From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 3 08:47:00 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:47:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC-2004 workshop : LESSONS LEARNED FROM EVALUATION ... Message-ID: Call for papers Workshop on LESSONS LEARNED FROM EVALUATION: TOWARDS TRANSPARENCY AND INTEGRATION IN CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (LECLIQ) to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 29, 2004 in conjunction with the 4th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2004) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A half-day workshop will be held in conjunction with the LREC Conference in Lisbon on the morning of May 29, 2004. The topic of the workshop is "Lessons Learned from Evaluation: Towards Transparency and Integration in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (LECLIQ)" with special focus on the use and benefits of quality gates. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION Recent work in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) has shown that systems perform differently with respect to queries, topics, data sets and the corresponding query or result language. Since the state-of-the-art in CLIR is far from finding an ideal method for this variety of parameters, a better performance might be possible through continuous analysis and integration of evaluation results achieved from several retrieval devices. The process of integrating these different methodologies might be controlled by quality gates. Quality gates - having their origin in car manufacturing and being used in IT-project management as well - are characterized as preventive and process accompanying control mechanisms to check critical parameters and ensure quality standards during the design, development, and deployment of software. They generally consist of checklists combined with appropriate rules to guarantee that work procedure fail is recognized in time to prevent repetition. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the field of Information Retrieval and Language Engineering with three primary goals: (1) to discuss, evaluate and judge the different methodologies used in CLIR and to relate them to the languages being retrieved, (2) to design the requirements for a dynamic network of quality gates for the tuning of retrieval results, (3) to define desired learn effects caused by the interaction of quality gates. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Lessons learned in evaluation initiatives such as CLEF, TREC, INEX, NTCIR, etc. - Criteria, checklists, parameters and metrics for the evaluation of search and retrieval methods - Quality criteria and evaluation for resources and tools in CLIR (thesauri stemmer, translation tools and services, etc.) - Explanation and verification of success stories and failure analysis in CLIR - Data and Text Mining on CLIR evaluation results - Current evaluation issues: shortcomings, gaps, reliability of results, etc. - Transfer of evaluation results to system design and product development - Design for (coupled or networked) quality gates in CLIR (for systems and building blocks) - Semaphore logic for the integration of distributed retrieval systems - Crossing-over techniques for quality assurance - Hybrid systems for CLIR The results of this workshop will be a first step toward outlining a general framework for quality gates in (Cross-Language) Information Retrieval with further elaboration in future workshops. We are inviting contributions discussing the themes above from participants in evaluation initiatives as well as from experienced researches in the areas of (Cross Language) Information Retrieval, quality assurance, Human Language Technology (HLT) or related fields. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg, Germany Marcello Federico, I.R.S.T, Italy Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corp., Pittsburgh, USA Donna Harman, NIST, USA Paul Heisterkamp, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Germany [Final list forthcoming] SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS Presentations and active participation in the workshop will be based on a 2 - 6 page position statement or research paper. Submissions must be in English and should consist of an abstract, plus a title page providing the following information: official title of the paper; names and affiliations of the authors; full address of the first author including phone, fax, e-mail, URL; presentation facilities required. Only electronic submissions in Word, PDF or RTF will be accepted. Demonstrations of cross-lingual retrieval tools will be considered as well if the demonstration outlines the rationale of the system and sheds light on the success or failure of the methods applied. Contributions should be submitted to: lecliq at uni-hildesheim.de Reception will be acknowledged within three days. If you do not get an acknowledgement, please check the e-mail address of your submission. PROCEEDINGS The workshop organizers will publish proceedings of the workshop. Ready-to-print versions of the papers have to be submitted according to LREC Guidelines for Authors, which can be found at the conference homepage (to be announced in February 2004). They should not exceed six pages. These final versions should be submitted electronically to the following e-mail address: lecliq at uni-hildesheim.de IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submitting papers: February 15 Notification of acceptance: March 15 Final versions of papers for proceedings: April 4 Workshop: May 29 FURTHER INFORMATION Information about the workshop such as call, outline, and program can be found on the LREC web-page: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/ where you can also find information about the LREC conference itself. Information about the general purpose of quality gates in manufacturing and software-engineering and their transduction to the field of (Cross Lingual) Information Retrieval will be available under http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~lecliq REGISTRATION The registration fee for the workshop is: - 50 EURO for conference participants - 85 EURO for those not attending LREC-2004 Registration and payment procedures are explained on the LREC-2004 web-page. The registration fee includes one copy of the proceedings and a coffee break. QUESTIONS For all questions on the focus of the workshop, please contact the workshop co-ordinator under lecliq at uni-hildesheim.de. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Center for Information Science (Chair) Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg Paul Heisterkamp, DaimlerChrysler AG Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim René Schneider, University of Hildesheim (Co-ordinator) ------------------------ René Schneider University of Hildesheim, Marienburger Platz 22, D-31141 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49(0)5121/883-834 Fax: +49(0)5121/883-802 e-mail: rschneid @ uni-hildesheim.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 3 08:47:03 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:47:03 +0100 Subject: Appel: Coling 2004 Message-ID: Coling-04 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics 23 - 27 August, 2004 Uni-Mail, University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland under the auspices of the ICCL (International Committee for Computational Linguistics) --------------------------------- (1) Call for Papers (2) Call for sponsors (3) Call for exhibitors (4) Planned Workshops (5) Planned Tutorials --------------------------------- (1) Call for Papers COLING-04 solicits submissions of original and unpublished papers in all areas of computational linguistics, natural language processing, human language technology -- in short, all and any work contributing to the theory and practice of processing natural language by computers. The papers may * be theoretical or application-oriented * describe methods, environments and specific language processing tasks * relate to spoken or written language processing * relate to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse or any combination of the above * present small specialized or large integrated systems * relate to the tasks of text understanding or generation * relate to any type of application and any subject and task domain * describe machine-tractable treatment of specific phenomena in any language * relate to knowledge resources and their acquisition and maintenance * be devoted to cross-linguistic work in applications and resource acquisition * present output and resource quality evaluation reports. The program committee especially encourages the submission of high-quality innovative work even if it does not fall into one of the established research and development paradigms in the field. The teams of COLING reviewers will be coordinated by the Program Committee: Christian Boitet Grenoble University Nicoletta Calzolari University of Pisa John Carroll University of Sussex Eva Hajicova Charles University Nancy Ide Vassar College Tanya Korelsky CoGenTex, Inc. Winfried Lenders University of Bonn Dan Melamed New York University Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas Srini Narayanan ICSI Sergei Nirenburg (Chair) University of Maryland, Baltimore County Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania Antonio Sanfilippo Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Harold Somers UMIST Wayne Ward University of Colorado Shuly Wintner University of Haifa Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: March 26, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 14, 2004 Camera-ready versions: June 7, 2004 How to Submit: The main conference solicits original unpublished contributions in two categories - regular papers presenting mature research results (at most seven proceedings pages) and - project notes describing intermediate results of ongoing research projects or system demonstrations (at most four pages). Templates for paper formatting are available at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html For further information please see: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/ Submissions must be electronic. The address to which the papers should be submitted will be available in the near future. (2) Call for sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring the Coling conference please contact us via http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/sponsors/ (3) Call for exhibitors If you are interested in exhibiting at the Coling conference please contact us via http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004exhibitorsCall.html (4) Planned Workshops International Joint workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications (NLPBA/BioNLP) 2004 Nigel Collier, Patrick Ruch and Adeline Nazarenko CompuTerm 2004: 3rd International Workshop on Computational Terminology Sophia Ananiadou and Pierre Zweigenbaum 5th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora Silvia Hansen, Stephan Oepen and Hans Uszkoreit Psycho-Computational Models of Human Language Acquisition William Gregory Sakas Romand 2004: 3rd workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data Vincenzo Pallotta, Amalia Todirascu Second International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research and Training Elia Yuste, Anna-Katherina Pantli, Gary Massey, Susanne Jekat Capitalizing on an enhanced resource by taking into account the user: the case of electronic dictionaries Michael Zock and Patrick St. Dizier Recent Advances in Dependency Grammar Geert-Jan M. Kruijff and Denys Duchier Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages Ali Farghaly and Karine Megerdoomian eLearning for Computational Linguistics and computational linguistics for eLearning Erhard Hinrichs, Lothar Lemnitzer, Detmar Meurers Multilingual Lexical Resources for man and machines Susan Armstrong, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Dan Tufis, Gilles Serasset, Christian Boitet (5) Planned Tutorials Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Information Access Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland Modeling Information Structure for Discourse and Dialog Processing Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany Natural Language Information Assurance and Security Victor Raskin, Purdue University, USA The XLE Grammar Development Platform and Parser/Generator Miriam Butt, Universitaet Konstanz, Germany and Tracy Holloway King, Palo Alto Research Center, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 3 08:47:05 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:47:05 +0100 Subject: Appel: 9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems Message-ID: 9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems June 23-25 2004, Salford, Manchester, UK. www.nldb.org Call for papers Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher, industrials and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems fields. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an established field thanks to developments in Natural Language and technologies that made the storage and manipulation of large electronic dictionaries possible. As Information Systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems The use of Natural Language in Software Engineering has contributed to both improving the development process from the viewpoints of developers (improve the process of conceptual modelling, validation, etc) and the usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces, semantic webs, etc). Important Dates: - Full paper submission: February 29, 2004 - Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2004 - Camera-ready papers: April 20, 2004 Proceedings Publication - The proceedings of NLDB04 will be published by Springer in their LNCS series - The best 5 papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal Topics: - Natural Language for Web Services (Semantic information retrieval, Semantic Web, Semi-structured models and associated languages, Web usage, content and structure mining for discovering semantics, Concept taxonomies and web mining, Learning taxonomies and ontologies from the web, Information extraction with machine learning, Document classification and indexation) - Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling (Analysis of natural language descriptions, Requirement engineering, Terminological ontologies, Paraphrasing, Dynamic modelling, Verification, consistency checking, Metadata harvesting) - Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying/Retrieval (Natural languages interfaces for database querying, Verification of database queries by paraphrasing, Semantic analysis for information retrieval, NL interaction with databases) - Natural Language-Based Integration of Systems (Linguistic aspects of view integration, Linguistic aspects of data warehouses, Natural language queries to multi-databases systems, Data integration and data cleansing, Ontology driven integration, Ontology management) - Large Scale on-line Resources (Electronic dictionaries, Question-answer corpora, Informal ontologies, Linguistic databases, Digital libraries) - Application of Computational Linguistics in Information Systems (Multilingual information systems, NLP in requirements engineering, NLP in knowledge management, Ontology-driven NLP, Semiotics and fundamentals) - Management of Textual Databases (Text classification, Information extraction and detection, Text mining for creating metadata, Document management, Hypertext and Hyperbases) Conference Organisation Conference Chair Elisabeth Métais, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers de Paris, France. Program Committee Chair Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK. Program Committee Diego Mollá Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia Kenji Araki, Hokkaido University, Japan Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM, Université de Versailles, France Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK Gary A Coen, Boeing, USA Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CEDRIC/CNAM, France Antje Düsterhöft, University of Wismar, Germany Günther Fliedl, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Nicola Guarino, CNR, Italy Rafael Muñoz Guillena, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mohammed Harmain, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Helmut Horacek, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Zoubida Kedad, PRiSM, Université de Versailles, France Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Canada. Nadira Lammari, CEDRIC/CNAM, France Winfried Lenders, Universität Bonn, Germany Jana Lewerenz, sd&m Düsseldorf, Germany Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Heinrich C. Mayr, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Paul McFetridge, Simon Frazer University, Canada Elisabeth Metais, CEDRIC/CNAM , France Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy. Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Jian-Yun Nie, Université de Montréal, Canada Manual Palomar, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Odile Piton, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea Tim Ritchings, University of Salford, UK Hongchi Shi, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Niculae Stratica, Concordia University, Canada Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University Rochester, USA Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA Lua Km Teng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Bernhard Thalheim, University of Cottbus, Germany Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK Sunil Vadera, University of Salford, UK Ronald Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 3 08:53:16 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:53:16 +0100 Subject: Bourses: These ATLIF-Nancy Message-ID: ---------------------------------- Recherche Candidat(e) de thèse TAL ---------------------------------- Le laboratoire d'analyse et de traitement automatique de la langue (ATILF-CNRS, Nancy) recherche un(e) candidat(e) à une thèse de doctorat dans le domaine de la lexicographie et de la sémantique computationnelle. Le domaine de recherche envisagé porte sur l'acquisition (semi-)automatique de lexiques syntaxiques et/ou sémantiques à partir de sources dictionnairiques classiques (TLFi en particulier), éventuellement en comparaison avec d'autres sources (corpus annotés, lexiques existants). Le sujet exact sera fixé en accord avec les intérêts de recherche du (de la) candidat(e). Profil souhaité : - BAC+5 (DEA, diplôme d'ingénieur), au plus tard pour l'été 2004 - cursus linguistique, informatique linguistique, intelligence artificielle - autonomie informatique (Perl, XML/XSL, programmation objet, ...) - si possible : spécialisation lexicologie, lexicographie, terminologie, linguistique de corpus, IR, statistiques, apprentissage automatique et/ou travaux (mémoires, publications, projets) dans au moins un des domaines mentionnés - anglais courant, d'autres langues souhaitées Merci d'envoyer, avant le 18 février 2004 : - un CV - une liste des travaux, publications et projets éventuels - une lettre de motivation (avec description des intérêts de recherche) à l'intention de Susanne Salmon-Alt (alt at loria.fr) et de se tenir disponible pour un entretien rapidement. -- Susanne Salmon-Alt Chargée de Recherche - CNRS ATILF : 03.83.96.86.98 LORIA : 03.83.59.20.35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 3 08:53:22 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:53:22 +0100 Subject: Appel: MEMURA-2004 : Workshop on Methodologies and Evaluation of Multiword Units Message-ID: ******************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ******************* MEMURA-2004 Workshop on Methodologies and Evaluation of Multiword Units in Real-world Applications (MEMURA Workshop) INVITED SPEAKER: KENNETH W. CHURCH In association with the 4th International Conference On Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC 2004 Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal May 25, 2004 http://memura2004.di.ubi.pt ********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************* This annoucement contains: [1] Workshop Description [2] Target Audience [3] Areas of Interest [4] Invited Speaker [5] Important dates [6] Abstract Submission [7] Workshop Chairs [8] Program Committee [9] Contact ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Workshop Description: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Multiword units (MWUs) include a large range of linguistic phenomena, such as phrasal verbs (e.g. "look forward"), nominal compounds (e.g. "interior designer"), named entities (e.g. "United Nations"), set phrases (e.g. "con carne") or compound adverbs (e.g. "by the way"), and they can be syntactically and/or semantically idiosyncratic in nature. MWUs are used frequently in everyday language, usually to express precisely ideas and concepts that cannot be compressed into a single word. A considerable amount of research has been devoted to this subject, both in terms of theory and practice, but despite increasing interest in idiomaticity within linguistic research, many questions still remain unanswered. The objective of this workshop is to deal with three important questions that are of great interest for real-world applications. 1) Comparison of MWU extraction methodologies Many methodologies have been proposed in order to automatically extract or identify MWUs. However, not many efforts have been devoted to compare their results. The core differences between the methodologies is certainly the main reason why such works are so rare. For instance, it is not easy to compare language-dependent methodologies as the results depend on the efficiency of parameter tuning in the broad sense of its acception (i.e. semantic tagging, local specific grammars, lematization, part-of-speech tagging etc.). Another important problem is the fact that there is no real agreement between researchers about the definition of MWUs which would provide the basis for an objective evaluation. The objective of the workshop is to gather people that have recently been working in this area so that new trends in comparing MWU extraction methodologies and their evaluation can be pointed at. 2) Evaluation of the benefits of the integration of MWUs in real-world applications It is not yet clear whether MWUs really improve NLP applications. It is common sense that Machine Translation is one application that takes great advantage of MWUs databanks. However, does the same apply to applications in Automatic Summarization, Information Retrieval (IR), Cross-language IR, Information Extraction, Text Clustering/Classification, Parallel Corpus Alignment? Indeed, could the identification of MWUs introduce new constraints that are not present in original texts? Should MWUs be considered as units that should not be analysable in terms of their components meaning? Or should they be treated as unanalysable? Should NLP methods work both on isolated words and on agregated MWUs? The answers are anything but clear. Here, the objective of the workshop is to point at successes and failures of the integration of MWUs in real-world applications. 