From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Jun 4 15:02:02 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:02:02 +0200 Subject: Appel: Evaluating Human Language Technology - new deadline for submission Message-ID: *****Apologies for multiple postings***** Due to many requests, especially from participants to conferences and meetings held during May 2002, we are pleased to revise the submission information as below: ************************************************************* Last Call for Papers & New Deadline for submissions, June 21, 2002 ************************************************************* Evaluating Human Language Technology: General Applications to Information Access and Management A Special Issue of Knowledge Organization on Evaluation of HLT Guest Editor: Widad Mustafa El Hadi, University of Lille 3 ***************************************************************** Call for papers The last few years have seen a growing interest in evaluating human language technology (HLT) in general and its applications to information access and management in particular. Several initiatives have been conducted in Europe and in the United States. The first initiatives on HLT evaluation can be traced back to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Japanese programs on Machine Translation Evaluation. The DARPA/NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Projects continued on a more regular basis and particularly with the Text Retrieval Conferences (TREC) and the Message Understanding Conferences (MUC). More projects are gaining momentum, be they independent or part of the famous TREC Tracks (Language Engineering Track, Question & Answering (Q & A) track), or within the context of the Translingual Information Detection, Extraction, and Summarization (TIDES) Document Understanding Conference (DUC), Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), Text Summarization Systems, Filtering, or Spoken Document Retrieval. Some evaluation projects have been supported within the programs of the European Commission (EAGLES, ELSE, ISLE, SQALE, etc.) others have been conducted within national programs (the French evaluation projects: GRACE Project for evaluating part-of-speech taggers, the AUF four Projects on evaluating Text Retrieval Systems, Alignment Technology, Terminology Acquisition System Evaluations, and Message Understanding). These many endeavours show the relevance of HLT evaluations. Researchers and practitioners in the field of information are interested, by an assessment of the contribution of these technologies in order to measure the progress achieved, to compare different approaches to a given problem and to assess system usability and user satisfaction. This Special Issue of Knowledge Organization (scheduled as volume 29, number 3/4) will aim at bringing together the community of researchers in the field of HLT from the perspective of Knowledge Organization, Information Access and Management. Moreover, it will look forward to providing an overview of the state-of-the-art of HLT, discuss problems, exchange information on the use of this technology in monolingual and multilingual environments, discuss evaluation methodologies and metrics and promote initiatives for international cooperation in these areas. We invite original and unpublished submissions to the special issue covering any of, but not limited to, the following topics. Contributions previously published in a language other than English may be considered. Possible Topics General Issues on Evaluation Historical and theoretical backgrounds of HLT evaluation Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures Benchmarking of systems and products Linguistic Quality Information Access Automated Question & Answering Monolingual and Cross-Language Information Retrieval Machine Translation in IR environments Document Understanding Multimedia document and image retrieval Information Management Automatic tracking and detection of emerging topics from unstructured data (Text Mining) Evaluating methods for knowledge extraction and acquisition (e.g. terms) Information Filtering Knowledge mapping and access (lexical information, language modelling) Text Summarization Categorization International Refereeing Committee Clare Beghtol, Faculty of Information Studies, U. of Toronto, Canada Stephane Chaudiron, U. Paris 10 and MENRT, France Khalid Choukri, ELRA-ELDA, France Marianne Dabbadie LingPro, Paris, France Jean-Pierre Descles, LaLIC, U. Paris IV Sorbonne, France Christian Fluhr, CEA, France Brigitte Grau, LIMSI-CNRS, France Tony Hartley, Centre for Translation Studies, U. of Leeds, UK Michele Hudon, Ecole de biblioth=E9conomie et des sc.de l'information, U. de Montreal, Canada Rebecca Green, College of Information Studies, U. of Maryland, USA Donna Harman, NIST - TREC Group, USA Margaret King, ISSCO, U. of Geneva, Switzerland Bente Maegaard, Center for Sprogteknologi-Copenhagen, Denmark Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, and MENRT France Jean-Paul Metzger, ERSICO, U. Lyon III, France Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN - CNRS, U. Paris XIII, France Peter Ohly, Social Science Information Centre (IZ), Bonn, Germany Florence Reeder, MITRE Corporation, USA Gerhard J.A. Riesthuis, U. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI-CNRS, France Alexander Sigel, MT Management & Technologies Consulting GmbH, Cologne, Germany Karen Ward, Department of Computer Science, U. of Texas at El Paso, USA Submission Information New Deadline for submissions, June 21, 2002. Submissions will be refereed by a special committee of experts in the field. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in Word, WordPerfect or RTF format in English only and should be accompanied by an indicative abstract of 100-200 words. Submission via e-mail are preferred; submissions will be accepted via post provided that four copies are submitted or that submissions are accompanied by a 3.5" diskette encoded in Word, WordPerfect or RTF format. Please refer to the instructions for authors provided in the attached file. Please use the subject line: KO HLT Submissions should be directed to: Widad MUSTAFA EL HADI E-mail: mustafa at univ-lille3.fr Or at UFR IDIST Universit Charles De Gaulle Lille 3 BP 149, 59653 Villeneuve D'Ascq, FRANCE ---------------------------------- Widad Mustafa el Hadi UFR IDIST & CERSATES (UMR 8529) Universite Charles-De-Gaulle-Lille 3 BP 149 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex Tel: 33 (0) 3 20 41 68 15 Fax: 33 (0) 3 20 41 63 79 e-mail: mustafa at univ-lille3.fr ----------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Jun 4 15:02:16 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:02:16 +0200 Subject: Conf: CIAA 2002 Int. Conf. on Implementation and Application of Automata Message-ID: (Please, could you pass on to the persons interested in automata research.) ******************************************************* * * CIAA 2002 * Seventh International * Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata * * University of Tours * July, Wednesday 3 Saturday 6, 2002 * * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/ciaa2002/ * mailto:ciaa2002 at univ-tours.fr * ******************************************************* ********** CIAA 2002 : CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********** CIAA 2002 will be held at Tours on July, 3-6 2002, organized by the LI (Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Tours) in collaboration with the LIFAR (Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Rouen). The conference includes 18 full paper presentations, 3 invited speakers, 7 short paper presentations, 5 posters and 3 software demonstrations. We have received 43 paper proposals: the ratio of full papers is 42%. This conference concerns research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures , including theoretical aspects. Automata theory is the foundation of computer science. Its applications have spread to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines. In addition, there is a growing number of software systems designed to manipulate automata, regular expressions, grammars, and related structures; examples include AGL, AMORE, Automate, FADELA, FinITE, FireLite, FLAP, FSM, Grail, INR, Intex, MONA and Turing's World. The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research and industrial community who have an interest in implementation and application of automata to demonstrate and analyze their work and to explain the problems they have been solving. ********** TOPICS ********** We solicit papers and demos on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures, including theoretical aspects, as but not limited to: o Bioinformatics and automata o Complexity of automata operations o Compilers and automata o Computer-aided verification and automata o Concurrency and automata o Data structure design for automata o Data and image compression and automata o Design and architecture of automata software o Digital libraries and automata o Document engineering and automata o Editors, environments and automata o Experimental studies and practical experiences o Industrial applications and automata o Natural language processing and automata o Networking and automata o New algorithms for manipulating automata o Object-Oriented Modeling and automata o Pattern-matching and automata o Speech and speaker recognition and automata o Structured and semi-structured documents and automata o Symbolic manipulation environments for automata o Teaching and automata o Text processing and automata o Techniques for graphical display of automata o VLSI and automata o Viruses, related phenomena and automata o World-wide web and automata ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL, 12, 2002 <---- Notification to authors: 5/17/2002 Pre-proceedings version due: 5/31/2002 Conference : 7/3-6/2002 Proceedings version due: 9/27/2002 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, using 11-point font, including figures, examples and references. The format that MUST be used is the LNCS one, available on the Springer web site: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Authors should send their submission as a ps or pdf file attached to an e-mail, containing the following information: TO: ciaa2002 at univ-tours.fr FROM: one of the authors SUBJECT: CIAA submission ATTACH: ps or pdf file BODY: submission title and author's names Only in case electronic submission is not possible, 4 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee at the following address: CIAA 2002 E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work and should provide sufficient details to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance to the conference. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists in the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria: o Importance and originality of the paper o Accuracy of the scientific and technical content o Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work o Layout and clarity of the paper o Relevance to the topics of the conference ********** DEMOS ********** We encourage the submission of software demos. Developers wishing to demonstrate their software should submit according to the same rules as of paper submission, BUT must not exceed 6 pages. ********** POSTERS ********** One specific session for posters (85 x 120 cm) will be scheduled. Poster submission follows the same rules as of paper submission, BUT must not exceed 6 pages. ********** TALKS ********** Paper presentations will be of a 20 minutes duration, followed by 10 minutes dedicated to answering questions. It will be possible to use an overhead projector or a video-projector. ********** PROCEEDINGS ********** Accepted papers will be published in the pre-proceedings and in the proceedings of the conference. We will distribute the pre-proceedings to the participants at the conference and we will send the proceedings as soon as they are printed. We expect the proceedings to appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series after the conference. Today available: LNCS 1260 (WIA'96), LNCS 1436 (WIA'97), LNCS 1660 (WIA'98) and LNCS 2088 (CIAA?2000). Extended versions of selected papers from the proceedings of the conference series are usually retained for publication in special issues of either Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) or International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS), alternating each year. Today available: TCS 231 (WIA'97) and TCS 269 (WIA'98). The CIAA 2002 special issue will appear in IJFCS. ********** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********** Salah Aït-Mokhtar, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France Marie-Pierre Béal, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France Bernard Boigelot, Université de Liège, Belgium Jean-Marc Champarnaud, Université de Rouen, France Maxime Crochemore, Université de Marne-la-Vallée, France Gérard Duchamp, Université de Rouen, France Jacques Farré, CNRS, Université de Nice, France José Fortes Gálvez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Oscar Ibarra, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Nils Klarlund, AT&T Labs-Research, New-York, USA Tomasz Kowaltowski, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Igor Litovsky, Université de Nice, France Carlos Martín-Vide, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Denis Maurel, Université de Tours, France Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs-Research, New-York, USA Jean-Eric Pin, CNRS, Université Paris 7, France Kai Salomaa, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Helmut Seidl, Universität Trier, Germany Sheng Yu, University of Western Ontario, Canada ********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********** Béatrice Bouchou, LI Jean-Marc Champarnaud, LIFAR Michel Crucianu, LI Nathalie Friburger, LI Denis Maurel, LI ********** PREVIOUS CONFERENCES ********** o CIAA 2001 website: http://www.cs.up.ac.za/~watson/ciaa/ o CIAA 2000 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000 o WIA'99 website: http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~wia99/ o WIA'98 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia98.html o WIA'97 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia97.