From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Wed May 7 16:32:34 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 18:32:34 +0200 Subject: Appel: revue TAL : EXTENSION DE LA DATE LIMITE AU 16 MAI 2003 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTENSION DE LA DATE LIMITE AU 16 MAI 2003 SOUMISSION POSSIBLE EN LIGNE A http://graves.inria.fr/ojs/login.php ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENSION MAI 16th 2003 EXPERIMENTAL ONLINE SUBMISSION AT http://graves.inria.fr/ojs/login.php ------------------------------------------------------------------- [English Version follows] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Revue t.a.l.] Appel à soumissions t.a.l. : Évolutions en analyse syntaxique Date limite de soumission : 16 Mai 2003 Numéro dirigé par Éric de la Clergerie (INRIA) et Martin Rajman (EPFL) http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-syntaxe.html Contexte : Analyse syntaxique ------------------------------------------------------------------------ L'analyse syntaxique est une composante très importante dans le traitement automatique des langues. Elle continue de poser de nombreux problèmes que ce soit au niveau des formalismes grammaticaux ou au niveau de la complexité algorithmique, en particulier pour gérer les ambiguïtés. Néanmoins, des progrès ont eu lieu permettant un emploi plus courant et à plus grande échelle de l'analyse syntaxique dans des applications. L'analyse syntaxique regroupe divers courants qui diffèrent sur les objectifs visés et sur les méthodes employées. Les méthodes couvrent par exemple les approches stochastiques, les approches par cascades (de phases d'analyse locale) et les approches plus traditionnelles d'analyse complète (ou profonde). Les objectifs vont de la segmentation en syntagmes à l'analyse profonde avec une grammaire à large couverture, en passant par des analyseurs robustes et/ou superficiels. Néanmoins cette diversité dans les méthodes et objectifs reflète une certaine complémentarité plutôt qu'une opposition absolue. Le foisonnement des formalismes syntaxiques est aussi important avec cependant des points de convergence. Ceux ci rendent ainsi possible des conversions entre formalismes syntaxiques (par exemple entre TAG et HPSG ou HPSG et CFG) ou vers des formalismes plus «opérationnels». Certaines techniques d'analyse sont « génériques » et utilisables pour plusieurs formalismes. Certains systèmes se veulent multi-formalismes, reposant sur une infrastructure générique et efficace (pour l'indexation, la gestion des ambiguïtés, l'unification, gestion de la mémoire par partage ou copie de structures,...). Enfin la notion de lexicalisation des grammaires transcende largement les formalismes. D'autre part, la généralisation progressive des analyseurs syntaxiques soulève la question de leur évaluation. Thème : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ L'objectif de ce numéro est de mieux comprendre l'ensemble des approches et techniques utilisées en analyse syntaxique et surtout d'en mieux cerner les convergences et complémentarités. La liste suivante non exhaustive énumère divers sujets pertinents pour cet appel. - Convergence de formalismes syntaxiques - Conversions entre formalismes - Formalismes opérationnels ou descriptifs - Convergence et complémentarité des approches d'analyse syntaxique - Robustesse (traitement des mots inconnus, correction d'erreurs) - Lexicalisation - Intégration de méthodes stochastiques - Analyse en cascade ou approches globales - Évolution des approches pour de nouveaux formalismes - Optimisations (génériques) des analyseurs - stratégies d'analyse - gestion de l'ambiguïté - techniques d'indexation - gestion mémoire (partage et copie de structures) - Passage aux grammaires à large couverture - efficacité des analyseurs - maintenance et modularité - Évaluation des analyseurs Comité de lecture spécifique ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pierre Boullier (INRIA, Rocquencourt) John Carroll (Université du Sussex, GB) Jean-Pierre Chanod (XRCE, Grenoble) Alexandra Kinyon (Université de Pennsylvanie, USA) Guido Minnen (Motorola, USA) Alexis Nasr (LATTICE, Paris) Mark-Jan Nederhof (Université de Groningen, Pays-Bas) Gertjan van Noord (Université de Groningen, Pays-Bas) Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, Orsay) Gerald Penn (Université de Toronto, Canada) Anoop Sarkar (Université Simon Fraser, Canada) Giorgio Satta (Université de Padoue, Italie) Manuel Vilares (Université de Vigo, Espagne) David Weir (Université du Sussex, GB) Rémi Zajac (Systran Software, USA) Format ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Les articles (25 pages maximum) seront soumis au format Word, LaTeX, Postscript ou PDF. Les feuilles de style sont disponibles chez HERMES Langue ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Les articles peuvent être écrits en français ou en anglais. Cependant, les soumissions en anglais ne sont acceptées que pour les auteurs non francophones. Calendrier ------------------------------------------------------------------------ La date limite de soumission est fixée au 16 Mai 2003. Les personnes qui ont l'intention de soumettre un article sont invitées à prendre contact avec Éric de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr). Les articles seront relus par un membre du comité de rédaction de la revue TAL et par deux relecteurs du comité de lecture constitué spécifiquement par les coordinateurs pour ce numéro. La décision du comité de rédaction sera transmise aux auteurs avant le 1er Juillet 2003. La version définitive des articles acceptés sera à remettre pour le 1er Octobre 2003 pour une publication prévue fin 2003. Envoi des articles ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Les articles (25 pages maximum, au format Hermès) doivent être envoyés par voie électronique à Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr ou par voie postale (version papier en cinq exemplaires) à l'adresse suivante : Éric de la Clergerie INRIA Rocquencourt Domaine de Voluceau - B.P. 105 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France De manière alternative, une soumission en ligne (expérimental) est disponible sur http://graves.inria.fr/ojs/login.php ====================================================================== Call for papers for the special issue of the TAL journal Title: Evolutions in Parsing Submission deadline: May 16th 2003 Guest Editors: Éric de la Clergerie (INRIA, France) Martin Rajman (EPFL, Switzerland) http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-syntaxe.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Parsing is a very important component in Natural Language Processing. It still raises many problems, for instance at the level grammatical formalisms or at the level of the algorithmic complexity, especially to handle ambiguity. However, because of recent advances, parsers are nowadays more and more widely used in large scale applications. Many approaches exist in the Parsing community that differ on the methods and objectives. The methods include for instance stochastic parsing, local parsing cascades, or more traditional complete or deep parsing. Objectives range from segmentation into chunks to deep parsing based on wide coverage grammars, including shallow and/or robust parsing. Anyway, these various methods and objectives are not necessarily in opposition and may be perceived as complementary. Despite the large number of existing grammatical formalisms, there are hints of convergences between them which open ways for (partial) conversions between formalisms (for instance between TAG and HPSG or HPSG and CFG) or toward "operational" formalisms. Also, some parsing techniques are "generic" and may be applied for several formalisms. Some parsing systems also aim to be multi-formalisms, relying on generic and efficient infrastructures (indexing, memory management by structure sharing or copying, powerful unification). Finally, the notion of lexicalization is present in most formalisms. Last but not least, the generalization of parsers raises the issue of their evaluation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Themes: The main objective of this special issue is a better understanding of the various approaches and techniques found in Parsing, highlighting the convergences and complementarities that may exist between them. We welcome works on any of the following issues. * Convergence between grammatical formalisms * conversions of formalisms * operational formalisms vs declarative ones * Convergence and complementarity in parsing approaches * robustness (unknown words, error corrections) * lexicalization * Integration of stochastic methods * Cascade parsing vs one-pass parsing * Evolution of parsing techniques for new formalisms * (generic) Optimizations in Parsing * parsing strategies * ambiguity management * chart indexing * memory management (structure sharing and copying) * Wide coverage grammars * parsing efficiency * maintenance and modularity * Parsing evaluation Reviewers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pierre Boullier (INRIA, France) John Carroll (University of Sussex, UK) Jean-Pierre Chanod (XRCE, France) Alexandra Kinyon (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Guido Minnen (Motorola, USA) Alexis Nasr (LATTICE, France) Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of Groningen, NL) Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, NL) Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, France) Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada) Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy) Manuel