3) Comparison of scalable architectures for the extraction and identification of MWUs Real-world applications are constrained by variables like processing time and memory space. However, identifying and extracting MWUs is usually a computationally heavy process. In recent years, new algorithms and new technologies have been proposed to introduce MWU treatmement in large scale applications, thus avoiding previous untractable implementations. Previous workshops on MWUs have mainly focused on the unconstrained extraction process. In this workshop, we would like to focus on the comparison of different factors that can influence the scalability of the treatment of MWUs in real-world applications, namely data structures, algorithms, parallel and distributed computing, grid computing etc. Indeed, as we said earlier, some extraction strategies may not scale to deal with huge volumes of data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2] Target Audience: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop is intended to bring together NLP researchers working on all areas of MWUs. The objective is to summarise what has been achieved in the area of MWU in real-world applications, to establish common themes between different approaches, and to discuss future trends. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [3] Areas of Interest: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics: * Automatic, semi-automatic and manual evaluations of MWUs extractors * Resources for evaluating MWUs extractors * Evaluation Standards * Cross-language and Cross-domain evaluations of MWUs extractors * Comparative evaluation of MWUs extractors * Evaluation of the integration of MWUs in NLP applications: Summarization, (Cross-language) Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Machine Translation, Text Classification etc. * Scalable algorithms, new data structures, Parallel and Distributed processing and Grid computing for MWUs extraction and/or identification * Comparative evaluation of extraction software architectures * Role of isolated words and MWUs for a sense-based definition of MWUs Abstracts can cover one or more of these areas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [4] Invited Speaker: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth W. Church (AT&T Labs Research, USA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [5] Important dates: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission deadline: February 23, 2004 Notification: March 15, 2004 Camera ready papers: April 12, 2004 Workshop: May 25, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [6] Abstract Submission: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts should consist of about 1000 words. Abstracts should be submitted electronically in pdf format only to Gaël Harry Dias [ddg at di.ubi.pt]. The following URL transforms postscript files to pdf files (http://www.ps2pdf.com/). The subject line should be "LREC 2004 MEMURA WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no author information should be included as part of the abstract (i.e. the names of the authors and references that could identify the authors). An identification page must be sent in a separate email with the subject line "LREC 2004 MEMURA WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, author(s), keywords, word count and name and email of the contact author. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be emailed to the contact author shortly after receipt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [7] Workshop Chairs: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gaël Harry Dias (Beira Interior University, Portugal) José Gabriel Pereira Lopes (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) Spela Vintar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [8] Program Committee: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Baldwin (Stanford University, United States of America) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, England) Didier Bourigault (University of Toulouse, France) Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Mikio Yamamoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Dekang Lin (University of Alberta, Canada) Aline Villavicencio (University of Cambridge, England) Heiki Kaalep (University of Tartu, Estonia) Joaquim da Silva (New University of Lisbon) Eric Gaussier (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Adeline Nazarenko (University Paris XIII, France) António Branco (Lisbon University, Portugal) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [9] Contact: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Gaël Harry Dias Human Language Technology Interest Group Departamento de Informática Universidade da Beira Interior Rua MarquÃ?ªs d'Ã?vila e Bolama 6201-001 Covilhã Portugal email: ddg at di.ubi.pt Tel: +351 275 319 700 Fax: +351 275 319 732 -- --------------------------------------------------------- Gaël Harry Dias, PhD | Assistant Professor Human Language Technology Group | [www.di.ubi.pt/~ddg] Computer Science Department | [ddg at di.ubi.pt] Beira Interior University | [Tel: +351 275 319 700] 6201-001 - Covilhã - PORTUGAL | [Fax: +351 275 319 732] --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 3 08:53:24 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:53:24 +0100 Subject: Appel: Categorial Grammars 2004 Message-ID: 2nd Call for papers: Categorial Grammars 2004, An Efficient Tool for NLP Montpellier, France, 7-11 June 2004 http://www.lirmm.fr/CG2004 Organised by LIRMM (http://www.lirmm.fr), supported by the Université Montpellier II (http://www.univ-montp2.fr) and the Languedoc-Roussillon delegation of CNRS (http://www.dr13.cnrs.fr) Important dates: ------------------------- Submission EXTENDED deadline: 7 March, 2004 Notification of accepted papers: 7 April, 2004 Final versions, deadline: 7 May, 2004 ------------------------------------------------- Proceedings: The accepted papers will be published as a special issue of Applied Logic by Elsevier. The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including other symposia or workshops. Choose among the topics below for key-words. For more instructions go to: http://www.lirmm.fr/CG2004 All papers should be submitted electronically to: degeilh at lirmm.fr Topics: --------------------- Formal grammars for natural languages, in particular (non exhaustive list) : Pregroups Pregroups applied to natural languages Compact bilinear logic Non-symmetric *-autonomous categories Lambek syntactical calculus Multimodal categorial grammars Word order, discontinuous constituents Dependencies, constraints to movement Learning algorithms Complexity of algorithms Minimalist grammars Lexical grammars Tree adjoining grammars Algorithmic and theoretical problems arising during syntactical analysis Categorial grammars, type grammars and pregroups are formal structures for deciding whether a string of words is a grammatical sentence. They assign one or more types to each word in the dictionary. One solves the problem whether a sequence of words is a grammatical sentence, by performing computations on the corresponding string(s) of types. This makes it possible to characterise the syntactic properties of natural languages entirely in terms of their lexical types and prove general properties, independent of the actual language fragment. These grammars are related to other mathematical approaches like intuitionist, classical and compact bilinear logic, non-symmetric *-autonomous categories, Montague semantics and Chomsky's minimalist programme. Some of these methods have matured to highly efficient tools for syntactical analysis. Previous meetings were held in Tucson, Rome, Nancy, Nantes, Trento and Ottawa. This symposium will cover new theoretical results and applications to natural languages. Some Speakers: ---------------------- Michele Abrusci (Univ Roma 3, Italy) Jason Baldridge (Univ of Edinburgh, UK) Philippe Blache (Univ of Aix-en-Provence, France) Julia Hockenmaier (Univ of Pennsylvania, USA) Maciej Kandulski (Adam Mickiewicz Univ, Poland) Ruth Kempson (King's College London, UK) Joachim Lambek (McGill Univ, Canada) Alain Lecomte (Univ Grenoble 2, France) Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg Univ, The Netherlands) Richard Oehrle (Univ of Pennsylvania, USA) Guy Perrier (Loria, France) Scientific Programme Committee: ---------------------------------------- Wojciech Buszkowski (Univ of Poznan, Poland) Claudia Casadio (Univ Chieti, Italy) Dov Gabbay (King's College London, UK) Michael Moortgat (Univ of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Christian Retoré (Univ Bordeaux I, France) Mark Steedman (Univ of Edinburgh, UK) Edward Stabler (UCLA, USA) Organising Committee: ---------------------------- Raffaella Bernardi (Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy) Sylvain Degeilh (Univ Montpellier II, France) Michael Moortgat (Univ of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Anne Preller (Univ Montpellier III, France) Violaine Prince (Univ Montpellier II, France) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 3 08:53:25 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:53:25 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC workshop: Beyond Named Entity Recognition ... Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop Beyond Named Entity Recognition Semantic labelling for NLP tasks URL: http://ai-nlp.info.uniroma2.it/ws_lrec04/ Centro Cultural de Belem LISBON, Portugal 25th may 2004 In Association with 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC2004 Main conference 26-27-28 May 2004 Motivation and Aims Although it is generally assumed that improvements in language processing will be made through the integration of linguistic information and statistical techniques, the reality is that language is very diverse and looking for specific patterns of words that repeat enough to be statistically significant tends not to be a very fruitful task: sequences longer than three words are not generally repeated often enough to be statistically significant. At the same time, the identification of named entities: Names, dates, places, organizations etc., has proved to be a very useful preliminary task in many natural language processing systems are interested in pursuing approaches which extend this notion by identifying and labeling other semantic information in a text, in such as way as to allow repeatable semantic patterns to emerge. Our interest is in attacking the data sparseness problem by exploring ways to collapse (semantically) related phrases which are expressed by different word sequences. As this seems closely related to previously proposed class-based language models (see for example Brown et al. 90 in Computational Linguistics), it is distinguished because the empirical notion of classes used in the previous work (e.g. classes made up of collocationally similar words) are replaced by semantically justified sets. Notice how Name Entity (NE) tagging and Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) represent, in terms of granularity and representational complexity, two extremes of a single general problem: semantic disambiguation. Semantic disambiguation serves thus the purpose of improving the generalization power of statistical models. One of the questions here is how to determine a suitable level of clustering (for NE identification and for WSD) that would lead to high accuracy and to performance improvement by obtained statistical models. Reason of Interest It is to be noticed that a set of independent research work focused recently on the statistical treatment of semantic phenomena (e.g. WordNet navigation as a stochastic process, as studied in Light and Abney or in Ciaramita & Johnson) highly correlates with the research program proposed above. The workshop will represent a forum where experience from lexical semantics and statistical learning will be presented and fruitful discussion among researchers in both fields will be promoted. The workshop is expected to attract researchers and practitioners from a range of areas as well as developers of large scale semantic resources who are interested in effective methods of semantic labeling. Topics (to be addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to) * Methods for lexical - semantic annotation of corpora * Methods and Standards for lexical semantic representation of dictionary information * Lexico-semantic taxonomies * Existing sources of classification: dictionaries, thesauri and computerized ontologies * Corpus-driven methods for semantic disambiguation * Feature selection for semantic disambiguation * Lexico-semantic tagging of very large corpora * Algorithms and methods for disambiguation of semantic phenomena * Statistical learning models and their applications to semantic labeling * Computational learning frameworks for Natural Language Learning * Semi-supervised and unsupervised statistical semantic disambiguation * Evaluation of semantic disambiguation Workshop format The workshop will be a half-day event with position statements from invited speakers (half an hour each) with two hours for 4-6 presentations of scientific papers. Submissions are intended to present works in progress and more completed works which fall within the scope defined by the topics listed above. A final 1 hour open discussion among all the workshop participants will be moderated by the organizers. In order to stimulate an interesting general discussion each member of the program committee will be invited to submit a position statement of max. 1000 words. Submission Participants are invited to submit an extended abstract of max. 3500 words concerning one or more of the topics of interest. Each accepted paper receives a slot of 25 minutes for presentation (15 minutes talk and 10 minutes for discussion). Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Submissions must be sent electronically in PDF to the following address: Roberto Basili Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Management University of Roma Tor Vergata e-mail: basili at info.uniroma2.it Proceedings and Publications Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organising Committee. The journal will dedicate to the workshop topics a Special Issue on "Semantic tagging/labelling for NLP tasks". Relevant papers submitted to the workshop will be selected to appear in that special issue. Important dates Extended abstract submission (max. 3500 words): 16th of February 2004 Notification of acceptance: 8th of March 2004 Preliminary Program: 29th of March 2004 Submission of the final version of paper: 5th of April 2004 Workshop: 25th May 2004 Organising Committee Louise Guthrie - University of Sheffield, UK Roberto Basili - University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy Eva Hajicova - Charles University, Czech Republic Frederick Jelinek - Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA Further Information For any information related to the organization, please contact: Roberto Basili e-mail: basili at info.uniroma2.it Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Management University of Roma Tor Vergata Via di Tor Vergata 00133 Roma (ITALY) tel: +39 06 72597391 fax: +39 06 72597460 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 6 08:03:22 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:03:22 +0100 Subject: Ecole: ESSLI 2004 Message-ID: ======================================================================= ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 Première Annonce ESSLLI 2004 Nancy, France 9-20 Août 2004 ======================================================================= ESSLLI 2004 (European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information), la seizième école d'été en logique, linguistique et information aura lieu en France, à Nancy, du 9 au 20 août 2004. Elle sera organisée par le LORIA (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) et se tiendra sur le campus scientifique de l'Université Henri Poincaré (Nancy 1). ESSLLI est l'école d'été annuelle de l'association européenne de Logique, Linguistique et Information (FoLLI). Comme les autres éditions d'ESSLLI, ESSLLI 2004 offrira deux semaines de cours d'initiation, de perfectionnement et d'approfondissement, ainsi que des ateliers. En tout, 48 cours et ateliers auront lieu. Pour plus d'information, vous pouvez consulter notre site web : http://esslli2004.loria.fr Les inscriptions à ESSLLI 2004 ne sont pas encore ouvertes, mais vous trouverez sur ce site toutes les informations préliminaires pour l'inscription, l'hébergement et les prix. Un autre e-mail vous sera envoyé quand les inscriptions seront ouvertes. Nous serons ravis de vous accueillir à Nancy au mois d'août prochain ! 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THE NEW DEADLINE FOR ONTOLEX 2004 IS FEBRUARY 9. ****APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS**** SECOND AND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop OntoLex 2004: Ontologies and Lexical Resources in Distributed Environments http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontolex2004.html Centro Cultural de Belem LISBON, Portugal 29th may 2004 In Association with 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC2004 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/index.php Main conference 26-27-28 May 2004 Motivations and aim The use of ontological knowledge in language technology applications goes a long way back. Recently, however, the project of turning the World Wide Web into a machine understandable resource to access digital information (the so-called Semantic Web) has stimulated a renewed interest in ontologies. In several recent workshops and conferences, researchers have investigated their nature and application potential for knowledge management, information retrieval and extraction, information exchange in agent-based systems as well as dialogue systems. Attention is being drawn to new aspects of ontology research such as ontology coordination and mapping ? aspects that are particularly relevant for distributed environments such as Knowledge Grid and Semantic web. In fact the annotation of web resources in agreement with concepts and relations as defined in ontologies, is useful for establishing a conceptual support for knowledge communication. From this perspective, lexicographers, lexical semanticists and ontologists are joining forces to build innovative systems for integrating ontological knowledge with lexical and semantic resources. Important examples of this interaction are the recent works on the conceptual analysis of WordNet (one of the first lexical knowledge bases), and the wide use of upper ontologies in innovative international projects like EuroWordNet, SIMPLE, Balkanet, DWDSnet. WordNet was designed and built entirely by psychologists, linguists, and lexicographers. Nevertheless, there are obvious parallels with ontologies, especially in the kinds of structuring relations used (taxonomical links, meronymy or part-of, etc.), and indeed WordNet has for years attracted the attention of philosophers and ontologists. In this context, the distinction between conceptual (possibly axiomatic) ontologies and lexical ontologies (which contain both linguistic and ontological information) has become more and more central in the field. In this workshop we want to discuss ontologies as resources per se, as well as for what concerns the relation between ontological knowledge and language. This relation can be investigated from a number of different angles, for example what differences and similarities there are between ontologies and more traditional lexical resources such as dictionaries and wordnets; how ontologies can be extracted from language corpora; what role language plays in the definition and mapping of ontologies; and finally, how ontologies can be used to treat language in language technology applications ? in particular applications for distributed environments. Topics to be addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Design principles and methodologies for upper-level ontologies and semantic lexical resources - Evaluation, comparison, mapping and integration of ontologies and lexical resources - Applications of ontologies and semantic lexical resources in LT applications (e.g. QA, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Machine Translation) - Role of semantic lexical resources in ontology learning - Methods to derive ontological knowledge from text - Methods to annotate text with reference to an ontology - Ontology-based query expansion techniques - Ontologies and multi-lingual lexical resources - Ontologies and ontology mapping in multi-lingual applications - Ontologies and lexical resources for meaning negotiation Two discussions will be organised around the following topics: - Filling the gap between axiomatic and linguistic ontologies - The role of lexical resources in the Semantic Web and the Knowledge Grid Reasons of interest A new scientific community is growing around this largely interdisciplinary area: following the spirit of the previous two OntoLex workshops, this workshop aims at being an important meeting point for researchers involved in the fields of lexical resources and ontologies, favouring the exchange of scientific experiences and proposing new directions of inquiry. This year, the workshop particularly welcomes contributions from researchers that are investigating the application of ontologies and lexical resources in distributed environments such as Knowledge Grid and Semantic Web. Important dates - 4th December 2003: Call for papers and demonstrations - 30 January 2004: Deadline for paper submission - 5 March 2004: Acceptance notifications and preliminary program - 29 March 2004: Deadline final version of accepted papers - 29 May 2004: Workshop Submissions Participants are invited to submit an extended abstract of max 3000 words related to one or more of the topics of interest. Papers can describe research results as well as work in progress. Each accepted paper will receive a slot of 30 minutes for presentation (20 minutes talk and 10 minutes for discussion). Demonstrations of ontology applications are encouraged as well (a demonstration outline of 2 pages can be submitted). Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Submissions must be sent electronically in PDF to Alessandro Oltramari (oltramari at loa-cnr.it) As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send a brief email indicating their intention to participate, including their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submissions. Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organising Committee. Time schedule and registration fee The workshop will consist of a morning session and an afternoon session, and include scientific paper presentations from workshop participants as well as general discussions. For this full-day workshop, the registration fee is 100 EURO for LREC conference participants and 170 EURO for other participants. These fees will include a coffee break and the Proceedings of the Workshop. Organising Committee Alessandro Oltramari (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR; Department of Cognition and Education Sciences, Trento University) Patrizia Paggio (Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen) Aldo Gangemi (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR Rome) Maria Teresa Pazienza (Roma Tor Vergata University) Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR) Bolette Sandford Pedersen (Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen) Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Programme Committee Roberto Basili (Roma Tor Vergata University) Werner Ceusters (Language & Computing) Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR) Aldo Gangemi (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome) Eric Gaussier (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Laboratory) Maria Toporowska Gronostaj (Språkdata, University of Gothenburg) Nicola Guarino (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento) Arne Jönsson (Linköping Universitet) Dimitrios Kokkinakis (Språkdata, University of Gothenburg) Alessandro Lenci (Universitá di Pisa) Claude de Loupy (Sinequa and University of Paris 10) Bernardo Magnini (ITC-IRST, Trento) Jørgen Fischer Nilsson (Technical University of Denmark) Alessandro Oltramari, (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento) Patrizia Paggio (Center for Sprogteknologi) Maria Teresa Pazienza (Roma Tor Vergata University) Bolette Sandford Pedersen (Center for Sprogteknologi) Guus Schreiber (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Atanas Kiryakov (Ontotext Lab, Sirma AI) Paola Velardi (Università "La Sapienza", Rome) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 6 08:03:29 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:03:29 +0100 Subject: Appel: revue TAL : Text Summarization : NEW DEADLINE Message-ID: Automatic Text Summarization: Solutions and Perspectives New deadline: February 29th, 2004 Special Issue Editor: Jean-Luc Minel (LaLICC, CNRS) Context: Automatic Text Summarization From a scientific point of view, the problem of summarization extends beyond its immediate boundaries, largely due to certain rhetorical relations that need to be taken into consideration, such as discourse frames, or direct or indirect levels of discourse. In recent years, this research area has moved beyond the processing of phrases as the unit of analysis to include concept search and the design of suitable methods for detecting and representing textual structures. Until the mid-1990?s, scientific texts provided a field of experimentation for automatic summarization methods, but the digitization of texts and their increased availability on the Web and intranets has fundamentally changed user needs and uses. The abundance of texts brings with it an urgent requirement for the creation and production of summarization tools capable of finding, selecting and extracting textual information concisely. In terms of the need, it has become necessary to bring web-search tools and company networks together with tools for automatic summarization. In terms of use, the development of text-search tools requires careful consideration of text representation and the design of user interfaces, which in turn leads to studies being carried out in the domain of information science on new types of written text. Topic This special issue aims: - on the one hand, to present new approaches or methods which may lead to promising prototypes for automated systems. It also concerns the development of an awareness of the importance of automatic summarization, alongside technology, for linguistic engineering. Whatever the automatic summarization project, there are only two underlying techniques for its realization. Firstly, techniques which extract full phrases from source texts, and secondly, those which generate a new, condensed text. Only the first kind of technique has allowed for the implementation of systems that can be considered as providing reasonable results according when evaluated for comercial potential. The second technique is of interest in a research context because of the various linguistic problems left unsolved at the level of interpretation, in view of the limitations in their computational implementation. - on the other hand, to propose bridges between the various areas in which text constitutes the main object of study (i.e., in the domain of information science). Papers are invited which contribute to the following themes: - Numerical approaches versus linguistic approaches, with a particular focus on papers that explore the complementarity between the two. - The automatic detection of textual structures, including: o the identification of topic o the identification of argumentative structures o the improvement of coherence and cohesion (dealing with anaphora, etc) - Different dimensions of summary o Types of summary o Translingual summaries o Multi-document summaries - Linguistic resources necessary for summarization systems o the application of terminology and ontologies o Generic versus specific-purpose resources - Summary and Normalization o Integrating summary systems into networks o Integrating summarization systems into linguistics - Methods of assessment for summarization systems - Extension of the summarization issue to the semantic filtering of texts: o Exploring new opportunities o The production of summaries in response to specific user needs o The use of navigation tools and interfaces which exploit textual structure o summarization and annotation of texts in a Semantic Web context Editorial Committee John Atkinson (Université de Concepcion, Chili) Branimir Boguraev (IBM, USA) Michel Charolles (LATTICE, Université Paris 3, France) Jean-Pierre Desclés (LaLICC, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France) Michael Elhadad (Computer Science Department, Ben Gurion University, Israel) Noemie Elhadad (Computer Science Department, Columbia University, USA) Guy Lapalme (Université de Montréal, Canada) Inderjeet Mani (Société MITRE, USA) Jean-Guy Meunier (UQUAM, Canada) Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan, USA) Antoinette Renouf (University of Liverpool, UK) Horacio Saggion (Computer Science Department, University of Sheffield, UK) Dina Wonsever (Université de la République, Uruguay) Format Contributions (25 pages maximum) should be submitted in Word, Postscript or Acrobat format. The file styles are provided as part of the regulations on the journal homepage. Language Papers should be written either in French or English. However, English submissions will only be accepted from non-French speakers. Dates Submission deadline: February 29th, 2004 Final committee decisions: April 30, 2004. The camera-ready version of the accepted articles should reach the editors by June 1st, 2004, for publication in 2004. Those who intend to submit an article are encouraged to contact Dr. Jean-Luc Minel (jean-luc.minel at paris4.sorbonne.fr). Paper submission The papers should be submitted by electronic mail to: jean-luc.minel at paris4.sorbonne.fr or by normal mail to the following address: Jean-Luc MINEL Laboratoire LaLICC, UMR 8139 (CNRS - Université Paris-Sorbonne) ISHA, 96 Boulevard Raspail 75 006 Paris FRANCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 6 08:03:31 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:03:31 +0100 Subject: Conf: ICCG3 : NEW DEADLINE Message-ID: +--------------------------------------------------------------+ I THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONSTRUCTION GRAMMAR I I I I - ICCG3 - I I I I July 7-10, 2004 I I I I Marseille, France I +--------------------------------------------------------------+ http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/projects/iccg3/ >>>>> THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 20th The Third International Conference on Construction Grammar will take place at the Université de Provence, Marseille, France, July 7-10, 2004. The conference is a follow-up on the Second International Conference on Construction Grammar held in Helsinki in September 2003. In line with the aim of the second conference, we hope that ICCG3 will continue to serve as a forum for promoting discussion and collaboration among linguists interested in Construction Grammar, as well as in related constructional research in its various models and applications. We would like to put a special emphasis on establishing the link between a descriptive approach to linguistic phenomena,especially as they emerge from authentic data, and their formalisation, as well as their automatic implementation. Confirmed plenary speakers include: . Laura Michaelis (U. of Colorado) . Ivan Sag (Stanford) . Mirjam Fried (Princeton) . Hans Boas (U. of Texas) . Dominique Willems (Gand) . Anne Abeillé (Paris VII) . Claire Blanche-Benveniste (EPHE, Paris) The conference is organized by the DELIC and the LPL, Université de Provence, the organizing committee being headed by Henri-José Deulofeu (UP) and Philippe Blache (CNRS). For more information about the conference please direct your inquiries to the conference organizers : iccg3-2004 at up.univ-mrs.fr GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION ------------------------- Regular conference papers (20 min. talk plus 10 min. discussion) are invited on any aspect of linguistic analysis that is concerned with constructions and/or frames. We welcome work on issues in syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, language acquisition, corpus linguistics, language variation/change, etc. SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS ----------------------- Abstracts of one page (PDF or MS WOrd), with an additional page for graphs, data, and/or references if necessary, should be submitted by : February 20th, 2004. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ANONYMOUS ABSTRACT ELECTRONICALLY to Hans Boas, Chairman of the scientific comitee : hcb at mail.utexas.edu. ONLY INCLUDE THE TITLE OF YOUR PAPER ON THE ABSTRACT. PLEASE INCLUDE the author information (name, affiliation, address, e-mail, phone, and fax numbers ) IN THE BODY OF YOUR MESSAGE. Upon acceptance, the abstract will be published in a conference booklet to be distributed among the conference participants. DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- Deadline for abstracts: February 20th, 2004 Notification of acceptance: March 22st, 2004 Early registration deadline: June 1st, 2004 If you have questions about your abstract, please direct such queries to: iccg3-2004 at up.univ-mrs.fr Upon acceptance, work will be started on publishing the abstracts in a conference booklet to be distributed among the conference participants. Last minute changes in your abstracts have to reach us by May 30, 2002. 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Related issues are as various as pedagogical and evaluation theories, integrated learning environments, experiments, trials and results from R&TD deployment. Relying on recent experiences and promising results from R&TD projects, in particular EU endorsed initiatives (e.g. IST Projects: Lab at Future, Laboratory of Tomorrow, Mobilearn), the workshop will give educational institutions, experts, practitioners and technologists an opportunity to share their experience and possibly come up with a consensus on open issues. Tel'04 is a one day workshop co-located with the WCC'2004 conference. It will take place among other WCC events in the Congress Center (downtown Toulouse). The program will include refereed papers and invited talks by distinguished researchers and practitioners. The proceedings will be published by Kluwer, the official publisher of IFIP conference. --------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop will comply with the trend of most international conferences relating to learning technologies today. Nevertheless the distinct shaping factor will comprise the identification of the enabling parameters to leverage the promotion of key initiatives in putting the grassroots for TeL, especially for school e-laboratories utilizing novel pedagogical and evaluation theories. Papers are solicited in the following areas: ·E-Learning ·Mobile learning ·Mixed and augmented reality in training ·Technologies in the school of tomorrow ·The learning citizen ·Collaborative learning ·Applying pedagogical theories ·The evaluation process of learning applications ·Shared virtual environments for learning ·Learning management systems ·Combining individualised with collaborative learning ·Applying and using eLearning standards ·Open learning environments ·Learning for All ·Technologies for science education ·Technologies for arts and humanities education --------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Accepted papers will appear in a book published by Kluwer. February 20, 2004: Submission of short and full papers(firm deadline) March 20, 2004: Notification of acceptance April 20, 2004: Camera ready papers For more details and submission visit: http://tel04.systema.gr/ ========================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Feb 9 17:36:59 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:36:59 +0100 Subject: Appel: 9 th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems Message-ID: 9 th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems June 23-25 2004, Salford, Manchester, UK. www.nldb.org Call for papers Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher, industrials and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an established field thanks to developments in Natural Language and technologies that made the storage and manipulation of large electronic dictionaries possible. As Information Systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems The use of Natural Language in Software Engineering has contributed to both improving the development process from the viewpoints of developers (improve the process of conceptual modelling, validation, etc) and the usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces, semantic webs, etc). Important Dates: _Full paper submission: February 29, 2004 _Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2004 _Camera-ready papers: April 22, 2004 Proceedings Publication _The proceedings of NLDB04 will be published by Springer in their LNCS series _The best 5 papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal Topics: _Natural Language for Web Services (Semantic information retrieval, Semantic Web, Semi-structured models and associated languages, Web usage, content and structure mining for discovering semantics, Concept taxonomies and web mining, Learning taxonomies and ontologies from the web, Information extraction with machine learning, Document classification and indexation) _Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling (Analysis of natural language descriptions, Requirement engineering, Terminological ontologies, Paraphrasing, Dynamic modelling, Verification, consistency checking, Metadata harvesting) _Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying/Retrieval (Natural languages interfaces for database querying, Verification of database queries by paraphrasing, Semantic analysis for information retrieval, NL interaction with databases) _Natural Language-Based Integration of Systems (Linguistic aspects of view integration, Linguistic aspects of data warehouses, Natural language queries to multi-databases systems, Data integration and data cleansing, Ontology driven integration, Ontology management) _Large Scale on-line Resources (Electronic dictionaries, Question-answer corpora, Informal ontologies, Linguistic databases, Digital libraries) _Application of Computational Linguistics in Information Systems (Multilingual information systems, NLP in requirements engineering, NLP in knowledge management, Ontology-driven NLP, Semiotics and fundamentals) _Management of Textual Databases (Text classification, Information extraction and detection, Text mining for creating metadata, Document management, Hypertext and Hyperbases) Conference Organisation Conference Chair : Elisabeth Mtais, Conservatoire National des Arts et Mtiers de Paris, France. Program Committee Chair : Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK. Program Committee Diego Moll Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia Kenji Araki, Hokkaido University, Japan Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM, Universit de Versailles, France Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK Gary A Coen, Boeing, USA Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CEDRIC/CNAM, France Antje Dsterhft, University of Wismar, Germany Gnther Fliedl, Universitt Klagenfurt, Austria Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Nicola Guarino, CNR, Italy Rafael Muoz Guillena, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mohammed Harmain, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Helmut Horacek, Universitt des Saarlandes, Germany Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Zoubida Kedad, PRiSM, Universit de Versailles, France Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Canada. Nadira Lammari, CEDRIC/CNAM, France Winfried Lenders, Universitt Bonn, Germany Jana Lewerenz, sd&m Dsseldorf, Germany Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Heinrich C. Mayr, Universitt Klagenfurt, Austria Paul McFetridge, Simon Frazer University, Canada Elisabeth Metais, CEDRIC/CNAM , France Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy. Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Jian-Yun Nie, Universit de Montral, Canada Manual Palomar, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Odile Piton, Universit Paris I Panthon-Sorbonne, France Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea Tim Ritchings, University of Salford, UK Hongchi Shi, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Niculae Stratica, Concordia University, Canada Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University Rochester, USA Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA Lua Km Teng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Bernhard Thalheim, University of Cottbus, Germany Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK Sunil Vadera, University of Salford, UK Ronald Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland Organising Committee Sunil Vadera (Chair), University of Salford, UK. Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK. Samia Nefti, University of Salford, UK. Mohamad Saraee, University of Salford, UK. 