Appel: 4 conférences/workshops

Fri Mar 9 18:50:57 UTC 2001

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

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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

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   1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GENERATIVE APPROACHES TO THE LEXICON
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                    First call for participation

                           April 26-28 2001

                  University of Geneva (Switzerland)

                 http://issco-www.unige.ch/gl2001.html
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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

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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

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** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS **

** Please excuse any duplicate copies of this announcement **
** you may have received through mailing lists. **

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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

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