From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Mar 11 16:29:00 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:29:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing Message-ID: Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop May 31, 2003 Edmonton, Canada http://www.etstechnologies.com/NAACL Overview There is an increased use of NLP-based educational applications for both large-scale assessment and classroom instruction. This has occurred for two primary reasons. First, there has been a significant increase in the availability of computers in schools, from elementary school to the university. Second, there has been notable development in computer-based educational applications that incorporate advanced methods in NLP that can be used to evaluate students' work. Educational applications have been developed across a variety of subject domains in automated evaluation of free-responses and intelligent tutoring. To date, these two research areas have remained autonomous. We hope that this workshop will facilitate communication between researchers who work on all types of instructional applications, for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate school. Since most of this work in NLP-based educational applications is text-based, we are especially interested in any work of this type that incorporates speech processing and other input/output modalities. We wish to expose the NLP research community to these technologies with the hope that they may see novel opportunities for use of their tools in an educational application. Invited Speaker: Thomas Landauer, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Knowledge Analysis Technologies (KAT) Call for Papers We are especially interested in submissions including, but not limited to: * Speech-based tools for educational technology * Innovative text analysis for evaluation of student writing with regard to: a) general writing quality, or b) accuracy of content for domain-specific responses * Text analysis methods to handle particular writing genres, such as legal or business writing, or creative aspects of writing * Intelligent tutoring systems that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP methods to evaluate response content, using either text- or speech-based analyses * Dialogue systems in education * understanding student input * generating the tutors' feedback * evaluation * Evaluation of NLP-based tools for education * Use of student response databases (text or speech) for tool building * Content-based scoring Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: Mar 17 Notification of acceptance for papers: Mar 31 Camera ready papers due: Apr 8 Workshop date: May 31 Organizers Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service (jburstein at ets.org) Claudia Leacock, Educational Testing Service (cleacock at ets.org) Program Committee: Gregory Aist, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), NASA Martin Chodorow, Hunter College, City University of New York Ron Cole, University of Colorado, Boulder Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago John Dowding, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), NASA Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University Art Graesser, University of Memphis Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh Karen Kukich, National Science Foundation Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute/University of Southern California Thomas Morton, University of Pennsylvania Carolyn Penstein Rose, University of Pittsburgh Susanne Wolff, Princeton University Klaus Zechner, Educational Testing Service Format for Submission Information about submissions can be found at the URL below. Please follow the instructions for full papers and use only Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) or MS-Word documents. Since the review process will be blind, please do not include any author information on the actual paper. Please include an additional title page with the following information: Paper title, names and contact information for all authors, and the paper's abstract. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/hlt-naacl03/format.html Please e-mail your final .pdf or MS-Word submission to jburstein at ets.org or cleacock at ets.org no later than March 17, 2003. Please feel free to contact the organizers with any questions regarding the workshop. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 11 16:29:06 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:29:06 +0100 Subject: Jobs: post-doc UMR 7118ATILF - Analyse et traitement informatique de la langue francaise Message-ID: RECRUTEMENT de POST-DOC au sein de l'UMR 7118ATILF - Analyse et traitement informatique de la langue Française Dans le cadre de la campagne de recrutement de post-doctorants mise en place par le CNRS http://www.sg.cnrs.fr/drhchercheurs/post_doc/default.htm (cf. l'annonce du CNRS rappelée ci dessous), notre laboratoire, UMR 7118ATILF - Analyse et traitement informatique de la langue Française, souhaite recruter un post-doctorant, pour une période d'une année pouvant être éventuellement prolongée de 6 mois sur l'une des thématique suivantes: 1. Linguistique informatique et exploitation des ressources linguistiques informatisées (Textes et dictionnaires informatiques). 2. Etymologie et histoire du lexique : étude diachronique du lexique français du Moyen Age à nos jours. Le montant de la rémunération est de 2150 euros brut mensuel. Les candidat(e)s intéressé(e)s par cette offre doivent prendre contact avec: Jean-Marie Pierrel, professeur à l'UHP Co-directeur de l'ATILF (UMR 7118 CNRS-Nancy 2) Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française 44, avenue de la Libération BP 30687 54063 Nancy cedex tel : 03 83 96 86 85 fax : 03 83 97 24 56 email : Jean-Marie.Pierrel at inalf.fr http://www.inalf.fr/atilf et transmettre leur candidature avant le 15 avril 2003 au laboratoire ========================================================== Le CNRS recrute 210 post-doctorants en 2003 De nouvelles possibilités de contrats post-doctoraux ont été mise en place par la ministre déléguée à la recherche et aux nouvelles technologies. Cette mesure est destinée à permettre à de jeunes chercheurs, français ou étrangers, d'acquérir, de préférence dans l'année qui suit leur thèse, une expérience complémentaire de recherche de haut niveau pour se préparer à un recrutement pérenne ultérieur dans le secteur public ou privé. Ces contrats à durée déterminée sont d'une durée de 12 mois, pouvant être éventuellement prolongée de 6 mois. Le montant de la rémunération est de 2150 euros brut mensuel. · Conditions à remplir par les candidats. CNRS o aucune condition de nationalité o être docteur au moment du recrutement (doctorat français, PhD ou doctorat étranger de niveau équivalent) o ne pas avoir exercé antérieurement une activité de recherche au sein de l'unité d'accueil visée. · Comment poser sa candidature Les candidats doivent prendre contact avec les laboratoires sélectionnés pour l'accueil d'un post-doc. Ils définiront avec le(s) responsable(s) un projet scientifique et une perspective d'insertion professionnelle · Constitution du dossier o l'identification de la thématique et du projet scientifique proposé pour la durée du contrat o un curriculum vitae comportant un résumé des activités scientifiques o le rapport de soutenance et les rapports des rapporteurs de la thèse (ou de son équivalent), quand ils sont disponibles o la liste des travaux publiés o l'avis motivé du directeur du laboratoire pour l'accueil éventuel du candidat Le dossier devra être adressé au directeur du département scientifique concerné à l'adresse suivante: CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange 75794 PARIS Cedex 16 Jean-Marie Pierrel, professeur à l'UHP Co-directeur de l'ATILF (UMR 7118 CNRS-Nancy 2) Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française 44, avenue de la Libération BP 30687 54063 Nancy cedex tel : 03 83 96 86 85 fax : 03 83 97 24 56 email : Jean-Marie.Pierrel at inalf.fr http://www.inalf.fr/atilf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 11 16:29:11 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:29:11 +0100 Subject: Appel: Special Issue - Journal of Natural Language Engineering Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Journal Journal of Natural Language Engineering Software Architecture for Language Engineering Editors: Hamish Cunningham, Donia Scott A number of researchers argued in the early and middle 1990s that the field of computational infrastructure, or architecture, for Natural Language Processing, merited an increase in attention. The reasoning was that the increasingly large-scale and technologically significant nature of NLP science was placing increasing burdens of an engineering nature on R&D workers seeking robust and practical methods. Over the intervening period a number of significant systems and practices have been developed in what we may call Software Architecture for Language Engineering. Of the most prominent are: * RAGS, Reference Architecture for Generation Systems (Brighton and Edinburgh) * LT XML (Edinburgh) * TEI, CES, XCES (Oxford, Vassar, etc.) * ATLAS (LDC, NIST) * Galaxy Communicator Software Infrastructure (Mitre) * JENA (Hewlett Packard) * Protégé (Stanford) * GATE, a General Architecture for Text Engineering (Sheffield). This special issue represents an opportunity for pracititioners in this area to report their work in a coordinated setting. The value to the community at large will be to get a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in infrastructural work, which may indicate where further take-up of these systems can be of benefit. A wide range of topics are relevant, from reference architectures to web services, from component repositories to language resource standardisation, from grid-based distribution to comparative studies of different architectures. Important dates: 1st July 2003 deadline for submission of papers 1st November 2003 notification of acceptance 15th December 2003 final copy due 1st June 2004 special issue publication date Submissions: Initial submissions should be sent electronically in PDF format to Hamish Cunningham - hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk Formatting instructions for final submissions are available from CUP at http://assets.cup.org/NLE/nle_ifc.pdf Editorial Committee: Steve Appleby Steven Bird Kalina Bontcheva Chris Brew Hennie Brugman Jean Carletta Walter Daelemans Robert Dale David Day Thierry DeClerck Marin Dimitrov Roger Evans Nancy Ide Atanas Kiryakov Diana Maynard David McDonald Chris Mellish Jon Patrick Thomas Rist Laurent Romary Valentin Tablan Yorick Wilks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 11 16:29:15 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:29:15 +0100 Subject: Jobs: Post-doc a l'Universite Stendhal - Grenoble 3 Message-ID: --- English version below Post-doc à l'Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3 Domaine : Corpus multilingues, méthodes statistiques pour le traitement automatique des langues Le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de Linguistique et Didactique Langue Etrangère et Maternelle) de l'Université Stendhal Grenoble 3, est impliqué dans plusieurs projets de recherche en rapport avec le traitement et l'étude contrastive de corpus multilingues alignés (évaluation des techniques d'alignement, désambiguïsation, extraction de lexiques bilingues). Le LIDILEM cherche un étudiant post-doc pour participer au développement de méthodes et d'outils dédiés à la constitution ressources multilingues, dans le cadre du projet CARMEL, financé par le Ministère de la Culture. Ce projet, prévu pour une durée de 18 mois, vise à la constitution d'un corpus multilingue aligné de grande taille rassemblant des oeuvres majeures de la littérature réaliste du XIXe siècle. Ce corpus, comportant des textes français, anglais, italiens et espagnols, inclura une annotation thématique et sera, en partie, sémantiquement désambiguïsé, au moyen de méthodes originales qui intégreront l'aspect multilingue du corpus. Par la mise en oeuvre de ces nouvelles techniques, le projet CARMEL visera également à la réalisation d'outils d'alignement et de désambiguïsation. Les candidats devront avoir obtenu un doctorat en Informatique ou en Sciences du langage, et connaître les techniques statistiques pour le traitement automatique des langues. Une bonne connaissance de Prolog est requise. Une expérience de la constitution et de l'annotation de corpus serait un plus, ainsi que la maîtrise de l'anglais, de l'italien ou de l'espagnol écrit. Le poste est à pourvoir à partir du 1er mars, et durera 8, 10 ou 16 mois (en fonction de la disponibilité du candidat). Le salaire net sera de 2500 euros mensuels environ. Les personnes intéressées doivent contacter, de préférence par courriel : Olivier Kraif (Olivier.Kraif at u-grenoble3.fr) +------------------+ Maître de Conférences LIDILEM Laboratoire de Linguistique et de Didactique des Langues Etrangères et Maternelles Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3 38400 Saint-Martin d'Hères France tel : +33 (0) 476 824 175 fax : +33 (0) 476 824 126 English version ************************************************************************ *************** Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Grenoble (France) Field: Statistical Natural Language Processing. The LIDILEM (Laboratoire de Linguistique et Didactique Langue Etrangère et Maternelle) of the Stendhal University carries out research projects in several domains of multilingual corpus processing and contrastive studies (alignment evaluation, collocation identification, disambiguation, bilingual lexicon extraction). The LIDILEM is currently looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Linguistics or Computer Science to contribute to its research activities in the domain of Multilingual Resources Development. The foreseen research activity will take place in the framework of the CARMEL project, of 18 months' duration, funded by the French Culture Ministry. CARMEL Project aims at constructing a large scale aligned corpus in the field of European realist literature of the 19th. This multilingual corpus, including French, English, Italian and Spanish texts, will be thematically annotated and semantically tagged, using original methods taking advantage of parallelism and multilingualism. Another outcome of CARMEL Projects will be the development of standard tools for aligning and disambiguating, implementing new techniques that will have to be evaluated on the corpus. Applicants should hold a PhD in Computer Science or Linguistics in the field of Statistical Natural Language Processing. Skills in Prolog programming are required. An experience in corpus construction and annotation is desirable. Applicants must speak fluent French or English, and a good knowledge of Spanish or Italian languages will be a plus. The position is available immediately and runs for 8 or 10 months. It will be held at Université Stendhal Grenoble 3 (Grenoble, France). The appointment will be about 2500 euros/month (including benefits). Interested persons should contact (e-mail preferred): Olivier Kraif (Olivier.Kraif at u-grenoble3.fr) +------------------+ Maître de Conférences LIDILEM Laboratoire de Linguistique et de Didactique des Langues Etrangères et Maternelles Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3 38400 Saint-Martin d'Hères France tel : +33 (0) 476 824 175 fax : +33 (0) 476 824 126 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 11 16:29:22 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:29:22 +0100 Subject: Appel: 19th Conf. of the Spanish Soc. for NLP Message-ID: __________First Call for Proposals___________________ SEPLN 2003 XIX CONGRESO DE LA SOCIEDAD ESPAÑOLA PARA EL PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL (SEPLN) (19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing - SEPLN) September 10-12, 2003 Universidad de Alcalá de Henares http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln Introduction The 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place on September 10-12, 2003 in Alcalá de Henares (Spain). As in previous editions, the aim of SEPLN for this Conference is to promote the dissemination of research, development and innovation activities conducted by Spanish and foreign researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will provide a forum for discussion and communication to facilitate an effective exchange of knowledge and scientific materials that are necessary for promoting the publication of relevant work and the establishment of means of collaboration with national and international Institutions that are active in this field. Objectives The main motivation of this conference is to provide the business and scientific communities with an ideal forum for presenting their latest research work and developments in the field of Natural Language Processing, as well as to demonstrate the possibilities offered by these solutions and to know about new projects. Consequently, the 19th SEPLN Conference is a meeting place for presenting results and exchanging ideas concerning the present state of development in this field of knowledge. Furthermore, there is the intention of meeting the goal, achieved in previous editions, of identifying future paths for basic research and foreseen software applications, in order to compare them against the market needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum in helping new professionals to become active members in this field. Topics Researchers and businesses are encouraged to send communications, project abstracts or demonstrations related to any of the following topics: - Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language - Corpus linguistics - Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval - Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis - Computational Lexicography - Monolingual and multilingual text generation - Machine translation - Speech synthesis and recognition - Semantics, pragmatics and discourse - Word sense disambiguation - NLP industrial applications - Automatic textual content analysis Structure of the Conference The Conference will last three days, with sessions dedicated to presenting papers, ongoing research projects, prototype product demonstrations or products connected with topics addressed in the conference. Scientific activities will be complemented by social and tourist activities, allowing attendants to gain a better understanding about the social and cultural dimensions of Alcalá de Henares. Communications Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or system-related proposals, to be presented at the demonstration sessions, earlier than April 30, 2003. Both the delivery and revision of proposals will be done exclusively in electronic format (PostScript or PDF). Proposals will include a title, the complete names of the authors, their address, telephone, fax and e-mail. Proposals will meet the following requirements (concerning the final version, please check the "publication format" section): - Inclusion of an abstract (maximum 150 words) - Related topic - Overall maximum length will be 3,500 words (including the abstract) - The proposals will be anonymously revised. Therefore, two separate files will be submitted, one will only include the title and author details, the other will only include the title and the rest of the proposal - Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will follow the style requirements that are described in the publication format section in this website The proposals will be sent through a web-based system. The exact address of this system will be published in the official website of the Conference. Any files with a size larger than 4 MB, must be compressed into any of the following formats: zip, rar, tar or gz. Projects and Demos As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of oral presentations, any session may be reserved to this purpose. For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information must be included: - Project title - Funding institution - Participant groups in the project - Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the project director - Abstract (2 pages maximum) - If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be included, as indicated below For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory: - Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors - Abstract (2 pages maximum) - Time estimation for the whole presentation - This information must be received by June 29, 2001 Important Dates Dates for submission and notifications of acceptance: - Deadline for submitting abstracts: May 16, 2003 - Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2003 - Deadline for submitting the final version: June 27, 2003 - Deadline for submitting projects and demos: June 10, 2003 Program Committee Chairman: Prof. Maximiliano Saiz Noeda (Universidad de Alicante) Members: Prof. José Gabriel Amores Carredano (Universidad de Sevilla) Prof. Toni Badia i Cardús (Universidad de Pompeu Fabra) Prof. Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez (Universidad Europea de Madrid) Prof.ª Irene Castellón Masalles (Universidad de Barcelona) Prof.ª Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza (Universidad del País Vasco) Prof. Antonio Ferrández Rodríguez(Universidad de Alicante) Prof.ª Ana María García Serrano (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Prof. Koldo Gojenola Galletebeitia (Universidad del País Vasco) Prof. Xavier Gómez Guinovart (Universidad de Vigo) Prof. Julio Gonzalo Arroyo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Prof. José Miguel Goñi Menoyo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Prof. Joaquim Llisterri (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) Prof.ª M. Antonia Martí Antonín (Universidad de Barcelona) Prof.ª Lidia Ana Moreno Boronat (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) Prof. Lluis Padró (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña) Prof. Manuel Palomar Sanz (Universidad de Alicante) Prof.ª Natividad Prieto Sáez (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia) Prof. Germán Rigau (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña) Prof. Horacio Rodríguez Hontoria (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña) Prof. Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Universidad del País Vasco) Prof. L. Alfonso Ureña López (Universidad de Jaén) Prof.ª Mª Felisa Verdejo Maillo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Prof. Manuel Vilares Ferro (Universidad de La Coruña) Organising Committee Chairman: Mr. Jesús Antonio Cid Martínez, Academic Director at Instituto Cervantes Coordinator: Ms. Isabel Bermejo Rubio, Responsible for the Bureau of Spanish in the Information Society - OESI - at Instituto Cervantes Members: Ms. Eva Mª García García, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Ms. Raquel Tapias Aparicio, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Mr. John Michael Urresti Graña, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Collabators: Ms. Rosario Guijarro Huerta, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Ms. Eva Mª Gómez Gómez, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Further Information Further information will be soon available at the official website of the Conference: http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln. You may also contact the coordinator at any of the following addresses: Secretary of the 19th SEPLN Conference Conference coordinator: Ms. Isabel Bermejo Rubio Oficina del Español en la Sociedad de la Información C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Spain Tel.: +34 91 888 72 94 Fax: +34 91 888 18 26 E-mail: oesi at cervantes.es ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sat Mar 15 10:26:13 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:26:13 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop PAPILLON-2003 on Multilingual Lexical Databases Message-ID: ************************************************************* * * * Workshop PAPILLON-2003 on Multilingual Lexical Databases * * * * Last announcement (March 2003) * * * ************************************************************* Detailled announcement at http://bushido.imag.fr/papillon/ConsultInformations.po?docid=1631943 Venue: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Dates: 3-5 July 2003 Language: English Submission deadline: 31 March 2003 Notice of acceptance: 19 May 2003 Final version due: 9 June 2003 Multilingual lexical databases are databases for structured lexical data which can be used either by humans e.g. to define their own dictionaries or by natural language processing (NLP) applications. The 2003 Papillon workshop, the fourth in a series of workshops organized every year by the Papillon members, will aim at identifying problems relevant to the multilingual- lexical-database community. The workshop aims to promote exchanges between practitioners from several fields and is thus open to anybody working in a domain pertaining to lexical databases such as: databases, man-machine interface for dictionaries, data annotation, XML, standardization of dictionaries or lexical data; lexicography, translation, computational linguistics, etc. Contributions are welcome on the following items: databases, lexical data, human use and NLP use of multilingual lexical databases Contributions are encouraged which focus more on the Papillon project: Meaning-text theory and lexicography, proposals for collaboration with the Papillon project, summary/state of collaboration to the Papillon project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sat Mar 15 10:26:23 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:26:23 +0100 Subject: Conf: Eurospeech 2003 / Interspeech 2003 Message-ID: REMINDER: Full and final paper submission deadline: March 28, 2003 ======================================================================= Eurospeech 2003 / Interspeech 2003 September 1--4, 2003 Geneva, Switzerland CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR TUTORIALS CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS ISCA, toghether with the the Eurospeech 2003 /Interspeech 2003 organizing committee, would like to encourage submission of papers for the upcoming conference. The scientific topics are : * Linguistic Modelling of Spoken Language * Phonetics and Phonology * Speech Production * Speech Perception * Discourse and Dialogue * Signal Analysis, Processing and Feature Estimation * Speech Recognition and Understanding * Speaker Authentication * Speech Generation and Synthesis * Spoken Dialogue Systems * Speech Coding and Transmission * Resources, Assessment and Standards * Applications * Education * Other (please specify) No previously published papers should be submitted. Please follow the submission guidelines provided at the URL: http://www.eurospeech2003.org/papers/ TUTORIALS We encourage proposals for half-day pre-conference tutorials. Between 4 and 8 tutorials will be offered on August 31, 2003. Those interested in organizing a tutorial should send a one-page description to Andrzej Drygajlo (andrzej.drygajlo at epfl.ch), with cc to organisers at eurospeech2003.org by January 15. SPECIAL SESSIONS Eurospeech 2003 also welcomes proposals for special sessions. Each special session should consist of 6 invited papers. The topics of the special sessions should be important, new, emerging areas of interest to the signal processing community, yet have little overlap with the regular sessions. They could also be those investigated by members of other societies that are becoming of keen interest to the speech and language community. See the Eurospeech'03 web page at http://www.symporg.ch/eurospeech/Special_session.asp for guidelines. IMPORTANT DATES: Proposals for Tutorials due by: January 15, 2003 Proposals for Special Sessions due by: January 30, 2003 Full and final paper submission deadline: March 28, 2003 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: June 9, 2003 Early registration: before June 16th, 2003 Conference programme: as of July 15th, 2003 For further information, please refer to the conference web site, at the URL: http://www.eurospeech2003.org/ **** We apologize in advance should you receive **** **** multiple postings of this announcement **** -- Please see http://www.idiap.ch/local/mailing-lists/ for more infos on IDIAP Mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sat Mar 15 10:26:29 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:26:29 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 postes MdC : Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon Message-ID: Merci de donner la meilleure diffusion autour de vous pour ces 2 postes de MCF . ==================================================== Une version présentant une mise en page plus agréable de cette annonce est disponible à l'adresse suivante : http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/php/accueil2.php?page=1 -- Merci d'avance , Marc El-Beze. ==================================================== Postes MdC 0024 & 0336 en TAP/TALN au LIA Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon Pour ces 2 postes TALN/TAP, intitulés pour l'un « traitement automatique du langage naturel écrit ou oral » et pour l'autre « traitement automatique de la langue écrite ou orale », nous souhaitons les candidatures de chercheurs expérimentés dans l'un ou l'autre des domaines couverts par chacune des 2 équipes de recherche du LIA concernées par ces 2 postes, équipes dont un bref descriptif est donné plus bas. En ce qui concerne les thématiques d'enseignement, est attendue une capacité à couvrir les matières majeures enseignées en informatique (section 27). Les candidat(e)s à chacun des 2 postes veilleront à mettre en valeur au travers de leur expérience en matière d'enseignement quel peut être leur apport personnel au delà des matières classiques de la discipline. Pour cela, il leur est conseillé de visiter les pages suivantes : http://www.iup.univ-avignon.fr/formation/index.php http://www.cri.univ-avignon.fr/formations/format0.html#ufr6 ------------------------------------------------------------- TALN ------------------------------------------------------------- L'équipe "TALN" du LIA compte 1 PR, 1 MCF, et 4 Doctorants. http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/equipes/TALNE/index.html L'activité de cette équipe recouvre trois thèmes : l'indexation automatique et la recherche documentaire (et, de façon plus générale, la recherche d'information), la désambiguïsation sémantique en contexte, l'extraction de contenus à partir de documents textuels. Des systèmes opérationnels réalisés au LIA lui ont permis de participer à des campagnes d'évaluation internationales comme TREC, Amaryllis, Senseval et Romanseval. Dans le cadre d'un contrat européen d'une durée de 15 mois, le LIA a pris la responsabilité pour le français de la constitution d'un lexique sémantique multilingue. Il est notoire que la conjonction de ces thématiques rencontre un intérêt croissant dans le monde industriel (nos différents partenaires sont ou ont été Bertin Technologies, Xerox, MemoData, France Telecom, DATOPS, Acce, Proxima, etc.). Les chercheurs de l'équipe "TALN" travaillent sur diverses méthodes automatisées de classification, de segmentation et de structuration thématique de textes. Ces méthodes font l'objet d'évaluations en cours et ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives dans plusieurs cadres applicatifs : systèmes de questions / réponses, moteurs de recherche en fonction de profils spécifiques, moteurs interactifs etc. La plupart des problématiques liées à ces domaines de recherche font l'objet d'enseignements au sein de l'IUP et des différents DESS comme le DESS TAII (ingénierie et recherche documentaire, XML, analyse des données, technologies " web " ...) Mots clés : ================ TALN, Extraction de Contenus, Recherche d'information, Désambiguïsation sémantique en contexte, Classification et segmentation de textes. Contact : Marc El-Bèze, tél : 04 90 84 35 08 ============== mailto:marc.elbeze at lia.univ-avignon.fr ------------------------------------------------------------- TAP ------------------------------------------------------------- L'Equipe "Traitement Automatique de la Parole" s'intéresse à de nombreux aspects de ce domaine de recherche. Les pôles prioritaires concernent la reconnaissance de la parole et la reconnaissance du locuteur pour mener à l'indexation multimédia. Les recherches sont menées en collaboration avec de nombreux laboratoires français et étrangers, comme Eurecom, l'ENST, l'IRISA, l'ERM, l'IDIAP, l'EPFL... Mots clés : ================ Reconnaissance de la parole, Reconnaissance du locuteur, Indexation sonore, Structuration du document Contact : Jean-François Bonastre, tél 04 90 84 35 14 ============== mailto:Jean-Francois.Bonastre at lia.univ-avignon.