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Cette manifestation (SDN'04), réunira une vingtaine d'ateliers et de manifestations scientifiques (dont une journée de l'ATALA et une du chapitre français de l'ISKO). Cette semaine se place sous l'égide du RTP Doc "document et contenu : création, indexation, navigation" (http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr). Les thématiques abordées par la SDN sont donc liées à la production et à la mise à disposition de documents électroniques. La plupart des manifestations positionnent cette année l'exploitation des documents et l'accès au contenu au coeur de leur problématique, indépendamment du fait qu'elles traitent du texte, de l'image, du son, ou de la vidéo : la SDN est en effet conçue pour que puissent être réunies en un même lieu des communautés ayant des approches différentes du document et du texte et pour que les participants puissent profiter de cette diversité. CIFT, conférence déjà associée en 2002 à CIDE (Conférence Internationale sur le Document Electronique) et CIFED (Colloque International Francophone sur l'Ecrit et le Document), est tout naturellement moteur dans cette action. CIFT s'appuie sur une communauté émergeante autour de l'application conjointe des techniques d'apprentissage automatique, d'acquisition et de représentation des connaissances et du traitement automatique des langues. En témoignent des journées Fouille de Texte et A3CTE telles que "apprentissage et texte" ou la "Journée acquisition, apprentissage et exploitation de connaissances sémantiques pour l'accès au contenu textuel" des plate-formes de l'AFIA 2001 et 2003, les workshops "Text Mining", "Ontology learning", et "Semantic Web" successifs, les conférences CoNLL, LREC et EGC. Se positionnant au coeur de la SDN, CIFT souhaite offrir une plage de rencontre autour de la mise en oeuvre de ces méthodes sur des bases de documents textuels ou plus généralement audio-visuels. Ainsi, un intérêt particulier sera porté aux travaux relatant des expérimentations concrètes et conséquentes sur des applications opérationnelles de la fouille de texte, sur l'intégration d'outils de fouille de texte dans des chaînes de production ou de traitement de l'information électronique comme sur la présentation de solutions logicielles (y compris des outils d'aide à la validation d'apprentissage, d'aide à la visualisation de résultats, etc). Les articles proposés pourront porter sur des aspects théoriques, méthodologiques ou pratiques de la fouille de texte. De façon non limitative, les contributions porteront sur : * les modèles et méthodologies de la fouille de texte issues : - du traitement statistique des données - de la fouille de données, - du traitement automatique du langage naturel, - de l'extraction des connaissances, - de l'intelligence artificielle, - de l'approche multilingue, - de l'apprentissage numérique ou symbolique, - de la classification automatique, - de la recherche de motifs, - du monde XML (RDF, etc.), - des ontologies, - etc. * les domaines (mono/multiligues): - recherche d'information, - extraction d'information, - systèmes de question-réponse - catégorisation, routage, filtrage - résumé automatique, - web sémantique, - mémoire d'entreprise, - synthèse d'information, - aide à la rédaction, - aide à la décision, - etc Dates importantes: Réception des propositions : 22 février 2004 Notification aux auteurs : 15 mars 2004 Réception des textes définitifs : 15 avril 2004 Colloque : 22-24 Juin 2004 Envoi des textes et questions : cift04 at univ-poitiers.fr Comité de Pilotage : Marie-Hélène Antoni & François Yvon marie-helene.antoni at univ-poitiers.fr francois.yvon at enst.fr Comité de Programme: Marie-Hélène Antoni (Université de Poitiers) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Gilles Bisson (IMAG, Grenoble) Bruno Bachimont (INA et Univ. Technologique de Compiègne) Nuria Castells (TALP, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Jean Charlet (STIM/AP-HP, ERM202-INSERM, Paris) Fabrice Clérot (FT R&D, Lannion) Pascal Coupet (Témis France, Paris) Eric Gaussier (Xerox , Grenoble) James Cussens (Université d'York) Marc El-Beze (Univ. Avignon) Patrick Gallinari (LIP6, Paris) Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp.) Yves Kodratoff (LRI, Université Paris XI, Orsay) Stan Matwin (SITE, Univ. d'Ottawa) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, Univ. Paris XIII, Villetaneuse) Claire Nédellec (MIG/INRA, Jouy-en-Josas) Laurent Miclet (IRISA-ENSSAT, Lannion) Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay) Marie-Laure Reinberger (CNTS, Antwerp) Martin Rajman (EPFL, Lausanne) Pascale Sébillot (IRISA, Rennes) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA, Nancy) Yorik Wilks (University of Sheffield) Francois Yvon (ENST,Paris) Pierre Zweigenbaum (STIM/AP-HP, ERM202-INSERM et CRIM-INaLCOAP-HP, Paris) _____________________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------- Colloque International sur la Fouille de Texte CIFT'04 La Rochelle 22-24 juin 2004 (France) ------------------------------------------------- NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION : 22 FEBRUAR 2004 http://cift04.univ-poitiers.fr/ After CIFT'02, organised in Hammamet in October 2002, CIFT'04, International Conference on Text Mining, will be held in La Rochelle (France), from 22nd to 24th June 2004. This meeting will take place during the "digital document week" (SDN'04, Semaine du Document Numérique; 21-25 June), which brings together around 20 workshops and scientific conferences (e.g. ATALA and ISKO-France). This scientific week is organised by RTP-Doc (http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr) This year's themes for the conference are therefore linked to production and diffusion of electronic documents. Most conferences will focus on information exploitation and intelligent access to contents, be they text, image, sound or video. SDN aims at bringing together various communities who all have a different approach to documents and textual contents, in order to allow participants to benefit from this diversity. The CIFT conference which was in 2002 already associated to CIDE (Conférence Internationale sur le Document Electronique) and CIFED (Colloque International Francophone sur l'Ecrit et le Document) is therefore a natural key leader in this project. CIFT stems from the common preoccupation of an emerging community of researchers seeking the concerted use of techniques of Information Science, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Linguistics, Terminology, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Knowledge Acquisition, Ontology Learning, Text Mining and Semantic Web. They have already organised several conferences and workshops such as AFIA, LREC, EGC and CoNLL. Within the SDN, CIFT wants to be a forum for discussions around the implementation of such methods on bases of textual or more generally audio-visual documents. Consequently, evaluators will especially appreciate papers on detailed and large-scale experimentation involving Text Mining solutions or the integration of text mining software in global document engineering systems, or papers on the presentation of software solutions (including help tools regarding learning validation, results browsing, etc). Submitted papers may deal with theoretical, methodological or practical aspects of Text Mining. The following list of topics is intended as suggestive rather than comprehensive: * Text Mining Models and methods derived from: - Data Mining - Natural Language Processing - Knowledge Acquisition - Artificial Intelligence - Multilingual approach - digital/symbolic Machine Learning - Automatic Clustering - Patterns Recognition - XML World - Ontologies - etc. * Fields of (mono/multilingual) application : - Information retrieval - Information Extraction - Question/Answering systems - Categorisation, push, pull - Machine abstracts - Semantic Web - knowledge re-engineering - Information Synthesis - Writing Help - Decision Help - etc * Dates to be remembered: Deadline for submission: 22 st February 2004 Authors Notification: 15th March 2004 Due date for Camera Ready Copies: 15th april 2004 Conference: 22-24 Juin 2004 submit and address questions about the conference program to: cift04 at univ-poitiers.fr Conference Committee Chair : Marie-Hélène Antoni & François Yvon marie-helene.antoni at univ-poitiers.fr francois.yvon at enst.fr Program Committee : Marie-Hélène Antoni (Université de Poitiers) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Gilles Bisson (IMAG, Grenoble) Bruno Bachimont (INA et Univ. Technologique de Compiègne) Nuria Castells (TALP, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Jean Charlet (STIM/AP-HP, ERM202-INSERM, Paris) Fabrice Clérot (FT R&D, Lannion) Pascal Coupet (Témis France, Paris) Eric Gaussier (Xerox , Grenoble) James Cussens (Université d'York) Marc El-Beze (Univ. Avignon) Patrick Gallinari (LIP6, Paris) Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp.) Yves Kodratoff (LRI, Université Paris XI, Orsay) Stan Matwin (SITE, Univ. d'Ottawa) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, Univ. Paris XIII, Villetaneuse) Claire Nédellec (MIG/INRA, Jouy-en-Josas) Laurent Miclet (IRISA-ENSSAT, Lannion) Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay) Marie-Laure Reinberger (CNTS, Antwerp) Martin Rajman (EPFL, Lausanne) Pascale Sébillot (IRISA, Rennes) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA, Nancy) Yorik Wilks (University of Sheffield) Francois Yvon (ENST,Paris) Pierre Zweigenbaum (STIM/AP-HP, ERM202-INSERM et CRIM-INaLCOAP-HP, Paris) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Thu Feb 12 16:26:34 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:26:34 +0100 Subject: Appel: COLING-2004 Workshop: Multilingual Linguistic Resources Message-ID: ************************************************************************ **** Call for Papers COLING-2004 Workshop: Multilingual Linguistic Resources Geneva Switzerland 28 August 2004 http://mlr2004.imag.fr/ ************************************************************************ **** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION In an ever expanding information society, most information systems are now facing the "multilingual challenge". Lexical resources play an essential role in these information systems. Such lexical resources need to provide information on many languages in a common framework and should be (re)usable in many applications (for automatic or human use). Many centers have been involved in national, european and international projects dedicated to building harmonized language resources and creating expertise in the maintenance and further development of standardized linguistic data. These resources include dictionaries, lexicons, thesauri, wordnets, and annotated corpora developed along the lines of best practices and recommendations. However, since the late 90's most efforts in scaling up these resources remain the responsibility of the local authorities, usually, with very low funding (if any) and few opportunities for academic recognition of this work. Hence, it is not surprising that many of the resource holders and developers have become reluctant to give free access to the latest resources. It is therefore currently rather unclear what the actual status is of these language resources. The goal of this workshop is to study problems involved in the development/management/reuse of lexical resources in a multilingual context. Moreover, this workshop will provide a forum for reviewing the state of language resources. The workshop is meant to bring to the international community qualitative and quantitative information about the most recent developments in the area of linguistic resources and their use in applications. As the workshop takes place in Europe, special attention will be given to submissions on resources for European languages (especially Central and Eastern European languages), but submission of innovative developments involving any language will be welcome. The intent of the workshop is not only to review academic developments but also to hear from industry, how these resources are used in new technology developments and what the current needs are in the field. Presentations, project notes and position papers are welcome. WORKSHOP TOPICS Authors of papers on multilingual linguistic ressources are encouraged to apply. Papers could be on - but not limited to - any of the following topics: - models for language/application-independent linguistic data - linguistic data acquisition and maintenance - building multilingual linguistic resources - lexical architectures to link data between languages - use of linguistic resources for applications in a multilingual context - reuse of existing lexical resources in a specific multilingual application - human use of lexical resources in a multilingual context - quality evaluation and standardization SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Papers should be original, previously unpublished work. They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. As the reviw process will not be blind, papers should contain the names and affiliations of authors. Submissions must be electronic only, and should consist of full papers of max. 8 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and equations), project notes and position papers should not exceed 4 pages. Authors should follow COLING 2004 formatting guidelines, available at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html. All submissions should be made through the MLR2004 workshop web site's submission form (url: http://mlr2004.imag.fr/). Submissions should consist in a single PDF file. Before submitting your document, please, verify that all non-standard fonts are correctly embedded in your PDF document (you can verify it by disabling the "Use Local Font" option when viewing you PDF document using Adobe Reader). Formatting requirements for the final version of accepted papers will be posted as soon as they become available. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of Papers: May 7th 2004 Notification of Acceptance: June 2nd 2004 Deadline for final paper submission: June 16th 2004 Workshop: August 28th 2004 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Gilles Sérasset, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier- Grenoble I, France Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Suisse Christian Boitet, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier- Grenoble I, France Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Suisse Dan Tufis, RACAI, University of Bucharest, Romania PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gilles Sérasset GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France (chair) Susan Armstrong ISSCO, Université de Genève, Switzerland Pushpak Battacharya IIT, Mumbai, India Igor Boguslavski IITP, Moscow, Russia Christian Boitet GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France Pierrette Bouillon ISSCO, Université de Genève, Switzerland Jim Breen Monash University, Australia Nicoletta Calzolari CNR, Pisa, Italy Dan Cristea University Al.I.Cuza Iasi, Romania Patrick Drouin OLST, University of Montreal,Canada Sanae Fujita NTT, Kyoto, Japan Ulrich Heid IMS-CL, University of Stuttgart, Germany Hitoshi Isahara CRL, Nara, Japan Kyo Kageura NII, Tokyo, Japan Chuah Choy Kim USM, Penang, Malaisie Mathieu Mangeot NII, Tokyo, Japan Alain Polguère OLST, University of Montreal,Canada Andrei Popescu-belis ISSCO, Université de Genève, Switzerland Jean Senellart SYSTRAN, France Mandel Shi Xiamen University, China Virach Sornlertlamvanich CRL Asia, NECTEC, Bangkok, Thailand Pr. Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii Tokyo University, Japan Philippe Thoiron CRTT, Université de Lyon 2, France Dan Tufis RACAI, Uni Bucharest, Romania Michael Zock LIMSI, Paris, France CONTACT mlr2004 at imag.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 Thu Feb 12 16:26:38 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:26:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: COLING-2004 Workshop: COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY Message-ID: -*- CALL FOR PAPERS -*- CALL FOR PAPERS -*- CALL FOR PAPERS -*- http://www.cse.salford.ac.uk/TextMining/CompuTerm2004 http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/~pz/computerm2004.html COMPUTERM 2004 3rd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY A Coling-2004 Workshop http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/ Computational Terminology becomes an increasingly important aspect in areas such as text mining, information retrieval, information extraction, summarisation, document management systems, question-answering systems, ontology building, etc. In text mining, the acquisition of new knowledge is best captured in terms as they denote new concepts. Terminological information is paramount to knowledge mining from texts for scientific discovery and competitive intelligence. Currently, scientific needs in emerging scientific domains, such as biomedicine, coupled with the overwhelming amount of textual data published daily, raised an additional interest to the usefulness of terminology acquired and managed systematically and automatically. The aim of this workshop is to bring together NLP researchers in Terminology and to discuss recent advances in computational terminology and its impact in many NLP applications. Issues like standardisation of terminological resources, constructing and updating domain specific dictionaries and thesauri, systematic terminology management will be addressed as they are a necessary component of any NLP system dealing with domain-specific literature. Areas of interest _________________ The 3rd workshop on Computational Terminology invites a range of papers on substantial, original and unpublished research on areas of computational terminology such as: * Mining terminology (NLP techniques for the acquisition and alignment of mono-lingual and multi-lingual terminology) * Structuring and managing terminology (term variation, term association discovery, term clustering and classification) * Terminological integration and update of resources (linking of terminological databases, thesauri, ontologies, (semi)-automatic update of terminological resources) * Applications of terminological information (term oriented IE, IR, QA, summarisation etc) * Evaluation of terminology Submission format _________________ Papers for workshop contributions should not exceed 8 pages (including references, figures, etc.). Authors should follow the main conference Coling style format. An additional title page should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact email address, postal address, telephone, url (as a separate file as main submissions are anonymous). Submissions should be sent via email, using ps or pdf format to: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk Invited speaker _______________ Marie-Claude L'Homme (Université de Montréal): A Lexico-semantic Approach to the Structuring of Terminology Important dates _______________ Deadline for submission of papers: March 26, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 2, 2004 Final camera-ready copy due: June 7, 2004 COMPUTERM'04 workshop: August 29, 2004 Workshop Organisers ___________________ Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, UK) Pierre Zweigenbaum (STIM/DSI/AP-HP, France) Programme committee ___________________ Olivier Bodenreider (NLM, US) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, France) Teresa Cabre (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Key-Sun Choi (KORTERM, KAIST, Korea) Beatrice Daille (IRIN, France) Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Éric Gaussier (Xerox, France) Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp) Marie-Claude L'Homme (University of Montréal, Canada) Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Philippe Langlais (RALI, Canada) John McNaught (UMIST, UK) Goran Nenadic (UMIST, UK) Koichi Takeuchi (Okayama University, Japan) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Thu Feb 12 16:26:41 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:26:41 +0100 Subject: Publications : revue ALSIC vol 6 num 2 Message-ID: Veuillez nous excuser en cas de receptions multiples de ce message en provenance de sources differentes. -------------------------------------------- REVUE ALSIC Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication (http://alsic.org ou alsic.u-strasbg.fr) Le numero 11 (volume 6, numero 2) de decembre 2003 de la revue ALSIC est paru -------------------------------------------- ** Sommaire : * Editorial : de F. Demaiziere ** Rubrique Recherche : - La distance en formation aux langues par visioconference : dimensions, mesures, consequences de Pascal Marquet & Elke Nissen - Diagnostic d´erreurs dans le projet FreeText de Sebastien L´haire & Anne Vandeventer Faltin - Caracterisation des interfaces porteuses d´information mises en oeuvre dans un environnement informatique d´aide a l´apprentissage de la lecture de Chrysta Pelissier ** Rubrique Pratique et recher! che : - Elements conversationnels du clavardage : un entrainement a l´expression orale pour les apprenants de langues a distance ? de Vincenza Tudini (version française) - Conversational elements of online chatting: speaking practice for distance language learners? de Vincenza Tudini (English version) -Les escamots d´aide sur cederoms sont-ils bien percus par les apprenants de langue etrangere ? Enquete preliminaire en France, en Angleterre et au Japon de Nicole Koulayan, Sylvain Detey & Michel Sagaz ** Rubrique ¨Points de vue, echanges - Presentation d´Eurocall 2003 "New Literacies in Language Learning & Teaching" de Francois Mangenot ** Rubrique Analyse de livres : - Multimedias, dispositifs d´apprentissage et acquisition des langues de Maguy Pothier par Agnes Kukulska-Hulme - Psychologie des apprentissages et multimedia de Denis Legros & Jacques Crinon par Veronique Quanquin ** Rubrique Analyse de logiciels et sites - Te! ll Me Mo re - Francais par Laurence Hamon - Teentalk Canada par Emmanuelle Duchiron ** Rubrique Theses coordonnee par Thierry Selva ** Rubrique Toiltheque coordonnee par Delphine Renie -------------------------------------------------- La revue est d'acces libre, mais n'oubliez pas de VOUS INSCRIRE (http://alsic.u-strasbg.fr/Infrevue/inscrip.htm), si ce n'est deja fait. Contact: infos at alsic.org --------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------------------- Revue ALSIC : Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication Toile : http://alsic.org ou alsic.u-strasbg.fr Courriel : infos at alsic.org Telecopie : 03 88 41 59 06 (+ 33 3 88 41 59 06) ---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Thu Feb 12 16:26:44 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:26:44 +0100 Subject: ATALA: journee du 15/05 : Methodes et outils pour l'evaluation des analyseurs syntaxiques Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------- Méthodes et outils pour l'évaluation des analyseurs syntaxiques --------------------------------------------------------------- Depuis une dizaine d'années, avec l'apparition des outils de recherche d'information sur le web, de nouvelles techniques d'analyse syntaxique plus robustes ont vu le jour. Les analyseurs partiels construisent une analyse parfois minimale, incomplète, mais cela quels que soient la taille et le contenu des données à traiter. Dans le même temps, les analyseurs qui tentent de produire systématiquement une analyse "complète", ou la plus complète possible ont continué d'améliorer leurs résultats. Pour aider au développement de ces analyseurs, mais aussi pour permettre la comparaison de leurs performances, il est important de disposer des méthodes et des outils permettant de les évaluer. Et la mise en oeuvre de ces méthodes suppose plusieurs étapes qui sont: - la définition d'un format d'annotation permettant une large couverture des phénomènes syntaxiques ; - le choix d'un corpus et son annotation manuelle (ou semi-automatique) dans ce format d'annotation ; - la définition d'un ensemble de mesures permettant l'évaluation ; - la mise au point des outils aussi bien d'annotation, que de transcription et d'évaluation. De nombreux pays ont commencé à s'intéresser à l'évaluation. Des discussions ont eu lieu sur les annotations à produire, sur les méthodes pour les obtenir et des corpus annotés dans différentes langues ont été peu à peu constitués : que ce soit en anglais (voir le célèbre Penn TreeBank et sa "dernière" couche le Propbank) mais aussi et peut-être surtout dans un certain nombre de langues à moins forte diffusion, comme le bulgare (BulTreeBank), le tchèque (PDT), le norvégien, le suédois, le finlandais, le danois (Arboretum), le catalan, le basque et l'espagnol (3LB), l'allemand (Negra, TéBa-D). En ce qui concerne l'anglais, qui est sans doute la langue pour laquelle les recherches étaient les plus avancées, les métriques et les corpus annotés dans le cadre de la campagne PARSEVAL sont aujourd'hui remis en cause car ils ne sont ouverts ni à d'autres langues ni à de nouveaux formats d'analyse (voir l'atelier de la conférence LREC 2002 : Beyond Parseval towards improved evaluation measures for parsing systems). Ce qui nous montre que la problématique de l'évaluation des analyseurs syntaxiques n'est en rien résolue et donc est ouverte à toute nouvelle proposition. Pour le français, la campagne d'évaluation EVALDA/EASY du programme Technolangue, à l'initiative du ministère délégué à la recherche et aux nouvelles technologies) a débuté en janvier 2003. Elle sert de lieu d'expérimentation pour tester de nouvelles approches pour l'évaluation des analyseurs syntaxiques du français. Le but de cette journée sera donc de développer une réflexion autour des méthodologies d'évaluation, des corpus, des métriques, des outils et des formalismes d'annotation. --------------------------------------- John Carroll, de l'Université du Sussex, donnera une conférence invitée lors de cette journée : "Evaluating parsers using decomposed and weighted representations" --------------------------------------- Les contributions attendues pourront porter sur l'un des thèmes suivants : - l'annotation des corpus (formalisme, outils, ...) - les corpus - les méthodologies d'évaluation - les métriques d'évaluation (choix, outils ...) - les outils de projection d'un analyseur dans un formalisme Des articles prospectifs sur l'évaluation et les analyseurs syntaxiques seront également les bienvenus. ---------------------------- ---------------------------- Organisateurs : Patrick Paroubek, Isabelle Robba et Anne Vilnat Format des soumissions : Résumés longs ou articles courts entre 2 et 4 pages. Les soumissions devront se faire sous format électronique de préférence, en version pdf, ou ps. Les résumés devront être envoyés à : Anne.Vilnat at limsi.fr ou Isabelle.Robba at limsi.fr en mentionnant : journée ATALA dans le sujet. En cas de problème, vous pouvez également transmettre une version papier, adressée aux organisateurs, au LIMSI, BP133, 91403 Orsay Cedex ----------------------------- ----------------------------- Calendrier : 13/04/04 - date limite pour la soummission des articles 30/04/04 - notification aux auteurs 15/05/04 - journee ----------------------------- ----------------------------- Pour plus d'informations sur l'ATALA et sur l'organisation des journées d'études, consultez le site de l'ATALA à l'adresse : http://www.atala.