Vilares (University of Vigo, Spain) David Weir (Université of Sussex, UK) Rémi Zajac (Systran Software, USA) Format ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers (25 pages maximum) may be submitted in Word, LaTeX, Postscript or PDF. The style sheets are available at HERMES Language ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers may be written either in French or in English (non-French speaking authors only) Schedule ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The submission deadline is May 16th 2003. People intending to submit a paper should contact Éric de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr). Articles will be reviewed by a member of the editorial board of the journal (http://www.atala.org/tal/redaction.html) and two external reviewers chosen by the editors of the special issue. Editorial board decisions and referees' reports will be transmitted to the authors by July 1st, 2003. Final versions of accepted papers will be required by October 1st, 2003. Publication is planned for the end of 2003. Submission ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions (25 pages maximum, following the Hermes style sheet) should be sent either electronically (Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr), or by surface mail (five copies) to Éric de la Clergerie INRIA Rocquencourt Domaine de Voluceau - B.P. 105 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France A new and experimental alternative is by online submission at http://graves.inria.fr/ojs/login.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 7 16:32:50 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 18:32:50 +0200 Subject: Appel: Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services Message-ID: SECOND 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 (http://ontoweb-lt.dfki.de/). 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: Alexander Maedche, Robert Bosch Gmbh, Germany Asun Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain 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 Jan Paralic, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia John Davies, British Telecom, UK John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Maria Vargas-Vera, Open University, UK Marin Dimitrov, OntoText Lab, Bulgaria Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, GE Robert Engels, CognIT, Norway Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, UK York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Wed May 7 16:32:55 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 18:32:55 +0200 Subject: Jobs: google Message-ID: Google, Inc., the search engine company based in Mountain View, Cal., is recruiting native speakers of French to help with search quality evaluation. Work is part-time on a project-by-project basis, and paid by the hour. Evaluation projects can be done through internet access from home anywhere in the world. Candidates must be immersed in their native (web) culture but also fluent in English, comfortable with browser use and the basic mechanics of internet searches, and generally skilled at analytical tasks. If U.S.-based, they must have a U.S. work permit. To apply, please send your resume to cbartels at google.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 alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue May 13 13:06:11 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:06:11 +0200 Subject: Conf: MT Summit IX 2003 : DEADLINE EXTENDED ! Message-ID: Workshop on MT Evaluation Towards Systematizing MT Evaluation (deadline extended!) Theme: Estimating the quality of any machine-translation system accurately is only possible if the evaluation methodology is robust and systematic. The NSF and EU-funded ISLE project has created a taxonomy that relates situations and measures for a variety of MT applications. The ?Framework for MT Evaluation in ISLE? (FEMTI) is now available online at http://www.issco.unige.ch/projects/isle/taxonomy3/. The effort of matching these measures correctly with their appropriate evaluation tasks, however, is an area that needs further attention. For example, what effect do ?user needs? have on the ?functionality characteristics? specified in the FEMTI guidelines? To what extent are there unseen relationships in the branches of the taxonomy? How can we judge when a given evaluation measure is appropriate? Issues that come to bear on this question are the automation of MT evaluation, the extension to MT applications such as automated speech-translation, and the evaluation of the very training corpora that an MT system relies on to improve output quality. This workshop welcomes papers for 30-minute presentations on the comparison between MT evaluation measures, studies of the behavior of individual measures (i.e., meta-evaluation), new uses for measures, analysis of MT evaluation tasks with respect to measures, and related topics on this theme. We solicit submissions to the workshop that address some of the following issues, however any other topic related to MT Testing and Evaluation is also acceptable: Machine Translation Evaluation Measures: Use of existing measures in the ISLE hierarchy (FEMTI guidelines) New measures and their uses Matching evaluation requirements (e.g., translation tasks, user profiles) with measures Effects of combining measures Evaluation Measures and Languages Is a metric?s effectiveness language independent? Counting grammatical features for evaluation Evaluation and Domains Measures for spoken Language translation Domain-specific evaluation techniques Using measures to evaluate the quality of a training corpus for a given task Automation vs. Human Testing Which measures are suitable for automation? Human/machine scoring comparisons Human tester agreement: which measures fare best? Submission Format Papers (full papers up to 8 pages in length) must be submitted electronically to: barrett at semanticdatasystems.com, or andrei.popescu-belis at issco.unige.ch Papers are preferred in .pdf, .ps, .rtf, or .txt, format Important Dates: NEW Paper submission deadline: May 26 Notification: June 30 Camera-ready due: July 31 Note: the workshop will be held on September 23, 2003 Also see workshop website for updates: http://www.issco.unige.ch/projects/isle/MTE-at-MTS9.html Contacts Leslie Barrett (Transclick, Inc., New York, NY) Andrei Popescu-Belis (ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva) Organizers Leslie Barrett (Transclick, Inc., New York, NY) Maghi King (ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva) Keith Miller (MITRE Corp) Andrei Popescu-Belis (ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva) Program Committee: Bonnie Dorr (University of Maryland) Eduard Hovy (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California) Maghi King (ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva) Bente Maegaard (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen, Denmark) Keith Miller (MITRE Corp.) Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania) Ted Petersen (Univesity of Minnesota) Andrei Popescu-Belis (ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva) Florence Reeder (MITRE Corp) Nancy Underwood (ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva) Michelle Vanni (National Computer Security Center) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 13 13:06:07 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:06:07 +0200 Subject: Jobs: stage ELDA Message-ID: ELDA, Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, située à Paris, cherche un(e) étudiant(e) en licence ou maitrise TAL / industries de la langue, pour un stage à mi-temps de quatre à cinq semaines (mi-mai -mi- juillet 2002). Dans le cadre du projet européen CLEF, qui evalue des systèmes de recherche d'information ; la mission consiste à elaborer le référentiel de reponses a partir des résultats des participants. Qualités requises : très bonne maîtrise du francais écrit, maîtrise de l'anglais écrit, rapidité et meticulosité, aptitude a travailler en équipe. Stage remunéré. Adresser la candidature à David Andritch, andritch at elda.fr, 01 43 13 33 33 Plus d'informations sur ELDA : www.elda.fr, CLEF : www.clef-campaign.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 13 13:06:20 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:06:20 +0200 Subject: Appel: S E N S E V A L - 3 Message-ID: ~~~~~ Apologies for multiple postings ~~~~~~ S E N S E V A L - 3 Evaluation exercises for word sense disambiguation an ACL-SIGLEX event March 2004 Call for Interest in Participation http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/senseval/senseval3/cfi.html Feedback requested by June 15, 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Senseval (http://www.senseval.org) is the international organization devoted to the evaluation of Word Sense Disambiguation Systems. Its mission is to organise and run evaluation and related activities to test the strengths and weaknesses of WSD systems with respect to different words, different aspects of language, and different languages. It's underlying goal is to further our understanding of lexical semantics and polysemy. Senseval-1 took place in the summer of 1998 for English, French, and Italian, culminating in a workshop held at Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, England on September 2-4. Senseval-2 took place in the summer of 2001, and was followed by a workshop held in July 2001 in Toulouse, in conjunction with ACL-2001. It included tasks for Basque, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish. We are now getting ready for SENSEVAL-3! Senseval 3 evaluation is scheduled to take place in March 2004, and the workshop is planned for July, hopefully in conjunction with ACL-04 in Barcelona. As with previous evaluations, participants will be provided with training data, and will have the chance to test their systems on common data sets. Similar tasks will use the same data format. 