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Sat Mar 15 10:26:36 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:26:36 +0100 Subject: Jobs: Research Assistant : Hamburg, Germany Message-ID: ========================================================================= Research Assistant to work on the DEVELOPMENT OF A RELATIONAL DATABASE OF MULTILINGUAL SPOKEN DISCOURSE 2 years full time Hamburg, Germany ========================================================================= The Sonderforschungsbereich "Mehrsprachigkeit" (special research centre on multilingualism) at the University of Hamburg (http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/SFB538/)) is looking for a research assistant to assist in the DEVELOPMENT OF A RELATIONAL DATABASE OF MULTILINGUAL SPOKEN DISCOURSE on the basis of XML coded transcriptions of spoken discourse. This is a two year contract. The succesful applicant is expected to have a university degree in computer linguistics or computer science. Experience with - relational database managment (SQL) - web-based interfaces for databases (PHP, ASP or similar) - XML (SAX, XSLT) - JAVA (Swing, JDBC) would be an advantage. For further information see http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/exmaralda/ Please send applications to the following address Prof. Dr. Jochen Rehbein, Stellvertrender Sprecher, Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit, Universitat Hamburg, Max-Brauer-Allee 60, D-22765 Hamburg. (For questions and clarifications, please write to the e-mail adress given below) ------------------------------ Thomas Schmidt SFB 538 'Mehrsprachigkeit' Max Brauer-Allee 60 22765 Hamburg Tel.: (040) 42838-6425 Fax.: (040) 42838-6116 thomas.schmidt at uni-hamburg.de http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/exmaralda ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Mar 19 16:59:41 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:59:41 +0100 Subject: Jobs: Ingenieur d'etudes CNRS : Toulouse Message-ID: L'Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et Sémantique, UMR 5610 du CNRS, Université de Toulouse Le Mirail (http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/) recrute un ingénieur d'étude CNRS en informatique. Merci de contacter Anne Condamines (mailto:anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr) si vous souhaitez davantage de précisions. Renseignements sur la procédure : http://sg-val.dsi.cnrs.fr/drhita/concoursita/2003/index.htm Date limite de retrait des dossiers : 3 avril 2003 à 17 heures. Profil pour un ingénieur d'étude en informatique BAP E - Informatique et calcul scientifique Emploi type : Ingénieur en calcul scientifique numéricien d'études Cet ingénieur s'intégrera principalement aux opérations de l'ERSS travaillant sur corpus et sa mission sera de développer des applications informatiques pour la linguistique et le Traitement Automatique des Langues. Activités : - concevoir, développer et maintenir des bases de données textuelles et lexicales ; - concevoir et développer des interfaces d'interrogation pour les bases de données ci-dessus et pour d'autres outils existants (conçus ou achetés) afin de les rendre accessibles à des linguistes non informaticiens ; - connecter des outils présents dans le laboratoire (conçus ou achetés) avec d'autres outils (étiqueteurs, par exemple) : constitution de passerelles entre ces outils ; - assurer la fiabilité et la sécurité du système ; - coordonner les activité d'exploitation du serveur ; - rédiger les documents de présentation et d'utilisation de ces systèmes ; - assurer la formation et l'assistance adaptées aux différents utilisateurs de ces systèmes ; - participer aux projets en linguistique informatique du laboratoire Compétences : - maîtriser les Systèmes de Gestion de Bases de Données relationnelles - maîtriser les procédures d'exploitation (applications client/serveur, CGI) et les standards d'échanges de données employés (XML) ; - connaître les composantes techniques des systèmes d'information : systèmes d'exploitation Unix (Linux) et Windows ; réseau... ; - reformuler une demande d'utilisateur en termes techniques ; - connaître les langages Perl, Java et/ou C++ ; - avoir une sensibilité aux problématiques linguistiques ; - maîtrise de l'anglais technique écrit et savoir communiquer à l'oral. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Mar 19 16:59:49 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:59:49 +0100 Subject: Appel: Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/iswc2003/index.html Workshop at ISWC 2003 International Semantic Web Conference Sanibel Island, Florida, 20-23 October 2003 Hamish Cunningham Atanas Kiryakov Ying Ding The Semantic Web aims to add a machine tractable, re-purposeable layer to compliment the existing web of natural language hypertext. In order to realise this vision, the creation of semantic annotation, the linking of web pages to ontologies, and the creation, evolution and interrelation of ontologies must become automatic or semi-automatic processes. In the context of new work on distributed computation, Semantic Web Services (SWSs) go beyond current services by adding ontologies and formal knowledge to support description, discovery, negotiation, mediation and composition. This formal knowledge is often strongly related to informal materials. For example, a service for multi-media content delivery over broadband networks might incorporate conceptual indices of the content, so that a smart VCR (such as next generation TiVO) can reason about programmes to suggest to its owner. Alternatively, a service for B2B catalogue publication has to translate between existing semi-structured catalogues and the more formal catalogues required for SWS purposes. To make these types of services cost-effective we need automatic knowledge harvesting from all forms of content that contain natural language text or spoken data. Other services do not have this close connection with informal content, or will be created from scratch using Semantic Web authoring tools. For example, printing or compute cycle or storage services. In these cases the opposite need is present: to document services for the human reader using natural language generation. This workshop will provide a forum for workers in the field of human language technology for the Semantic Web and for Semantic Web Services to present their latest results. The aim is to provide a snapshot of the state of the art, dealing with a wide range of issues, including but not limited to: * automatic and semi-automatic annotation of web pages; * semantic indexing and retrieval of documents, combining the strengths of IE and IR; * integration of data about language in language processing components with ontological data; * robustness across genres and domains; * ease of embedding in Semantic Web applications; * ontology learning, evolving and merging; * automatic web service description augmentation; * automatic semantic structure documentation; * language technology for automatic Web service discovery; * adaptation of generation techniques to SWS applications. The themes of the workshop have partly emerged from the Special Interest Group on Language Technologies and the Semantic Web (SIG5), part of the OntoWeb thematic network. Audience: The issues addressed by the workshop are at the core of the Semantic Web enterprise. The killer applications that demonstrate the potential of this technology to a mass market have yet to emerge, and will likely not do so until a much larger amount of data is available. The techniques covered by this workshop are one of the most important routes to generating this data. The workshop is relevant to: * researchers from the Human Language Technology areas; * researchers from the Ontology and Knowledge Acquisition and Management areas; * industrial technology providers involved in Knowledge Management, Information Integration, Information and Library Science, Web Services. Organizing Committee: Dr. Hamish Cunningham - http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish, hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk Atanas Kiryakov - http://www.sirma.bg/ak.htm, naso at sirma.bg Dr. Ying Ding - http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ying, ying.ding at uibk.ac.at May 15th 2003 deadline for submission of papers June 20th 2003 notification of acceptance July 15th 2003 final copy due 20-23 October 2003 conference The fee for the workshop will be $50. Participants will be required to register for the main ISWC2003 conference. Submissions: Submissions should be sent electronically in PDF format to the organising committee: hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk naso at sirma.bg ying.ding at uibk.ac.at Submitted papers should be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS): http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The emphasis during reviewing will be on content, not format, however. Programme Committee (* TO BE CONFIRMED): Alain Leger, France Telecom, France * Alexander Maedche, Robert Bosch Gmbh, Germany Asun Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK * Chen Chaomei, Drexel University, USA * Chen Hinchun, Arizona University, USA * Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA * Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA * David R. Karger, MIT, US * David Harper, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK * Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria Dieter Merkl, TU Vienna, Austria Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, IT * Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK * Jan Paralic, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia John Davies, British Telecom, UK * John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Lim Em Ping, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Maria Vargas-Vera, Open University, UK Marin Dimitrov, OntoText Lab, Bulgaria Mounia Lamas, Queen Marry University of London, UK * Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA * Nicola Guarino, CNR, IT * Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, GE * Robert Engels, CognIT, Norway Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium * Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Stefan Stab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Stefen Decker, University of California, USA * Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Werner Ceusters, L&C, BE * Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, UK York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK Yves Chiaramella, CLIPS-IMAG, 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 Wed Mar 19 16:59:57 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:59:57 +0100 Subject: Conf: EACL 2003 Message-ID: EACL 2003 in Budapest, April 12-17, 2003 Workshop Programme and Call for Participation Important dates: ---------------- Workshop dates: Apr 13-14, 2003 Conference dates: Apr 12-17, 2003 Important URLs: --------------- Registration: http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/Registration.html Main conference: http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/ Workshops: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops Workshop overview: ------------------ Workshop 01: "MT and other language technology tools; Improving MT through other language technology tools; Resources and tools for building MT" URL: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/progw01.html Organizer(s): Bente Maegaard Email: bente at cst.dk Date: April 13, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 02: "9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation" URL: http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~horacek/EACL-EWNLG03.html Organizer(s): Ehud Reiter Email: ereiter at csd.abdn.ac.uk Date: April 13+14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 03 [supported b y ELSNET]: "4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-03)" URL: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc03 Organizer(s): Silvia Hansen Email: hansen at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE Date: April 13+14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 04: "Language Modeling for Text Entry Methods" URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~compling/eaclws2003/ Organizer(s): Michael Kuhn Email: kuehn at uni-koblenz.de Date: April 14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 05: "The Computational Treatment of Anaphora" URL: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/eacl03ana.html Organizer(s): Rob Dale Email: rdale at ics.mq.edu.au Date: April 14, 2003 (morning) ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 06: "Dialogue Systems: interaction, adaptation and styles of management" URL: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roberta/eacl-w06.html Organizer(s): Kristiina Jokinen and Roberta Catizone Email: kjokinen at uiah.fi,R.Catizone at dcs.shef.ac.uk Date: April 13+14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 07 [supported by ELSNET]: "Evaluation Initiatives in Natural Language Processing: are evaluation methods, metrics and resources reusable?" URL: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~katerina/EACL03-eval Organizer(s): Katerina Pastra Email: e.pastra at dcs.shef.ac.uk Date: April 14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 08: "Computational Linguistics for South Asian Languages -- Expanding Synergies with Europe" URL: http://computing.open.ac.uk/Sites/EACLSouthAsia Organizer(s): Durgesh Rao and Pat Hall Email: drsystems at vsnl.net,p.a.v.hall at open.ac.uk Date: April 14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 09: "Workshop on Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing" URL: http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~laporte/fsw-cfp.htm Organizer(s): Eric Laporte and Ken Beesley Email: eric.laporte at univ-mlv.fr,Ken.Beesley at xrce.xerox.com Date: April 13+14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 10: "Language Technology and the Semantic Web: 3rd Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2003)" URL: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/NLPXML3.html Organizer(s): Nancy Ide and Graham Wilcock Email: ide at cs.vassar.edu,graham.wilcock at helsinki.fi Date: April 13, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 11: "Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Question-Answering" URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/NLP4QA/ Organizer(s): Bonnie Webber and Maarten de Rijke Email: bonnie at inf.ed.ac.uk,mdr at science.uva.nl Date: April 14, 2003 (afternoon) ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 12: "Morphological Processing of Slavic Languages" URL: http://nl.ijs.si/mpsl03/ Organizer(s): Tomaz Erjavec and Dusko Vitas Email: Tomaz.Erjavec at ijs.si,vitas at matf.bg.ac.yu Date: April 13, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Contact info: - for the workshops in general: steven.krauwer at elsnet.org - for individual workshops: workshop organizers - for the main conference: kindl at sztaki.hu - for registration: kindl at sztaki.hu _______________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Mar 19 17:00:04 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:00:04 +0100 Subject: Ecole: The 11th ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech Communication Message-ID: Apologies for multiple posting _______________________________________________________________________________________ FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for PARTICIPATION The 11th ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech Communication Topic: Language and Speech Technology in Language Learning Lille (France), Monday July 7 - Friday July 18, 2003 Organized by the University of Lille 3 We are happy to announce that registration for the 11th ELSNET Summer School is now open. For this school we have chosen a topic of great relevance to researchers and developers in Europe and in other multilingual environments: the use of language and speech technology in language learning, both of spoken and of written language. The goal of this workshop is to get young researchers on a track that will eventually contribute to an important application area. The underlying vision (or dream) is The automatic animated language tutor. Audience and aims: We see the school as mainly research and development oriented, and hence the primary audience are researchers, developers and integrators who will make our vision happen (rather than teachers who would use it). Both technological and pedagogical aspects will be taken into consideration The aims are: * to make the students familiar with the main principles and problems of language learning/teaching * to make them familiar with current best practice in computer assisted language learning * to make them familiar with the main challenges in computer assisted language learning Participants are expected to have a general computational background and some familiarity with language or speech research and/or processing. After completion of the summer school participants should be able to function in teams aimed at designing or implementing tools, environments or courses for Computer Assisted Language Learning (abbreviated CALL). Course programme: The provisional programme is available at http://www.elsnet.org/ess2003/schedule.html The 2-weeks programme comprises the following courses: * Introduction to CALL (Teacher: Jozef Colpaert, [Univ of Antwerp]) * Introduction to natural language processing for CALL (Teacher: Wolfgang Menzel [Univ of Hamburg], to be confirmed) * Introduction to speech processing for CALL (Teacher: Philippe Delcloque [MSEC Manchester]) * Using NLP tools in CALL (hands-on) (Teacher: Wolfgang Menzel [Univ of Hamburg], to be confirmed) * Using Speech tools in CALL (hands-on) (Teacher: Michael McTear [Univ of Ulster]) * CALL design and interfaces (Teacher: Philippe Delcloque [MSEC Manchester]) * Grammatical and morphological error diagnosis (Teacher: Lars Borin [Univ of Gothenburg]) * Systems for pronunciation training (Teacher: Anne-Marie Oster [KTH Stockholm]) * Building a grammatical CALL system (hands-on) (Teacher: Lars Borin [Univ of Gothenburg]) * Building a speech CALL system (hands-on) (Teacher: Michael McTear [Univ of Ulster]) All students attend the same full programme, except for the hands-on sessions, where students can sign up for either NLP or Speech oriented streams. In special student sessions students can present their own work. The presentations will be published on the ELSNET website. Please note that the number of places for this summer school is limited and that early registration is recommended. Fees: Category Registration fee (euro) Students 125 Academic staff 250 Commercial organisations 500 ELSNET members are entitled to a 20% discount Food and accommodation: The cost of accommodation (on campus) will be 30 euro per night. Meals will be free. Registration, grants and other information: For detailed information about registration procedures and deadlines, fees, accommodation, grant possibilities, venue, course and social programme, etc visit the ESS2003 website at http://www.univ-lille3.fr/ESS2003 [to be opened soon] or send an email to the local organizers at elsnetadmin at univ-lille3.fr A limited number of grants (covering the cost of accommodation) may be available for citizens of EU and associated countries. Details and application forms will be published on the website. For information about the programme visit the provisional ESS2003 website at http://www.elsnet.org/ess2003 or contact the chair of the programme committee, Steven Krauwer (steven.krauwer at elsnet.org) Please notice that the working language twill be English ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Widad Mustafa el Hadi (mustafa at univ-lille3.fr) Tel : 33 (0) 320 416 815 - Fax : 33 (0) 320 416 379 Groupe ILSI, UFR IDIST, Universite C.-de-Gaulle (Lille3) CERSATES (UMR 8529) B.P. 149, 59 653 Villeneuve D'Ascq Cedex, France ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Mar 19 17:00:11 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:00:11 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN03: Evaluation des analyseurs syntaxiques Message-ID: Conférence associée à TALN'2003 : Evaluation des analyseurs syntaxiques ------------ RAPPEL : DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : JEUDI 20 MARS 2003 ----------------- Comité d'organisation : ===================== Salah Ait-Mokhtar - Xerox, Grenoble Laura Monceaux - LIMSI, Orsay Patrick Paroubek - LIMSI, Orsay Jean-Marie Pierrel - LORIA, Nancy Isabelle Robba - LIMSI, Orsay Anne Vilnat - LIMSI, Orsay Comité Scientifique : =================== Anne Abeillé - LLF, Paris VII Salah Ait-Mokhtar - Xerox, Grenoble Philippe Blache - LPL, Aix-en-Provence John Carroll - University of Sussex, Royaume-Uni Khalid Choukri - ELRA, Paris Didier Bourigault - ERSS, Toulouse Veronique Gendner - TALANA, Paris VII & LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Michèle Jardino - LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Joseph Mariani - Ministère de la Jeunesse, de l'Education nationale et de la Recherche, Paris Laura Monceaux - LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Patrick Paroubek - LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Jean-Marie Pierrel - LORIA, Nancy Martin Rajman - EPFL, Lausanne Isabelle Robba - LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Jacques Vergne - GREYC, Caen Anne Vilnat - LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Eric Wehrli - LATL, Genève Pierre Zweigenbaum - STIM/AP-HP, Paris Thématique : ========== Depuis une dizaine d'années, avec l'apparition des outils de recherche d'information sur le web, de nouvelles techniques d'analyse syntaxique plus robustes ont vu le jour. Les analyseurs partiels construisent une analyse parfois minimale, incomplète, mais cela quels que soient la taille et le contenu des données à traiter. D'autre part, les analyseurs qui tentent de produire systématiquement une analyse "complète", ou la plus complète possible continuent d'améliorer leure résultats. Devant cette diversité d'offre en matière d'analyseur, il est intéressant voire primordial de proposer une méthodologie permettant de les évaluer. Celle-ci devant inclure : - la définition d'un format d'annotation permettant une large couverture des phénomènes syntaxiques; - le choix d'un corpus et son annotation manuelle (ou semi-automatique) dans ce format d'annotation; - la définition d'un ensemble de mesures permettant l'évaluation; - la mise au point des outils aussi bien d'annotation, que de transcription ou d'évaluation. Pour l'anglais, les métriques et les corpus annotés dans le cadre de la campagne PARSEVAL sont aujourd'hui remis en cause : ils ne sont ouverts ni à d'autres langues ni à de nouveaux formats d'analyse (voir l'atelier de la conférence LREC 2002 : Beyond Parseval towards improved evaluation measures for parsing systems ). Pour le français, la campagne d'évaluation EVALDA/EASY du programme technolangue (ministère délégué à la recherche et aux nouvelles technologies) qui débute servira de lieu d'expérimentation pour tester de nouvelles approches pour l'évaluation des analyseurs syntaxiques pour le français. Le but de cet atelier est de développer une réflexion autour des méthodologies d'évaluation, des corpus , des métriques, des outils et des formalismes pour l'évaluation des analyseurs syntaxiques du français. Modalités et format de soumission : ================================= Dans cet atelier, les contributions attendues pourront porter sur l'un des thèmes suivants : - les méthodologies d'évaluation - les métriques d'évaluation (choix, outils ...) - l'annotation des corpus (choix, outils ...) - les corpus - les outils de projection d'un analyseur dans un formalisme Des articles prospectifs sur l'évaluation et les analyseurs syntaxiques seront également les bienvenus. Les articles soumis devront être rédigés en français ou en anglais et ne pas dépasser 10 pages en suivant les consignes de la conférence principale TALN'2003 : http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/page/info-bienvenue.html Les soumissions devront parvenir au comité d'organisation avant le jeudi 20 mars 2003, sous forme électronique sous format pdf, adressées à mailto: monceaux at limsi.fr En cas d'impossibilité d'envoi électronique, une soumission "papier" pourra être retournée à l'adresse suivante : Laura Monceaux LIMSI - CNRS / Université Paris Sud Bat 508 - BP 133 91403 Orsay Cedex Calendrier : =========== Date limite de soumission : >>> Jeudi 20 mars 2003 <<< Notification aux auteurs : Lundi 14 avril 2003 Version finale (prêt-à-clicher) : Lundi 28 avril 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Mar 19 17:02:21 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:02:21 +0100 Subject: Appel: HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop (CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING PAPERS) Message-ID: == Apologies for multiple postings == Notice the April 1 Deadline for late-breaking short papers submissions! Notice the upcoming test period for the shared task on word alignment! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING PAPERS SECOND CALL FOR SHARED TASK PARTICIPATION Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond An HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop Edmonton, Alberta May 31, 2003 http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/wpt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Short (Late-Breaking) Papers at the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Text provide a venue for authors to present late-breaking results. Submitted Short Papers will be carefully evaluated on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Short papers are due on April 1, 2003 5pm your local time. Short papers are restricted to 4 pages in length. They must be submitted in camera-ready format; see www.hlt-naacl03.org/format.html. Short papers that are not in PDF or are incorrectly formatted may be rejected on that basis. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style files or MSWord equivalents available on the website. Submissions must describe original, completed, unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when appropriate. See full paper submission information for topics of interest. Reviewing will not be blind. Because we need camera-ready formatted papers, authors must include their identifying information on the paper. This is to accommodate the late-breaking format; we need time to review the papers and get the accepted papers to the printer in time. Note that notification date for acceptance and rejection is April 7, with final camera ready copy due on April 10. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SHARED TASK ON WORD ALIGNMENT All researchers who have a word alignment system available are invited to participate in the shared task, individually or as part of a team. Participants in the shared task will be provided with common sets of training data, consisting of Romanian-English and French-English parallel texts. Participants will be given approximately one month to train their systems with this data, and then previously held out test data will be released. Participants will run their alignment system on this test data and submit their results, which will be evaluated using a common set of metrics. Teams participating in the word alignment shared task are invited to submit short papers (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or evaluation methodology. Shared task timetable: Complete guidelines already available Training and trial data already available Test data March 18 Submission of results March 25 Results back to participants March 28 Submission of short papers April 1 (system descriptions) Last day to register for participation in the shared task: March 21. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GENERAL WORKSHOP INFORMATION The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers working on problems related to the creation and use of parallel text. Recent events have demonstrated once again the importance of inter-language communication, and reinforce the need for advances in machine translation (MT) and multi-lingual processing tools. The workshop will be centered around the problem of building and using parallel corpora, which are vital resources for efficiently deriving multi-lingual text processing tools. In addition to regular papers, the workshop also includes a shared task that will result in a comparative evaluation of word alignment techniques. We invite submissions of papers addressing any of the following issues: - Construction of parallel corpora, including the automatic identification and harvesting of parallel corpora from the Web. - Methods to evaluate the quality of parallel corpora and word alignments - Tools for processing parallel corpora, including automatic sentence alignment, word alignment, phrase alignment, detection of omissions and gaps in translations, and others - Using parallel corpora for data driven Machine Translation - Using parallel corpora for the derivation of language processing tools in new languages - Using parallel corpora for automatic corpora annotation - Language learning applied to parallel corpora - Translation memory systems as a source of aligned corpora While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora addressing languages with scarce resources. We expect to make arrangements with a journal in Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics for a special issue that will include selected papers from this workshop. Invited Speaker: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Shared Task: -=-=-=-=-=-= All researchers who have a word alignment system available are invited to participate in the shared task, individually or as part of a team. Participants in the shared task will be provided with common sets of training data, consisting of Romanian-English and French-English parallel texts. Participants will be given approximately one month to train their systems with this data, and then previously held out test data will be released. Participants will run their alignment system on this test data and submit their results, which will be evaluated using a common set of metrics. See the workshop website for details regarding the shared task. Submission format: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Submissions should consist of regular full papers of max. 7 pages, or late-breaking papers of max. 4 pages, formatted following the NAACL 2003 guidelines. In addition, teams participating in the word alignment shared task are invited to submit short papers (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or evaluation methodology. Send your submission (a ps or pdf file), prepared for anonymous review, to both: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, rada at cs.unt.edu and Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth, tpederse at d.umn.edu Important dates: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Deadline for regular paper submissions: March 10 (passed) Deadline for results submissions: March 25 (shared task) Deadline for late-breaking papers submissions: April 1 Deadline for short paper submissions: April 1 (shared task) Notification of acceptance - for regular papers:April 1 - for late-breaking papers: April 7 Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 10 Organization Committee: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth Program Committee: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lars Ahrenberg, Linkoping University Nicoletta Calzolari, University of Pisa Tim Chklovski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mona Diab, University of Maryland Ulrich Germann, Information Sciences Institute Daniel Gildea, University of Pennsylvania Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, University of Sao Paulo Nancy Ide, Vassar College Lucia Helena Machado Rino, Federal University of Sao Carlos Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Dan Melamed, New York University Magnus Merkel, Linkoping University Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton Grace Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen Franz Och, Information Sciences Institute Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University Kishore Papineni, IBM Jessie Pinkham, Microsoft Research Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO/TIM/ETI University of Geneva Florence Reeder, MITRE Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Antonio Ribeiro, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy Michel Simard, University of Montreal Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Arturo Trujillo, Canon Research Centre Europe Jean Veronis, University of Provence Clare Voss, Army Research Lab Dan Tufis, RACAI Romania Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Thu Mar 20 16:49:12 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:49:12 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN2003 : workshop TALN et multilinguisme : extension de la date limite Message-ID: [English version below] ***** Prolongation du deadline au 27 mars 2003 ***** ********************************************************************** Workshop sur le thème : "TALN et multilinguisme". Atelier associé à la conférence TALN 2003 http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/ Batz-sur-Mer, France 11-14 juin 2003 PROBLEMATIQUE Le multilinguisme est une dimension de plus en plus prise en compte dans la conception et le développement d'applications de traitement automatique du langage naturel. Or, prévoir l'adaptation des logiciels à différentes familles de langues a des répercussions tant sur la modélisation des données linguistiques que sur l'architecture des systèmes. Le but de cet atelier est de discuter des conséquences du multilinguisme dans les applications de TALN. Les thèmes concernés par l'atelier sont à la fois linguistiques et logiciels, on peut citer (liste non exhaustive) : - Modélisation des données linguistiques et généricité des formats. - Panorama des grands types de problèmes linguistiques rencontrés. - Création de ressources linguistiques à partir de corpus multilingues parallèles ou comparables. - Architectures des technologies de TALN pour le traitement de différentes familles de langues. - Techniques ou méthodes d'adaptation de technologies de TALN à de nouvelles langues. - Applications et outils de TALN prenant en compte la dimension multilingue. - Prise en compte des formats de codage des documents et des corpus multilingues. - Rapports d'expériences liées à cette problématique. - ... La problématique centrale de notre atelier est celle de la prise en compte par un système de TALN de la diversité linguistique. Cette problématique ne couvre pas la traduction automatique en tant que telle, mais elle pourrait concerner le problème de l'adaptation des systèmes de TA à plusieurs couples de langue. CALENDRIER - Date limite de soumission : 27/03/2003 - Notification d'acceptation aux auteurs : 14/04/2003 - Réception des versions finales des articles : 28/04/2003 FORMAT DE SOUMISSION DES ARTICLES - Langues : français ou anglais. - Taille : 10 pages au maximum. - Style : Times 12, espacement simple. - Format des documents : RTF, DOC, PS, PDF. - Format d'impression : A4 et non Lettre US. COMITE DE PROGRAMME : - Christian Boitet, GETA, Université de Grenoble (France) - Malek Boualem, France Télécom R&D (France) - Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA (France) - Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Emilie Guimier De Neef, France Télécom R&D (France) - Yannis Haralambous, ENST Bretagne (France) - Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University (Pays-Bas) - Guy Lapalme, RALI, Université de Montréal (Canada) - Tony McEnery, Lancaster University (UK) - Frédérique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Jean Véronis, DELIC, Université de Provence (France) - Jérôme Vinesse, France Télécom R&D (France) - Rémi Zajac, Systran Software (USA) MODELES DES DOCUMENTS Télécharger les modèles de documents: Latex Français: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_FR.tgz Latex Anglais: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_EN.tgz Word Français: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_FR.dot Word Anglais: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_EN.dot ADRESSE ELECTRONIQUE D'ENVOI DES SOUMISSIONS : - malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com ET - emilie.guimierdeneef at rd.francetelecom.com L'objet du message devra contenir : "Soumission TALN-Multilinguisme - Nom et prénom de l'auteur principal" CONTACT Pour toute information complémentaires, veuillez contacter : Malek Boualem ET/OU Emilie Guimier-De-Neef ------------------------------------------------------ France Télécom R&D - DMI/GRI Unité de R&D Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 / (33)(0)2.96.05.19.87 Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86 Email: malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com Email: emilie.guimierdeneef at rd.francetelecom.com ------------------------------------------------------ **** ENGLISH VERSION **** ***** Deadline extension to March 27, 2003 ***** ********************************************************************** Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Multilingualism In conjunction with TALN 2003 Conference : http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/ Batz-sur-Mer, France June 11-14, 2003 INTRODUCTION Multilingualism is a concern that is increasingly taken into account in the design and development of natural language processing applications. Anticipating the adaptation of linguistic software to different language families has repercussions not only on linguistic data representation but also on architecture of systems. The aim of the workshop is to enable participants to discuss about the consequences of multilingualism on NLP applications. The workshop topics concern both linguistic data and software; a non exhaustive list is: - Representation of linguistic data and genericity of formats. - Overview of the major linguistic problems in this domain. - Creation of linguistic resources from multilingual parallel corpora. - Architectures of NLP technologies for different language families. - Techniques or methods for adapting NLP technologies to new languages. - Applications and NLP tools taking into account the multilingual dimension. - Applications taking into account the encoding formats of documents and multilingual corpora. - Experiments related to this domain. - ... Our workshop mainly concentrates on problems related to the combination of NLP systems and linguistic diversity. This problematic does not concern machine translation in itself, but could deal with the adaptation of MT systems to several language pairs. IMPORTANT DATES - Papers due: March 27, 2003 - Notification of acceptance/rejection : April 14, 2003 - Deadline for camera-ready copy: April 28, 2003 SUBMISSION FORMAT - Languages : French or English. - Size : maximum 10 pages. - Style : Times 12, single-spaced. - Document format : RTF, DOC, PS, PDF. - Printing format : A4 (not US Letter) PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Christian Boitet, GETA, University of Grenoble (France) - Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D (France) - Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA (France) - Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Emilie Guimier De Neef, France Telecom R&D (France) - Yannis Haralambous, ENST Bretagne (France) - Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University (Pays-Bas) - Guy Lapalme, RALI, University of Montreal (Canada) - Tony McEnery, Lancaster University (UK) - Frédérique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Jean Véronis, DELIC, University of Provence (France) - Jérôme Vinesse, France Telecom R&D (France) - Rémi Zajac, Systran Software (USA) DOCUMENT TEMPLATES Document templates can be downloaded: French Latex: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_FR.tgz English Latex: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_EN.tgz French Word: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_FR.dot English Word: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_EN.dot E-MAILS FOR SUBMISSION SENDING : - malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com AND - emilie.guimierdeneef at rd.francetelecom.com The object of the message should be : "Submission NLP-Multilingualism - Surname and name of the main author" CONTACT For further information, please contact: Malek Boualem AND/OR Emilie Guimier-De-Neef ------------------------------------------------------ France Télécom R&D - DMI/GRI Natural Language Processing group 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 / (33)(0)2.96.05.19.87 Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86 Email: malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com Email: emilie.guimierdeneef at rd.francetelecom.com ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 25 14:30:23 2003 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:30:23 +0100 Subject: Conf: IWPT 2003 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:55:42 +0100 From: Guy Perrier Message-ID: <3E7B27EE.5030404 at loria.fr> X-url: http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ X-url: http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n IWPT 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 23-25 April 2003 Nancy, France http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ ~~~~ Nancy, "City of Art and History", the historical capital of Lorraine (the north-eastern part of France) welcomes you to the 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. The Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) in Nancy, France, will host the 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'03) from 23 to 25 April, 2003. IWPT'03 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997; Trento (Italy) in 2000, and Beijing (China) in 2001. ******************************************** * INVITED SPEAKERS: * * * * Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp) * * Eugene Charniak (Brown University) * * * ******************************************** Program: -------- Three days of invited talks, long papers, short papers and posters and discussions. invited talks: -------------- Eugene Charniak (Brown University), Syntax-based Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation Gregory Grefenstette (Claivoyance Corporation, Pittsburgh), Why Parse? Statistical Processing or Symbolic Processing. accepted papers: ---------------- Miguel A. Alonso, Víctor J. Díaz, Parsing Tree Adjoining Grammars and Tree Insertion Grammars with simultaneous adjunctions. Pierre Boullier, Supertagging: A non-Statistical Parsing-based Approach. Denis Béchet, Incremental parsing of Lambek calculus using proof-net interfaces. Pierre Boullier, Guided Earley Parsing. Anna Corazza, Parsing Strategies for the Integration of Two Stochastic Context-Free Grammars. James Henderson, Generative Versus Discriminative Models for Statistical Left-Corner Parsing. Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta, Probabilistic Parsing as Intersection. Khalil Sima'an, On Maximizing Metrics for Syntactic Disambiguation. Hiroyasu Yamada, Yuji Matsumoto, Statistical Dependency Analysis with Support Vector Machines. Gennaro Costagliola, Vincenzo Deufemia, Visual Language Editors based on LR Parsing Techniques. Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie, Combining Rule-based and Data-driven Techniques for Grammatical Relation Extraction in Spoken Language. Frederik Fouvry, Constraint relaxation with weighted feature structures. Chad Langley, Alon Lavie, Parsing Domain Actions with Phrase-Level Grammars and Memory-Based Learners. Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta, Stuart M. Shieber, Partially Ordered Multiset Context-Free Grammars and ID/LP Parsing. Joakim Nivre, An Efficient Algorithm for Projective Dependency Parsing. Kilian Foth, Wolfgang Menzel, Subtree Parsing to Speed up Deep Analysis. Accepted Poster Presentations ----------------------------- Philippe Blache, Meta-level constraints for representing interaction between linguistic domains. Vladimir Kadlec, Pavel Smrz, PACE --- Parser Comparison and Evaluation. Mi-Young Kim, Jong-Hyeok Lee, S_clause Segmentation for Efficient Syntactic Analysis in Long Sentences. Yong-Jae Kwak So-Young Park Hoojung-Chung Young-Sook Hwang Hae-Chang Rim, GLR Parser with Conditional Action Model using Surface Phrasal Types For Korean. Souha Hammami Mezghani, Chafik Aloulou, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, Implémentation du système MASPAR selon une approche multi-agent. Sanghamitra Mohanty, Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray, Intelligent Parsing in Natural Language Processing. [canceled] So-Young Park Yong-Jae Kwak Hoo-Jung Chung Young-Sook Hwang Hae-Chang Rim, Automatic Acquisition of Constraints for Efficient Korean Parsing. Tomasz Obrebski, Dependency parsing using dependency graph for storing alternative structures. For more details, see the Programme page at http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ Registration: ------------- Early registration is possible until March 28; after that date the registration fee will be higher. Please register online using the IWPT'03 web pages at http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ At the web site you can also find information about accomodation and other relevant information. IWPT'03 Organization: --------------------- General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Programme Chair: Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Local Organization Chair: Guy Perrier (LORIA, Nancy, France) Further information ------------------- Additional information about IWPT'03 is available at the URL: http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ At the SIGPARSE site at http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ information is available about previous IWPTs, proceedings, books based on IWPTs, and SIGPARSE related activities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 25 18:20:10 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:20:10 +0100 Subject: Appel: EUROLAN'03 : Ontologies and Information Extraction Message-ID: We appologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers ===================================================================== Ontologies and Information Extraction International Workshop held as part of the EUROLAN'03 Summer School July 28 - August 8, 2003 Bucarest, Romania Call for Papers Information Extraction systems were designed to filter, to select and to classify the increasing amount of information available nowadays, mainly on the Web. Most of them were based on shallow natural language processing techniques, but semantics was not really used, due to the unavailability of generic ontologies. During last years, some generic ontologies become available and a lot of research projets tried to take into account semantic aspects to obtain more precise results for IE systems. Meanwhile, important efforts concentrate on developping tools for semi- automatic building of domain-specific ontologies, based on IE and text- mining techniques. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between leading names in the field and researchers involved in the development of ontology-based IE systems or semi-automatic tools for building ontologies. We would like to invite researchers, master and Ph.D. students to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - semantic annotation; - content-based indexing and retrieval; - robust analysis of language data; - text mining; - platforms for semi-automatic ontology extraction; - formalisms for ontology representations. Submission Requirements Authors are invited to submit a 4-6 pages extended abstract in electronic form (postscript or PDF) by 22th of April 2003. Authors of accepted papers should submit the final version in electronic format not later than 15th of June. The documents must be in either postscript or pdf format (PDF is encouraged, but postscript documents are acceptable as well). If you have problems delivering your paper in one of these formats, please contact the organising comittee. Maximum length of paper should be about 10 pages. This workshop uses the same guidelines as EACL-2003. The instructions can be found at http://ic.epfl.ch/~pallotta/ontoIE/. Please do not insert page numbers, headers or footers. If you have any problem following the style please contact the organising committee as soon as possible. All the papers should be send to Amalia.Todirascu at utt.fr =============================================================== Important Dates Submission Deadline: 22th April 2003 Notification of Acceptance: 10th May 2003 Camera-ready Papers: 15th June 2003 Demos of working or under development systems are encouraged. ==================================== Registration People wanting to attend the workshop must be registered at the Eurolan'03 School. Participation to the workshop is open to all Eurolan'03 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made available. Authors of the papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will benefit of early registration fee no matter the date they register. ==================================== Programme Commitee Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Roberto Basili (University of Rome 2 "Tor Vergata", Italy) (to be confirmed) Bill Black (UMIST, Manchester, UK) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany) Amedeo Cappelli (University of Pisa, Italy) Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Malvina Nissim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) Fabio Rinaldi (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy, France) Patrick Ruch (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK) Steffen Staab (AISB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Valentin Tablan (University of Sheffield, UK) Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) Organising commitee Amalia Todirascu (Technological University of Troyes, France) Vincenzo Pallotta (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 25 18:20:20 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:20:20 +0100 Subject: Conf: 2nd International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon Message-ID: ============================================================================ 2nd International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon (Endorsed by ACL SIGLEX) ============================================================================ First call for participation May 15-17, 2003 School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Geneva (Switzerland) http://issco-www.unige.ch/gl2003.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPIC The aim of this workshop is to bring together diverse contributions in philosophy, linguistics, computer science and lexicography to explore the lexicon from the point of view of generativity. The discussions will be centered, but are not limited to, the newly emerging view of Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovky, 1995). Topics include: - Philosophical Foundations of a Generative Approach - Representation of Word Meaning - Generative Lexicon Theory - Analysis of Linguistic Phenomena - Building Lexical Resources - Exploiting Lexical Resources in NLP Applications - Lexical Rules - Framework for Lexical Semantics - Critical Perspectives In this second workshop we would like to keep all the above perspectives, but put more of the focus on available on-line lexical resources in order to compare experience. The discussions will be centered, but not limited to, the following topics: * Building new resources * Acquiring lexical information * Maintaining resources * Representing lexical information (i.e. polysemy, collocation links, multiword expressions, predicate-argument structure) * Using lexical information in applications * Specialization and customization for specific applications * Links between different frameworks * Sharing lexical resourcesBuilding Lexical Resources * Multilinguality in the lexicon * Standardization and evaluation The conference will be held over a period of two and a half days. Oral presentations (30 min) and poster presentations are foreseen. Invited speakers include: Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) Ann Copestake (Cambridge University, Cambridge) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University) Charles J. Fillmore(International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley) Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University,Brandeis). GL2003 is: - founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (FNRS) and the Communications Research Laboratory (Japan) - hosted by University of Geneva, School of Translation and Interpretation, TIM/ISSCO (Switzerland). Organizers: Pierrette Bouillon (School of Translation and Interpretation, TIM/ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland) Kyoko Kanzaki (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan) Program Committee: Susan Armstrong (University of Geneva) Toni Badia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Sabine Bergler (Concordia University, Montreal) Federica Busa (MIT, Sloan school of Management) Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, Cambridge) Laurence Danlos (University of Paris VII, Paris) Pierre Frath (Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg) Charles J. Fillmore (International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley) Sandiway Fong (NEC, Princeton) Thierry Fontenelle (Microsoft, Seattle) Jacques Jayez (EHESS-CELITH, Paris) Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratory, Kyoto) Adam Kilgarriff (ITRI, University of Brighton, Brighton) Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh) Andrei Popescu-Belis (ISSCO/TIM, Geneva) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Boston) Pascale Sebillot (Irisa, Rennes) Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Seattle) Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, Delft) The GL2003 program and registration form are now available at: ============================================================================== http://issco-www.unige.ch/gl2003.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 Mar 25 18:20:31 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:20:31 +0100 Subject: ATALA: journee : recherche d'information Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------- JOURNEES de l'ATALA - APPEL A COMMUNICATION ---------------------------------------------------- Samedi 17 mai 2003 ENST, rue Barrault, Paris 13eme Des requêtes aux questions : nouvelle perspective pour la recherche d'information ? Organisée par Brigitte Grau (LIMSI) et Olivier Ferret (CEA-LIST) Face à une question telle que «Quelle est la voiture la plus chère du monde ?», les moteurs de recherche traditionnels renvoient l'ensemble des documents les plus fortement liés aux mots de la question, en sélectionnant éventuellement un passage, mais laissent à la charge de l'utilisateur la tâche d'explorer ces documents afin d'y trouver la réponse. L'introduction de la tâche «Question Answering» lors de l'évaluation TREC8 (Text REtrieval Conference), en 1999, est révélatrice du besoin sans cesse croissant de disposer de systèmes de recherche d'information allant au delà de la simple recherche documentaire habituellement proposée. Cette pression a conduit au développement de systèmes capables d'extraire les parties des documents les plus pertinentes par rapport à une question posée, en proposant directement une réponse lorsqu'il s'agit d'une question factuelle ou un résumé si la requête est de nature thématique. Les systèmes développés dans le cadre des évaluations TREC de ces dernières années représentent un premier stade dans la problématique d'une recherche d'information axée sur la notion de question/réponse. Cette problématique, esquissée dans un roadmap récent (cf. http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/duc/roadmapping.html), met en avant des fonctionnalités nouvelles ou encore assez embryonnaires dans les systèmes de recherche d'information actuels: évaluation de l'existence d'une réponse à une question dans une base de textes, synthèse de réponses multiples intra ou inter-documents, dialogue d'aide à la formulation de requête ou encore capacités de compréhension de texte permettant par exemple de reconnaître des reprises anaphoriques ou de juger de l'éventuelle incompatibilité de réponses multiples. Ces nouvelles fonctionnalités imposent aux systèmes de recherche d'information de mener une analyse plus en profondeur à la fois des requêtes qui leur sont adressées et des documents au sein desquels ils doivent chercher les informations permettant d'y répondre. C'est pourquoi la problématique des systèmes de question/réponse se situe à l'intersection de plusieurs domaines: elle possède bien entendu un ancrage originel fort dans le domaine de la recherche d'information mais elle fait aussi appel de façon importante au traitement automatique des langues (TAL) ainsi que plus ponctuellement à des domaines tels que l'apprentissage automatique. Typiquement, un système de question/réponse s'articule ainsi autour d'un moteur de recherche traditionnel, enrichi en amont par un module d'analyse des questions et en aval par des modules robustes d'analyse des documents assurant l'extraction de passages réponses en mêlant l'exploitation de traits linguistiques, aussi bien de nature morphologique, syntaxique ou sémantique, et l'utilisation de critères numériques, plus classiques en recherche d'information. De ces spécificités se dégagent plusieurs axes fort de la problématique question/réponse telle qu'elle est envisagée actuellement. Le premier de ces axes est le fait que l'analyse des requêtes est considérée comme une fonction importante visant à déterminer les intentions de l'utilisateur, soit le but de sa recherche, et non plus seulement à produire un ensemble de mots-clés. L'impact de cette analyse sur les résultats de la recherche a bien entendu pour objectif d'inciter les utilisateurs à formuler leurs requêtes sous une forme suffisamment riche, en l'occurrence des questions en langue naturelle, pour permettre la mise en évidence de l'objet de leur recherche. Le second axe concerne la nécessaire robustesse des modules linguistiques d'analyse des documents. Le problème des systèmes de question/réponse a été exploré dès les premiers travaux en TAL (Lehnert 1977) mais sur des domaines limités seulement. Actuellement, même si le cas de figure des domaines fermés demeure, comme avec les FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), l'intérêt se porte majoritairement sur des systèmes de question/réponse en domaine ouvert répondant à des questions de nature factuelle ou encyclopédique à partir de très grosses base de textes, voire du WEB. Dans ce cadre, il n'est pas possible de poser de restrictions a priori tant pour ce qui est des domaines abordés que des types de textes traités. Il s'agit là d'un enjeu important pour le TAL auquel peut contribuer de façon significative l'apprentissage automatique. Un dernier axe de cette nouvelle problématique de la recherche d'information, en relation étroite avec le précédent, concerne la