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 Feb 17 15:56:21 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:56:21 +0100 Subject: Conf: LREC 2004 workshop: Workshop on the Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora Message-ID: *************ATTENTION PLEASE !!! IF YOU HAVE SENT AN ABSTRACT BUT HAVE NOT RECEIVED A CONFIRMATION OF RECEIVAL PLEASE RE-SENT IT TO BOTH: esteam at otenet.gr and esteam at telia.com*************** ************APOLOGIES FOR RECEIVING MULTIPLE COPIES************ Workshop on the Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora "The Re-Use of Parallel and Comparable Corpora including Translation Memories for Applications such as Machine Translation, Knowledge Structuring and Multilingual Information Browsing" Lisbon, Portugal, 25 May 2004 LREC 2004 Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Extension of Deadline for Call for Papers Workshop description and aim: Parallel and comparable corpora, including translation memories, contain a large amount of information for translation, multilingual lexicon building and multilingual knowledge structuring. In human language technology these resources can be used for multiple applications in speech or text processing. This workshop addresses the versality and utility of parallel and comparable corpora in the expanding and multilingual space of the internet. It aims at exchanging ideas concerning all aspects of re-usability of parallel and comparable corpora including translation memories for applications such as machine translation, knowledge structuring, multilingual information browsing and so on. Abstract submission: We invite submission of abstracts on the topics below. Abstracts should be approximately 600 words. Abstracts outlining live demonstrations are encouraged. Submissions should be sent before 16 February 2004 by email as attachments in doc, rtf, or plain text, to the contact person, Anna Samiotou esteam at otenet.gr, with the words 'LREC2004 Workshop on the Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora' in the subject heading. Notification of acceptance will be made on or before the 8 March 2004, together with any comments from reviewers from revision. Workshop topics: - re-use of parallel and comparable corpora including translation memories for: o machine translation o knowledge structuring o multilingual information browsing o speech multilingual applications - re-usability of generic vs task/domain specific existing parallel and comparable corpora - building language resourses for new applications from existing ones - methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g. terms, lexical information) from existing parallel and comparable corpora for re-using purposes in new applications - methods for identifying comparable corpora on the web - methods for quantifying comparability Organising Committee: Dr. Lambros Kranias, Chief Technical Manager ESTeam AB, Greece/Sweden Dr. Nicoletta Calzolari, Director, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Italy Dr. Gregor Thurmair, R&D Manager Linguatec, Germany Dr. Yorick Wilks, Professor, University of Sheffield, UK Dr. Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA Gudrun Magnusdottir, Managing Director ESTeam AB, Greece/Sweden Anna Samiotou, R&D Manager ESTeam AB, Greece/Sweden Dr. Khalid Choukri, CEO ELDA/ELRA Important Dates: Extended Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2004 Notification of acceptance: 8 March 2004 Deadline final paper: 22 March 2004 Workshop date: full day 25 May 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 17 15:56:23 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:56:23 +0100 Subject: Publications: revue In Cognito no 3 vol 1 Message-ID: ================================================================== In Cognito - Cahiers Romans de Sciences Cognitives Revue plurilingue accessible gratuitement sur la toile http://www.in-cognito.net ================================================================== Diffusée désormais en quatre langues (français, espagnol, italien, portugais), la revue In Cognito vient de sortir son troisième numéro sous son appellation : * In Cognito - Cahiers romans de sciences cognitives * In Cognito - Cuadernos romances en ciencias cognitivas * In Cognito - Quaderni romanzi di scienze cognitive * In Cognito - Cadernos de Ciências Cognitivas em língua românica Elle est ouverte à la fois aux recherches académiques en sciences cognitives et à leurs applications industrielles, et est accessible librement (ABONNEMENT GRATUIT) sur la Toile, tout en conservant un mode parallèle (payant) de publication papier. Pour s'abonner à la revue ou nous soumettre une communication, consulter le site WWW de la revue : http://www.in-cognito.net ================================================================= NUMERO 3, VOLUME 1 - 2004 - SOMMAIRE ================================================================= Editorial Le Mot de l'Editeur - Editorial - Editoriale - Uma Palavra do Editor Jean-Yves ANTOINE (U. Bretagne Sud, Vannes, France) - pp 1-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Articles Sistemas de apoio a grupos disribuídos : diferenças e semelhanças em três contextos de utilização Paulo MELO (U. Coimbra, Brasil), Francisco PARIS (U. Beira Interior, Portugal), Rui LOURENÇO, João Paulo COSTA (U. Coimbra, Brasil) - pp 3-44 Analyse d'usage d'une plate-forme de coopération : Usage et développement logiciel Jean-Charles HAUTECOUVERTURE, Nicolas GREGORI (LPI GRC, Nancy, France), Didier PAQUELIN (GR at MMSCI, Bordeaux, France), François CHAROY, Claude GODART, Marc PATTEN (LORIA, Nancy, France), Isabelle FAUGERAS (Jeriko, Paris, France) - pp 45-77 Une visualisation orientée qualité our la fouille anthropocentrée de règles d'association Julien BLANCHARD, Fabrice GUILLET, Henri BRIAND (IRIN, Nantes, France) - pp 79-100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cognitique Présentation de la rubrique Cognitique Nathalie LÉPY (Novadis Services, Grenoble, France) - pp 101-104 Procesos cognitivos para la toma de decisiones a través de métodos multicriterio para la funcion de mantenimiento en equipos de perforacion de pozos petroleros Carlos Enrique ESCOBAR-TOLEDO, Baruch LÓPEZ-GARCÍA (Universidad Nacional de México, México) - pp 105-119 ================================================================= REVUE IN COGNITO - CAHIERS ROMANS DE SCIENCES COGNITIVES Site WWW : http://www.in-cognito.net ================================================================== REDACTEURS EN CHEF ------------------ Jean-Yves ANTOINE (U. Bretagne Sud, Vannes, France) Plinio BARBOSA (Unicamp, Campinas, Brésil) Teresa Inès CERATTO (KTH, Stockholm, Suède) Mariapaola D'IMPERIO (LPL, Aix-en-Provence, France) COMITE SCIENTIFIQUE (composition non définitive) ------------------- Eleonora Albano (Unicamp, Campinas, Bresil) Nicolas Balacheff (LEIBNIZ-IMAG, Grenoble, France) José Antonio Castorina (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentine) Maria.J.Cuenca (Universitat de València, Espagne) Jean Decety (U. of Washington, Washington, Etats-Unis) Emilia Ferreiro (Universidad de Mexico, Mexique) Regine Kolinsky (Université Libre Bruxelles, Belgique) R. Lopez de Mantaras (IIIA, Barcelona, Espagne) Palmira Marrafa (U. Lisboa, Portugal) Jean-Arcady Meyer (AnimatLab, Paris, France) José A Morais (Université Libre Bruxelles, Belgique) Leonor Scliar-Cabral (UFSC, Florianopolis, Bresil) John Stewart (UTC, Compiègne, France) Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST,Trento, Italie) Daniel Vanderveken (U. Trois Rivières, Québec, Canada) Jean Véronis (DELIC, Aix-en-Provence, France) Jose Luis Zaccagnini (Universidad de Málaga, Espagne) EDITEUR ------- La revue In Cognito est éditée par l'association In Cognito, en partenariat avec l'association Estigma et le Pôle Rhône-Alpes en Sciences Cognitives. ====================================================================== ABONNEMENTS ====================================================================== L'abonnement papier donne droit aux quatre numéros annuels de la revue ainsi qu'à un accès à sa version électronique. L'abonnement électronique gratuit est de durée illimitée. Il peut être révoqué automatiquement. Abonnement version electronique ------------------------------- - gratuit pour les abonnés individuels - 25 Euros : institutions et industriels Abonnement papier Union Européenne ---------------------------------- - 25 Euros : tarif réduit étudiant - 35 Euros : tarif abonné individuel - 65 Euros : tarif institutions et industriels Abonnement papier hors Union Européenne --------------------------------------- - 27,5 Euros : tarif réduit étudiant - 37,5 Euros : tarif abonné individuel - 67,5 Euros : tarif institutions et industriels Pour s'abonner, consulter la page correspondante sur les pages WWW de la revue : http://www.in-cognito.net --Valérie Buron Laboratoire d'Etude des Mécanismes Cognitifs (EMC) / Laboratoire DDL (Dynamique du Langage) UMR CNRS 5596 Université Lumière Lyon 2 5 avenue Pierre Mendès France 69676 Bron (FRANCE) Tel : (+33) 4 78 77 43 49 Fax : (+33) 4 78 77 43 51 E-Mail : Valerie.Buron at etu.univ-lyon2.fr http://unpc.univ-lyon2.fr/~buron/buron.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 17 15:56:25 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:56:25 +0100 Subject: Appel: COLING 04 workshop : eLearning for Computational Linguistics and ... Message-ID: First Call For Papers eLearning for Computational Linguistics and Computational Linguistics for eLearning International Workshop to be held in conjunction with COLING 2004 Geneva, August 28th, 2004 This workshop focuses on the relation between Computational Linguistics and eLearning within two sessions. 1. eLearning for Computational Linguistics With the SOCRATES thematic network project "Advanced computing in the Humanities" the need for information technologies, and, in particular, eLearning in the humanities, including CL, has been identified. The survey which has been launched revealed the interest in high-quality teaching material and (distance) courses. On the occasion of a conference and a workshop, both held 1998 and 1999 resp., first results were presented in the form of project notes. Furthermore, didactic issues which concern (distance) teaching and learning of computational linguistics and language technology were raised. In the meanwhile, various projects have provided high-quality teaching material and (distance) courses for various disciplines of Computational Linguistics, like ELSNET and MiLCA. This part of the workshop should give practioners in the field the opportunity * to share didactic experience of eTeaching CL, * to identify and to disseminate good practice models and resources, * to share novel approaches to eLearning in CL, and * to discuss curricular issues. 2. Computational Linguistics for eLearning In the context of computer-mediated distance learning, language technology can help to enhance the accessibility of online teaching material and the adaptivity of learning management systems. * In the context of computer mediated communication, language technology can be applied for, e.g, summarization of discussion threads and support of discourse coherence in synchronous CMC * In the context of accessibility and usability of online teaching material, language technology can be applied for, e.g., - matching of semantic representations of learning modules on the one hand and the prospective user's knowledge of the topic on the other hand; - facilitation of access to learning material by more flexible and sophisticated search methods; - improvement of retrieval by supplying metadata for learning objects on a (semi)-automatic basis; - adaptive components which adjust the system to particular users, e.g adaptation of learning management systems for disabled persons, taking into account their special needs. With this part of the workshop, we want to further address the role which language technology plays in the development of intelligent platforms for eLearning. We want to particularly encourage submissions by scholars and software developers who present implemented and working eLearning systems in which language technology supplies a crucial part of the implemented solution. The entire workshop constitutes an informal forum for researchers and teachers to discuss the various issues, to create networks of common interests and to launch new initiatives in the area of eLearning. We invite papers and project notes on the various topics concerned with eLearning for CL and CL for eLearning. Important Dates --------------- Deadline for papers and project notes: 15 April 2004 Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2004 Deadline for a camera-ready copy of the paper: 15 June 2004 Workshop: 28 August 2004 Format for submission of papers ------------------------------- The expected length for full papers will be around 8 pages including abstract, references and notes. The expected length for project notes will be 5 pages maximum. We also inform potential authors that their contributions will be published in the workshop proceedings within COLING'04 and, therefore, the papers selected for publication will have to adhere to COLING edition rules. More details about this will be made available by COLING in due course, check http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html or the COLING homepage for details. Submission procedure -------------------- Anonymous papers should be sent to: lothar at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de. The papershould be attached in PDF format accompanied by separate authors' information. The heading on the email should read "Coling Workshop paper submission". Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to the originating email address. Language -------- All papers must be written and presented in English Workshop organization --------------------- For the workshop to take place, the COLING 2004 organizers require at least 20 participants to register for the workshop. Speakers and participants are therefore asked to register via the official COLING 2004 site as soon as possible. Program Committee ----------------- Lars Borin, University of Göteborg, Sweden Kai-Uwe Carstensen, University of Zürich, Switzerland Wolfgang Hess, University of Bonn, Germany Trude Heift, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tübingen, Germany, co-chair Claudia Kunze, University of Tübingen, Germany Lothar Lemnitzer, University of Tübingen, Germany co-chair Petra Ludewig, University of Osnabrück, Germany Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University Columbus, USA, co-chair Wolf Paprotté, University of Münster, Germany Veit Reuer, University of Osnabrück, Germany Kiril Simov, Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Pavel Smrz, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Maik Stührenberg, University of Gießen, Germany Tzvetomira Venkova, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Maria Wolters, Rhetorical Systems, Edinburgh, UK Organizers / Contact -------------------- Organizers: Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tübingen, Germany Lothar Lemnitzer, University of Tübingen, Germany Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Website: http://www.cogsci.uos.de/~vreuer/ws_elearning_cl/ Contact Address: Lothar Lemnitzer Seminar für Sprachwissenschaft Abt. Computerlinguistik Wilhelmstr. 19 D-72074 Tübingen, Germany Phone +49 7071 2978488, Fax +49 7071 295214 E-Mail: lothar at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 17 15:56:27 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:56:27 +0100 Subject: Appel: Colloque de jeunes chercheurs : "Sur la route du verbe" Message-ID: APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS Colloque de jeunes chercheurs : "Sur la route du verbe" 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2004 Université Nancy 2 ­ 23, boulevard Albert 1er - 54000 NANCY Laboratoires ATILF et CRAPEL Date limite de soumission : 15 avril 2004 ******************** PRESENTATION Un groupe de doctorants et jeunes chercheurs des laboratoires ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française) et CRAPEL (Centre de Recherches et d'Applications Pédagogiques En Langues ) de l'Université Nancy 2 organise son premier colloque, intitulé "Sur la route du verbe". Celui-ci aura lieu à Nancy du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2004 . Il s'inscrit dans l'esprit du colloque JETOU2003, organisé par les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs de l'Université de Toulouse 2 en novembre 2003. La date limite de soumission des communications est fixée au 15 avril 2004. ******************** CONFERENCIERS INVITES (à confirmer) Georges KLEIBER (Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg) Brenda LACA (Université Paris 3) ******************** THEMATIQUE Ce colloque s'adresse principalement aux doctorants et post-doctorants en linguistique, mais son ambition est aussi de faire se rencontrer la communauté des chercheurs en linguistique plus expérimentés avec leurs jeunes collègues. La langue officielle est le français. Le colloque est centré sur le verbe et ses dépendances. Toutes les approches disciplinaires sont les bienvenues, qu'elles soient monolingues ou multilingues, de la morpho-phonologie à la didactique, en passant par le lexique, la syntaxe, la sémantique et le discours, tant au plan synchronique que diachronique. En effet, à travers ses nombreuses spécificités : · ses marques morphologiques spécifiques (sa terminaison ­ désinence ­ varie selon le temps et la personne, le mode et l'aspect) · en tant qu'unité lexicale potentiellement infinie et perpétuellement renouvelée · en tant que constituant habituel de la phrase · en tant que constituant du groupe verbal ou du prédicat · en tant que pivot de la proposition, le verbe est un objet d'étude qui concerne tous les domaines de la linguistique (lexicologie, sémantique, syntaxe, morphologie') et dans toutes les perspectives (cognition, analyse de discours, analyse du français parlé, grammaire générative, typologie, didactique') Il s'agit d'interroger les valeurs et potentialités du lexème verbal ainsi que son rôle dans la proposition. Les axes d'étude suivants nous intéressent particulièrement : -La sémantique lexicale du verbe monolingue et multilingue (polysémie, typologies, expressions figées, ...), -L'aspect (catégorisation de l'aspect lexical, interactions entre aspect lexical en contexte et hors-contexte, l'aspect et sa localisation, les interactions entre aspect lexical et aspect morphologique, l'aspect et l'organisation du discours,...) -La didactique (enseignement et apprentissage (français langue maternelle)) -La complémentation (rection et valence (dépendance du verbe), antéposition (micro et macro-syntaxe), contenus sémantiques et rapports syntaxico-sémantiques,...) ******************** CONDITIONS DE SOUMISSION Les propositions de communications se présenteront sous la forme d'un résumé anonyme n'excédant pas deux pages (figures et références bibliographiques comprises). Les résumés seront envoyés sous format électronique. Les fichiers peuvent être envoyés en formats RTF, PS, PDF ou Word. 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En cas d'impossibilité d'envoi électronique, envoyer la proposition en 3 exemplaires par courrier postal (cachet de la poste faisant foi) à l'adresse suivante : Colloque « Sur la route du verbe » Laboratoire ATILF ­ CNRS 44, avenue de la libération BP 30687 54000 NANCY Joindre une feuille séparée qui contiendra : les nom et prénom, l'affiliation, les coordonnées postales, le titre de la communication. ******************** COMITE D'ORGANISATION Mounia Aouidet, Claire Becker, Julie Cyr, Karine David, Sébastien Haton, Sophie Heyd, Hilary Inwood, Evelyne Jacquey, Christelle Jengie, Hervé Lejeune, Laurent Mascherin, Cathy Pira, Laëtitia Wack. ******************** COMITE DE LECTURE Denis Apothéloz (Université Nancy 2) Claire Beyssade (Université Paris 3) Claire Blanche-Benveniste (Université de Provence) Gilles Boyé (Université Nancy 2) Patricia Cabredo-Hoffer (Université Paris 8) Emmanuelle Canut (Université Nancy 2) Bernard Combettes (Université Nancy 2) Jean-Paul Confais (Université Toulouse 2) Georgette Dal (Université Lille 3) Loïc Depecker (Université Paris 3) Céline Fabre (Université Toulouse 2) Catherine Fuchs (LaTTICe / UMR 8094 CNRS / ENS-Ulm / Paris VII) Philippe Gréa (Université Nancy 2) Claude Guimier (Université Caen Basse-Normandie) Nabil Hathout (Université Toulouse 2) Christine Jacquet-Pfau (Collège de France, Paris) Marie-Laurence Knittel (Université Nancy 2) Dominique Lagorgette (Université de Savoie) Béatrice Lamiroy (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgique) Pierre Larrivée (Aston University, Royaume-Uni) François Lonchamp (Université Nancy 2) Mounira Loughraieb (Université Nancy 2) Eric Mathieu (University College London) Jacques Moeschler (Université de Genève, Suisse) Fiammetta Namer (Université Nancy 2) Vincent Nyckees (Université Lille 3) Sandrine Oriez (Université de Poitiers) Alain Polguère (Université de Montréal, Canada) Bernard Pottier (Université Paris IV - Sorbonne) François Rastier (Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot) Sylvianne Rémi (Université Lyon 2) Laurent Roussarie (Université Paris 8 ' Vincennes/St-Denis) Jean-François Sablayrolles (Université Paris 7) Louis de Saussure (Université de Genève, Suisse) Catherine Schnedecker (Université Strasbourg 2) Martine Vanhove (CNRS LLCAN Villejuif Paris) Danielle Van de Velde (Université Lille 3) ******************** DUREE DES COMMUNICATIONS Les communications dureront 20 minutes et seront suivies de 10 minutes de discussion. ******************** CALENDRIER Date limite de réception des communications : 15 avril 2004. 