16 different tasks have been proposed for Senseval 3. We are now seeking to get feedback from potential participants, and kindly ask those who may be interested to participate in one or more Senseval-3 tasks, to fill in the call for interest in participation form available at: http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/senseval/senseval3/cfi.html Please fill in this form before June 15, 2003. Your feedback is very much appreciated and will help us better organize Senseval-3! Thank you, Rada Mihalcea and Phil Edmonds Senseval-3 coordinators ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:07:08 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:07:08 +0200 Subject: Conf: XVII Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics, FS&S Message-ID: CIRCULAR SPLICING AND THE SEMIOTICS OF LIFE (XVII Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics, FS&S) Rani Siromoney (Madras Christian College) Circular Splicing Sungchul Ji (Rutgers University) The Semiotics of Life June 23-27, 2003 Organized by the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University PROGRAMME Monday 23 9-11 Siromoney: Introduction and Linear Splicing 11-13 Ji: Computing with Numbers, Words, or Molecules. The von Neumann-Pattee Principle of Matter-Sign Complementarity Wednesday 25 9-11 Siromoney: Circular Words, Languages, Splicing: Early Models 11-13 Ji: The Molecular Information Theory Thursday 26 9-11 Siromoney: Circular Splicing: More Models 11-13 Ji: The Cell Language Theory Friday 27 9-11 Siromoney: Circular Splicing: Recent Models 11-13 Ji: Molecular Fuzzy Logic Place: Romance Philologies Department Lecture Room Faculty of Arts and Chemistry Rovira i Virgili University Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1 43005 Tarragona, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:07:12 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:07:12 +0200 Subject: Appel: 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing Message-ID: Call for Projects and Demonstrations 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) SEPLN 2003 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) 10, 11 and 12 September, 2003 University of Alcalá de Henares Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Spain Organised by the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing and the Office for Spanish in the Information Society at Instituto Cervantes 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 (Madrid, 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 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. Projects and Demos As in previous editions, depending on the number of proposals, it is planned to organise oral presentations of projects and product demos in any of the Conference topics. Proposals must meet certain format and style requirements for presentations. The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of projects and product demos 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 10, 2003 Publication Format The final version of the article will be sent before June 27, 2003 through a web system: https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html Documents must not include headers or footings Maximum length will be 2 pages DIN A4 (210 x 297 mm), included references and figures. Articles will be sent in Postscript or PDF format. LaTeX format Authors using LaTeX format may download from the Conference website the following style package zip file: latex_new.zip which contains document and bibliography styles, as well as an example showing existing possibilities. Word format Authors using Microsoft Word or compatible may download from the Conference website the following zip file: word_new.zip which includes a pattern file in RTF format and an example showing existing editing possibilities. Important Dates Deadline for submitting projects and demos: June 10, 2003 Deadline for submitting final versions: June 27, 2003 Program Committee Chairman: Prof. Maximiliano Saiz Noeda (Universitat d'Alacant) Members: Prof. José Gabriel Amores Carredano (Universidad de Sevilla) Prof. Toni Badia i Cardús (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Prof. Manuel de Buenaga Rodríguez (Universidad Europea de Madrid) Prof.ª Irene Castellón Masalles (Universitat de Barcelona) Prof.ª Arantza Díaz de Ilarraza (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Prof. Antonio Ferrández Rodríguez (Universitat d'Alacant) Prof. Mikel Forcada Zubizarreta (Universitat d'Alacant) Prof.ª Ana María García Serrano (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Prof. Koldo Gojenola Galletebeitia (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Prof. Xavier Gómez Guinovart (Universidade de Vigo) Prof. Julio Gonzalo Arroyo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Prof. José Miguel Goñi Menoyo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Prof. Joaquim Llisterri (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Prof. Javier Macías Guarasa (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Prof. José B. Mariño Acebal (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Prof.ª M. Antonia Martí Antonín (Universitat de Barcelona) Prof.ª Lidia Ana Moreno Boronat (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia) Prof. Lluis Padró (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Prof. Manuel Palomar Sanz (Universitat d'Alacant) Prof. José Manuel Pardo Muñoz (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Prof.ª Natividad Prieto Sáez (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia) Prof. Germán Rigau (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Prof. Horacio Rodríguez Hontoria (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Prof. Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Prof. L. Alfonso Ureña López (Universidad de Jaén) Prof.ª Mª Felisa Verdejo Maillo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Prof. Manuel Vilares Ferro (Universidade de Vigo) 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 Collaborators: Ms. Eva Mª Gómez Gómez, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Ms. Rosario Guijarro Huerta, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Advisors: Ms. Esmeralda de Luis Martínez, Chief at the Department of External and Institutional Relations, Instituto Cervantes Ms. Gloria Gamarra Alonso, Technician at the Department of External and Institutional Relations, Instituto Cervantes Further Information Full information is 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: sepln at cervantes.es Conference website: http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln ____________________________________________________ Oficina del Español en la Sociedad de la Información C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) Tfno.: 91 888 72 94; Fax: 91 888 18 26 informaoesi at cervantes.es http://oesi.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 Tue May 20 10:07:15 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:07:15 +0200 Subject: Appel: EXTENDED DEADLINE : Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services Message-ID: *** deadline extended to 30th May due to EC proposals/reviewing *** CALL FOR PAPERS -- note extended deadline 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 (http://ontoweb-lt.dfki.de/). 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 31st 2003 deadline for submission of papers June 30th 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: Alexander Maedche, Robert Bosch Gmbh, Germany Asun Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Christopher A. Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA 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 Jan Paralic, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia John Davies, British Telecom, UK John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK Jon Patrick, Univeristy of Sydney, Australia * Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Maria Vargas-Vera, Open University, UK Marin Dimitrov, OntoText Lab, Bulgaria Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, GE Robert Engels, CognIT, Norway Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, UK York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK * to be confirmed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:07:25 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:07:25 +0200 Subject: Appel: 3emes Journees de la Linguistique de Corpus Message-ID: APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS A brief summary in English follows. Our apologies for cross postings. 