capacité des systèmes à auto-évaluer leurs résultats et à utiliser différents niveaux de traitement. Être confronté à des documents sans possibilité de contrôle quant à leur nature ou leur sujet signifie que les modules d'analyse des documents les plus sophistiqués, donc les plus fragiles, sont parfois mis en défaut et produisent des résultats moins pertinents que ceux issus de modules moins élaborés mais plus robustes. La capacité à déterminer lorsqu'un tel cas de figure se produit et à le gérer est sans doute une des clés du succès de l'utilisation du TAL en recherche d'information. Son impact sur l'architecture des systèmes développés est particulièrement important. Alors qu'une évaluation des systèmes de question/réponse en Français est en cours de préparation dans le cadre du récent appel Technolangue des ministères de la Recherche et l'Industrie, l'objectif de cette journée de l'ATALA est de faire le point sur l'état actuel des recherches concernant la problématique question/réponse et de présenter les travaux déjà réalisés dans ce domaine, en particulier dans la sphère francophone, ou les travaux y contribuant directement. Plus spécifiquement, les propositions de communication pourront présenter des systèmes de question/réponse dans leur ensemble ou bien des traitements constitutifs de tels systèmes pourvu qu'ils soient replacés dans la problématique question/réponse. Parmi ces traitements, on peut notamment citer: - analyse de questions: typologie de questions, extraction de l'objet de la question, de son contexte, de contraintes sémantiques - reconnaissance d'entités nommées:en domaine ouvert, typage fin - extraction de passages - similarité de représentations syntaxiques, partielles ou complètes - outils terminologiques: extraction et reconnaissance de termes et de leurs variantes - appariement question - passage de texte fondés sur des traits linguistiques: traits morphologiques, syntaxiques ou sémantiques - extraction et justification des réponses: patrons de réponse, inférences, paraphrase ? La cible privilégiée de cette journée est constituée par des travaux portant sur des bases textuelles importantes ou à partir du WEB mais les systèmes de question/réponse destinés à des domaines restreints ou couplés à des bases de connaissances ou des bases de données peuvent également être concernés dans la mesure où certains traitements, tels que l'analyse de questions par exemple, sont similaires. Les propositions de communication pourront également aborder des thèmes plus transversaux en relation avec les systèmes de question/réponse, thèmes parmi lesquels: - l'apprentissage automatique; que ce soit pour acquérir sur une large échelle des ressources utilisables par un système de question/réponse ou plus directement, pour apprendre à sélectionner et extraire la réponse à une question; - le multilinguisme: difficulté de passer d'une langue à une autre, sachant que la plupart des systèmes ont été développés pour l'anglais; possibilité de poser une question dans une langue et de chercher la réponse dans des documents écrits dans une autre langue; - le WEB: utilisation du WEB en tant que source de connaissances ou de réponses; spécificité de la recherche de réponses sur le WEB; - le multi-document: fusion et cohérence de réponses multiples. Soumission: résumé de 2 à 3 pages. Nous demandons aux auteurs de préciser si leur soumission : 1) concerne des travaux en cours, ou des prises de position; 2) des travaux aboutis du point de vue théorique ou appliqué. Soumission (modalités) Un résumé de 1 à 2 pages doit être envoyé avant le 22 avril 2003 par courrier électronique en format text, .rtf, .doc ou .pdf à : Brigitte Grau : Brigitte.Grau at limsi.fr et Olivier Ferret: olivier.ferret at cea.fr Les notifications d'acceptation seront données pour le 5 mai 2003. Groupe LIR - LIMSI BP 133, 91403 Orsay Cedex tel. 01 69 85 80 03, fax 01 69 85 80 88 et Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise (IIE) 18 allée Jean Rostand, 91025 Evry Cedex tel. 01 69 36 73 44, fax 01 69 36 73 09 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 25 18:20:42 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:20:42 +0100 Subject: Appel: ISKO Conference (Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society) Message-ID: Apologies for multiple posting ********************************************************************************* Eighth International ISKO Conference First Call for papers The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will hold its 8th International ISKO Conference (ISKO 8) in London, England, July 13th-16th 2004. The conference will be hosted by the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. The theme of the conference is: Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society The keynote address will be delivered by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information. Papers addressing Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society from any of the following interrelated perspectives are invited: · Global Users and uses of Knowledge Organization · Theories of Knowledge and Knowledge Organization: feasibility of universal solutions · Linguistic and cultural approaches to Knowledge Organization: cross-cultural, cross-language and multilingual information retrieval · Information Policies, Management, Interoperability and Maintenance of Information Systems · Knowledge Organization in corporate information systems · Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation · Knowledge Organization of Universal and Special Systems · Knowledge Organization of non-print information: sound, image , multimedia &c. Academics, practitioners and researchers involved in knowledge organization are invited to submit abstracts of between 1500 and 2000 words by September 30th 2003 to Professor I.C. McIlwaine, Programme Chair (see contact information below). Abstracts should reflect the theme of the conference and each should indicate into which of the above categories it falls. Submissions for poster sessions are also invited, again reflecting the above, and an outline description of the projected format, should be supplied. These should also be submitted by September 30th 2003 and relate to the same criteria. A limited number of small bursaries will be available for students who submit outstanding proposals. An international programme committee will review the abstracts, and authors will be notified of decisions by December 1st 2003. The deadline for submission of papers for the printed conference proceedings will be March 1st 2004. The programme committee reserves the right to judge abstracts as more appropriate for poster sessions in preference to open presentations. All abstracts should be submitted by e-mail as rtf attachments ... [Susan/Aida to decide method] Venue of the conference: University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Conference chair: Vanda Broughton Programme chair: Ia McIlwaine ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Widad Mustafa el Hadi (mustafa at univ-lille3.fr) Tel : 33 (0) 320 416 815 - Fax : 33 (0) 320 416 379 Groupe ILSI, UFR IDIST, Universite C.-de-Gaulle (Lille3) CERSATES (UMR 8529) B.P. 149, 59 653 Villeneuve D'Ascq Cedex, France ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 25 18:20:49 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:20:49 +0100 Subject: Conf: IWPT 2003 Message-ID: C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n IWPT 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 23-25 April 2003 Nancy, France http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ ~~~~ Nancy, "City of Art and History", the historical capital of Lorraine (the north-eastern part of France) welcomes you to the 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. The Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) in Nancy, France, will host the 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'03) from 23 to 25 April, 2003. IWPT'03 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997; Trento (Italy) in 2000, and Beijing (China) in 2001. ******************************************** * INVITED SPEAKERS: * * * * Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp) * * Eugene Charniak (Brown University) * * * ******************************************** Program: -------- Three days of invited talks, long papers, short papers and posters and discussions. invited talks: -------------- Eugene Charniak (Brown University), Syntax-based Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation Gregory Grefenstette (Claivoyance Corporation, Pittsburgh), Why Parse? Statistical Processing or Symbolic Processing. accepted papers: ---------------- Miguel A. Alonso, Víctor J. Díaz, Parsing Tree Adjoining Grammars and Tree Insertion Grammars with simultaneous adjunctions. Pierre Boullier, Supertagging: A non-Statistical Parsing-based Approach. Denis Béchet, Incremental parsing of Lambek calculus using proof-net interfaces. Pierre Boullier, Guided Earley Parsing. Anna Corazza, Parsing Strategies for the Integration of Two Stochastic Context-Free Grammars. James Henderson, Generative Versus Discriminative Models for Statistical Left-Corner Parsing. Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta, Probabilistic Parsing as Intersection. Khalil Sima'an, On Maximizing Metrics for Syntactic Disambiguation. Hiroyasu Yamada, Yuji Matsumoto, Statistical Dependency Analysis with Support Vector Machines. Gennaro Costagliola, Vincenzo Deufemia, Visual Language Editors based on LR Parsing Techniques. Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie, Combining Rule-based and Data-driven Techniques for Grammatical Relation Extraction in Spoken Language. Frederik Fouvry, Constraint relaxation with weighted feature structures. Chad Langley, Alon Lavie, Parsing Domain Actions with Phrase-Level Grammars and Memory-Based Learners. Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta, Stuart M. Shieber, Partially Ordered Multiset Context-Free Grammars and ID/LP Parsing. Joakim Nivre, An Efficient Algorithm for Projective Dependency Parsing. Kilian Foth, Wolfgang Menzel, Subtree Parsing to Speed up Deep Analysis. Accepted Poster Presentations ----------------------------- Philippe Blache, Meta-level constraints for representing interaction between linguistic domains. Vladimir Kadlec, Pavel Smrz, PACE --- Parser Comparison and Evaluation. Mi-Young Kim, Jong-Hyeok Lee, S_clause Segmentation for Efficient Syntactic Analysis in Long Sentences. Yong-Jae Kwak So-Young Park Hoojung-Chung Young-Sook Hwang Hae-Chang Rim, GLR Parser with Conditional Action Model using Surface Phrasal Types For Korean. Souha Hammami Mezghani, Chafik Aloulou, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, Implémentation du système MASPAR selon une approche multi-agent. Sanghamitra Mohanty, Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray, Intelligent Parsing in Natural Language Processing. [canceled] So-Young Park Yong-Jae Kwak Hoo-Jung Chung Young-Sook Hwang Hae-Chang Rim, Automatic Acquisition of Constraints for Efficient Korean Parsing. Tomasz Obrebski, Dependency parsing using dependency graph for storing alternative structures. For more details, see the Programme page at http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ Registration: ------------- Early registration is possible until March 28; after that date the registration fee will be higher. Please register online using the IWPT'03 web pages at http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ At the web site you can also find information about accomodation and other relevant information. IWPT'03 Organization: --------------------- General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Programme Chair: Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Local Organization Chair: Guy Perrier (LORIA, Nancy, France) Further information ------------------- Additional information about IWPT'03 is available at the URL: http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ At the SIGPARSE site at http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ information is available about previous IWPTs, proceedings, books based on IWPTs, and SIGPARSE related activities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 25 18:20:53 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:20:53 +0100 Subject: Conf: journees Traductibilite et/ou Modelisation Message-ID: Traductibilité et/ou Modélisation 27 et 28 mars 2003 Journées organisées par le Centre Tesnière Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon Faculté des Lettres, 30, rue Mégevand Salon Préclin Responsable : Sylviane Cardey-Greenfield Jeudi 27 mars 10h Ouverture Sylviane Cardey (France) 10h15 " Chimères technolectiques " Yves Gentilhomme (Fondateur du centre Tesnière, France) 10h45 "Clauses with the conjunction "hogy": a challenge to the Hungarian-to-French translation" Gábor Kata (Hongrie) 11h15 " Peut-on traduire les anthroponymes ? " Jean Tournier (France) Pause déjeuner 14h " Square - Absolute Translate Partenaire de la communication internationale " Pierre Picard (France- Absolute Translate) 14h30 " Le symbole et son interprétation : richesses et difficultés " Joël Garnier (France) 15h Conférence projet Aurore et Centre Tesnière " Les fonctions lexicales[= FL] comme instrument de traduction flexible " Igor Mel'cuk (Canada) Vendredi 28 mars 9H "La sémantique de l'objet : l'avantage du traitement probabiliste " Sylvie Della Santa (France) 9h30 " Explication d'un apparent paradoxe linguistique : la traduction d'un langage maternel dans ce même langage " Yves Gilli (France) 10h " Difficultés de la traduction: ponoc en tant qu'expression de la réserve du rapporteur " Anna Dutka-Mankowska (Pologne) Pause 11h " Semantic universals and translation : a case in point from arabic " Farouk Bouhadiba (Algérie) 11h30 " De la traduction humaine à la TA : les expressions figées françaises traduites en chinois " Hsiang-I Lin (Taïwan) 12h " Du concept au mot dit ou traduit : étude neurolinguistique " Armelle Jacquet (France) Pause déjeuner 14h " Observations sur la systématique des langues - Exemples arabes " André Roman (France) 14h 30 " Les principales difficultés de la traduction humaine et/ou automatique, l'exemple du coréen/français " EunSoon You (Corée) 15h " Les Divergences entre les langues " Mehand Iheddadene (France-Télécom) 15h30 " La création et la gestion de bases terminologiques multilingues, éléments essentiels de la traduction et de la néologie " Igor Skouratov (Russie) 16h " Quels types de données pour la traduction automatique de l'adjectif qualificatif dans les groupes Adj Nom / Nom Adj : vers une approche ontologique et contextuelle " Izabella Thomas (France) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Professeur Sylviane CARDEY Directrice du Centre de recherche en linguistique Lucien Tesniere Faculte des Lettres, Email : sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr 30, rue Megevand, Tel: +33 (0)3 81 66 53 94 25030 BESANCON Cedex, Fax: +33 (0)3 81 66 53 00 FRANCE http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Mar 31 16:59:32 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:59:32 +0200 Subject: Appel: EURALEX 2004 Message-ID: **************************************************************************** This call is being sent to several lists in both English and French. We apologise for cross-postings. Cet appel sera envoyé à plusieurs listes en anglais et français. Nous nous excusons pour les envois multilples. **************************************************************************** EURALEX 2004 1ère Appel à Communications Le 11ème congrès international d'EURALEX aura lieu à Lorient, France, du 6 au 10 juillet 2004. Il sera organisé par la Faculté de Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l'Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient. Le congrès EURALEX réunit lexicographes professionnels, éditeurs, chercheurs, universitaires, et toute personne intéressés par les dictionnaires de tous types. Le programme comprendra des conférences plénières, des sessions parallèles sur les thèmes énumérés ci-dessous, des démonstrations de logiciels, des travaux dirigés d'avant-congrès, des ateliers spécialisés, d'une exposition de livres et de logiciels, et des activités de détente pour les participants et leurs invités. Thèmes Les communications, les communications affichées (posters), et les démonstrations de logiciels peuvent être proposés sur tous les aspects de la lexicographie et, entre autres, les thèmes suivants qui sont au centre du congrès : 1. Lexicographie et Lexicologie Computationnelle 2. Processus d'élaboration des dictionnaires 3. Rapports sur des projets lexicographiques et lexicologiques 4. Lexicographie Bilingue 5. Lexicographie pour Langues de Spécialité- Terminologie et Terminographie 6. Lexicographie historique et savante et Étymologie 7. Utilisation des dictionnaires 8. Phraséologie et Collocation 9. Questions lexicologiques ayant une pertinence lexicographique 10. Autres thèmes Les thèmes directeurs n'excluent pas les autres thèmes lexicographiques : les articles, communications affichées et démonstrations correspondant aux thèmes du congrès, mais qui n'entrent pas dans les catégories 1-9, seront cependant examinés pour présentation éventuelle. Communications Les présentations individuelles ne dépasseront pas 20 minutes et seront suivies de 10 minutes de discussion. Communications courtes et présentations rapides de projets : il sera possible de faire de courtes communications et des présentations rapides de projets. Le temps imparti à chaque présentation sera de 20 minutes suivi de 10 minutes de discussion. Les communicants pourront faire leur présentation dans la langue de leur choix mais il n'est malheureusement pas prévu d'interprétation. Démonstrations de logiciels Toute démonstration bien préparée de logiciels ainsi que toute présentation de dictionnaires électroniques, de corpus, d'outils, etc. sera particulièrement bienvenue. Ces présentations disposeront d'un créneau de 20 minutes lors du congrès (il est possible de les faire deux fois). Il sera possible d'utiliser les moyens techniques de l'université. Communications affichées Une session de communications affichées est prévue. Les installations adéquates seront mises à disposition. Des panneaux seront disponibles. Soumission des propositions Les soumissions pourront concerner soit des communications orales, soit des démonstrations de logiciels, soit des posters. Chaque proposition sera examinée par deux ou trois membres du comité de lecture. Le programme sera établi par le comité de programmation. Les propositions de démonstrations de logiciels incluront une description des fonctions, l'approche sous-jacente et l'utilisation du logiciel, éventuellement une adresse internet et la configuration informatique nécessaire. Il est demandé aux auteurs d'envoyer 5 copies papier de leur proposition avant le 30 octobre 2003. Il leur est possible de soumettre leur proposition par email mais la procédure papier en 5 exemplaires est obligatoire. Format : Communication orales : 6-8 pages, interligne double ; Démonstrations de logiciels : 4 pages, interligne double ; Comminications affichées : 1-2 pages, interligne double ; 1ère page : Titre de l'article/démonstration/de logiciel/affiche ; - Noms, université(s)/entreprise(s) et adresse(s) de l'auteur/des auteurs ; - Résumé (10-15 lignes) ; - Coin supérieur droit : indiquer la catégorie thématique (si la proposition ne correspond pas à l'une des principales catégories, utiliser 10). Les auteurs dont la proposition sera acceptée recevront une feuille de style pour la préparation de la version finale (et électronique) qui sera publiée dans les Actes immédiatement avant le congrès. Les articles issus de communications orales auront jusqu'à 10 pages et ceux issus des démonstrations de logiciels environ 5 pages, dans une section différente des Actes. Dates importantes 30 Octobre 2003 : date limite pour l'envoi aux organisateurs des versions préliminaires des articles. 1er février : envoi de l'acceptation ou du refus de la proposition. 15 mars : date limite pour l'envoi des articles prêts à la reproduction pour la publication des Actes. Contact Organisateurs du Congrès EURALEX 2004 Dr. Geoffrey Williams Faculté de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay B.P. 92116 56321 Lorient cedex France Email : elx2004 at univ-ubs.fr Adresse internet : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004 Les informations présentées sur ce site seront régulièrement mises à jour. Comité de programme : Geoffrey Williams (F), Anna Braasch (DK), Frantisek ?ermák (CZ), Krista Varantola (FIN) et Henri Béjoint (F). Les lecteurs des propositions comprendront les membres du comité de programmation, les membres du bureau d'EURALEX et d'autres experts. Travaux dirigés d'avant-congrès : Des travaux dirigés d'avant-congrès seront organisés. Les thèmes seront annoncés plus tard. Expositions : une exposition de livres et de logiciels sera organisée pendant les pauses-café lors du congrès. Il est possible de faire librement, pour ceux dont la proposition n'a pas été acceptée, des démonstrations de logiciels. Mais il leur faudra prévoir leur propre PC ou ordinateur portable car ils ne recevront pas d'assistance technique. Inscription : Les frais d'inscription seront annoncés plus tard. Les membres d'EURALEX ainsi que ceux s'inscrivant avant la date limite bénéficieront d'un tarif privilégié. Pour les autres, les frais seront plus élevés. Logement : L'organisation du logement se fera directement par l'Office du Tourisme de Lorient dans des hôtels du centre-ville et aussi dans des chambres bon marché. L'université se trouve à environ 30 mn à pied du centre-ville et à 10 mn en bus. Pour plus d'informations, contacter les organisateurs du congrès ou : Office du Tourisme du Pays de Lorient Maison de la Mer Quai de Rohan 56100 LORIENT Téléphone: (33) 2 97 21 00 52. Fax: (33) 2 97 21 06 65 Email: contact at lorient-tourisme.com FICHE D'INSCRIPTION PRÉLIMINAIRE POUR EURALEX 2004 Pour recevoir la seconde circulaire en septembre 2003, merci de compléter et de retourner la fiche suivante (ou une copie à partir du site internet d'EURALEX) dès que possible et avant le 31 juillet 2003 à l'adresse ci-dessous. Il est possible de l'expédier à l'adresse électronique : elx2004 at univ-ubs.fr. Organisateurs du Congrès EURALEX 2004 Dr. Geoffrey Williams Faculté de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay B.P. 92116 56321 Lorient cedex France NOM INSTITUTION DÉPARTMENT RUE ZIP/ CODE POSTAL VILLE PAYS TELEPHONE EMAIL Cochez l'un des choix suivants: [ ] Je désirerais faire une communication au Congrès. [ ] Je désirerais faire une démonstration de logiciels au Congrès. 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Submitted Short Papers will be carefully evaluated on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Short papers are due on April 1, 2003 5pm your local time. Short papers are restricted to 4 pages in length. They must be submitted in camera-ready format; see www.hlt-naacl03.org/format.html. Short papers that are not in PDF or are incorrectly formatted may be rejected on that basis. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style files or MSWord equivalents available on the website. Submissions must describe original, completed, unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when appropriate. See full paper submission information for topics of interest. Reviewing will not be blind. Because we need camera-ready formatted papers, authors must include their identifying information on the paper. This is to accommodate the late-breaking format; we need time to review the papers and get the accepted papers to the printer in time. Note that notification date for acceptance and rejection is April 7, with final camera ready copy due on April 10. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GENERAL WORKSHOP INFORMATION The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers working on problems related to the creation and use of parallel text. Recent events have demonstrated once again the importance of inter-language communication, and reinforce the need for advances in machine translation (MT) and multi-lingual processing tools. The workshop will be centered around the problem of building and using parallel corpora, which are vital resources for efficiently deriving multi-lingual text processing tools. In addition to regular papers, the workshop also includes a shared task that will result in a comparative evaluation of word alignment techniques. We invite submissions of papers addressing any of the following issues: - Construction of parallel corpora, including the automatic identification and harvesting of parallel corpora from the Web. - Methods to evaluate the quality of parallel corpora and word alignments - Tools for processing parallel corpora, including automatic sentence alignment, word alignment, phrase alignment, detection of omissions and gaps in translations, and others - Using parallel corpora for data driven Machine Translation - Using parallel corpora for the derivation of language processing tools in new languages - Using parallel corpora for automatic corpora annotation - Language learning applied to parallel corpora - Translation memory systems as a source of aligned corpora While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora addressing languages with scarce resources. We expect to make arrangements with a journal in Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics for a special issue that will include selected papers from this workshop. Invited Speaker: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Shared Task: -=-=-=-=-=-= All researchers who have a word alignment system available are invited to participate in the shared task, individually or as part of a team. Participants in the shared task will be provided with common sets of training data, consisting of Romanian-English and French-English parallel texts. Participants will be given approximately one month to train their systems with this data, and then previously held out test data will be released. Participants will run their alignment system on this test data and submit their results, which will be evaluated using a common set of metrics. See the workshop website for details regarding the shared task. Submission format: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Submissions should consist of late-breaking papers of max. 4 pages, formatted following the NAACL 2003 guidelines. In addition, teams participating in the word alignment shared task are invited to submit short papers (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or evaluation methodology. Send your submission (a ps or pdf file), prepared for anonymous review, to both: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, rada at cs.unt.edu and Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth, tpederse at d.umn.edu Important dates: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Deadline for regular paper submissions: March 10 (passed) Deadline for results submissions: March 25 (shared task, passed) Deadline for late-breaking papers submissions: April 1 Deadline for short paper submissions: April 1 (shared task) Notification of acceptance - for regular papers:April 1 - for late-breaking papers: April 7 Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 10 Organization Committee: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth Program Committee: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lars Ahrenberg, Linkoping University Nicoletta Calzolari, University of Pisa Tim Chklovski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mona Diab, University of Maryland Ulrich Germann, Information Sciences Institute Daniel Gildea, University of Pennsylvania Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, University of Sao Paulo Nancy Ide, Vassar College Lucia Helena Machado Rino, Federal University of Sao Carlos Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Dan Melamed, New York University Magnus Merkel, Linkoping University Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton Grace Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen Franz Och, Information Sciences Institute Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University Kishore Papineni, IBM Jessie Pinkham, Microsoft Research Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO/TIM/ETI University of Geneva Florence Reeder, MITRE Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Antonio Ribeiro, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy Michel Simard, University of Montreal Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Arturo Trujillo, Canon Research Centre Europe Jean Veronis, University of Provence Clare Voss, Army Research Lab Dan Tufis, RACAI Romania Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mon Mar 31 16:59:40 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:59:40 +0200 Subject: Appel: MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT IX Message-ID: MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT IX September 23-28, 2003 New Orleans, USA http://www.mt-summit.org CALL FOR PAPERS The ninth Machine Translation Summit, organized by the International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) and hosted by the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 23 to 28 September 2003. MT Summit IX hereby invites original submissions on all aspects machine and machine-aided translation. Please consult the conference Web site for the complete Call for Papers, including details on the different categories of submissions. Important dates: - May 11, 2003 : Deadline for the submission of papers - June 30, 2003 : Notification of acceptance sent to authors - July 31, 2003 : Camera-ready copy due - September 23, 2003 : Conference opens Invited Speakers: MT Summit IX will feature invited talks by the following speakers: Pierre Isabelle Area Manager, Content Analysis, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble "Multilingual Document Processing at XRCE" Akitoshi Okumura Senior Manager, Human Language Technology Group NEC Corporation, Japan "Development of Speech Translation for Hand-held Devices" Donald Barabé Director, Business Development Translation Bureau, Public Works and Government Services Canada "Soaring Demand, Shrinking Supply in Translation: How We Plan to Make Ends Meet" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 11 16:29:00 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:29:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing Message-ID: Building Educational Applications Using Natural Language Processing HLT/NAACL 2003 Workshop May 31, 2003 Edmonton, Canada http://www.etstechnologies.com/NAACL Overview There is an increased use of NLP-based educational applications for both large-scale assessment and classroom instruction. This has occurred for two primary reasons. First, there has been a significant increase in the availability of computers in schools, from elementary school to the university. Second, there has been notable development in computer-based educational applications that incorporate advanced methods in NLP that can be used to evaluate students' work. Educational applications have been developed across a variety of subject domains in automated evaluation of free-responses and intelligent tutoring. To date, these two research areas have remained autonomous. We hope that this workshop will facilitate communication between researchers who work on all types of instructional applications, for K-12, undergraduate, and graduate school. Since most of this work in NLP-based educational applications is text-based, we are especially interested in any work of this type that incorporates speech processing and other input/output modalities. We wish to expose the NLP research community to these technologies with the hope that they may see novel opportunities for use of their tools in an educational application. Invited Speaker: Thomas Landauer, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Knowledge Analysis Technologies (KAT) Call for Papers We are especially interested in submissions including, but not limited to: * Speech-based tools for educational technology * Innovative text analysis for evaluation of student writing with regard to: a) general writing quality, or b) accuracy of content for domain-specific responses * Text analysis methods to handle particular writing genres, such as legal or business writing, or creative aspects of writing * Intelligent tutoring systems that incorporate state-of-the-art NLP methods to evaluate response content, using either text- or speech-based analyses * Dialogue systems in education * understanding student input * generating the tutors' feedback * evaluation * Evaluation of NLP-based tools for education * Use of student response databases (text or speech) for tool building * Content-based scoring Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: Mar 17 Notification of acceptance for papers: Mar 31 Camera ready papers due: Apr 8 Workshop date: May 31 Organizers Jill Burstein, Educational Testing Service (jburstein at ets.org) Claudia Leacock, Educational Testing Service (cleacock at ets.org) Program Committee: Gregory Aist, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), NASA Martin Chodorow, Hunter College, City University of New York Ron Cole, University of Colorado, Boulder Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago John Dowding, Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS), NASA Maxine Eskenazi, Carnegie Mellon University Art Graesser, University of Memphis Pamela Jordan, University of Pittsburgh Karen Kukich, National Science Foundation Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh Daniel Marcu, Information Sciences Institute/University of Southern California Thomas Morton, University of Pennsylvania Carolyn Penstein Rose, University of Pittsburgh Susanne Wolff, Princeton University Klaus Zechner, Educational Testing Service Format for Submission Information about submissions can be found at the URL below. Please follow the instructions for full papers and use only Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) or MS-Word documents. Since the review process will be blind, please do not include any author information on the actual paper. Please include an additional title page with the following information: Paper title, names and contact information for all authors, and the paper's abstract. http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/conferences/hlt-naacl03/format.html Please e-mail your final .pdf or MS-Word submission to jburstein at ets.org or cleacock at ets.org no later than March 17, 2003. 