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Jun 4 15:02:27 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:02:27 +0200 Subject: Publications: Lexicography and Natural Language Processing Message-ID: BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT [version française en fin de message] Lexicography and Natural Language Processing A Festschrift in Honour of B.T.S. Atkins edited by Marie-Hélène Corréard 24 x 17cm 256 pp. ISBN 2-9518583-0-2 Publication: August 2002 EURALEX is publishing a Festschrift in honour of B.T.S. Atkins. The book features a collection of articles representative of some of the areas in which Sue Atkins has made a significant contribution. Keywords: applied linguistics, lexicography, NLP, corpus,dictionaries, lexical semantics CONTENTS: Foreword List of publications Tabula Gratulatoria B.T.S. Atkins, Bilingual Dictionnaries Past, Present and Future (first published in the proceedings of Euralex ?96) Yuri Apresjan, Principles of Systematic Lexicography Tony Cowie, Examples and Collocations in the French "Dictionnaire de langue" Alain Duval, La métalangue, un mal nécessaire du dictionnaire actif Charles Fillmore, Lexical Isolates Thierry Fontenelle, Lexical Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Gregory Grefenstette, The WWW as a Resource for Lexicography Patrick Hanks, Mapping Meaning onto Use Adam Kilgarriff, Sketching Words Michael Rundell, Good Old-fashioned Lexicography: Human Judgment and the Limits of Automation Krista Varantola, Use and Usability of dictionaries: Common Sense and Context Sensibility? Richard Wakely and Henri Béjoint, Word Groups in Bilingual Dictionaries: OHFD and after Annie Zaenen, Musings about the Impossible Electronic Dictionary ORDERING INFORMATION: All orders received by 13th June entitle you to have your name on the Tabula Gratulatoria and to purchase the book at prepublication price: 25 euros (16 GBP) . All orders received by 1st August 2002 will be at prepublication price: 25 euros (16 GBP). 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I understand I will receive the book for the special prepublication price of 25 euros/16 GBP and that my name will appear on the Tabula Gratulatoria* Name: Address: Email *If the name to be included on the Tabula Gratulatoria is different from the one indicated above or if you do not want your name included, please specify: I am paying in euros/in GBP =================================================================== A PARAITRE Lexicography and Natural Language Processing A Festschrift in Honour of B.T.S. Atkins (Lexicographie et traitement automatique des langues. Mélanges en l'honneur de B.T.S. ATKINS) textes réunis par Marie-Hélène Corréard 24 x 17 cm 256 pp. ISBN 2-9518583-0-2 Publication: août 2002 Tous les articles sauf un sont en langue anglaise. EURALEX publie un recueil d'articles en l'honneur de B.T.S. Atkins regroupant des textes représentatifs de quelques uns des domaines que Sue Atkins a abordés au cours de sa carrière. 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Charles Fillmore, Lexical isolates Thierry Fontenelle, Lexical Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Gregory Grefenstette, The WWW as a resource for Lexicography Patrick Hanks, Mapping meaning onto Use Adam Kilgarriff, Sketching words Michael Rundell, Good old-fashioned lexicography: human judgment and the limits of automation Krista Varantola, Usability and user-friendliness in dictionaries Richard Wakely and Henri Béjoint, Word groups in bilingual dictionaries: OHFD and after Annie Zaenen, Musings about the Impossible Electronic Dictionary POUR COMMANDER: Toutes les commandes reçues avant le 13 juin vous donnent la possibilité d'inscrire votre nom dans la Tabula Gratulatoria et d'acheter le livre à son prix de souscription: 25 euros (16 GBP). 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In addition, a EURO working group on Human Centered Processes has recently been created in order to tackle the study of operational strategies and processes used by people in professional contexts (http://www-hcp.enst-bretagne.fr/). Such problems represent important challenges for both public administrations and commercial firms. More generally, the analysis and study of distributed decision making and man-machine cooperation requires a multi-disciplinary approach involving cognitive psychology, operational research, cognitive science and domain expertise. Indeed, cognitive design and implementation approaches can complement more traditional frameworks. They may allow design and analysis of more complete, complex, robust and secure systems involving experienced users with specific domain expertise as well as common users. **** Purpose **** The purpose of this conference is to bring together: Practitioners from industry and administration who are confronted with issues related to cognition and domain expertise and computer assisted collaborative work, Researchers who have expertise in Cognitive Psychology or more generally Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Operational Researchers interested in discussing human centred approaches applied to complex industrial and administrative problems. In view of this, the Conference focuses on practical application oriented themes where human centered approaches have already shown their usefulness including planning, scheduling, decision making, quality control, project and risk management, intelligent management of multimedia documents, e-commerce and e-government. Three plenary sessions with invited guest speakers such as Ola Svenson (S) and Paul Slovic (USA) are planned. Four half-day symposiums dedicated to special sessions on multi-criteria decision aid, decision support systems and ethics in OR are foreseen. **** Institutional support **** The Association of European Operational Research Societies, EURO (http://www.euro-online.org/) Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg (http://www.fnr.lu/)) SOGESCI-B.V.W.B (http://mathro.fpms.ac.be/sogescibvwb/society.shtml) ROADEF (http://www.roadef.org/) **** Programme Committee **** Gustav Lundberg (chair), lundberg at duq.edu, Duquesne University (USA) Jean-Claude Asselborn, jcl at cu.lu, Cunlux (L) Jean-Yves Antoine, antoine at univ-ubs.fr, Université Bretagne-Sud (F) Jean-Pierre Barthélemy, JP.barthelemy at enst-bretagne.fr, ENST-Bretagne (F) Jean-Pierre Brans, jpbrans at vub.ac.be, VUB, Brussels (B) Raymond Bisdorff, bisdorff at cu.lu, Cunlux (L) Teresa Cerratto, tessy at nada.kth.se, Royal Institute of Technology (S) Igor Crévits, igor.crevits at univ-valenciennes.fr, Université de Valenciennes (F) Gilles Coppin, Gilles.Coppin at enst-bretagne.fr, ENST-Bretagne (F) Philippe Lenca, Philippe.Lenca at enst-bretgane.fr, ENST-Bretagne (F) Photis Nanopoulos, Photis.Nanopoulos at cec.eu.int, EUROSTAT (EC) Elisabeth Le Saux, Elisabeth.Le-Saux at univ-ubs.fr, Université Bretagne-Sud (F) Marc Roubens, m.roubens at ulg.ac.be, Université de Liège (B) Marcus Selart, Marcus.Selart at svi.vxu.se, Växjö University (S) **** Local Organizer **** Raymond Bisdorff (chair), hcp2003 at cu.lu, Cunlux (L) **** Call for papers **** Three kinds of submissions are welcome: Proposal for a session of three short papers (maximum five pages) dedicated to a given topic. After acceptance, the promoter will be responsible for his/her session and will chair it. Proposal for a panel discussion on a given topic (one hour). After acceptance, the promoter will be responsible for his/her session and will serve as session chair. Free submission of short papers (maximum five pages). The accepted papers will be published as Conference Proceedings by the Centre Universitaire. Two types of sessions, panel discussions or papers are solicited: Those discussing cognitive theories and practices from a practical application perspective and those presenting administrative, business or industrial applications. Suitable sessions, panel discussions and papers include: distributed decision making, human expertise centred decision aids, man-machine cooperation, intelligent assistance for decision, knowledge extraction, representation and modelling, intelligent management of multimedia documents, perception, recognition and interpretation and intelligent operator guidance and assistance systems. Application reports may cover the following: practice and integration, quality control, management of industrial and administrative processes, scheduling and planning, industrial production, supervision and control, public administration, transportation, health care, banking, insurance, telecommunications, management of the environment, new technologies for information and communication. Authors' instructions may be found on the conference web site: http://www.cu.lu/hcp2003. **** Publication **** Selected papers will be proposed for publication (and refereed separately) in a feature issue of the European Journal of Operational Research (http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/sae/orms/eor/menu.htm). A specific publication for French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese versions of the accepted papers is also foreseen in a special issue of the In Cognito journal (http://www.univ-ubs.fr/valoria/cognito/). **** Venue **** The conference will be located at the Kirchberg Conference Centre, the hemicycle of the European Parliament in Luxembourg (http://www.luxcongress.lu). **** Registration fee **** The conference fee is 220EUR before February 28, 2003 and 280EUR for late registrations. It includes the proceedings book, coffee and tea during breaks, three lunches, and a social event. For accompanying persons a social program will be organized. The conference fee for students is 150EUR if a copy of a student card accompanies the registration formular. Registering can me made by using the formular you may download from the following url: http://www.cu.lu/hcp2003/Registration.pdf (PDF format). Please print out, fill in, sign and send it back to following address: Centre Universitaire Conference HCP'2003 secretary 162a, avenue de la Faiencerie L-1511 Luxembourg Remit your payment to: Bureau des Chèques Postaux L-1090 Luxembourg EUROGIRO BIC: CCPPLULU LIPSNET BIC: CCPL IBAN: none Account No: 135345-30 Account owner: Centre Universitaire purpose: registration HCP'2003 Young researchers and PhD students may apply for financial support directly at EURO (contact: Secretary at euro-online.org). The Luxembourg FNR offers special grants for young Luxemburgish researcher (contact: fnr at fnr.lu). Some participants from Eastern European and African countries may get special financial support directly from the organizer (contact the conference secretary: hcp2003 at cu.lu). **** Important dates **** Short papers (max five pages), proposals for sessions or panel discussions should be submitted by October 2002. Authors intending to submit to EJOR or In Cognito must provide this information in their short papers. Notification of acceptance will be given by the end of January 2003 for all types of proposals. Full papers for EJOR and IN COGNITO should be submitted at the time of the conference, beginning of May 2003. HCP'2003 Conference Secretary Centre Universitaire 162a, avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg mailto:hcp2003 at cu.lu Phone: +352 46 66 44 512 Fax:+352 46 66 44 508 http://www.cu.lu/hcp2003/ ******************************************************************************* ================================================== Jean-Yves Antoine - Lab. VALORIA (U. 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Mainguy, F-56000 VANNES Toile : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/valoria/antoine ================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Jun 11 16:29:20 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:29:20 +0200 Subject: Conf: Atelier TALN2002 : Chaines de references et resolveurs d'anaphores Message-ID: Appel à participation Atelier (conférence associée), TALN 2002 Chaînes de références et résolveurs d'anaphores organisé par P. Amsili, C. Beyssade, A. Garreta et L. Roussarie Jeudi 27 juin 2002 Palais des Congrès de Nancy Programme 14h00-14h15 Introduction 14h15-14h45 Susanne Salmon-Alt (ATILF, Nancy) Le projet ANANAS : Annotation Anaphorique pour l'Analyse Sémantique de Corpus 14h45-15h15 Michel Dupont (GREYC, Caen) Une approche cognitive pour le calcul des chaînes de références 15h15-15h30 Philippe Richard (TALaNa, Paris 7) Résolution d'anaphore et structure du discours : une expérience 15h30-16h00 Pause 16h00-16h30 Kalina Bontcheva, Marin Dimitrov, Diana Maynard, Valentin Tablan, Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield & Ontotext Lab, Sofia) Shallow Methods for Named Entity Coreference Resolution 16h30-17h00 François Trouilleux (GRIL, Clermont-Ferrand & Xerox Grenoble) Insertions et interprétation des expressions pronominales 17h00-17h30 Démonstrations http://www.loria.fr/projets/TALN/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Jun 11 16:29:29 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:29:29 +0200 Subject: Appel: AMTA workshop on Customization Strategies for MT Message-ID: Call for Abstracts for the AMTA workshop on Customization Strategies for MT Machine translation systems must have customization capabilities in order to claim success as a commercial product or a research prototype. Minimally, these include the ability to add translations for new words and phrases, but may also include more sophisticated functionality such as adapting to new syntactic structures or writing styles, and may even be the means of acquiring all the system's translation knowledge (e.g., in statistical systems), We propose to bring MT developers and researchers together to discuss the customization capabilities of their systems, with an emphasis on using common data for the discussion. This workshop is intended to cover all types of customization strategies, although preference in selection will be given to novel strategies. We encourage participation from MT developers of commercial systems, and researchers working on all types of MT systems (traditional transfer, interlingua, example-based, or statistical). To make the discussion more interesting, we request that participants demonstrate the customization capabilities of their system using data freely available to everyone, such as Hansard data for French-English or other data available from ELRA or LDC. Microsoft has also agreed to make technical manual data available for several language pairs (English and any of these: French, Spanish, German, Japanese) for purposes of research related to this workshop. (For access to this data please send email to CustomWS at microsoft.com.) We request that interested parties submit a two page abstract with the following information: - overview of your MT system - description of customization capabilities - comparison of this strategy to other known strategies - data that will be used to test capability - proposed evaluation to determine the effectiveness of the customization - estimate of time that would be required to customize for the chosen domain, based on your sample run. - Dates: Call for participation: June 8 Abstract submission deadline: July 7 Acceptance notification: July 22 Early registration for AMTA: July 31 Papers due: September 6 AMTA workshop October 6 or 7 Instructions for submission: All submissions should be in English, and it is recommended that they be submitted in one of the following three formats: PDF (preferred); PostScript; Microsoft Word. All submissions will be received and processed using the Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) located