors are invited to send submissions to the IWPT'01 programme chairman Giorgio Satta. Papers must be in the format given at the IWPT'01 home pages (see below). Full papers should not exceed 12 pages; short papers should not exceed 1500 words. Submission is electronically, in postscript form. Only in case 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 All submitted papers will be reviewed by the programme committee. Time schedule: Deadline for paper submission: June 5 Notification of acceptance : July 18 Final papers due : August 27 Instruction for authors ----------------------- Detailed instructions for authors for the production of submissions in the right format will soon be 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 ------------------- The full list of all members of the Program Committee will soon be available at the IWPT'01 home page. 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 will soon be 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 <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Mar 19 17:27:38 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:27:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: revue TERMINOLOGY Message-ID: <MON.19.MAR.2001.182738.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> TERMINOLOGY International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication Edited by Marie-Claude L'Homme and Ulrich Heid University of Montreal/University of Stuttgart Consultant: Juan C Sager Call for Papers TERMINOLOGY encompasses the subject of terminology both in general (theory and practice) and in specialized fields (LSP), such as physics, biomedical and social sciences, technology, engineering, humanities, management, economics, corporate identity, trade, business administration, arts, law and any other area in which terminology is essential to improve communication. Its content should be targeted at the need for information and discussion academically and in the professions (translation, lexicography, information science, business studies, computer science and linguistics). As of 2001 the journal will be directed by Marie Claude L'Homme and Ulrich Heid. The Editors invite relevant contributions. Papers can be sent to: Marie-Claude L'Homme University of Montreal Dept of Linguistics/Translation C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville MONTREAL, Quebec Canada H3C 3J7 lhommem at ling.Umontreal.ca Volume 7 (2001), 2 issues per year, total 400 pages ISSN 0929-9971 Terminology is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia For more information and guidelines for authors : www.benjamins.com/jbp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 19 17:28:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:28:05 +0100 Subject: Publications: INTONATION Analysis, Modelling and Technology Message-ID: <MON.19.MAR.2001.182805.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 15 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean Véronis INTONATION Analysis, Modelling and Technology edited by Antonis Botinis University of Skövde, Sweden, and University of Athens, Greece The volume Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology covers the main aspects of intonation, written by international researchers in the field. Following the Introduction, fourteen chapters are organised into five thematic sections: Overview of Intonation, Prominence and Focus, Boundaries and Discourse, Intonation Modelling and Intonation Technology. Each chapter is basically autonomous within a thematic section, but the subject of several chapters extends over more than one thematic section. The combination of a wide range of research areas, as well as interdisciplinary approaches in the study of intonation, makes this volume a unique contribution to the international scientific community. Basic knowledge of Intonation and Prosody is assumed in the context of linguistic and computational backgrounds. Readers may range from students of advanced undergraduate to postgraduate and research levels as well as individual researchers within a variety of disciplines such as Experimental Phonetics, General and Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, and SpeechLanguage Engineering. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0 October 2000, 408 pp. NLG 320.00 / USD 156.00 / GBP 99.00 Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5 October 2000, 408 pp. NLG 110.00 / USD 54.00 / GBP 34.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS List of contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction; A. Botinis. SECTION I: OVERVIEW OF INTONATION. 2. Intonation: Past, Present, Future; M. Rossi. SECTION II: PROMINENCE AND FOCUS. 3. Acoustic-phonetic Analysis of Prominence in Swedish; G. Fant, et al. 4. Prosodic Disambiguation in English and Italian; J. Hirschberg, C. Avesani. 5. Contrastive Tonal Analysis of Focus Perception in Greek and Swedish; A. Botinis, et al. SECTION III: BOUNDARIES AND DISCOURSE. 6. Phonetic Correlates of Statement versus Question Intonation in Dutch; V.J. van Heuven, J. Haan. 7. Pitch Movements and Information Structure in Spontaneous Dutch Discourse; M. van Donzel, F. Koopmans-van Beinum. 8. Discourse Constraints on F0 Peak Timing in English; A. Wichmann, et al. SECTION IV: INTONATION MODELLING. 9. Automatic Stylisation and Modelling of French and Italian Intonation; E. Campione, et al. 10. A Phonological Model of French Intonation; S.-A. Jun, C. Fougeron. 11. A Declination Model of Mandarin Chinese; C. Shih. 12. A Quantitative Model of F0 Generation and Alignment; J.P.H. van Santen, B. Möbius. SECTION V: INTONATION TECHNOLOGY. 13. Modelling of Swedish Text and Discourse Intonation in a Speech Synthesis Framework; G. Bruce, et al. 14. A Prosodic Model for Text-to-speech Synthesis in French; A. Di Cristo, et al. 15. Prosodic Parameters of French in a Speech Recognition System; K. Bartkova. Subject index. Index of names. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 19 17:28:38 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:28:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: Outils de veille stratgique sur internet Message-ID: <MON.19.MAR.2001.182838.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> APPEL A PROPOSITIONS "Outils de veille stratégique sur internet : Filtrage et résumé de l'information" Le ministère de la recherche (Direction de la technologie) lance un appel propositions sur le thème du filtrage et du résumé de l'information professionnelle. Plusieurs types de projet sont attendus : - réalisation de nouveaux produits ou services d'information ; - amélioration d'un produit ou d'un service existant ; - réalisation ou amélioration de logiciels de veille dans un secteur donné ; - intégration de ces méthodes dans un système d'information d'entreprise ; - démarche expérimentale visant à valider une approche innovante dans le secteur de la veille ; - définition et mise en place de procédures d'évaluation. Le texte complet de l'appel à propositions est accessible à l'adresse suivante : http://www.recherche.gouv.fr/appel/2001/veille.htm La date de clôture de l'appel est le 1er juin 2001. ******************************************* 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 Informatique et Télécommunications 1, rue Descartes - 75231 PARIS cedex 05 http://www.recherche.gouv.fr ******************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 19 17:29:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:29:05 +0100 Subject: Appel: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER Message-ID: <MON.19.MAR.2001.182905.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 23rd Annual Conference and Exhibition: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 29-30 November 2001 One Great George Street, London SW1 Supported by: IAMT, EAMT, BCS and ITI This conference is one of the few international events which focuses on the user aspects of translation software and as such has been particularly beneficial to a very wide audience including translators, business managers, researchers and language experts. Once again, this year the conference will address the latest developments in translation (and translation-related) software. It will address the needs of the following conference attendees: - industry - public administration - agencies - freelancers - development This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the conference. The papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user aspects of translation or translation-related software rather than on theoretical issues. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations are especially welcome. TOPICS The range of topics includes (but is not limited to) - use of MT systems - machine-aided translation and translation aids - controlled languages and their use in MT - speech translation - terminology - localisation - multilingual document management/workflow - case studies of technology-based solutions - the Internet and translation aids/services - the value of "free" versus "charging" services/sites on the Internet SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are required to submit an abstract of a MINIMUM of 500 words of the paper they would like to present, together with an outline of the structure of the paper and short BIOGRAPHY. Abstracts should be sent by post or email before 15th June 2001 to: Nicole Adamides, Conference Organiser Aslib, The Association for Information Management Staple Hall, Stone House Court, London, EC3A 7PB Email: nicole.adamides at tinyworld.co.uk WWW: www.aslib.com The abstracts will be considered by the Programme Chairs, namely:Daniel Grasmick, SAP; Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton; Chris Pyne, Lionbridge Technologies Deutschland and Olaf-Michael Stefanov, United Nations. The authors of abstracts will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their submissions by 1 August 2001. The full length versions of the accepted papers (authors will be provided with detailed camera-ready copy guidelines) will be included in the conference proceedings and must be submitted by 10th October 2001. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 19 17:30:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:30:05 +0100 Subject: Conf: TIA-2001 Message-ID: <MON.19.MAR.2001.183005.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> english version below ***************************************************************** APPEL A PARTICIPATION TIA-2001 Quatrième rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy PROGRAMME : Les détails concernant l'organisation de la conférence et les insciptions sont sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm Jeudi 3 mai 2001 9 h 00 * 10 h 00 : Accueil 10 h 00 - 10h 30 : Allocutions d'ouverture 10 h 30 - 11 h 30 "La structuration de terminologie : une nécessaire coopération" , Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko,LIPN - Université Paris Nord "Automatic acquisition of hyponymic relations from a medical terminology based on adjectival modifiers", Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun, Thomas C. Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine 11 h 30 * 12 h 00 : Pause 12 h 00 * 13 h 00 : Conférence invitée : "Terminologie et applications industrielles", Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) 13 h 00 * 14 h 30 : Déjeuner 14 h 30 * 16 h 00 : "Expression du dysfonctionnement dans un corpus dialogique de la Navigation Aérienne : Mise à jour de régularités", Anne Condamines, Pascale Vergely, ERSS et CENA "Repérage de termes dans un corpus de vulgarisation : aspects méthodologiques", Valérie DELAVIGNE, UMR CNRS 6065 - Université de Rouen "Construire un corpus web pour l'acquisition terminologique", Natalia Grabar, Sophie Berland, DIAM-SIM/DSI AP-HP, CRIM-INALCO 16 h 00 * 16 h 30 : Pause 16 h30 * 18 h 30 : "Frame-based definitions and the selection of multiword term candidates in DOT", Willy Martin, Ulrich Heid, Universités d'Amsterdam et de Stuttgart "Une comparaison raisonnée des apports de la terminologie et de l'intelligence artificielle pour servir et améliorer la construction d'ontologies", Sylvie DESPRES, CRIP5, Université René Descartes. "Normalisation des échanges de données en terminologie : le cas des relations dites conceptuelles", Laurent Romary, Marc Van Campenhoudt, LORIA, Termisti, Bruxelles. "Mesurer l'évolution des connaissances d'un projet spatial", D. Galarreta, CNES Toulouse Vendredi 4 mai 2001 8 h 30 * 9 h 00 : Accueil 9 h 00 - 11 h 00 "Vers un environnement intégré pour la structuration de terminologies : TERMINAE" Sylvie Szulman, Brigitte Biébow, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, LIPN * Université Paris 13, IRIT Toulouse "Building Domain Knowledge from Specialized Texts", Caroline Barrière, Terry Copeck, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 "A contrastive approach to term extraction", R. Basili, A.Moschitti, M.T. Pazienza, F.M. Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata "Etude comparative de deux outils d'acquisition de termes complexes", Agata Savary, LADL, LLI 11 h 00 * 12 h 00 : Pause (les posters et démonstrations seront organisés en parallèle) Posters "Approche phraséologique d'une extraction automatique de terminologie dans un corpus scientifique bilingue aligné", Frérot Cécile, Rigou Géraldine, Lacombe Annik, Université de Paris VII, INRA CRJ "Méthodes d'analyse automatique de l'évolution terminologique au travers des variations repérées dans les corpus diachroniques", Annie Tartier, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes "Grammaires locales et lexique-grammaire pour le filtrage par chunks", Antonio BALVET, Université Paris X, Thomson-Csf Laboratoire Central de Recherches "Une Technologie d'Analyse Sémantique", Stephane Leroy, Elizabeth Bresson, Tanneguy Dulong, ARISEM "Extraction de termes à base nominale à partir d'un corpus bilingue aligné", François MANIEZ, Centre de Recherche en Traduction et en Terminologie, Université Lumière Lyon 2 "Hybrid Filtering for Extraction of Term Candidates from German, Technical Texts", Munpyo Hong, Sisay Fissaha, Johann Haller, Institute of Applied Information Science (IAI) at the University of Saarland "From Text to Ontology : Extraction and representation of Conceptual Information", Chantal Pérez Hernandez et Antonio Moreno Ortiz, Université de Malaga 12 h 00 * 13 h 00 : Conférence invitée : "Multilinguisme et ingénierie linguistique", Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) 13 h 00 * 14 h 30 : Déjeuner 14 h 30 * 16 h 30 : "Réutilisation de la nomenclature muti-axiale SNOMED pour mesurer une distance sémantique entre termes médicaux", Cédric Bousquet, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Gilles Chatellier, Patrice Degoulet, UFR-Broussais-Hôtel Dieu, Santé Publique et Informatique Médicale "Classement automatique de documents et analyse terminologique de corpus", Guiraude LAME, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris "Extraction et exploitation de candidats termes en contexte pour la navigation dans une mémoire d'entreprise", Maria Nava, Daniela Garcia, Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliquées - Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Electricité de France, Division Recherche et Développement "Exploitation des ontologies pour la construction et l'exploitation de la mémoire de projet-véhicule", Joanna Golebiowska, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Olivier Corby, Didier Mousseau, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis 16 h30 * 17 h 00 : Clôture OBJECTIFS : Sous l'effet de l'information en réseau, institutions, entreprises et laboratoires se trouvent aujourd'hui confrontés aux problèmes considérables posés par la taille et la diversité des documents spécialisés. Accéder à ces corpus textuels, les filtrer, les traiter, les stocker, les implémenter sur des systèmes informatiques, telles sont, entre autres, les tâches auxquelles doit répondre la terminologie. Devant de tels enjeux, la terminologie, en tant que discipline, doit établir des relations coopératives avec un ensemble de disciplines allant de la linguistique à l'ingénierie des connaissances en passant par les sciences de l'information. La pratique terminologique fait notamment appel à des techniques linguistiques et /ou numériques pour manipuler les unités de la langue naturelle (en particulier les terminologies) et à des techniques d'intelligence artificielle pour la formalisation de ces données. Ces techniques partagent des méthodes, des objectifs et une même finalité : - même point de départ : elles partent de corpus pour l'acquisition de données linguistiques destinées à la constitution de terminologies ; - même objectif : la modélisation de domaines à partir de corpus, sans formalisation dans le cas d'une production linguistique, avec formalisation du domaine dans le cas d'une application requérant les techniques de l'I.A ; - même visée applicative : ressources terminologiques, dictionnaires électroniques pour la traduction automatique, pour l'indexation, pour le filtrage, etc., ontologies, systèmes à base de connaissances, mémoires d'entreprise (dans le cadre d'applications relevant de l'I.A). L'objectif de la conférence TIA est de faire émerger les convergences et les coopérations possibles entre ces disciplines pour élaborer et tester des méthodes de travail sur corpus, associées à des techniques de traitement automatique de la langue et d'intelligence artificielle, afin de constituer, de manière systématique, les données terminologiques pertinentes en fonction des applications. Les quatrièmes rencontres TIA serviront à explorer les nombreuses questions restées ouvertes en matière d'acquisition de connaissances terminologiques (ià partir de corpus, d'analyse du fonctionnement lexicologique en corpus spécialisé, de modélisation et de formalisation de ces connaissances, toujours dans le cas d'applications précises. Vous êtes invité à y participer en proposant une communication sur l'un des thèmes ci-dessous : - Théories du sens et la question des textes spécialisés - Terminologie et ontologies - Exploitation de l'extraction de termes en corpus - Terminologie et modélisation / formalisation des connaissances - Bases de connaissances terminologiques - Ressources terminologiques pour la recherche d'information - Problèmes de la terminologie multilingue - Réutilisabilité en ingénierie linguistique et ingénierie des connaissances - Outils et applications Le Groupe TIA (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/), est organisateur de cette conférence qui fait suite aux conférences TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) et TIA'99 (Nantes). Fondé sous l'égide du PRC-IA et de l'AFIA en 1994, à présent groupe AFIA/PRC-I3, ce groupe rassemble des chercheurs en linguistique, en intelligence artificielle et en traitement automatique des langues. Il a été créé pour permettre une confrontation entre les cadres théoriques et méthodologiques ainsi qu'entre les pratiques développées dans chaque discipline. Les propositions de communications (en anglais ou en français) seront soumises à un comité de programme international constitué des membres du groupe TIA et d'experts des domaines concernés. CONFERENCIERS INVITES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminologie et applications industrielles" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) " Multilinguisme et ingénierie linguistique " COMITE DE PROGRAMME Présidente : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimond (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (Université de Rome) Brigitte Biébow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Stéphane Chaudiron (Ministère de la Recherche &Université Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Benoît Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Université Paris 10) Udo Hahn (Université de Fribourg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (Université d'Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Université de Dublin) François Rastier (INALF, CNRS, Paris) François Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royauté (INIST, CNRS, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Université Louis Lumière, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) COMITE D'ORGANISATION Jean Royauté (Président), Dominique Besagni, Claire François, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, INIST-CNRS), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Université Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) Les rencontres se dérouleront à l'INIST - Nancy (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du CNRS) et seront aussi l'occasion de mettre en évidence les convergences entre documentation et terminologie. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royauté - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 allée du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex Tél : +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr ***************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TIA-2001 4th meeting "Terminology and Artificial Intelligence" 3-4 May 2001, Nancy, France PROGRAM : Details concerning the conference organization and registrations are on the conference website: http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm Thursday may 3, 2001 9 h 00 * 10 h 00 : Registration 10 h 00 - 10h 30 : Welcome and opening speech 10 h 30 - 11 h 30 "La structuration de terminologie : une nécessaire coopération" , Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko,LIPN - Université Paris Nord "Automatic acquisition of hyponymic relations from a medical terminology based on adjectival modifiers", Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun, Thomas C. Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine 11 h 30 * 12 h 00 : Coffee break 12 h 00 * 13 h 00 : Invited lecture : "Terminologie et applications industrielles", Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) 13 h 00 * 14 h 30 : Lunch 14 h 30 * 16 h 00 : "Expression du dysfonctionnement dans un corpus dialogique de la Navigation Aérienne : Mise à jour de régularités", Anne Condamines, Pascale Vergely, ERSS et CENA "Repérage de termes dans un corpus de vulgarisation : aspects méthodologiques", Valérie DELAVIGNE, UMR CNRS 6065 - Université de Rouen "Construire un corpus web pour l'acquisition terminologique", Natalia Grabar, Sophie Berland, DIAM-SIM/DSI AP-HP, CRIM-INALCO 16 h 00 * 16 h 30 : Coffee break 16 h30 * 18 h 30 : "Frame-based definitions and the selection of multiword term candidates in DOT", Willy Martin, Ulrich Heid, Universités d'Amsterdam et de Stuttgart "Une comparaison raisonnée des apports de la terminologie et de l'intelligence artificielle pour servir et améliorer la construction d'ontologies", Sylvie DESPRES, CRIP5, Université René Descartes. "Normalisation des échanges de données en terminologie : le cas des relations dites conceptuelles", Laurent Romary, Marc Van Campenhoudt, LORIA, Termisti, Bruxelles. "Mesurer l'évolution des connaissances d'un projet spatial", D. Galarreta, CNES Toulouse Friday 4, 2001 8 h 30 * 9 h 00 : Reception 9 h 00 - 11 h 00 "Vers un environnement intégré pour la structuration de terminologies : TERMINAE" Sylvie Szulman, Brigitte Biébow, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, LIPN * Université Paris 13, IRIT Toulouse "Building Domain Knowledge from Specialized Texts", Caroline Barrière, Terry Copeck, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 "A contrastive approach to term extraction", R. Basili, A.Moschitti, M.T. Pazienza, F.M. Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata "Etude comparative de deux outils d'acquisition de termes complexes", Agata Savary, LADL, LLI 11 h 00 * 12 h 00 : Coffee break (posters and demos are shown in parallel sessions) Posters : "Approche phraséologique d'une extraction automatique de terminologie dans un corpus scientifique bilingue aligné", Frérot Cécile, Rigou Géraldine, Lacombe Annik, Université de Paris VII, INRA CRJ "Méthodes d'analyse automatique de l'évolution terminologique au travers des variations repérées dans les corpus diachroniques", Annie Tartier, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes "Grammaires locales et lexique-grammaire pour le filtrage par chunks", Antonio BALVET, Université Paris X, Thomson-Csf Laboratoire Central de Recherches "Une Technologie d'Analyse Sémantique", Stephane Leroy, Elizabeth Bresson, Tanneguy Dulong, ARISEM "Extraction de termes à base nominale à partir d'un corpus bilingue aligné", François MANIEZ, Centre de Recherche en Traduction et en Terminologie, Université Lumière Lyon 2 "Hybrid Filtering for Extraction of Term Candidates from German, Technical Texts", Munpyo Hong, Sisay Fissaha, Johann Haller, Institute of Applied Information Science (IAI) at the University of Saarland "From Text to Ontology : Extraction and representation of Conceptual Information", Chantal Pérez Hernandez et Antonio Moreno Ortiz, Université de Malaga 12 h 00 * 13 h 00 :Invited lecture: "Multilinguisme et ingénierie linguistique", Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) 13 h 00 * 14 h 30 : Lunch 14 h 30 * 16 h 30 : "Réutilisation de la nomenclature muti-axiale SNOMED pour mesurer une distance sémantique entre termes médicaux", Cédric Bousquet, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Gilles Chatellier, Patrice Degoulet, UFR-Broussais-Hôtel Dieu, Santé Publique et Informatique Médicale "Classement automatique de documents et analyse terminologique de corpus", Guiraude LAME, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris "Extraction et exploitation de candidats termes en contexte pour la navigation dans une mémoire d'entreprise", Maria Nava, Daniela Garcia, Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliquées - Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Electricité de France, Division Recherche et Développement "Exploitation des ontologies pour la construction et l'exploitation de la mémoire de projet-véhicule", Joanna Golebiowska, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Olivier Corby, Didier Mousseau, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis 16 h30 * 17 h 00 : Closure GOALS : Due to the availability of ever-increasing amount of information institutions, companies and laboratories are facing new problems related in particular to scale effects and the diversity of technical texts. A full range of tasks, from accessing text corpora to processing lexical data, is now being entrusted to terminology. As a result, terminology has to enrich and strengthen its links with related disciplines, including linguistics, knowledge engineering and information sciences. Thus, terminological work makes use of linguistic and /or numeric techniques to process natural language items (especially terms) and of artificial intelligence techniques for their formalization. These techniques share a number of methods and objec tives as well as a common goal: - the same starting point: corpus-based data acquistion; - the same objectives: corpus-based domain modeling with or without formalization, depending on the type of application (artificial intelligence or not); - the same goal: production of terminological resources (machine-readable dictionaries for machine translation, indexing, filtering); ontologies, knowledge-based systems, corporate memories. The TIA Conference aims at promoting convergence and synergy among such disciplines in order to develop and evaluate corpus-processing methodologies, requiring refined natural language processing and artificial intelligence techniques. The end results of those investigations should help build relevant terminological data for specific applications on a systematic basis. The 4th TIA Conference will be an opportunity to explore some of the unsolved problems raised in corpus-based acquisition of terminological data, in the analysis of lexical behavior in specialized corpora, in knowledge modeling and formalization of the resulting data. You are invited to propose a paper in the following topics: - Meaning theories and the question of specialized texts; - Terminology and ontologies; - Exploitation of corpus-based term extraction; - Terminology and knowledge modeling / formalization - Terminological knowledge bases; - Terminological resources for information retrieval; - Problems of multilingual terminology; - Reusability in linguistics and knowledge engineering - Tools and applications. This TIA Conference, which follows TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) and TIA'99 (Nantes), is organized by the TIA Working Group (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/). This group gathers researchers in linguistics, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. It was created to allow a confrontation between the theoretical and methodological frameworks as well as between the practices developed in each discipline. Submitted papers (in French or in English) will be reviewed by an international program committee composed of members of the TIA Working Group and of invited experts. INVITED LECTURES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminology and industrial applications" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) "Multi-lingualism and language engineering" PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimond (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (University of Roma) Brigitte Biébow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Stéphane Chaudiron (Ministère de la Recherche &Université Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Benoît Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Université Paris 10) Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Université of Dublin) François Rastier (INALF, CNRS, Paris) François Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royauté (INIST, CNRS, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Université Louis Lumière, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jean Royauté (Organizing chair), Dominique Besagni, Claire François, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, INIST-CNRS), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Université Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) The conference will take place at INIST, the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in Nancy, and will also offer the opportunity to highlight the convergence between documentation and terminology. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royauté - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 allée du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex Tel.: +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 21 17:59:54 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:59:54 +0100 Subject: Jobs: Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics - Uppsala University Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2001.185954.