3èmes Journées de la Linguistique de Corpus Les 3èmes Journées de linguistique de corpus auront lieu à Lorient les 11, 12 et 13 septembre 2003. Elles sont organisées par le Centre de Recherche en Littératures, Linguistique Civilisations (CRELLIC - UBS Lorient) avec la collaboration du laboratoire Valoria (UBS Vannes). Elles sont également soutenues par les Départements LEA et LLCE de l'Université de Bretagne Sud. Objectifs Ces 3èmes Journées de Linguistique de Corpus visent à promouvoir le développement de la linguistique de corpus en France. Elles réunissent des chercheurs venus d'horizons divers qui s'intéressent à l'utilisation de l'informatique pour l'analyse des faits de langues. Les contributions attendues pourront concerner, sans exclusive : a.. la lexicologie et lexicographie, mono~ et bilingues, b.. la lexicométrie c.. la terminologie, d.. la traductologie, e.. la linguistique appliquée f.. la description linguistique, g.. . Organisation Les journées prendront la forme de communications orales d'une vingtaine de minutes sur des travaux en cours. Des communications affichées sont également prévues . L'ensemble des communications donnera lieu à publication sous forme d'actes. Soumission Les personnes désirant proposer une communication aux journées sont conviées à envoyer un résumé long (maximum quatre pages) de leur contribution, accompagné d'une page de renseignements pratiques comprenant le mode de communication souhaité (oral ou affiche), le nom, l'affiliation, téléphone, adresse postale et électronique. Les résumés doivent être en Times 12 avec interligne simple et en format Word RTF, ASCII, ou HTML. Propositions et communications seront exclusivement en français, quelle que soit la langue étudiée. Les propositions seront évaluées par deux experts du comité de lecture qui est composé des membres du comité scientifique et du comité d'organisation de la conférence. Ces soumissions devront parvenir au comité d'organisation à l'adresse suivante : Journée « Linguistique de corpus » Geoffrey Williams Département LEA, U.F.R. Lettres et Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay, BP 92116, 56321 LORIENT Cedex ou par courrier électronique à Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr Calendrier Date limite de soumission: 15 juinmai 2003 Notification aux auteurs: 15 juillet 2003 Comité d'organisation Président : Geoffrey Williams, Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient Jean-Yves Antoine, Université de Bretagne Sud, Vannes Nathalie Gasiglia, Université de Lille3 Christopher Gledhill, Université de Strasbourg Thomas Lebarbé, Université de Caen Isabelle Léglise, Université de Tours Jean Peeters, Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient Christophe Ropers, Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient Claude Sionis, Université de La Rochelle Comité scientifique Pierre Arnaud, Professeur. CRTT, Université Lyon II. Claire Blanche-Benveniste, Professeur Emérite. GARS, Université d'Aix en Provence. Thierry Fontenelle, Dr. Microsoft Corporation, US et EURALEX. Mats Forsgren, Professor. Institutionen för franska och italienska. Université de Stockholm, Suède Syviane Granger, Professeur. Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique. François Rastier, Directeur de recherche. (UMR 7114 CNRS-Paris X) John Sinclair, Professeur Emérite, Université de Birmingham, Royaume Uni, Directeur Tuscan Word Centre, Italie. Wolfgang Teubert, Professeur. Université de Birmingham, Royaume Uni. Elena Tognini-Bonelli. Université de Siena, Italie. Marc Van Campenhoudt Professor. Institut supérieur de traducteurs et interprètes (ISTI) Bruxelles, Belgique Renseignements Pour plus de renseignements, s'adresser à: Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr ou le site WWW de la conférence : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/crellic/appel_corpus_2003.htm DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : 20 juin 2003 ENGLISH SUMMARY This conference is the third in a series started in 2003 and aims to bring together researchers working with electronic corpora and lexical resources in France or in the French Language. It is aimed principally at those working in teaching, translating, lexicography and applied linguistics. The language of the workshop will be French, all submissions must be in this language, whatever the language under study. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:07:28 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:07:28 +0200 Subject: Publi: 2e seminaire Euromap Technologies de la Langue Message-ID: Veuillez nous excuser pour les réceptions multiples. ********************************************************** 2e séminaire Euromap Technologies de la Langue ********************************************************** Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que le compte-rendu du 2e séminaire organisé par ELDA dans le cadre du projet européen Euromap TL est désormais disponible en ligne, ainsi que les diverses présentations données lors de cette journée : 1 - Euromap LT: Overall Objectives and Results (Bente Maegaard) 2 - Le "Socrecard HLT" - France (Andrew Joscelyne) 3 - Les Technologies de la Langue et l'ERA (Joseph Mariani) 4 - Action Technolangue - Rappel et premiers résultats (Stéphane Chaudiron) 5 - Nouvelles Activités d'ELDA en Evaluation des Technologies de la Langue (Khalid Choukri) ******************************************************** Vous trouverez ces présentations sur notre site Internet, à l'adresse suivante : http://www.elda.fr/fr/proj/euromap/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 27 09:30:45 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:30:45 +0200 Subject: Conf: i-expo SALON INFORMATION =?iso-8859-1?Q?NUM=C9RIQUE?= Message-ID: i-expo, le SALON INFORMATION NUMÉRIQUE, dans le prolongement du salon IDT, c'est depuis 20 ans, l'unique grand rendez-vous annuel des professionnels de l'information numérique. i-expo, un nouveau nom pour un renouveau, marquant l'ouverture sur les entreprises et les utilisateurs finals et sur toutes les associations professionnelles du secteur. i-expo, le salon de tous les professionnels de l'information numérique se déroulera du 17 au 19 juin 2003 au Palais des Congrès de Paris. Un salon Proposant l'offre la plus complète de contenus (producteurs et diffuseurs) d'éditeurs de logiciels, de SSII, d'intégrateurs, etc. Et incluant des présentations de produits et services en " live " VOIR DETAILS sur http://www.spat.fr/i-expo (onglet bleu: salon) Un congrès Organisé en 3 journées thématiques, avec : * 14 sessions de conférences sur les sujets les plus pointus de l'actualité professionnelle * Une grande session d'ouverture sur 30 ans d'information professionnelle en France * De nombreuses sessions satellites et ateliers * Des tutoriels animés par les organismes de formations les plus représentatifs * Les rencontres des professionnels de l'I.S.T, sur le thême "Nouveaux savoirs, nouveaux métiers" organisées par l'INIST - CNRS GESTION DES CONNAISSANCES - E-LEARNING - GESTION & CATEGORISATION DE DOCUMENTS - DOCUMENTS STRUCTURÉS - INTELLIGENCE ÉCONOMIQUE - VEILLE - INTERNET - INTRANET DOCUMENTAIRE - PORTAILS D'ENTREPRISES - MANAGEMENT DE L'INFORMATION - STOCKAGE - PÉRENNISATION - GESTION DES CONTENUS - etc. conditions d'accès et programme détaillé sur http://www.spat.fr/i-expo (onglet bleu: congrès) Pour s'inscrire Exposer, visiter, demande de programme des conférences: http://www.spat.fr/i-expo (onglet bleu: informations | onglet rouge: s'inscrire) L'ATALA est partenaire de i-expo. Si vous êtes à jour de votre cotisation 2003, vous bénéficiez du tarif préférentiel pour l'accès aux conférences. http://www.spat.fr/i-expo (onglet bleu: congrès | onglet rouge: s'inscrire) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 27 09:30:49 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:30:49 +0200 Subject: Conf: JFT'2003 Message-ID: Je me permets d'attirer votre attention sur l'appel a participation aux JFT'2003. Vous pouvez consulter le programme sur notre site et vous inscrire si vous le souhaitez (de preference avant le 15 juin) : Journées Francophones de la Toile (JFT'2003) les 30 juin, 1er et 2 juillet 2003, à l'Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université de Tours, France. http://www.antsearch.univ-tours.fr/jft2003 Tres cordialement, Pr. Gilles Venturini, Ecole Polytechnique de l'Universite de Tours. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 27 09:30:52 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:30:52 +0200 Subject: Jobs: ANGLO-INSTITUTE : traitement de SMS =?iso-8859-1?Q?fran=E7ais?= Message-ID: ANGLO-INSTITUTE, PME spécialisée dans l'élaboration de ressources linguistiques pour le TALN cherche, pour une mission à durée déterminée, ou un stage de 3ème cycle, un(e) linguiste-informaticien(ne). Mission : mise au point d'un système de traitement de SMS français, en vue de leur vocalisation. Ce traitement des SMS est une spécialisation d'un système d'analyse de textes qui fonctionne pour la langue standard. Les aspects de synthèse vocale proprement dite ne font pas partie du problème posé. Les tâches à effectuer sont les suivantes : - tester la composante lexicale spécifique (et la corriger) - tester les modules de correction des messages (et les adapter si besoin) - tester les modules de segmentation des messages (et les adapter si besoin) - tester les modules d'analyse syntaxique (et les adapter si besoin) - définir la meilleure stratégie de combinaison des corrections - contribuer à la définition des critères permettant d'évaluer la capacité d'un message à être vocalisé L'ensemble des tâches demande : - une solide formation linguistique (lexique et syntaxe) permettant une bonne intuition des phénomènes à traiter, - une agilité certaine à se repérer dans une chaîne complète de traitement automatique de la langue écrite, faisant intervenir de nombreux modules, de l'analyse lexicale à l'analyse syntaxique en passant par la correction typographique, et à y détecter les points de dysfonctionnement. Le travail s'effectue sur station Unix. Durée : de 3 à 6 mois, à partir du 1er juillet 2003 Lieu de travail : Lannion, Côtes d'Armor Contacter : Isabelle Métayer ANGLO-INSTITUTE 1, rue de langonaval, 22300 Lannion 06 07 02 23 20 isabelle.metayer at wanadoo.