at http://cmt.research.microsoft.com/CustomWS. Authors should follow the instructions at the CMT web site to register, enter information about themselves and their abstract, and upload a copy of their abstract in one of the acceptable formats by the submission deadline. Report any problems with the website to CustomWS at microsoft.com. For information on obtaining Microsoft Data to participate in the workshop, please contact CustomWS at microsoft.com Organizers: Jessie Pinkham, Deborah Coughlin, Bill Dolan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jun 14 16:58:10 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:58:10 +0200 Subject: Q: Recherche de references sur la generation ... semantique Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:46:39 +0200 From: "BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN" Message-Id: <8C19E3FBB6467846AFF97E366D34CB601471D4 at LANMHS20.rd.francetelecom.fr> Bonjour, Dans la littérature, notamment en traduction automatique, l'expression "génération sémantique" a toujours été utilisée avec beaucoup de précaution. On parle souvent de génération syntaxique profonde, ou simplement de génération syntaxique. Quelqu'un aurait-il des idées fraîches sur ce que l'on pourrait désigner par un processus consistant à générer des paraphrases ou des structures syntaxiques de haut niveau à partir d'une représentation du sens ? Des références à des travaux récents dans le domaine seraient également les bienvenues . Merci d'avance. Malek Boualem France Télécom R&D ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Jun 14 17:34:36 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:34:36 +0200 Subject: Conf: TALN 2002 table ronde : Reflexions sur la recherche et l'enseignement de l'informatique linguistique Message-ID: Bonjour à tous, En vue de la préparation de la table ronde, "Réflexions sur la recherche et l'enseignement de l'informatique linguistique" (organisée par Nathalie Gasiglia et Jean Veronis), qui se déroulera le lundi 24 juin pendant le colloque TALN 2002 à Nancy, j'ai préparé un petit questionnaire concernant le TAL, qui se trouve sur le site suivant : http://melior.univ-montp3.fr/rp/NancyTR.htm Nous serions vraiment ravis que vous puissiez prendre quelques minutes pour y répondre (de préférence avant le vendredi 21 juin). Ceci nous permettra de proposer une synthèse des remarques de vous tous ! Merci beaucoup d'avance, Rachel Panckhurst. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Jun 14 17:34:43 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:34:43 +0200 Subject: Jobs: research positions at ISSCO, University of Geneva Message-ID: Dear members of the LN list, We would like to announce that a senior and a junior research positions are now open at ISSCO, University of Geneva. The two announcements follow, and they are also posted at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/vacancy.html Best regards, Andrei Popescu-Belis -- ISSCO/TIM/ETI, Université de Genève tél: (41 22) 705 86 81 40, bd du Pont d'Arve fax: (41 22) 705 86 89 1211 Genève 4 - Suisse http://www.issco.unige.ch/staff/andrei ------------------------------------------ Job Vacancy, June 2002 -- Senior researcher in language engineering ISSCO has an immediate opening for a senior researcher in language engineering and computational linguistics. The position involves participation in one or more Swiss and European language engineering projects. The qualified candidate will carry on research and collaborate on software design and implementation in one or more of the following areas: - parsing and semantic tagging - document indexing and retrieval - evaluation of NLP software - ontologies - knowledge engineering - multilingual text processing Requirements: - doctorate (PhD) in computer science or computational linguistics - experience in collaborative language engineering projects - programming skills in, e.g., Java, Perl, C/C++ - experience in developing software for NLP applications - knowledge of XML and Internet technologies - fluency in either French or English (with knowledge of the other language) Additional qualities: - expertise in knowledge engineering for the medical domain - expertise in probabilistic and statistical methods for NLP - good communication skills - fluency in German and/or Italian and/or other languages ISSCO offers excellent working conditions in a well-established research group at the University of Geneva. The position provides opportunities to collaborate in a variety of international projects. The salary is calculated according to qualifications, based on the University of Geneva scales. The University of Geneva is an equal opportunity employer. Duration: initial contract for one year with good prospects of renewal We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a detailed CV, publication list and the names of three references to: ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva Attn: Professor Susan Armstrong University of Geneva 40, bvd. du Pont d'Arve CH-1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland Email: Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch Tel: (+41 22) 705 87 64 Fax: (+41 22) 705 86 89 http://www.issco.unige.ch Submission by email is preferred and should be also addressed in CC: to Andrei Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis at issco.unige.ch). ------------------------------------------------------------- Job Vacancy, June 2002 -- Junior researcher in natural language processing ISSCO has an immediate opening for a junior researcher in natural language processing and computational linguistics. The position involves participation in one or more Swiss and European language engineering projects. The position also offers the possibility to prepare a doctoral thesis (PhD) at the University of Geneva, on a subject related to a research project that is ongoing at ISSCO. The main research themes related to this position are: - parsing and semantic/discourse tagging - general statistical NLP tools - lexical semantics and conceptual structures - ontologies - knowledge engineering - human-computer interaction The qualified candidate will carry out research and collaborate in the construction of language resources and evaluation techniques in one or more of the above areas. Furthermore, the qualified candidate is encouraged to register as a student either at the DEA level (French equivalent of a Masters Degree) or at the PhD level, at the School of Translation and Interpretation of the University of Geneva, on a subject related to one of the research projects. For more information about the degrees, please follow this link: http://www.unige.ch/eti/index.cgi?http://www.unige.ch/eti/enseignement/contenu.html Requirements: - university degree in computational linguistics or computer science - interest for theoretical and applied research in natural language processing / semantics - fluency in either French or English (with knowledge of the other language) Additional qualities: - good communication skills - programming/IT skills in, e.g., Perl, C/C++, Java, Unix/Linux, HTML, XML - experience in developing software for NLP applications - fluency in German and/or Italian and/or other languages ISSCO offers excellent working conditions in a well-established research group at the University of Geneva. The position provides opportunities to collaborate in a variety of international projects. The salary is calculated according to qualifications, based on the University of Geneva scales. The University of Geneva is an equal opportunity employer. Duration: initial contract for one year with good prospects of renewal We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a detailed CV and the names of three references to: ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva Attn: Professor Susan Armstrong University of Geneva 40, bvd. du Pont d'Arve CH-1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland Email: Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch Tel: (+41 22) 705 87 64 Fax: (+41 22) 705 86 89 http://www.issco.unige.ch Submission by email is preferred and should be also addressed in CC: to Andrei Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis at issco.unige.ch). ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jun 25 07:41:44 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:41:44 +0200 Subject: Appel: Linguistique de corpus, Lorient (+ Participation) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:44:40 +0200 From: "geoffrey.williams" Message-Id: <00fe01c21b5a$cbfda700$c6e8fea9 at geoffrey> X-url: http://www.univ-ubs.fr/crellic/journees2002.htm X-url: http://wwwuniv-ubs.fr/crellic 2èmes Journées de la Linguistique de Corpus A brief summary in English follows. Our apologies for cross postings. APPEL A PARTICIPATION CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Les 2èmes Journées de la linguistique de corpus auront lieu à Lorient les 12, 13 et 14 septembre 2002. Elles sont organisées par le Centre de Recherche en Littérature, Linguistique et Civilisation (CRELLIC - UBS Lorient) avec la collaboration de Valoria (UBS Vannes) et sont également soutenues par les Départements LEA et LLCE de l'Université de Bretagne Sud, l'Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (ATALA) et la jeune équipe Analyse Linguistique et Pratiques Langagières (ALPL, Nantes). Ces 2èmes Journées de la Linguistique de Corpus visent à promouvoir le développement de la linguistique de corpus en France en réunissant des chercheurs d'horizons divers s'intéressant à l'utilisation de l'informatique pour l'analyse des faits de langues, notamment dans les domaines suivants : - la lexicologie et lexicographie, mono~ et bilingues, - la terminologie, - la traductologie, - la linguistique appliquée et la description linguistique, - ... Les journées s'étaleront sur deux jours et demi avec trois conférences plénières suivies par des communications orales d'une trentaine de minutes. Il y aura également des communications affichées. Nous envisageons de publier les actes de ce colloque. Les conférenciers invités seront : Elena Tognini Bonelli : L'approche inductive sur corpus Claire Blanche Benveniste : Les corpus de langue parlée François Rastier : Des occurrences aux formes sémantiques. Les informations pratiques, inscription, hébergement ... sont maintenant en ligne au : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/crellic/journees2002.htm. Le programme sera affiché début juillet. Contact : Geoffrey Williams Departement LEA U.F.R. Lettres et Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay BP 92116 56321 LORIENT Cedex ou par courrier electronique a Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : 15 juin 2002 Le programme et les renseignements pratiques seront postés sur le siteweb du CRELLIC. http://wwwuniv-ubs.fr/crellic ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This conference aims to bring together researchers working with electronic corpora and lexical resources in France or in the French Language. It is aimed principally at those working in teaching, translating, lexicography and applied linguistics. The language of the workshop will be French. It is the second in a series that started with a one day conference held in Lorient in September 2001. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jun 25 07:43:41 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:43:41 +0200 Subject: Conf: COLING-2002, Tutorials, early registration Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:23:09 +0800 From: Jing-Shin Chang Message-Id: <200206181023.g5IAN9h15586 at lang-tech.csie.ncnu.edu.tw> X-url: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html X-url: http://www.sighan.org/ X-url: http://www.sighan.org/swclp/ X-url: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-general.html X-url: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation 2002/06 [apology for multiple posts] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLING-2002 TUTORIALS 24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August, 2002, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN URL: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** REMINDER: Early Registration extended to June 22 !! (30+% saving!!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issues on: Computational Linguistics && Chinese Language Processing (*) 08/24 am/pm Bio-Informatics && NLP Issues 08/25 am/pm Open-Domain Textual Question Answering 08/25 am Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics 08/25 pm (*) Co-Sponsored by ACL-SIGHAN: Special Interest Group on Chinese Language Processing (http://www.sighan.org/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLING has been the most important international conference on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing for nearly 40 years. The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002) will be held in the Howard International House and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, from August 24 to September 1, 2002. The biennial conference COLING 2002 this year will provide both pre-conference tutorials and post-conference workshops, in addition to the main conference. There will be four major tutorial issues divided into six 3-hour units during COLING 2002. The first major issue will be Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. This tutorial will focus on Chinese language processing topics including Intelligent Character Encoding (Ching-Chun Hsieh, Academia Sinica), Treebanking and Parsing (Keh-jiann Chen, Academia Sinica), and Corpus-Based Methods in Chinese Morphology (Richard Sproat, AT&T Labs). The whole scope will cover most of the interesting and special characteristics that make Chinese language processing a different and difficult task. It will be co-sponsored with the ACL-SIGHAN. People interested in Chinese language processing issues should not miss the two tutorial units and the SigHan Workshop (http://www.sighan.org/swclp/). The second major issue focuses on NLP and Bio-Informatics. People nowadays are becoming more and more interested in knowing how the languages of humans differ from the languages of God. NLP researchers and biologists feel strongly that the two communities can work together to make things different. Our biologists, Toshihisa Takagi, Takako Takai (University of Tokyo), Ken-ichiro Fukuda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST, Tokyo, JAPAN) will discuss some theoretical issues in Bio-Informatics and how NLP techniques can help extracting and migrating biological data from the huge amount of historical archives and databases to speedup biology study. Our computational linguists, Jun-Ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo and UMIST, ICCL permanent member), and Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, ICCL permanent member), on the other hand, will talk about the application of Information Extraction techniques in Bio-informatics and some applications of NLP Techniques for Modeling Biological Sequences in this tutorial. You could expect that such interaction between the biologists and computational linguists will bring to our communities many brand new ideas. While simple information retrieval and information extraction techniques are useful for many language processing tasks, including mining biological rules as discussed in the above major issue, such techniques combined in an intuitive way may not really provide us with good answers for many critical questions. In the third major tutorial issue, our QA experts, Professors Sanda M. Harabagiu (University of Texas) and Dan Moldovan (University of Texas) will tell us how an Open-Domain Textual Question Answering system could be constructed to serve well. Professor Harabagiu's systems had proved to be outstanding in the community. Therefore, you should really attend this course if you want more secrete behind the scenes. The forth major tutorial issue is Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics. This issue is important because every sentence that we processed has its psycholinguistics and cognitive process behind it. The more we know such psycholinguistic models the more we can process the sentences better. Professor Dan Jurafsky (University of Colorado) will lead you to the world of computational psycholinguistics and cognitive modeling in the sentence, lexical and discourse levels through this course. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Course Outlines: Please refer to the following web-page for course outlines and further information: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html. Additional information about on-line registration can be found on: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-general.html. Official URL of COLING-2002 is: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICCL Advisor on Workshops and Tutorials Prof. Antonio Zampolli Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR Via della Faggiola 32 I-56100 Pisa, ITALY tel:+39-50-560481 fax:+39-50-589055 Email: glottolo at ilc.pi.cnr.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS CHAIR Chu-Ren Huang Institute of Linguistics Academia Sinica Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan Email: hschuren at ccvax.sinica.edu.tw TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS Kathleen Ahrens Graduate Institute of Linguistics National Taiwan University 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road Taipei 106, Taiwan Email: ahrens66 at hotmail.com Jing-Shin Chang Computer Science & Information Engineering National Chi-Nan University 1 University Road, Puli Nantou 545, Taiwan Email: jshin at csie.ncnu.edu.tw Martha Palmer Computer & Information Science University of Pennsylvania 200 S. 33rd Street Phila. PA 19104-6389, USA Email: mpalmer at linc.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLING-2002 (Taipei) The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics 24 August - 1 September, 2002 Official URL:http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: * Early Registration Deadline: 22, June. Tutorials: 24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August, 2002 (Academia Sinica) Conference: 26 (Mon) - 30 (Fri) August, 2002 (Howard International House) Post-Conference Workshops: 31 (Sat) - 1 September, 2002 (Academia Sinica) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jun 25 07:43:56 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:43:56 +0200 Subject: Conf: COLING 2002, extended early registration Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:07:46 +0800 From: Jing-Shin Chang Message-Id: <200206180407.g5I47kF14460 at lang-tech.csie.ncnu.edu.tw> X-url: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ X-url: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-online.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [apology for multiple posts] 2002/06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLING-2002: Second Call for Participation COLING-2002 (Taipei) The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics 24 August - 1 September, 2002 Official URL:http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ Organized by Academia Sinica, ACLCLP, and National Tsing Hua University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** REMINDER: Early registration extended to June 22 !! (30+% saving!!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: * Early Registration Deadline: 22, June. Tutorials: 24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August, 2002 (Academia Sinica) Conference: 26 (Mon) - 30 (Fri) August, 2002 (Howard International House) Post-Conference Workshops: 31 (Sat) - 1 September, 2002 (Academia Sinica) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, The Program Committee and the Organizing Committee of the COLING-2002 Conference are pleased to welcome participants from all countries to join us in Taipei. Both lists of accepted papers and preliminary program are available on (http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/). The on-line registration system is also open (http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-online.html). This year's main conference features three keynote speakers: Charles J. Fillmore ("Linking sense to syntax in FrameNet"), William S.-Y. Wang ("Evolutionary Linguistics and Computer Modeling"), and Hans Uszkoreit ("New Chances for Deep Linguistic Processing"). In addition to the close to 200 papers and project notes that will be presented at the main conference; there will also be over 100 papers featured at the 11 exciting post-conference WORKSHOPS. Four pre-conference TUTORIALS focus on pioneering inter-disciplinary areas: Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Bio-Informatics, Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics, and Open Domain Question-Answering. Taipei as COLING2002's Conference site offers a unique mix of culture, science, and technology. For further details, please visit our official conference website at: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ Please note the pre-registration deadline of June 22. We look forwards to your participation in August. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee Winfried Lenders (Chair), University of Bonn, Germany Susan Armstrong, ISSCO/ETI, University of Geneva, Switzerland Christian Boitet, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France Nicolletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep. Chu-Ren Huang, Academia sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Reseach Centre Europe, Grenoble, France Yuji Matsumoto, NAIST, Nara, Japan Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University, USA Benjamin K. T'sou, City university of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jun-Ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan Hans, Uszkoreit, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany Yorik Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK Shiwen Yu, Beijing University, China ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica (Chair) Kathleen Ahrens, national Taiwan University Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University Jing-Shin Chang, Chi-Nan University Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University Keh-Jiann Chen, Academia Sinica Kuang-Hua Chen, National Taiwan University Sin-Horng Chen, National Chiao Tung University Lee-Feng Chien, Academia sinica (Executive secretary) Zhao-Ming Gao, National Taiwan University Sue-Jin Ker, Soochow University Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation Shu-Chuan Tseng, Academia Sinica (Executive secretary) Hsiao-Chuan Wang, National Tsing Hua University Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica Jhing-Fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jun 25 07:44:23 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:44:23 +0200 Subject: Conf: AMTA-2002, First Call for Participation Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:01:43 -0400 From: Elliott Macklovitch Message-Id: <3D10AAE7.7F49DB60 at IRO.UMontreal.CA> X-url: http://www.amtaweb.org X-url: http://www-rali.iro.umontreal.ca AMTA-2002 Tiburon, California October 8-12, 2002 Online registration is now available. 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For more details, visit the AMTA Web site at : http://www.amtaweb.org ***************************************** Elliott Macklovitch Laboratoire RALI, Dept. d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle Universite de Montreal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3J7 tel: (514) 343-7535 fax: (514) 343-2496 http://www-rali.iro.umontreal.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jun 25 07:44:34 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:44:34 +0200 Subject: Conf: LangTech 2002 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:32:05 +0200 From: Magali Jeanmaire Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020617150556.00b4fe00 at 192.168.1.8> X-url: http://www.lang-tech.org X-url: http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/ X-url: http://www.elda.fr X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org Please accept our apologies for the multiple announcements ********************************************************************** ELRA & ELDA are happy to announce the following event: *********************************************************************** LANGTECH 2002: NEW INTERNATIONAL EC SUPPORTED CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES. Paris, France, 17th June 2002 Speech and language technologies, a sector with growing relevance to the European business marketplace, will be the focus of a comprehensive industry forum: LangTech 2002, to be held in Berlin on September 26-27, 2002. The pace of commercial deployment of speech and language technologies has lead to strong calls for a high-level industry conference to showcase advancements and bring developers, entrepreneurs and researchers together with integrators, investors and corporations. LangTech 2002 will address the state of play from an industrial, R&D and academic viewpoint and demonstrate the potential to corporations to improve business processes through the adoption of speech and language technologies. Examples of contemporary language technologies in action include speech recognition interfaces, website translation tools, content management systems and cross lingual search engines. These technologies have found applicability in real world contexts from CRM to e-commerce and software localisation. LangTech is an EC supported initiative, through the involvement of EUROMAP Language Technologies. Bente Maegaard, Central Co-ordinator, EUROMAP, stated, "we view LangTech as an important development in bringing together the various parties comprising the language technologies sector for high level interaction and discussion. The conference is particularly useful for smaller concept developers seeking a valuable promotional platform." Agenda topics address the latest technology breakthroughs and are presented by experienced practitioners in the field. Practical solutions and near-market research results are presented during the conference and in the accompanying exhibition, showing state-of-the-art products and solutions. Special 'pitch' sessions will enable SME's and start-up companies to promote their concepts and explore financing possibilities, and a funding session will highlight the venture capital community views on language technology investment. Speaking contributions have already been secured from leading industry players including SAP, LingTech, DaimlerChrysler and Conexor. Noted technology scientist, Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), will make a keynote address. Members of the press are cordially invited to apply for press accreditation for LangTech 2002 via organisation at lang-tech.org. Delegate registration for LangTech 2002 is available via the official conference website http://www.lang-tech.org, along with updated information on programme and speakers. Registrations received before July 1, 2002 will benefit from a discounted 'early bird' delegate fee. Companies and institutions wishing to take advantage of the LangTech 2002 exhibition area should contact: Khalid Choukri, exhibition at lang-tech.org. ABOUT LANGTECH: Date: September 26-27, 2002 Venue: Hotel Schweizerhof, Berlin Description: LangTech 2002 is the international forum for people and organisations involved in the development, deployment and exploitation of spoken and written language technologies in real world applications. It will feature keynote talks from leading players, presentations from a wide range of developers and solution providers, panel discussions of key issues affecting the market in Europe and beyond, and an exhibition of applications, products, services and research prototypes. Special sessions will enable start-up companies to promote and pitch their products and services and explore funding possibilities. LangTech 2002 will cover a wide range of language technologies with three focus areas: VOICE SOLUTIONS: for the control of software and machinery, customer relationship management, systems for the handicapped and multimodal communication in an ambient intelligence setting. KNOWLEDGE SOLUTIONS: for information and knowledge management, content management, e-learning, document authoring and management. MULTILINGUAL SOLUTIONS: for software localisation, automatic text translation, translation memories, interactive speech translation and crosslingual information retrieval. LangTech 2002 is organised by EUROMAP Language Technologies, assisted by the German National Competence Center for Language Technology funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research, the Investmentbank Berlin, the European Language and Speech Network (ELSNET), European Language Resources Association and Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELRA and ELDA) and several other corporate sponsors. Email: organisation at lang-tech.org Conference website: http://www.lang-tech.org Press Registration: organisation at lang-tech.org Contact: Michael Huch VDI/VDE-Technology Centre for Information Technologies Email: organisation at lang-tech.org Tel: +49 33 28 435 193 http://www.lang-tech.org **************************************************************************** Magali Jeanmaire Marketing & Communication 55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: (+33) 1 43 13 33 30 Internet: http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/ or http://www.elda.fr LREC: http://www.lrec-conf.org ***************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Jun 4 15:02:02 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:02:02 +0200 Subject: Appel: Evaluating Human Language Technology - new deadline for submission Message-ID: *****Apologies for multiple postings***** Due to many requests, especially from participants to conferences and meetings