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Position as Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics Uppsala University, Sweden at the Department of Linguistics [http://www.ling.uu.se/] Duties: Instruction, research, and administration. The department runs a large and growing four-year training programme in Language Engineering, STP. Currently a hundred students are enrolled on the programme. The duty of the lecturer will, primarily, be allocated to STP. It is envisaged that he/she will be the director of undergraduate studies. Research in computational linguistics at the department has several focal points, among them machine translation, corpus linguistics, computational lexicography, language checking, machine-learning, computational semantics, computer-assisted language learning, applications of finite-state techniques, and word prediction. The commercial aspects of language engineering are being explored and developed in several ways. Eligibility: According to Chapter 4, Section 7 of the Higher Education Ordinance, the eligibility criteria for employment as the senior lecturer are scholarly competence and teaching skill. Further, the Uppsala University Appointment Policy stipulates that applicants possess the required abilities for the post. To be eligible for the post the applicants should have a PhD degree or be able to certify scientific competence at an equivalent level. The applicant must certify his/her competence in providing quality instruction in Swedish or English in some of the following sub-areas of language engineering including applications: mathematical linguistics, logic, logic programming, language statistics, algorithms and data structures; computational linguistics directed towards morphology, lexicography, syntax, semantics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech technology. An applicant who does not know Swedish will be expected to learn it within three years of starting employment. The senior lecturer will be given full professorship if he/she so requires and qualifies for it. Ranking: Ranking of applicants for the above position will be based on the respective degree of competence in the areas required. In addition, consideration will be given to the degree of administrative competence and other skills of importance to the subject content and duties of the position. Moreover, attention will be paid to the applicants´ skills in developing and leading activities and personnel and the applicants´ ability to co-operate with the surrounding community and to inform the public about research and developmental work, including their general capacity for collaboration. When appointing the senior lecturer, weight will be given equally to scholarly competence and teaching skill. Teaching skill will be assessed to the same rigid degree as that applied to research achievements. In assessing teaching competence, attention will be paid to past experience in planning, executing, and evaluating teaching and in individual supervision and examining. The bredth in the scientific profile and experience of commercial language engineering will be highly valued in the ranking process. Information: Information regarding the position is available from the Head of Department, Professor Anna Sågvall Hein, Tel +46 18 471 1412, e-mail: anna at ling.uu.se. The application should include the following: 1.Signed and witnessed curriculum vitae with copies of degrees obtained and other relevant documents (3 copies) 2.A short account of scientific and teaching experience (3 copies) 3.List of scientific and pedagogic publications (3 copies) 4.Publications indicated in item 3 (2 copies) Application should be made to Uppsala University and sent to the Registrar, UFV-PA 2001/999, Box 256, SE-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden, fax +46 18 471 2000, by April 9, 2001. If application is submitted via fax, it must be followed by original documents as soon as possible. The position is to be taken up on August 15, 2001, if possible. Version in Swedish: http://www.personalavd.uu.se/annonser/ulektDatorlingvistik.html ----------------------------------------------------------- Mats Dahllöf, Inst. f. lingvistik, Uppsala universitet, Box 527, 751 20 UPPSALA. [Språkvetenskapligt centrum, SVC] ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 21 18:00:13 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:00:13 +0100 Subject: Soft: morphological-semantical parser for English compound participles Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2001.190013.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> A prototype morphological-semantical parser for English compound participles is now available at http://jens.zorba.dk/phd/cpparser_2.htm Any comments, criticisms, suggestions for improvements, etc. are most welcome, esp. from native English speakers. Introduction: CP-Parser 2 (CP2) parses English NP constructions of the following syntax: NP ::= <prefix> + ?-? + <participle> + ? ? + <head> Prefix ::= <noun> | <adj> | <adv> | <prep> | <LBM> Participle ::= <present participle> | <past participle> Head ::= <noun> where LBM = lexical, bound morpheme. CP2 includes approx. 100 present and 100 past participle examples, which were extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC), using the Corpus Query Processor (CQP) tool © IMS, Stuttgart University. The BNC data provides the core of CP2?s lexicon, which was formatted by means of the WordSmith application. The word lists were then tagged and lemmatized by Conexor?s web tagger at www.conexor.fi. Finally, information concerning valency, semantic selectional restrictions and semantic categorization was added manually. The morphological-semantical parsing algorithm builds on the principles set out at http://jens.zorba.dk/phd - further documentation is forthcoming. Mange Hilsener Jens Ahlmann Hansen Karlsbjergvej 39 C DK-5672 Broby mailto:jahlmann at mail.tele.dk TEL: 00 45 65 50 33 10 (office) 00 45 62 63 39 39 (home) 00 45 29 46 43 22 (mobile) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 21 18:00:26 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:00:26 +0100 Subject: ATALA: Assemble Gnrale du 10 mars 2001 - rapport moral Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2001.190026.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Rapport moral présenté par le Président Jean Véronis à l'Assemblée Générale de l'ATALA du 10 mars 2001 [Informations et adhésions 2001 : http//www.atala.org] Au cours des années qui précèdent, et tout particulièrement en 2000, l'ATALA a connu un important développement à la fois de son audience et de ses activités. En 1999, l'adhésion à l'ATALA avait été couplée avec l'inscription à la conférence TALN, ce qui avait fortement augmenté le nombre des adhérents. On pouvait craindre une récession du nombre des adhésions en 2000, puisque ce couplage n'a pas été renouvelé mais remplacé par une réduction sur le tarif d'inscription. Le nombre d'adhérents est pourtant resté au même niveau (de l'ordre de 280), montrant ainsi l'intérêt réel et durable de la communauté francophone pour les activités de l'association. La conférence TALN'2000 s'est tenue pour la première fois hors de l'hexagone. Superbement organisée à Lausanne par Martin Rajman et Eric Wehrli, elle a réuni un nombre impressionnant de participants (110), recouvrant 13 nationalités. Le nombre de soumissions a été plus élevé que jamais (85 pour 34 papiers acceptés et 13 posters ou démonstrations), ce qui a permis une qualité scientifique exceptionnelle. TALN s'est donc imposée comme la conférence francophone du domaine. Son association avec la conférence des jeunes chercheurs en TAL, RECITAL, semble aussi être désormais établie, et s'est avérée des plus productives. L'ATALA a poursuivi en 2000 son cycle de journées d'étude, qui ont désormais pris la forme d'ateliers avec appel à communications, avec notamment les 25-27 mai 2000 l'accueil dans le cadre des journées de la 5ème conférence internationale sur les grammaires d'arbres adjoints (TAG+5) organisée par Marie-Hélène Candito et Alexandra Kinyon. Sur des thèmes très variés, ces journées d'étude ont réuni un large public, et leur succès semble être croissant, puisqu'un nombre très important de propositions ont été reçues pour l'année universitaire 2000-2001. Il est encourageant de voir que des étudiants de plus en plus nombreux assistent aux séances, et notamment en provenance de différents DEA et DESS. La revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (T.A.L.) a connu de profondes mutations. Elle est désormais diffusée par l'éditeur Hermès, chez qui elle s'intègre à un bouquet de revues informatiques (Intelligence Artificielle, Document Numérique, etc.), ce qui accroîtra sa diffusion et sa visibilité. Elle est de plus passée à trois numéros par an, au lieu de deux, et ses rédacteurs-en-chef ont été renouvelés, puisque Christophe D'Alessandro et Claire Gardent ont en effet rejoint Philippe Blache à cette fonction. La revue fonctionne désormais essentiellement par numéros thématiques, avec appel à communication et rédacteurs-en-chef invités, mais elle continue à publier dans chaque numéro des articles hors-thème. Le nombre de soumissions est en progression, ce qui est garant de la qualité scientifique de la revue. L'ATALA a également consolidé ses outils d'information et de communication. Le site Web s'est restructuré et étendu, grâce aux efforts de Pierre Zweigenbaum. Maintenant bilingue, il offre des services importants pour la communauté, et devient peu à peu le portail incontournable du TAL francophone: on y trouve, outre le programme des journées d'étude et le sommaire des numéros de la revue, un annuaire des équipes et des formations universitaires, un catalogue d'outils pour le TAL, et un inventaire des thèses récentes. Les listes LN et LN-FR continuent leur travail quasi quotidien de diffusion de l'information en TAL (annonce de conférences, de thèses, de parutions, questions et réponses sur des sujets techniques, etc.). L'année 2000 a vu un renouvellement de leurs deux modérateurs, la liste LN étant maintenant pilotée par Alexis Nasr et la liste LN-FR par Thierry Hamon. Cette progression constante des activités de l'ATALA a été rendue possible par la subvention du Ministère de la Recherche et de la Technologie, obtenue sous la présidence dynamique de Laurence Danlos. Cette subvention se terminant en 2001, il a paru raisonnable au Conseil d'Administration d'augmenter légèrement la cotisation, qui était restée au même niveau depuis de nombreuses années, de façon à éviter un effet d'escalier abrupt en 2002. La cotisation est ainsi passée de 200 à 300 F pour les adhérents individuels en 2001, mais elle reste comparable ou inférieure à celle de nombreuses autres associations professionnelles. Ce rattrapage, inévitable, a été compris par nos membres (qui reçoivent d'ailleurs en compensation trois numéros de la revue T.A.L. au lieu de deux), puisqu'au mois de mars 2001 nous enregistrons déjà près de 180 adhésions, chiffre record, qui n'avait été atteint l'année précédente qu'en novembre. L'ATALA semble donc devenir de façon durable l'association francophone de référence pour le traitement des langues, et la tendance observée en 2000 ne peut que laisser optimiste pour l'avenir proche. L'année 2001 s'annonce d'ores et déjà comme un excellent millésime, avec de nombreux adhérents (notamment étudiants), des numéros de revue de très grande qualité et une conférence organisée à Tours par Denis Maurel et son équipe, dont l'enthousiasme et le dynamisme nous laissent présager une grande réussite. Il ne nous faut pas pour autant relâcher nos efforts. La subvention ministérielle exceptionnelle s'arrête bientôt, et il faut nous mobiliser. Faisons connaître l'association et la revue autour de nous, incitons nos étudiants, futurs chercheurs, à adhérer: ce sont, in fine, ses adhérents qui font vivre une association et qui lui permettent de se développer. L'ATALA a besoin de l'aide de tous pour continuer à accroître et améliorer ses services, et contribuer, comme elle le fait depuis 1959, au rayonnement francophone dans le domaine des technologies du langage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 21 18:00:39 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:00:39 +0100 Subject: Publication: BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS - WORLD EDITION Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2001.190039.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> [With the usual apologies for cross-posting] BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS - WORLD EDITION After many delays (a postal strike being the latest) Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit is now shipping the revised second edition of the British National Corpus, which we are calling BNC-WORLD to indicate that the corpus is now available under licence world wide. For background information on the BNC, a one-hundred million word snapshot of the English language at the end of the 20th century, please visit our website at http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc A licence to use BNC World is available in two flavours: under the single user licence (cost 50 pounds) you can install the whole corpus and the SARA software on a single machine for personal use; alternatively, for 250 pounds you can set up the corpus for networked access by up to 50 people. Alternatively, for the same prices, you can install just the corpus itself and use whatever software you like. The corpus is supplied in compressed format as a single tar archive containing over 4000 files of SGML data. Full documentation of the linguistic and structural tagging is included. The part-of-speech tagging in the new edition has been extensively revised at Lancaster University. Large numbers of errors and inconsistencies in the tagging and markup have been removed, and the encoding has been brought into conformance with recent standards. Several enhancements and corrections have been made in the metadata attached to each text. The SARA software now includes facilities for lemmatized searching, improved handling of collocation searching, and the ability to build and use arbitrary subcorpora. For ordering information, please visit http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/getting/ordering.html Lou Burnard ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Burnard http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 21 18:00:54 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:00:54 +0100 Subject: Appel: International Contrastive Linguistics Conference Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2001.190054.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> The Second International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC II) 25th to 27th October 2001 Santiago de Compostela, Spain CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce that the Second International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC) will be held from 25th to 27th October 2001, in the Philology Faculty of Santiago University, Spain. Papers of a contrastive nature are welcome, particularly in the following subject areas: Linguistic Description (grammar, lexico-semantics, phonetics, phonology, etc), Pragmatics, Rhetoric, Translation Studies, Discourse Analysis, Languages for Specific Purposes, and Second Language Acquisition. Papers will have a duration of 20 minutes (3000 words maximum, references and notes included), and may be presented in English or Spanish (Castilian). If you wish to take part, please send us a title and an abstract, preferably by e-mail (iarabade at usc.es; iadimly at usc.es), before 15th April 2001. Abstracts will have to conform with the following format: Line 1: Research Area Line 2: Name of author(s) Line 3: Title of paper Line 4: Institution/Affiliation(s), Line 5: Postal address(es), e-mail (and webpage) Line 6-Line 20 (maximum): Abstract (single spaced) The conference fee will be 10,000 pesetas (5,000 for students). After a blind refereeing processs, those papers that fulfil the requirements of presentation, originality and scientific rigour will be selected for publication by the Scientific Committee. We look forward to your participation. Kind regards, The organising committee Contact address: II International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC II) Drs. L. IGLESIAS-RÁBADE & M.L.A GÓMEZ-GONZÁLEZ Facultad de Filoloxía. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Avda. de Castelao, s/n E- 15782 Santiago. Spain Tels.: +34 981 57 53 40 extensions 11897 (Dr. L. Iglesias), 11856 (Dr. M.L.A. Gómez), 11891 (S. Doval), Dr. A. Rollings (11838) Fax: +34 981 57 46 46 e-mail: iarabade at usc.es; iadimly at usc.es Web site for ICLC II : http://www.usc.es/ia303/benvidag.htm >******************************* >Dr María Ángeles GÓMEZ-GONZÁLEZ >Profesora Titular de Filoloxía Inglesa >Departmento de Filoloxía Inglesa >Facultade de Filoloxia >Universidade de Santiago de Compostela >Avda. de Castelao, s/n >E-15704 Santiago de Compostela >Fax.: + 00 34 981-574646 >Tel: + 00 34 981-563100 Ext. 11856 >email: iadimly at usc.es >http://www.usc.es/ia303/benvidag.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Sun Mar 25 16:10:28 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:10:28 +0200 Subject: Appel: Workshop on the Technology of Browsing Applications Message-ID: <SUN.25.MAR.2001.181028.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> *****************FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS********************* THE TECHNOLOGY OF BROWSING APPLICATIONS http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nina/browsingtechnologywkshop.html A Workshop held in Conjunction with the 2001 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries June 28, 2001 Roanoke, Virginia Description: Phrase browsing applications provide information seekers with access to text content via structured lists of index terms. These lists provide a preview of the content of a collection. The index terms, which may be identified by a variety of techniques, are phrases that represent important concepts referred to in a document or collection of documents. The browsing system supports interactive navigation and organization of the phrases. Browsing systems are distinct from systems based on ontologies because phrases are drawn automatically from the text of the collection itself, and do not necessarily correspond to taxonomies of the collection content. For this reason, phrase-browsing systems can be easily integrated with full-text search. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in any aspect of phrase browsing technology, including, but not limited to, identification of index terms, techniques for hierarchical organization of the terms, implementation of efficient systems, usability of browsing applications, and techniques for evaluating this technology. Paper submission: Long papers of up to 6 pages and short papers of up to 2 pages are solicited. An extended abstract (3 pages for long papers, 1 page for short papers) should be submitted to one of the Co-chairs by April 1, 2001. Notification of acceptance will be made by April 20, 2001. Final papers must be submitted by May 31, 2001. Papers should be in the ACM document format template, as specified on the JCDL web page, http://www.jcdl.org/ For more information, go to the Workshop's web page, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nina/browsingtechnologywkshop.html Workshop Co-chairs: Nina Wacholder (nina at cs.columbia.edu) Craig Nevill-Manning (nevill at cs.rutgers.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Sun Mar 25 16:10:41 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:10:41 +0200 Subject: Ecole: MSc in Psycholinguistics at the University of Edinburgh Message-ID: <SUN.25.MAR.2001.181041.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* MSc in Psycholinguistics at the University of Edinburgh We announce a new one-year MSc degree in Psycholinguistics, at the University of Edinburgh. The programme is based in the Department of Psychology and draws on the world-class expertise in language research at Edinburgh, principally in the Department of Psychology, the Division of Informatics (incorporating the School of Cognitive Science), and the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. We invite applications from individuals with good honours degrees (or their non-UK equivalent) in relevant disciplines. Our goal is to provide students with a comprehensive introduction to research into the psychology of language, taught by staff who are themselves internationally known researchers in the field. The programme also provides training in a wide range of research methods, and will be a valuable precursor to PhD studies at Edinburgh or elsewhere. Please visit our website for further information. http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/Teaching/pg/psycholing.html ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* ****************************************************************************** Dr. Richard Shillcock Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation Division of Informatics University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW UK MAIL : Richard.Shillcock at ed.ac.uk VOICE : +44 (131) 650 4425 FAX : +44 (131) 650 6626 www : http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~rcs/ and Department of Psychology 7 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JZ UK VOICE : +44 (131) 650 3453 FAX : +44 (131) 650 3461 ****************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Sun Mar 25 16:10:57 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:10:57 +0200 Subject: Appel: ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop on ARABIC Language Processing Message-ID: <SUN.25.MAR.2001.181057.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop ARABIC Language Processing: Status and Prospects Toulouse, France, Friday 6 July 2001 Co-organized by: ELSNET/NAPLUS WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION: The objective of the workshop is threefold. * First of all we want to bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic language and/or speech processing in a mono- or multilingual context, and give them an opportunity to report on completed and ongoing work as well as on the availability of products and core technologies. This should enable the participants to develop a common view on where we stand with respect to Arabic language processing. * Secondly, we want to identify problems of common interest, and possible mechanisms to move towards solutions, such as sharing of tools and resources, moving towards standards, sharing and dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of current best practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer mechanisms, etc. * Third, we would like to enhance collaboration between the Arabic NLP community and the NLP community at large. The workshop program will include the following components: * Introduction * Overview talks * Scientific papers * Short presentations of projects, core technologies and products * A panel session and/or a round table discussion * Conclusions SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: Papers are solicited that address all aspects of Arabic language processing in a mono- or multilingual context, including tools, resources and standards. Papers will have to be original and report on completed research. Submissions of scientific papers should not exceed eight (8) pages. Please provide a list of keywords in the separate header page. Further submission details below. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SHORT PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS, CORE TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS: Short presentations serve to give the audience an impression of ongoing activities and projects, and of existing core technologies and products, with a view to possible collaboration and synergies (i.e. NO commercial product presentations). Submissions of short presentations should not exceed two (2) pages. Short presentations will be reviewed on the basis of relevance and clarity of presentation. REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Submissions should not exceed the length indicated above, including references. You can download the appropriate style or template files using the following link: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. Submission and presentation language is English. In case of problems with the submission format, please contact steven.krauwer at elsnet.org. Submissions should be sent to steven.krauwer at elsnet.org. All submissions will be acknowledged. DEADLINES FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: * Submission deadline: 6th April 2001 * Notification date: 27th April 2001 * Camera-ready papers due: 16th May 2001 * Workshop date: 6th July 2001 CONFIRMED CORE PROGRAMME/ORGANISATION COMMITTEE: * Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan (Co-chair, myaseen at cbj.gov.jo) * Joseph Dichy, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2, France (Co-chair, dichy at univ-lyon2.fr) * Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University / ELSNET, The Netherlands (Contact person, steven.krauwer at elsnet.org) * Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia (adn at gnet.tn) * Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia (ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn) * Humoud Al-Sadoun, Ministry of Education, Kuwait (hbh at moe.edu.kw) * Jean Senellart, SYSTRAN, France (senellart at systran.fr) * Nadia Hegazy, ERI, Egypt (nhegazy at idsc.gov.eg) * Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France (choukri at elda.fr) * Malek Boualem, FTRD/DMI/LAN, France (malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr) * Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, (e.ditters at let.kun.nl) WORKSHOP URL: http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-arabic.html CONTACT INFO: Steven Krauwer email: steven.krauwer at elsnet.org ELSNET / UiL OTS www: http://www.elsnet.org Trans 10 phone: +31 30 253 6050 3512 JK Utrecht, NL fax: +31 30 253 6000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Sun Mar 25 16:11:07 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:11:07 +0200 Subject: Ecole: EUROLAN 2001 - Second Call for Participation Message-ID: <SUN.25.MAR.2001.181107.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ***************************************************************** --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Thank you in advance to circulate --- ***************************************************************** EUROLAN 2001 - Second Call for Participation Summer School on "Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources" 5th in the series of Eurolan Schools 30 July - 11 August 2001 Iasi, Romania Theme The goal of EUROLAN 2001 is to insert into the participants' minds data on the theory, methodology, and technology for creating and using annotated language resources for language engineering. Experienced brainwashers will spend all mornings trying to convince you, and all afternoons trying to test the effect of their previous efforts. In translation, tutorials on a variety of topics will be accompanied with hands-on experience using tools for resource annotation, as well as techniques for using these resources to augment the performance of language engineering applications such as information retrieval, information extraction, machine translation, summarization, deep understanding, etc. In case you are wondering what will really happen, the list of main topics should give you an idea: Annotation formalisms and standards for NLP (XML, XCES) Sub-syntactic annotation (tokenization, part of speech tagging, shallow-parsing - chunking) Qualitative and quantitative approaches to analysis of corpora Annotation of semantics, word sense disambiguation, semantic roles of verbs, meaning relationships, linguistic chains Annotation of discourse (structure, co-reference, deep understanding) Exploitation for anaphora resolution Exploitation for information extraction and information retrieval Exploitation for summarization, discourse interpretation and data mining Exploitation for machine translation Creation and exploitation tools in cross-lingual application Invited Lecturers Your endeavors to understand something of what is going on will be guided by: Catalina Barbu - Universities of Wolverhampton & Iasi Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbrücken Dan Cristea - University of Iasi Hamish Cunningham - University of Sheffield Chuck Fillmore - University of California, Berkeley Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science - Tokyo Ulf Hermjakob - University of Southern California Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto Nancy Ide - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Adam Kilgarriff - University of Brighton Daniel Marcu - ISI, University of Southern California Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy Valentin Tablan - Universities of Sheffield & Iasi Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy, Bucharest Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken Program Eurolan 2001 will take place between 30 July and 11 August 2001 in Iasi, Romania and will be hosted by the "Al. I. Cuza" University, Faculty of Computer Science. As the best way to avoid trouble with people is to keep them busy, the summer school will also include two workshops (Multi-layer corpus based analysis: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html and Modular Programming Applied to Natural Language Processing: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/), intended to let us hear your voices, and two round tables on topics of particular interest (hopefully, you will not fall asleep): linguistic data consortia and industrial applications in response to market requirements. Don't panic! We have not forgotten the best part: a welcome party, a farewell party, a trip on Sunday, 5 August, to the Bucovina Monasteries (UNESCO Cultural Heritage in northern Romania), and many more!!! Registration and Costs As usual, you can register on-line. This time at: http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/fees.html If you make up you mind before 30 April, we have a special tuition fee for you: 250 USD. It will become 350 USD between 1 and 31 May 2001. Afterwards, we cannot guarantee that you find any more seats available in the conference room and computer labs. As you can see, we have tried to keep tuition fees low. If you still think these figures are high for your pocket, don't hesitate to contact us at: eurolan at infoiasi.ro. You never know what wonderful solutions we might find. In case you plan to get also some sleep during this period, you may choose among the options below and we will make the reservation for you: Student hostel - double room: 10 USD/night or single room: 18 USD/night. nice rooms, with bathrooms, TV, fridge, coffee makers, breakfast for 2 bucks, close to the University (3 minutes walk downhill). City hotels (**) - double room: 16 USD/night or single room: 22 USD/night. nice rooms, with bathrooms, breakfast included, telephone and other hotel facilities, central location, 10 minutes walk uphill to the University. City hotel (***) - double room: 40 USD/night or single room: 55-65 USD/night. very nice rooms, with bathrooms, breakfast included, telephone and other hotel facilities, quiet and peaceful, somehow far away, 15 minutes by taxi or by your car, no other way to get to the University. We hope to gather everybody for lunch and dinner at an approximate price per day of 10-15 USD, depending on the diet. However lonely souls have the possibility to choose other arrangements in the city for a maximum of 20 USD. Don't forget to fill in your registration form and send it to us before 30 April 2001 (early registration) or 31 May 2001 (late registration). These deadlines also apply to the receipt of the tuition fee to the account below: . Bank name: BCR Iasi (Romanian Commercial Bank, Iasi branch) . Bank address: Str. Palat 11, Iasi 6600 - ROMANIA . Swift code: RNCBROBUIS . Account number: 2511.31-418.94 . Owner: "Al.I.Cuza" University of Iasi - please specify: "for EUROLAN" Please take into account that bank transfer costs should be paid in addition to the tuition fee. Organizing Committee For anything that goes wrong, you may blame: Nancy IDE - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Dan CRISTEA - "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi Dan TUFIS - Romanian Academy, Bucharest Laurent ROMARY - LORIA Laboratories, Nancy Daniel MARCU - ISI, University of Southern California ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Sun Mar 25 16:11:31 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:11:31 +0200 Subject: Conf: Extended deadline for EUROLAN'01 Workshop Message-ID: <SUN.25.MAR.2001.181131.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ** EXTENDED DEADLINE 8th April 2001 ** ** Please excuse any duplicate copies of this announcement ** ** you may have received through mailing lists. ** NEW: the official poster of the workshop is now at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/ -------------------------------------------------- Workshop on 'Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing' Held as part of EUROLAN'01 Summer School July 30 - August 11 Iasi, Romania http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/ CALL FOR PAPERS The effectiveness of modular programming in designing software has long been acknowledged by the computer science community. However, the computational linguistics community preferred to develop components in isolation, without integrating existing modules into proposed systems. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, integration of different modules is not a trivial task, requiring a lot of time. Usually the major problem is the loss of information caused when the output of one module has to be converted to the input of another. Most research projects do not have the time or resources to concentrate on a real modular architecture, using trade offs (such as manually created inputs) instead. Secondly, most of the work in the research community is directed towards proposing and demonstrating new hypotheses, and not building robust and fully automatic applications. In many cases preprocessing steps, which produce the input data for the tested method, are considered trivial and accurate, and as a result replaced with hand produced data. Therefore, when a researcher needs a certain module for a method, s/he prefers to produce the output of that program manually, either because s/he is not aware of an existing implementation which performs the required task, or because the work involved in setting it up is greater than that involved in manually producing the output (usually because the implementation was developed and tested on a different platform). However, this situation has started to change rapidly. More and more researchers have appreciated the complexity of NLP tasks and the need to use modular programming. A quick look at the systems presented at the latest MUC indicated that they are complex systems which reuse previous research. Systems like GATE have been designed in order to help with the integration of different modules in a system. In addition, the research community is increasingly requiring the development of fully automatic applications. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between researchers involved in the development of automatic NLP systems and leading names in the field. We would like to invite all researchers to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - modular architectures for NLP - black/glass box evaluation measures - research on the influence of substitution and alternate combinations of modules on overall system performance - reusability - integration of resources (including conversion formats between modules) - platforms for developing modular applications - repositories Demos of the presented systems are encouraged. Submission Requirements Papers should describe original work in progress or completed work. The main purpose of presenting at the Workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work. The submissions should not exceed 10 pages with 12pt Times New Roman font including figures, references, and appendices. Authors will be sent details of the final format for camera-ready versions together with notification of acceptance. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Electronic submissions are encouraged but hard copies are acceptable. For electronic submission, papers should be in Postscript, PDF, Microsoft Word, or RTF format. For other formats, please contact the organising committee. All papers should be sent to workshop-eurolan at wlv.ac.uk Contact Address Constantin Orasan HLSS University of Wolverhampton Stafford Street Wolverhampton WV1 1SB UK. Email: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (please use 'EUROLAN WORKSHOP' in the subject line) Important Dates Submission Deadline: 8th April 2001 (extended deadline) Notification of Acceptance: 4th May 2001 Camera-ready Papers: 1st June 2001 Workshop: To be announced Registration People wanting to attend the workshop must be registered in the Eurolan'01 School. Participation to the workshop is open to all Eurolan'01 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made available. Authors of the papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will benefit of early registration fee no matter the date they register. Organizing committee Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton Richard Evans - University of Wolverhampton Catalina Barbu - University of Wolverhampton Program committee Dan Cristea - University of Iasi Hamish Cunningham - University of Sheffield Le An Ha - University of Wolverhampton Nancy Ide - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Ramesh Krishnamurthy - University of Wolverhampton Daniel Marcu - University of Southern California Oliver Mason - University of Birmingham Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Maximilian Saiz Noeda - University of Alicante Chris Paice - Lancaster University Valentin Tablan - Universities of Iasi & Sheffield Doina Tatar - Babes-Bolyai University Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 29 17:23:09 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:23:09 +0200 Subject: Jobs: PROFESSOR IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS - Stockholm University Message-ID: <THU.29.MAR.2001.192309.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities Kenneth Hjalmarsson Tel. 08-16 21 30 Fax 08-16 25 69 E-mail: kenneth.hjalmarsson at adm.su.se Stockholm University invites applications for a position as PROFESSOR IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS at the Department of Linguistics (ref no. 611-0740-01) Responsibilities will include research, supervision of Ph.D. students, and teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels. The professor may also be asked to assume administrative functions within the department. Necessary qualifications include well documented scientific and pedagogical skills. The applicants should have an established record of scientific publications of high quality, at least at the level of a Swedish docent (roughly corresponding to Habilitation in other European countries). In addition, administrative skills, leadership and cooperative abilities are of importance. Applicants' ability to promote contact with the world outside the university and to spread information about research will also be considered. More information can be obtained by contacting the head of the Department of Linguistics, Christna Hellman, tel. +46-8-16 2335 or by email: kicki at ling.su.se. Union representatives are Bo Ekengren (SACO-rE5det), Lars C5ke SE4ll (ST-ATF) and Birgitta CarlE9n (SEKO) (all at tel. +46-8-162000) Applicants are encouraged to include their salary expectations in their application. The application, in four copies, should include: - a certified summary of qualifications and a numbered list of scientific works - a statement of intent in English (no more than two pages), specifying the applicant's plans within the relevant areas of activity, should he or she receive the position - copies of relevant diplomas, certificates etc. - a short description in English (no more than five pages) of the applicant's experience in research, education, administration (including project development and staff management). The applicant should indicate which results and qualifications he or she considers to be of particular relevance. Applicants should acquaint themselves with the University's employment policy and principles for the evaluation of pedagogical qualifications of teachers (http://www.pb.su.se, or by contacting the administrative official mentioned above). - one set of those scientific works (numbered according to the list of publications), which the applicant considers to be of primary relevance to the application. Note: only one set of publications should be sent to the university at this time. The applicants will later be asked to send a set of relevant publications to each of three experts who will be chosen to evaluate the applications. Deadline for applications, marked with the above reference number (ref no. 611-0740-01) is April 15, 2001. Send to : Stockholms universitet, Registrator/PA, 106 91 STOCKHOLM Applications by email or fax will be accepted, but a signed original application must be sent in at soon as possible. (This is a shortened and revised version of the official announcement in Swedish.) ******************************* Jennifer Spenader Computational Linguistics Dept. of Linguistics Stockholm University 10691 Stockholm Sweden email: jennifer at ling.su.se tel: +46 8-161761 fax: +46 8-155389 ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 29 17:23:28 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:23:28 +0200 Subject: Appel: Workshop on the Technology of Browsing Applications (2e appel) Message-ID: <THU.29.MAR.2001.192328.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> *****************SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS********************* ********SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL APRIL 15********* THE TECHNOLOGY OF BROWSING APPLICATIONS http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nina/browsingtechnologywkshop.html A Workshop held in Conjunction with the 2001 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries June 28, 2001 Roanoke, Virginia Description: Phrase browsing applications provide information seekers with access to text content via structured lists of index terms. These lists provide a preview of the content of a collection. The index terms, which may be identified by a variety of techniques, are phrases that represent important concepts referred to in a document or collection of documents. The browsing system supports interactive navigation and organization of the phrases. Browsing systems are distinct from systems based on ontologies because phrases are drawn automatically from the text of the collection itself, and do not necessarily correspond to taxonomies of the collection content. For this reason, phrase-browsing systems can be easily integrated with full-text search. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in any aspect of phrase browsing technology, including, but not limited to, identification of index terms, techniques for hierarchical organization of the terms, implementation of efficient systems, usability of browsing applications, and techniques for evaluating this technology. Paper submission: Long papers of up to 6 pages and short papers of up to 2 pages are solicited. An extended abstract (3 pages for long papers, 1 page for short papers) should be submitted to one of the Co-chairs by April 1, 2001. Notification of acceptance will be made by April 20, 2001. Final papers must be submitted by May 31, 2001. Papers should be in the ACM document format template, as specified on the JCDL web page, http://www.jcdl.org/ For more information, go to the Workshop's web page, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nina/browsingtechnologywkshop.html Workshop Co-chairs: Nina Wacholder (nina at cs.columbia.edu) Craig Nevill-Manning (nevill at cs.rutgers.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 29 17:23:44 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:23:44 +0200 Subject: Soft: BCN Indexer Message-ID: <THU.29.MAR.2001.192344.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> (Apologies for multiple copies, this message has been sent several lists) Dear list members, BNC Indexer is a tool for those who want/need to use the BNC (British National Corpus) under Microsoft Windows (9x/NT/2000). The BNC distribution provides a software tool (SARA) that can select subsets of the corpus for analysis based on a number of parameters, such as domain, mode, author age/sex/type, etc. This tool, however, is available only for Unix users. BNC Indexer allows you to select sets of files based on any number of the BNC's original parameters, plus a genre classification developed by David Lee (david_lee00 at hotmail.com), using a simple, user-friendly interface. You can also view any BNC file after it has been selected, as well as export file lists for processing in other applications. BNC Indexer is FREEWARE, so you can use it free of charge for as long as you want. Please read the License Agreement in BNC Indexer's Help file. I appreciate your comments and suggestions (especially if they're positive!). For more info and downloads, visit BNC Indexer's site: http://webdeptos.uma.es/filifa/personal/amoreno/indexer ...hope you find it useful! Antonio Moreno Ortiz Facultad Filosofia y Letras Campus de Teatinos S/N Universidad de Malaga e-mail: amo at uma.es Tel: +34 952131789 Fax: +34 952131843 http://webdeptos.uma.es/filifa/personal/amoreno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Tue Mar 6 17:42:46 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:42:46 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 5 offres Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2001.184246.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/ European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) JRC-Ispra site near the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy. 2/ The University of Liverpool Research and Development Unit for English Studies 3/ Groningen (The Netherlands) Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen Postdocs and Graduate Students 4/ Educational Testing Service Research Scientist Princeton New Jersey 5/ EU funded project searching of multiple multimedia digital libraries department of Information Studies at Sheffield --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) is looking for a one-year Auxiliary Agent, starting approximately in May 2001, to contribute to its Language Technology projects at the JRC-Ispra site near the Lago Maggiore in Northern Italy. The candidate will work in a multi-disciplinary and international team of scientists and developers and will contribute to two projects. The first one is concerned with the automatic assignment of keywords from a multilingual thesaurus to text, using statistical methods and a manually indexed text collection. The second project has the aim of gathering potentially user-relevant documents from the internet and to analyse, classify and store them. The ideal candidate has a practical approach and knows how to use, integrate and optimise different tools in the Windows NT environment. Requirements: Degree in Computational Linguistics or related areas; PERL programming experience; working knowledge of English; experience of working with large corpora or data collections; citizenship of a EU country. Desirable knowledge: Knowledge of statistics for automatic classification and similar applications; knowledge of French, German, Italian or other European languages; experience with further programming languages such as C or Java; knowledge of HTML and XML. Remuneration depends on age, family status, experience and current residence. The salary for a single person currently residing outside Italy is approximately 3.000 Euro per month net (after taxes). We offer interesting work in an expanding team and in an attractive setting. The JRC employs altogether 2400 staff from many different countries. 1800 of these work at the Ispra site in Northern Italy, about 60 km West of the city of Milan. If you are interested or have questions, please contact Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger at jrc.it). The deadline for applications is 18.03.2001. Electronic applications are preferred. Dr. Ralf Steinberger (ralf.steinberger at jrc.it) European Commission, Joint Research Centre (http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/jrc) Institute for Systems, Informatics and Safety (ISIS) RMDS - Project 25 T.P. 361 I - 21020 Ispra (VA) Tel: + 39 - 0332 78 6271 Fax: + 39 - 0332 78 9098 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ The University of Liverpool Research and Development Unit for English Studies RESEARCH ASSOCIATE/FELLOW Initial salary within the range ?16,775 - ?22,245 pa A vacancy has arisen in the Unit for a software developer with WWW programming skills and a good grasp of the nature of the English language. The post will initially run for 2 years, and relates primarily to two EPSRC-funded research projects concerning the extraction of linguistic information from the World Wide Web (http://www.webcorp.org.uk) and the retrieval of related documents from textual databases. Experience with CGI programming, Perl and information retrieval/search-engine technology is preferable, and familiarity with C/C++ and standard Unix tools is also desirable. The starting date will be as soon as possible. Quote Ref: A/882 Closing date: 23 March 2001 Further particulars and details of the application procedure may be requested from the Director of Personnel, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, United Kingdom on 0151 794 2210 (24 hr answerphone) or via email: jobs at liv.ac.uk COMMITTED TO EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES University web site: http://www.liv.ac.uk/ RDUES web site: http://www.rdues.liv.ac.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ Groningen (The Netherlands) Center for Language and Cognition, University of Groningen Postdocs and Graduate Students Two Graduate Students, two Postdocs ----------------------------------- The Center for Language and Cognition, Groningen (CLCG) has openings for two graduate students (four-year positions) and two postdocs (two-year positions). We invite qualified applications for these positions. The postdoc positions are in projects investigating the visualization of language variation and connectionist language learning, and the Ph.D. positions are in the computational simulation of phonological learning and in neurolinguistics. Details are available at www.let.rug.nl/~nerbonne/clcg/posities01.html Applications preferably by Mar. 14, 2001. John Nerbonne Dir., CLCG nerbonne at let.rug.nl --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4/ Educational Testing Service, an international leader in the field of educational measurement, has a Research Scientist opening in the Center for Assessment and Design, part of the Statistics and Research Division. The Scientist position involves applying scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting natural language processing research studies and in developing and contributing to the development of new products or services for education. REQUIREMENTS A doctoral degree in Computer Science or Linguistics with solid computational linguistics experience and an interest in natural language processing research for purposes of automated writing analysis, instruction and scoring are required. Evidence of independent substantive research experience is required and the successful candidate is expected to be able to contribute to new or modified theories of natural language processing as applied to educational and psychological processes. ETS offers competitive salaries, outstanding benefits, a stimulating work environment, and attractive growth potential. ETS is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Please send resume including salary requirements to: Mike Smith Educational Testing Service Rosedale Road, MS 02-D Princeton, NJ 08541 Email: mlsmith at ets.org Fax: (609) 497-6022 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5/ As a follow up to an earlier advert, the MIND RA post is now officially being advertised. MIND (http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/mind/) A 27-month multi-site EU funded project investigating the searching of multiple multimedia digital libraries (i.e. search and meta search engines) over a wide area network. Sheffield?s main task focuses on searching libraries of speech documents. Emphasis will be on information retrieval and interface design over actual speech recognition. The fusing of results from multiple libraries will also be examined. Candidates with a relevant post graduate degree with some or all of the following experience should apply: Java or C++ programming; HCI and user testing; information retrieval; and speech recognition. Pay range ?16,775 - ?21,435. The department of Information Studies at Sheffield has consistently gained the highest possible research rating and has a long tradition of high quality Information Retrieval research. It has strong links with the internationally renowned natural language processing and speech research groups within the Computer Science department. Closing date for applications: 29 March 2001 Reference Number: RW2293 See the following Web site for details on how to apply: http://www.shef.ac.uk/jobs/acadjobs/rw2293.html ____________________________________________________________________________ Mark Sanderson, Room 303 Tel : +44 (0) 114 22 22648 Department of Information Studies Fax : +44 (0) 114 27 80300 University of Sheffield, Western Bank mailto:m.sanderson at shef.ac.uk Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/ ____________________________________________________________________________ Good judgement comes from experience but experience comes from bad judgement --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 6 17:43:09 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:43:09 +0100 Subject: Appel: 5 conferences Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2001.184309.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/ The Fourth International Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation 2/ Corpus Linguistics 2001 Workshop Announcement Lancaster University 29 March 2001 Title: XML Markup Technologies for Working with Linguistic Data 3/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop ARABIC Language Processing: Status and Prospects 4/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 5/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop 8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ Borjomi, Georgia September 23-28, 2001 www.illc.uva.nl/borjomi The fourth Tbilisi Symposium on Language, Logic and Computation will be held in the mountain resort Likani, situated in the Borjomi Canyon, from 23 to 28 September. The Symposium is organized by the Centre for Language, Logic and Speech at the Tbilisi State University in conjunction with the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the University of Amsterdam. The 2001 forum is the fourth instalment of a series of biannual Symposia. The preceding ones took place in the Georgian mountain resort Gudauri (1995), at the capital of Georgia Tbilisi (1997) and in the Black sea cost resort Chakvi (1999). The success of this triad encourages us to continue this series. THEMES The Symposium welcomes papers on current research in all aspects of Linguistics, Logic and Computation, including but not limited to: Natural language semantics/pragmatics Algebraic and relational semantics Natural language processing Logic in AI and natural language Natural language and logic programming Automated reasoning Natural language and databases Information retrieval from text Natural language and internet Constructive and modal logic In line with the main trend in this field we strongly encourage the submission of papers concerning applications of logic to computation and the application of logic and computation to language description and modelling. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Abstracts of papers submitted for presentation should not exceed 2 000 words. The abstracts should include, on the first page: title, author's name, affiliation, complete mailing address, phone, fax and e-mail address, an abstract of 200 words maximum, and up to five key- words. The preferred method of submission is electronically through the website www.illc.uva.ml/borjomi Only persons without access to the web can submit a hard copy. These hard copies should be submitted to the following address: Ingrid van Loon ILLC Plantage Muidergracht 24 NL-1018 TV Amsterdam The Netherlands The collection volume of the short versions will be available during the Symposium. The printing of the proceedings with full size (8-12 pages) papers is planned immediately after the Symposium. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: April 30, 2001 Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2001 Registration deadline: August 15, 2001 Symposium: September 23-28, 2001 TUTORIALS In parallel with the Symposium tutorials will be given by outstanding scholars for students and post-graduates. They are explicitly meant to address Interdisciplinary issues in the fields of language, logic and computation. Johan van Benthem (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) will give a tutorial on Logic, Patrick Blackburn (INRIA, Lorraine) on Computation and Irene Heim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to be confirmed) on Language. INVITED SPEAKERS Ju. Apresjan (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) R. Cooper (University of Goteborg) M. Krifka (Humboldt University Berlin ) B. Partee (University of Massachusetts) D. Pearce (to be confirmed) Y. Venema (University of Amsterdam, to be confirmed) A. Voronkov (The University of Manchester) M. Zakharyaschev (King's College, London) SCIENTIFIC BOARD chairs Th. Gamkrelidze (Tbilisi State University) D. de Jongh (University of Amsterdam) members Matthias Baaz (Technical University of Vienna) Guram Bezhanishvili (New Mexico State University) Wim Blok (The University of Illinois at Chicago) Igor Boguslavskij (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) George Chikoidze (Georgian Academy of Sciences) Robin Cooper (G?teborg University) Leo Esakia (Georgian Academy of Sciences) Eva Hajicova (Charles University) Georgi Japaridze (Villanova University) Manfred Krifka (Humboldt University Berlin) Igor Melchuk (Montreal University) Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Barbara Partee (University of Massachusetts) Carl Vogel (Trinity College Dublin) ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE T. Khurodze (pro-rector of the Tbilisi State University, Chair) P. Dekker, I. van Loon, M. Marx, H. Zeevat (University of Amsterdam) N. Amirezashvili, R. Asatiani, N. Bezhanishvili, G. Chikoidze, R. Grigolia, M. Ivanishvili, N. Javashvili, L. Lortkipanidze(Georgian Academy of Sciences) N. Chanishvili, K. Phkhakadze, Kh. Rukhaia, N. Shengelaia (Tbilisi State University) FEES The participant's fee is 200 EURO. This fee is not obligatory forparticipants from Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States. TRAVEL By plane to Tbilisi and then by bus (3-4 hours) to Likani; a special bus trip is planned which will start inTbilisi at Sunday September 23. A visa can be obtained at the airport. All participants will get a letter of invitation to facilitate the procedure of getting a visa. LOCATION Georgia is an ancient country situated between Black and Kaspian Seas, Caucasus Mountains and Turkey. This is the country of the Golden Fleece, myth of Argonauts, Jason and Medea, Promethee, chained to the Caucasus Mountains. Georgia is famous for its high quality wines, exquisite cuisine and cordial hospitality. The Symposium will be hosted by the Tbilisi State University, the chief centre of education in the country which has several outstanding scholars in science, art and politics among its graduates. The Fourth Tbilisi Symposium will be held in Likani, a group of sanatoriums and hotels situated in the famous mountain resort Borjomi. Borjomi (175 km west from Tbilisi) is the largest mountain spa in Georgia, whose name is a synonym for mineral water throughout Georgia. The surrounding countryside with many good walks in the hills and several attractive parks is a nature reserve. Borjomi Canyon slopes are covered by mixed forest, variegated in the autumn; somewhat higher in the Canyon is the ski resort Bakuriani and at a distance of 150 km the medieval cave-city Vardzia. From the monuments in Borjomi the most important is one of the residencies of Russian Kings. EXCURSIONS Short excursions are planned to the ski resort Bakuriani and cave-city Vardzia. As one of the options of return to Tbilisi a two-day trip is planned to the second town of Georgia, Kutaisi, and the mountain resort Shovi situated on the south slopes of the main Caucasus ridge. INFORMATION www.illc.uva.nl/borjomi For more information one may also contact: George Chikoidze Dept. of Language Modelling Institute of Control Systems Georgian Academy of Sciences 34, K. Gamsakhurdia 380060 Tbilisi Georgia phone: +995 32 382136 fax: +995 32 942391 chiko at contsys.acnet.ge or: Ingrid van Loon Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam Plantage Muidergracht 24 NL-1018 TV Amsterdam The Netherlands phone: +31 20 525 6519 fax: +31 20 525 5206 borjomi at wins.uva.nl ABOUT GEORGIA/BORJOMI Web sites: www.parliament.ge www.parliament.ge/~nino/borjomi/borjomi.html avkl.narod.ru/gallery/georgia/english.html www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/gg.html www.grida.no/enrin/htmls/georgia/soegeor/english/biodiv/reserves/borjomi.htm www.sakartvelo.com dir.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/Georgia/ Travel guide: "Georgia; The Bradt Travel Guide" by Tim Burford (published by Bradt in 1999); ISBN I 898323 98 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ Corpus Linguistics 2001 Workshop Announcement Lancaster University 29 March 2001 Title: XML Markup Technologies for Working with Linguistic Data Time: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. 29 March 2001 (half day) Organisers: Jean Carletta and Henry Thompson, The Language Technology Group of the University of Edinburgh and W3C For details, please see http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~jeanc/corpus-linguistics -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop ARABIC Language Processing: Status and Prospects Toulouse, France, Friday 6 July 2001 Co-organized by: ELSNET NAPLUS WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION: The objective of the workshop is threefold. * First of all we want to bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic language and/or speech processing in a mono- or multilingual context, and give them an opportunity to report on completed and ongoing work as well as on the availability of products and core technologies. This should enable the participants to develop a common view on where we stand with respect to Arabic language processing. * Secondly, we want to identify problems of common interest, and possible mechanisms to move towards solutions, such as sharing of tools and resources, moving towards standards, sharing and dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of current best practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer mechanisms, etc. * Third, we would like to enhance collaboration between the Arabic NLP community and the NLP community at large. The workshop program will include the following components: * Introduction * Overview talks * Scientific papers * Short presentations of projects, core technologies and products * A panel session and/or a round table discussion * Conclusions SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: Papers are solicited that address all aspects of Arabic language processing in a mono- or multilingual context, including tools, resources and standards. Papers will have to be original and report on completed research. Submissions of scientific papers should not exceed eight (8) pages. Please provide a list of keywords in the separate header page. Further submission details below. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SHORT PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS, CORE TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS: Short presentations serve to give the audience an impression of ongoing activities and projects, and of existing core technologies and products, with a view to possible collaboration and synergies (i.e. NO commercial product presentations). Submissions of short presentations should not exceed two (2) pages. Short presentations will be reviewed on the basis of relevance and clarity of presentation. REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Submissions should not exceed the length indicated above, including references. You can download the appropriate style or template files using the following link: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. Submission and presentation language is English. In case of problems with the submission format, please contact steven.krauwer at elsnet.org. Submissions should be sent to steven.krauwer at elsnet.org. All submissions will be acknowledged. DEADLINES FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: * Submission deadline: 6th April 2001 * Notification date: 27th April 2001 * Camera-ready papers due: 16th May 2001 * Workshop date: 6th July 2001 CONFIRMED CORE PROGRAMME/ORGANISATION COMMITTEE: * Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan (Co-chair, myaseen at cbj.gov.jo) * Joseph Dichy, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2, France (Co-chair, dichy at univ-lyon2.fr) * Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University / ELSNET, The Netherlands (Contact person, steven.krauwer at elsnet.org) * Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia (adn at gnet.tn) * Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia (ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn) * Humoud Al-Sadoun, Ministry of Education, Kuwait (hbh at moe.edu.kw) * Jean Senellart, SYSTRAN, France (senellart at systran.fr) * Nadia Hegazy, ERI, Egypt (nhegazy at idsc.gov.eg) * Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France (choukri at elda.fr) * Malek Boualem, FTRD/DMI/LAN, France (malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr) * Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, (e.ditters at let.kun.nl) WORKSHOP URL: http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-arabic.html CONTACT INFO: Steven Krauwer email: steven.krauwer at elsnet.org ELSNET / UiL OTS www: http://www.elsnet.org Trans 10 phone: +31 30 253 6050 3512 JK Utrecht, NL fax: +31 30 253 6000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4/ WORKSHOP ON HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ACL'2001 Conference Toulouse, France July 6-7, 2001 Human language technologies promise solutions to challenges in human computer interaction, information access, and knowledge management. Advances in technology areas such as indexing, retrieval, transcription, extraction, translation, and summarization offer new capabilities for learning, playing and conducting business. This includes enhanced awareness, creation and dissemination of enterprise expertise and know-how. This workshop aims to bring together the community of computational linguists working in a range of areas (e.g., speech and language processing, translation, summarization, multimedia presentation, content extraction, dialog tracking) both to report advances in human language technology, their application to knowledge management and to establish a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade. The road map will comprise an analysis of the present situation, a vision of where we want to be in ten years from now, and a number of inter-mediate milestones that would help in setting intermediate goals and in measuring our progress towards our goals. The workshop will be structured into two days, the first which will address new research in human language tech-nology for knowledge management that addresses problems including but not limited to: * Expert Discovery: Modeling, cataloguing and tracking of distributed organizations and communities of experts. * Knowledge Discovery: Identification and classification of knowledge from unstructured multimedia data. * Knowledge Sharing: Awareness of and access to enterprise expertise and know-how. Human language technology promises solutions to these challenges through technologies such as: * Automated retrieval, extraction, and enrichment of information and knowledge from multimedia, multilin-gual, and multiparty information sources. * Translingual or crosslingual retrieval, presentation, and sharing of knowledge. * Automated detection and tracking of emerging topics from unstructured multimedia data (e.g., documents, web, video news broadcasts). * Use of knowledge sources to facilitate knowledge mapping and access (e.g., lexicosemantic such as Word-Net, semantic such as geospatial Gazetteers, semistructured such as thesauri, encyclopedia, fact books) * Automated question-answering from heterogeneous source * Intelligent tools that support the automated bibliometrics and document analysis/understanding in support of discovery of distributed experts and communities of expertise * Summarization and presentation generation of knowledge (e.g., knowledge maps, lessons learned). * Modeling of user knowledge, beliefs, plans, (dis)abilities and preferences from queries, created artifacts, and human computer interactions. The second day of the workshop will target the formulation and refinement of a road map for the Human Language Technologies for the next decade. Participants will help formulate grand challenge problems, discuss possible data sets and/or evaluation metrics/methods that could form the basis of more scientific methods, articulate the role of and necessary advances in human language technology to solve these challenges, as well as identify and characterize early innovations and issues (e.g., robustness, scalability, ontology, privacy). PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Dr. Mark Maybury (Chair), The MITRE Corporation, maybury at mitre.org * Niels Ole Bernsen (Co-chair), University of Southern Denmark, nob at nis.sdu.dk * Steven Krauwer, ELSNET, U. Utrecht, steven.krauwer at let.uu.nl * Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Florida International University, becferi at fiu.edu * Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler-Chrysler Research Ulm, paul.heisterkamp at daimlerchrysler.com * Arjan van Hessen, COMSYS / U. Twente, hessen at cs.utwente.nl * Pierre Isabelle, XEROX Grenoble, pierre.isabelle at xrce.xerox.com * Enrico Motta, The Open University, e.motta at open.ac.uk * Jose Pardo, ELSNET, Univ.Politecnica Madrid, pardo at die.upm.es * Oliviero Stock, IRST Trento, stock at itc.it * Henry Thompson HCRC LTG, University of Edinburgh, ht at cogsci.ed.ac.uk * Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken, uszkoreit at dfki.de * Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, yorick at dcs.shef.ac.uk * Rick Wojcik, Boeing Phantom Works, richard.h.wojcik at boeing.com * Antonio Zampolli, ELSNET, U. Pisa, pisa at ilc.pi.cnr.it TARGET AUDIENCE The target audience of the workshop includes active researchers, developers, appliers/entrepreneurs and funders of human language technology in general as well as how it is applied to knowledge management applications. While we project a high degree of interest in this topic, we intend to restrict attendance based upon the quality of paper submissions to foster high quality interchange and progress. SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS Both papers and demonstration submissions are encouraged, either on HLT in general or its application to KM systems. Papers targeted at the first day on HLT for KM should clearly articulate the knowledge management problem addressed, the technical approach to solving that, the novelty of the approach, its relation to previous work, the evaluation or performance of the system or method, and discussion of limitations. Papers targeted at the second day of on human language technology direction should be authored so they could be integrated into a more general HLT roadmap and so should include a definition of the HLT area addressed (e.g., information ex-traction, translation, speech recognition), a statement of the grand challenges or problems in the subfield, an ar-ticulation/analysis of the current state of the art, a vision of where the community wants to be in ten years from now, a set of intermediate milestones that would help to set intermediate goals and measure/evaluate progress toward these goals. Submissions must be in English, no more than 8 pages long, and in the two-column format prescribed by ACL'2001. Please see http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ for the detailed guidelines. Submissions should be sent elec-tronically in Word (preferably) or PDF or ASCII text format to arrive no later than April 2, 2001 to Paula MacDonald (pmmmac at mitre.org). As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send a brief email indicating their intention to participate to include their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submission. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of their relevance, innovation, quality, and presentation according to the schedule below. SCHEDULE + Submission Deadline: 2 April 2001 + Notification : 30 April 2001 + Camera Ready Papers Due: 16 May 2001 WORKSHOP DATE July 6 and 7, 2001 WORKSHOP URL http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-hlt+km.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5/ ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop 8th EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION 6-7 July 2001 Toulouse, France http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Natural language generation (NLG) constitutes the production of meaningful texts in natural languages from some underlying non-linguistic representation of information. Accomplishing this goal may be envisioned for a number of different purposes, including standardized and/or multi-lingual reports, summaries, machine translation, dialog applications, and embedding in multi-media and hypertext environments. Consequently, the automated production of language is associated with a large number of highly diverse tasks whose appropriate orchestration in high quality poses a variety of theoretical and practical problems. Relevant issues include content selection, text organization, the production of referring expressions, aggregation, lexicalization, and surface realization, as well as coordination with other media. This workshop is part of a bi-annual series of workshops about natural language generation that runs since 1987. Previous European workshops have been held at Royaumont, Edinburgh, Judenstein, Pisa, Leiden, Duisburg, and Toulouse. The goal of the workshop is to be an informal meeting which facilitates the dissemination of knowledge and expertise in the field. The workshop will focus on the following topics: * Search methods for NLG (in content planning and realization) There seems to be a substantial discrepancy between application-oriented systems and principled approaches to NLG. Accomodating a standard pipeline architecture with suitable heuristic preferences to the intended functionality of a system stands in contrast to several principled approaches to searching which have been tried out so far. These include blackboard architectures, constraint propagation and, more recently genetic algorithms and statistical techniques. A comparison of these methods in terms of their potential and limitations is likely to improve understanding about this issue. Gained insights could prove fruitful for building applications in a more general and, thus, better reusable way, especially in large-scale applications such as summarization and machine translation. * Differences in information organization between source and presentation specifications (and methods to bridge between these) Whether the generation task is to verbally express contents of some knowledge base or to produce multi-lingual presentations from language-neutral or similar representations, there are strong similarities in building the target representations: In the overwhelming number of cases, the ordering and embedding of elements in the source representation is reflected by the ordering and embedding of their corresponding realizations at the surface. Often, this reflection is systematic, many times even simple. But a few cases prove complex and involve a major restructuring of the surface structure when compared to the source structure. A major emphasis of this topic is on collecting such complex cases, identifying commonalities between them and discussing restructuring techniques. Accepted papers on these topics will be scheduled for presentation. The majority of the time will be devoted to discussions, either in sequence or in parallel, depending on the number of participants. We are considering organizing a panel. For the focus topics above, we will contact a number of competent researchers to address the topic from a specific perspective according to their experience. In addition, we will ask some of them to prepare material / concrete examples for discussions. WORKSHOP CHAIRS Helmut Horacek Univ. of the Saarland Nicolas Nicolov IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Leo Wanner Univ. of Stuttgart PROGRAMME COMMITTEE John Bateman Univ. of Bremen Dan Cristea Univ. of Iasi Robert Dale Macquarie University Laurence Danlos Universite Paris 7 Marc Dymetman Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Michael Elhadad Ben-Gurion Univ. Kristiina Jokinen Univ. of Art and Design Helsinki Richard Kittredge Univ. of Montreal & CoGenTex Daniel Marcu ISI, Univ. of Southern California Chris Mellish Univ. of Edinburgh Sergei Nirenburg CRL, New Mexico Owen Rambow AT&T Research Ehud Reiter Univ. of Aberdeen Manfred Stede Technical University of Berlin Michael Zock LIMSI, CNRS SUBMISSIONS Papers describing original work in the area of NLG in particular related to the workshop focus topics above should be submitted electronically. Papers should be 6-8 pages long in PDF format. We recommend a A4, two-column format like the ACL proceedings: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ We also invite poster submissions (free format, up to 6 page, PDF). The submissions should be associated with a cover email containing the following information (ASCII text): # TITLE: <title of the paper> # AUTHORS: <list of authors> # EMAIL: <email of author(s) for correspondence> # KEYWORDS: <keywords, topic sub-areas, ...> # ABSTRACT: <abstract of the paper> Send your submission to Leo Wanner <wannerlo at informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions *** 6 April 2001 *** Notification of acceptance 27 April 2001 Camera-ready copies due 16 May 2001 Registration deadline as ACL Workshop dates 6-7 July 2001 REGISTRATION The registration fee for the workshop will be posted at a later stage. The registration fee includes attendance of the workshop and a copy of workshop proceedings. Follow the registration instructions at the ACL site and indicate that you would like to attend the NLG workshop. People wishing to attend the workshop but not submitting papers should send a notification of attendance: a 1-2 page stating interest to participate, work done in NLG so far, and potential contributions / material for discussions about one of the topics. This informationn will help with the organisation of discussions and allow for an informal and highly interactive character of the workshop. Notifications of attendance should be sent to Helmut Horacek <horacek at cs.uni-sb.de>. MORE INFORMATION Check the following web site for updates about the NLG workshop: http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bruce/acl01/NLG.html ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 6 17:43:46 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:43:46 +0100 Subject: Conf: 3 conferences Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2001.184346.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/ 2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing *** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EMNLP 2001 *** (includes submission instructions; note notification deadline) 2/ ***********PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION******************* Language Technologies 2001: Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics 3/ * THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS * third workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EMNLP 2001 *** (includes submission instructions; note notification deadline) 2001 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Sponsored by SIGDAT and the Intelligent Information Systems Institute (IISI). SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics' special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, invites submissions to EMNLP 2001. The conference will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA on June 3 and 4, immediately preceding the meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (NAACL). We are interested in papers from academia, government, and industry on all areas of traditional interest to the SIGDAT community and aligned fields, including but not limited to: * information extraction * information retrieval * language and dialog modeling * lexical acquisition * machine translation * multilingual technologies * question answering * statistical parsing * summarization * tagging * term and named-entity extraction * word sense disambiguation * word, term, and text segmentation Also, to encourage reflection on the current state of the art in corpus-based methods, the conference will have the following theme: "What Works and What Doesn't: Successes and Challenges" Successes --- We solicit papers showing the success of empirical methods in and across application settings. Examples include improvements in information retrieval performance due to employing language modeling techniques; effective use of statistical word segmentation algorithms in machine translation systems; and increased speech recognition accuracy through the incorporation of statistical parsing. Challenges --- It is clear that empirical and corpus-based methods have enjoyed many successes over the past years; but in looking to future accomplishments, the community needs to be aware of the limitations of various techniques and paradigms. We welcome papers that carefully expose and study such limitations. Examples include the identification and exploration of: classes of domains or problems in which popular techniques perform poorly; significant gaps between human and machine performance on tasks where statistical approaches have made great progress; and important practical situations where common assumptions fail to hold. *** We emphasize that we seek submissions that thoughtfully document fundamental limitations, rather than simply report on unsuccessful experiments. *** It is desired that such papers contain thorough examination, via careful experimentation, of the critical factors contributing to the "negative" result. SUBMISSIONS: Requirements: Submissions must describe original, completed, unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when appropriate. Papers being submitted to other meetings must provide this information (see submission format); in the event of multiple acceptances, authors are requested to immediately notify the EMNLP program chair (llee at cs.cornell.edu) and choose which meeting to present and publish the work at as soon as possible --- EMNLP cannot accept for publication or presentation work that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Submission Format: Submissions must be hardcopy, and consist of full papers of not more than 3200 words (exclusive of references). Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style files or MSWord equivalents available from the EMNLP website -- these formats will ease the transition to the proceedings version. Reviewing will be blind. No information identifying the authors should be in the paper: this includes not only the authors' names and affilations, but also self-references that reveal authors' identities; for example, "We have previously shown (Smith 1999)" should be changed to "Smith (1999) has previously shown". A separate identification page is required: see below. Submission procedure: First, an electronic notice of intent to submit is required. Please email llee at cs.cornell.edu (subject line EMNLP 2001 ITS) by March 9 with the following information: Paper title Authors' names, affiliations, and email addresses Contact author A short list of keywords A short (no more than 5 lines) summary of the contents Whether or not the paper is under consideration for other conferences (please specify) Then, six hardcopies of the paper together with a single separate page listing *all* the information from the notice of intent to submit (i.e., title, authors, contact author, keywords, summary, and multiple-submission information -- a printout of the notice of intent to submit suffices) must be received by March 13 at the following address: EMNLP 2001 Submissions Lillian Lee 4130 Upson Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-7501 USA The EMNLP committee is not responsible for postal delays or other mail problems. Papers will not be accepted electronically, and submissions that do not conform to the guidelines above are subject to rejection without review. IMPORTANT DATES: Notification deadline: March 9, 2001 Submission deadline: March 13, 2001 Acceptance notification: April 13, 2001 Camera-ready copy due: May 3, 2001 Conference: June 3-4, 2001 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Lillian Lee (chair), Cornell University, llee at cs.cornell.edu Donna Harman (co-chair), NIST, donna.harman at nist.gov CONFERENCE URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/emnlp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ ***********PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION******************* Language Technologies 2001: Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics June 2-7, 2001 Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA ***********PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION******************* The second meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics will be held at Carnegie Mellon University, June 2-7, 2001. We have a diverse selection of tutorials, workshops, talks, and exhibits, not to mention a fun opening picnic and a banquet in the grand and elegant Carnegie Museum of Natural History. We will be joined by EMNLP (June 3 and 4) and the Workshop on Language Modelling and Information Retrieval (May 31-June 1). The conference also features CD ROM proceedings, wireless internet access throughout the CMU campus (please register your WaveLAN device in advance), email room, and ethernet connections for laptops. While you are in Pittsburgh, don't miss the Three Rivers Arts Festival (June 1-17) featuring visual arts, artists market, and over 100 free performances. WEB SITE: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html REGISTRATION DATES: Early registration (on line or by mail): March 15-April 30 Late registration (on line or by mail): May 1-26 On site registration: June 2-7 REGISTRATION FEES: Regular ACL member $250 (early) $300 (late, on location) Regular Non-ACL member $310 (early) $370 (late) - includes ACL memb dues Student ACL member $100 (early) $125 (late) Student Non-ACL member $130 (early) $155 (late) - includes ACL memb dues Workshops (each, 1 day) $50 (early) $75 (late) EMNLP (2 days) $100 (early) $150 (late) Tutorials (each, 1/2 day) $100 (early) $125 (late) student $75 (early) $100 (late) Banquet tickets $65 (regular) $40 (student) ***************** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM ************************ TUTORIALS, June 2 Morning: "How May I Help You?": Automated Customer Service via Natural Spoken Dialog. Alicia Abella, Allen Gorin, Guiseppe Riccardi, Tirso Alonso, Jerry Wright, AT&T Shannon Laboratory Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: What's Happened Since the First SIGDAT Meeting? Kenneth Ward Church, AT&T Labs-Research Afternoon Building Synthetic Voices. Alan W Black and Kevin A. Lenzo, Carnegie Mellon University Open-Domain Textual Question Answering. Sanda Harabagiu and Dan Moldovan, Southern Methodist University WORKSHOPS, June 3 and 4 Please see the web site (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html) for individual submission deadlines. Sunday, June 3 Automatic Summarization, Jade Goldstein and Chin-Yew Lin, co-chairs Workshop on MT Evaluation: Hands-On Evaluation Eduard Hovy and Florence Reeder, co-chairs WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 1) Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and Yorick Wilks, co-chairs Monday, June 4 Student Research Workshop Krzysztof Czuba and Lisa Michaud, co-chairs Adaptation in Dialogue Systems, Cindi Thompson, Tim Paek, and Eric Horvitz, co-chairs WordNet and Other Lexical Resources: Applications, Extensions and Customizations (Day 2) Dan Moldovan, Sanda Harabagiu, Wim Peters, Mark Stevenson, and Yorick Wilks, co-chairs EMPIRICAL METHODS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, June 3 and 4 Deadline for submissions, March 13 DEMOS, June 5-7 Deadline for submissions, March 2 INDUSTRY EXHIBITS, June 6 A highlight of this year's conference will be the prominent role given to industrial sponsors and exhibitors, aimed at attracting the latest commercial trends in language technology. A number of companies have already signed up to participate: EXHIBITORS (to date): Transclick Nuance Multicorpora R&D Inc. Trados Corporation SPONSORS (to date): GOLD: LingoMotors SILVER: IISI BRONZE: Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs Nuance SRA, International TRADOS AT&T Pending and new exhibitors and sponsors, please contact Lynn Carlson (lmcarls at super.org) or Kurt Godden (kgodden at justtalk.com). LIST OF MAIN SESSION PAPERS, June 5-7 Invited Speakers: Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University Other invited speakers to be announced. Natural Language Generation Instance-Based Natural Language Generation (Sebastian Varges, Chris Mellish) Corpus-based NP Modifier Generation (Hua Cheng, Massimo Poesio, Renate Henschel, Chris Mellish) A Trainable Sentence Planner (Marilyn A. Walker, Owen C. Rambow, Monica Rogati) Information Retrieval and Machine Learning Why Inverse Document Frequency? (Kishore Papineni) Question Answering Using Maximum-Entropy Components (Abraham Ittycheriah, Martin Franz, Wei-Jing Zhu, Adwait Ratnaparkhi) Transformation Based Learning in the Fast Lane (Grace Ngai, Radu Florian) Dialog Identifying User Corrections Automatically in Spoken Dialogue Systems (Julia Hirschberg, Diane Litman, Marc Swerts) Learning Optimal Dialogue Management Rules by Using Reinforcement Learning and Inductive Logic Programming (Renaud Lecoeuche) Word Meaning A Corpus-based Account of Regular Polysemy: The Case of Context-Sensitive Adjectives (Maria Lapata) Tree-Cut and a Lexicon Based on Systematic Polysemy (Noriko Tomuro) A Decision Tree of Bigrams is an Accurate Predictor of Word Sense (Ted Pedersen) Semantics An Algorithm for Aspects of Semantic Interpretation Using an Enhanced WordNet (Fernando Gomez) Class-Based Probability Estimation Using a Semantic Hierarchy (Stephen Clark, David Weir) Identifying Cognates by Phonetic and Semantic Similarity (Grzegorz Kondrak) Speech Synthesis and Recognition Re-engineering Letter-to-Sound Rules (Martin Jansche) Edit Detection and Parsing for Transcribed Speech (Eugene Charniak and Mark Johnson) Generating Training Data for Medical Dictations (Sergey Pakhomov, Michael Schonwetter, Joan Bachenko) Machine Translation A Finite-State Approach to Machine Translation (Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Riccardi) Information-Based Machine Translation (Keiko Horiguchi) Multipath Translation Lexicon Induction (Gideon S. Mann and David Yarowsky) Parsing A Probabilistic Earley Parser as a Psycholinguistic Model (John Hale) Refining Tabular Parsers for TAGs (Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie) Applying Co-Training Methods to Statistical Parsing (Anoop Sarkar) Refining Tabular Parsers for TAGs (Eric Villemonte de la Clergerie) Language Modeling A Structured Language Model Based on Context-Sensitive Probabilistic Left-Corner Parsing (Dong Hoon Van Uytsel, Dirk Van Compernolle, Filip Van Aelten) Do CFG-Based Language Models Need Agreement Constraints? (Manny Rayner, Genevieve Gorrell, Beth Ann Hockey, John Dowding, Johan Boye) Naive Bayes Detection of Non-Native Utterances (Laura Mayfield Tomokiyo, Rosie Jones) Names and Coreference Unsupervised Learning of Name Structure From Coreference Data (Eugene Charniak) Text and Knowledge Mining for Coreference Resolution (Sanda Harabagiu, Razvan Bunescu, Steve Maiorano) Chunking and Morphology Knowledge-Free Induction of Inflectional Morphologies (Patrick Schone, Daniel Jurafsky) Chunking with Support Vector Machines (Taku Kudo, Yuji Matsumoto) Inducing Multilingual POS Taggers and NP Bracketers via Robust Projection Across Aligned Corpora (David Yarowsky, Grace Ngai) ****************************************** CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS General Chair, Lori Levin Program, Kevin Knight Local Arrangements, Alon Lavie Tutorials, Dekang Lin Workshops, Lillian Lee Student Workshop, Lisa Michaud and Krzysztof Czuba Student Workshop Advisor, Deborah Dahl Demos, Ronnie Smith Exhibits, Lynn Carlson Sponsorships, Kurt Godden Publicity, Ralf Brown Web Master, Bob Frederking SENIOR PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eric Brill Ann Copestake Marti Hearst Aravind Joshi Andrew Kehler Elliot Macklovitch Fernando Pereira Owen Rambow Elizabeth Shriberg Ralph Weischedel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ * THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS * third workshop on INFERENCE IN COMPUTATIONAL SEMANTICS ICoS-3 Siena, Italy, June 18-20, 2001 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kohlhase/event/icos3/ (Submission deadline: March 15, 2001) ABOUT ICoS ---------- Traditional inference tools (such as theorem provers and model builders) are reaching new levels of sophistication and are now widely and easily available. A wide variety of new tools (statistical and probabilistic methods, ideas from the machine learning community) are likely to be increasingly applied in computational semantics. Most importantly of all, computational semantics seems to have reached the stage where the exploration and development of inference is one of its most pressing tasks - and there's a lot of interesting new work which takes inferential issues seriously. The Workshop on Inference in Computational Semantics (ICoS) intends to bring researchers from areas such as Computational Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, and Logic together, in order to discuss approaches and applications of Inference in natural language semantics. ICoS-1 took place in Amsterdam on August 15, 1999 with an attendance of over 50 researchers. A selection of the papers presented at ICoS-1 has been published in a special issue of the Journal of Language and Computation. ICoS-2 took place in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, on July 29-30, 2000. Although the attendance was only 30, it was an intense and communicative meeting. A selection of the papers presented at ICoS-2 will be published in the Journal of Language and Computation. ICoS-3 will be co-located with the the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR 2001, which takes place June 18-23, 2001 at Siena, Italy. IJCAR is a joint meeting of all major conferences on automated theorem proving (CADE, FTP, TABLEAUX), and is therefore a good chance to meet the theorem proving community. ICoS-3 is endorsed by SIGSEM, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group (SIG) on computational semantics. DATES ----- People who would like to submit a paper, system descriptions or who would like to attend the workshop should consider the following dates: Submission Deadline: March 15, 2001. Notification: April 15, 2001. Final Versions: May 15. 2001. Early Registration until: June 1., 2001. ICoS-3 Tutorials June 18, 2001. ICoS-3 Workshop: June 19-20, 2001. IJCAR: June 18-23, 2001 INVITED SPEAKERS ---------------- The invited speakers at ICoS-3 are: David Israel (SRI International) Alexander Koller (Saarbruecken) Ian Pratt-Hartmann (Manchester) Tutorials --------- We will start off the workshop with two tutorials on June 18. This gives the researchers from automated reasoning and computational semantics respectively to get an understanding of the other field before the actual workshop. The tutorials will given by Claire Gardent (CNRS, Nancy): Computational Semantics for automated reasoners Uli Furbach (Univ. Koblenz): Automated Reasoning for computational semanticists PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- The program committee for ICoS-3 consists of the following people: Patrick Blackburn, INRIA Lorraine (co-chair) Michael Kohlhase, Carnegie-Mellon University (co-chair) Johan Bos, Edinburgh Peter Baumgartner, Koblenz David Beaver, Stanford Dick Crouch, Xerox Parc Maarten de Rijke, Amsterdam Nissim Francez, Haifa Udo Hahn, Freiburg Gerard Huet, INRIA Rocquencourt Dale Miller, State College Martha Palmer, UPenn Stephen Pulman, Oxford Matthew Stone, Rutgers Univ Jun-ichi Tsuji, Tokyo Bonnie Webber, Edinburgh SUBMISSIONS ----------- We invite three kinds of submissions (LaTeX2e, 11pt, one column, a4paper (not a4wide.sty)): - research papers on inference methods in computational semantics as well as their applications (15 pages), - system descriptions (6 pages), System descriptions should focus on actual implementations, explaining system architecture issues and specific implementation techniques. Every system description should be accompanied by a system demo at ICoS-3. - system demos (2 page abstracts): People who would like demonstrate systems that address inference in computational semantics should send two-page abstracts. Research papers and system descriptions will be peer-refereed by the programme committee above, system demos are only screened for appropriateness by the program chairs. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15, 2001. NOTIFICATION: April 15, 2001. The primary means of submission will be electronic, in PostScript format. Submissions should be sent to the organizers.icos3 at ags.uni-sb.de In addition to the (informal) workshop proceedings, we plan to publish a special issue of the Journal of Language and Computation devoted to ICoS-3. Shortly after the workshop, authors will be contacted by the editors for special issue, inviting them to contribute; we may ask you to incorporate comments/discussions/... arising during ICoS-3 into your paper. Details on the publication schedule for the special issue as well as formatting instructions will be announced at the workshop. Registration and Further Information If you have any questions, please contact the local organizers at icos3 at ags.uni-sb.de. FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------- If you have any questions, please contact the local organizers Patrick Blackburn and Michael Kohlhase via icos3 at ags.uni-sb.de. For actual information concerning ICoS-3 please consult http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kohlhase/event/icos3/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 6 17:44:18 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:44:18 +0100 Subject: Ecole: 2 ecoles d'ete Message-ID: <TUE.6.MAR.2001.184418.