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 Wed May 7 16:32:34 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 18:32:34 +0200 Subject: Appel: revue TAL : EXTENSION DE LA DATE LIMITE AU 16 MAI 2003 Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------- EXTENSION DE LA DATE LIMITE AU 16 MAI 2003 SOUMISSION POSSIBLE EN LIGNE A http://graves.inria.fr/ojs/login.php ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENSION MAI 16th 2003 EXPERIMENTAL ONLINE SUBMISSION AT http://graves.inria.fr/ojs/login.php ------------------------------------------------------------------- [English Version follows] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Revue t.a.l.] Appel ? soumissions t.a.l. : ?volutions en analyse syntaxique Date limite de soumission : 16 Mai 2003 Num?ro dirig? par ?ric de la Clergerie (INRIA) et Martin Rajman (EPFL) http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-syntaxe.html Contexte : Analyse syntaxique ------------------------------------------------------------------------ L'analyse syntaxique est une composante tr?s importante dans le traitement automatique des langues. Elle continue de poser de nombreux probl?mes que ce soit au niveau des formalismes grammaticaux ou au niveau de la complexit? algorithmique, en particulier pour g?rer les ambigu?t?s. N?anmoins, des progr?s ont eu lieu permettant un emploi plus courant et ? plus grande ?chelle de l'analyse syntaxique dans des applications. L'analyse syntaxique regroupe divers courants qui diff?rent sur les objectifs vis?s et sur les m?thodes employ?es. Les m?thodes couvrent par exemple les approches stochastiques, les approches par cascades (de phases d'analyse locale) et les approches plus traditionnelles d'analyse compl?te (ou profonde). Les objectifs vont de la segmentation en syntagmes ? l'analyse profonde avec une grammaire ? large couverture, en passant par des analyseurs robustes et/ou superficiels. N?anmoins cette diversit? dans les m?thodes et objectifs refl?te une certaine compl?mentarit? plut?t qu'une opposition absolue. Le foisonnement des formalismes syntaxiques est aussi important avec cependant des points de convergence. Ceux ci rendent ainsi possible des conversions entre formalismes syntaxiques (par exemple entre TAG et HPSG ou HPSG et CFG) ou vers des formalismes plus ?op?rationnels?. Certaines techniques d'analyse sont ? g?n?riques ? et utilisables pour plusieurs formalismes. Certains syst?mes se veulent multi-formalismes, reposant sur une infrastructure g?n?rique et efficace (pour l'indexation, la gestion des ambigu?t?s, l'unification, gestion de la m?moire par partage ou copie de structures,...). Enfin la notion de lexicalisation des grammaires transcende largement les formalismes. D'autre part, la g?n?ralisation progressive des analyseurs syntaxiques soul?ve la question de leur ?valuation. Th?me : ------------------------------------------------------------------------ L'objectif de ce num?ro est de mieux comprendre l'ensemble des approches et techniques utilis?es en analyse syntaxique et surtout d'en mieux cerner les convergences et compl?mentarit?s. La liste suivante non exhaustive ?num?re divers sujets pertinents pour cet appel. - Convergence de formalismes syntaxiques - Conversions entre formalismes - Formalismes op?rationnels ou descriptifs - Convergence et compl?mentarit? des approches d'analyse syntaxique - Robustesse (traitement des mots inconnus, correction d'erreurs) - Lexicalisation - Int?gration de m?thodes stochastiques - Analyse en cascade ou approches globales - ?volution des approches pour de nouveaux formalismes - Optimisations (g?n?riques) des analyseurs - strat?gies d'analyse - gestion de l'ambigu?t? - techniques d'indexation - gestion m?moire (partage et copie de structures) - Passage aux grammaires ? large couverture - efficacit? des analyseurs - maintenance et modularit? - ?valuation des analyseurs Comit? de lecture sp?cifique ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pierre Boullier (INRIA, Rocquencourt) John Carroll (Universit? du Sussex, GB) Jean-Pierre Chanod (XRCE, Grenoble) Alexandra Kinyon (Universit? de Pennsylvanie, USA) Guido Minnen (Motorola, USA) Alexis Nasr (LATTICE, Paris) Mark-Jan Nederhof (Universit? de Groningen, Pays-Bas) Gertjan van Noord (Universit? de Groningen, Pays-Bas) Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, Orsay) Gerald Penn (Universit? de Toronto, Canada) Anoop Sarkar (Universit? Simon Fraser, Canada) Giorgio Satta (Universit? de Padoue, Italie) Manuel Vilares (Universit? de Vigo, Espagne) David Weir (Universit? du Sussex, GB) R?mi Zajac (Systran Software, USA) Format ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Les articles (25 pages maximum) seront soumis au format Word, LaTeX, Postscript ou PDF. Les feuilles de style sont disponibles chez HERMES Langue ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Les articles peuvent ?tre ?crits en fran?ais ou en anglais. Cependant, les soumissions en anglais ne sont accept?es que pour les auteurs non francophones. Calendrier ------------------------------------------------------------------------ La date limite de soumission est fix?e au 16 Mai 2003. Les personnes qui ont l'intention de soumettre un article sont invit?es ? prendre contact avec ?ric de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr). Les articles seront relus par un membre du comit? de r?daction de la revue TAL et par deux relecteurs du comit? de lecture constitu? sp?cifiquement par les coordinateurs pour ce num?ro. La d?cision du comit? de r?daction sera transmise aux auteurs avant le 1er Juillet 2003. La version d?finitive des articles accept?s sera ? remettre pour le 1er Octobre 2003 pour une publication pr?vue fin 2003. Envoi des articles ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Les articles (25 pages maximum, au format Herm?s) doivent ?tre envoy?s par voie ?lectronique ? Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr ou par voie postale (version papier en cinq exemplaires) ? l'adresse suivante : ?ric de la Clergerie INRIA Rocquencourt Domaine de Voluceau - B.P. 105 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France De mani?re alternative, une soumission en ligne (exp?rimental) est disponible sur http://graves.inria.fr/ojs/login.php ====================================================================== Call for papers for the special issue of the TAL journal Title: Evolutions in Parsing Submission deadline: May 16th 2003 Guest Editors: ?ric de la Clergerie (INRIA, France) Martin Rajman (EPFL, Switzerland) http://www.atala.org/tal/appel-syntaxe.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Parsing is a very important component in Natural Language Processing. It still raises many problems, for instance at the level grammatical formalisms or at the level of the algorithmic complexity, especially to handle ambiguity. However, because of recent advances, parsers are nowadays more and more widely used in large scale applications. Many approaches exist in the Parsing community that differ on the methods and objectives. The methods include for instance stochastic parsing, local parsing cascades, or more traditional complete or deep parsing. Objectives range from segmentation into chunks to deep parsing based on wide coverage grammars, including shallow and/or robust parsing. Anyway, these various methods and objectives are not necessarily in opposition and may be perceived as complementary. Despite the large number of existing grammatical formalisms, there are hints of convergences between them which open ways for (partial) conversions between formalisms (for instance between TAG and HPSG or HPSG and CFG) or toward "operational" formalisms. Also, some parsing techniques are "generic" and may be applied for several formalisms. Some parsing systems also aim to be multi-formalisms, relying on generic and efficient infrastructures (indexing, memory management by structure sharing or copying, powerful unification). Finally, the notion of lexicalization is present in most formalisms. Last but not least, the generalization of parsers raises the issue of their evaluation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Themes: The main objective of this special issue is a better understanding of the various approaches and techniques found in Parsing, highlighting the convergences and complementarities that may exist between them. We welcome works on any of the following issues. * Convergence between grammatical formalisms * conversions of formalisms * operational formalisms vs declarative ones * Convergence and complementarity in parsing approaches * robustness (unknown words, error corrections) * lexicalization * Integration of stochastic methods * Cascade parsing vs one-pass parsing * Evolution of parsing techniques for new formalisms * (generic) Optimizations in Parsing * parsing strategies * ambiguity management * chart indexing * memory management (structure sharing and copying) * Wide coverage grammars * parsing efficiency * maintenance and modularity * Parsing evaluation Reviewers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pierre Boullier (INRIA, France) John Carroll (University of Sussex, UK) Jean-Pierre Chanod (XRCE, France) Alexandra Kinyon (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Guido Minnen (Motorola, USA) Alexis Nasr (LATTICE, France) Mark-Jan Nederhof (University of Groningen, NL) Gertjan van Noord (University of