held during May 2002, we are pleased to revise the submission information as below: ************************************************************* Last Call for Papers & New Deadline for submissions, June 21, 2002 ************************************************************* Evaluating Human Language Technology: General Applications to Information Access and Management A Special Issue of Knowledge Organization on Evaluation of HLT Guest Editor: Widad Mustafa El Hadi, University of Lille 3 ***************************************************************** Call for papers The last few years have seen a growing interest in evaluating human language technology (HLT) in general and its applications to information access and management in particular. Several initiatives have been conducted in Europe and in the United States. The first initiatives on HLT evaluation can be traced back to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Japanese programs on Machine Translation Evaluation. The DARPA/NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Projects continued on a more regular basis and particularly with the Text Retrieval Conferences (TREC) and the Message Understanding Conferences (MUC). More projects are gaining momentum, be they independent or part of the famous TREC Tracks (Language Engineering Track, Question & Answering (Q & A) track), or within the context of the Translingual Information Detection, Extraction, and Summarization (TIDES) Document Understanding Conference (DUC), Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR), Text Summarization Systems, Filtering, or Spoken Document Retrieval. Some evaluation projects have been supported within the programs of the European Commission (EAGLES, ELSE, ISLE, SQALE, etc.) others have been conducted within national programs (the French evaluation projects: GRACE Project for evaluating part-of-speech taggers, the AUF four Projects on evaluating Text Retrieval Systems, Alignment Technology, Terminology Acquisition System Evaluations, and Message Understanding). These many endeavours show the relevance of HLT evaluations. Researchers and practitioners in the field of information are interested, by an assessment of the contribution of these technologies in order to measure the progress achieved, to compare different approaches to a given problem and to assess system usability and user satisfaction. This Special Issue of Knowledge Organization (scheduled as volume 29, number 3/4) will aim at bringing together the community of researchers in the field of HLT from the perspective of Knowledge Organization, Information Access and Management. Moreover, it will look forward to providing an overview of the state-of-the-art of HLT, discuss problems, exchange information on the use of this technology in monolingual and multilingual environments, discuss evaluation methodologies and metrics and promote initiatives for international cooperation in these areas. We invite original and unpublished submissions to the special issue covering any of, but not limited to, the following topics. Contributions previously published in a language other than English may be considered. Possible Topics General Issues on Evaluation Historical and theoretical backgrounds of HLT evaluation Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures Benchmarking of systems and products Linguistic Quality Information Access Automated Question & Answering Monolingual and Cross-Language Information Retrieval Machine Translation in IR environments Document Understanding Multimedia document and image retrieval Information Management Automatic tracking and detection of emerging topics from unstructured data (Text Mining) Evaluating methods for knowledge extraction and acquisition (e.g. terms) Information Filtering Knowledge mapping and access (lexical information, language modelling) Text Summarization Categorization International Refereeing Committee Clare Beghtol, Faculty of Information Studies, U. of Toronto, Canada Stephane Chaudiron, U. Paris 10 and MENRT, France Khalid Choukri, ELRA-ELDA, France Marianne Dabbadie LingPro, Paris, France Jean-Pierre Descles, LaLIC, U. Paris IV Sorbonne, France Christian Fluhr, CEA, France Brigitte Grau, LIMSI-CNRS, France Tony Hartley, Centre for Translation Studies, U. of Leeds, UK Michele Hudon, Ecole de biblioth=E9conomie et des sc.de l'information, U. de Montreal, Canada Rebecca Green, College of Information Studies, U. of Maryland, USA Donna Harman, NIST - TREC Group, USA Margaret King, ISSCO, U. of Geneva, Switzerland Bente Maegaard, Center for Sprogteknologi-Copenhagen, Denmark Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, and MENRT France Jean-Paul Metzger, ERSICO, U. Lyon III, France Adeline Nazarenko, LIPN - CNRS, U. Paris XIII, France Peter Ohly, Social Science Information Centre (IZ), Bonn, Germany Florence Reeder, MITRE Corporation, USA Gerhard J.A. Riesthuis, U. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI-CNRS, France Alexander Sigel, MT Management & Technologies Consulting GmbH, Cologne, Germany Karen Ward, Department of Computer Science, U. of Texas at El Paso, USA Submission Information New Deadline for submissions, June 21, 2002. Submissions will be refereed by a special committee of experts in the field. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically in Word, WordPerfect or RTF format in English only and should be accompanied by an indicative abstract of 100-200 words. Submission via e-mail are preferred; submissions will be accepted via post provided that four copies are submitted or that submissions are accompanied by a 3.5" diskette encoded in Word, WordPerfect or RTF format. Please refer to the instructions for authors provided in the attached file. Please use the subject line: KO HLT Submissions should be directed to: Widad MUSTAFA EL HADI E-mail: mustafa at univ-lille3.fr Or at UFR IDIST Universit Charles De Gaulle Lille 3 BP 149, 59653 Villeneuve D'Ascq, FRANCE ---------------------------------- Widad Mustafa el Hadi UFR IDIST & CERSATES (UMR 8529) Universite Charles-De-Gaulle-Lille 3 BP 149 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex Tel: 33 (0) 3 20 41 68 15 Fax: 33 (0) 3 20 41 63 79 e-mail: mustafa at univ-lille3.fr ----------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Jun 4 15:02:16 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:02:16 +0200 Subject: Conf: CIAA 2002 Int. Conf. on Implementation and Application of Automata Message-ID: (Please, could you pass on to the persons interested in automata research.) ******************************************************* * * CIAA 2002 * Seventh International * Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata * * University of Tours * July, Wednesday 3 Saturday 6, 2002 * * http://www.li.univ-tours.fr/ciaa2002/ * mailto:ciaa2002 at univ-tours.fr * ******************************************************* ********** CIAA 2002 : CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********** CIAA 2002 will be held at Tours on July, 3-6 2002, organized by the LI (Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Tours) in collaboration with the LIFAR (Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Rouen). The conference includes 18 full paper presentations, 3 invited speakers, 7 short paper presentations, 5 posters and 3 software demonstrations. We have received 43 paper proposals: the ratio of full papers is 42%. This conference concerns research on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures , including theoretical aspects. Automata theory is the foundation of computer science. Its applications have spread to almost all areas of computer science and many other disciplines. In addition, there is a growing number of software systems designed to manipulate automata, regular expressions, grammars, and related structures; examples include AGL, AMORE, Automate, FADELA, FinITE, FireLite, FLAP, FSM, Grail, INR, Intex, MONA and Turing's World. The purpose of this conference is to bring together members of the academic, research and industrial community who have an interest in implementation and application of automata to demonstrate and analyze their work and to explain the problems they have been solving. ********** TOPICS ********** We solicit papers and demos on all aspects of implementation and application of automata and related structures, including theoretical aspects, as but not limited to: o Bioinformatics and automata o Complexity of automata operations o Compilers and automata o Computer-aided verification and automata o Concurrency and automata o Data structure design for automata o Data and image compression and automata o Design and architecture of automata software o Digital libraries and automata o Document engineering and automata o Editors, environments and automata o Experimental studies and practical experiences o Industrial applications and automata o Natural language processing and automata o Networking and automata o New algorithms for manipulating automata o Object-Oriented Modeling and automata o Pattern-matching and automata o Speech and speaker recognition and automata o Structured and semi-structured documents and automata o Symbolic manipulation environments for automata o Teaching and automata o Text processing and automata o Techniques for graphical display of automata o VLSI and automata o Viruses, related phenomena and automata o World-wide web and automata ********** CALENDAR ********** ----> EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FRIDAY, APRIL, 12, 2002 <---- Notification to authors: 5/17/2002 Pre-proceedings version due: 5/31/2002 Conference : 7/3-6/2002 Proceedings version due: 9/27/2002 ********** SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ********** The maximum length for papers is 10 pages, using 11-point font, including figures, examples and references. The format that MUST be used is the LNCS one, available on the Springer web site: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Authors should send their submission as a ps or pdf file attached to an e-mail, containing the following information: TO: ciaa2002 at univ-tours.fr FROM: one of the authors SUBJECT: CIAA submission ATTACH: ps or pdf file BODY: submission title and author's names Only in case electronic submission is not possible, 4 hard-copies of the paper must reach the organizing committee at the following address: CIAA 2002 E3i, 64, avenue Jean Portalis 37200 Tours France ********** SELECTION CRITERIA ********** Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work and should provide sufficient details to allow the Program Committee to evaluate its validity, quality, and relevance to the conference. Submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 specialists in the domain. Decisions will be based on the following criteria: o Importance and originality of the paper o Accuracy of the scientific and technical content o Comparison of the results obtained with other relevant work o Layout and clarity of the paper o Relevance to the topics of the conference ********** DEMOS ********** We encourage the submission of software demos. Developers wishing to demonstrate their software should submit according to the same rules as of paper submission, BUT must not exceed 6 pages. ********** POSTERS ********** One specific session for posters (85 x 120 cm) will be scheduled. Poster submission follows the same rules as of paper submission, BUT must not exceed 6 pages. ********** TALKS ********** Paper presentations will be of a 20 minutes duration, followed by 10 minutes dedicated to answering questions. It will be possible to use an overhead projector or a video-projector. ********** PROCEEDINGS ********** Accepted papers will be published in the pre-proceedings and in the proceedings of the conference. We will distribute the pre-proceedings to the participants at the conference and we will send the proceedings as soon as they are printed. We expect the proceedings to appear in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series after the conference. Today available: LNCS 1260 (WIA'96), LNCS 1436 (WIA'97), LNCS 1660 (WIA'98) and LNCS 2088 (CIAA?2000). Extended versions of selected papers from the proceedings of the conference series are usually retained for publication in special issues of either Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) or International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (IJFCS), alternating each year. Today available: TCS 231 (WIA'97) and TCS 269 (WIA'98). The CIAA 2002 special issue will appear in IJFCS. ********** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ********** Salah A?t-Mokhtar, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France Marie-Pierre B?al, Universit? de Marne-la-Vall?e, France Bernard Boigelot, Universit? de Li?ge, Belgium Jean-Marc Champarnaud, Universit? de Rouen, France Maxime Crochemore, Universit? de Marne-la-Vall?e, France G?rard Duchamp, Universit? de Rouen, France Jacques Farr?, CNRS, Universit? de Nice, France Jos? Fortes G?lvez, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain Oscar Ibarra, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Nils Klarlund, AT&T Labs-Research, New-York, USA Tomasz Kowaltowski, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Igor Litovsky, Universit? de Nice, France Carlos Mart?n-Vide, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain Denis Maurel, Universit? de Tours, France Mehryar Mohri, AT&T Labs-Research, New-York, USA Jean-Eric Pin, CNRS, Universit? Paris 7, France Kai Salomaa, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Helmut Seidl, Universit?t Trier, Germany Sheng Yu, University of Western Ontario, Canada ********** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ********** B?atrice Bouchou, LI Jean-Marc Champarnaud, LIFAR Michel Crucianu, LI Nathalie Friburger, LI Denis Maurel, LI ********** PREVIOUS CONFERENCES ********** o CIAA 2001 website: http://www.cs.up.ac.za/~watson/ciaa/ o CIAA 2000 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~ciaa2000 o WIA'99 website: http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~wia99/ o WIA'98 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia98.html o WIA'97 website: http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~syu/wia97.