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Linguistique informatique et exploitation des ressources linguistiques informatis?es (Textes et dictionnaires informatiques). 2. Etymologie et histoire du lexique : ?tude diachronique du lexique fran?ais du Moyen Age ? nos jours. Le montant de la r?mun?ration est de 2150 euros brut mensuel. Les candidat(e)s int?ress?(e)s par cette offre doivent prendre contact avec: Jean-Marie Pierrel, professeur ? l'UHP Co-directeur de l'ATILF (UMR 7118 CNRS-Nancy 2) Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Fran?aise 44, avenue de la Lib?ration BP 30687 54063 Nancy cedex tel : 03 83 96 86 85 fax : 03 83 97 24 56 email : Jean-Marie.Pierrel at inalf.fr http://www.inalf.fr/atilf et transmettre leur candidature avant le 15 avril 2003 au laboratoire ========================================================== Le CNRS recrute 210 post-doctorants en 2003 De nouvelles possibilit?s de contrats post-doctoraux ont ?t? mise en place par la ministre d?l?gu?e ? la recherche et aux nouvelles technologies. Cette mesure est destin?e ? permettre ? de jeunes chercheurs, fran?ais ou ?trangers, d'acqu?rir, de pr?f?rence dans l'ann?e qui suit leur th?se, une exp?rience compl?mentaire de recherche de haut niveau pour se pr?parer ? un recrutement p?renne ult?rieur dans le secteur public ou priv?. Ces contrats ? dur?e d?termin?e sont d'une dur?e de 12 mois, pouvant ?tre ?ventuellement prolong?e de 6 mois. Le montant de la r?mun?ration est de 2150 euros brut mensuel. ? Conditions ? remplir par les candidats. CNRS o aucune condition de nationalit? o ?tre docteur au moment du recrutement (doctorat fran?ais, PhD ou doctorat ?tranger de niveau ?quivalent) o ne pas avoir exerc? ant?rieurement une activit? de recherche au sein de l'unit? d'accueil vis?e. ? Comment poser sa candidature Les candidats doivent prendre contact avec les laboratoires s?lectionn?s pour l'accueil d'un post-doc. Ils d?finiront avec le(s) responsable(s) un projet scientifique et une perspective d'insertion professionnelle ? Constitution du dossier o l'identification de la th?matique et du projet scientifique propos? pour la dur?e du contrat o un curriculum vitae comportant un r?sum? des activit?s scientifiques o le rapport de soutenance et les rapports des rapporteurs de la th?se (ou de son ?quivalent), quand ils sont disponibles o la liste des travaux publi?s o l'avis motiv? du directeur du laboratoire pour l'accueil ?ventuel du candidat Le dossier devra ?tre adress? au directeur du d?partement scientifique concern? ? l'adresse suivante: CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange 75794 PARIS Cedex 16 Jean-Marie Pierrel, professeur ? l'UHP Co-directeur de l'ATILF (UMR 7118 CNRS-Nancy 2) Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Fran?aise 44, avenue de la Lib?ration BP 30687 54063 Nancy cedex tel : 03 83 96 86 85 fax : 03 83 97 24 56 email : Jean-Marie.Pierrel at inalf.fr http://www.inalf.fr/atilf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 11 16:29:11 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:29:11 +0100 Subject: Appel: Special Issue - Journal of Natural Language Engineering Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Journal Journal of Natural Language Engineering Software Architecture for Language Engineering Editors: Hamish Cunningham, Donia Scott A number of researchers argued in the early and middle 1990s that the field of computational infrastructure, or architecture, for Natural Language Processing, merited an increase in attention. The reasoning was that the increasingly large-scale and technologically significant nature of NLP science was placing increasing burdens of an engineering nature on R&D workers seeking robust and practical methods. Over the intervening period a number of significant systems and practices have been developed in what we may call Software Architecture for Language Engineering. Of the most prominent are: * RAGS, Reference Architecture for Generation Systems (Brighton and Edinburgh) * LT XML (Edinburgh) * TEI, CES, XCES (Oxford, Vassar, etc.) * ATLAS (LDC, NIST) * Galaxy Communicator Software Infrastructure (Mitre) * JENA (Hewlett Packard) * Prot?g? (Stanford) * GATE, a General Architecture for Text Engineering (Sheffield). This special issue represents an opportunity for pracititioners in this area to report their work in a coordinated setting. The value to the community at large will be to get a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in infrastructural work, which may indicate where further take-up of these systems can be of benefit. A wide range of topics are relevant, from reference architectures to web services, from component repositories to language resource standardisation, from grid-based distribution to comparative studies of different architectures. Important dates: 1st July 2003 deadline for submission of papers 1st November 2003 notification of acceptance 15th December 2003 final copy due 1st June 2004 special issue publication date Submissions: Initial submissions should be sent electronically in PDF format to Hamish Cunningham - hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk Formatting instructions for final submissions are available from CUP at http://assets.cup.org/NLE/nle_ifc.pdf Editorial Committee: Steve Appleby Steven Bird Kalina Bontcheva Chris Brew Hennie Brugman Jean Carletta Walter Daelemans Robert Dale David Day Thierry DeClerck Marin Dimitrov Roger Evans Nancy Ide Atanas Kiryakov Diana Maynard David McDonald Chris Mellish Jon Patrick Thomas Rist Laurent Romary Valentin Tablan Yorick Wilks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 11 16:29:15 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:29:15 +0100 Subject: Jobs: Post-doc a l'Universite Stendhal - Grenoble 3 Message-ID: --- English version below Post-doc ? l'Universit? Stendhal - Grenoble 3 Domaine : Corpus multilingues, m?thodes statistiques pour le traitement automatique des langues Le LIDILEM (Laboratoire de Linguistique et Didactique Langue Etrang?re et Maternelle) de l'Universit? Stendhal Grenoble 3, est impliqu? dans plusieurs projets de recherche en rapport avec le traitement et l'?tude contrastive de corpus multilingues align?s (?valuation des techniques d'alignement, d?sambigu?sation, extraction de lexiques bilingues). Le LIDILEM cherche un ?tudiant post-doc pour participer au d?veloppement de m?thodes et d'outils d?di?s ? la constitution ressources multilingues, dans le cadre du projet CARMEL, financ? par le Minist?re de la Culture. Ce projet, pr?vu pour une dur?e de 18 mois, vise ? la constitution d'un corpus multilingue align? de grande taille rassemblant des oeuvres majeures de la litt?rature r?aliste du XIXe si?cle. Ce corpus, comportant des textes fran?ais, anglais, italiens et espagnols, inclura une annotation th?matique et sera, en partie, s?mantiquement d?sambigu?s?, au moyen de m?thodes originales qui int?greront l'aspect multilingue du corpus. Par la mise en oeuvre de ces nouvelles techniques, le projet CARMEL visera ?galement ? la r?alisation d'outils d'alignement et de d?sambigu?sation. Les candidats devront avoir obtenu un doctorat en Informatique ou en Sciences du langage, et conna?tre les techniques statistiques pour le traitement automatique des langues. Une bonne connaissance de Prolog est requise. Une exp?rience de la constitution et de l'annotation de corpus serait un plus, ainsi que la ma?trise de l'anglais, de l'italien ou de l'espagnol ?crit. Le poste est ? pourvoir ? partir du 1er mars, et durera 8, 10 ou 16 mois (en fonction de la disponibilit? du candidat). Le salaire net sera de 2500 euros mensuels environ. Les personnes int?ress?es doivent contacter, de pr?f?rence par courriel : Olivier Kraif (Olivier.Kraif at u-grenoble3.fr) +------------------+ Ma?tre de Conf?rences LIDILEM Laboratoire de Linguistique et de Didactique des Langues Etrang?res et Maternelles Universit? Stendhal - Grenoble 3 38400 Saint-Martin d'H?res France tel : +33 (0) 476 824 175 fax : +33 (0) 476 824 126 English version ************************************************************************ *************** Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Grenoble (France) Field: Statistical Natural Language Processing. The LIDILEM (Laboratoire de Linguistique et Didactique Langue Etrang?re et Maternelle) of the Stendhal University carries out research projects in several domains of multilingual corpus processing and contrastive studies (alignment evaluation, collocation identification, disambiguation, bilingual lexicon extraction). The LIDILEM is currently looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant in Linguistics or Computer Science to contribute to its research activities in the domain of Multilingual Resources Development. The foreseen research activity will take place in the framework of the CARMEL project, of 18 months' duration, funded by the French Culture Ministry. CARMEL Project aims at constructing a large scale aligned corpus in the field of European realist literature of the 19th. This multilingual corpus, including French, English, Italian and Spanish texts, will be thematically annotated and semantically tagged, using original methods taking advantage of parallelism and multilingualism. Another outcome of CARMEL Projects will be the development of standard tools for aligning and disambiguating, implementing new techniques that will have to be evaluated on the corpus. Applicants should hold a PhD in Computer Science or Linguistics in the field of Statistical Natural Language Processing. Skills in Prolog programming are required. An experience in corpus construction and annotation is desirable. Applicants must speak fluent French or English, and a good knowledge of Spanish or Italian languages will be a plus. The position is available immediately and runs for 8 or 10 months. It will be held at Universit? Stendhal Grenoble 3 (Grenoble, France). The appointment will be about 2500 euros/month (including benefits). Interested persons should contact (e-mail preferred): Olivier Kraif (Olivier.Kraif at u-grenoble3.fr) +------------------+ Ma?tre de Conf?rences LIDILEM Laboratoire de Linguistique et de Didactique des Langues Etrang?res et Maternelles Universit? Stendhal - Grenoble 3 38400 Saint-Martin d'H?res France tel : +33 (0) 476 824 175 fax : +33 (0) 476 824 126 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 11 16:29:22 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:29:22 +0100 Subject: Appel: 19th Conf. of the Spanish Soc. for NLP Message-ID: __________First Call for Proposals___________________ SEPLN 2003 XIX CONGRESO DE LA SOCIEDAD ESPA?OLA PARA EL PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL (SEPLN) (19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing - SEPLN) September 10-12, 2003 Universidad de Alcal? de Henares http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln Introduction The 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) will take place on September 10-12, 2003 in Alcal? de Henares (Spain). As in previous editions, the aim of SEPLN for this Conference is to promote the dissemination of research, development and innovation activities conducted by Spanish and foreign researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The conference will provide a forum for discussion and communication to facilitate an effective exchange of knowledge and scientific materials that are necessary for promoting the publication of relevant work and the establishment of means of collaboration with national and international Institutions that are active in this field. Objectives The main motivation of this conference is to provide the business and scientific communities with an ideal forum for presenting their latest research work and developments in the field of Natural Language Processing, as well as to demonstrate the possibilities offered by these solutions and to know about new projects. Consequently, the 19th SEPLN Conference is a meeting place for presenting results and exchanging ideas concerning the present state of development in this field of knowledge. Furthermore, there is the intention of meeting the goal, achieved in previous editions, of identifying future paths for basic research and foreseen software applications, in order to compare them against the market needs. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum in helping new professionals to become active members in this field. Topics Researchers and businesses are encouraged to send communications, project abstracts or demonstrations related to any of the following topics: - Linguistic, mathematic and psycholinguistic models of language - Corpus linguistics - Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval - Formalisms and grammars for morphological and syntactical analysis - Computational Lexicography - Monolingual and multilingual text generation - Machine translation - Speech synthesis and recognition - Semantics, pragmatics and discourse - Word sense disambiguation - NLP industrial applications - Automatic textual content analysis Structure of the Conference The Conference will last three days, with sessions dedicated to presenting papers, ongoing research projects, prototype product demonstrations or products connected with topics addressed in the conference. Scientific activities will be complemented by social and tourist activities, allowing attendants to gain a better understanding about the social and cultural dimensions of Alcal? de Henares. Communications Authors are encouraged to send theoretical or system-related proposals, to be presented at the demonstration sessions, earlier than April 30, 2003. Both the delivery and revision of proposals will be done exclusively in electronic format (PostScript or PDF). Proposals will include a title, the complete names of the authors, their address, telephone, fax and e-mail. Proposals will meet the following requirements (concerning the final version, please check the "publication format" section): - Inclusion of an abstract (maximum 150 words) - Related topic - Overall maximum length will be 3,500 words (including the abstract) - The proposals will be anonymously revised. Therefore, two separate files will be submitted, one will only include the title and author details, the other will only include the title and the rest of the proposal - Final versions (after notification of acceptance) will follow the style requirements that are described in the publication format section in this website The proposals will be sent through a web-based system. The exact address of this system will be published in the official website of the Conference. Any files with a size larger than 4 MB, must be compressed into any of the following formats: zip, rar, tar or gz. Projects and Demos As in previous editions, the organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of projects and demos. Depending on the estimated number of oral presentations, any session may be reserved to this purpose. For oral presentation of projects to be accepted, the following information must be included: - Project title - Funding institution - Participant groups in the project - Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the project director - Abstract (2 pages maximum) - If a demonstration is to be performed, further information must be included, as indicated below For demonstrations to be accepted, the following information is mandatory: - Name, affiliation, e-mail and phone number of the authors - Abstract (2 pages maximum) - Time estimation for the whole presentation - This information must be received by June 29, 2001 Important Dates Dates for submission and notifications of acceptance: - Deadline for submitting abstracts: May 16, 2003 - Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2003 - Deadline for submitting the final version: June 27, 2003 - Deadline for submitting projects and demos: June 10, 2003 Program Committee Chairman: Prof. Maximiliano Saiz Noeda (Universidad de Alicante) Members: Prof. Jos? Gabriel Amores Carredano (Universidad de Sevilla) Prof. Toni Badia i Card?s (Universidad de Pompeu Fabra) Prof. Manuel de Buenaga Rodr?guez (Universidad Europea de Madrid) Prof.? Irene Castell?n Masalles (Universidad de Barcelona) Prof.? Arantza D?az de Ilarraza (Universidad del Pa?s Vasco) Prof. Antonio Ferr?ndez Rodr?guez(Universidad de Alicante) Prof.? Ana Mar?a Garc?a Serrano (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid) Prof. Koldo Gojenola Galletebeitia (Universidad del Pa?s Vasco) Prof. Xavier G?mez Guinovart (Universidad de Vigo) Prof. Julio Gonzalo Arroyo (Universidad Nacional de Educaci?n a Distancia) Prof. Jos? Miguel Go?i Menoyo (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid) Prof. Joaquim Llisterri (Universidad Aut?noma de Barcelona) Prof.? M. Antonia Mart? Anton?n (Universidad de Barcelona) Prof.? Lidia Ana Moreno Boronat (Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia) Prof. Lluis Padr? (Universidad Polit?cnica de Catalu?a) Prof. Manuel Palomar Sanz (Universidad de Alicante) Prof.? Natividad Prieto S?ez (Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia) Prof. Germ?n Rigau (Universidad Polit?cnica de Catalu?a) Prof. Horacio Rodr?guez Hontoria (Universidad Polit?cnica de Catalu?a) Prof. Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Universidad del Pa?s Vasco) Prof. L. Alfonso Ure?a L?pez (Universidad de Ja?n) Prof.? M? Felisa Verdejo Maillo (Universidad Nacional de Educaci?n a Distancia) Prof. Manuel Vilares Ferro (Universidad de La Coru?a) Organising Committee Chairman: Mr. Jes?s Antonio Cid Mart?nez, Academic Director at Instituto Cervantes Coordinator: Ms. Isabel Bermejo Rubio, Responsible for the Bureau of Spanish in the Information Society - OESI - at Instituto Cervantes Members: Ms. Eva M? Garc?a Garc?a, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Ms. Raquel Tapias Aparicio, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Mr. John Michael Urresti Gra?a, Technician at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Collabators: Ms. Rosario Guijarro Huerta, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Ms. Eva M? G?mez G?mez, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Further Information Further information will be soon available at the official website of the Conference: http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln. You may also contact the coordinator at any of the following addresses: Secretary of the 19th SEPLN Conference Conference coordinator: Ms. Isabel Bermejo Rubio Oficina del Espa?ol en la Sociedad de la Informaci?n C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcal? de Henares (Madrid) Spain Tel.: +34 91 888 72 94 Fax: +34 91 888 18 26 E-mail: oesi at cervantes.es ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sat Mar 15 10:26:13 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:26:13 +0100 Subject: Appel: Workshop PAPILLON-2003 on Multilingual Lexical Databases Message-ID: ************************************************************* * * * Workshop PAPILLON-2003 on Multilingual Lexical Databases * * * * Last announcement (March 2003) * * * ************************************************************* Detailled announcement at http://bushido.imag.fr/papillon/ConsultInformations.po?docid=1631943 Venue: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan Dates: 3-5 July 2003 Language: English Submission deadline: 31 March 2003 Notice of acceptance: 19 May 2003 Final version due: 9 June 2003 Multilingual lexical databases are databases for structured lexical data which can be used either by humans e.g. to define their own dictionaries or by natural language processing (NLP) applications. The 2003 Papillon workshop, the fourth in a series of workshops organized every year by the Papillon members, will aim at identifying problems relevant to the multilingual- lexical-database community. The workshop aims to promote exchanges between practitioners from several fields and is thus open to anybody working in a domain pertaining to lexical databases such as: databases, man-machine interface for dictionaries, data annotation, XML, standardization of dictionaries or lexical data; lexicography, translation, computational linguistics, etc. Contributions are welcome on the following items: databases, lexical data, human use and NLP use of multilingual lexical databases Contributions are encouraged which focus more on the Papillon project: Meaning-text theory and lexicography, proposals for collaboration with the Papillon project, summary/state of collaboration to the Papillon project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sat Mar 15 10:26:23 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:26:23 +0100 Subject: Conf: Eurospeech 2003 / Interspeech 2003 Message-ID: REMINDER: Full and final paper submission deadline: March 28, 2003 ======================================================================= Eurospeech 2003 / Interspeech 2003 September 1--4, 2003 Geneva, Switzerland CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR TUTORIALS CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS ISCA, toghether with the the Eurospeech 2003 /Interspeech 2003 organizing committee, would like to encourage submission of papers for the upcoming conference. The scientific topics are : * Linguistic Modelling of Spoken Language * Phonetics and Phonology * Speech Production * Speech Perception * Discourse and Dialogue * Signal Analysis, Processing and Feature Estimation * Speech Recognition and Understanding * Speaker Authentication * Speech Generation and Synthesis * Spoken Dialogue Systems * Speech Coding and Transmission * Resources, Assessment and Standards * Applications * Education * Other (please specify) No previously published papers should be submitted. Please follow the submission guidelines provided at the URL: http://www.eurospeech2003.org/papers/ TUTORIALS We encourage proposals for half-day pre-conference tutorials. Between 4 and 8 tutorials will be offered on August 31, 2003. Those interested in organizing a tutorial should send a one-page description to Andrzej Drygajlo (andrzej.drygajlo at epfl.ch), with cc to organisers at eurospeech2003.org by January 15. SPECIAL SESSIONS Eurospeech 2003 also welcomes proposals for special sessions. Each special session should consist of 6 invited papers. The topics of the special sessions should be important, new, emerging areas of interest to the signal processing community, yet have little overlap with the regular sessions. They could also be those investigated by members of other societies that are becoming of keen interest to the speech and language community. See the Eurospeech'03 web page at http://www.symporg.ch/eurospeech/Special_session.asp for guidelines. IMPORTANT DATES: Proposals for Tutorials due by: January 15, 2003 Proposals for Special Sessions due by: January 30, 2003 Full and final paper submission deadline: March 28, 2003 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: June 9, 2003 Early registration: before June 16th, 2003 Conference programme: as of July 15th, 2003 For further information, please refer to the conference web site, at the URL: http://www.eurospeech2003.org/ **** We apologize in advance should you receive **** **** multiple postings of this announcement **** -- Please see http://www.idiap.ch/local/mailing-lists/ for more infos on IDIAP Mailing lists. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Sat Mar 15 10:26:29 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:26:29 +0100 Subject: Jobs: 2 postes MdC : Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon Message-ID: Merci de donner la meilleure diffusion autour de vous pour ces 2 postes de MCF . ==================================================== Une version pr?sentant une mise en page plus agr?able de cette annonce est disponible ? l'adresse suivante : http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/php/accueil2.php?page=1 -- Merci d'avance , Marc El-Beze. ==================================================== Postes MdC 0024 & 0336 en TAP/TALN au LIA Laboratoire d'Informatique d'Avignon Pour ces 2 postes TALN/TAP, intitul?s pour l'un ? traitement automatique du langage naturel ?crit ou oral ? et pour l'autre ? traitement automatique de la langue ?crite ou orale ?, nous souhaitons les candidatures de chercheurs exp?riment?s dans l'un ou l'autre des domaines couverts par chacune des 2 ?quipes de recherche du LIA concern?es par ces 2 postes, ?quipes dont un bref descriptif est donn? plus bas. En ce qui concerne les th?matiques d'enseignement, est attendue une capacit? ? couvrir les mati?res majeures enseign?es en informatique (section 27). Les candidat(e)s ? chacun des 2 postes veilleront ? mettre en valeur au travers de leur exp?rience en mati?re d'enseignement quel peut ?tre leur apport personnel au del? des mati?res classiques de la discipline. Pour cela, il leur est conseill? de visiter les pages suivantes : http://www.iup.univ-avignon.fr/formation/index.php http://www.cri.univ-avignon.fr/formations/format0.html#ufr6 ------------------------------------------------------------- TALN ------------------------------------------------------------- L'?quipe "TALN" du LIA compte 1 PR, 1 MCF, et 4 Doctorants. http://www.lia.univ-avignon.fr/equipes/TALNE/index.html L'activit? de cette ?quipe recouvre trois th?mes : l'indexation automatique et la recherche documentaire (et, de fa?on plus g?n?rale, la recherche d'information), la d?sambigu?sation s?mantique en contexte, l'extraction de contenus ? partir de documents textuels. Des syst?mes op?rationnels r?alis?s au LIA lui ont permis de participer ? des campagnes d'?valuation internationales comme TREC, Amaryllis, Senseval et Romanseval. Dans le cadre d'un contrat europ?en d'une dur?e de 15 mois, le LIA a pris la responsabilit? pour le fran?ais de la constitution d'un lexique s?mantique multilingue. Il est notoire que la conjonction de ces th?matiques rencontre un int?r?t croissant dans le monde industriel (nos diff?rents partenaires sont ou ont ?t? Bertin Technologies, Xerox, MemoData, France Telecom, DATOPS, Acce, Proxima, etc.). Les chercheurs de l'?quipe "TALN" travaillent sur diverses m?thodes automatis?es de classification, de segmentation et de structuration th?matique de textes. Ces m?thodes font l'objet d'?valuations en cours et ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives dans plusieurs cadres applicatifs : syst?mes de questions / r?ponses, moteurs de recherche en fonction de profils sp?cifiques, moteurs interactifs etc. La plupart des probl?matiques li?es ? ces domaines de recherche font l'objet d'enseignements au sein de l'IUP et des diff?rents DESS comme le DESS TAII (ing?nierie et recherche documentaire, XML, analyse des donn?es, technologies " web " ...) Mots cl?s : ================ TALN, Extraction de Contenus, Recherche d'information, D?sambigu?sation s?mantique en contexte, Classification et segmentation de textes. Contact : Marc El-B?ze, t?l : 04 90 84 35 08 ============== mailto:marc.elbeze at lia.univ-avignon.fr ------------------------------------------------------------- TAP ------------------------------------------------------------- L'Equipe "Traitement Automatique de la Parole" s'int?resse ? de nombreux aspects de ce domaine de recherche. Les p?les prioritaires concernent la reconnaissance de la parole et la reconnaissance du locuteur pour mener ? l'indexation multim?dia. Les recherches sont men?es en collaboration avec de nombreux laboratoires fran?ais et ?trangers, comme Eurecom, l'ENST, l'IRISA, l'ERM, l'IDIAP, l'EPFL... Mots cl?s : ================ Reconnaissance de la parole, Reconnaissance du locuteur, Indexation sonore, Structuration du document Contact : Jean-Fran?ois Bonastre, t?l 04 90 84 35 14 ============== mailto:Jean-Francois.Bonastre at lia.univ-avignon.