Groningen, NL) Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, France) Gerald Penn (University of Toronto, Canada) Anoop Sarkar (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Giorgio Satta (University of Padua, Italy) Manuel Vilares (University of Vigo, Spain) David Weir (Universit? of Sussex, UK) R?mi Zajac (Systran Software, USA) Format ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers (25 pages maximum) may be submitted in Word, LaTeX, Postscript or PDF. The style sheets are available at HERMES Language ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Papers may be written either in French or in English (non-French speaking authors only) Schedule ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The submission deadline is May 16th 2003. People intending to submit a paper should contact ?ric de la Clergerie (Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr). Articles will be reviewed by a member of the editorial board of the journal (http://www.atala.org/tal/redaction.html) and two external reviewers chosen by the editors of the special issue. Editorial board decisions and referees' reports will be transmitted to the authors by July 1st, 2003. Final versions of accepted papers will be required by October 1st, 2003. Publication is planned for the end of 2003. Submission ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions (25 pages maximum, following the Hermes style sheet) should be sent either electronically (Eric.De_La_Clergerie at inria.fr), or by surface mail (five copies) to ?ric de la Clergerie INRIA Rocquencourt Domaine de Voluceau - B.P. 105 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France A new and experimental alternative is by online submission at http://graves.inria.fr/ojs/login.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 7 16:32:50 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 18:32:50 +0200 Subject: Appel: Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services Message-ID: SECOND 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 (http://ontoweb-lt.dfki.de/). 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: Alexander Maedche, Robert Bosch Gmbh, Germany Asun Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain 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 Jan Paralic, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia John Davies, British Telecom, UK John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Maria Vargas-Vera, Open University, UK Marin Dimitrov, OntoText Lab, Bulgaria Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, GE Robert Engels, CognIT, Norway Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, UK York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Wed May 7 16:32:55 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 18:32:55 +0200 Subject: Jobs: google Message-ID: Google, Inc., the search engine company based in Mountain View, Cal., is recruiting native speakers of French to help with search quality evaluation. Work is part-time on a project-by-project basis, and paid by the hour. Evaluation projects can be done through internet access from home anywhere in the world. Candidates must be immersed in their native (web) culture but also fluent in English, comfortable with browser use and the basic mechanics of internet searches, and generally skilled at analytical tasks. If U.S.-based, they must have a U.S. work permit. To apply, please send your resume to cbartels at google.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 alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue May 13 13:06:11 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:06:11 +0200 Subject: Conf: MT Summit IX 2003 : DEADLINE EXTENDED ! Message-ID: Workshop on MT Evaluation Towards Systematizing MT Evaluation (deadline extended!) Theme: Estimating the quality of any machine-translation system accurately is only possible if the evaluation methodology is robust and systematic. The NSF and EU-funded ISLE project has created a taxonomy that relates situations and measures for a variety of MT applications. The ?Framework for MT Evaluation in ISLE? (FEMTI) is now available online at http://www.issco.unige.ch/projects/isle/taxonomy3/. The effort of matching these measures correctly with their appropriate evaluation tasks, however, is an area that needs further attention. For example, what effect do ?user needs? have on the ?functionality characteristics? specified in the FEMTI guidelines? To what extent are there unseen relationships in the branches of the taxonomy? How can we judge when a given evaluation measure is appropriate? Issues that come to bear on this question are the automation of MT evaluation, the extension to MT applications such as automated speech-translation, and the evaluation of the very training corpora that an MT system relies on to improve output quality. This workshop welcomes papers for 30-minute presentations on the comparison between MT evaluation measures, studies of the behavior of individual measures (i.e., meta-evaluation), new uses for measures, analysis of MT evaluation tasks with respect to measures, and related topics on this theme. We solicit submissions to the workshop that address some of the following issues, however any other topic related to MT Testing and Evaluation is also acceptable: Machine Translation Evaluation Measures: Use of existing measures in the ISLE hierarchy (FEMTI guidelines) New measures and their uses Matching evaluation requirements (e.g., translation tasks, user profiles) with measures Effects of combining measures Evaluation Measures and Languages Is a metric?s effectiveness language independent? Counting grammatical features for evaluation Evaluation and Domains Measures for spoken Language translation Domain-specific evaluation techniques Using measures to evaluate the quality of a training corpus for a given task Automation vs. Human Testing Which measures are suitable for automation? Human/machine scoring comparisons Human tester agreement: which measures fare best? Submission Format Papers (full papers up to 8 pages in length) must be submitted electronically to: barrett at semanticdatasystems.com, or andrei.popescu-belis at issco.unige.ch Papers are preferred in .pdf, .ps, .rtf, or .txt, format Important Dates: NEW Paper submission deadline: May 26 Notification: June 30 Camera-ready due: July 31 Note: the workshop will be held on September 23, 2003 Also see workshop website for updates: http://www.issco.unige.ch/projects/isle/MTE-at-MTS9.html Contacts Leslie Barrett (Transclick, Inc., New York, NY) Andrei Popescu-Belis (ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva) Organizers Leslie Barrett (Transclick, Inc., New York, NY) Maghi King (ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva) Keith Miller (MITRE Corp) Andrei Popescu-Belis (ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva) Program Committee: Bonnie Dorr (University of Maryland) Eduard Hovy (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California) Maghi King (ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva) Bente Maegaard (Center for Sprogteknologi, Copenhagen, Denmark) Keith Miller (MITRE Corp.) Martha Palmer (University of Pennsylvania) Ted Petersen (Univesity of Minnesota) Andrei Popescu-Belis (ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva) Florence Reeder (MITRE Corp) Nancy Underwood (ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva) Michelle Vanni (National Computer Security Center) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 13 13:06:07 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:06:07 +0200 Subject: Jobs: stage ELDA Message-ID: ELDA, Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency, situ?e ? Paris, cherche un(e) ?tudiant(e) en licence ou maitrise TAL / industries de la langue, pour un stage ? mi-temps de quatre ? cinq semaines (mi-mai -mi- juillet 2002). Dans le cadre du projet europ?en CLEF, qui evalue des syst?mes de recherche d'information ; la mission consiste ? elaborer le r?f?rentiel de reponses a partir des r?sultats des participants. Qualit?s requises : tr?s bonne ma?trise du francais ?crit, ma?trise de l'anglais ?crit, rapidit? et meticulosit?, aptitude a travailler en ?quipe. Stage remun?r?. Adresser la candidature ? David Andritch, andritch at elda.fr, 01 43 13 33 33 Plus d'informations sur ELDA : www.elda.fr, CLEF : www.clef-campaign.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue May 13 13:06:20 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:06:20 +0200 Subject: Appel: S E N S E V A L - 3 Message-ID: ~~~~~ Apologies for multiple postings ~~~~~~ S E N S E V A L - 3 Evaluation exercises for word sense disambiguation an ACL-SIGLEX event March 2004 Call for Interest in Participation http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/senseval/senseval3/cfi.html Feedback requested by June 15, 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Senseval (http://www.senseval.org) is the international organization devoted to the evaluation of Word Sense Disambiguation Systems. Its mission is to organise and run evaluation and related activities to test the strengths and weaknesses of WSD systems with respect to different words, different aspects of language, and different languages. It's underlying goal is to further our understanding of lexical semantics and polysemy. Senseval-1 took place in the summer of 1998 for English, French, and Italian, culminating in a workshop held at Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, England on September 2-4. Senseval-2 took place in the summer of 2001, and was followed by a workshop held in July 2001 in Toulouse, in conjunction with ACL-2001. It included tasks for Basque, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish. We are now getting ready for SENSEVAL-3! Senseval 3 evaluation is scheduled to take place in March 2004, and the workshop is planned for July, hopefully in conjunction with ACL-04 in Barcelona. As with previous evaluations, participants will be provided with training data, and will have the chance to test their systems on common data sets. Similar tasks will use the same data format. 