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/ The Interactivist Summer Institute 2001 July 23-27, 2001 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA 2/ 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/ The Interactivist Summer Institute 2001 July 23-27, 2001 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA GENERAL INFORMATION (This Call for Participation, along with related information, can also be viewed at http://www.lehigh.edu/~interact/isi2001.html). It's happening: research threads in multiple fields scattered across the mind-sciences seem to be converging towards a point where the classical treatment of representation within the encodingist framework is felt as an impasse. A rethinking of the methods, concepts, arguments, facts, etc. is needed and, so it seems, is being found in the interactivist approach. From research in human cognition, motivation, and development, through consciousness, sociality, and language, to artificial intelligence, post-behaviorist cognitive robotics, and interface design, we are witnessing the appearance of projects where the assumptions of interactivism are embraced. More often then not, this is in an implicit manner, so that at a superficial level those projects (the problems they deal with, the methods they use) seem to be incommensurable. However, underneath, one can feel their interactivist gist. The time is right (and ripe) we felt, to articulate this "irrational" (in Feyerabendian sense) pressure for change at a programmatic level, and this is what we want to accomplish with the present workshop. The workshop will be preceded by a Summer School in Interactivism featuring several tutorials which are meant to provide the needed theoretical background, based mainly on Mark Bickhard and his collaborators' work. The intention is for this Institute to become a traditional annual meeting where those sharing the core ideas of interactivism will meet and discuss their work, try to reconstruct its historical roots, put forward current research in different fields that fits the interactivist framework, and define research topics for prospective graduate students. People working in philosophy of mind, linguistics, social sciences, artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, and other fields related to the sciences of mind are invited to send their statement of interest for participation to the organizers (see details below). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Mark Bickhard <mhb0 at lehigh.edu> John C. Christopher <jcc at montana.edu> Wayne Christensen <plwdc at alinga.newcastle.edu.au> Robert Campbell <campber at clemson.edu> Georgi Stojanov <geos at cerera.etf.ukim.edu.mk> Goran Trajkovski <gtrajkovski at alpha.wvup.wvnet.edu> MAJOR THEMES * Foundations of Interactivism * Naturalism * Emergence * Process metaphysics * Cognition and Representation * Representation emergent in action systems * Dissolution of problems of skepticism, error, Chinese room, etc. * Concepts * Memory * Learning * Heuristic learning * Metaphor * Rationality and negative knowledge * Agents * Interaction * Motivation * Emotions * Autonomous agents * Persons * Development * Consciousness * Sociality * Language * Ethics * Social processes and realities ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC CO-SPONSORS Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA Institute for Interactive Studies Cognitive Science Program Humanities Research Center SS Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia West Virginia University at Parkersburg CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Participation will be limited to 30 people and by invitation only; People wishing to participate should submit a short curriculum vitae and a statement of interest to Interactivist Summer Institute. Please include e-mail address and/or fax number, if available. Applications should be received by March 15, 2001. Notification of acceptance will be provided by April 15, 2001. The meeting will take place in the conference room The Governor's Suite, Iaccoca Hall (tentative). A small number of scholarships for partial financial support will be provided by the organizers for graduate students or postdocs. CALL FOR PAPERS If you are interested in the issues mentioned above and wish to share your thoughts and research results with like-minded people, please submit an extended abstract or full paper via email with attached files (in ASCII, RTF, or Word) to: Interactivist Summer Institute (interact at lehigh.edu) Abstracts and papers should be sent taking into account the following format: 1. Major theme of the paper, related to the major themes given above. 2. Paper title. 3. Extended abstract of 500 to 1500 words and/or paper drafts of 2000 to 5000 words, in English. 4. Author or co-authors with names, addresses, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address. All abstracts will be refereed by an independent panel of experts. The judgments of the referees will determine the list of papers to be presented at the conference. DEADLINES Applications: March 15 Submission of papers: March 15 Notification date: April 15 Receipt of registration fee: May 1 On campus housing reservation (see below): June 30 Off campus housing reservation (see below): June 22 CONFERENCE FEES Standard registration fee: $150 Student registration fee: $100 Checks should be made out to: Interactivist Summer Institute. Mail to: Mark H. Bickhard Interactivist Summer Institute 17 Memorial Drive East Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA For wire transfers: Wire address: First Union National Bank Funds Transfer Department Attention: NC0803 1525 West W.T. Harris Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28288-0803 ABA # 031201467 Account # 2100012444293 Account Name: Lehigh University For international wires, these additional identification numbers are required: CHIPS Participant #0509 Swift TID #PNBPUS33 You must include your name and identify that the transfer is for the Interactivist Summer Institute. HOUSING Housing is available both on campus and off campus. Off campus housing is with Comfort Suites, and is within easy walking distance of the main Lehigh campus. The rates are $80/night for a single and $85/night for a double. Please contact: Comfort Suites 120 W 3rd Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA 610-882-9700 On campus housing is available both air-conditioned (Trembly Park) and not air-conditioned (Gamma Phi Beta). For on campus housing, please fill out and return the Interactivist Summer Institute housing form. This can be obtained from the Web site as a PDF file or a Word file. TRAVEL The easiest way to get to Bethlehem is to fly into Lehigh Valley International Airport (known as ABE, from Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton - LVI is already taken by Las Vegas International Airport). There are direct flights from Chicago, for example, for those coming from the west, and also flights from the South (e.g., Atlanta). Flying into New York, particularly Newark Airport, also works well. There are buses to Bethlehem from Newark Airport and from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan. So, from Kennedy or LaGuardia, you first go the Port Authority, and then get a bus to Bethlehem. The bus company is: Trans Bridge Lines 2012 Industrial Drive Bethlehem 610-868-6001 800-962-9135 The Industrial Drive terminal is the main bus terminal, and taxis are available to the Lehigh campus. Lehigh Valley Taxi: 610-867-6000 Quick Service Taxi: 610-434-8132 Airport Taxi Service: 610-231-2000 There is also a South Bethlehem terminal that is within walking distance of Comfort Suites and of campus (though it would a little long with luggage), but fewer buses make that stop. Philadelphia airport is closer than Newark airport, but getting to Bethlehem from there is harder than from Newark. You get to the Philadelphia bus station (probably by taxi, though there is a train to downtown Philadelphia), and then take a bus (Bieber Tours) to Bethlehem: it's roughly the equivalent in complication of coming through Kennedy airport -- Robert L. Campbell Professor, Psychology Brackett Hall 410A Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634-1355 USA phone (864) 656-4986 fax (864) 656-0358 http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2/ - If you want to receive detailed information including the ESSLLI 2001 poster please send us (esslli at helsinki.fi) your complete address. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CALL FOR REGISTRATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2001 University of Helsinki FINLAND August 13-24, 2001 http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli ** Early registration deadline: 30 April 2001 ** GENERAL INFORMATION The 13th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI'01) will take place at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, during two weeks in August, from August 13 until 24. The ESSLLI Summer Schools are organised under the auspices of FoLLI (http://www.folli.uva.nl), the European Association for Logic, Language and Information. The main focus of the European Summer Schools is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. Foundational, introductory and advanced courses, workshops and special events cover a wide variety of topics within six areas of interest: * Logic * Language * Computation * Logic and Language * Logic and Computation * Language and Computation The number of courses offered is over 50. Previous summer schools have been highly successful, attracting around 500 students from Europe and elsewhere. The school has developed into an important meeting place and forum for discussion for students, researchers and IT professionals interested in the interdisciplinary study of Logic, Language and Information. In addition to courses, workshops and evening lectures there will be a Student Session and a social program. COURSE PROGRAM The full scientific program can be found at our home page. Evening Lectures are given by * Edward L. Keenan "Spinoza Lecture" (UCLA) * Yannis Moschovakis "Vienna Circle Lecture" (UCLA) * Keith Devlin (Saint Mary's College, California) * Jaakko Hintikka (Boston & Helsinki) * Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh) WORKSHOPS There are currently several Calls for Workshop Papers. Please visit our home page for detailed information. TRAVEL AND LOCAL INFORMATION By plane to Helsinki airport and then a 30-minute nonstop coach or taxi service to the main railway station. From the railway station 5-minute walk to the university. A gateway between East and West, the city of Helsinki (population 1M) is the capital of Finland and one of the nine European Cities of Culture for the millennium. It is located at the warm and sunny south coast of Finland, within an easy reach from the main airports worldwide, or inside Europe by car or regular train services, or using the ferry services operating within the Baltic region. The scientific program of ESSLLI'01 will be held in the University Main Building, located on the University city campus at the very centre of Helsinki. The accommodation will be arranged at the University Summer Hotel close to the city campus. The accommodation includes sauna and breakfast. REGISTRATION ESSLLI 2001 is now open for registration. The registration fee for students is just ECU 190, for scholars ECU 350, and for industrial affiliates ECU 600. Please visit our home page for the on-line registration form and detailed instructions. ** Early registration deadline: 30 April 2001 ** All participants will get a letter of invitation to facilitate the procedure of getting a visa. GRANTS There will be a limited number of grants available, to partially support travel, registration and accommodation for ESSLLI'01. Instructions for grant applications are found at our home page. ** Deadline for grant applications: 31 May 2001 ** SPEACIAL EVENTS During ESSLLI, special "Finnish for Foreigners" language courses will be organised, as well as various excursions and other social events. Helsinki Summer School (http://summerschool.helsinki.fi) will offer special deals for ESSLLI participants who want to choose some of their courses and earn credits. SATELLITE EVENTS The Association for the Mathematics of Language will stage its annual meeting (MoL7) in conjunction with ESSLLI'01 in Helsinki, in the weekend preceding ESSLLI in August 10-12, and the affiliated Formal Grammar Conference will be held in conjunction with the Mathematics of Language Conference. ESSLLI participants are entitled to reduced registration fees. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marcus Kracht (Chair) <kracht at math.fu-berlin.de> Jouko V??n?nen (Logic) Bonnie Webber (Language) Claude Kirchner (Computation) Michael Moortgat (Logic and Language) Steffen H?lldobler (Computation and Logic) Claire Gardent (Language and Computation) CONTACT ADDRESSES Please visit ESSLLI'01 Home Page http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli for updated information concerning the scientific program, registration fees and procedures, grants, accommodation, satellite events, and other practical information. For further enquiries concerning ESSLLI'01, please contact the Organising Committee at <esslli at helsinki.fi>, or write to ESSLLI 2001 Secretariat C/o Department of Philosophy P.O. Box 24 00014 Helsinki University Finland ESSLLI'01 is organised by the Department of Philosophy (coordinator), the Department of Mathematics, the Department of General Linguistics, and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. ORGANISING COMMITTEE Gabriel Sandu (Chair, Philosophy) Jouko V??n?nen (Mathematics) Fred Karlsson (General Linguistics) Ilkka Niiniluoto (Philosophy) Martti Tienari (Computer Science) Ahti Pietarinen (Philosophy, secretariat) <esslli at helsinki.fi> ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 9 18:45:48 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:45:48 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 3 offres Message-ID: <FRI.9.MAR.2001.194548.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/LexiQuest - English grammar manager 2/INRIA - 6 Junior Researcher Positions 3/WHITE ROSE PhD STUDENTSHIP AT UNIVERSITIES OF LEEDS AND SHEFFIELD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ LexiQuest an NLP company founded in 1977 ( http://www.lexiquest.com ), is currently seeking to fill the position of its English grammar manager. The candidates should have a good knowledge of computational linguistics and preference will be given to native English speakers. Programming skills (preferably an experience with Java) are an advantage. The work consists in "house-keeping" and enriching the different grammatical resources (morphology, syntax, terminology extraction, named entities identification, etc ...) used by our products. We are are planning short and longer term evolutions in the theoretical approcahes and formalisms currently used. This position offers the interesting possibilities of combining the knowledge of linguitic theories in confrontation with real language in an industrial environment. The work location is Montreuil (a suburb adjacent to the city of Paris, France). If interested please send any questions and/or a resume to Antoine Ogonowski <Antoine.Ogonowski at lexiquest.fr> LEXIQUEST 261 rue de Paris 93556 Montreuil Cedex FRANCE tel: 33-(0)1-49-93-39-00 fax: 33-(0)1-49-93-39-39 <http://www.lexiquest.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ INRIA is an internationally recognized research institute in Computer Science and Automation, funded by the French government. It seeks outstanding candidates who have completed a Ph.D. (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Signal and Image Processing, or Applied Mathematics. 6 Junior Researcher Positions are now open (deadline for submitting application forms: March 20, 2001, 4:00 pm in research units, or by registered mail, postmarked by midnight March 20, 2001) to French as well as foreign applicants, at IRISA/INRIA laboratory which is located in Rennes (Brittany, France). Applicants should have a commitment to research and have some expertise in the following areas: - Computational Linguistics, - Lexical Semantics, - Information Extraction, - Information Retrieval, - Machine Learning for NLP Schedule: Official opening of the competitive selection: February 2, 2001 (JO February 6, 2001, in French). Deadline for retrieving application forms: March 19, 2001, 5:00 pm. Deadline for submitting application forms: March 20, 2001, 4:00 pm in research units, or by registered mail, postmarked by midnight March 20, 2001. Publications of the results: end of June 2001. Candidates should add strengths to existing research directions, contribute to the innovation and development of the research projects, disseminate research results in major conferences and journals, and lead technology transfer to R&D industrial partners. Responsabilities also include graduate and undergraduate teaching and supervision of graduate students through thesis and project work. Openings may lead to permanent position after a period of 18 months. Applicants, no older than 31, must supply 7 copies of their application packet (including one copy with original signatures) described at: http://www.inria.fr/travailler/opportunites/chercheurs/concourscr2.en.html If you are interested by the job profile, please contact Pascale Sebillot (sebillot at irisa.fr) See http://www.irisa.fr for a complete description of the lab, http://www.irisa.fr/aida/aida-new/Eaida.html for a description of the A?DA team interested by the job profile, and http://www.rennestelecom.com/index_map.htm where Irisa lab is located. -- Pascale SEBILLOT IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes cedex, France tel: 33 2 99 84 73 17, fax: 33 2 99 84 71 71 email: sebillot at irisa.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ WHITE ROSE PhD STUDENTSHIP AT UNIVERSITIES OF LEEDS AND SHEFFIELD The UK White Rose Initiative offers a 3-year PhD studentship in Natural Language Learning of generic language models from richly annotated dialogue corpus datasets Supervisors: Eric Atwell, School of Computing, University of Leeds eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/ and Prof Yorick Wilks, Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield y.wilks at dcs.shef.ac.uk http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick For more details, see http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/eric/whiterose/ DEADLINE for applications: 31st March 2001 note also: Leeds OPEN DAY for PhD applicants, Thursday 22nd March 2001: http://www.scs.leeds.ac.uk/eric/whiterose/openday.html -- Eric Atwell, Distributed Multimedia Systems MSc Tutor & SOCRATES Tutor School of Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT TEL: 0113-2335430 MOBILE: 0775-1039104 FAX: 0113-2335468 WWW: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric EMAIL: eric at comp.leeds.ac.uk ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 9 18:46:08 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:46:08 +0100 Subject: Publication: Empirical Methods for Exploiting Parallel Texts Message-ID: <FRI.9.MAR.2001.194608.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> I thought readers of LN List might be interested in this book. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MELEHF00. Empirical Methods for Exploiting Parallel Texts I. Dan Melamed Parallel texts (bitexts) are a goldmine of linguistic knowledge, because the translation of a text into another language can be viewed as a detailed annotation of what that text means. Knowledge about translational equivalence, which can be gleaned from bitexts, is of central importance for applications such as manual and machine translation, cross-language information retrieval, and corpus linguistics. The availability of bitexts has increased dramatically since the advent of the Web, making their study an exciting new area of research in natural language processing. This book lays out the theory and the practical techniques for discovering and applying translational equivalence at the lexical level. It is a start-to-finish guide to designing and evaluating many translingual applications. I. Dan Melamed is a research scientist in the Computer Science Research Department of West Group, Minnesota. 6 x 9, 198pp., 75 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-13380-6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jud Wolfskill 617.253.2079 phone Associate Publicist 617.253.1709 fax MIT Press wolfskil at mit.edu 5 Cambridge Center http://mitpress.mit.edu Fourth Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 9 18:50:57 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 19:50:57 +0100 Subject: Appel: 4 confrences/workshops Message-ID: <FRI.9.MAR.2001.195057.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/ ACL'2001 Conference - WORKSHOP ON COLLOCATION 2/ 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO THE LEXICON 3/ FORMAL GRAMMAR/MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE CONFERENCE SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 4/ Workshop on 'Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing' SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ WORKSHOP ON COLLOCATION Computational Extraction, Analysis and Exploitation ACL'2001 Conference Toulouse, France July 7th, 2001 We invite papers on topics relating to the theme of collocation and more particularly their computational extraction, analysis and exploitation. This workshop follows the French ATALA workshop on collocation which took place in Paris, France on January 2001 and seeks to go forward so as to explore the wider perspective of computational linguistics. The term "collocation" was introduced in the nineteen thirties by J. R. Firth, founder member of the British Contextualist school, to characterise certain linguistic phenomena of cooccurrence that stem principally from the linguistic competence of native speakers (Firth 1957). By its very nature collocation remains a relatively fuzzy concept, the consequence of which being that traditional grammarians and semanticists have tended to ignore it, the exception being some lexical semanticists as Cruse (1986). The study of collocation is above all a practical one aimed at assisting language learners and translators in their tasks. Essentially idiomatic in nature, collocation defies rigid formalisation which explains the existence of different schools of thought between those seeking a descriptive contextualised view of linguistic phenomena and those who seeks formalised applications for translation, lexicography or computational purposes. This has led to a variety of approaches based around a general core meaning for the phenomenon. For several years, NLP has been concerned with collocation largely through the following fields: Formalisation through specialised formalisms for different NLP tasks: dictionary formalism such as lexical function; HPSG, LFG, TAG, ... formalisms for analysis or generation. Extraction from monolingual or bilingual texts or dictionairies using either raw statistics or statistics combined with linguistic information such as part-of-speech or grammar dependancy. Exploitation through specific NLP systems dedicated to second language learning or translation, or for such NLP tasks as information retrieval or thematic structuration. This workshop aims to guage the extend to which the role of collocation as a phenomenon in applied linguistics is now being taken into account in formal linguistics and NLP and addresses the following topics (not limitative): Formal description of collocation through existing or dedicated specialised formalisms New methods adopted for the identification of collocations. This would include statistics and also more linguistic oriented methods. NLP systems dedicated to collocation. Exploitation of collocations for other NLP tasks through monolingual or multilingual environments. This workshop addresses researchers in all fields of theoretical and applied computational linguistics and most particularly those working in automatic and assisted machine translation, dictionnary building and computationally assisted language teaching as well as those concerned with information retrieval and text mining. ORGANIZERS B?atrice Daille IRIN - University of Nantes, France - daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr Geoffrey Williams CRELLIC - University of Bretagne-Sud, France - Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jeremy Clear, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Birmingham Pernilla Danielsson, TELRI Chris Gledhill, University of St Andrews Syvain Kahane, LaTTiCe/TALaNa Marie-Claude L'Homme, University of Montreal Julia Pajzs, Hungarian Academy of Science Antoinette Renouf, University of Liverpool Alain Polgu?re, OLST - University of Montreal Laurent Romary, LORIA Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy - RACAI Jean V?ronis, University of Provence Leo Wanner, University of Stuttgart SCHEDULE Workshop paper submissions April 8, 2001 Notification of acceptance April 30, 2001 Deadline for camera-ready papers May 13, 2001 WORKSHOP DATE July 7th, 2001 SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS Submissions must be in English, no more than 8 pages long, and in the two-column format prescribed by ACL'2001. Please see http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/ for the detailed guidelines; however, please put the authors' names, rather than a paper id, since reviewing will not be blind. Submissions should be sent electronically in either Word, pdf, or postscript format (only) no later than April 8, 2001 to: B?atrice Daille daille at irin.univ-nantes.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ ============================================================================ GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO THE LEXICON ============================================================================ First call for participation April 26-28 2001 University of Geneva (Switzerland) http://issco-www.unige.ch/gl2001.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPIC The aim of this workshop is to bring together diverse contributions in philosophy, linguistics, computer science and lexicography to explore the lexicon from the point of view of generativity. The discussions will be centered, but are not limited to, the newly emerging view of Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovky, 1995). Topics include: - Philosophical Foundations of a Generative Approach - Representation of Word Meaning - Generative Lexicon Theory - Analysis of Linguistic Phenomena - Building Lexical Resources - Exploiting Lexical Resources in NLP Applications - Lexical Rules - Framework for Lexical Semantics - Critical Perspectives PROGRAM The program will include: - A SPECIAL TALK by James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Boston) - INVITED TALKS by Nicolletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) Ann Copestake (Cambridge University, Cambridge) Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto) Robert D. Van Vallin (University of Buffalo, Buffalo) Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Natural Language Group, Redmond) Piek Vossen (Sail-labs, Antwerpen) Yorick Wilks (University of Sheffield, Sheffield) - 21 oral presentations (long (30 min) and short (20 min)) GL2001 is: - founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (FNRS) and the Communications Research Laboratory (Kyoto) - hosted by University of Geneva, ISSCO/TIM. Organizers: Pierrette Bouillon (ISSCO/TIM, University of Geneva, Geneva) Kyoko Kanzaki (Communications Research Laboratory, Kyoto) The GL2001 program and registration form are now available at: http://issco-www.unige.ch/gl2001.html ============================================================================= GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 GL2001 ============================================================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ [apologies if you receive this more than once] FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FGMOL'01 FORMAL GRAMMAR/MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE CONFERENCE August 10--12, 2001 Helsinki, Finland SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the joint meeting of two conferences: the sixth conferene on Formal Grammar and the seventh on the Mathematics of Language. The joint meeting will be held just prior to the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information. AIMS and SCOPE FGMOL'01 provides 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 SPECIAL SESSION on MODEL-THEORETIC SYNTAX There will be a special session of invited papers on model-theoretic syntax. The speakers will be Geoffrey K. Pullum (keynote), Patrick Blackburn, James Rogers, and Uwe Moennich. ADDITIONAL INVITED SPEAKERS to be announced. SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite E-MAIL submissions of abstracts for 30-minute papers (including questions, comments, and discussion). A submission should consist of two parts: - an information sheet (in ascii), containing the name of the author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail and postal address(es) and a title; - an abstract, consisting of a description of not more than 5 pages (including figures and references). Abstracts may be either in plain ASCII or in (unix-compatible encoded) postscript, PDF, or DVI. Abstracts can be sent to fgmol at cs.indiana.edu ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE April 1, 2001 NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE May 15, 2001 PROCEEDINGS A full version of each accepted paper will be included in the conference proceedings, to be distributed at the conference. Full papers are due June 30, 2001. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Anne Abeill'e (Paris) Patrick Blackburn (INRIA) Gosse Bouma (Groningen) Mary Dalrymple (Xerox Parc) Nissim Francez (Haifa) Thilo Goetz (IBM) David Johnson (IBM) Mark Johnso (Brown) Aravind Joshi (UPenn) Gerhard J"ager (Utrecht) Ruth Kempson (London) Alain Lecomte (LORIA) Uwe Moennich (T"ubingen) Glyn Morrill (U.P. Catalunya) Michael Moortgat (Utrecht) Owen Rambo (Cogentex) James Rogers (Earlham) Giorgio Satta (Padova) Mark Steedman (Edinburgh) FURTHER INFORMATION Web site for ESSLLI XIII: http://www.helsinki.fi/esslli/ Web site for FGMOL'01 :http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/mol/mol7.html The organizers: Geert-Jan Kruijff gj at cogsci.ed.ac.uk Larry Moss lsm at cs.indiana.edu Dick Oehrle oehrle at linc.cis.upenn.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4/ ** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ** ** Please excuse any duplicate copies of this announcement ** ** you may have received through mailing lists. ** -------------------------------------------------- Workshop on 'Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing' Held as part of EUROLAN'01 Summer School July 30 - August 11 Iasi, Romania http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/ CALL FOR PAPERS The effectiveness of modular programming in designing software has long been acknowledged by the computer science community. However, the computational linguistics community preferred to develop components in isolation, without integrating existing modules into proposed systems. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, integration of different modules is not a trivial task, requiring a lot of time. Usually the major problem is the loss of information caused when the output of one module has to be converted to the input of another. Most research projects do not have the time or resources to concentrate on a real modular architecture, using trade offs (such as manually created inputs) instead. Secondly, most of the work in the research community is directed towards proposing and demonstrating new hypotheses, and not building robust and fully automatic applications. In many cases preprocessing steps, which produce the input data for the tested method, are considered trivial and accurate, and as a result replaced with hand produced data. Therefore, when a researcher needs a certain module for a method, s/he prefers to produce the output of that program manually, either because s/he is not aware of an existing implementation which performs the required task, or because the work involved in setting it up is greater than that involved in manually producing the output (usually because the implementation was developed and tested on a different platform). However, this situation has started to change rapidly. More and more researchers have appreciated the complexity of NLP tasks and the need to use modular programming. A quick look at the systems presented at the latest MUC indicated that they are complex systems which reuse previous research. Systems like GATE have been designed in order to help with the integration of different modules in a system. In addition, the research community is increasingly requiring the development of fully automatic applications. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between researchers involved in the development of automatic NLP systems and leading names in the field. We would like to invite all researchers to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - modular architectures for NLP - black/glass box evaluation measures - research on the influence of substitution and alternate combinations of modules on overall system performance - reusability - integration of resources (including conversion formats between modules) - platforms for developing modular applications - repositories Demos of the presented systems are encouraged. Submission Requirements Papers should describe original work in progress or completed work. The main purpose of presenting at the Workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work. The submissions should not exceed 10 pages with 12pt Times New Roman font including figures, references, and appendices. Authors will be sent details of the final format for camera-ready versions together with notification of acceptance. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Electronic submissions are encouraged but hard copies are acceptable. For electronic submission, papers should be in Postscript, PDF, Microsoft Word, or RTF format. For other formats, please contact the organising committee. All papers should be sent to workshop-eurolan at wlv.ac.uk Contact Address Constantin Orasan HLSS University of Wolverhampton Stafford Street Wolverhampton WV1 1SB UK. Email: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (please use 'EUROLAN WORKSHOP' in the subject line) Important Dates Submission Deadline: 1st April 2001 Notification of Acceptance: 4th May 2001 Camera-ready Papers: 1st June 2001 Workshop: To be announced Registration People wanting to attend the workshop must be registered in the Eurolan'01 School. Participation to the workshop is open to all Eurolan'01 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made available. Authors of the papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will benefit of early registration fee no matter the date they register. Organizing committee Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton Richard Evans - University of Wolverhampton Catalina Barbu - University of Wolverhampton Program committee Dan Cristea - University of Iasi Hamish Cunningham - University of Sheffield Le An Ha - University of Wolverhampton Nancy Ide - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Ramesh Krishnamurthy - University of Wolverhampton Daniel Marcu - University of Southern California Oliver Mason - University of Birmingham Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Maximilian Saiz Noeda - University of Alicante Chris Paice - Lancaster University Valentin Tablan - Universities of Iasi & Sheffield Doina Tatar - Babes-Bolyai University Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 13 18:56:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:56:05 +0100 Subject: Conf: Call for bids to host EACL'03 Message-ID: <TUE.13.MAR.2001.195605.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ______________________________________________ ?????????????????????????????????????????????? ______________________________________________ Call for Bids to Host EACL'03 ______________________________________________ ?????????????????????????????????????????????? ______________________________________________ The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (http://www.eacl.org/) invites proposals to host the 11th Meeting of the EACL (EACL'03). The EACL conferences are usually held during the spring. Proposal coming from any European country, but also from Middle-East and North-Africa are eligible. The conference format will consist of a main conference and up to 10 workshops and tutorials organized just before or after the conference. The proposal submission process is in two stages. First, draft proposals are sought from prospective proposers. Based on the evaluation of the draft proposals, selected proposers will be invited to submit full proposals. Draft proposals are due on 15 June 2001, and will be evaluated at the EACL Board Meeting on 7 July 2001. Selected proposers will be informed before end July 2001. Full proposals are due on 15 August 2001. Draft proposals should include: - Location (accessibility, conference venue, hotels, student dorms) - Local CL Community - Proposed Date - Meeting space (space for plenary sessions, tutorials, workshops, posters, exhibits, demos and small meetings) - A/V equipment - Food/Entertainment/Banquet/Receptions - Local Arrangements (chairs, committee, volunteer labour, registration handling) - Sponsorships - Budget estimates Proposals will be evaluated in relation to a number of site selection criteria (unordered): - Experience of Local Arrangement team. - Local CL community support. - Local government and industry support. - Accessibility and attractiveness of proposed site. - Appropriateness of proposed dates. - Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants - Adequacy of residence accommodations and food services in a range of price categories and close to the conference facilities. - Adequacy of budget projections and expected surplus. - Balance with regard to the geographical distribution of previous conferences. Draft proposals should be sent electronically to the EACL President: Prof. Donia Scott : donia.scott at itri.brighton.ac.uk Submission Dates: Draft proposals are due on 15 June 2001; Full proposals are due on 15 August 2001. ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 13 19:01:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:01:05 +0100 Subject: jobs: 2 offres Message-ID: <TUE.13.MAR.2001.200105.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/statistical machine learning Xerox PARC 2/MPhil/PhD King's College, London ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ The Quantitative Content Analysis Area (QCA) at Xerox PARC is seeking researchers/developers who have a strong background (Ph.D or M.S.) in applying statistical machine learning or pattern recognition techniques to information access tasks, such as organization and mining of documents and document collections. We have developed methods in areas such as summarization, genre identification, use of multi-modal information in browsing, and topic identification. Our current focus is on interactive methods to extract information from large document collections and to restructure it based on the needs of individual users. We are building up a team composed of computer scientists and engineers, with specialists in natural language and machine learning. To be successful, candidates need to have strong programming skills (Java or C/C++), be able to develop algorithms as well as novel applications and work well with others on both foundational research and on more application-oriented research projects in a multidisciplinary (and multinational) setting. Experience and qualifications o PhD/M.S in computer science or related fields with a strong background in machine learning, pattern recognition, probability or statistics with strong programming skills (Java or C/C++) o Interest or experience in information access o Interest or experience in quantitative natural language analysis, image analysis and/or user interfaces a plus o Experience in working with large corpora and net applications is a plus To apply, please submit your resume via email to istlhiring at parc.xerox.com, and identify the position in the subject line as "Quantitative Content Analysis Area (QCA)". Xerox is an Equal Employment Opportunity company committed to the principles of workforce diversity. URL: http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/groups/qca/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ New MSc and MPhil/PhD Programs in Natural Language Processing in the Computer Science Dept. at King's College, London A new Natural Language Processing research group has been created in the Computer Science Department at King's College, London. This group is offering an MSc in Natural Language Processing, which will start in September 2001, and opportunities for MPhil/PhD studies. For information on the group and these new programes please consult our web site at www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/research/groups/nlp/index.html. Inquiries can also be directed to Shalom Lappin (lappin at dcs.kcl.ac.uk) or Jonathan Ginzburg (ginzburg at dcs.kcl.ac.uk). The Department of Computer Science at King's College anticipates having two EPSRC funded quota PhD studentships for September, 2001. These will be awarded on a competitive basis to PhD applicants from any area of computer science. The holder of an EPSRC quota studentship must be a permanent resident of the UK to receive a tuition scholarship and a maintenance grant. Residents of a European Union country are eligible for a tuition scholarship only. Qualified PhD applicants interested in pursuing research in natural language processing will be considered for these grants. -- ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Tue Mar 13 19:06:51 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:06:51 +0100 Subject: Publications: Discourse Parsing and Summarization Message-ID: <TUE.13.MAR.2001.200651.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> The Theory and Practice of Discourse Parsing and Summarization Daniel Marcu Until now, most discourse researchers have assumed that full semantic understanding is necessary to derive the discourse structure of texts. This book documents the first serious attempt to construct automatically and use nonsemantic computational structures for text summarization. Daniel Marcu develops a semantics-free theoretical framework that is both general enough to be applicable to naturally occurring texts and concise enough to facilitate an algorithmic approach to discourse analysis. He presents and evaluates two discourse parsing methods: one uses manually written rules that reflect common patterns of usage of cue phrases such as "however" and "in addition to"; the other uses rules that are learned automatically from a corpus of discourse structures. By means of a psycholinguistic experiment, Marcu demonstrates how a discourse-based summarizer identifies the most important parts of texts at levels of performance that are close to those of humans. Marcu also discusses how the automatic derivation of discourse structures may be used to improve the performance of current natural language generation, machine translation, summarization, question answering, and information retrieval systems. Daniel Marcu is a Research Scientist at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California and Research Assistant Professor in the university's Department of Computer Science. 7 x 9, 272 pp., 68 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-13372-5 A Bradford Book ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 16 16:29:30 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:29:30 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 offres Message-ID: <FRI.16.MAR.2001.172930.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 1/LexiQuest, ?quipe d'Etudes avanc?es et sp?cifications linguistiques. 2/Educational Testing Service, SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST Natural Language Processing 3/Educational Testing Service, Research Scientists, Princeton, NJ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1/ LexiQuest, soci?t? fran?aise sp?cialis?e dans les produits TALN pour la recherche documentaire et les applications d'ing?nierie multilingue dans le domaine de l'Internet, recherche de nouveaux collaborateurs pour rejoindre son ?quipe d'Etudes avanc?es et sp?cifications linguistiques. LexiQuest compte une centaine de collaborateurs en Europe et aux Etats-Unis, et d?veloppe des produits en 5 langues. PM/EA/6. un/une linguiste informaticien/ne Titulaire d'un DEA en TALN ou ?quivalent, disposant d'une exp?rience similaire d'au moins 3 ans. L'anglais est indispensable. La connaissance d'au moins une autre langue est souhait?e. Une exp?rience en ?tude de corpus, d?veloppement de grammaire, et / ou sp?cification linguistique sera particuli?rement appr?ci?e. Le poste est ? pourvoir ? Paris. Envoyez votre candidature ? : _________________________________________________ Jos? Coch, LexiQuest Le M?li?s / 261, rue de Paris F-93556 Montreuil Cedex / FRANCE Tel: (33)-1-49 93 39 38 / Fax: (33)-1-49 93 39 39 E-mail: jose.coch at lexiquest.fr _________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/ SENIOR RESEARCH SCIENTIST- Natural Language Processing The Research and Statistics Division at Educational Testing Service in Princeton, New Jersey has a great opportunity for someone who wants a challenging and rewarding position. We are seeking a senior level Research Scientist with the following qualifications: a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics or highly related field. The position will be with the Natural Language Processing Group in the Center for Assessment Design and Scoring. The Center conducts research on the integration of psychometrics, cognitive science and technology with the goal of enhancing the scientific and societal value of assessments. The work for this position involves the conceptualization and research of algorithms, processes, or systems using natural language methods to assist in the creation and analysis of test content (e.g., the automatic creation of test questions and the automatic analysis of test questions to characterize their difficulty). The work also involves the ability to apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting natural language processing research studies and in developing and contributing to the development of new products or services for education. Evidence of independent substantive research experience is required. The successful candidate is expected to contribute to the application of natural language processing in the development of educational assessment products in a multidisciplinary environment. The supervision of a small number of staff may be required. ETS offers competitive salaries, outstanding benefits, two retirement plans, 3 weeks vacation, generous relocation, a stimulating work environment, and ample opportunity for professional growth. ETS is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer. Please send resume including salary requirements to: Mike Smith Email: mlsmith at ets.org attention: Dept LN or fax to Attention: Mike Smith Attn: Dept LN 609-4976-6022 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/ Research Scientists: Princeton, NJ Educational Testing Service, the world's largest and best educational testing and assessment organization (developers of the SAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL and more) has immediate openings in our Princeton, NJ campus for Scientists with 1, 3 and 5+ years experience. This is an opportunity to join colleagues engaged in educational research, be personally responsible for specific research projects and to grow professionally. Join our Research Division where you will be engaged in Natural Language Processing research. You will need the ability to apply scientific, technical and software engineering skills in designing and conducting natural language processing research studies and in developing and contributing to the development of new products or services for education. Evidence of independent substantive research experience is required and the successful candidate is expected to be able to contribute to new or modified theories of natural language processing as applied to educational and psychological processes The successful applicant will have the following qualifications: a Ph.D. in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics with solid programming skills and an interest in natural language processing research for purposes of automated writing analysis, generation, instruction and scoring. Outstanding benefits, competitive salary, generous relocation, 3 weeks vacation, employee friendly policies, 403(b) with immediate eligibility, immediate matching and vesting, plus an ETS provided retirement plan. We support continuing professional development. Please send your resume including salary requirements to Mike Smith Attn: Dept LN to, mlsmith at ets.org. or fax to Mike Smith Dept LN 609-497-6022. ETS is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer M/F/H/V ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 16 16:29:59 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:29:59 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journees Prosodie Message-ID: <FRI.16.MAR.2001.172959.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> A DIFFUSER LARGEMENT SVP/ PLEASE POST ""Journees Prosodie"", 10-11 octobre 2001, Grenoble 1er APPEL A COMMUNICATION / First CALL FOR PAPERS Des " Journees Prosodie", organisees par l'action Phonologie Prosodique du Groupe De Recherche CNRS 1954 en Phonologie, auront lieu a Grenoble les 10 et 11 octobre 2001. Ces deux journ?es seront l'occasion d'une rencontre conviviale, ou les jeunes chercheurs seront particulierement les bienvenus. Elles permettront de faire le point sur les travaux men?s par la communaut? francophone en prosodie des langues. Des conferences invitees introduiront chaque session. Pourront etre abordees les th?matiques suivantes, cette liste n'etant pas limitative : - repr?sentation cognitive de la morphologie prosodique - repr?sentations prosodiques et niveaux d'interpr?tation symbolique - approche hypoth?tico-d?ductive vs inductive de la prosodie : fondement et l?gitimit? th?orique - les m?thodes orient?es corpus : approche analytique vs. statistique - acquisition de la prosodie - modelisation psycho-linguistique - mesures neurales - prosodie des emotions - prosodie articulatoire ... DATES A RETENIR / IMPORTANT DATES : Les auteurs sont invit?s ? soumettre un r?sum? (maximum 600 mots), avant le 25 mai 2001. Notification des acceptations : 25 juin 2001 Date limite de reception des papiers complets : 25 septembre 2001 LANGUES / WORKING LANGUAGES : fran?ais Les questions et propositions de communications doivent ?tre envoy?es par courrier ?lectronique, sous format Word ou postscript, ? : GDRProso at icp.inpg.fr COMITE SCIENTIFIQUE V. Auberge(ICP, CNRS INPG/Universit? Stendhal Grenoble) G. Bailly (ICP, CNRS INPG/Universit? Stendhal Grenoble) A. Christophe (LSCP, CNRS, EHESS Paris) A Di Cristo (LPL, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence) D. Hirst (LPL, CNRS, Aix-en-Provence) A. Lacheret ( CRISCO, CNRS, Caen) Ph. Martin(Universit? de Toronto) A. Rialland (CNRS, Universit? de Paris III) J. Vaissiere (Universit? de Paris III) COMITE D'ORGANISATION V. Auberge (ICP, Grenoble) C. Brichet (ICP Grenoble) A. Lacheret (CRISCO, CNRS, Caen) H. Loevenbruck (ICP, Grenoble) K. Martel (laboratoire de Psychologie cognitive, Caen) A. Rilliard (ICP, Grenoble) ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 16 16:30:37 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:30:37 +0100 Subject: Projet: groupe Handicap Message-ID: <FRI.16.MAR.2001.173037.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> From: "Emmanuel Bellengier" <ebellengier at hotmail.com> Bonjour ? toutes et ? tous, Voici le lien vers le nouveau site du groupe Handicap. http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~handicap/ Les buts de notre site sont les suivants : Promouvoir une communication accrue entre les acteurs du groupe Handicap sous la forme de bulletin d'informations hebdomadaire. Diffuser le plus largement possible les activit?s du groupe ainsi que celles d'autres groupes. Mettre en place le plus rapidement possible une liste de diffusion mod?r?e accueillant les acteurs du handicap francophones. F?d?rer les acteurs de la communication assist?e (malades, professionnels, chercheurs ...)afin de mettre en place des r?seaux de communication utilisant les nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication. Mener une r?flexion commune et constructive. Cr?er un portail recensant l'ensemble des activit?s li?es au handicap pr?sentes sur l'Internet. Fournir une information fiable et fr?quemment mise ? jour. J'attends avec impatience toutes vos remarques. Je vous souhaite d'y trouver toutes les informations que vous cherchez. Cordialement, Emmanuel Bellengier Webmestre ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 16 16:31:00 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:31:00 +0100 Subject: Conf: XII Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics Message-ID: <FRI.16.MAR.2001.173100.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> FROM FINITE TO UNCONVENTIONAL IN THE THEORY OF AUTOMATA AND COMPUTATION (XII Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics, FS&S) Sheng Yu Lila Kari (University of Western Ontario) March 26-30, 2001 Organized by the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University PROGRAMME Monday 26 15.30-17.30 Yu, Finite automata, regular expressions and lexical analysis 17.30-19.30 Kari, Introduction to DNA computing Tuesday 27 10.15-12.15 Yu, Transformation and minimization algorithms related to regular languages 12.15-14.15 Kari, Encoding information in DNA Wednesday 28 10.15-12.15 Yu, Finite transducers and finite transductions 12.15-14.15 Kari, Bio-operations Thursday 29 10.15-12.15 Yu, Finite languages and cover automata 12.15-14.15 Kari, DNA models of computation Friday 30 8-10 Yu, Fuzzy automata and metric lexical analysis 10-12 Kari, Computation in cells Place: Lecture Room, Department of Romance Philologies Rovira i Virgili University Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1 43005 Tarragona, Spain ___________________________________________________________________ Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Fri Mar 16 16:31:14 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:31:14 +0100 Subject: Appel: 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies Message-ID: <FRI.16.MAR.2001.173114.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> C a l l f o r P a p e r s IWPT 2001 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 7th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 17-19 October, 2001 Beijing, China http://www.icl.pku.edu.cn/iwpt2001.html ~~~~ 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 invited: - full papers, to be presented as such during the workshop and to be published in the workshop proceedings (maximally 12 pages); - 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 are published in the workshop proceedings. Prospective authors are invited to send submissions to the IWPT'01 programme chairman Giorgio Satta. Papers must be in the format given at the IWPT'01 home pages (see below). Full papers should not exceed 12 pages; short papers should not exceed 1500 words. Submission is electronically, in postscript form. Only in case 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 All submitted papers will be reviewed by the programme committee. Time schedule: Deadline for paper submission: June 5 Notification of acceptance : July 18 Final papers due : August 27 Instruction for authors ----------------------- Detailed instructions for authors for the production of submissions in the right format will soon be 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 ------------------- The full list of all members of the Program Committee will soon be available at the IWPT'01 home page. 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 will soon be 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 <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://web-lli.univ-paris13.fr/ln/ From alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr Mon Mar 19 17:27:38 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:27:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: revue TERMINOLOGY Message-ID: <MON.19.MAR.2001.182738.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> TERMINOLOGY International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication Edited by Marie-Claude L'Homme and Ulrich Heid University of Montreal/University of Stuttgart Consultant: Juan C Sager Call for Papers TERMINOLOGY encompasses the subject of terminology both in general (theory and practice) and in specialized fields (LSP), such as physics, biomedical and social sciences, technology, engineering, humanities, management, economics, corporate identity, trade, business administration, arts, law and any other area in which terminology is essential to improve communication. Its content should be targeted at the need for information and discussion academically and in the professions (translation, lexicography, information science, business studies, computer science and linguistics). As of 2001 the journal will be directed by Marie Claude L'Homme and Ulrich Heid. The Editors invite relevant contributions. Papers can be sent to: Marie-Claude L'Homme University of Montreal Dept of Linguistics/Translation C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville MONTREAL, Quebec Canada H3C 3J7 lhommem at ling.Umontreal.ca Volume 7 (2001), 2 issues per year, total 400 pages ISSN 0929-9971 Terminology is published by John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia For more information and guidelines for authors : www.benjamins.com/jbp ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 19 17:28:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:28:05 +0100 Subject: Publications: INTONATION Analysis, Modelling and Technology Message-ID: <MON.19.MAR.2001.182805.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> **** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK *** NEW BOOK **** KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS TEXT, SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY Volume 15 Series editors: Nancy Ide and Jean V?ronis INTONATION Analysis, Modelling and Technology edited by Antonis Botinis University of Sk?vde, Sweden, and University of Athens, Greece The volume Intonation: Analysis, Modelling and Technology covers the main aspects of intonation, written by international researchers in the field. Following the Introduction, fourteen chapters are organised into five thematic sections: Overview of Intonation, Prominence and Focus, Boundaries and Discourse, Intonation Modelling and Intonation Technology. Each chapter is basically autonomous within a thematic section, but the subject of several chapters extends over more than one thematic section. The combination of a wide range of research areas, as well as interdisciplinary approaches in the study of intonation, makes this volume a unique contribution to the international scientific community. Basic knowledge of Intonation and Prosody is assumed in the context of linguistic and computational backgrounds. Readers may range from students of advanced undergraduate to postgraduate and research levels as well as individual researchers within a variety of disciplines such as Experimental Phonetics, General and Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, and SpeechLanguage Engineering. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6605-0 October 2000, 408 pp. NLG 320.00 / USD 156.00 / GBP 99.00 Paperback, ISBN 0-7923-6723-5 October 2000, 408 pp. NLG 110.00 / USD 54.00 / GBP 34.00 --------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS List of contributors. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction; A. Botinis. SECTION I: OVERVIEW OF INTONATION. 2. Intonation: Past, Present, Future; M. Rossi. SECTION II: PROMINENCE AND FOCUS. 3. Acoustic-phonetic Analysis of Prominence in Swedish; G. Fant, et al. 4. Prosodic Disambiguation in English and Italian; J. Hirschberg, C. Avesani. 5. Contrastive Tonal Analysis of Focus Perception in Greek and Swedish; A. Botinis, et al. SECTION III: BOUNDARIES AND DISCOURSE. 6. Phonetic Correlates of Statement versus Question Intonation in Dutch; V.J. van Heuven, J. Haan. 7. Pitch Movements and Information Structure in Spontaneous Dutch Discourse; M. van Donzel, F. Koopmans-van Beinum. 8. Discourse Constraints on F0 Peak Timing in English; A. Wichmann, et al. SECTION IV: INTONATION MODELLING. 9. Automatic Stylisation and Modelling of French and Italian Intonation; E. Campione, et al. 10. A Phonological Model of French Intonation; S.-A. Jun, C. Fougeron. 11. A Declination Model of Mandarin Chinese; C. Shih. 12. A Quantitative Model of F0 Generation and Alignment; J.P.H. van Santen, B. M?bius. SECTION V: INTONATION TECHNOLOGY. 13. Modelling of Swedish Text and Discourse Intonation in a Speech Synthesis Framework; G. Bruce, et al. 14. A Prosodic Model for Text-to-speech Synthesis in French; A. Di Cristo, et al. 15. Prosodic Parameters of French in a Speech Recognition System; K. Bartkova. Subject index. Index of names. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Check the series Web page for order information: http://www.wkap.nl/series.htm/TLTB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 19 17:28:38 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:28:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: Outils de veille stratgique sur internet Message-ID: <MON.19.MAR.2001.182838.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> APPEL A PROPOSITIONS "Outils de veille strat?gique sur internet : Filtrage et r?sum? de l'information" Le minist?re de la recherche (Direction de la technologie) lance un appel propositions sur le th?me du filtrage et du r?sum? de l'information professionnelle. Plusieurs types de projet sont attendus : - r?alisation de nouveaux produits ou services d'information ; - am?lioration d'un produit ou d'un service existant ; - r?alisation ou am?lioration de logiciels de veille dans un secteur donn? ; - int?gration de ces m?thodes dans un syst?me d'information d'entreprise ; - d?marche exp?rimentale visant ? valider une approche innovante dans le secteur de la veille ; - d?finition et mise en place de proc?dures d'?valuation. Le texte complet de l'appel ? propositions est accessible ? l'adresse suivante : http://www.recherche.gouv.fr/appel/2001/veille.htm La date de cl?ture de l'appel est le 1er juin 2001. ******************************************* 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 Informatique et T?l?communications 1, rue Descartes - 75231 PARIS cedex 05 http://www.recherche.gouv.fr ******************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 19 17:29:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:29:05 +0100 Subject: Appel: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER Message-ID: <MON.19.MAR.2001.182905.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> 23rd Annual Conference and Exhibition: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 29-30 November 2001 One Great George Street, London SW1 Supported by: IAMT, EAMT, BCS and ITI This conference is one of the few international events which focuses on the user aspects of translation software and as such has been particularly beneficial to a very wide audience including translators, business managers, researchers and language experts. Once again, this year the conference will address the latest developments in translation (and translation-related) software. It will address the needs of the following conference attendees: - industry - public administration - agencies - freelancers - development This call for papers invites abstracts of papers to be presented at the conference. The papers (and the presentations) should focus on the user aspects of translation or translation-related software rather than on theoretical issues. Presentations accompanied by demonstrations are especially welcome. TOPICS The range of topics includes (but is not limited to) - use of MT systems - machine-aided translation and translation aids - controlled languages and their use in MT - speech translation - terminology - localisation - multilingual document management/workflow - case studies of technology-based solutions - the Internet and translation aids/services - the value of "free" versus "charging" services/sites on the Internet SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are required to submit an abstract of a MINIMUM of 500 words of the paper they would like to present, together with an outline of the structure of the paper and short BIOGRAPHY. Abstracts should be sent by post or email before 15th June 2001 to: Nicole Adamides, Conference Organiser Aslib, The Association for Information Management Staple Hall, Stone House Court, London, EC3A 7PB Email: nicole.adamides at tinyworld.co.uk WWW: www.aslib.com The abstracts will be considered by the Programme Chairs, namely:Daniel Grasmick, SAP; Professor Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton; Chris Pyne, Lionbridge Technologies Deutschland and Olaf-Michael Stefanov, United Nations. The authors of abstracts will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their submissions by 1 August 2001. The full length versions of the accepted papers (authors will be provided with detailed camera-ready copy guidelines) will be included in the conference proceedings and must be submitted by 10th October 2001. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 19 17:30:05 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 18:30:05 +0100 Subject: Conf: TIA-2001 Message-ID: <MON.19.MAR.2001.183005.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> english version below ***************************************************************** APPEL A PARTICIPATION TIA-2001 Quatri?me rencontre " Terminologie et Intelligence Artificielle " 3-4 mai 2001, Nancy PROGRAMME : Les d?tails concernant l'organisation de la conf?rence et les insciptions sont sur la toile : http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm Jeudi 3 mai 2001 9 h 00 * 10 h 00 : Accueil 10 h 00 - 10h 30 : Allocutions d'ouverture 10 h 30 - 11 h 30 "La structuration de terminologie : une n?cessaire coop?ration" , Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko,LIPN - Universit? Paris Nord "Automatic acquisition of hyponymic relations from a medical terminology based on adjectival modifiers", Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun, Thomas C. Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine 11 h 30 * 12 h 00 : Pause 12 h 00 * 13 h 00 : Conf?rence invit?e : "Terminologie et applications industrielles", Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) 13 h 00 * 14 h 30 : D?jeuner 14 h 30 * 16 h 00 : "Expression du dysfonctionnement dans un corpus dialogique de la Navigation A?rienne : Mise ? jour de r?gularit?s", Anne Condamines, Pascale Vergely, ERSS et CENA "Rep?rage de termes dans un corpus de vulgarisation : aspects m?thodologiques", Val?rie DELAVIGNE, UMR CNRS 6065 - Universit? de Rouen "Construire un corpus web pour l'acquisition terminologique", Natalia Grabar, Sophie Berland, DIAM-SIM/DSI AP-HP, CRIM-INALCO 16 h 00 * 16 h 30 : Pause 16 h30 * 18 h 30 : "Frame-based definitions and the selection of multiword term candidates in DOT", Willy Martin, Ulrich Heid, Universit?s d'Amsterdam et de Stuttgart "Une comparaison raisonn?e des apports de la terminologie et de l'intelligence artificielle pour servir et am?liorer la construction d'ontologies", Sylvie DESPRES, CRIP5, Universit? Ren? Descartes. "Normalisation des ?changes de donn?es en terminologie : le cas des relations dites conceptuelles", Laurent Romary, Marc Van Campenhoudt, LORIA, Termisti, Bruxelles. "Mesurer l'?volution des connaissances d'un projet spatial", D. Galarreta, CNES Toulouse Vendredi 4 mai 2001 8 h 30 * 9 h 00 : Accueil 9 h 00 - 11 h 00 "Vers un environnement int?gr? pour la structuration de terminologies : TERMINAE" Sylvie Szulman, Brigitte Bi?bow, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, LIPN * Universit? Paris 13, IRIT Toulouse "Building Domain Knowledge from Specialized Texts", Caroline Barri?re, Terry Copeck, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 "A contrastive approach to term extraction", R. Basili, A.Moschitti, M.T. Pazienza, F.M. Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata "Etude comparative de deux outils d'acquisition de termes complexes", Agata Savary, LADL, LLI 11 h 00 * 12 h 00 : Pause (les posters et d?monstrations seront organis?s en parall?le) Posters "Approche phras?ologique d'une extraction automatique de terminologie dans un corpus scientifique bilingue align?", Fr?rot C?cile, Rigou G?raldine, Lacombe Annik, Universit? de Paris VII, INRA CRJ "M?thodes d'analyse automatique de l'?volution terminologique au travers des variations rep?r?es dans les corpus diachroniques", Annie Tartier, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes "Grammaires locales et lexique-grammaire pour le filtrage par chunks", Antonio BALVET, Universit? Paris X, Thomson-Csf Laboratoire Central de Recherches "Une Technologie d'Analyse S?mantique", Stephane Leroy, Elizabeth Bresson, Tanneguy Dulong, ARISEM "Extraction de termes ? base nominale ? partir d'un corpus bilingue align?", Fran?ois MANIEZ, Centre de Recherche en Traduction et en Terminologie, Universit? Lumi?re Lyon 2 "Hybrid Filtering for Extraction of Term Candidates from German, Technical Texts", Munpyo Hong, Sisay Fissaha, Johann Haller, Institute of Applied Information Science (IAI) at the University of Saarland "From Text to Ontology : Extraction and representation of Conceptual Information", Chantal P?rez Hernandez et Antonio Moreno Ortiz, Universit? de Malaga 12 h 00 * 13 h 00 : Conf?rence invit?e : "Multilinguisme et ing?nierie linguistique", Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) 13 h 00 * 14 h 30 : D?jeuner 14 h 30 * 16 h 30 : "R?utilisation de la nomenclature muti-axiale SNOMED pour mesurer une distance s?mantique entre termes m?dicaux", C?dric Bousquet, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Gilles Chatellier, Patrice Degoulet, UFR-Broussais-H?tel Dieu, Sant? Publique et Informatique M?dicale "Classement automatique de documents et analyse terminologique de corpus", Guiraude LAME, Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure des Mines de Paris "Extraction et exploitation de candidats termes en contexte pour la navigation dans une m?moire d'entreprise", Maria Nava, Daniela Garcia, Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliqu?es - Universit? de Paris-Sorbonne, Electricit? de France, Division Recherche et D?veloppement "Exploitation des ontologies pour la construction et l'exploitation de la m?moire de projet-v?hicule", Joanna Golebiowska, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Olivier Corby, Didier Mousseau, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis 16 h30 * 17 h 00 : Cl?ture OBJECTIFS : Sous l'effet de l'information en r?seau, institutions, entreprises et laboratoires se trouvent aujourd'hui confront?s aux probl?mes consid?rables pos?s par la taille et la diversit? des documents sp?cialis?s. Acc?der ? ces corpus textuels, les filtrer, les traiter, les stocker, les impl?menter sur des syst?mes informatiques, telles sont, entre autres, les t?ches auxquelles doit r?pondre la terminologie. Devant de tels enjeux, la terminologie, en tant que discipline, doit ?tablir des relations coop?ratives avec un ensemble de disciplines allant de la linguistique ? l'ing?nierie des connaissances en passant par les sciences de l'information. La pratique terminologique fait notamment appel ? des techniques linguistiques et /ou num?riques pour manipuler les unit?s de la langue naturelle (en particulier les terminologies) et ? des techniques d'intelligence artificielle pour la formalisation de ces donn?es. Ces techniques partagent des m?thodes, des objectifs et une m?me finalit? : - m?me point de d?part : elles partent de corpus pour l'acquisition de donn?es linguistiques destin?es ? la constitution de terminologies ; - m?me objectif : la mod?lisation de domaines ? partir de corpus, sans formalisation dans le cas d'une production linguistique, avec formalisation du domaine dans le cas d'une application requ?rant les techniques de l'I.A ; - m?me vis?e applicative : ressources terminologiques, dictionnaires ?lectroniques pour la traduction automatique, pour l'indexation, pour le filtrage, etc., ontologies, syst?mes ? base de connaissances, m?moires d'entreprise (dans le cadre d'applications relevant de l'I.A). L'objectif de la conf?rence TIA est de faire ?merger les convergences et les coop?rations possibles entre ces disciplines pour ?laborer et tester des m?thodes de travail sur corpus, associ?es ? des techniques de traitement automatique de la langue et d'intelligence artificielle, afin de constituer, de mani?re syst?matique, les donn?es terminologiques pertinentes en fonction des applications. Les quatri?mes rencontres TIA serviront ? explorer les nombreuses questions rest?es ouvertes en mati?re d'acquisition de connaissances terminologiques (i? partir de corpus, d'analyse du fonctionnement lexicologique en corpus sp?cialis?, de mod?lisation et de formalisation de ces connaissances, toujours dans le cas d'applications pr?cises. Vous ?tes invit? ? y participer en proposant une communication sur l'un des th?mes ci-dessous : - Th?ories du sens et la question des textes sp?cialis?s - Terminologie et ontologies - Exploitation de l'extraction de termes en corpus - Terminologie et mod?lisation / formalisation des connaissances - Bases de connaissances terminologiques - Ressources terminologiques pour la recherche d'information - Probl?mes de la terminologie multilingue - R?utilisabilit? en ing?nierie linguistique et ing?nierie des connaissances - Outils et applications Le Groupe TIA (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/), est organisateur de cette conf?rence qui fait suite aux conf?rences TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) et TIA'99 (Nantes). Fond? sous l'?gide du PRC-IA et de l'AFIA en 1994, ? pr?sent groupe AFIA/PRC-I3, ce groupe rassemble des chercheurs en linguistique, en intelligence artificielle et en traitement automatique des langues. Il a ?t? cr?? pour permettre une confrontation entre les cadres th?oriques et m?thodologiques ainsi qu'entre les pratiques d?velopp?es dans chaque discipline. Les propositions de communications (en anglais ou en fran?ais) seront soumises ? un comit? de programme international constitu? des membres du groupe TIA et d'experts des domaines concern?s. CONFERENCIERS INVITES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminologie et applications industrielles" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) " Multilinguisme et ing?nierie linguistique " COMITE DE PROGRAMME Pr?sidente : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimond (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (Universit? de Rome) Brigitte Bi?bow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) St?phane Chaudiron (Minist?re de la Recherche &Universit? Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Beno?t Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Universit? Paris 10) Udo Hahn (Universit? de Fribourg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (Universit? d'Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Universit? de Dublin) Fran?ois Rastier (INALF, CNRS, Paris) Fran?ois Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royaut? (INIST, CNRS, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Universit? Louis Lumi?re, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) COMITE D'ORGANISATION Jean Royaut? (Pr?sident), Dominique Besagni, Claire Fran?ois, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, INIST-CNRS), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Universit? Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) Les rencontres se d?rouleront ? l'INIST - Nancy (Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du CNRS) et seront aussi l'occasion de mettre en ?vidence les convergences entre documentation et terminologie. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royaut? - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 all?e du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex T?l : +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr ***************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION TIA-2001 4th meeting "Terminology and Artificial Intelligence" 3-4 May 2001, Nancy, France PROGRAM : Details concerning the conference organization and registrations are on the conference website: http://www.inist.fr/TIA2001/index.htm Thursday may 3, 2001 9 h 00 * 10 h 00 : Registration 10 h 00 - 10h 30 : Welcome and opening speech 10 h 30 - 11 h 30 "La structuration de terminologie : une n?cessaire coop?ration" , Thierry Hamon, Adeline Nazarenko,LIPN - Universit? Paris Nord "Automatic acquisition of hyponymic relations from a medical terminology based on adjectival modifiers", Olivier Bodenreider, Anita Burgun, Thomas C. Rindflesch, U.S. National Library of Medicine 11 h 30 * 12 h 00 : Coffee break 12 h 00 * 13 h 00 : Invited lecture : "Terminologie et applications industrielles", Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) 13 h 00 * 14 h 30 : Lunch 14 h 30 * 16 h 00 : "Expression du dysfonctionnement dans un corpus dialogique de la Navigation A?rienne : Mise ? jour de r?gularit?s", Anne Condamines, Pascale Vergely, ERSS et CENA "Rep?rage de termes dans un corpus de vulgarisation : aspects m?thodologiques", Val?rie DELAVIGNE, UMR CNRS 6065 - Universit? de Rouen "Construire un corpus web pour l'acquisition terminologique", Natalia Grabar, Sophie Berland, DIAM-SIM/DSI AP-HP, CRIM-INALCO 16 h 00 * 16 h 30 : Coffee break 16 h30 * 18 h 30 : "Frame-based definitions and the selection of multiword term candidates in DOT", Willy Martin, Ulrich Heid, Universit?s d'Amsterdam et de Stuttgart "Une comparaison raisonn?e des apports de la terminologie et de l'intelligence artificielle pour servir et am?liorer la construction d'ontologies", Sylvie DESPRES, CRIP5, Universit? Ren? Descartes. "Normalisation des ?changes de donn?es en terminologie : le cas des relations dites conceptuelles", Laurent Romary, Marc Van Campenhoudt, LORIA, Termisti, Bruxelles. "Mesurer l'?volution des connaissances d'un projet spatial", D. Galarreta, CNES Toulouse Friday 4, 2001 8 h 30 * 9 h 00 : Reception 9 h 00 - 11 h 00 "Vers un environnement int?gr? pour la structuration de terminologies : TERMINAE" Sylvie Szulman, Brigitte Bi?bow, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, LIPN * Universit? Paris 13, IRIT Toulouse "Building Domain Knowledge from Specialized Texts", Caroline Barri?re, Terry Copeck, School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 6N5 "A contrastive approach to term extraction", R. Basili, A.Moschitti, M.T. Pazienza, F.M. Zanzotto, University of Rome Tor Vergata "Etude comparative de deux outils d'acquisition de termes complexes", Agata Savary, LADL, LLI 11 h 00 * 12 h 00 : Coffee break (posters and demos are shown in parallel sessions) Posters : "Approche phras?ologique d'une extraction automatique de terminologie dans un corpus scientifique bilingue align?", Fr?rot C?cile, Rigou G?raldine, Lacombe Annik, Universit? de Paris VII, INRA CRJ "M?thodes d'analyse automatique de l'?volution terminologique au travers des variations rep?r?es dans les corpus diachroniques", Annie Tartier, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Nantes "Grammaires locales et lexique-grammaire pour le filtrage par chunks", Antonio BALVET, Universit? Paris X, Thomson-Csf Laboratoire Central de Recherches "Une Technologie d'Analyse S?mantique", Stephane Leroy, Elizabeth Bresson, Tanneguy Dulong, ARISEM "Extraction de termes ? base nominale ? partir d'un corpus bilingue align?", Fran?ois MANIEZ, Centre de Recherche en Traduction et en Terminologie, Universit? Lumi?re Lyon 2 "Hybrid Filtering for Extraction of Term Candidates from German, Technical Texts", Munpyo Hong, Sisay Fissaha, Johann Haller, Institute of Applied Information Science (IAI) at the University of Saarland "From Text to Ontology : Extraction and representation of Conceptual Information", Chantal P?rez Hernandez et Antonio Moreno Ortiz, Universit? de Malaga 12 h 00 * 13 h 00 :Invited lecture: "Multilinguisme et ing?nierie linguistique", Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) 13 h 00 * 14 h 30 : Lunch 14 h 30 * 16 h 30 : "R?utilisation de la nomenclature muti-axiale SNOMED pour mesurer une distance s?mantique entre termes m?dicaux", C?dric Bousquet, Marie-Christine Jaulent, Gilles Chatellier, Patrice Degoulet, UFR-Broussais-H?tel Dieu, Sant? Publique et Informatique M?dicale "Classement automatique de documents et analyse terminologique de corpus", Guiraude LAME, Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure des Mines de Paris "Extraction et exploitation de candidats termes en contexte pour la navigation dans une m?moire d'entreprise", Maria Nava, Daniela Garcia, Institut des Sciences Humaines Appliqu?es - Universit? de Paris-Sorbonne, Electricit? de France, Division Recherche et D?veloppement "Exploitation des ontologies pour la construction et l'exploitation de la m?moire de projet-v?hicule", Joanna Golebiowska, Rose Dieng-Kuntz, Olivier Corby, Didier Mousseau, INRIA-Sophia Antipolis 16 h30 * 17 h 00 : Closure GOALS : Due to the availability of ever-increasing amount of information institutions, companies and laboratories are facing new problems related in particular to scale effects and the diversity of technical texts. A full range of tasks, from accessing text corpora to processing lexical data, is now being entrusted to terminology. As a result, terminology has to enrich and strengthen its links with related disciplines, including linguistics, knowledge engineering and information sciences. Thus, terminological work makes use of linguistic and /or numeric techniques to process natural language items (especially terms) and of artificial intelligence techniques for their formalization. These techniques share a number of methods and objec tives as well as a common goal: - the same starting point: corpus-based data acquistion; - the same objectives: corpus-based domain modeling with or without formalization, depending on the type of application (artificial intelligence or not); - the same goal: production of terminological resources (machine-readable dictionaries for machine translation, indexing, filtering); ontologies, knowledge-based systems, corporate memories. The TIA Conference aims at promoting convergence and synergy among such disciplines in order to develop and evaluate corpus-processing methodologies, requiring refined natural language processing and artificial intelligence techniques. The end results of those investigations should help build relevant terminological data for specific applications on a systematic basis. The 4th TIA Conference will be an opportunity to explore some of the unsolved problems raised in corpus-based acquisition of terminological data, in the analysis of lexical behavior in specialized corpora, in knowledge modeling and formalization of the resulting data. You are invited to propose a paper in the following topics: - Meaning theories and the question of specialized texts; - Terminology and ontologies; - Exploitation of corpus-based term extraction; - Terminology and knowledge modeling / formalization - Terminological knowledge bases; - Terminological resources for information retrieval; - Problems of multilingual terminology; - Reusability in linguistics and knowledge engineering - Tools and applications. This TIA Conference, which follows TIA'95 (Villetaneuse), TIA'97 (Toulouse) and TIA'99 (Nantes), is organized by the TIA Working Group (http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/TIA/). This group gathers researchers in linguistics, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. It was created to allow a confrontation between the theoretical and methodological frameworks as well as between the practices developed in each discipline. Submitted papers (in French or in English) will be reviewed by an international program committee composed of members of the TIA Working Group and of invited experts. INVITED LECTURES Henri Boccon-Gibod (EDF, Division R&D, Clamart) "Terminology and industrial applications" Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) "Multi-lingualism and language engineering" PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chair : Monique Slodzian (CRIM-INALCO, Paris) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Bruno Bachimond (INA, Bry sur Marne) Roberto Basili (University of Roma) Brigitte Bi?bow (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Jacques Bouaud (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Jean Charlet (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) St?phane Chaudiron (Minist?re de la Recherche &Universit? Paris 10) Anne Condamines (ERSS, CNRS Toulouse) Rose Dieng-Kuntz (INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis) Chantal Enguehard (IRIN, Nantes) Gregory Grefenstette (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble) Beno?t Habert (LIMSI, CNRS & Universit? Paris 10) Udo Hahn (University of Freiburg) John Humbley (CTN, CNRS Villetaneuse) Daniel Kayser (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Ingrid Meyer (University of Ottawa) Jennifer Pearson (Universit? of Dublin) Fran?ois Rastier (INALF, CNRS, Paris) Fran?ois Rousselot (LIIA-ENSAI, Strasbourg) Jean Royaut? (INIST, CNRS, Nancy) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Villetaneuse) Philippe Thoiron (Universit? Louis Lumi?re, Lyon) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA, Nancy) Marc Van Campenhoudt (Termisti, Bruxelles) Pierre Zweigenbaum (DIAM/SIM/DSI/AP-HP, Paris) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jean Royaut? (Organizing chair), Dominique Besagni, Claire Fran?ois, Patricia Gautier, Xavier Polanco, Ivana Roche (URI, INIST-CNRS), Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan (Universit? Nancy 2, IUT A), Yannick Toussaint (LORIA-INRIA) The conference will take place at INIST, the Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in Nancy, and will also offer the opportunity to highlight the convergence between documentation and terminology. Contact : Patricia Gautier & Jean Royaut? - URI-INIST-CNRS 2 all?e du Parc de Brabois F-54514 VANDOEUVRE Cedex Tel.: +33 (0)3 83 50 46 70 - tia2001 at inist.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 21 17:59:54 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 18:59:54 +0100 Subject: Jobs: Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics - Uppsala University Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2001.185954.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Position as Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics Uppsala University, Sweden at the Department of Linguistics [http://www.ling.uu.se/] Duties: Instruction, research, and administration. The department runs a large and growing four-year training programme in Language Engineering, STP. Currently a hundred students are enrolled on the programme. The duty of the lecturer will, primarily, be allocated to STP. It is envisaged that he/she will be the director of undergraduate studies. Research in computational linguistics at the department has several focal points, among them machine translation, corpus linguistics, computational lexicography, language checking, machine-learning, computational semantics, computer-assisted language learning, applications of finite-state techniques, and word prediction. The commercial aspects of language engineering are being explored and developed in several ways. Eligibility: According to Chapter 4, Section 7 of the Higher Education Ordinance, the eligibility criteria for employment as the senior lecturer are scholarly competence and teaching skill. Further, the Uppsala University Appointment Policy stipulates that applicants possess the required abilities for the post. To be eligible for the post the applicants should have a PhD degree or be able to certify scientific competence at an equivalent level. The applicant must certify his/her competence in providing quality instruction in Swedish or English in some of the following sub-areas of language engineering including applications: mathematical linguistics, logic, logic programming, language statistics, algorithms and data structures; computational linguistics directed towards morphology, lexicography, syntax, semantics, discourse, corpus linguistics, and speech technology. An applicant who does not know Swedish will be expected to learn it within three years of starting employment. The senior lecturer will be given full professorship if he/she so requires and qualifies for it. Ranking: Ranking of applicants for the above position will be based on the respective degree of competence in the areas required. In addition, consideration will be given to the degree of administrative competence and other skills of importance to the subject content and duties of the position. Moreover, attention will be paid to the applicants? skills in developing and leading activities and personnel and the applicants? ability to co-operate with the surrounding community and to inform the public about research and developmental work, including their general capacity for collaboration. When appointing the senior lecturer, weight will be given equally to scholarly competence and teaching skill. Teaching skill will be assessed to the same rigid degree as that applied to research achievements. In assessing teaching competence, attention will be paid to past experience in planning, executing, and evaluating teaching and in individual supervision and examining. The bredth in the scientific profile and experience of commercial language engineering will be highly valued in the ranking process. Information: Information regarding the position is available from the Head of Department, Professor Anna S?gvall Hein, Tel +46 18 471 1412, e-mail: anna at ling.uu.se. The application should include the following: 1.Signed and witnessed curriculum vitae with copies of degrees obtained and other relevant documents (3 copies) 2.A short account of scientific and teaching experience (3 copies) 3.List of scientific and pedagogic publications (3 copies) 4.Publications indicated in item 3 (2 copies) Application should be made to Uppsala University and sent to the Registrar, UFV-PA 2001/999, Box 256, SE-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden, fax +46 18 471 2000, by April 9, 2001. If application is submitted via fax, it must be followed by original documents as soon as possible. The position is to be taken up on August 15, 2001, if possible. Version in Swedish: http://www.personalavd.uu.se/annonser/ulektDatorlingvistik.html ----------------------------------------------------------- Mats Dahll?f, Inst. f. lingvistik, Uppsala universitet, Box 527, 751 20 UPPSALA. [Spr?kvetenskapligt centrum, SVC] ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 21 18:00:13 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:00:13 +0100 Subject: Soft: morphological-semantical parser for English compound participles Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2001.190013.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> A prototype morphological-semantical parser for English compound participles is now available at http://jens.zorba.dk/phd/cpparser_2.htm Any comments, criticisms, suggestions for improvements, etc. are most welcome, esp. from native English speakers. Introduction: CP-Parser 2 (CP2) parses English NP constructions of the following syntax: NP ::= <prefix> + ?-? + <participle> + ? ? + <head> Prefix ::= <noun> | <adj> | <adv> | <prep> | <LBM> Participle ::= <present participle> | <past participle> Head ::= <noun> where LBM = lexical, bound morpheme. CP2 includes approx. 100 present and 100 past participle examples, which were extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC), using the Corpus Query Processor (CQP) tool ? IMS, Stuttgart University. The BNC data provides the core of CP2?s lexicon, which was formatted by means of the WordSmith application. The word lists were then tagged and lemmatized by Conexor?s web tagger at www.conexor.fi. Finally, information concerning valency, semantic selectional restrictions and semantic categorization was added manually. The morphological-semantical parsing algorithm builds on the principles set out at http://jens.zorba.dk/phd - further documentation is forthcoming. Mange Hilsener Jens Ahlmann Hansen Karlsbjergvej 39 C DK-5672 Broby mailto:jahlmann at mail.tele.dk TEL: 00 45 65 50 33 10 (office) 00 45 62 63 39 39 (home) 00 45 29 46 43 22 (mobile) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 21 18:00:26 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:00:26 +0100 Subject: ATALA: Assemble Gnrale du 10 mars 2001 - rapport moral Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2001.190026.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Rapport moral pr?sent? par le Pr?sident Jean V?ronis ? l'Assembl?e G?n?rale de l'ATALA du 10 mars 2001 [Informations et adh?sions 2001 : http//www.atala.org] Au cours des ann?es qui pr?c?dent, et tout particuli?rement en 2000, l'ATALA a connu un important d?veloppement ? la fois de son audience et de ses activit?s. En 1999, l'adh?sion ? l'ATALA avait ?t? coupl?e avec l'inscription ? la conf?rence TALN, ce qui avait fortement augment? le nombre des adh?rents. On pouvait craindre une r?cession du nombre des adh?sions en 2000, puisque ce couplage n'a pas ?t? renouvel? mais remplac? par une r?duction sur le tarif d'inscription. Le nombre d'adh?rents est pourtant rest? au m?me niveau (de l'ordre de 280), montrant ainsi l'int?r?t r?el et durable de la communaut? francophone pour les activit?s de l'association. La conf?rence TALN'2000 s'est tenue pour la premi?re fois hors de l'hexagone. Superbement organis?e ? Lausanne par Martin Rajman et Eric Wehrli, elle a r?uni un nombre impressionnant de participants (110), recouvrant 13 nationalit?s. Le nombre de soumissions a ?t? plus ?lev? que jamais (85 pour 34 papiers accept?s et 13 posters ou d?monstrations), ce qui a permis une qualit? scientifique exceptionnelle. TALN s'est donc impos?e comme la conf?rence francophone du domaine. Son association avec la conf?rence des jeunes chercheurs en TAL, RECITAL, semble aussi ?tre d?sormais ?tablie, et s'est av?r?e des plus productives. L'ATALA a poursuivi en 2000 son cycle de journ?es d'?tude, qui ont d?sormais pris la forme d'ateliers avec appel ? communications, avec notamment les 25-27 mai 2000 l'accueil dans le cadre des journ?es de la 5?me conf?rence internationale sur les grammaires d'arbres adjoints (TAG+5) organis?e par Marie-H?l?ne Candito et Alexandra Kinyon. Sur des th?mes tr?s vari?s, ces journ?es d'?tude ont r?uni un large public, et leur succ?s semble ?tre croissant, puisqu'un nombre tr?s important de propositions ont ?t? re?ues pour l'ann?e universitaire 2000-2001. Il est encourageant de voir que des ?tudiants de plus en plus nombreux assistent aux s?ances, et notamment en provenance de diff?rents DEA et DESS. La revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (T.A.L.) a connu de profondes mutations. Elle est d?sormais diffus?e par l'?diteur Herm?s, chez qui elle s'int?gre ? un bouquet de revues informatiques (Intelligence Artificielle, Document Num?rique, etc.), ce qui accro?tra sa diffusion et sa visibilit?. Elle est de plus pass?e ? trois num?ros par an, au lieu de deux, et ses r?dacteurs-en-chef ont ?t? renouvel?s, puisque Christophe D'Alessandro et Claire Gardent ont en effet rejoint Philippe Blache ? cette fonction. La revue fonctionne d?sormais essentiellement par num?ros th?matiques, avec appel ? communication et r?dacteurs-en-chef invit?s, mais elle continue ? publier dans chaque num?ro des articles hors-th?me. Le nombre de soumissions est en progression, ce qui est garant de la qualit? scientifique de la revue. L'ATALA a ?galement consolid? ses outils d'information et de communication. Le site Web s'est restructur? et ?tendu, gr?ce aux efforts de Pierre Zweigenbaum. Maintenant bilingue, il offre des services importants pour la communaut?, et devient peu ? peu le portail incontournable du TAL francophone: on y trouve, outre le programme des journ?es d'?tude et le sommaire des num?ros de la revue, un annuaire des ?quipes et des formations universitaires, un catalogue d'outils pour le TAL, et un inventaire des th?ses r?centes. Les listes LN et LN-FR continuent leur travail quasi quotidien de diffusion de l'information en TAL (annonce de conf?rences, de th?ses, de parutions, questions et r?ponses sur des sujets techniques, etc.). L'ann?e 2000 a vu un renouvellement de leurs deux mod?rateurs, la liste LN ?tant maintenant pilot?e par Alexis Nasr et la liste LN-FR par Thierry Hamon. Cette progression constante des activit?s de l'ATALA a ?t? rendue possible par la subvention du Minist?re de la Recherche et de la Technologie, obtenue sous la pr?sidence dynamique de Laurence Danlos. Cette subvention se terminant en 2001, il a paru raisonnable au Conseil d'Administration d'augmenter l?g?rement la cotisation, qui ?tait rest?e au m?me niveau depuis de nombreuses ann?es, de fa?on ? ?viter un effet d'escalier abrupt en 2002. La cotisation est ainsi pass?e de 200 ? 300 F pour les adh?rents individuels en 2001, mais elle reste comparable ou inf?rieure ? celle de nombreuses autres associations professionnelles. Ce rattrapage, in?vitable, a ?t? compris par nos membres (qui re?oivent d'ailleurs en compensation trois num?ros de la revue T.A.L. au lieu de deux), puisqu'au mois de mars 2001 nous enregistrons d?j? pr?s de 180 adh?sions, chiffre record, qui n'avait ?t? atteint l'ann?e pr?c?dente qu'en novembre. L'ATALA semble donc devenir de fa?on durable l'association francophone de r?f?rence pour le traitement des langues, et la tendance observ?e en 2000 ne peut que laisser optimiste pour l'avenir proche. L'ann?e 2001 s'annonce d'ores et d?j? comme un excellent mill?sime, avec de nombreux adh?rents (notamment ?tudiants), des num?ros de revue de tr?s grande qualit? et une conf?rence organis?e ? Tours par Denis Maurel et son ?quipe, dont l'enthousiasme et le dynamisme nous laissent pr?sager une grande r?ussite. Il ne nous faut pas pour autant rel?cher nos efforts. La subvention minist?rielle exceptionnelle s'arr?te bient?t, et il faut nous mobiliser. Faisons conna?tre l'association et la revue autour de nous, incitons nos ?tudiants, futurs chercheurs, ? adh?rer: ce sont, in fine, ses adh?rents qui font vivre une association et qui lui permettent de se d?velopper. L'ATALA a besoin de l'aide de tous pour continuer ? accro?tre et am?liorer ses services, et contribuer, comme elle le fait depuis 1959, au rayonnement francophone dans le domaine des technologies du langage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 21 18:00:39 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:00:39 +0100 Subject: Publication: BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS - WORLD EDITION Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2001.190039.