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 Sat Mar 15 10:26:36 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 11:26:36 +0100 Subject: Jobs: Research Assistant : Hamburg, Germany Message-ID: ========================================================================= Research Assistant to work on the DEVELOPMENT OF A RELATIONAL DATABASE OF MULTILINGUAL SPOKEN DISCOURSE 2 years full time Hamburg, Germany ========================================================================= The Sonderforschungsbereich "Mehrsprachigkeit" (special research centre on multilingualism) at the University of Hamburg (http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/SFB538/)) is looking for a research assistant to assist in the DEVELOPMENT OF A RELATIONAL DATABASE OF MULTILINGUAL SPOKEN DISCOURSE on the basis of XML coded transcriptions of spoken discourse. This is a two year contract. The succesful applicant is expected to have a university degree in computer linguistics or computer science. Experience with - relational database managment (SQL) - web-based interfaces for databases (PHP, ASP or similar) - XML (SAX, XSLT) - JAVA (Swing, JDBC) would be an advantage. For further information see http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/exmaralda/ Please send applications to the following address Prof. Dr. Jochen Rehbein, Stellvertrender Sprecher, Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit, Universitat Hamburg, Max-Brauer-Allee 60, D-22765 Hamburg. (For questions and clarifications, please write to the e-mail adress given below) ------------------------------ Thomas Schmidt SFB 538 'Mehrsprachigkeit' Max Brauer-Allee 60 22765 Hamburg Tel.: (040) 42838-6425 Fax.: (040) 42838-6116 thomas.schmidt at uni-hamburg.de http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/exmaralda ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Mar 19 16:59:41 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:59:41 +0100 Subject: Jobs: Ingenieur d'etudes CNRS : Toulouse Message-ID: L'Equipe de Recherche en Syntaxe et S?mantique, UMR 5610 du CNRS, Universit? de Toulouse Le Mirail (http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/erss/) recrute un ing?nieur d'?tude CNRS en informatique. Merci de contacter Anne Condamines (mailto:anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr) si vous souhaitez davantage de pr?cisions. Renseignements sur la proc?dure : http://sg-val.dsi.cnrs.fr/drhita/concoursita/2003/index.htm Date limite de retrait des dossiers : 3 avril 2003 ? 17 heures. Profil pour un ing?nieur d'?tude en informatique BAP E - Informatique et calcul scientifique Emploi type : Ing?nieur en calcul scientifique num?ricien d'?tudes Cet ing?nieur s'int?grera principalement aux op?rations de l'ERSS travaillant sur corpus et sa mission sera de d?velopper des applications informatiques pour la linguistique et le Traitement Automatique des Langues. Activit?s : - concevoir, d?velopper et maintenir des bases de donn?es textuelles et lexicales ; - concevoir et d?velopper des interfaces d'interrogation pour les bases de donn?es ci-dessus et pour d'autres outils existants (con?us ou achet?s) afin de les rendre accessibles ? des linguistes non informaticiens ; - connecter des outils pr?sents dans le laboratoire (con?us ou achet?s) avec d'autres outils (?tiqueteurs, par exemple) : constitution de passerelles entre ces outils ; - assurer la fiabilit? et la s?curit? du syst?me ; - coordonner les activit? d'exploitation du serveur ; - r?diger les documents de pr?sentation et d'utilisation de ces syst?mes ; - assurer la formation et l'assistance adapt?es aux diff?rents utilisateurs de ces syst?mes ; - participer aux projets en linguistique informatique du laboratoire Comp?tences : - ma?triser les Syst?mes de Gestion de Bases de Donn?es relationnelles - ma?triser les proc?dures d'exploitation (applications client/serveur, CGI) et les standards d'?changes de donn?es employ?s (XML) ; - conna?tre les composantes techniques des syst?mes d'information : syst?mes d'exploitation Unix (Linux) et Windows ; r?seau... ; - reformuler une demande d'utilisateur en termes techniques ; - conna?tre les langages Perl, Java et/ou C++ ; - avoir une sensibilit? aux probl?matiques linguistiques ; - ma?trise de l'anglais technique ?crit et savoir communiquer ? l'oral. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Mar 19 16:59:49 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:59:49 +0100 Subject: Appel: Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/iswc2003/index.html Workshop at ISWC 2003 International Semantic Web Conference Sanibel Island, Florida, 20-23 October 2003 Hamish Cunningham Atanas Kiryakov Ying Ding The Semantic Web aims to add a machine tractable, re-purposeable layer to compliment the existing web of natural language hypertext. In order to realise this vision, the creation of semantic annotation, the linking of web pages to ontologies, and the creation, evolution and interrelation of ontologies must become automatic or semi-automatic processes. In the context of new work on distributed computation, Semantic Web Services (SWSs) go beyond current services by adding ontologies and formal knowledge to support description, discovery, negotiation, mediation and composition. This formal knowledge is often strongly related to informal materials. For example, a service for multi-media content delivery over broadband networks might incorporate conceptual indices of the content, so that a smart VCR (such as next generation TiVO) can reason about programmes to suggest to its owner. Alternatively, a service for B2B catalogue publication has to translate between existing semi-structured catalogues and the more formal catalogues required for SWS purposes. To make these types of services cost-effective we need automatic knowledge harvesting from all forms of content that contain natural language text or spoken data. Other services do not have this close connection with informal content, or will be created from scratch using Semantic Web authoring tools. For example, printing or compute cycle or storage services. In these cases the opposite need is present: to document services for the human reader using natural language generation. This workshop will provide a forum for workers in the field of human language technology for the Semantic Web and for Semantic Web Services to present their latest results. The aim is to provide a snapshot of the state of the art, dealing with a wide range of issues, including but not limited to: * automatic and semi-automatic annotation of web pages; * semantic indexing and retrieval of documents, combining the strengths of IE and IR; * integration of data about language in language processing components with ontological data; * robustness across genres and domains; * ease of embedding in Semantic Web applications; * ontology learning, evolving and merging; * automatic web service description augmentation; * automatic semantic structure documentation; * language technology for automatic Web service discovery; * adaptation of generation techniques to SWS applications. The themes of the workshop have partly emerged from the Special Interest Group on Language Technologies and the Semantic Web (SIG5), part of the OntoWeb thematic network. Audience: The issues addressed by the workshop are at the core of the Semantic Web enterprise. The killer applications that demonstrate the potential of this technology to a mass market have yet to emerge, and will likely not do so until a much larger amount of data is available. The techniques covered by this workshop are one of the most important routes to generating this data. The workshop is relevant to: * researchers from the Human Language Technology areas; * researchers from the Ontology and Knowledge Acquisition and Management areas; * industrial technology providers involved in Knowledge Management, Information Integration, Information and Library Science, Web Services. Organizing Committee: Dr. Hamish Cunningham - http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish, hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk Atanas Kiryakov - http://www.sirma.bg/ak.htm, naso at sirma.bg Dr. Ying Ding - http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ying, ying.ding at uibk.ac.at May 15th 2003 deadline for submission of papers June 20th 2003 notification of acceptance July 15th 2003 final copy due 20-23 October 2003 conference The fee for the workshop will be $50. Participants will be required to register for the main ISWC2003 conference. Submissions: Submissions should be sent electronically in PDF format to the organising committee: hamish at dcs.shef.ac.uk naso at sirma.bg ying.ding at uibk.ac.at Submitted papers should be formatted in the style of the Springer publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS): http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html The emphasis during reviewing will be on content, not format, however. Programme Committee (* TO BE CONFIRMED): Alain Leger, France Telecom, France * Alexander Maedche, Robert Bosch Gmbh, Germany Asun Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK * Chen Chaomei, Drexel University, USA * Chen Hinchun, Arizona University, USA * Chris Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA * Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA * David R. Karger, MIT, US * David Harper, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK * Diana Maynard, University of Sheffield, UK Dieter Fensel, University of Innsbruck, Austria Dieter Merkl, TU Vienna, Austria Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, IT * Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK * Jan Paralic, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia John Davies, British Telecom, UK * John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Lim Em Ping, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Maria Vargas-Vera, Open University, UK Marin Dimitrov, OntoText Lab, Bulgaria Mounia Lamas, Queen Marry University of London, UK * Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA * Nicola Guarino, CNR, IT * Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, GE * Robert Engels, CognIT, Norway Robert Meersman, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium * Rudi Studer, University of Karlsruhe, Germany * Stefan Stab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Stefen Decker, University of California, USA * Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Werner Ceusters, L&C, BE * Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, UK York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK Yves Chiaramella, CLIPS-IMAG, 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 Wed Mar 19 16:59:57 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:59:57 +0100 Subject: Conf: EACL 2003 Message-ID: EACL 2003 in Budapest, April 12-17, 2003 Workshop Programme and Call for Participation Important dates: ---------------- Workshop dates: Apr 13-14, 2003 Conference dates: Apr 12-17, 2003 Important URLs: --------------- Registration: http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/Registration.html Main conference: http://www.conferences.hu/EACL03/ Workshops: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops Workshop overview: ------------------ Workshop 01: "MT and other language technology tools; Improving MT through other language technology tools; Resources and tools for building MT" URL: http://www.elsnet.org/workshops/progw01.html Organizer(s): Bente Maegaard Email: bente at cst.dk Date: April 13, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 02: "9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation" URL: http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~horacek/EACL-EWNLG03.html Organizer(s): Ehud Reiter Email: ereiter at csd.abdn.ac.uk Date: April 13+14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 03 [supported b y ELSNET]: "4th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora (LINC-03)" URL: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/linc03 Organizer(s): Silvia Hansen Email: hansen at CoLi.Uni-SB.DE Date: April 13+14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 04: "Language Modeling for Text Entry Methods" URL: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~compling/eaclws2003/ Organizer(s): Michael Kuhn Email: kuehn at uni-koblenz.de Date: April 14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 05: "The Computational Treatment of Anaphora" URL: http://www.clt.mq.edu.au/eacl03ana.html Organizer(s): Rob Dale Email: rdale at ics.mq.edu.au Date: April 14, 2003 (morning) ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 06: "Dialogue Systems: interaction, adaptation and styles of management" URL: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roberta/eacl-w06.html Organizer(s): Kristiina Jokinen and Roberta Catizone Email: kjokinen at uiah.fi,R.Catizone at dcs.shef.ac.uk Date: April 13+14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 07 [supported by ELSNET]: "Evaluation Initiatives in Natural Language Processing: are evaluation methods, metrics and resources reusable?" URL: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~katerina/EACL03-eval Organizer(s): Katerina Pastra Email: e.pastra at dcs.shef.ac.uk Date: April 14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 08: "Computational Linguistics for South Asian Languages -- Expanding Synergies with Europe" URL: http://computing.open.ac.uk/Sites/EACLSouthAsia Organizer(s): Durgesh Rao and Pat Hall Email: drsystems at vsnl.net,p.a.v.hall at open.ac.uk Date: April 14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 09: "Workshop on Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing" URL: http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~laporte/fsw-cfp.htm Organizer(s): Eric Laporte and Ken Beesley Email: eric.laporte at univ-mlv.fr,Ken.Beesley at xrce.xerox.com Date: April 13+14, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 10: "Language Technology and the Semantic Web: 3rd Workshop on NLP and XML (NLPXML-2003)" URL: http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~ide/events/NLPXML3.html Organizer(s): Nancy Ide and Graham Wilcock Email: ide at cs.vassar.edu,graham.wilcock at helsinki.fi Date: April 13, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 11: "Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Question-Answering" URL: http://www.science.uva.nl/~mdr/NLP4QA/ Organizer(s): Bonnie Webber and Maarten de Rijke Email: bonnie at inf.ed.ac.uk,mdr at science.uva.nl Date: April 14, 2003 (afternoon) ___________________________________________________________________ Workshop 12: "Morphological Processing of Slavic Languages" URL: http://nl.ijs.si/mpsl03/ Organizer(s): Tomaz Erjavec and Dusko Vitas Email: Tomaz.Erjavec at ijs.si,vitas at matf.bg.ac.yu Date: April 13, 2003 ___________________________________________________________________ Contact info: - for the workshops in general: steven.krauwer at elsnet.org - for individual workshops: workshop organizers - for the main conference: kindl at sztaki.hu - for registration: kindl at sztaki.hu _______________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Mar 19 17:00:04 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:00:04 +0100 Subject: Ecole: The 11th ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech Communication Message-ID: Apologies for multiple posting _______________________________________________________________________________________ FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for PARTICIPATION The 11th ELSNET Summer School on Language and Speech Communication Topic: Language and Speech Technology in Language Learning Lille (France), Monday July 7 - Friday July 18, 2003 Organized by the University of Lille 3 We are happy to announce that registration for the 11th ELSNET Summer School is now open. For this school we have chosen a topic of great relevance to researchers and developers in Europe and in other multilingual environments: the use of language and speech technology in language learning, both of spoken and of written language. The goal of this workshop is to get young researchers on a track that will eventually contribute to an important application area. The underlying vision (or dream) is The automatic animated language tutor. Audience and aims: We see the school as mainly research and development oriented, and hence the primary audience are researchers, developers and integrators who will make our vision happen (rather than teachers who would use it). Both technological and pedagogical aspects will be taken into consideration The aims are: * to make the students familiar with the main principles and problems of language learning/teaching * to make them familiar with current best practice in computer assisted language learning * to make them familiar with the main challenges in computer assisted language learning Participants are expected to have a general computational background and some familiarity with language or speech research and/or processing. After completion of the summer school participants should be able to function in teams aimed at designing or implementing tools, environments or courses for Computer Assisted Language Learning (abbreviated CALL). Course programme: The provisional programme is available at http://www.elsnet.org/ess2003/schedule.html The 2-weeks programme comprises the following courses: * Introduction to CALL (Teacher: Jozef Colpaert, [Univ of Antwerp]) * Introduction to natural language processing for CALL (Teacher: Wolfgang Menzel [Univ of Hamburg], to be confirmed) * Introduction to speech processing for CALL (Teacher: Philippe Delcloque [MSEC Manchester]) * Using NLP tools in CALL (hands-on) (Teacher: Wolfgang Menzel [Univ of Hamburg], to be confirmed) * Using Speech tools in CALL (hands-on) (Teacher: Michael McTear [Univ of Ulster]) * CALL design and interfaces (Teacher: Philippe Delcloque [MSEC Manchester]) * Grammatical and morphological error diagnosis (Teacher: Lars Borin [Univ of Gothenburg]) * Systems for pronunciation training (Teacher: Anne-Marie Oster [KTH Stockholm]) * Building a grammatical CALL system (hands-on) (Teacher: Lars Borin [Univ of Gothenburg]) * Building a speech CALL system (hands-on) (Teacher: Michael McTear [Univ of Ulster]) All students attend the same full programme, except for the hands-on sessions, where students can sign up for either NLP or Speech oriented streams. In special student sessions students can present their own work. The presentations will be published on the ELSNET website. Please note that the number of places for this summer school is limited and that early registration is recommended. Fees: Category Registration fee (euro) Students 125 Academic staff 250 Commercial organisations 500 ELSNET members are entitled to a 20% discount Food and accommodation: The cost of accommodation (on campus) will be 30 euro per night. Meals will be free. Registration, grants and other information: For detailed information about registration procedures and deadlines, fees, accommodation, grant possibilities, venue, course and social programme, etc visit the ESS2003 website at http://www.univ-lille3.fr/ESS2003 [to be opened soon] or send an email to the local organizers at elsnetadmin at univ-lille3.fr A limited number of grants (covering the cost of accommodation) may be available for citizens of EU and associated countries. Details and application forms will be published on the website. For information about the programme visit the provisional ESS2003 website at http://www.elsnet.org/ess2003 or contact the chair of the programme committee, Steven Krauwer (steven.krauwer at elsnet.org) Please notice that the working language twill be English ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Widad Mustafa el Hadi (mustafa at univ-lille3.fr) Tel : 33 (0) 320 416 815 - Fax : 33 (0) 320 416 379 Groupe ILSI, UFR IDIST, Universite C.-de-Gaulle (Lille3) CERSATES (UMR 8529) B.P. 149, 59 653 Villeneuve D'Ascq Cedex, France ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Mar 19 17:00:11 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:00:11 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN03: Evaluation des analyseurs syntaxiques Message-ID: Conf?rence associ?e ? TALN'2003 : Evaluation des analyseurs syntaxiques ------------ RAPPEL : DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : JEUDI 20 MARS 2003 ----------------- Comit? d'organisation : ===================== Salah Ait-Mokhtar - Xerox, Grenoble Laura Monceaux - LIMSI, Orsay Patrick Paroubek - LIMSI, Orsay Jean-Marie Pierrel - LORIA, Nancy Isabelle Robba - LIMSI, Orsay Anne Vilnat - LIMSI, Orsay Comit? Scientifique : =================== Anne Abeill? - LLF, Paris VII Salah Ait-Mokhtar - Xerox, Grenoble Philippe Blache - LPL, Aix-en-Provence John Carroll - University of Sussex, Royaume-Uni Khalid Choukri - ELRA, Paris Didier Bourigault - ERSS, Toulouse Veronique Gendner - TALANA, Paris VII & LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Mich?le Jardino - LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Joseph Mariani - Minist?re de la Jeunesse, de l'Education nationale et de la Recherche, Paris Laura Monceaux - LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Patrick Paroubek - LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Jean-Marie Pierrel - LORIA, Nancy Martin Rajman - EPFL, Lausanne Isabelle Robba - LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Jacques Vergne - GREYC, Caen Anne Vilnat - LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay Eric Wehrli - LATL, Gen?ve Pierre Zweigenbaum - STIM/AP-HP, Paris Th?matique : ========== Depuis une dizaine d'ann?es, avec l'apparition des outils de recherche d'information sur le web, de nouvelles techniques d'analyse syntaxique plus robustes ont vu le jour. Les analyseurs partiels construisent une analyse parfois minimale, incompl?te, mais cela quels que soient la taille et le contenu des donn?es ? traiter. D'autre part, les analyseurs qui tentent de produire syst?matiquement une analyse "compl?te", ou la plus compl?te possible continuent d'am?liorer leure r?sultats. Devant cette diversit? d'offre en mati?re d'analyseur, il est int?ressant voire primordial de proposer une m?thodologie permettant de les ?valuer. Celle-ci devant inclure : - la d?finition d'un format d'annotation permettant une large couverture des ph?nom?nes syntaxiques; - le choix d'un corpus et son annotation manuelle (ou semi-automatique) dans ce format d'annotation; - la d?finition d'un ensemble de mesures permettant l'?valuation; - la mise au point des outils aussi bien d'annotation, que de transcription ou d'?valuation. Pour l'anglais, les m?triques et les corpus annot?s dans le cadre de la campagne PARSEVAL sont aujourd'hui remis en cause : ils ne sont ouverts ni ? d'autres langues ni ? de nouveaux formats d'analyse (voir l'atelier de la conf?rence LREC 2002 : Beyond Parseval towards improved evaluation measures for parsing systems ). Pour le fran?ais, la campagne d'?valuation EVALDA/EASY du programme technolangue (minist?re d?l?gu? ? la recherche et aux nouvelles technologies) qui d?bute servira de lieu d'exp?rimentation pour tester de nouvelles approches pour l'?valuation des analyseurs syntaxiques pour le fran?ais. Le but de cet atelier est de d?velopper une r?flexion autour des m?thodologies d'?valuation, des corpus , des m?triques, des outils et des formalismes pour l'?valuation des analyseurs syntaxiques du fran?ais. Modalit?s et format de soumission : ================================= Dans cet atelier, les contributions attendues pourront porter sur l'un des th?mes suivants : - les m?thodologies d'?valuation - les m?triques d'?valuation (choix, outils ...) - l'annotation des corpus (choix, outils ...) - les corpus - les outils de projection d'un analyseur dans un formalisme Des articles prospectifs sur l'?valuation et les analyseurs syntaxiques seront ?galement les bienvenus. Les articles soumis devront ?tre r?dig?s en fran?ais ou en anglais et ne pas d?passer 10 pages en suivant les consignes de la conf?rence principale TALN'2003 : http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/page/info-bienvenue.html Les soumissions devront parvenir au comit? d'organisation avant le jeudi 20 mars 2003, sous forme ?lectronique sous format pdf, adress?es ? mailto: monceaux at limsi.fr En cas d'impossibilit? d'envoi ?lectronique, une soumission "papier" pourra ?tre retourn?e ? l'adresse suivante : Laura Monceaux LIMSI - CNRS / Universit? Paris Sud Bat 508 - BP 133 91403 Orsay Cedex Calendrier : =========== Date limite de soumission : >>> Jeudi 20 mars 2003 <<< Notification aux auteurs : Lundi 14 avril 2003 Version finale (pr?t-?-clicher) : Lundi 28 avril 2003 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Wed Mar 19 17:02:21 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 18:02:21 +0100 Subject: Appel: HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop (CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING PAPERS) Message-ID: == Apologies for multiple postings == Notice the April 1 Deadline for late-breaking short papers submissions! Notice the upcoming test period for the shared task on word alignment! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING PAPERS SECOND CALL FOR SHARED TASK PARTICIPATION Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond An HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop Edmonton, Alberta May 31, 2003 http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/wpt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Short (Late-Breaking) Papers at the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Text provide a venue for authors to present late-breaking results. Submitted Short Papers will be carefully evaluated on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Short papers are due on April 1, 2003 5pm your local time. Short papers are restricted to 4 pages in length. They must be submitted in camera-ready format; see www.hlt-naacl03.org/format.html. Short papers that are not in PDF or are incorrectly formatted may be rejected on that basis. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style files or MSWord equivalents available on the website. Submissions must describe original, completed, unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when appropriate. See full paper submission information for topics of interest. Reviewing will not be blind. Because we need camera-ready formatted papers, authors must include their identifying information on the paper. This is to accommodate the late-breaking format; we need time to review the papers and get the accepted papers to the printer in time. Note that notification date for acceptance and rejection is April 7, with final camera ready copy due on April 10. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- SHARED TASK ON WORD ALIGNMENT All researchers who have a word alignment system available are invited to participate in the shared task, individually or as part of a team. Participants in the shared task will be provided with common sets of training data, consisting of Romanian-English and French-English parallel texts. Participants will be given approximately one month to train their systems with this data, and then previously held out test data will be released. Participants will run their alignment system on this test data and submit their results, which will be evaluated using a common set of metrics. Teams participating in the word alignment shared task are invited to submit short papers (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or evaluation methodology. Shared task timetable: Complete guidelines already available Training and trial data already available Test data March 18 Submission of results March 25 Results back to participants March 28 Submission of short papers April 1 (system descriptions) Last day to register for participation in the shared task: March 21. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GENERAL WORKSHOP INFORMATION The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers working on problems related to the creation and use of parallel text. Recent events have demonstrated once again the importance of inter-language communication, and reinforce the need for advances in machine translation (MT) and multi-lingual processing tools. The workshop will be centered around the problem of building and using parallel corpora, which are vital resources for efficiently deriving multi-lingual text processing tools. In addition to regular papers, the workshop also includes a shared task that will result in a comparative evaluation of word alignment techniques. We invite submissions of papers addressing any of the following issues: - Construction of parallel corpora, including the automatic identification and harvesting of parallel corpora from the Web. - Methods to evaluate the quality of parallel corpora and word alignments - Tools for processing parallel corpora, including automatic sentence alignment, word alignment, phrase alignment, detection of omissions and gaps in translations, and others - Using parallel corpora for data driven Machine Translation - Using parallel corpora for the derivation of language processing tools in new languages - Using parallel corpora for automatic corpora annotation - Language learning applied to parallel corpora - Translation memory systems as a source of aligned corpora While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora addressing languages with scarce resources. We expect to make arrangements with a journal in Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics for a special issue that will include selected papers from this workshop. Invited Speaker: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Shared Task: -=-=-=-=-=-= All researchers who have a word alignment system available are invited to participate in the shared task, individually or as part of a team. Participants in the shared task will be provided with common sets of training data, consisting of Romanian-English and French-English parallel texts. Participants will be given approximately one month to train their systems with this data, and then previously held out test data will be released. Participants will run their alignment system on this test data and submit their results, which will be evaluated using a common set of metrics. See the workshop website for details regarding the shared task. Submission format: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Submissions should consist of regular full papers of max. 7 pages, or late-breaking papers of max. 4 pages, formatted following the NAACL 2003 guidelines. In addition, teams participating in the word alignment shared task are invited to submit short papers (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or evaluation methodology. Send your submission (a ps or pdf file), prepared for anonymous review, to both: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, rada at cs.unt.edu and Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth, tpederse at d.umn.edu Important dates: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Deadline for regular paper submissions: March 10 (passed) Deadline for results submissions: March 25 (shared task) Deadline for late-breaking papers submissions: April 1 Deadline for short paper submissions: April 1 (shared task) Notification of acceptance - for regular papers:April 1 - for late-breaking papers: April 7 Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 10 Organization Committee: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth Program Committee: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lars Ahrenberg, Linkoping University Nicoletta Calzolari, University of Pisa Tim Chklovski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mona Diab, University of Maryland Ulrich Germann, Information Sciences Institute Daniel Gildea, University of Pennsylvania Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, University of Sao Paulo Nancy Ide, Vassar College Lucia Helena Machado Rino, Federal University of Sao Carlos Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Dan Melamed, New York University Magnus Merkel, Linkoping University Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton Grace Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen Franz Och, Information Sciences Institute Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University Kishore Papineni, IBM Jessie Pinkham, Microsoft Research Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO/TIM/ETI University of Geneva Florence Reeder, MITRE Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Antonio Ribeiro, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy Michel Simard, University of Montreal Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Arturo Trujillo, Canon Research Centre Europe Jean Veronis, University of Provence Clare Voss, Army Research Lab Dan Tufis, RACAI Romania Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Thu Mar 20 16:49:12 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:49:12 +0100 Subject: Appel: TALN2003 : workshop TALN et multilinguisme : extension de la date limite Message-ID: [English version below] ***** Prolongation du deadline au 27 mars 2003 ***** ********************************************************************** Workshop sur le th?me : "TALN et multilinguisme". Atelier associ? ? la conf?rence TALN 2003 http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/ Batz-sur-Mer, France 11-14 juin 2003 PROBLEMATIQUE Le multilinguisme est une dimension de plus en plus prise en compte dans la conception et le d?veloppement d'applications de traitement automatique du langage naturel. Or, pr?voir l'adaptation des logiciels ? diff?rentes familles de langues a des r?percussions tant sur la mod?lisation des donn?es linguistiques que sur l'architecture des syst?mes. Le but de cet atelier est de discuter des cons?quences du multilinguisme dans les applications de TALN. Les th?mes concern?s par l'atelier sont ? la fois linguistiques et logiciels, on peut citer (liste non exhaustive) : - Mod?lisation des donn?es linguistiques et g?n?ricit? des formats. - Panorama des grands types de probl?mes linguistiques rencontr?s. - Cr?ation de ressources linguistiques ? partir de corpus multilingues parall?les ou comparables. - Architectures des technologies de TALN pour le traitement de diff?rentes familles de langues. - Techniques ou m?thodes d'adaptation de technologies de TALN ? de nouvelles langues. - Applications et outils de TALN prenant en compte la dimension multilingue. - Prise en compte des formats de codage des documents et des corpus multilingues. - Rapports d'exp?riences li?es ? cette probl?matique. - ... La probl?matique centrale de notre atelier est celle de la prise en compte par un syst?me de TALN de la diversit? linguistique. Cette probl?matique ne couvre pas la traduction automatique en tant que telle, mais elle pourrait concerner le probl?me de l'adaptation des syst?mes de TA ? plusieurs couples de langue. CALENDRIER - Date limite de soumission : 27/03/2003 - Notification d'acceptation aux auteurs : 14/04/2003 - R?ception des versions finales des articles : 28/04/2003 FORMAT DE SOUMISSION DES ARTICLES - Langues : fran?ais ou anglais. - Taille : 10 pages au maximum. - Style : Times 12, espacement simple. - Format des documents : RTF, DOC, PS, PDF. - Format d'impression : A4 et non Lettre US. COMITE DE PROGRAMME : - Christian Boitet, GETA, Universit? de Grenoble (France) - Malek Boualem, France T?l?com R&D (France) - Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA (France) - Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Emilie Guimier De Neef, France T?l?com R&D (France) - Yannis Haralambous, ENST Bretagne (France) - Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University (Pays-Bas) - Guy Lapalme, RALI, Universit? de Montr?al (Canada) - Tony McEnery, Lancaster University (UK) - Fr?d?rique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Jean V?ronis, DELIC, Universit? de Provence (France) - J?r?me Vinesse, France T?l?com R&D (France) - R?mi Zajac, Systran Software (USA) MODELES DES DOCUMENTS T?l?charger les mod?les de documents: Latex Fran?ais: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_FR.tgz Latex Anglais: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_EN.tgz Word Fran?ais: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_FR.dot Word Anglais: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_EN.dot ADRESSE ELECTRONIQUE D'ENVOI DES SOUMISSIONS : - malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com ET - emilie.guimierdeneef at rd.francetelecom.com L'objet du message devra contenir : "Soumission TALN-Multilinguisme - Nom et pr?nom de l'auteur principal" CONTACT Pour toute information compl?mentaires, veuillez contacter : Malek Boualem ET/OU Emilie Guimier-De-Neef ------------------------------------------------------ France T?l?com R&D - DMI/GRI Unit? de R&D Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 / (33)(0)2.96.05.19.87 Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86 Email: malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com Email: emilie.guimierdeneef at rd.francetelecom.com ------------------------------------------------------ **** ENGLISH VERSION **** ***** Deadline extension to March 27, 2003 ***** ********************************************************************** Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Multilingualism In conjunction with TALN 2003 Conference : http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/ Batz-sur-Mer, France June 11-14, 2003 INTRODUCTION Multilingualism is a concern that is increasingly taken into account in the design and development of natural language processing applications. Anticipating the adaptation of linguistic software to different language families has repercussions not only on linguistic data representation but also on architecture of systems. The aim of the workshop is to enable participants to discuss about the consequences of multilingualism on NLP applications. The workshop topics concern both linguistic data and software; a non exhaustive list is: - Representation of linguistic data and genericity of formats. - Overview of the major linguistic problems in this domain. - Creation of linguistic resources from multilingual parallel corpora. - Architectures of NLP technologies for different language families. - Techniques or methods for adapting NLP technologies to new languages. - Applications and NLP tools taking into account the multilingual dimension. - Applications taking into account the encoding formats of documents and multilingual corpora. - Experiments related to this domain. - ... Our workshop mainly concentrates on problems related to the combination of NLP systems and linguistic diversity. This problematic does not concern machine translation in itself, but could deal with the adaptation of MT systems to several language pairs. IMPORTANT DATES - Papers due: March 27, 2003 - Notification of acceptance/rejection : April 14, 2003 - Deadline for camera-ready copy: April 28, 2003 SUBMISSION FORMAT - Languages : French or English. - Size : maximum 10 pages. - Style : Times 12, single-spaced. - Document format : RTF, DOC, PS, PDF. - Printing format : A4 (not US Letter) PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Christian Boitet, GETA, University of Grenoble (France) - Malek Boualem, France Telecom R&D (France) - Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA (France) - Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Emilie Guimier De Neef, France Telecom R&D (France) - Yannis Haralambous, ENST Bretagne (France) - Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University (Pays-Bas) - Guy Lapalme, RALI, University of Montreal (Canada) - Tony McEnery, Lancaster University (UK) - Fr?d?rique Segond, Xerox Research Centre Europe (France) - Jean V?ronis, DELIC, University of Provence (France) - J?r?me Vinesse, France Telecom R&D (France) - R?mi Zajac, Systran Software (USA) DOCUMENT TEMPLATES Document templates can be downloaded: French Latex: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_FR.tgz English Latex: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/StyleLatexTaln03_EN.tgz French Word: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_FR.dot English Word: http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/irin/taln2003/doc/ModeleTaln2003_EN.dot E-MAILS FOR SUBMISSION SENDING : - malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com AND - emilie.guimierdeneef at rd.francetelecom.com The object of the message should be : "Submission NLP-Multilingualism - Surname and name of the main author" CONTACT For further information, please contact: Malek Boualem AND/OR Emilie Guimier-De-Neef ------------------------------------------------------ France T?l?com R&D - DMI/GRI Natural Language Processing group 2, avenue Pierre Marzin - 22307 Lannion - France Tel: (33)(0)2.96.05.29.83 / (33)(0)2.96.05.19.87 Fax: (33)(0)2.96.05.32.86 Email: malek.boualem at rd.francetelecom.com Email: emilie.guimierdeneef at rd.francetelecom.com ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 25 14:30:23 2003 From: thierry.hamon at LIPN.UNIV-PARIS13.FR (Thierry Hamon) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 15:30:23 +0100 Subject: Conf: IWPT 2003 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:55:42 +0100 From: Guy Perrier Message-ID: <3E7B27EE.5030404 at loria.fr> X-url: http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ X-url: http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n IWPT 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 23-25 April 2003 Nancy, France http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ ~~~~ Nancy, "City of Art and History", the historical capital of Lorraine (the north-eastern part of France) welcomes you to the 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. The Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) in Nancy, France, will host the 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'03) from 23 to 25 April, 2003. IWPT'03 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997; Trento (Italy) in 2000, and Beijing (China) in 2001. ******************************************** * INVITED SPEAKERS: * * * * Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp) * * Eugene Charniak (Brown University) * * * ******************************************** Program: -------- Three days of invited talks, long papers, short papers and posters and discussions. invited talks: -------------- Eugene Charniak (Brown University), Syntax-based Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation Gregory Grefenstette (Claivoyance Corporation, Pittsburgh), Why Parse? Statistical Processing or Symbolic Processing. accepted papers: ---------------- Miguel A. Alonso, V??ctor J. D??az, Parsing Tree Adjoining Grammars and Tree Insertion Grammars with simultaneous adjunctions. Pierre Boullier, Supertagging: A non-Statistical Parsing-based Approach. Denis B??chet, Incremental parsing of Lambek calculus using proof-net interfaces. Pierre Boullier, Guided Earley Parsing. Anna Corazza, Parsing Strategies for the Integration of Two Stochastic Context-Free Grammars. James Henderson, Generative Versus Discriminative Models for Statistical Left-Corner Parsing. Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta, Probabilistic Parsing as Intersection. Khalil Sima'an, On Maximizing Metrics for Syntactic Disambiguation. Hiroyasu Yamada, Yuji Matsumoto, Statistical Dependency Analysis with Support Vector Machines. Gennaro Costagliola, Vincenzo Deufemia, Visual Language Editors based on LR Parsing Techniques. Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie, Combining Rule-based and Data-driven Techniques for Grammatical Relation Extraction in Spoken Language. Frederik Fouvry, Constraint relaxation with weighted feature structures. Chad Langley, Alon Lavie, Parsing Domain Actions with Phrase-Level Grammars and Memory-Based Learners. Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta, Stuart M. Shieber, Partially Ordered Multiset Context-Free Grammars and ID/LP Parsing. Joakim Nivre, An Efficient Algorithm for Projective Dependency Parsing. Kilian Foth, Wolfgang Menzel, Subtree Parsing to Speed up Deep Analysis. Accepted Poster Presentations ----------------------------- Philippe Blache, Meta-level constraints for representing interaction between linguistic domains. Vladimir Kadlec, Pavel Smrz, PACE --- Parser Comparison and Evaluation. Mi-Young Kim, Jong-Hyeok Lee, S_clause Segmentation for Efficient Syntactic Analysis in Long Sentences. Yong-Jae Kwak So-Young Park Hoojung-Chung Young-Sook Hwang Hae-Chang Rim, GLR Parser with Conditional Action Model using Surface Phrasal Types For Korean. Souha Hammami Mezghani, Chafik Aloulou, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, Impl??mentation du syst??me MASPAR selon une approche multi-agent. Sanghamitra Mohanty, Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray, Intelligent Parsing in Natural Language Processing. [canceled] So-Young Park Yong-Jae Kwak Hoo-Jung Chung Young-Sook Hwang Hae-Chang Rim, Automatic Acquisition of Constraints for Efficient Korean Parsing. Tomasz Obrebski, Dependency parsing using dependency graph for storing alternative structures. For more details, see the Programme page at http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ Registration: ------------- Early registration is possible until March 28; after that date the registration fee will be higher. Please register online using the IWPT'03 web pages at http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ At the web site you can also find information about accomodation and other relevant information. IWPT'03 Organization: --------------------- General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Programme Chair: Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Local Organization Chair: Guy Perrier (LORIA, Nancy, France) Further information ------------------- Additional information about IWPT'03 is available at the URL: http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ At the SIGPARSE site at http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ information is available about previous IWPTs, proceedings, books based on IWPTs, and SIGPARSE related activities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 25 18:20:10 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:20:10 +0100 Subject: Appel: EUROLAN'03 : Ontologies and Information Extraction Message-ID: We appologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers ===================================================================== Ontologies and Information Extraction International Workshop held as part of the EUROLAN'03 Summer School July 28 - August 8, 2003 Bucarest, Romania Call for Papers Information Extraction systems were designed to filter, to select and to classify the increasing amount of information available nowadays, mainly on the Web. Most of them were based on shallow natural language processing techniques, but semantics was not really used, due to the unavailability of generic ontologies. During last years, some generic ontologies become available and a lot of research projets tried to take into account semantic aspects to obtain more precise results for IE systems. Meanwhile, important efforts concentrate on developping tools for semi- automatic building of domain-specific ontologies, based on IE and text- mining techniques. This workshop will provide a forum for discussion between leading names in the field and researchers involved in the development of ontology-based IE systems or semi-automatic tools for building ontologies. We would like to invite researchers, master and Ph.D. students to submit their original and unpublished work to the workshop. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - semantic annotation; - content-based indexing and retrieval; - robust analysis of language data; - text mining; - platforms for semi-automatic ontology extraction; - formalisms for ontology representations. Submission Requirements Authors are invited to submit a 4-6 pages extended abstract in electronic form (postscript or PDF) by 22th of April 2003. Authors of accepted papers should submit the final version in electronic format not later than 15th of June. The documents must be in either postscript or pdf format (PDF is encouraged, but postscript documents are acceptable as well). If you have problems delivering your paper in one of these formats, please contact the organising comittee. Maximum length of paper should be about 10 pages. This workshop uses the same guidelines as EACL-2003. The instructions can be found at http://ic.epfl.ch/~pallotta/ontoIE/. Please do not insert page numbers, headers or footers. If you have any problem following the style please contact the organising committee as soon as possible. All the papers should be send to Amalia.Todirascu at utt.fr =============================================================== Important Dates Submission Deadline: 22th April 2003 Notification of Acceptance: 10th May 2003 Camera-ready Papers: 15th June 2003 Demos of working or under development systems are encouraged. ==================================== Registration People wanting to attend the workshop must be registered at the Eurolan'03 School. Participation to the workshop is open to all Eurolan'03 attendants. Copies of workshop proceedings will be made available. Authors of the papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will benefit of early registration fee no matter the date they register. ==================================== Programme Commitee Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Roberto Basili (University of Rome 2 "Tor Vergata", Italy) (to be confirmed) Bill Black (UMIST, Manchester, UK) Paul Buitelaar (DFKI, Saarbrucken, Germany) Amedeo Cappelli (University of Pisa, Italy) Paola Merlo (University of Geneva, Switzerland) Malvina Nissim (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK) Fabio Rinaldi (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Laurent Romary (LORIA, Nancy, France) Patrick Ruch (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) Horacio Saggion (University of Sheffield, UK) Steffen Staab (AISB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany) Valentin Tablan (University of Sheffield, UK) Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania) Organising commitee Amalia Todirascu (Technological University of Troyes, France) Vincenzo Pallotta (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 25 18:20:20 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:20:20 +0100 Subject: Conf: 2nd International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon Message-ID: ============================================================================ 2nd International Workshop on Generative Approaches to the Lexicon (Endorsed by ACL SIGLEX) ============================================================================ First call for participation May 15-17, 2003 School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Geneva (Switzerland) http://issco-www.unige.ch/gl2003.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPIC The aim of this workshop is to bring together diverse contributions in philosophy, linguistics, computer science and lexicography to explore the lexicon from the point of view of generativity. The discussions will be centered, but are not limited to, the newly emerging view of Generative Lexicon Theory (Pustejovky, 1995). Topics include: - Philosophical Foundations of a Generative Approach - Representation of Word Meaning - Generative Lexicon Theory - Analysis of Linguistic Phenomena - Building Lexical Resources - Exploiting Lexical Resources in NLP Applications - Lexical Rules - Framework for Lexical Semantics - Critical Perspectives In this second workshop we would like to keep all the above perspectives, but put more of the focus on available on-line lexical resources in order to compare experience. The discussions will be centered, but not limited to, the following topics: * Building new resources * Acquiring lexical information * Maintaining resources * Representing lexical information (i.e. polysemy, collocation links, multiword expressions, predicate-argument structure) * Using lexical information in applications * Specialization and customization for specific applications * Links between different frameworks * Sharing lexical resourcesBuilding Lexical Resources * Multilinguality in the lexicon * Standardization and evaluation The conference will be held over a period of two and a half days. Oral presentations (30 min) and poster presentations are foreseen. Invited speakers include: Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) Ann Copestake (Cambridge University, Cambridge) Christiane Fellbaum (Princeton University) Charles J. Fillmore(International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley) Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University,Brandeis). GL2003 is: - founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (FNRS) and the Communications Research Laboratory (Japan) - hosted by University of Geneva, School of Translation and Interpretation, TIM/ISSCO (Switzerland). Organizers: Pierrette Bouillon (School of Translation and Interpretation, TIM/ISSCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland) Kyoko Kanzaki (Communications Research Laboratory, Japan) Program Committee: Susan Armstrong (University of Geneva) Toni Badia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Sabine Bergler (Concordia University, Montreal) Federica Busa (MIT, Sloan school of Management) Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto Di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa) Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge, Cambridge) Laurence Danlos (University of Paris VII, Paris) Pierre Frath (Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg) Charles J. Fillmore (International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley) Sandiway Fong (NEC, Princeton) Thierry Fontenelle (Microsoft, Seattle) Jacques Jayez (EHESS-CELITH, Paris) Hitoshi Isahara (Communications Research Laboratory, Kyoto) Adam Kilgarriff (ITRI, University of Brighton, Brighton) Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh) Andrei Popescu-Belis (ISSCO/TIM, Geneva) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, Boston) Pascale Sebillot (Irisa, Rennes) Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft, Seattle) Piek Vossen (Irion Technologies, Delft) The GL2003 program and registration form are now available at: ============================================================================== http://issco-www.unige.ch/gl2003.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 Mar 25 18:20:31 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:20:31 +0100 Subject: ATALA: journee : recherche d'information Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------- JOURNEES de l'ATALA - APPEL A COMMUNICATION ---------------------------------------------------- Samedi 17 mai 2003 ENST, rue Barrault, Paris 13eme Des requ?tes aux questions : nouvelle perspective pour la recherche d'information ? Organis?e par Brigitte Grau (LIMSI) et Olivier Ferret (CEA-LIST) Face ? une question telle que ?Quelle est la voiture la plus ch?re du monde ??, les moteurs de recherche traditionnels renvoient l'ensemble des documents les plus fortement li?s aux mots de la question, en s?lectionnant ?ventuellement un passage, mais laissent ? la charge de l'utilisateur la t?che d'explorer ces documents afin d'y trouver la r?ponse. L'introduction de la t?che ?Question Answering? lors de l'?valuation TREC8 (Text REtrieval Conference), en 1999, est r?v?latrice du besoin sans cesse croissant de disposer de syst?mes de recherche d'information allant au del? de la simple recherche documentaire habituellement propos?e. Cette pression a conduit au d?veloppement de syst?mes capables d'extraire les parties des documents les plus pertinentes par rapport ? une question pos?e, en proposant directement une r?ponse lorsqu'il s'agit d'une question factuelle ou un r?sum? si la requ?te est de nature th?matique. Les syst?mes d?velopp?s dans le cadre des ?valuations TREC de ces derni?res ann?es repr?sentent un premier stade dans la probl?matique d'une recherche d'information ax?e sur la notion de question/r?ponse. Cette probl?matique, esquiss?e dans un roadmap r?cent (cf. http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/duc/roadmapping.html), met en avant des fonctionnalit?s nouvelles ou encore assez embryonnaires dans les syst?mes de recherche d'information actuels: ?valuation de l'existence d'une r?ponse ? une question dans une base de textes, synth?se de r?ponses multiples intra ou inter-documents, dialogue d'aide ? la formulation de requ?te ou encore capacit?s de compr?hension de texte permettant par exemple de reconna?tre des reprises anaphoriques ou de juger de l'?ventuelle incompatibilit? de r?ponses multiples. Ces nouvelles fonctionnalit?s imposent aux syst?mes de recherche d'information de mener une analyse plus en profondeur ? la fois des requ?tes qui leur sont adress?es et des documents au sein desquels ils doivent chercher les informations permettant d'y r?pondre. C'est pourquoi la probl?matique des syst?mes de question/r?ponse se situe ? l'intersection de plusieurs domaines: elle poss?de bien entendu un ancrage originel fort dans le domaine de la recherche d'information mais elle fait aussi appel de fa?on importante au traitement automatique des langues (TAL) ainsi que plus ponctuellement ? des domaines tels que l'apprentissage automatique. Typiquement, un syst?me de question/r?ponse s'articule ainsi autour d'un moteur de recherche traditionnel, enrichi en amont par un module d'analyse des questions et en aval par des modules robustes d'analyse des documents assurant l'extraction de passages r?ponses en m?lant l'exploitation de traits linguistiques, aussi bien de nature morphologique, syntaxique ou s?mantique, et l'utilisation de crit?res num?riques, plus classiques en recherche d'information. De ces sp?cificit?s se d?gagent plusieurs axes fort de la probl?matique question/r?ponse telle qu'elle est envisag?e actuellement. Le premier de ces axes est le fait que l'analyse des requ?tes est consid?r?e comme une fonction importante visant ? d?terminer les intentions de l'utilisateur, soit le but de sa recherche, et non plus seulement ? produire un ensemble de mots-cl?s. L'impact de cette analyse sur les r?sultats de la recherche a bien entendu pour objectif d'inciter les utilisateurs ? formuler leurs requ?tes sous une forme suffisamment riche, en l'occurrence des questions en langue naturelle, pour permettre la mise en ?vidence de l'objet de leur recherche. Le second axe concerne la n?cessaire robustesse des modules linguistiques d'analyse des documents. Le probl?me des syst?mes de question/r?ponse a ?t? explor? d?s les premiers travaux en TAL (Lehnert 1977) mais sur des domaines limit?s seulement. Actuellement, m?me si le cas de figure des domaines ferm?s demeure, comme avec les FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions), l'int?r?t se porte majoritairement sur des syst?mes de question/r?ponse en domaine ouvert r?pondant ? des questions de nature factuelle ou encyclop?dique ? partir de tr?s grosses base de textes, voire du WEB. Dans ce cadre, il n'est pas possible de poser de restrictions a priori tant pour ce qui est des domaines abord?s que des types de textes trait?s. Il s'agit l? d'un enjeu important pour le TAL auquel peut contribuer de fa?on significative l'apprentissage automatique. Un dernier axe de cette nouvelle probl?matique de la recherche d'information, en relation ?troite avec le pr?c?dent, concerne la capacit? des syst?mes ? auto-?valuer leurs r?sultats et ? utiliser diff?rents niveaux de traitement. ?tre confront? ? des documents sans possibilit? de contr?le quant ? leur nature ou leur sujet signifie que les modules d'analyse des documents les plus sophistiqu?s, donc les plus fragiles, sont parfois mis en d?faut et produisent des r?sultats moins pertinents que ceux issus de modules moins ?labor?s mais plus robustes. La capacit? ? d?terminer lorsqu'un tel cas de figure se produit et ? le g?rer est sans doute une des cl?s du succ?s de l'utilisation du TAL en recherche d'information. Son impact sur l'architecture des syst?mes d?velopp?s est particuli?rement important. Alors qu'une ?valuation des syst?mes de question/r?ponse en Fran?ais est en cours de pr?paration dans le cadre du r?cent appel Technolangue des minist?res de la Recherche et l'Industrie, l'objectif de cette journ?e de l'ATALA est de faire le point sur l'?tat actuel des recherches concernant la probl?matique question/r?ponse et de pr?senter les travaux d?j? r?alis?s dans ce domaine, en particulier dans la sph?re francophone, ou les travaux y contribuant directement. Plus sp?cifiquement, les propositions de communication pourront pr?senter des syst?mes de question/r?ponse dans leur ensemble ou bien des traitements constitutifs de tels syst?mes pourvu qu'ils soient replac?s dans la probl?matique question/r?ponse. Parmi ces traitements, on peut notamment citer: - analyse de questions: typologie de questions, extraction de l'objet de la question, de son contexte, de contraintes s?mantiques - reconnaissance d'entit?s nomm?es:en domaine ouvert, typage fin - extraction de passages - similarit? de repr?sentations syntaxiques, partielles ou compl?tes - outils terminologiques: extraction et reconnaissance de termes et de leurs variantes - appariement question - passage de texte fond?s sur des traits linguistiques: traits morphologiques, syntaxiques ou s?mantiques - extraction et justification des r?ponses: patrons de r?ponse, inf?rences, paraphrase ? La cible privil?gi?e de cette journ?e est constitu?e par des travaux portant sur des bases textuelles importantes ou ? partir du WEB mais les syst?mes de question/r?ponse destin?s ? des domaines restreints ou coupl?s ? des bases de connaissances ou des bases de donn?es peuvent ?galement ?tre concern?s dans la mesure o? certains traitements, tels que l'analyse de questions par exemple, sont similaires. Les propositions de communication pourront ?galement aborder des th?mes plus transversaux en relation avec les syst?mes de question/r?ponse, th?mes parmi lesquels: - l'apprentissage automatique; que ce soit pour acqu?rir sur une large ?chelle des ressources utilisables par un syst?me de question/r?ponse ou plus directement, pour apprendre ? s?lectionner et extraire la r?ponse ? une question; - le multilinguisme: difficult? de passer d'une langue ? une autre, sachant que la plupart des syst?mes ont ?t? d?velopp?s pour l'anglais; possibilit? de poser une question dans une langue et de chercher la r?ponse dans des documents ?crits dans une autre langue; - le WEB: utilisation du WEB en tant que source de connaissances ou de r?ponses; sp?cificit? de la recherche de r?ponses sur le WEB; - le multi-document: fusion et coh?rence de r?ponses multiples. Soumission: r?sum? de 2 ? 