16 different tasks have been proposed for Senseval 3. We are now seeking to get feedback from potential participants, and kindly ask those who may be interested to participate in one or more Senseval-3 tasks, to fill in the call for interest in participation form available at: http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/senseval/senseval3/cfi.html Please fill in this form before June 15, 2003. Your feedback is very much appreciated and will help us better organize Senseval-3! Thank you, Rada Mihalcea and Phil Edmonds Senseval-3 coordinators ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:07:08 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:07:08 +0200 Subject: Conf: XVII Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics, FS&S Message-ID: CIRCULAR SPLICING AND THE SEMIOTICS OF LIFE (XVII Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics, FS&S) Rani Siromoney (Madras Christian College) Circular Splicing Sungchul Ji (Rutgers University) The Semiotics of Life June 23-27, 2003 Organized by the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University PROGRAMME Monday 23 9-11 Siromoney: Introduction and Linear Splicing 11-13 Ji: Computing with Numbers, Words, or Molecules. The von Neumann-Pattee Principle of Matter-Sign Complementarity Wednesday 25 9-11 Siromoney: Circular Words, Languages, Splicing: Early Models 11-13 Ji: The Molecular Information Theory Thursday 26 9-11 Siromoney: Circular Splicing: More Models 11-13 Ji: The Cell Language Theory Friday 27 9-11 Siromoney: Circular Splicing: Recent Models 11-13 Ji: Molecular Fuzzy Logic Place: Romance Philologies Department Lecture Room Faculty of Arts and Chemistry Rovira i Virgili University Pl. Imperial Tarraco, 1 43005 Tarragona, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:07:12 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:07:12 +0200 Subject: Appel: 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing Message-ID: Call for Projects and Demonstrations 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) SEPLN 2003 19th Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) 10, 11 and 12 September, 2003 University of Alcal? de Henares Alcal? de Henares (Madrid) Spain Organised by the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing and the Office for Spanish in the Information Society at Instituto Cervantes 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 (Madrid, 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 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. Projects and Demos As in previous editions, depending on the number of proposals, it is planned to organise oral presentations of projects and product demos in any of the Conference topics. Proposals must meet certain format and style requirements for presentations. The organizers encourage participants to give oral presentations of projects and product demos 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 10, 2003 Publication Format The final version of the article will be sent before June 27, 2003 through a web system: https://chair.dlsi.ua.es/sepln03/submit.html Documents must not include headers or footings Maximum length will be 2 pages DIN A4 (210 x 297 mm), included references and figures. Articles will be sent in Postscript or PDF format. LaTeX format Authors using LaTeX format may download from the Conference website the following style package zip file: latex_new.zip which contains document and bibliography styles, as well as an example showing existing possibilities. Word format Authors using Microsoft Word or compatible may download from the Conference website the following zip file: word_new.zip which includes a pattern file in RTF format and an example showing existing editing possibilities. Important Dates Deadline for submitting projects and demos: June 10, 2003 Deadline for submitting final versions: June 27, 2003 Program Committee Chairman: Prof. Maximiliano Saiz Noeda (Universitat d'Alacant) Members: Prof. Jos? Gabriel Amores Carredano (Universidad de Sevilla) Prof. Toni Badia i Card?s (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Prof. Manuel de Buenaga Rodr?guez (Universidad Europea de Madrid) Prof.? Irene Castell?n Masalles (Universitat de Barcelona) Prof.? Arantza D?az de Ilarraza (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Prof. Antonio Ferr?ndez Rodr?guez (Universitat d'Alacant) Prof. Mikel Forcada Zubizarreta (Universitat d'Alacant) Prof.? Ana Mar?a Garc?a Serrano (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid) Prof. Koldo Gojenola Galletebeitia (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) Prof. Xavier G?mez Guinovart (Universidade 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 (Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona) Prof. Javier Mac?as Guarasa (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid) Prof. Jos? B. Mari?o Acebal (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) Prof.? M. Antonia Mart? Anton?n (Universitat de Barcelona) Prof.? Lidia Ana Moreno Boronat (Universitat Polit?cnica de Valencia) Prof. Lluis Padr? (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) Prof. Manuel Palomar Sanz (Universitat d'Alacant) Prof. Jos? Manuel Pardo Mu?oz (Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid) Prof.? Natividad Prieto S?ez (Universitat Polit?cnica de Valencia) Prof. Germ?n Rigau (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) Prof. Horacio Rodr?guez Hontoria (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) Prof. Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) 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 (Universidade de Vigo) 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 Collaborators: Ms. Eva M? G?mez G?mez, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Ms. Rosario Guijarro Huerta, Collaborator at OESI, Instituto Cervantes Advisors: Ms. Esmeralda de Luis Mart?nez, Chief at the Department of External and Institutional Relations, Instituto Cervantes Ms. Gloria Gamarra Alonso, Technician at the Department of External and Institutional Relations, Instituto Cervantes Further Information Full information is 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: sepln at cervantes.es Conference website: http://oesi.cervantes.es/sepln ____________________________________________________ Oficina del Espa?ol en la Sociedad de la Informaci?n C/ Libreros, 23 28801 Alcal? de Henares (Madrid) Tfno.: 91 888 72 94; Fax: 91 888 18 26 informaoesi at cervantes.es http://oesi.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 Tue May 20 10:07:15 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:07:15 +0200 Subject: Appel: EXTENDED DEADLINE : Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services Message-ID: *** deadline extended to 30th May due to EC proposals/reviewing *** CALL FOR PAPERS -- note extended deadline 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 (http://ontoweb-lt.dfki.de/). 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 31st 2003 deadline for submission of papers June 30th 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: Alexander Maedche, Robert Bosch Gmbh, Germany Asun Gomez-Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Christopher A. Welty, IBM Watson Research Center, USA 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 Jan Paralic, Technical University Kosice, Slovakia John Davies, British Telecom, UK John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK Jon Patrick, Univeristy of Sydney, Australia * Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK Maria Vargas-Vera, Open University, UK Marin Dimitrov, OntoText Lab, Bulgaria Paul Buitelaar, DFKI, GE Robert Engels, CognIT, Norway Steffen Staab, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Vojtech Svatek, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Wim Peters, University of Sheffield, UK York Sure, University of Karlsruhe, Germany Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield, UK * to be confirmed ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:07:25 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:07:25 +0200 Subject: Appel: 3emes Journees de la Linguistique de Corpus Message-ID: APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS A brief summary in English follows. Our apologies for cross postings. 