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> [With the usual apologies for cross-posting] BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS - WORLD EDITION After many delays (a postal strike being the latest) Oxford's Humanities Computing Unit is now shipping the revised second edition of the British National Corpus, which we are calling BNC-WORLD to indicate that the corpus is now available under licence world wide. For background information on the BNC, a one-hundred million word snapshot of the English language at the end of the 20th century, please visit our website at http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc A licence to use BNC World is available in two flavours: under the single user licence (cost 50 pounds) you can install the whole corpus and the SARA software on a single machine for personal use; alternatively, for 250 pounds you can set up the corpus for networked access by up to 50 people. Alternatively, for the same prices, you can install just the corpus itself and use whatever software you like. The corpus is supplied in compressed format as a single tar archive containing over 4000 files of SGML data. Full documentation of the linguistic and structural tagging is included. The part-of-speech tagging in the new edition has been extensively revised at Lancaster University. Large numbers of errors and inconsistencies in the tagging and markup have been removed, and the encoding has been brought into conformance with recent standards. Several enhancements and corrections have been made in the metadata attached to each text. The SARA software now includes facilities for lemmatized searching, improved handling of collocation searching, and the ability to build and use arbitrary subcorpora. For ordering information, please visit http://info.ox.ac.uk/bnc/getting/ordering.html Lou Burnard ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lou Burnard http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 21 18:00:54 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:00:54 +0100 Subject: Appel: International Contrastive Linguistics Conference Message-ID: <WED.21.MAR.2001.190054.0100.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> The Second International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC II) 25th to 27th October 2001 Santiago de Compostela, Spain CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce that the Second International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC) will be held from 25th to 27th October 2001, in the Philology Faculty of Santiago University, Spain. Papers of a contrastive nature are welcome, particularly in the following subject areas: Linguistic Description (grammar, lexico-semantics, phonetics, phonology, etc), Pragmatics, Rhetoric, Translation Studies, Discourse Analysis, Languages for Specific Purposes, and Second Language Acquisition. Papers will have a duration of 20 minutes (3000 words maximum, references and notes included), and may be presented in English or Spanish (Castilian). If you wish to take part, please send us a title and an abstract, preferably by e-mail (iarabade at usc.es; iadimly at usc.es), before 15th April 2001. Abstracts will have to conform with the following format: Line 1: Research Area Line 2: Name of author(s) Line 3: Title of paper Line 4: Institution/Affiliation(s), Line 5: Postal address(es), e-mail (and webpage) Line 6-Line 20 (maximum): Abstract (single spaced) The conference fee will be 10,000 pesetas (5,000 for students). After a blind refereeing processs, those papers that fulfil the requirements of presentation, originality and scientific rigour will be selected for publication by the Scientific Committee. We look forward to your participation. Kind regards, The organising committee Contact address: II International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC II) Drs. L. IGLESIAS-R?BADE & M.L.A G?MEZ-GONZ?LEZ Facultad de Filolox?a. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela Avda. de Castelao, s/n E- 15782 Santiago. Spain Tels.: +34 981 57 53 40 extensions 11897 (Dr. L. Iglesias), 11856 (Dr. M.L.A. G?mez), 11891 (S. Doval), Dr. A. Rollings (11838) Fax: +34 981 57 46 46 e-mail: iarabade at usc.es; iadimly at usc.es Web site for ICLC II : http://www.usc.es/ia303/benvidag.htm >******************************* >Dr Mar?a ?ngeles G?MEZ-GONZ?LEZ >Profesora Titular de Filolox?a Inglesa >Departmento de Filolox?a Inglesa >Facultade de Filoloxia >Universidade de Santiago de Compostela >Avda. de Castelao, s/n >E-15704 Santiago de Compostela >Fax.: + 00 34 981-574646 >Tel: + 00 34 981-563100 Ext. 11856 >email: iadimly at usc.es >http://www.usc.es/ia303/benvidag.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Sun Mar 25 16:10:28 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:10:28 +0200 Subject: Appel: Workshop on the Technology of Browsing Applications Message-ID: <SUN.25.MAR.2001.181028.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> *****************FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS********************* THE TECHNOLOGY OF BROWSING APPLICATIONS http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nina/browsingtechnologywkshop.html A Workshop held in Conjunction with the 2001 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries June 28, 2001 Roanoke, Virginia Description: Phrase browsing applications provide information seekers with access to text content via structured lists of index terms. These lists provide a preview of the content of a collection. The index terms, which may be identified by a variety of techniques, are phrases that represent important concepts referred to in a document or collection of documents. The browsing system supports interactive navigation and organization of the phrases. Browsing systems are distinct from systems based on ontologies because phrases are drawn automatically from the text of the collection itself, and do not necessarily correspond to taxonomies of the collection content. For this reason, phrase-browsing systems can be easily integrated with full-text search. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in any aspect of phrase browsing technology, including, but not limited to, identification of index terms, techniques for hierarchical organization of the terms, implementation of efficient systems, usability of browsing applications, and techniques for evaluating this technology. Paper submission: Long papers of up to 6 pages and short papers of up to 2 pages are solicited. An extended abstract (3 pages for long papers, 1 page for short papers) should be submitted to one of the Co-chairs by April 1, 2001. Notification of acceptance will be made by April 20, 2001. Final papers must be submitted by May 31, 2001. Papers should be in the ACM document format template, as specified on the JCDL web page, http://www.jcdl.org/ For more information, go to the Workshop's web page, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nina/browsingtechnologywkshop.html Workshop Co-chairs: Nina Wacholder (nina at cs.columbia.edu) Craig Nevill-Manning (nevill at cs.rutgers.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Sun Mar 25 16:10:41 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:10:41 +0200 Subject: Ecole: MSc in Psycholinguistics at the University of Edinburgh Message-ID: <SUN.25.MAR.2001.181041.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* MSc in Psycholinguistics at the University of Edinburgh We announce a new one-year MSc degree in Psycholinguistics, at the University of Edinburgh. The programme is based in the Department of Psychology and draws on the world-class expertise in language research at Edinburgh, principally in the Department of Psychology, the Division of Informatics (incorporating the School of Cognitive Science), and the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. We invite applications from individuals with good honours degrees (or their non-UK equivalent) in relevant disciplines. Our goal is to provide students with a comprehensive introduction to research into the psychology of language, taught by staff who are themselves internationally known researchers in the field. The programme also provides training in a wide range of research methods, and will be a valuable precursor to PhD studies at Edinburgh or elsewhere. Please visit our website for further information. http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/Teaching/pg/psycholing.html ******************************************************************************* ******************************************************************************* ****************************************************************************** Dr. Richard Shillcock Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation Division of Informatics University of Edinburgh 2 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW UK MAIL : Richard.Shillcock at ed.ac.uk VOICE : +44 (131) 650 4425 FAX : +44 (131) 650 6626 www : http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~rcs/ and Department of Psychology 7 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JZ UK VOICE : +44 (131) 650 3453 FAX : +44 (131) 650 3461 ****************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Sun Mar 25 16:10:57 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:10:57 +0200 Subject: Appel: ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop on ARABIC Language Processing Message-ID: <SUN.25.MAR.2001.181057.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ACL/EACL 2001 Workshop ARABIC Language Processing: Status and Prospects Toulouse, France, Friday 6 July 2001 Co-organized by: ELSNET/NAPLUS WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND DESCRIPTION: The objective of the workshop is threefold. * First of all we want to bring together people who are actively involved in Arabic language and/or speech processing in a mono- or multilingual context, and give them an opportunity to report on completed and ongoing work as well as on the availability of products and core technologies. This should enable the participants to develop a common view on where we stand with respect to Arabic language processing. * Secondly, we want to identify problems of common interest, and possible mechanisms to move towards solutions, such as sharing of tools and resources, moving towards standards, sharing and dissemination of information and expertise, adoption of current best practices, setting up joint projects and technology transfer mechanisms, etc. * Third, we would like to enhance collaboration between the Arabic NLP community and the NLP community at large. The workshop program will include the following components: * Introduction * Overview talks * Scientific papers * Short presentations of projects, core technologies and products * A panel session and/or a round table discussion * Conclusions SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SCIENTIFIC PAPERS: Papers are solicited that address all aspects of Arabic language processing in a mono- or multilingual context, including tools, resources and standards. Papers will have to be original and report on completed research. Submissions of scientific papers should not exceed eight (8) pages. Please provide a list of keywords in the separate header page. Further submission details below. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR SHORT PRESENTATIONS OF PROJECTS, CORE TECHNOLOGIES AND PRODUCTS: Short presentations serve to give the audience an impression of ongoing activities and projects, and of existing core technologies and products, with a view to possible collaboration and synergies (i.e. NO commercial product presentations). Submissions of short presentations should not exceed two (2) pages. Short presentations will be reviewed on the basis of relevance and clarity of presentation. REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Submissions should not exceed the length indicated above, including references. You can download the appropriate style or template files using the following link: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. Submission and presentation language is English. In case of problems with the submission format, please contact steven.krauwer at elsnet.org. Submissions should be sent to steven.krauwer at elsnet.org. All submissions will be acknowledged. DEADLINES FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS: * Submission deadline: 6th April 2001 * Notification date: 27th April 2001 * Camera-ready papers due: 16th May 2001 * Workshop date: 6th July 2001 CONFIRMED CORE PROGRAMME/ORGANISATION COMMITTEE: * Mustafa Yaseen, Amman University, Jordan (Co-chair, myaseen at cbj.gov.jo) * Joseph Dichy, Universite Lumiere-Lyon 2, France (Co-chair, dichy at univ-lyon2.fr) * Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University / ELSNET, The Netherlands (Contact person, steven.krauwer at elsnet.org) * Adnane Zribi, University of Tunis, Tunisia (adn at gnet.tn) * Salem Ghazali, IRSIT, Tunisia (ghazali at irsit.rnrt.tn) * Humoud Al-Sadoun, Ministry of Education, Kuwait (hbh at moe.edu.kw) * Jean Senellart, SYSTRAN, France (senellart at systran.fr) * Nadia Hegazy, ERI, Egypt (nhegazy at idsc.gov.eg) * Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France (choukri at elda.fr) * Malek Boualem, FTRD/DMI/LAN, France (malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.fr) * Everhard Ditters, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, (e.ditters at let.kun.nl) WORKSHOP URL: http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-arabic.html CONTACT INFO: Steven Krauwer email: steven.krauwer at elsnet.org ELSNET / UiL OTS www: http://www.elsnet.org Trans 10 phone: +31 30 253 6050 3512 JK Utrecht, NL fax: +31 30 253 6000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Sun Mar 25 16:11:07 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:11:07 +0200 Subject: Ecole: EUROLAN 2001 - Second Call for Participation Message-ID: <SUN.25.MAR.2001.181107.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ***************************************************************** --- Please accept our apologies for multiple copies --- --- Thank you in advance to circulate --- ***************************************************************** EUROLAN 2001 - Second Call for Participation Summer School on "Creation and Exploitation of Annotated Language Resources" 5th in the series of Eurolan Schools 30 July - 11 August 2001 Iasi, Romania Theme The goal of EUROLAN 2001 is to insert into the participants' minds data on the theory, methodology, and technology for creating and using annotated language resources for language engineering. Experienced brainwashers will spend all mornings trying to convince you, and all afternoons trying to test the effect of their previous efforts. In translation, tutorials on a variety of topics will be accompanied with hands-on experience using tools for resource annotation, as well as techniques for using these resources to augment the performance of language engineering applications such as information retrieval, information extraction, machine translation, summarization, deep understanding, etc. In case you are wondering what will really happen, the list of main topics should give you an idea: Annotation formalisms and standards for NLP (XML, XCES) Sub-syntactic annotation (tokenization, part of speech tagging, shallow-parsing - chunking) Qualitative and quantitative approaches to analysis of corpora Annotation of semantics, word sense disambiguation, semantic roles of verbs, meaning relationships, linguistic chains Annotation of discourse (structure, co-reference, deep understanding) Exploitation for anaphora resolution Exploitation for information extraction and information retrieval Exploitation for summarization, discourse interpretation and data mining Exploitation for machine translation Creation and exploitation tools in cross-lingual application Invited Lecturers Your endeavors to understand something of what is going on will be guided by: Catalina Barbu - Universities of Wolverhampton & Iasi Paul Buitelaar - DFKI, Saarbr?cken Dan Cristea - University of Iasi Hamish Cunningham - University of Sheffield Chuck Fillmore - University of California, Berkeley Atsushi Fujii - University of Library and Information Science - Tokyo Ulf Hermjakob - University of Southern California Graeme Hirst - University of Toronto Nancy Ide - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Adam Kilgarriff - University of Brighton Daniel Marcu - ISI, University of Southern California Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Sergei Nirenburg - New Mexico State University Laurent Romary - LORIA Nancy Valentin Tablan - Universities of Sheffield & Iasi Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy, Bucharest Hans Uszkoreit - Saarland University of Saarbrucken Program Eurolan 2001 will take place between 30 July and 11 August 2001 in Iasi, Romania and will be hosted by the "Al. I. Cuza" University, Faculty of Computer Science. As the best way to avoid trouble with people is to keep them busy, the summer school will also include two workshops (Multi-layer corpus based analysis: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/Eurolan01-ws.html and Modular Programming Applied to Natural Language Processing: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/), intended to let us hear your voices, and two round tables on topics of particular interest (hopefully, you will not fall asleep): linguistic data consortia and industrial applications in response to market requirements. Don't panic! We have not forgotten the best part: a welcome party, a farewell party, a trip on Sunday, 5 August, to the Bucovina Monasteries (UNESCO Cultural Heritage in northern Romania), and many more!!! Registration and Costs As usual, you can register on-line. This time at: http://www.infoiasi.ro/~eurolan2001/fees.html If you make up you mind before 30 April, we have a special tuition fee for you: 250 USD. It will become 350 USD between 1 and 31 May 2001. Afterwards, we cannot guarantee that you find any more seats available in the conference room and computer labs. As you can see, we have tried to keep tuition fees low. If you still think these figures are high for your pocket, don't hesitate to contact us at: eurolan at infoiasi.ro. You never know what wonderful solutions we might find. In case you plan to get also some sleep during this period, you may choose among the options below and we will make the reservation for you: Student hostel - double room: 10 USD/night or single room: 18 USD/night. nice rooms, with bathrooms, TV, fridge, coffee makers, breakfast for 2 bucks, close to the University (3 minutes walk downhill). City hotels (**) - double room: 16 USD/night or single room: 22 USD/night. nice rooms, with bathrooms, breakfast included, telephone and other hotel facilities, central location, 10 minutes walk uphill to the University. City hotel (***) - double room: 40 USD/night or single room: 55-65 USD/night. very nice rooms, with bathrooms, breakfast included, telephone and other hotel facilities, quiet and peaceful, somehow far away, 15 minutes by taxi or by your car, no other way to get to the University. We hope to gather everybody for lunch and dinner at an approximate price per day of 10-15 USD, depending on the diet. However lonely souls have the possibility to choose other arrangements in the city for a maximum of 20 USD. Don't forget to fill in your registration form and send it to us before 30 April 2001 (early registration) or 31 May 2001 (late registration). These deadlines also apply to the receipt of the tuition fee to the account below: . Bank name: BCR Iasi (Romanian Commercial Bank, Iasi branch) . Bank address: Str. Palat 11, Iasi 6600 - ROMANIA . Swift code: RNCBROBUIS . Account number: 2511.31-418.94 . Owner: "Al.I.Cuza" University of Iasi - please specify: "for EUROLAN" Please take into account that bank transfer costs should be paid in addition to the tuition fee. Organizing Committee For anything that goes wrong, you may blame: Nancy IDE - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Dan CRISTEA - "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi Dan TUFIS - Romanian Academy, Bucharest Laurent ROMARY - LORIA Laboratories, Nancy Daniel MARCU - ISI, University of Southern California ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Sun Mar 25 16:11:31 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 18:11:31 +0200 Subject: Conf: Extended deadline for EUROLAN'01 Workshop Message-ID: <SUN.25.MAR.2001.181131.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> ** EXTENDED DEADLINE 8th April 2001 ** ** Please excuse any duplicate copies of this announcement ** ** you may have received through mailing lists. ** NEW: the official poster of the workshop is now at http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/ -------------------------------------------------- Workshop on 'Modular Programming applied to Natural Language Processing' Held as part of EUROLAN'01 Summer School July 30 - August 11 Iasi, Romania http://www.wlv.ac.uk/sles/compling/news/ CALL FOR PAPERS The effectiveness of modular programming in designing software has long been acknowledged by the computer science community. However, the computational linguistics community preferred to develop components in isolation, without integrating existing modules into proposed systems. There are several reasons for this. Firstly, integration of different modules is not a trivial task, requiring a lot of time. Usually the major problem is the loss of information caused when the output of one module has to be converted to the input of another. Most research projects do not have the time or resources to concentrate on a real modular architecture, using trade offs (such as manually created inputs) instead. Secondly, most of the work in the research community is directed towards proposing and demonstrating new hypotheses, and not building robust and fully automatic applications. In many cases preprocessing steps, which produce the input data for the tested method, are considered trivial and accurate, and as a result replaced with hand produced data. Therefore, when a researcher needs a certain module for a method, s/he prefers to produce the output of that program manually, either because s/he is not aware of an existing implementation which performs the required task, or because the work involved in setting it up is greater than that involved in manually producing the output (usually because the implementation was developed and tested on a different platform). However, this situation has started to change rapidly. More and more researchers have appreciated the complexity of NLP tasks and the need to use modular programming. A quick look at the systems presented at the latest MUC indicated that they are complex systems which reuse previous research. Systems like GATE have been designed in order to help with the integration of different modules in a system. In addition, the research community is increasingly requiring the development of fully automatic applications. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between researchers involved in the development of automatic NLP systems and leading names in the field. We would like to invite all researchers to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - modular architectures for NLP - black/glass box evaluation measures - research on the influence of substitution and alternate combinations of modules on overall system performance - reusability - integration of resources (including conversion formats between modules) - platforms for developing modular applications - repositories Demos of the presented systems are encouraged. Submission Requirements Papers should describe original work in progress or completed work. The main purpose of presenting at the Workshop is to exchange ideas with other researchers and to receive helpful feedback for further development of the work. The submissions should not exceed 10 pages with 12pt Times New Roman font including figures, references, and appendices. Authors will be sent details of the final format for camera-ready versions together with notification of acceptance. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. Electronic submissions are encouraged but hard copies are acceptable. For electronic submission, papers should be in Postscript, PDF, Microsoft Word, or RTF format. For other formats, please contact the organising committee. All papers should be sent to workshop-eurolan at wlv.ac.uk Contact Address Constantin Orasan HLSS University of Wolverhampton Stafford Street Wolverhampton WV1 1SB UK. Email: C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk (please use 'EUROLAN WORKSHOP' in the subject line) Important Dates Submission Deadline: 8th April 2001 (extended deadline) Notification of Acceptance: 4th May 2001 Camera-ready Papers: 1st June 2001 Workshop: To be announced Registration People wanting to attend the workshop must be registered in the Eurolan'01 School. Participation to the workshop is open to all Eurolan'01 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made available. Authors of the papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will benefit of early registration fee no matter the date they register. Organizing committee Constantin Orasan - University of Wolverhampton Richard Evans - University of Wolverhampton Catalina Barbu - University of Wolverhampton Program committee Dan Cristea - University of Iasi Hamish Cunningham - University of Sheffield Le An Ha - University of Wolverhampton Nancy Ide - Vassar College, Poughkeepsie Ramesh Krishnamurthy - University of Wolverhampton Daniel Marcu - University of Southern California Oliver Mason - University of Birmingham Ruslan Mitkov - University of Wolverhampton Maximilian Saiz Noeda - University of Alicante Chris Paice - Lancaster University Valentin Tablan - Universities of Iasi & Sheffield Doina Tatar - Babes-Bolyai University Dan Tufis - Romanian Academy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 29 17:23:09 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:23:09 +0200 Subject: Jobs: PROFESSOR IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS - Stockholm University Message-ID: <THU.29.MAR.2001.192309.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> Stockholm University Faculty of Humanities Kenneth Hjalmarsson Tel. 08-16 21 30 Fax 08-16 25 69 E-mail: kenneth.hjalmarsson at adm.su.se Stockholm University invites applications for a position as PROFESSOR IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS at the Department of Linguistics (ref no. 611-0740-01) Responsibilities will include research, supervision of Ph.D. students, and teaching at graduate and undergraduate levels. The professor may also be asked to assume administrative functions within the department. Necessary qualifications include well documented scientific and pedagogical skills. The applicants should have an established record of scientific publications of high quality, at least at the level of a Swedish docent (roughly corresponding to Habilitation in other European countries). In addition, administrative skills, leadership and cooperative abilities are of importance. Applicants' ability to promote contact with the world outside the university and to spread information about research will also be considered. More information can be obtained by contacting the head of the Department of Linguistics, Christna Hellman, tel. +46-8-16 2335 or by email: kicki at ling.su.se. Union representatives are Bo Ekengren (SACO-rE5det), Lars C5ke SE4ll (ST-ATF) and Birgitta CarlE9n (SEKO) (all at tel. +46-8-162000) Applicants are encouraged to include their salary expectations in their application. The application, in four copies, should include: - a certified summary of qualifications and a numbered list of scientific works - a statement of intent in English (no more than two pages), specifying the applicant's plans within the relevant areas of activity, should he or she receive the position - copies of relevant diplomas, certificates etc. - a short description in English (no more than five pages) of the applicant's experience in research, education, administration (including project development and staff management). The applicant should indicate which results and qualifications he or she considers to be of particular relevance. Applicants should acquaint themselves with the University's employment policy and principles for the evaluation of pedagogical qualifications of teachers (http://www.pb.su.se, or by contacting the administrative official mentioned above). - one set of those scientific works (numbered according to the list of publications), which the applicant considers to be of primary relevance to the application. Note: only one set of publications should be sent to the university at this time. The applicants will later be asked to send a set of relevant publications to each of three experts who will be chosen to evaluate the applications. Deadline for applications, marked with the above reference number (ref no. 611-0740-01) is April 15, 2001. Send to : Stockholms universitet, Registrator/PA, 106 91 STOCKHOLM Applications by email or fax will be accepted, but a signed original application must be sent in at soon as possible. (This is a shortened and revised version of the official announcement in Swedish.) ******************************* Jennifer Spenader Computational Linguistics Dept. of Linguistics Stockholm University 10691 Stockholm Sweden email: jennifer at ling.su.se tel: +46 8-161761 fax: +46 8-155389 ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 29 17:23:28 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:23:28 +0200 Subject: Appel: Workshop on the Technology of Browsing Applications (2e appel) Message-ID: <THU.29.MAR.2001.192328.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> *****************SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS********************* ********SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL APRIL 15********* THE TECHNOLOGY OF BROWSING APPLICATIONS http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nina/browsingtechnologywkshop.html A Workshop held in Conjunction with the 2001 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries June 28, 2001 Roanoke, Virginia Description: Phrase browsing applications provide information seekers with access to text content via structured lists of index terms. These lists provide a preview of the content of a collection. The index terms, which may be identified by a variety of techniques, are phrases that represent important concepts referred to in a document or collection of documents. The browsing system supports interactive navigation and organization of the phrases. Browsing systems are distinct from systems based on ontologies because phrases are drawn automatically from the text of the collection itself, and do not necessarily correspond to taxonomies of the collection content. For this reason, phrase-browsing systems can be easily integrated with full-text search. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers interested in any aspect of phrase browsing technology, including, but not limited to, identification of index terms, techniques for hierarchical organization of the terms, implementation of efficient systems, usability of browsing applications, and techniques for evaluating this technology. Paper submission: Long papers of up to 6 pages and short papers of up to 2 pages are solicited. An extended abstract (3 pages for long papers, 1 page for short papers) should be submitted to one of the Co-chairs by April 1, 2001. Notification of acceptance will be made by April 20, 2001. Final papers must be submitted by May 31, 2001. Papers should be in the ACM document format template, as specified on the JCDL web page, http://www.jcdl.org/ For more information, go to the Workshop's web page, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~nina/browsingtechnologywkshop.html Workshop Co-chairs: Nina Wacholder (nina at cs.columbia.edu) Craig Nevill-Manning (nevill at cs.rutgers.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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 Mar 29 17:23:44 2001 From: alexis.nasr at lim.univ-mrs.fr (alexis nasr) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:23:44 +0200 Subject: Soft: BCN Indexer Message-ID: <THU.29.MAR.2001.192344.0200.ALEXIS.NASR@LIM.UNIVMRS.FR> (Apologies for multiple copies, this message has been sent several lists) Dear list members, BNC Indexer is a tool for those who want/need to use the BNC (British National Corpus) under Microsoft Windows (9x/NT/2000). The BNC distribution provides a software tool (SARA) that can select subsets of the corpus for analysis based on a number of parameters, such as domain, mode, author age/sex/type, etc. This tool, however, is available only for Unix users. BNC Indexer allows you to select sets of files based on any number of the BNC's original parameters, plus a genre classification developed by David Lee (david_lee00 at hotmail.com), using a simple, user-friendly interface. You can also view any BNC file after it has been selected, as well as export file lists for processing in other applications. BNC Indexer is FREEWARE, so you can use it free of charge for as long as you want. Please read the License Agreement in BNC Indexer's Help file. I appreciate your comments and suggestions (especially if they're positive!). For more info and downloads, visit BNC Indexer's site: http://webdeptos.uma.es/filifa/personal/amoreno/indexer ...hope you find it useful! Antonio Moreno Ortiz Facultad Filosofia y Letras Campus de Teatinos S/N Universidad de Malaga e-mail: amo at uma.es Tel: +34 952131789 Fax: +34 952131843 http://webdeptos.uma.es/filifa/personal/amoreno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel <LN at cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------