3 pages. Nous demandons aux auteurs de pr?ciser si leur soumission : 1) concerne des travaux en cours, ou des prises de position; 2) des travaux aboutis du point de vue th?orique ou appliqu?. Soumission (modalit?s) Un r?sum? de 1 ? 2 pages doit ?tre envoy? avant le 22 avril 2003 par courrier ?lectronique en format text, .rtf, .doc ou .pdf ? : Brigitte Grau : Brigitte.Grau at limsi.fr et Olivier Ferret: olivier.ferret at cea.fr Les notifications d'acceptation seront donn?es pour le 5 mai 2003. Groupe LIR - LIMSI BP 133, 91403 Orsay Cedex tel. 01 69 85 80 03, fax 01 69 85 80 88 et Institut d'Informatique d'Entreprise (IIE) 18 all?e Jean Rostand, 91025 Evry Cedex tel. 01 69 36 73 44, fax 01 69 36 73 09 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 25 18:20:42 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:20:42 +0100 Subject: Appel: ISKO Conference (Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society) Message-ID: Apologies for multiple posting ********************************************************************************* Eighth International ISKO Conference First Call for papers The International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) will hold its 8th International ISKO Conference (ISKO 8) in London, England, July 13th-16th 2004. The conference will be hosted by the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. The theme of the conference is: Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society The keynote address will be delivered by Clifford Lynch, Executive Director, Coalition for Networked Information. Papers addressing Knowledge Organization and the Global Information Society from any of the following interrelated perspectives are invited: ? Global Users and uses of Knowledge Organization ? Theories of Knowledge and Knowledge Organization: feasibility of universal solutions ? Linguistic and cultural approaches to Knowledge Organization: cross-cultural, cross-language and multilingual information retrieval ? Information Policies, Management, Interoperability and Maintenance of Information Systems ? Knowledge Organization in corporate information systems ? Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Representation ? Knowledge Organization of Universal and Special Systems ? Knowledge Organization of non-print information: sound, image , multimedia &c. Academics, practitioners and researchers involved in knowledge organization are invited to submit abstracts of between 1500 and 2000 words by September 30th 2003 to Professor I.C. McIlwaine, Programme Chair (see contact information below). Abstracts should reflect the theme of the conference and each should indicate into which of the above categories it falls. Submissions for poster sessions are also invited, again reflecting the above, and an outline description of the projected format, should be supplied. These should also be submitted by September 30th 2003 and relate to the same criteria. A limited number of small bursaries will be available for students who submit outstanding proposals. An international programme committee will review the abstracts, and authors will be notified of decisions by December 1st 2003. The deadline for submission of papers for the printed conference proceedings will be March 1st 2004. The programme committee reserves the right to judge abstracts as more appropriate for poster sessions in preference to open presentations. All abstracts should be submitted by e-mail as rtf attachments ... [Susan/Aida to decide method] Venue of the conference: University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Conference chair: Vanda Broughton Programme chair: Ia McIlwaine ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Widad Mustafa el Hadi (mustafa at univ-lille3.fr) Tel : 33 (0) 320 416 815 - Fax : 33 (0) 320 416 379 Groupe ILSI, UFR IDIST, Universite C.-de-Gaulle (Lille3) CERSATES (UMR 8529) B.P. 149, 59 653 Villeneuve D'Ascq Cedex, France ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 25 18:20:49 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:20:49 +0100 Subject: Conf: IWPT 2003 Message-ID: C a l l f o r P a r t i c i p a t i o n IWPT 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sponsored by ACL/SIGPARSE 23-25 April 2003 Nancy, France http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ ~~~~ Nancy, "City of Art and History", the historical capital of Lorraine (the north-eastern part of France) welcomes you to the 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies. The Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (LORIA) in Nancy, France, will host the 8th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'03) from 23 to 25 April, 2003. IWPT'03 continues the tradition of biennial workshops on parsing technology organised by SIGPARSE, the Special Interest Group on Parsing of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). This workshop series was initiated by Masaru Tomita in 1989. The first workshop, in Pittsburgh and Hidden Valley, was followed by workshops in Cancun (Mexico) in 1991; Tilburg (Netherlands) and Durbuy (Belgium) in 1993; Prague and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic) in 1995; Boston/Cambridge (Massachusetts) in 1997; Trento (Italy) in 2000, and Beijing (China) in 2001. ******************************************** * INVITED SPEAKERS: * * * * Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp) * * Eugene Charniak (Brown University) * * * ******************************************** Program: -------- Three days of invited talks, long papers, short papers and posters and discussions. invited talks: -------------- Eugene Charniak (Brown University), Syntax-based Language Models for Statistical Machine Translation Gregory Grefenstette (Claivoyance Corporation, Pittsburgh), Why Parse? Statistical Processing or Symbolic Processing. accepted papers: ---------------- Miguel A. Alonso, V??ctor J. D??az, Parsing Tree Adjoining Grammars and Tree Insertion Grammars with simultaneous adjunctions. Pierre Boullier, Supertagging: A non-Statistical Parsing-based Approach. Denis B??chet, Incremental parsing of Lambek calculus using proof-net interfaces. Pierre Boullier, Guided Earley Parsing. Anna Corazza, Parsing Strategies for the Integration of Two Stochastic Context-Free Grammars. James Henderson, Generative Versus Discriminative Models for Statistical Left-Corner Parsing. Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta, Probabilistic Parsing as Intersection. Khalil Sima'an, On Maximizing Metrics for Syntactic Disambiguation. Hiroyasu Yamada, Yuji Matsumoto, Statistical Dependency Analysis with Support Vector Machines. Gennaro Costagliola, Vincenzo Deufemia, Visual Language Editors based on LR Parsing Techniques. Kenji Sagae, Alon Lavie, Combining Rule-based and Data-driven Techniques for Grammatical Relation Extraction in Spoken Language. Frederik Fouvry, Constraint relaxation with weighted feature structures. Chad Langley, Alon Lavie, Parsing Domain Actions with Phrase-Level Grammars and Memory-Based Learners. Mark-Jan Nederhof, Giorgio Satta, Stuart M. Shieber, Partially Ordered Multiset Context-Free Grammars and ID/LP Parsing. Joakim Nivre, An Efficient Algorithm for Projective Dependency Parsing. Kilian Foth, Wolfgang Menzel, Subtree Parsing to Speed up Deep Analysis. Accepted Poster Presentations ----------------------------- Philippe Blache, Meta-level constraints for representing interaction between linguistic domains. Vladimir Kadlec, Pavel Smrz, PACE --- Parser Comparison and Evaluation. Mi-Young Kim, Jong-Hyeok Lee, S_clause Segmentation for Efficient Syntactic Analysis in Long Sentences. Yong-Jae Kwak So-Young Park Hoojung-Chung Young-Sook Hwang Hae-Chang Rim, GLR Parser with Conditional Action Model using Surface Phrasal Types For Korean. Souha Hammami Mezghani, Chafik Aloulou, Lamia Hadrich Belguith, Ahmed Hadj Kacem, Impl??mentation du syst??me MASPAR selon une approche multi-agent. Sanghamitra Mohanty, Rakesh Chandra Balabantaray, Intelligent Parsing in Natural Language Processing. [canceled] So-Young Park Yong-Jae Kwak Hoo-Jung Chung Young-Sook Hwang Hae-Chang Rim, Automatic Acquisition of Constraints for Efficient Korean Parsing. Tomasz Obrebski, Dependency parsing using dependency graph for storing alternative structures. For more details, see the Programme page at http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ Registration: ------------- Early registration is possible until March 28; after that date the registration fee will be higher. Please register online using the IWPT'03 web pages at http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ At the web site you can also find information about accomodation and other relevant information. IWPT'03 Organization: --------------------- General Chair: Harry Bunt (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Programme Chair: Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Local Organization Chair: Guy Perrier (LORIA, Nancy, France) Further information ------------------- Additional information about IWPT'03 is available at the URL: http://iwpt03.loria.fr/ At the SIGPARSE site at http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/sigparse/ information is available about previous IWPTs, proceedings, books based on IWPTs, and SIGPARSE related activities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mar 25 18:20:53 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:20:53 +0100 Subject: Conf: journees Traductibilite et/ou Modelisation Message-ID: Traductibilit? et/ou Mod?lisation 27 et 28 mars 2003 Journ?es organis?es par le Centre Tesni?re Universit? de Franche-Comt?, Besan?on Facult? des Lettres, 30, rue M?gevand Salon Pr?clin Responsable : Sylviane Cardey-Greenfield Jeudi 27 mars 10h Ouverture Sylviane Cardey (France) 10h15 " Chim?res technolectiques " Yves Gentilhomme (Fondateur du centre Tesni?re, France) 10h45 "Clauses with the conjunction "hogy": a challenge to the Hungarian-to-French translation" G?bor Kata (Hongrie) 11h15 " Peut-on traduire les anthroponymes ? " Jean Tournier (France) Pause d?jeuner 14h " Square - Absolute Translate Partenaire de la communication internationale " Pierre Picard (France- Absolute Translate) 14h30 " Le symbole et son interpr?tation : richesses et difficult?s " Jo?l Garnier (France) 15h Conf?rence projet Aurore et Centre Tesni?re " Les fonctions lexicales[= FL] comme instrument de traduction flexible " Igor Mel'cuk (Canada) Vendredi 28 mars 9H "La s?mantique de l'objet : l'avantage du traitement probabiliste " Sylvie Della Santa (France) 9h30 " Explication d'un apparent paradoxe linguistique : la traduction d'un langage maternel dans ce m?me langage " Yves Gilli (France) 10h " Difficult?s de la traduction: ponoc en tant qu'expression de la r?serve du rapporteur " Anna Dutka-Mankowska (Pologne) Pause 11h " Semantic universals and translation : a case in point from arabic " Farouk Bouhadiba (Alg?rie) 11h30 " De la traduction humaine ? la TA : les expressions fig?es fran?aises traduites en chinois " Hsiang-I Lin (Ta?wan) 12h " Du concept au mot dit ou traduit : ?tude neurolinguistique " Armelle Jacquet (France) Pause d?jeuner 14h " Observations sur la syst?matique des langues - Exemples arabes " Andr? Roman (France) 14h 30 " Les principales difficult?s de la traduction humaine et/ou automatique, l'exemple du cor?en/fran?ais " EunSoon You (Cor?e) 15h " Les Divergences entre les langues " Mehand Iheddadene (France-T?l?com) 15h30 " La cr?ation et la gestion de bases terminologiques multilingues, ?l?ments essentiels de la traduction et de la n?ologie " Igor Skouratov (Russie) 16h " Quels types de donn?es pour la traduction automatique de l'adjectif qualificatif dans les groupes Adj Nom / Nom Adj : vers une approche ontologique et contextuelle " Izabella Thomas (France) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Professeur Sylviane CARDEY Directrice du Centre de recherche en linguistique Lucien Tesniere Faculte des Lettres, Email : sylviane.cardey at univ-fcomte.fr 30, rue Megevand, Tel: +33 (0)3 81 66 53 94 25030 BESANCON Cedex, Fax: +33 (0)3 81 66 53 00 FRANCE http://tesniere.univ-fcomte.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 Mon Mar 31 16:59:32 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:59:32 +0200 Subject: Appel: EURALEX 2004 Message-ID: **************************************************************************** This call is being sent to several lists in both English and French. We apologise for cross-postings. Cet appel sera envoy? ? plusieurs listes en anglais et fran?ais. Nous nous excusons pour les envois multilples. **************************************************************************** EURALEX 2004 1?re Appel ? Communications Le 11?me congr?s international d'EURALEX aura lieu ? Lorient, France, du 6 au 10 juillet 2004. Il sera organis? par la Facult? de Lettres et Sciences Humaines de l'Universit? de Bretagne Sud, Lorient. Le congr?s EURALEX r?unit lexicographes professionnels, ?diteurs, chercheurs, universitaires, et toute personne int?ress?s par les dictionnaires de tous types. Le programme comprendra des conf?rences pl?ni?res, des sessions parall?les sur les th?mes ?num?r?s ci-dessous, des d?monstrations de logiciels, des travaux dirig?s d'avant-congr?s, des ateliers sp?cialis?s, d'une exposition de livres et de logiciels, et des activit?s de d?tente pour les participants et leurs invit?s. Th?mes Les communications, les communications affich?es (posters), et les d?monstrations de logiciels peuvent ?tre propos?s sur tous les aspects de la lexicographie et, entre autres, les th?mes suivants qui sont au centre du congr?s : 1. Lexicographie et Lexicologie Computationnelle 2. Processus d'?laboration des dictionnaires 3. Rapports sur des projets lexicographiques et lexicologiques 4. Lexicographie Bilingue 5. Lexicographie pour Langues de Sp?cialit?- Terminologie et Terminographie 6. Lexicographie historique et savante et ?tymologie 7. Utilisation des dictionnaires 8. Phras?ologie et Collocation 9. Questions lexicologiques ayant une pertinence lexicographique 10. Autres th?mes Les th?mes directeurs n'excluent pas les autres th?mes lexicographiques : les articles, communications affich?es et d?monstrations correspondant aux th?mes du congr?s, mais qui n'entrent pas dans les cat?gories 1-9, seront cependant examin?s pour pr?sentation ?ventuelle. Communications Les pr?sentations individuelles ne d?passeront pas 20 minutes et seront suivies de 10 minutes de discussion. Communications courtes et pr?sentations rapides de projets : il sera possible de faire de courtes communications et des pr?sentations rapides de projets. Le temps imparti ? chaque pr?sentation sera de 20 minutes suivi de 10 minutes de discussion. Les communicants pourront faire leur pr?sentation dans la langue de leur choix mais il n'est malheureusement pas pr?vu d'interpr?tation. D?monstrations de logiciels Toute d?monstration bien pr?par?e de logiciels ainsi que toute pr?sentation de dictionnaires ?lectroniques, de corpus, d'outils, etc. sera particuli?rement bienvenue. Ces pr?sentations disposeront d'un cr?neau de 20 minutes lors du congr?s (il est possible de les faire deux fois). Il sera possible d'utiliser les moyens techniques de l'universit?. Communications affich?es Une session de communications affich?es est pr?vue. Les installations ad?quates seront mises ? disposition. Des panneaux seront disponibles. Soumission des propositions Les soumissions pourront concerner soit des communications orales, soit des d?monstrations de logiciels, soit des posters. Chaque proposition sera examin?e par deux ou trois membres du comit? de lecture. Le programme sera ?tabli par le comit? de programmation. Les propositions de d?monstrations de logiciels incluront une description des fonctions, l'approche sous-jacente et l'utilisation du logiciel, ?ventuellement une adresse internet et la configuration informatique n?cessaire. Il est demand? aux auteurs d'envoyer 5 copies papier de leur proposition avant le 30 octobre 2003. Il leur est possible de soumettre leur proposition par email mais la proc?dure papier en 5 exemplaires est obligatoire. Format : Communication orales : 6-8 pages, interligne double ; D?monstrations de logiciels : 4 pages, interligne double ; Comminications affich?es : 1-2 pages, interligne double ; 1?re page : Titre de l'article/d?monstration/de logiciel/affiche ; - Noms, universit?(s)/entreprise(s) et adresse(s) de l'auteur/des auteurs ; - R?sum? (10-15 lignes) ; - Coin sup?rieur droit : indiquer la cat?gorie th?matique (si la proposition ne correspond pas ? l'une des principales cat?gories, utiliser 10). Les auteurs dont la proposition sera accept?e recevront une feuille de style pour la pr?paration de la version finale (et ?lectronique) qui sera publi?e dans les Actes imm?diatement avant le congr?s. Les articles issus de communications orales auront jusqu'? 10 pages et ceux issus des d?monstrations de logiciels environ 5 pages, dans une section diff?rente des Actes. Dates importantes 30 Octobre 2003 : date limite pour l'envoi aux organisateurs des versions pr?liminaires des articles. 1er f?vrier : envoi de l'acceptation ou du refus de la proposition. 15 mars : date limite pour l'envoi des articles pr?ts ? la reproduction pour la publication des Actes. Contact Organisateurs du Congr?s EURALEX 2004 Dr. Geoffrey Williams Facult? de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay B.P. 92116 56321 Lorient cedex France Email : elx2004 at univ-ubs.fr Adresse internet : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004 Les informations pr?sent?es sur ce site seront r?guli?rement mises ? jour. Comit? de programme : Geoffrey Williams (F), Anna Braasch (DK), Frantisek ?erm?k (CZ), Krista Varantola (FIN) et Henri B?joint (F). Les lecteurs des propositions comprendront les membres du comit? de programmation, les membres du bureau d'EURALEX et d'autres experts. Travaux dirig?s d'avant-congr?s : Des travaux dirig?s d'avant-congr?s seront organis?s. Les th?mes seront annonc?s plus tard. Expositions : une exposition de livres et de logiciels sera organis?e pendant les pauses-caf? lors du congr?s. Il est possible de faire librement, pour ceux dont la proposition n'a pas ?t? accept?e, des d?monstrations de logiciels. Mais il leur faudra pr?voir leur propre PC ou ordinateur portable car ils ne recevront pas d'assistance technique. Inscription : Les frais d'inscription seront annonc?s plus tard. Les membres d'EURALEX ainsi que ceux s'inscrivant avant la date limite b?n?ficieront d'un tarif privil?gi?. Pour les autres, les frais seront plus ?lev?s. Logement : L'organisation du logement se fera directement par l'Office du Tourisme de Lorient dans des h?tels du centre-ville et aussi dans des chambres bon march?. L'universit? se trouve ? environ 30 mn ? pied du centre-ville et ? 10 mn en bus. Pour plus d'informations, contacter les organisateurs du congr?s ou : Office du Tourisme du Pays de Lorient Maison de la Mer Quai de Rohan 56100 LORIENT T?l?phone: (33) 2 97 21 00 52. Fax: (33) 2 97 21 06 65 Email: contact at lorient-tourisme.com FICHE D'INSCRIPTION PR?LIMINAIRE POUR EURALEX 2004 Pour recevoir la seconde circulaire en septembre 2003, merci de compl?ter et de retourner la fiche suivante (ou une copie ? partir du site internet d'EURALEX) d?s que possible et avant le 31 juillet 2003 ? l'adresse ci-dessous. Il est possible de l'exp?dier ? l'adresse ?lectronique : elx2004 at univ-ubs.fr. Organisateurs du Congr?s EURALEX 2004 Dr. Geoffrey Williams Facult? de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay B.P. 92116 56321 Lorient cedex France NOM INSTITUTION D?PARTMENT RUE ZIP/ CODE POSTAL VILLE PAYS TELEPHONE EMAIL Cochez l'un des choix suivants: [ ] Je d?sirerais faire une communication au Congr?s. [ ] Je d?sirerais faire une d?monstration de logiciels au Congr?s. [ ] Je d?sirerais pr?senter une communication affich?es (poster) au Congr?s. [ ] Je ne d?sire pas faire de communication/de d?monstration de logiciels/pr?senter un poster au Congr?s. PR?F?RENCES DE LOGEMENT (fourchettes de prix) [ ] 4 ?toiles 107-258 euros [ ] 3 ?toiles 76-99 euros [ ] 2 ?toiles 46-68 euros [ ] 1 ?toile 32-38 euros [ ] Auberge de jeunesse ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mon Mar 31 16:59:37 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:59:37 +0200 Subject: Appel: HLT-NAACL 2003 : Building and Using Parallel Texts Message-ID: == Apologies for multiple postings == Notice the April 1 Deadline for late-breaking short papers submissions! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- FINAL CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING PAPERS Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data Driven Machine Translation and Beyond An HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop Edmonton, Alberta May 31, 2003 http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/wpt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Short (Late-Breaking) Papers at the HLT-NAACL Workshop on Building and Using Parallel Text provide a venue for authors to present late-breaking results. Submitted Short Papers will be carefully evaluated on the basis of originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. Short papers are due on April 1, 2003 5pm your local time. Short papers are restricted to 4 pages in length. They must be submitted in camera-ready format; see www.hlt-naacl03.org/format.html. Short papers that are not in PDF or are incorrectly formatted may be rejected on that basis. Authors are strongly encouraged to use the LaTeX style files or MSWord equivalents available on the website. Submissions must describe original, completed, unpublished work, and include concrete evaluation results when appropriate. See full paper submission information for topics of interest. Reviewing will not be blind. Because we need camera-ready formatted papers, authors must include their identifying information on the paper. This is to accommodate the late-breaking format; we need time to review the papers and get the accepted papers to the printer in time. Note that notification date for acceptance and rejection is April 7, with final camera ready copy due on April 10. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- GENERAL WORKSHOP INFORMATION The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers working on problems related to the creation and use of parallel text. Recent events have demonstrated once again the importance of inter-language communication, and reinforce the need for advances in machine translation (MT) and multi-lingual processing tools. The workshop will be centered around the problem of building and using parallel corpora, which are vital resources for efficiently deriving multi-lingual text processing tools. In addition to regular papers, the workshop also includes a shared task that will result in a comparative evaluation of word alignment techniques. We invite submissions of papers addressing any of the following issues: - Construction of parallel corpora, including the automatic identification and harvesting of parallel corpora from the Web. - Methods to evaluate the quality of parallel corpora and word alignments - Tools for processing parallel corpora, including automatic sentence alignment, word alignment, phrase alignment, detection of omissions and gaps in translations, and others - Using parallel corpora for data driven Machine Translation - Using parallel corpora for the derivation of language processing tools in new languages - Using parallel corpora for automatic corpora annotation - Language learning applied to parallel corpora - Translation memory systems as a source of aligned corpora While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora addressing languages with scarce resources. We expect to make arrangements with a journal in Natural Language Processing or Computational Linguistics for a special issue that will include selected papers from this workshop. Invited Speaker: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Shared Task: -=-=-=-=-=-= All researchers who have a word alignment system available are invited to participate in the shared task, individually or as part of a team. Participants in the shared task will be provided with common sets of training data, consisting of Romanian-English and French-English parallel texts. Participants will be given approximately one month to train their systems with this data, and then previously held out test data will be released. Participants will run their alignment system on this test data and submit their results, which will be evaluated using a common set of metrics. See the workshop website for details regarding the shared task. Submission format: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Submissions should consist of late-breaking papers of max. 4 pages, formatted following the NAACL 2003 guidelines. In addition, teams participating in the word alignment shared task are invited to submit short papers (max. 4 pages) describing their systems and/or evaluation methodology. Send your submission (a ps or pdf file), prepared for anonymous review, to both: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, rada at cs.unt.edu and Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth, tpederse at d.umn.edu Important dates: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Deadline for regular paper submissions: March 10 (passed) Deadline for results submissions: March 25 (shared task, passed) Deadline for late-breaking papers submissions: April 1 Deadline for short paper submissions: April 1 (shared task) Notification of acceptance - for regular papers:April 1 - for late-breaking papers: April 7 Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 10 Organization Committee: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth Program Committee: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lars Ahrenberg, Linkoping University Nicoletta Calzolari, University of Pisa Tim Chklovski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mona Diab, University of Maryland Ulrich Germann, Information Sciences Institute Daniel Gildea, University of Pennsylvania Maria das Gracas Volpe Nunes, University of Sao Paulo Nancy Ide, Vassar College Lucia Helena Machado Rino, Federal University of Sao Carlos Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Daniel Marcu, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Dan Melamed, New York University Magnus Merkel, Linkoping University Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton Grace Ngai, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen Franz Och, Information Sciences Institute Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University Kishore Papineni, IBM Jessie Pinkham, Microsoft Research Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO/TIM/ETI University of Geneva Florence Reeder, MITRE Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Antonio Ribeiro, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy Michel Simard, University of Montreal Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Arturo Trujillo, Canon Research Centre Europe Jean Veronis, University of Provence Clare Voss, Army Research Lab Dan Tufis, RACAI Romania Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Mon Mar 31 16:59:40 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:59:40 +0200 Subject: Appel: MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT IX Message-ID: MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT IX September 23-28, 2003 New Orleans, USA http://www.mt-summit.org CALL FOR PAPERS The ninth Machine Translation Summit, organized by the International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT) and hosted by the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 23 to 28 September 2003. MT Summit IX hereby invites original submissions on all aspects machine and machine-aided translation. Please consult the conference Web site for the complete Call for Papers, including details on the different categories of submissions. Important dates: - May 11, 2003 : Deadline for the submission of papers - June 30, 2003 : Notification of acceptance sent to authors - July 31, 2003 : Camera-ready copy due - September 23, 2003 : Conference opens Invited Speakers: MT Summit IX will feature invited talks by the following speakers: Pierre Isabelle Area Manager, Content Analysis, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble "Multilingual Document Processing at XRCE" Akitoshi Okumura Senior Manager, Human Language Technology Group NEC Corporation, Japan "Development of Speech Translation for Hand-held Devices" Donald Barab? Director, Business Development Translation Bureau, Public Works and Government Services Canada "Soaring Demand, Shrinking Supply in Translation: How We Plan to Make Ends Meet" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------