3?mes Journ?es de la Linguistique de Corpus Les 3?mes Journ?es de linguistique de corpus auront lieu ? Lorient les 11, 12 et 13 septembre 2003. Elles sont organis?es par le Centre de Recherche en Litt?ratures, Linguistique Civilisations (CRELLIC - UBS Lorient) avec la collaboration du laboratoire Valoria (UBS Vannes). Elles sont ?galement soutenues par les D?partements LEA et LLCE de l'Universit? de Bretagne Sud. Objectifs Ces 3?mes Journ?es de Linguistique de Corpus visent ? promouvoir le d?veloppement de la linguistique de corpus en France. Elles r?unissent des chercheurs venus d'horizons divers qui s'int?ressent ? l'utilisation de l'informatique pour l'analyse des faits de langues. Les contributions attendues pourront concerner, sans exclusive : a.. la lexicologie et lexicographie, mono~ et bilingues, b.. la lexicom?trie c.. la terminologie, d.. la traductologie, e.. la linguistique appliqu?e f.. la description linguistique, g.. . Organisation Les journ?es prendront la forme de communications orales d'une vingtaine de minutes sur des travaux en cours. Des communications affich?es sont ?galement pr?vues . L'ensemble des communications donnera lieu ? publication sous forme d'actes. Soumission Les personnes d?sirant proposer une communication aux journ?es sont convi?es ? envoyer un r?sum? long (maximum quatre pages) de leur contribution, accompagn? d'une page de renseignements pratiques comprenant le mode de communication souhait? (oral ou affiche), le nom, l'affiliation, t?l?phone, adresse postale et ?lectronique. Les r?sum?s doivent ?tre en Times 12 avec interligne simple et en format Word RTF, ASCII, ou HTML. Propositions et communications seront exclusivement en fran?ais, quelle que soit la langue ?tudi?e. Les propositions seront ?valu?es par deux experts du comit? de lecture qui est compos? des membres du comit? scientifique et du comit? d'organisation de la conf?rence. Ces soumissions devront parvenir au comit? d'organisation ? l'adresse suivante : Journ?e ? Linguistique de corpus ? Geoffrey Williams D?partement LEA, U.F.R. Lettres et Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay, BP 92116, 56321 LORIENT Cedex ou par courrier ?lectronique ? Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr Calendrier Date limite de soumission: 15 juinmai 2003 Notification aux auteurs: 15 juillet 2003 Comit? d'organisation Pr?sident : Geoffrey Williams, Universit? de Bretagne Sud, Lorient Jean-Yves Antoine, Universit? de Bretagne Sud, Vannes Nathalie Gasiglia, Universit? de Lille3 Christopher Gledhill, Universit? de Strasbourg Thomas Lebarb?, Universit? de Caen Isabelle L?glise, Universit? de Tours Jean Peeters, Universit? de Bretagne Sud, Lorient Christophe Ropers, Universit? de Bretagne Sud, Lorient Claude Sionis, Universit? de La Rochelle Comit? scientifique Pierre Arnaud, Professeur. CRTT, Universit? Lyon II. Claire Blanche-Benveniste, Professeur Em?rite. GARS, Universit? d'Aix en Provence. Thierry Fontenelle, Dr. Microsoft Corporation, US et EURALEX. Mats Forsgren, Professor. Institutionen f?r franska och italienska. Universit? de Stockholm, Su?de Syviane Granger, Professeur. Universit? Catholique de Louvain, Belgique. Fran?ois Rastier, Directeur de recherche. (UMR 7114 CNRS-Paris X) John Sinclair, Professeur Em?rite, Universit? de Birmingham, Royaume Uni, Directeur Tuscan Word Centre, Italie. Wolfgang Teubert, Professeur. Universit? de Birmingham, Royaume Uni. Elena Tognini-Bonelli. Universit? de Siena, Italie. Marc Van Campenhoudt Professor. Institut sup?rieur de traducteurs et interpr?tes (ISTI) Bruxelles, Belgique Renseignements Pour plus de renseignements, s'adresser ?: Geoffrey.Williams at univ-ubs.fr ou le site WWW de la conf?rence : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/crellic/appel_corpus_2003.htm DATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION : 20 juin 2003 ENGLISH SUMMARY This conference is the third in a series started in 2003 and aims to bring together researchers working with electronic corpora and lexical resources in France or in the French Language. It is aimed principally at those working in teaching, translating, lexicography and applied linguistics. The language of the workshop will be French, all submissions must be in this language, whatever the language under study. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 20 10:07:28 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 12:07:28 +0200 Subject: Publi: 2e seminaire Euromap Technologies de la Langue Message-ID: Veuillez nous excuser pour les r?ceptions multiples. ********************************************************** 2e s?minaire Euromap Technologies de la Langue ********************************************************** Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que le compte-rendu du 2e s?minaire organis? par ELDA dans le cadre du projet europ?en Euromap TL est d?sormais disponible en ligne, ainsi que les diverses pr?sentations donn?es lors de cette journ?e : 1 - Euromap LT: Overall Objectives and Results (Bente Maegaard) 2 - Le "Socrecard HLT" - France (Andrew Joscelyne) 3 - Les Technologies de la Langue et l'ERA (Joseph Mariani) 4 - Action Technolangue - Rappel et premiers r?sultats (St?phane Chaudiron) 5 - Nouvelles Activit?s d'ELDA en Evaluation des Technologies de la Langue (Khalid Choukri) ******************************************************** Vous trouverez ces pr?sentations sur notre site Internet, ? l'adresse suivante : http://www.elda.fr/fr/proj/euromap/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 27 09:30:45 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:30:45 +0200 Subject: Conf: i-expo SALON INFORMATION =?iso-8859-1?Q?NUM=C9RIQUE?= Message-ID: i-expo, le SALON INFORMATION NUM?RIQUE, dans le prolongement du salon IDT, c'est depuis 20 ans, l'unique grand rendez-vous annuel des professionnels de l'information num?rique. i-expo, un nouveau nom pour un renouveau, marquant l'ouverture sur les entreprises et les utilisateurs finals et sur toutes les associations professionnelles du secteur. i-expo, le salon de tous les professionnels de l'information num?rique se d?roulera du 17 au 19 juin 2003 au Palais des Congr?s de Paris. Un salon Proposant l'offre la plus compl?te de contenus (producteurs et diffuseurs) d'?diteurs de logiciels, de SSII, d'int?grateurs, etc. Et incluant des pr?sentations de produits et services en " live " VOIR DETAILS sur http://www.spat.fr/i-expo (onglet bleu: salon) Un congr?s Organis? en 3 journ?es th?matiques, avec : * 14 sessions de conf?rences sur les sujets les plus pointus de l'actualit? professionnelle * Une grande session d'ouverture sur 30 ans d'information professionnelle en France * De nombreuses sessions satellites et ateliers * Des tutoriels anim?s par les organismes de formations les plus repr?sentatifs * Les rencontres des professionnels de l'I.S.T, sur le th?me "Nouveaux savoirs, nouveaux m?tiers" organis?es par l'INIST - CNRS GESTION DES CONNAISSANCES - E-LEARNING - GESTION & CATEGORISATION DE DOCUMENTS - DOCUMENTS STRUCTUR?S - INTELLIGENCE ?CONOMIQUE - VEILLE - INTERNET - INTRANET DOCUMENTAIRE - PORTAILS D'ENTREPRISES - MANAGEMENT DE L'INFORMATION - STOCKAGE - P?RENNISATION - GESTION DES CONTENUS - etc. conditions d'acc?s et programme d?taill? sur http://www.spat.fr/i-expo (onglet bleu: congr?s) Pour s'inscrire Exposer, visiter, demande de programme des conf?rences: http://www.spat.fr/i-expo (onglet bleu: informations | onglet rouge: s'inscrire) L'ATALA est partenaire de i-expo. Si vous ?tes ? jour de votre cotisation 2003, vous b?n?ficiez du tarif pr?f?rentiel pour l'acc?s aux conf?rences. http://www.spat.fr/i-expo (onglet bleu: congr?s | onglet rouge: s'inscrire) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 27 09:30:49 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:30:49 +0200 Subject: Conf: JFT'2003 Message-ID: Je me permets d'attirer votre attention sur l'appel a participation aux JFT'2003. Vous pouvez consulter le programme sur notre site et vous inscrire si vous le souhaitez (de preference avant le 15 juin) : Journ?es Francophones de la Toile (JFT'2003) les 30 juin, 1er et 2 juillet 2003, ? l'Ecole Polytechnique de l'Universit? de Tours, France. http://www.antsearch.univ-tours.fr/jft2003 Tres cordialement, Pr. Gilles Venturini, Ecole Polytechnique de l'Universite de Tours. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 May 27 09:30:52 2003 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:30:52 +0200 Subject: Jobs: ANGLO-INSTITUTE : traitement de SMS =?iso-8859-1?Q?fran=E7ais?= Message-ID: ANGLO-INSTITUTE, PME sp?cialis?e dans l'?laboration de ressources linguistiques pour le TALN cherche, pour une mission ? dur?e d?termin?e, ou un stage de 3?me cycle, un(e) linguiste-informaticien(ne). Mission : mise au point d'un syst?me de traitement de SMS fran?ais, en vue de leur vocalisation. Ce traitement des SMS est une sp?cialisation d'un syst?me d'analyse de textes qui fonctionne pour la langue standard. Les aspects de synth?se vocale proprement dite ne font pas partie du probl?me pos?. Les t?ches ? effectuer sont les suivantes : - tester la composante lexicale sp?cifique (et la corriger) - tester les modules de correction des messages (et les adapter si besoin) - tester les modules de segmentation des messages (et les adapter si besoin) - tester les modules d'analyse syntaxique (et les adapter si besoin) - d?finir la meilleure strat?gie de combinaison des corrections - contribuer ? la d?finition des crit?res permettant d'?valuer la capacit? d'un message ? ?tre vocalis? L'ensemble des t?ches demande : - une solide formation linguistique (lexique et syntaxe) permettant une bonne intuition des ph?nom?nes ? traiter, - une agilit? certaine ? se rep?rer dans une cha?ne compl?te de traitement automatique de la langue ?crite, faisant intervenir de nombreux modules, de l'analyse lexicale ? l'analyse syntaxique en passant par la correction typographique, et ? y d?tecter les points de dysfonctionnement. Le travail s'effectue sur station Unix. Dur?e : de 3 ? 6 mois, ? partir du 1er juillet 2003 Lieu de travail : Lannion, C?tes d'Armor Contacter : Isabelle M?tayer ANGLO-INSTITUTE 1, rue de langonaval, 22300 Lannion 06 07 02 23 20 isabelle.metayer at wanadoo.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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------