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Jun 4 15:02:27 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:02:27 +0200 Subject: Publications: Lexicography and Natural Language Processing Message-ID: BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT [version fran?aise en fin de message] Lexicography and Natural Language Processing A Festschrift in Honour of B.T.S. Atkins edited by Marie-H?l?ne Corr?ard 24 x 17cm 256 pp. ISBN 2-9518583-0-2 Publication: August 2002 EURALEX is publishing a Festschrift in honour of B.T.S. Atkins. The book features a collection of articles representative of some of the areas in which Sue Atkins has made a significant contribution. Keywords: applied linguistics, lexicography, NLP, corpus,dictionaries, lexical semantics CONTENTS: Foreword List of publications Tabula Gratulatoria B.T.S. Atkins, Bilingual Dictionnaries Past, Present and Future (first published in the proceedings of Euralex ?96) Yuri Apresjan, Principles of Systematic Lexicography Tony Cowie, Examples and Collocations in the French "Dictionnaire de langue" Alain Duval, La m?talangue, un mal n?cessaire du dictionnaire actif Charles Fillmore, Lexical Isolates Thierry Fontenelle, Lexical Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Gregory Grefenstette, The WWW as a Resource for Lexicography Patrick Hanks, Mapping Meaning onto Use Adam Kilgarriff, Sketching Words Michael Rundell, Good Old-fashioned Lexicography: Human Judgment and the Limits of Automation Krista Varantola, Use and Usability of dictionaries: Common Sense and Context Sensibility? Richard Wakely and Henri B?joint, Word Groups in Bilingual Dictionaries: OHFD and after Annie Zaenen, Musings about the Impossible Electronic Dictionary ORDERING INFORMATION: All orders received by 13th June entitle you to have your name on the Tabula Gratulatoria and to purchase the book at prepublication price: 25 euros (16 GBP) . All orders received by 1st August 2002 will be at prepublication price: 25 euros (16 GBP). 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I understand I will receive the book for the special prepublication price of 25 euros/16 GBP and that my name will appear on the Tabula Gratulatoria* Name: Address: Email *If the name to be included on the Tabula Gratulatoria is different from the one indicated above or if you do not want your name included, please specify: I am paying in euros/in GBP =================================================================== A PARAITRE Lexicography and Natural Language Processing A Festschrift in Honour of B.T.S. Atkins (Lexicographie et traitement automatique des langues. M?langes en l'honneur de B.T.S. ATKINS) textes r?unis par Marie-H?l?ne Corr?ard 24 x 17 cm 256 pp. ISBN 2-9518583-0-2 Publication: ao?t 2002 Tous les articles sauf un sont en langue anglaise. EURALEX publie un recueil d'articles en l'honneur de B.T.S. Atkins regroupant des textes repr?sentatifs de quelques uns des domaines que Sue Atkins a abord?s au cours de sa carri?re. TABLE DES MATIERES: Avant-propos Liste des publications Tabula Gratulatoria Yuri Apresjan, Principles of Systematic Lexicography Tony Cowie, Examples and collocations in the French "Dictionnaire de langue" Alain Duval, La m?talangue, un mal n?cessaire du dictionnaire actif. Charles Fillmore, Lexical isolates Thierry Fontenelle, Lexical Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Gregory Grefenstette, The WWW as a resource for Lexicography Patrick Hanks, Mapping meaning onto Use Adam Kilgarriff, Sketching words Michael Rundell, Good old-fashioned lexicography: human judgment and the limits of automation Krista Varantola, Usability and user-friendliness in dictionaries Richard Wakely and Henri B?joint, Word groups in bilingual dictionaries: OHFD and after Annie Zaenen, Musings about the Impossible Electronic Dictionary POUR COMMANDER: Toutes les commandes re?ues avant le 13 juin vous donnent la possibilit? d'inscrire votre nom dans la Tabula Gratulatoria et d'acheter le livre ? son prix de souscription: 25 euros (16 GBP). 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In addition, a EURO working group on Human Centered Processes has recently been created in order to tackle the study of operational strategies and processes used by people in professional contexts (http://www-hcp.enst-bretagne.fr/). Such problems represent important challenges for both public administrations and commercial firms. More generally, the analysis and study of distributed decision making and man-machine cooperation requires a multi-disciplinary approach involving cognitive psychology, operational research, cognitive science and domain expertise. Indeed, cognitive design and implementation approaches can complement more traditional frameworks. They may allow design and analysis of more complete, complex, robust and secure systems involving experienced users with specific domain expertise as well as common users. **** Purpose **** The purpose of this conference is to bring together: Practitioners from industry and administration who are confronted with issues related to cognition and domain expertise and computer assisted collaborative work, Researchers who have expertise in Cognitive Psychology or more generally Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Operational Researchers interested in discussing human centred approaches applied to complex industrial and administrative problems. In view of this, the Conference focuses on practical application oriented themes where human centered approaches have already shown their usefulness including planning, scheduling, decision making, quality control, project and risk management, intelligent management of multimedia documents, e-commerce and e-government. Three plenary sessions with invited guest speakers such as Ola Svenson (S) and Paul Slovic (USA) are planned. Four half-day symposiums dedicated to special sessions on multi-criteria decision aid, decision support systems and ethics in OR are foreseen. **** Institutional support **** The Association of European Operational Research Societies, EURO (http://www.euro-online.org/) Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg (http://www.fnr.lu/)) SOGESCI-B.V.W.B (http://mathro.fpms.ac.be/sogescibvwb/society.shtml) ROADEF (http://www.roadef.org/) **** Programme Committee **** Gustav Lundberg (chair), lundberg at duq.edu, Duquesne University (USA) Jean-Claude Asselborn, jcl at cu.lu, Cunlux (L) Jean-Yves Antoine, antoine at univ-ubs.fr, Universit? Bretagne-Sud (F) Jean-Pierre Barth?lemy, JP.barthelemy at enst-bretagne.fr, ENST-Bretagne (F) Jean-Pierre Brans, jpbrans at vub.ac.be, VUB, Brussels (B) Raymond Bisdorff, bisdorff at cu.lu, Cunlux (L) Teresa Cerratto, tessy at nada.kth.se, Royal Institute of Technology (S) Igor Cr?vits, igor.crevits at univ-valenciennes.fr, Universit? de Valenciennes (F) Gilles Coppin, Gilles.Coppin at enst-bretagne.fr, ENST-Bretagne (F) Philippe Lenca, Philippe.Lenca at enst-bretgane.fr, ENST-Bretagne (F) Photis Nanopoulos, Photis.Nanopoulos at cec.eu.int, EUROSTAT (EC) Elisabeth Le Saux, Elisabeth.Le-Saux at univ-ubs.fr, Universit? Bretagne-Sud (F) Marc Roubens, m.roubens at ulg.ac.be, Universit? de Li?ge (B) Marcus Selart, Marcus.Selart at svi.vxu.se, V?xj? University (S) **** Local Organizer **** Raymond Bisdorff (chair), hcp2003 at cu.lu, Cunlux (L) **** Call for papers **** Three kinds of submissions are welcome: Proposal for a session of three short papers (maximum five pages) dedicated to a given topic. After acceptance, the promoter will be responsible for his/her session and will chair it. Proposal for a panel discussion on a given topic (one hour). After acceptance, the promoter will be responsible for his/her session and will serve as session chair. Free submission of short papers (maximum five pages). The accepted papers will be published as Conference Proceedings by the Centre Universitaire. Two types of sessions, panel discussions or papers are solicited: Those discussing cognitive theories and practices from a practical application perspective and those presenting administrative, business or industrial applications. Suitable sessions, panel discussions and papers include: distributed decision making, human expertise centred decision aids, man-machine cooperation, intelligent assistance for decision, knowledge extraction, representation and modelling, intelligent management of multimedia documents, perception, recognition and interpretation and intelligent operator guidance and assistance systems. Application reports may cover the following: practice and integration, quality control, management of industrial and administrative processes, scheduling and planning, industrial production, supervision and control, public administration, transportation, health care, banking, insurance, telecommunications, management of the environment, new technologies for information and communication. Authors' instructions may be found on the conference web site: http://www.cu.lu/hcp2003. **** Publication **** Selected papers will be proposed for publication (and refereed separately) in a feature issue of the European Journal of Operational Research (http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/sae/orms/eor/menu.htm). A specific publication for French, Italian, Spanish or Portuguese versions of the accepted papers is also foreseen in a special issue of the In Cognito journal (http://www.univ-ubs.fr/valoria/cognito/). **** Venue **** The conference will be located at the Kirchberg Conference Centre, the hemicycle of the European Parliament in Luxembourg (http://www.luxcongress.lu). **** Registration fee **** The conference fee is 220EUR before February 28, 2003 and 280EUR for late registrations. It includes the proceedings book, coffee and tea during breaks, three lunches, and a social event. For accompanying persons a social program will be organized. The conference fee for students is 150EUR if a copy of a student card accompanies the registration formular. Registering can me made by using the formular you may download from the following url: http://www.cu.lu/hcp2003/Registration.pdf (PDF format). Please print out, fill in, sign and send it back to following address: Centre Universitaire Conference HCP'2003 secretary 162a, avenue de la Faiencerie L-1511 Luxembourg Remit your payment to: Bureau des Ch?ques Postaux L-1090 Luxembourg EUROGIRO BIC: CCPPLULU LIPSNET BIC: CCPL IBAN: none Account No: 135345-30 Account owner: Centre Universitaire purpose: registration HCP'2003 Young researchers and PhD students may apply for financial support directly at EURO (contact: Secretary at euro-online.org). The Luxembourg FNR offers special grants for young Luxemburgish researcher (contact: fnr at fnr.lu). Some participants from Eastern European and African countries may get special financial support directly from the organizer (contact the conference secretary: hcp2003 at cu.lu). **** Important dates **** Short papers (max five pages), proposals for sessions or panel discussions should be submitted by October 2002. Authors intending to submit to EJOR or In Cognito must provide this information in their short papers. Notification of acceptance will be given by the end of January 2003 for all types of proposals. Full papers for EJOR and IN COGNITO should be submitted at the time of the conference, beginning of May 2003. HCP'2003 Conference Secretary Centre Universitaire 162a, avenue de la Fa?encerie L-1511 Luxembourg mailto:hcp2003 at cu.lu Phone: +352 46 66 44 512 Fax:+352 46 66 44 508 http://www.cu.lu/hcp2003/ ******************************************************************************* ================================================== Jean-Yves Antoine - Lab. VALORIA (U. Bretagne Sud) Redacteur en chef revue In Cognito IUP Vannes, rue Y. Mainguy, F-56000 VANNES Toile : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/valoria/antoine ================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Jun 11 16:29:20 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:29:20 +0200 Subject: Conf: Atelier TALN2002 : Chaines de references et resolveurs d'anaphores Message-ID: Appel ? participation Atelier (conf?rence associ?e), TALN 2002 Cha?nes de r?f?rences et r?solveurs d'anaphores organis? par P. Amsili, C. Beyssade, A. Garreta et L. Roussarie Jeudi 27 juin 2002 Palais des Congr?s de Nancy Programme 14h00-14h15 Introduction 14h15-14h45 Susanne Salmon-Alt (ATILF, Nancy) Le projet ANANAS : Annotation Anaphorique pour l'Analyse S?mantique de Corpus 14h45-15h15 Michel Dupont (GREYC, Caen) Une approche cognitive pour le calcul des cha?nes de r?f?rences 15h15-15h30 Philippe Richard (TALaNa, Paris 7) R?solution d'anaphore et structure du discours : une exp?rience 15h30-16h00 Pause 16h00-16h30 Kalina Bontcheva, Marin Dimitrov, Diana Maynard, Valentin Tablan, Hamish Cunningham (University of Sheffield & Ontotext Lab, Sofia) Shallow Methods for Named Entity Coreference Resolution 16h30-17h00 Fran?ois Trouilleux (GRIL, Clermont-Ferrand & Xerox Grenoble) Insertions et interpr?tation des expressions pronominales 17h00-17h30 D?monstrations http://www.loria.fr/projets/TALN/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Jun 11 16:29:29 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:29:29 +0200 Subject: Appel: AMTA workshop on Customization Strategies for MT Message-ID: Call for Abstracts for the AMTA workshop on Customization Strategies for MT Machine translation systems must have customization capabilities in order to claim success as a commercial product or a research prototype. Minimally, these include the ability to add translations for new words and phrases, but may also include more sophisticated functionality such as adapting to new syntactic structures or writing styles, and may even be the means of acquiring all the system's translation knowledge (e.g., in statistical systems), We propose to bring MT developers and researchers together to discuss the customization capabilities of their systems, with an emphasis on using common data for the discussion. This workshop is intended to cover all types of customization strategies, although preference in selection will be given to novel strategies. We encourage participation from MT developers of commercial systems, and researchers working on all types of MT systems (traditional transfer, interlingua, example-based, or statistical). To make the discussion more interesting, we request that participants demonstrate the customization capabilities of their system using data freely available to everyone, such as Hansard data for French-English or other data available from ELRA or LDC. Microsoft has also agreed to make technical manual data available for several language pairs (English and any of these: French, Spanish, German, Japanese) for purposes of research related to this workshop. (For access to this data please send email to CustomWS at microsoft.com.) We request that interested parties submit a two page abstract with the following information: - overview of your MT system - description of customization capabilities - comparison of this strategy to other known strategies - data that will be used to test capability - proposed evaluation to determine the effectiveness of the customization - estimate of time that would be required to customize for the chosen domain, based on your sample run. - Dates: Call for participation: June 8 Abstract submission deadline: July 7 Acceptance notification: July 22 Early registration for AMTA: July 31 Papers due: September 6 AMTA workshop October 6 or 7 Instructions for submission: All submissions should be in English, and it is recommended that they be submitted in one of the following three formats: PDF (preferred); PostScript; Microsoft Word. All submissions will be received and processed using the Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) located at http://cmt.research.microsoft.com/CustomWS. Authors should follow the instructions at the CMT web site to register, enter information about themselves and their abstract, and upload a copy of their abstract in one of the acceptable formats by the submission deadline. Report any problems with the website to CustomWS at microsoft.com. For information on obtaining Microsoft Data to participate in the workshop, please contact CustomWS at microsoft.com Organizers: Jessie Pinkham, Deborah Coughlin, Bill Dolan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Fri Jun 14 16:58:10 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:58:10 +0200 Subject: Q: Recherche de references sur la generation ... semantique Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 18:46:39 +0200 From: "BOUALEM Malek FTRD/DMI/LAN" Message-Id: <8C19E3FBB6467846AFF97E366D34CB601471D4 at LANMHS20.rd.francetelecom.fr> Bonjour, Dans la litt?rature, notamment en traduction automatique, l'expression "g?n?ration s?mantique" a toujours ?t? utilis?e avec beaucoup de pr?caution. On parle souvent de g?n?ration syntaxique profonde, ou simplement de g?n?ration syntaxique. Quelqu'un aurait-il des id?es fra?ches sur ce que l'on pourrait d?signer par un processus consistant ? g?n?rer des paraphrases ou des structures syntaxiques de haut niveau ? partir d'une repr?sentation du sens ? Des r?f?rences ? des travaux r?cents dans le domaine seraient ?galement les bienvenues . Merci d'avance. Malek Boualem France T?l?com R&D ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Jun 14 17:34:36 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:34:36 +0200 Subject: Conf: TALN 2002 table ronde : Reflexions sur la recherche et l'enseignement de l'informatique linguistique Message-ID: Bonjour ? tous, En vue de la pr?paration de la table ronde, "R?flexions sur la recherche et l'enseignement de l'informatique linguistique" (organis?e par Nathalie Gasiglia et Jean Veronis), qui se d?roulera le lundi 24 juin pendant le colloque TALN 2002 ? Nancy, j'ai pr?par? un petit questionnaire concernant le TAL, qui se trouve sur le site suivant : http://melior.univ-montp3.fr/rp/NancyTR.htm Nous serions vraiment ravis que vous puissiez prendre quelques minutes pour y r?pondre (de pr?f?rence avant le vendredi 21 juin). Ceci nous permettra de proposer une synth?se des remarques de vous tous ! Merci beaucoup d'avance, Rachel Panckhurst. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Jun 14 17:34:43 2002 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (Alexis Nasr) Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:34:43 +0200 Subject: Jobs: research positions at ISSCO, University of Geneva Message-ID: Dear members of the LN list, We would like to announce that a senior and a junior research positions are now open at ISSCO, University of Geneva. The two announcements follow, and they are also posted at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/vacancy.html Best regards, Andrei Popescu-Belis -- ISSCO/TIM/ETI, Universit? de Gen?ve t?l: (41 22) 705 86 81 40, bd du Pont d'Arve fax: (41 22) 705 86 89 1211 Gen?ve 4 - Suisse http://www.issco.unige.ch/staff/andrei ------------------------------------------ Job Vacancy, June 2002 -- Senior researcher in language engineering ISSCO has an immediate opening for a senior researcher in language engineering and computational linguistics. The position involves participation in one or more Swiss and European language engineering projects. The qualified candidate will carry on research and collaborate on software design and implementation in one or more of the following areas: - parsing and semantic tagging - document indexing and retrieval - evaluation of NLP software - ontologies - knowledge engineering - multilingual text processing Requirements: - doctorate (PhD) in computer science or computational linguistics - experience in collaborative language engineering projects - programming skills in, e.g., Java, Perl, C/C++ - experience in developing software for NLP applications - knowledge of XML and Internet technologies - fluency in either French or English (with knowledge of the other language) Additional qualities: - expertise in knowledge engineering for the medical domain - expertise in probabilistic and statistical methods for NLP - good communication skills - fluency in German and/or Italian and/or other languages ISSCO offers excellent working conditions in a well-established research group at the University of Geneva. The position provides opportunities to collaborate in a variety of international projects. The salary is calculated according to qualifications, based on the University of Geneva scales. The University of Geneva is an equal opportunity employer. Duration: initial contract for one year with good prospects of renewal We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a detailed CV, publication list and the names of three references to: ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva Attn: Professor Susan Armstrong University of Geneva 40, bvd. du Pont d'Arve CH-1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland Email: Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch Tel: (+41 22) 705 87 64 Fax: (+41 22) 705 86 89 http://www.issco.unige.ch Submission by email is preferred and should be also addressed in CC: to Andrei Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis at issco.unige.ch). ------------------------------------------------------------- Job Vacancy, June 2002 -- Junior researcher in natural language processing ISSCO has an immediate opening for a junior researcher in natural language processing and computational linguistics. The position involves participation in one or more Swiss and European language engineering projects. The position also offers the possibility to prepare a doctoral thesis (PhD) at the University of Geneva, on a subject related to a research project that is ongoing at ISSCO. The main research themes related to this position are: - parsing and semantic/discourse tagging - general statistical NLP tools - lexical semantics and conceptual structures - ontologies - knowledge engineering - human-computer interaction The qualified candidate will carry out research and collaborate in the construction of language resources and evaluation techniques in one or more of the above areas. Furthermore, the qualified candidate is encouraged to register as a student either at the DEA level (French equivalent of a Masters Degree) or at the PhD level, at the School of Translation and Interpretation of the University of Geneva, on a subject related to one of the research projects. For more information about the degrees, please follow this link: http://www.unige.ch/eti/index.cgi?http://www.unige.ch/eti/enseignement/contenu.html Requirements: - university degree in computational linguistics or computer science - interest for theoretical and applied research in natural language processing / semantics - fluency in either French or English (with knowledge of the other language) Additional qualities: - good communication skills - programming/IT skills in, e.g., Perl, C/C++, Java, Unix/Linux, HTML, XML - experience in developing software for NLP applications - fluency in German and/or Italian and/or other languages ISSCO offers excellent working conditions in a well-established research group at the University of Geneva. The position provides opportunities to collaborate in a variety of international projects. The salary is calculated according to qualifications, based on the University of Geneva scales. The University of Geneva is an equal opportunity employer. Duration: initial contract for one year with good prospects of renewal We invite interested candidates to send us a letter of interest along with a detailed CV and the names of three references to: ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva Attn: Professor Susan Armstrong University of Geneva 40, bvd. du Pont d'Arve CH-1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland Email: Susan.Armstrong at issco.unige.ch Tel: (+41 22) 705 87 64 Fax: (+41 22) 705 86 89 http://www.issco.unige.ch Submission by email is preferred and should be also addressed in CC: to Andrei Popescu-Belis (Andrei.Popescu-Belis at issco.unige.ch). ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jun 25 07:41:44 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:41:44 +0200 Subject: Appel: Linguistique de corpus, Lorient (+ Participation) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:44:40 +0200 From: "geoffrey.williams" Message-Id: <00fe01c21b5a$cbfda700$c6e8fea9 at geoffrey> X-url: http://www.univ-ubs.fr/crellic/journees2002.htm X-url: http://wwwuniv-ubs.fr/crellic 2?mes Journ?es de la Linguistique de Corpus A brief summary in English follows. Our apologies for cross postings. APPEL A PARTICIPATION CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Les 2?mes Journ?es de la linguistique de corpus auront lieu ? Lorient les 12, 13 et 14 septembre 2002. Elles sont organis?es par le Centre de Recherche en Litt?rature, Linguistique et Civilisation (CRELLIC - UBS Lorient) avec la collaboration de Valoria (UBS Vannes) et sont ?galement soutenues par les D?partements LEA et LLCE de l'Universit? de Bretagne Sud, l'Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (ATALA) et la jeune ?quipe Analyse Linguistique et Pratiques Langagi?res (ALPL, Nantes). Ces 2?mes Journ?es de la Linguistique de Corpus visent ? promouvoir le d?veloppement de la linguistique de corpus en France en r?unissant des chercheurs d'horizons divers s'int?ressant ? l'utilisation de l'informatique pour l'analyse des faits de langues, notamment dans les domaines suivants : - la lexicologie et lexicographie, mono~ et bilingues, - la terminologie, - la traductologie, - la linguistique appliqu?e et la description linguistique, - ... Les journ?es s'?taleront sur deux jours et demi avec trois conf?rences pl?ni?res suivies par des communications orales d'une trentaine de minutes. Il y aura ?galement des communications affich?es. Nous envisageons de publier les actes de ce colloque. Les conf?renciers invit?s seront : Elena Tognini Bonelli : L'approche inductive sur corpus Claire Blanche Benveniste : Les corpus de langue parl?e Fran?ois Rastier : Des occurrences aux formes s?mantiques. Les informations pratiques, inscription, h?bergement ... sont maintenant en ligne au : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/crellic/journees2002.htm. Le programme sera affich? d?but juillet. Contact : Geoffrey Williams Departement LEA U.F.R. Lettres et Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay BP 92116 56321 LORIENT Cedex ou par courrier electronique a Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : 15 juin 2002 Le programme et les renseignements pratiques seront post?s sur le siteweb du CRELLIC. http://wwwuniv-ubs.fr/crellic ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This conference aims to bring together researchers working with electronic corpora and lexical resources in France or in the French Language. It is aimed principally at those working in teaching, translating, lexicography and applied linguistics. The language of the workshop will be French. It is the second in a series that started with a one day conference held in Lorient in September 2001. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jun 25 07:43:41 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:43:41 +0200 Subject: Conf: COLING-2002, Tutorials, early registration Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:23:09 +0800 From: Jing-Shin Chang Message-Id: <200206181023.g5IAN9h15586 at lang-tech.csie.ncnu.edu.tw> X-url: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html X-url: http://www.sighan.org/ X-url: http://www.sighan.org/swclp/ X-url: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-general.html X-url: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation 2002/06 [apology for multiple posts] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLING-2002 TUTORIALS 24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August, 2002, Academia Sinica, Taipei, TAIWAN URL: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** REMINDER: Early Registration extended to June 22 !! (30+% saving!!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issues on: Computational Linguistics && Chinese Language Processing (*) 08/24 am/pm Bio-Informatics && NLP Issues 08/25 am/pm Open-Domain Textual Question Answering 08/25 am Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics 08/25 pm (*) Co-Sponsored by ACL-SIGHAN: Special Interest Group on Chinese Language Processing (http://www.sighan.org/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLING has been the most important international conference on Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing for nearly 40 years. The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2002) will be held in the Howard International House and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, from August 24 to September 1, 2002. The biennial conference COLING 2002 this year will provide both pre-conference tutorials and post-conference workshops, in addition to the main conference. There will be four major tutorial issues divided into six 3-hour units during COLING 2002. The first major issue will be Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing. This tutorial will focus on Chinese language processing topics including Intelligent Character Encoding (Ching-Chun Hsieh, Academia Sinica), Treebanking and Parsing (Keh-jiann Chen, Academia Sinica), and Corpus-Based Methods in Chinese Morphology (Richard Sproat, AT&T Labs). The whole scope will cover most of the interesting and special characteristics that make Chinese language processing a different and difficult task. It will be co-sponsored with the ACL-SIGHAN. People interested in Chinese language processing issues should not miss the two tutorial units and the SigHan Workshop (http://www.sighan.org/swclp/). The second major issue focuses on NLP and Bio-Informatics. People nowadays are becoming more and more interested in knowing how the languages of humans differ from the languages of God. NLP researchers and biologists feel strongly that the two communities can work together to make things different. Our biologists, Toshihisa Takagi, Takako Takai (University of Tokyo), Ken-ichiro Fukuda (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST, Tokyo, JAPAN) will discuss some theoretical issues in Bio-Informatics and how NLP techniques can help extracting and migrating biological data from the huge amount of historical archives and databases to speedup biology study. Our computational linguists, Jun-Ichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo and UMIST, ICCL permanent member), and Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, ICCL permanent member), on the other hand, will talk about the application of Information Extraction techniques in Bio-informatics and some applications of NLP Techniques for Modeling Biological Sequences in this tutorial. You could expect that such interaction between the biologists and computational linguists will bring to our communities many brand new ideas. While simple information retrieval and information extraction techniques are useful for many language processing tasks, including mining biological rules as discussed in the above major issue, such techniques combined in an intuitive way may not really provide us with good answers for many critical questions. In the third major tutorial issue, our QA experts, Professors Sanda M. Harabagiu (University of Texas) and Dan Moldovan (University of Texas) will tell us how an Open-Domain Textual Question Answering system could be constructed to serve well. Professor Harabagiu's systems had proved to be outstanding in the community. Therefore, you should really attend this course if you want more secrete behind the scenes. The forth major tutorial issue is Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics. This issue is important because every sentence that we processed has its psycholinguistics and cognitive process behind it. The more we know such psycholinguistic models the more we can process the sentences better. Professor Dan Jurafsky (University of Colorado) will lead you to the world of computational psycholinguistics and cognitive modeling in the sentence, lexical and discourse levels through this course. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Course Outlines: Please refer to the following web-page for course outlines and further information: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/w-tutorials.html. Additional information about on-line registration can be found on: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-general.html. Official URL of COLING-2002 is: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICCL Advisor on Workshops and Tutorials Prof. Antonio Zampolli Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR Via della Faggiola 32 I-56100 Pisa, ITALY tel:+39-50-560481 fax:+39-50-589055 Email: glottolo at ilc.pi.cnr.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS CHAIR Chu-Ren Huang Institute of Linguistics Academia Sinica Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan Email: hschuren at ccvax.sinica.edu.tw TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS Kathleen Ahrens Graduate Institute of Linguistics National Taiwan University 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road Taipei 106, Taiwan Email: ahrens66 at hotmail.com Jing-Shin Chang Computer Science & Information Engineering National Chi-Nan University 1 University Road, Puli Nantou 545, Taiwan Email: jshin at csie.ncnu.edu.tw Martha Palmer Computer & Information Science University of Pennsylvania 200 S. 33rd Street Phila. PA 19104-6389, USA Email: mpalmer at linc.upenn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLING-2002 (Taipei) The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics 24 August - 1 September, 2002 Official URL:http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: * Early Registration Deadline: 22, June. Tutorials: 24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August, 2002 (Academia Sinica) Conference: 26 (Mon) - 30 (Fri) August, 2002 (Howard International House) Post-Conference Workshops: 31 (Sat) - 1 September, 2002 (Academia Sinica) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jun 25 07:43:56 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:43:56 +0200 Subject: Conf: COLING 2002, extended early registration Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:07:46 +0800 From: Jing-Shin Chang Message-Id: <200206180407.g5I47kF14460 at lang-tech.csie.ncnu.edu.tw> X-url: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ X-url: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-online.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [apology for multiple posts] 2002/06 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COLING-2002: Second Call for Participation COLING-2002 (Taipei) The 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics 24 August - 1 September, 2002 Official URL:http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ Organized by Academia Sinica, ACLCLP, and National Tsing Hua University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** REMINDER: Early registration extended to June 22 !! (30+% saving!!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates: * Early Registration Deadline: 22, June. Tutorials: 24 (Sat) - 25 (Sun) August, 2002 (Academia Sinica) Conference: 26 (Mon) - 30 (Fri) August, 2002 (Howard International House) Post-Conference Workshops: 31 (Sat) - 1 September, 2002 (Academia Sinica) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, The Program Committee and the Organizing Committee of the COLING-2002 Conference are pleased to welcome participants from all countries to join us in Taipei. Both lists of accepted papers and preliminary program are available on (http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/). The on-line registration system is also open (http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/r-online.html). This year's main conference features three keynote speakers: Charles J. Fillmore ("Linking sense to syntax in FrameNet"), William S.-Y. Wang ("Evolutionary Linguistics and Computer Modeling"), and Hans Uszkoreit ("New Chances for Deep Linguistic Processing"). In addition to the close to 200 papers and project notes that will be presented at the main conference; there will also be over 100 papers featured at the 11 exciting post-conference WORKSHOPS. Four pre-conference TUTORIALS focus on pioneering inter-disciplinary areas: Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing, Bio-Informatics, Probabilistic Computational Psycholinguistics, and Open Domain Question-Answering. Taipei as COLING2002's Conference site offers a unique mix of culture, science, and technology. For further details, please visit our official conference website at: http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ Please note the pre-registration deadline of June 22. We look forwards to your participation in August. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee Winfried Lenders (Chair), University of Bonn, Germany Susan Armstrong, ISSCO/ETI, University of Geneva, Switzerland Christian Boitet, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France Nicolletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan Robert Dale, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Ralph Grishman, New York University, USA Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep. Chu-Ren Huang, Academia sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Reseach Centre Europe, Grenoble, France Yuji Matsumoto, NAIST, Nara, Japan Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University, USA Benjamin K. T'sou, City university of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jun-Ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan Hans, Uszkoreit, Saarland University, Saarbrucken, Germany Yorik Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK Shiwen Yu, Beijing University, China ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee Chu-Ren Huang, Academia Sinica (Chair) Kathleen Ahrens, national Taiwan University Jason S. Chang, National Tsing Hua University Jing-Shin Chang, Chi-Nan University Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University Keh-Jiann Chen, Academia Sinica Kuang-Hua Chen, National Taiwan University Sin-Horng Chen, National Chiao Tung University Lee-Feng Chien, Academia sinica (Executive secretary) Zhao-Ming Gao, National Taiwan University Sue-Jin Ker, Soochow University Martha Palmer, University of Pennsylvania Keh-Yih Su, Behavior Design Corporation Shu-Chuan Tseng, Academia Sinica (Executive secretary) Hsiao-Chuan Wang, National Tsing Hua University Hsin-Min Wang, Academia Sinica Jhing-Fa Wang, National Cheng Kung University ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jun 25 07:44:23 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:44:23 +0200 Subject: Conf: AMTA-2002, First Call for Participation Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 12:01:43 -0400 From: Elliott Macklovitch Message-Id: <3D10AAE7.7F49DB60 at IRO.UMontreal.CA> X-url: http://www.amtaweb.org X-url: http://www-rali.iro.umontreal.ca AMTA-2002 Tiburon, California October 8-12, 2002 Online registration is now available. Register before July 31 and save! For more details, visit the AMTA Web site at : http://www.amtaweb.org ***************************************** Elliott Macklovitch Laboratoire RALI, Dept. d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle Universite de Montreal, C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3J7 tel: (514) 343-7535 fax: (514) 343-2496 http://www-rali.iro.umontreal.ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR Tue Jun 25 07:44:34 2002 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:44:34 +0200 Subject: Conf: LangTech 2002 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 08:32:05 +0200 From: Magali Jeanmaire Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020617150556.00b4fe00 at 192.168.1.8> X-url: http://www.lang-tech.org X-url: http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/ X-url: http://www.elda.fr X-url: http://www.lrec-conf.org Please accept our apologies for the multiple announcements ********************************************************************** ELRA & ELDA are happy to announce the following event: *********************************************************************** LANGTECH 2002: NEW INTERNATIONAL EC SUPPORTED CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES. Paris, France, 17th June 2002 Speech and language technologies, a sector with growing relevance to the European business marketplace, will be the focus of a comprehensive industry forum: LangTech 2002, to be held in Berlin on September 26-27, 2002. The pace of commercial deployment of speech and language technologies has lead to strong calls for a high-level industry conference to showcase advancements and bring developers, entrepreneurs and researchers together with integrators, investors and corporations. LangTech 2002 will address the state of play from an industrial, R&D and academic viewpoint and demonstrate the potential to corporations to improve business processes through the adoption of speech and language technologies. Examples of contemporary language technologies in action include speech recognition interfaces, website translation tools, content management systems and cross lingual search engines. These technologies have found applicability in real world contexts from CRM to e-commerce and software localisation. LangTech is an EC supported initiative, through the involvement of EUROMAP Language Technologies. Bente Maegaard, Central Co-ordinator, EUROMAP, stated, "we view LangTech as an important development in bringing together the various parties comprising the language technologies sector for high level interaction and discussion. The conference is particularly useful for smaller concept developers seeking a valuable promotional platform." Agenda topics address the latest technology breakthroughs and are presented by experienced practitioners in the field. Practical solutions and near-market research results are presented during the conference and in the accompanying exhibition, showing state-of-the-art products and solutions. Special 'pitch' sessions will enable SME's and start-up companies to promote their concepts and explore financing possibilities, and a funding session will highlight the venture capital community views on language technology investment. Speaking contributions have already been secured from leading industry players including SAP, LingTech, DaimlerChrysler and Conexor. Noted technology scientist, Professor Wolfgang Wahlster, from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), will make a keynote address. Members of the press are cordially invited to apply for press accreditation for LangTech 2002 via organisation at lang-tech.org. Delegate registration for LangTech 2002 is available via the official conference website http://www.lang-tech.org, along with updated information on programme and speakers. Registrations received before July 1, 2002 will benefit from a discounted 'early bird' delegate fee. Companies and institutions wishing to take advantage of the LangTech 2002 exhibition area should contact: Khalid Choukri, exhibition at lang-tech.org. ABOUT LANGTECH: Date: September 26-27, 2002 Venue: Hotel Schweizerhof, Berlin Description: LangTech 2002 is the international forum for people and organisations involved in the development, deployment and exploitation of spoken and written language technologies in real world applications. It will feature keynote talks from leading players, presentations from a wide range of developers and solution providers, panel discussions of key issues affecting the market in Europe and beyond, and an exhibition of applications, products, services and research prototypes. Special sessions will enable start-up companies to promote and pitch their products and services and explore funding possibilities. LangTech 2002 will cover a wide range of language technologies with three focus areas: VOICE SOLUTIONS: for the control of software and machinery, customer relationship management, systems for the handicapped and multimodal communication in an ambient intelligence setting. KNOWLEDGE SOLUTIONS: for information and knowledge management, content management, e-learning, document authoring and management. MULTILINGUAL SOLUTIONS: for software localisation, automatic text translation, translation memories, interactive speech translation and crosslingual information retrieval. LangTech 2002 is organised by EUROMAP Language Technologies, assisted by the German National Competence Center for Language Technology funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research, the Investmentbank Berlin, the European Language and Speech Network (ELSNET), European Language Resources Association and Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELRA and ELDA) and several other corporate sponsors. Email: organisation at lang-tech.org Conference website: http://www.lang-tech.org Press Registration: organisation at lang-tech.org Contact: Michael Huch VDI/VDE-Technology Centre for Information Technologies Email: organisation at lang-tech.org Tel: +49 33 28 435 193 http://www.lang-tech.org **************************************************************************** Magali Jeanmaire Marketing & Communication 55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: (+33) 1 43 13 33 30 Internet: http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/ or http://www.elda.fr LREC: http://www.lrec-conf.org ***************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------