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Date du colloque : du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2004. ******************** INFORMATIONS COMPLEMENTAIRES Les informations (modalités d'inscription, déroulement des journées, logement, transport, etc.) concernant le colloque seront maintenues à jour sur le site : http://routeverbe.atilf.fr Pour tout renseignement, voir le site : http://routeverbe.atilf.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 Tue Feb 24 16:16:38 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:16:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: revue TAL : Traitement automatique des corpus oraux Message-ID: Appel à soumissions Revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (T.A.L.) "Traitement automatique des corpus oraux" * * * Numéro dirigé par Jean Véronis (Université de Provence) Date limite de soumission : 15 mars 2004 http://www.atala.org/tal Contexte -------- Alors qu'on dispose de plusieurs centaines de millions de mots de textes écrits (et que le gigantesque réservoir qu'est le World Wide Web repousse chaque jour cette limite), on dispose de très peu de données sur l'oral. Les corpus de langue orale spontanée sont pourtant d'une importance fondamentale pour l'étude linguistique, comme pour la mise au point de nouvelles technologies vocales. Après l'anglais (British National Corpus, Santa Barbara Corpus of American English, Corpus CANCODE, etc.), des corpus oraux importants sont en cours de constitution pour diverses langues (Corpus Gesproken Nederlands, Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew, Corpus du Portugais Parlé, etc.), mais le développement de corpus oraux transcrits et annotés est extrêmement coûteux. Au cours de la dernière décennie, les outils d'annotation et de traitement automatique des corpus écrits se sont fortement développés, mais l'on est bien loin de disposer d'outils équivalents pour l'oral. D'un autre côté, les phonéticiens ont développé des outils pour l'analyse de la parole expérimentale (ou parole "de laboratoire"), mais leur applicabilité à la parole spontanée n'est pas nécessairement immédiate, étant donné les différences de taille des corpus en jeu, le niveau de granularité différent des analyses visées, et bien sûr les phénomènes spécifiques à la parole spontanée (forte variabilité, dysfluences, syntaxe non canonique, etc.). Objectifs --------- Le présent numéro de la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (T.A.L.) vise à faire le point sur les technologies disponibles pour le traitement des corpus oraux et à répondre à des questions telles que la possibilité d'adaptation des techniques développées pour l'écrit ou la réutilisabilité plus ou moins grande des techniques développées pour la parole de laboratoire. La liste suivante énumère, de façon non exhaustive, divers sujets pertinents pour cet appel : - outils d'aide à la transcription - phonétisation - segmentation (pauses, tours de parole) et alignement texte-son - repérage des hésitations, répétitions, dysfluences et autres phénomènes de l'oral spontané - étiquetage prosodique - étiquetage morpho-syntaxique ("tagging") - analyse syntaxique ("chunking", "shallow parsing") - autres niveaux d'analyse (anaphores, etc.) - outils de recherche et d'exploitation Comité de lecture spécifique ---------------------------- Jean-Yves Antoine (Université de Bretagne Sud) Claude Barras (LIMSI-CNRS) Frédéric Béchet (Université d'Avignon) Edouard Geoffrois (DGA) Dafydd Gibbon (Universität Bielefeld) Daniel Hirst (LPL-CNRS) Amy Isard (University of Edinburgh) Joaquim Llisterri (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Philippe Martin (Université Paris VII) Joakim Nivre (Växjö Universitet) Nelleke Oostdijk (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex) Antonio Moreno Sandoval (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) François Yvon (ENST) Format ------ Les articles (25 pages maximum) seront soumis au format Word ou LaTeX (dans ce dernier cas joindre un fichier PDF). Les feuilles de style sont disponibles chez HERMES: http://tal.e-revues.com/appel.jsp 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 15 mars 2004. Les personnes qui ont l'intention de soumettre un article sont invitées à prendre contact avec Jean Véronis . 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 31 mai 2004. La version définitive des articles acceptés sera à remettre pour le 1er juillet 2004 pour une publication prévue fin 2004. 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It is thus an application-oriented terminology engineering issue. Most applications within knowledge engineering deal with terms but they define or process them differently according to the application targeted. More precisely, knowledge engineering makes use of ontologies, it means more or less formal knowledge representation using terms and relations between them. The text units considered in an ontology engineering framework may differ depending on uses to which the ontology is put and also may differ from the units considered in other application areas like information retrieval, terminology knowledge acquisition, dictionary construction or enhanced lexicons. The usefulness of terminology in applications areas like specialised lexicon construction, acquisition of semantic relations from texts, terminology knowledge base (TKB) construction have been demonstrated and many tools have been designed for such purposes. These works have adopted an empirical stance, based on corpora, thus stressing the necessary anchoring of term extraction, term definition and inter-term relation identification on the contexts of use. Researchers working in this field have reached a consensus on the fact that the meaning of a term is not always unique but depends a lot on the context, on the sub-speciality using it. In the wake of these works were also many scientific events at national and international levels: conferences (TIA, TKE), workshops within international conferences (COMPUTERM 1998 and 2002). A fair amount of literature exists on the definition and nature of terms, on term-concept relations, on term extraction methods and tools. Also, another research direction that has received much attention is terminology variation and structuring using different linguistic levels of analysis (morphology, syntax, semantic). This call concerns more specifically the links between terminology or ontology construction and an application. A particular attention will be paid to papers who justify the definition and processing of terms within an application framework, i.e., papers should make clear to what extent the application needs influence the type of text units analysed and the types of processing to which they are subjected, thus indicating how this departs from the mainstream theoretical definitions of terms and their properties. Note however that papers dealing only with the theoretical definitions of terms, concepts and their relations will fall outside the scope of this special issue as this has been widely debated and documented in the literature. The thrust should be on how the targeted application influences terminology engineering or management. Solid references should be made to works already done on similar applications in order to gauge the added-value gained from terminology processing. Another topic which this special issue will like to investigate is corpus-dependent terminology processing. Some studies have pointed out the fact that the type of corpus used in a particular study can influence the types of semantic relation markers found and the types of relations they embody. Thus papers dealing with how corpus genre affects the type of terminological knowledge acquired are also welcome. Contributions should be original and unpublished studies dealing with the use of terminology in the following application areas (non exhaustive) : - corpus-driven terminology knowledge base - corpus-driven ontology design - corpus-driven acquisition of semantic relations - computer-assisted terminology structuring (CAST) - computer-assisted language learning (CALL) - corpus-dependent terminology knowledge processing - competitive intelligence (CI), - scientific and technology watch (STW) - text mining (TM ) - question - Answering (Q-A) - information extraction (IE) Our aim in this special issue is to bring to light current research on the importance of terminology in these areas, to show that issues related to terminology processing cross several boundaries and are quite central in many non-classical application areas. As such, special attention will be given to papers describing the use of terminology in the above mentioned areas. Format for submissions --------------------------------------- Authors should conform to formatting guidelines which can be found on the publisher's website : www.benjamins.com, (click "Journals", "Terminology" and then "Guidelines") or at the end of printed issues of the journal. Papers should be written in Word and must not exceed 30 double-spaced pages with the required formatting. Submissions in English is preferred but French, Spanish and German are also acceptable. Special advisory board for this issue ----------------------------------------- Khurshid Ahmad (University of Surrey, UK) Sophia Ananiandou (University of Salford, UK) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Paris, France) Caroline Barrière (National Research Council, Canada) Didier Bourigault( Erss, CNRS-Toulouse, France) Béatrice Daille (IRIN, Univ. of Nantes, France) Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan) Sylvie Lainé-Cruzel (Ersicom, Univ. of Lyon 3, France) Geneviève Lallich (Ursidoc, Univ. of Lyon 1, France) Widad Mustafa El-Hadi (Univ. de Lille 3, France) Blaise Nkwenti-Azeh (UMIST, Manchester, UK) Jean Royauté (LIF,CNRS-Marseille, France) Monique Slodzian (CRIM/INALCO, Paris, France) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Univ. de Paris 13, France) Rita Temmerman (Erasmusshogeschool, Brussel Belgium) Philippe Thoiron (CRTT, Univ. de Lyon 2, France) lmportant dates ------------------------------------- 30 June 2004 : Deadline for paper submissions 20 September 2004 : Notification of answers to authors 30 October 2004 : camera ready copies Tentative printing schedule : first quarter of 2005. Send your contributions in Word format to both ibekwe at univ-lyon3.fr and anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr -------------------------------------- Ibekwe-SanJuan Fidelia Workshop "Terminology, Ontology & Knowledge representation" http://www.univ-lyon3.fr/partagedessavoirs/termino2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 24 16:16:43 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:16:43 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journal of Natural Language Engineering : Special Issue on PARALLEL TEXTS Message-ID: (apologies for multiple postings) S E C O N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S Journal of Natural Language Engineering Special Issue on PARALLEL TEXTS Guest Editors: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Michel Simard, Xerox Research Centre Europe http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/jnle OBJECTIVE OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE Parallel texts have become a vital resources for efficiently deriving many multi-lingual text processing tools. This special issue is devoted to advances in building and using parallel corpora. We invite papers on all topics related to parallel texts, including but not limited to: The collection, organization and processing of parallel corpora: - Identifying and harvesting parallel texts from the Web and other large collections - Evaluating the quality of parallel corpora (e.g. detecting omissions and gaps, translation errors or inconsistencies, etc.) - Sentence-, phrase- and word-level alignment - Alignment evaluation metrics and methods Active uses of parallel corpora for: - Building multilingual lexical resources - Deriving language processing tools and resources for new languages - Annotating corpora (e.g. word-sense disambiguation) - Machine translation (e.g. statistical and example-based MT) - Machine-assisted translation (e.g. translation memories and interactive MT) - Cross-linguistic information retrieval and information extraction While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora addressing languages with scarce resources. SUBMISSION FORMAT We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously unpublished research, addressing issues related to the construction and use of parallel texts. Papers should be formatted according to the NLE journal instructions, and should not exceed 15 pages. The preferred formatting system is LaTeX, which can be used for direct typesetting, and a style file is available through anonymous ftp from the following address: ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk/pub/texarchive/journals/latex/nle-sty/. In case of difficulty there is a helpline available on e-mail: texline at cup.cam.ac.uk. Send your submission (a PostScript or PDF file), prepared for anonymous review, to both: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, rada at cs.unt.edu and Michel Simard, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Michel.Simard at xrce.xerox.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: May 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2004 Final versions due: November 30, 2004 Journal publication: June, 2005 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lars Ahrenberg, Linkoping University Susan Armstrong, ISSCO Michael Barlow, Rice University Ken Church, AT&T Labs Research Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University George Foster, University of Montreal Pascale Fung, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe Ulrich Germann, University of Toronto Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester Julio Gonzalo, UNED Cyril Goutte, Xerox Research Centre Europe Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corporation Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe Hitoshi Iida, Tokyo University of Technology Wessel Kraaij, TNO/TPD Netherlands Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Dan Melamed, New York University Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen Franz Och, Information Sciences Institute Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University Kishore Papineni, IBM Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth Jessie Pinkham, University of Chicago Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO/TIM/ETI University of Geneva Florence Reeder, MITRE Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Hideki Tanaka, ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories Arturo Trujillo, Canon Research Centre Europe Jean Veronis, University of Provence Clare Voss, Army Research Lab Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Kenji Yamada, Xerox Research Centre Europe ABOUT THE JOURNAL Natural Language Engineering is an international journal designed to meet the needs of professionals and researchers working in all areas of computerized language processing, whether from the perspective of theoretical or descriptive linguistics, lexicology, computer science or engineering. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between traditional computational linguistics research and the implementation of practical applications with potential real-world use. As well as publishing research articles on a broad range of topics from text analysis, machine translation and speech generation and synthesis to integrated systems and multi modal interfaces the journal also publishes book reviews. Its aim is to provide the essential link between industry and the academic community. Natural Language Engineering encourages papers reporting research with a clear potential for practical application. Theoretical papers that consider techniques in sufficient detail to provide for practical implementation are also welcomed, as are shorter reports of on-going research, conference reports, comparative discussions of NLE products, and policy-oriented papers examining e.g. funding programs or market opportunities. All contributions are peer reviewed. Edited by John I. Tait University of Sunderland, UK Branimir K. Boguraev IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA Christian Jacquemin CNRS-LIMSI, France ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 24 16:16:41 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:16:41 +0100 Subject: Conf: RECITAL 2004 : bourses Message-ID: Pour cette édition 2004 de RECITAL, l'ATALA propose 12 bourses, sous forme d'exonération des droits d'inscription. Tout étudiant à jour de sa cotisation à l'ATALA pour 2004 et ayant un article ou un poster accepté à RECITAL peut candidater. Les candidatures devront se faire sous la forme de *deux* courriels adressés à mailto:atala at biomath.jussieu.fr 1) un acte de candidature motivé de la part de l'étudiant, et 2) un courriel de la part du directeur du laboratoire ou de l'équipe de recherche de l'étudiant, justifiant la demande de bourse. Date limite de réception des demandes: 1er mars 2004 Notification des attributions: 5 mars 2004 http://www.atala.org/taln.html Laurent Roussarie, Secrétaire de l'ATALA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 27 14:23:47 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:23:47 +0100 Subject: Appel: COLING 2004 : NLP in Biomedicine and its Applications Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS COLING Workshop International Joint Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications BioNLP/NLPBA 2004 http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/JNLPBA04/ Call for Papers http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/JNLPBA04/cfp.html Geneva, Switzerland August 28-29, 2004 Workshop Description Recent years have seen a growing interest in the application of NLP techniques to texts in the domains of biology and medicine. The problem of information overload that has resulted from the massive growth in the scientific literature has clearly shown the necessity to automatically locate, organize and manage facts relating to experimental results. At the same time clinicians have experienced greatly improved access to the medical literature and clinical repositories which needs to be matched by the development of enhanced information access tools. This year NLPBA (http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/) and BioNLP (http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ACL03/bionlp.htm) merge for a joint workshop with the aim of bringing together researchers from natural language processing, bio-informatics, medicine and ontologies who are concerned with developing methods and resources for solving these problems. Over the last five years we have seen significant steps forward in the development of language technology and large-scale resources for the Bio-Medical domain such as linguistically annotated corpora (e.g. GENIA POS and NE corpora), ontologies (e.g. Gene Ontology), thesauri (e.g. UMLS Metathesaurus), lexicons and term lists (e.g. UMLS SPECIALIST) as well as information retrieval collections (e.g. TREC Genomics track). At the application level we see development of question answering systems, event recognition, zone (rhetorical region) identification, as well as term and bio-entity recognition. The demand for information access tools from domain users is increasing to support literature survey, often integrated into online 'portals' where scientists can navigate through related information resources such as genetics and disease databases. Ongoing challenges relate to the growing and ambiguous nomenclature, the need to integrate deep knowledge sources into machine learning, a need to scale up methods for processing full text articles etc. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers in this area, to establish common themes and goals between different groups. We have seen from previous experience in the natural language learning and information retrieval communities the benefits of sharing resources and developing common evaluation criteria. In this workshop we are introducing a special shared task to promote discussion of these issues as well as the objective of integrating machine learning with knowledge resources. We invite submission of papers on topics related to bio-medical NLP including, but not limited to: * Information extraction * Text mining * Named entity recognition * Coreference resolution * Term recognition * Knowledge-based information retrieval * Multi-lingual resources and applications * Ontology construction and ontology mapping * Visualization tools for viewing clustered or extracted information or meta-data * Multi-modal approaches combining text and images, etc. * Event recognition * Construction of pathways from literature and databases * Creation of data-sets of bio-medical entities, coreferences and relations * Annotation standards and quality control methodologies * Resource integration and re-engineering * Corpus/lexicon construction * Text summarization and report generation Shared Task http://research.nii.ac.jp/~collier/workshops/JNLPBA04st.htm This year we propose to have a special shared task: bio-medical named entity recognition from the GENIA corpus. The purpose of this track is essentially to investigate the integration of statistical machine learning methods with symbolic knowledge sources from the bio-medical domain such as ontologies, thesauri and lexicons : shared task description. Invited Speaker To be announced soon... Paper Format and Submission Papers must follow the COLING 2004 templates, and will be submitted by email to jnlpba-submit at sim.hcuge.ch. Important Dates Submission deadline for workshop papers: April 14th, 2004 Notification of accepted papers: May 14th, 2004 Deadline for camera ready copies: June 6th, 2004 Workshop Chairs Nigel Collier (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Patrick Ruch (University Hospital of Geneva and EPFL, Switzerland) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, France) Organizing Committee Alfonso Valencia (Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain) Carol Friedman (CUNY/Columbia University, USA) Donia Scott (University of Brighton, UK) Udo Hahn (Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany) Junichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan) Program Committee Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, UK) Alan Aronson (National Library of Medicine, USA) Robert Baud (University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland) Christian Blaschke (CNB, Spain) Oliver Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA) Berry de Bruijn (National Research Center, Canada) Marc Craven (University of Wisconsin, USA) Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK) Eric Gaussier (Xerox, XRCE, France) Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou (Columbia University, USA) Lynette Hirschman (MITRE, USA) Dimitar Hristovski (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Jerry Hobbs (USC/ISI, USA) Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Su Jian (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Asao Fujiyama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Arne Jonsson (University of Linkoping, Sweden) Frederique Lisacek (GeneBio SA, Switzerland) Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan) Claire Nedellec (INRA, France) Kousaku Okubo (Kyushu University, Japan) Jong C. Park (KAIST, Korea) Thierry Poibeau (LIPN, France) Denys Proux (Xerox, XRCE, France) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA) Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (European Bioinformatics Institute, EU) Irena Spasic (UMIST, UK) Ben Stapley (UMIST, UK) Padmini Srinivasan (University of Iowa, USA) Hirotoshi Taira (NTT Communication Science, Japan) Toshihisa Takagi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Yuka Tateishi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Anne-Lise Veuthey (SIB, Switzerland) Limsoon Wong (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, INSERM & INaLCO, France) Contact Information General organization : jnlpba-request at sim.hcuge.ch Shared task organization: bio04sharedtask at nii.ac.jp Main page : http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/JNLPBA04/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus� par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain�e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh�sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 27 14:23:38 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:23:38 +0100 Subject: Conf: XIX Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics : COMPUTING WITH TREES: TRANSDUCERS AND XML Message-ID: COMPUTING WITH TREES: TRANSDUCERS AND XML (XIX Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics, FS&S) Zoltán Fülöp (University of Szeged) Sebastian Maneth (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) March 22-26, 2004 Organized by the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona Sponsored by the Regional Government of Catalonia (ARCS) and the Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology (ACES) PROGRAMME Monday 22: 17-19 Fülöp, Tree Transducers as Computational Models 19-21 Maneth, Theory of XML Queries: Tree Transducers Tuesday 23: 17-19 Fülöp, Comparing the Computational Power of Different Tree Transducers 19-21 Maneth, Query and Transducer Formalisms Wednesday 24: 17-19 Fülöp, Composition of Tree Transducers 19-21 Maneth, Complexity of Translations Thursday 25: 17-19 Fülöp, Tree Transducers over Semirings 19-21 Maneth, Tree Compression Friday 26: 17-19 Fülöp, Tree Transducers vs. Term Rewriting 19-21 Maneth, Type Checking CONTACT: cmv at astor.urv.es WEBSITE: http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffusé par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrainée par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhésion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 27 14:23:40 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:23:40 +0100 Subject: Conf: INTERSPEECH/ICSLP-2004 Message-ID: (We apologize if you receive this message more than once) INTERSPEECH/ICSLP-2004 satellite workshop International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation - Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation - *** Second Call for Participants / Papers *** September 30 - October 1, 2004 ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories Kyoto, Japan http://www.slt.atr.jp/IWSLT2004/ Themes Spoken language translation technologies attempt to cross the language barriers between people having different native languages who each want to engage in conversation by using their mother-tongue. The importance of these technologies is increasing because there are many more opportunities for cross-language communication in face-to-face and telephone conversation, especially in the domain of tourism. Novel technologies have been proposed to tackle the problems in spoken language translation research. A number of institutes are developing huge bilingual or multilingual spoken language corpora. MT technologies based on machine learning, such as statistical MT and example-based MT, are being applied to the translation of spoken language by using these corpora. Some of the characteristics of spoken language seem suitable for the application of machine-learning-based MT in comparison with written language. However, there is still no concrete standard methodology for comparing the translation qualities of spoken language translation systems. One of the prominent research activities in spoken language translation is the work being conducted by the Consortium for Speech Translation Advanced Research (C-STAR III), which is an international partnership of research laboratories engaged in automatic translation of spoken language. Current members include ATR (Japan), CAS (China), CLIPS (France), CMU (USA), ETRI (Korea), ITC-irst (Italy), and UKA (Germany). One of C-STAR's ongoing projects is the joint development of a speech corpus that handles a common task in multiple languages. The creation of such a corpus will not only enable translation among multiple languages but will also facilitate exchange and discussion of research results among member labs. As a first result of this activity, a Japanese-English speech corpus comprising tourism- related sentences, originally compiled by ATR, has been translated into the native language of C-STAR members. In this workshop, an "evaluation campaign" of spoken language translation technologies will be held by using the multilingual speech corpus containing the tourism-related sentences developed by ATR and C-STAR members. Two types of submissions are invited: 1) participants in the evaluation campaign of spoken language translation technologies, and 2) technical papers on related issues. An overview of the evaluation campaign is as follows: Main Theme: Evaluation of spoken language translation systems Corpus used for the evaluation campaign: - Basic Travel Expression Corpus (BTEC) - Languages: Chinese-English, Japanese-English - Domain: tourism-related sentences - Media: text in utterance style - Number of Sentence Pairs: 20,000 for each translation direction Tracks of the Evaluation Campaign: - Translation directions: Chinese to English Japanese to English - Resources Used: Supplied corpus only (C-to-E, J-to-E) Supplied corpus + additional linguistic resources available from LDC (C-to-E) Unrestricted (C-to-E, J-to-E) Evaluation Methodology of Translated Results - Subjective Evaluation - Automatic Evaluation (BLEU, NIST, WER, etc) The workshop also invites technical papers related to spoken language translation. Possible topics for the session include, but are not limited to: - MT Evaluation Measures - MT Algorithms - Word / Phrase Alignment - Multilingual Lexicon / Translation Rule Extraction - Multilingual Parsing Invited Talks [UPDATED!] Professor Hermann Ney (RWTH, Germany) Professor Jun'ichi Tsujii (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) Important Dates [UPDATED!] Evaluation Campaign - Evaluation specifications: February 15, 2004 - Application submission: April 15, 2004 - Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2004 - Sample corpus release: May 7, 2004 - Training corpus release: May 21, 2004 - Test corpus release: August 9, 2004 [changed!] - Result submission due: August 12, 2004 [changed!] - Result feedback to participants: September 10, 2004 - Camera-ready submission due: September 17, 2004 - Workshop: September 30 - October 1, 2004 Technical Papers - Application submission: April 15, 2004 - Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2004 [changed!] - Camera-ready submission due: September 17, 2004 - Workshop: September 30 - October 1, 2004 Application / Submission Guidelines See our website: http://www.slt.atr.jp/IWSLT2004/ Organizers - Seiichi Yamamoto (ATR, Japan; Chair) - Christian Boitet (CLIPS, France) - Gianni Lazzari (ITC-irst, Italy) - Youngjik Lee (ETRI, Korea) - Alex Waibel (CMU, USA / UKA, Germany) - Chengqing Zong (CAS, China) Program Committee - Marcello Federico (ITC-irst, Italy; Co-chair) - Hiromi Nakaiwa (ATR, Japan; Co-chair) - Herve Blanchon (CLIPS, France) - Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea) - Casacuberta Francisco (ITI, Spain) - Sadao Kurohashi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) - Hermann Ney (RWTH, Germany) - Franz Josef Och (ISI, USA) - Seung-Shin Oh (ETRI, Korea) - Michael Paul (ATR, Japan) - Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design, Taiwan) - Alicia Tribble (CMU, USA / UKA, Germany) - Stephan Vogel (CMU, USA) - Dekai Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong) - Bo Xu (CAS, China) - Chengqing Zong (CAS, China) Evaluation Committee [UPDATED!] - Jun'ichi Tsujii (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan; Chair) - Yasuhiro Akiba (ATR, Japan) - Marcello Federico (ITC-irst, Italy) - Noriko Kando (NII, Japan) - Hiromi Nakaiwa (ATR, Japan) Local Arrangements - Eiichiro Sumita (ATR, Japan) Supporting Organizations - Acoustic Society of Japan (ASJ) - Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International (ATR) - Asia Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) - Asia-Pacific Association of Machine Translation (AAMT) - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) - Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) - Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) - International Association of Machine Translation (IAMT) - International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) - Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Updated information will be on http://www.slt.atr.jp/IWSLT2004/ Contact Hiromi Nakaiwa e-mail: hiromi.nakaiwa at atr.jp ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0288 Japan References - C-STAR, 2003. http://www.c-star.org/ - Takezawa,T. et.al., 2002. Toward a Broad-coverage Bilingual Corpus for Speech Translation of Travel Conversations in the Real World, LREC. - Kikui, G. et.al., 2003. 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Il s'agit d'un stage visant à l'évaluation d'un système d'extraction d'entités nommées en anglais. La description détaillée de l'offre se trouve à l'adresse suivante : http://www.xrce.xerox.com/internships/CB.EvalNamedEntityRecognition.2004.html Les compétences indispensables sont : - bonnes connaissances en linguistique et en TALN - développement de scripts (perl ou autre) - très bonne maitrise de l'anglais Une expérience préalable dans le domaine de l'évaluation de systèmes de TALN serait un plus. 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Antonio Zampolli a en outre largement contribué au lancement d'ELRA et de la conférence LREC sur les ressources linguistiques et l'évaluation des technologies de la langue. Le Prix Antonio Zampolli sera décerné à des personnes individuelles dont les travaux et missions s'inscrivent dans les différents domaines couverts par les ressources linguistiques et l'évaluation et témoignent de leurs avancées, dans l'esprit des nombreuses actions menées par Antonio Zampolli. La première remise du Prix Antonio Zampolli aura lieu au mois de mai 2004, lors de la conférence LREC 2004, à Lisbonne (24-30 mai). Les nominations doivent être envoyées au directeur exécutif d'ELRA avant le lundi 29 mars 2004. ELRA, créée en 1995, est la force motrice pour les ressources linguistiques l'évaluation des Technologies de la Langue écrite et parlée. ELRA travaille ainsi activement à l'identification, la distribution, la collecte, la validation, la standardisation, la production et à l'amélioration constante des ressources linguistiques. ELRA apporte également son soutien aux campagnes d'évaluation, et au développement d'un domaine scientifique propre aux ressources linguistiques et à l'évaluation, dans le sillon d'Antonio Zampolli. Si vous souhaitez obtenir des informations compléentaires sur le Prix Antonio Zampollo et sur ELRA, nous vous invitons à visiter notre site Internet, à www.elra.info. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELRA / ELDA 55-57, rue Brillat-Savarin 75013 Paris FRANCE Tel: (+33) 1 43 13 33 33 / Fax: (+33) 1 43 13 33 30 URL: http://www.elra.info or http://www.elda.fr LREC conference: http://www.lrec-conf.org LangTech forum: http://www.lang-tech.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 Fri Feb 27 14:23:56 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:23:56 +0100 Subject: Conf: EURALEX 2004 Message-ID: Registration is now open for EURALEX 2004 at http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004. Please accept our apologies for cross-postings EURALEX 2004 : Call for participation. The 11th EURALEX International Congress will be held in Lorient, France, from the 6 to the 10th July, 2004. The Congess organizers are the Faculté de Lettres et Sciences Humaines of the Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient. Contact address : Congress Organizers EURALEX 2004 Dr. Geoffrey Williams Faculté de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay B.P. 92116 56321 Lorient cedex France Email : elx2004 at univ-ubs.fr Website : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004 Up-to-date information Information concerning accommodation, registration and travel will be kept up to date on the website. The coast of Brittany is very popular in the summer so participants are encouraged to book early. EURALEX 2004 The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers, publishers, researchers, scholars, and others interested in dictionaries of all types. The programme will include plenary lectures, parallel sessions on the topics listed below, software demonstrations, pre-congress tutorials and specialized workshops, a book and software exhibition, and social events for participants and their guests. Topics Papers, posters, and software demonstrations are invited on all topics of lexicography, including, but not limited to, the following fields, which are the main focus of the congress: 1. Computational Lexicography and Lexicology. 2. The Dictionary-Making Process. 3. Reports on Lexicographical and Lexicological Projects. 4. Bilingual Lexicography. 5. Lexicography for Specialised Languages - Terminology and Terminography. 6. Historical and Scholarly Lexicography and Etymology. 7. Dictionary Use. 8. Phraseology and Collocation. 9. Lexicological Issues of Lexicographical Relevance. 10. Other topics. A list of communications will be posted shortly. 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Message-ID: Call for papers Workshop on LESSONS LEARNED FROM EVALUATION: TOWARDS TRANSPARENCY AND INTEGRATION IN CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL (LECLIQ) to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 29, 2004 in conjunction with the 4th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-2004) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A half-day workshop will be held in conjunction with the LREC Conference in Lisbon on the morning of May 29, 2004. The topic of the workshop is "Lessons Learned from Evaluation: Towards Transparency and Integration in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (LECLIQ)" with special focus on the use and benefits of quality gates. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION Recent work in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) has shown that systems perform differently with respect to queries, topics, data sets and the corresponding query or result language. Since the state-of-the-art in CLIR is far from finding an ideal method for this variety of parameters, a better performance might be possible through continuous analysis and integration of evaluation results achieved from several retrieval devices. The process of integrating these different methodologies might be controlled by quality gates. Quality gates - having their origin in car manufacturing and being used in IT-project management as well - are characterized as preventive and process accompanying control mechanisms to check critical parameters and ensure quality standards during the design, development, and deployment of software. They generally consist of checklists combined with appropriate rules to guarantee that work procedure fail is recognized in time to prevent repetition. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the field of Information Retrieval and Language Engineering with three primary goals: (1) to discuss, evaluate and judge the different methodologies used in CLIR and to relate them to the languages being retrieved, (2) to design the requirements for a dynamic network of quality gates for the tuning of retrieval results, (3) to define desired learn effects caused by the interaction of quality gates. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Lessons learned in evaluation initiatives such as CLEF, TREC, INEX, NTCIR, etc. - Criteria, checklists, parameters and metrics for the evaluation of search and retrieval methods - Quality criteria and evaluation for resources and tools in CLIR (thesauri stemmer, translation tools and services, etc.) - Explanation and verification of success stories and failure analysis in CLIR - Data and Text Mining on CLIR evaluation results - Current evaluation issues: shortcomings, gaps, reliability of results, etc. - Transfer of evaluation results to system design and product development - Design for (coupled or networked) quality gates in CLIR (for systems and building blocks) - Semaphore logic for the integration of distributed retrieval systems - Crossing-over techniques for quality assurance - Hybrid systems for CLIR The results of this workshop will be a first step toward outlining a general framework for quality gates in (Cross-Language) Information Retrieval with further elaboration in future workshops. We are inviting contributions discussing the themes above from participants in evaluation initiatives as well as from experienced researches in the areas of (Cross Language) Information Retrieval, quality assurance, Human Language Technology (HLT) or related fields. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg, Germany Marcello Federico, I.R.S.T, Italy Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corp., Pittsburgh, USA Donna Harman, NIST, USA Paul Heisterkamp, DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany Dagobert Soergel, University of Maryland, USA Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Germany [Final list forthcoming] SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS Presentations and active participation in the workshop will be based on a 2 - 6 page position statement or research paper. Submissions must be in English and should consist of an abstract, plus a title page providing the following information: official title of the paper; names and affiliations of the authors; full address of the first author including phone, fax, e-mail, URL; presentation facilities required. Only electronic submissions in Word, PDF or RTF will be accepted. Demonstrations of cross-lingual retrieval tools will be considered as well if the demonstration outlines the rationale of the system and sheds light on the success or failure of the methods applied. Contributions should be submitted to: lecliq at uni-hildesheim.de Reception will be acknowledged within three days. If you do not get an acknowledgement, please check the e-mail address of your submission. PROCEEDINGS The workshop organizers will publish proceedings of the workshop. Ready-to-print versions of the papers have to be submitted according to LREC Guidelines for Authors, which can be found at the conference homepage (to be announced in February 2004). They should not exceed six pages. These final versions should be submitted electronically to the following e-mail address: lecliq at uni-hildesheim.de IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submitting papers: February 15 Notification of acceptance: March 15 Final versions of papers for proceedings: April 4 Workshop: May 29 FURTHER INFORMATION Information about the workshop such as call, outline, and program can be found on the LREC web-page: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/ where you can also find information about the LREC conference itself. Information about the general purpose of quality gates in manufacturing and software-engineering and their transduction to the field of (Cross Lingual) Information Retrieval will be available under http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/~lecliq REGISTRATION The registration fee for the workshop is: - 50 EURO for conference participants - 85 EURO for those not attending LREC-2004 Registration and payment procedures are explained on the LREC-2004 web-page. The registration fee includes one copy of the proceedings and a coffee break. QUESTIONS For all questions on the focus of the workshop, please contact the workshop co-ordinator under lecliq at uni-hildesheim.de. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Center for Information Science (Chair) Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg Paul Heisterkamp, DaimlerChrysler AG Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim Ren? Schneider, University of Hildesheim (Co-ordinator) ------------------------ Ren? Schneider University of Hildesheim, Marienburger Platz 22, D-31141 Hildesheim, Germany Phone: +49(0)5121/883-834 Fax: +49(0)5121/883-802 e-mail: rschneid @ uni-hildesheim.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 3 08:47:03 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:47:03 +0100 Subject: Appel: Coling 2004 Message-ID: Coling-04 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics 23 - 27 August, 2004 Uni-Mail, University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland under the auspices of the ICCL (International Committee for Computational Linguistics) --------------------------------- (1) Call for Papers (2) Call for sponsors (3) Call for exhibitors (4) Planned Workshops (5) Planned Tutorials --------------------------------- (1) Call for Papers COLING-04 solicits submissions of original and unpublished papers in all areas of computational linguistics, natural language processing, human language technology -- in short, all and any work contributing to the theory and practice of processing natural language by computers. The papers may * be theoretical or application-oriented * describe methods, environments and specific language processing tasks * relate to spoken or written language processing * relate to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse or any combination of the above * present small specialized or large integrated systems * relate to the tasks of text understanding or generation * relate to any type of application and any subject and task domain * describe machine-tractable treatment of specific phenomena in any language * relate to knowledge resources and their acquisition and maintenance * be devoted to cross-linguistic work in applications and resource acquisition * present output and resource quality evaluation reports. The program committee especially encourages the submission of high-quality innovative work even if it does not fall into one of the established research and development paradigms in the field. The teams of COLING reviewers will be coordinated by the Program Committee: Christian Boitet Grenoble University Nicoletta Calzolari University of Pisa John Carroll University of Sussex Eva Hajicova Charles University Nancy Ide Vassar College Tanya Korelsky CoGenTex, Inc. Winfried Lenders University of Bonn Dan Melamed New York University Dan Moldovan University of Texas at Dallas Srini Narayanan ICSI Sergei Nirenburg (Chair) University of Maryland, Baltimore County Martha Palmer University of Pennsylvania Antonio Sanfilippo Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Harold Somers UMIST Wayne Ward University of Colorado Shuly Wintner University of Haifa Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: March 26, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 14, 2004 Camera-ready versions: June 7, 2004 How to Submit: The main conference solicits original unpublished contributions in two categories - regular papers presenting mature research results (at most seven proceedings pages) and - project notes describing intermediate results of ongoing research projects or system demonstrations (at most four pages). Templates for paper formatting are available at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html For further information please see: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/ Submissions must be electronic. The address to which the papers should be submitted will be available in the near future. (2) Call for sponsors If you are interested in sponsoring the Coling conference please contact us via http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/sponsors/ (3) Call for exhibitors If you are interested in exhibiting at the Coling conference please contact us via http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004exhibitorsCall.html (4) Planned Workshops International Joint workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications (NLPBA/BioNLP) 2004 Nigel Collier, Patrick Ruch and Adeline Nazarenko CompuTerm 2004: 3rd International Workshop on Computational Terminology Sophia Ananiadou and Pierre Zweigenbaum 5th International Workshop on Linguistically Interpreted Corpora Silvia Hansen, Stephan Oepen and Hans Uszkoreit Psycho-Computational Models of Human Language Acquisition William Gregory Sakas Romand 2004: 3rd workshop on RObust Methods in Analysis of Natural Language Data Vincenzo Pallotta, Amalia Todirascu Second International Workshop on Language Resources for Translation Work, Research and Training Elia Yuste, Anna-Katherina Pantli, Gary Massey, Susanne Jekat Capitalizing on an enhanced resource by taking into account the user: the case of electronic dictionaries Michael Zock and Patrick St. Dizier Recent Advances in Dependency Grammar Geert-Jan M. Kruijff and Denys Duchier Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages Ali Farghaly and Karine Megerdoomian eLearning for Computational Linguistics and computational linguistics for eLearning Erhard Hinrichs, Lothar Lemnitzer, Detmar Meurers Multilingual Lexical Resources for man and machines Susan Armstrong, Andrei Popescu-Belis, Dan Tufis, Gilles Serasset, Christian Boitet (5) Planned Tutorials Multilingual and Cross-Lingual Information Access Gareth J.F. Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland Modeling Information Structure for Discourse and Dialog Processing Ivana Kruijff-Korbayov?, Universitaet des Saarlandes, Germany Natural Language Information Assurance and Security Victor Raskin, Purdue University, USA The XLE Grammar Development Platform and Parser/Generator Miriam Butt, Universitaet Konstanz, Germany and Tracy Holloway King, Palo Alto Research Center, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 3 08:47:05 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:47:05 +0100 Subject: Appel: 9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems Message-ID: 9th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems June 23-25 2004, Salford, Manchester, UK. www.nldb.org Call for papers Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher, industrials and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems fields. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an established field thanks to developments in Natural Language and technologies that made the storage and manipulation of large electronic dictionaries possible. As Information Systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems The use of Natural Language in Software Engineering has contributed to both improving the development process from the viewpoints of developers (improve the process of conceptual modelling, validation, etc) and the usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces, semantic webs, etc). Important Dates: - Full paper submission: February 29, 2004 - Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2004 - Camera-ready papers: April 20, 2004 Proceedings Publication - The proceedings of NLDB04 will be published by Springer in their LNCS series - The best 5 papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal Topics: - Natural Language for Web Services (Semantic information retrieval, Semantic Web, Semi-structured models and associated languages, Web usage, content and structure mining for discovering semantics, Concept taxonomies and web mining, Learning taxonomies and ontologies from the web, Information extraction with machine learning, Document classification and indexation) - Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling (Analysis of natural language descriptions, Requirement engineering, Terminological ontologies, Paraphrasing, Dynamic modelling, Verification, consistency checking, Metadata harvesting) - Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying/Retrieval (Natural languages interfaces for database querying, Verification of database queries by paraphrasing, Semantic analysis for information retrieval, NL interaction with databases) - Natural Language-Based Integration of Systems (Linguistic aspects of view integration, Linguistic aspects of data warehouses, Natural language queries to multi-databases systems, Data integration and data cleansing, Ontology driven integration, Ontology management) - Large Scale on-line Resources (Electronic dictionaries, Question-answer corpora, Informal ontologies, Linguistic databases, Digital libraries) - Application of Computational Linguistics in Information Systems (Multilingual information systems, NLP in requirements engineering, NLP in knowledge management, Ontology-driven NLP, Semiotics and fundamentals) - Management of Textual Databases (Text classification, Information extraction and detection, Text mining for creating metadata, Document management, Hypertext and Hyperbases) Conference Organisation Conference Chair Elisabeth M?tais, Conservatoire National des Arts et M?tiers de Paris, France. Program Committee Chair Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK. Program Committee Diego Moll? Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia Kenji Araki, Hokkaido University, Japan Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM, Universit? de Versailles, France Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK Gary A Coen, Boeing, USA Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CEDRIC/CNAM, France Antje D?sterh?ft, University of Wismar, Germany G?nther Fliedl, Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Nicola Guarino, CNR, Italy Rafael Mu?oz Guillena, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mohammed Harmain, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Helmut Horacek, Universit?t des Saarlandes, Germany Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Zoubida Kedad, PRiSM, Universit? de Versailles, France Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Canada. Nadira Lammari, CEDRIC/CNAM, France Winfried Lenders, Universit?t Bonn, Germany Jana Lewerenz, sd&m D?sseldorf, Germany Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Heinrich C. Mayr, Universit?t Klagenfurt, Austria Paul McFetridge, Simon Frazer University, Canada Elisabeth Metais, CEDRIC/CNAM , France Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy. Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Jian-Yun Nie, Universit? de Montr?al, Canada Manual Palomar, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Odile Piton, Universit? Paris I Panth?on-Sorbonne, France Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea Tim Ritchings, University of Salford, UK Hongchi Shi, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Niculae Stratica, Concordia University, Canada Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University Rochester, USA Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA Lua Km Teng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Bernhard Thalheim, University of Cottbus, Germany Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK Sunil Vadera, University of Salford, UK Ronald Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 3 08:53:16 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:53:16 +0100 Subject: Bourses: These ATLIF-Nancy Message-ID: ---------------------------------- Recherche Candidat(e) de th?se TAL ---------------------------------- Le laboratoire d'analyse et de traitement automatique de la langue (ATILF-CNRS, Nancy) recherche un(e) candidat(e) ? une th?se de doctorat dans le domaine de la lexicographie et de la s?mantique computationnelle. Le domaine de recherche envisag? porte sur l'acquisition (semi-)automatique de lexiques syntaxiques et/ou s?mantiques ? partir de sources dictionnairiques classiques (TLFi en particulier), ?ventuellement en comparaison avec d'autres sources (corpus annot?s, lexiques existants). Le sujet exact sera fix? en accord avec les int?r?ts de recherche du (de la) candidat(e). Profil souhait? : - BAC+5 (DEA, dipl?me d'ing?nieur), au plus tard pour l'?t? 2004 - cursus linguistique, informatique linguistique, intelligence artificielle - autonomie informatique (Perl, XML/XSL, programmation objet, ...) - si possible : sp?cialisation lexicologie, lexicographie, terminologie, linguistique de corpus, IR, statistiques, apprentissage automatique et/ou travaux (m?moires, publications, projets) dans au moins un des domaines mentionn?s - anglais courant, d'autres langues souhait?es Merci d'envoyer, avant le 18 f?vrier 2004 : - un CV - une liste des travaux, publications et projets ?ventuels - une lettre de motivation (avec description des int?r?ts de recherche) ? l'intention de Susanne Salmon-Alt (alt at loria.fr) et de se tenir disponible pour un entretien rapidement. -- Susanne Salmon-Alt Charg?e de Recherche - CNRS ATILF : 03.83.96.86.98 LORIA : 03.83.59.20.35 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 3 08:53:22 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:53:22 +0100 Subject: Appel: MEMURA-2004 : Workshop on Methodologies and Evaluation of Multiword Units Message-ID: ******************* SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ******************* MEMURA-2004 Workshop on Methodologies and Evaluation of Multiword Units in Real-world Applications (MEMURA Workshop) INVITED SPEAKER: KENNETH W. CHURCH In association with the 4th International Conference On Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC 2004 Centro Cultural de Bel??m, Lisbon, Portugal May 25, 2004 http://memura2004.di.ubi.pt ********************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************* This annoucement contains: [1] Workshop Description [2] Target Audience [3] Areas of Interest [4] Invited Speaker [5] Important dates [6] Abstract Submission [7] Workshop Chairs [8] Program Committee [9] Contact ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Workshop Description: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Multiword units (MWUs) include a large range of linguistic phenomena, such as phrasal verbs (e.g. "look forward"), nominal compounds (e.g. "interior designer"), named entities (e.g. "United Nations"), set phrases (e.g. "con carne") or compound adverbs (e.g. "by the way"), and they can be syntactically and/or semantically idiosyncratic in nature. MWUs are used frequently in everyday language, usually to express precisely ideas and concepts that cannot be compressed into a single word. A considerable amount of research has been devoted to this subject, both in terms of theory and practice, but despite increasing interest in idiomaticity within linguistic research, many questions still remain unanswered. The objective of this workshop is to deal with three important questions that are of great interest for real-world applications. 1) Comparison of MWU extraction methodologies Many methodologies have been proposed in order to automatically extract or identify MWUs. However, not many efforts have been devoted to compare their results. The core differences between the methodologies is certainly the main reason why such works are so rare. For instance, it is not easy to compare language-dependent methodologies as the results depend on the efficiency of parameter tuning in the broad sense of its acception (i.e. semantic tagging, local specific grammars, lematization, part-of-speech tagging etc.). Another important problem is the fact that there is no real agreement between researchers about the definition of MWUs which would provide the basis for an objective evaluation. The objective of the workshop is to gather people that have recently been working in this area so that new trends in comparing MWU extraction methodologies and their evaluation can be pointed at. 2) Evaluation of the benefits of the integration of MWUs in real-world applications It is not yet clear whether MWUs really improve NLP applications. It is common sense that Machine Translation is one application that takes great advantage of MWUs databanks. However, does the same apply to applications in Automatic Summarization, Information Retrieval (IR), Cross-language IR, Information Extraction, Text Clustering/Classification, Parallel Corpus Alignment? Indeed, could the identification of MWUs introduce new constraints that are not present in original texts? Should MWUs be considered as units that should not be analysable in terms of their components meaning? Or should they be treated as unanalysable? Should NLP methods work both on isolated words and on agregated MWUs? The answers are anything but clear. Here, the objective of the workshop is to point at successes and failures of the integration of MWUs in real-world applications. 3) Comparison of scalable architectures for the extraction and identification of MWUs Real-world applications are constrained by variables like processing time and memory space. However, identifying and extracting MWUs is usually a computationally heavy process. In recent years, new algorithms and new technologies have been proposed to introduce MWU treatmement in large scale applications, thus avoiding previous untractable implementations. Previous workshops on MWUs have mainly focused on the unconstrained extraction process. In this workshop, we would like to focus on the comparison of different factors that can influence the scalability of the treatment of MWUs in real-world applications, namely data structures, algorithms, parallel and distributed computing, grid computing etc. Indeed, as we said earlier, some extraction strategies may not scale to deal with huge volumes of data. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2] Target Audience: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop is intended to bring together NLP researchers working on all areas of MWUs. The objective is to summarise what has been achieved in the area of MWU in real-world applications, to establish common themes between different approaches, and to discuss future trends. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [3] Areas of Interest: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts are invited on, but not limited to, the following topics: * Automatic, semi-automatic and manual evaluations of MWUs extractors * Resources for evaluating MWUs extractors * Evaluation Standards * Cross-language and Cross-domain evaluations of MWUs extractors * Comparative evaluation of MWUs extractors * Evaluation of the integration of MWUs in NLP applications: Summarization, (Cross-language) Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Machine Translation, Text Classification etc. * Scalable algorithms, new data structures, Parallel and Distributed processing and Grid computing for MWUs extraction and/or identification * Comparative evaluation of extraction software architectures * Role of isolated words and MWUs for a sense-based definition of MWUs Abstracts can cover one or more of these areas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [4] Invited Speaker: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth W. Church (AT&T Labs Research, USA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [5] Important dates: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract submission deadline: February 23, 2004 Notification: March 15, 2004 Camera ready papers: April 12, 2004 Workshop: May 25, 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [6] Abstract Submission: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstracts should consist of about 1000 words. Abstracts should be submitted electronically in pdf format only to Ga??l Harry Dias [ddg at di.ubi.pt]. The following URL transforms postscript files to pdf files (http://www.ps2pdf.com/). The subject line should be "LREC 2004 MEMURA WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION". Because reviewing is blind, no author information should be included as part of the abstract (i.e. the names of the authors and references that could identify the authors). An identification page must be sent in a separate email with the subject line "LREC 2004 MEMURA WORKSHOP ID PAGE" and must include title, author(s), keywords, word count and name and email of the contact author. Late submissions will not be accepted. Notification of receipt will be emailed to the contact author shortly after receipt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [7] Workshop Chairs: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ga??l Harry Dias (Beira Interior University, Portugal) Jos?? Gabriel Pereira Lopes (New University of Lisbon, Portugal) Spela Vintar (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [8] Program Committee: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Baldwin (Stanford University, United States of America) Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, England) Didier Bourigault (University of Toulouse, France) Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) Mikio Yamamoto (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Dekang Lin (University of Alberta, Canada) Aline Villavicencio (University of Cambridge, England) Heiki Kaalep (University of Tartu, Estonia) Joaquim da Silva (New University of Lisbon) Eric Gaussier (Xerox Research Centre Europe, France) Adeline Nazarenko (University Paris XIII, France) Ant??nio Branco (Lisbon University, Portugal) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- [9] Contact: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Ga??l Harry Dias Human Language Technology Interest Group Departamento de Inform??tica Universidade da Beira Interior Rua Marqu????s d'??vila e Bolama 6201-001 Covilh?? Portugal email: ddg at di.ubi.pt Tel: +351 275 319 700 Fax: +351 275 319 732 -- --------------------------------------------------------- Ga??l Harry Dias, PhD | Assistant Professor Human Language Technology Group | [www.di.ubi.pt/~ddg] Computer Science Department | [ddg at di.ubi.pt] Beira Interior University | [Tel: +351 275 319 700] 6201-001 - Covilh?? - PORTUGAL | [Fax: +351 275 319 732] --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 3 08:53:24 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:53:24 +0100 Subject: Appel: Categorial Grammars 2004 Message-ID: 2nd Call for papers: Categorial Grammars 2004, An Efficient Tool for NLP Montpellier, France, 7-11 June 2004 http://www.lirmm.fr/CG2004 Organised by LIRMM (http://www.lirmm.fr), supported by the Universit? Montpellier II (http://www.univ-montp2.fr) and the Languedoc-Roussillon delegation of CNRS (http://www.dr13.cnrs.fr) Important dates: ------------------------- Submission EXTENDED deadline: 7 March, 2004 Notification of accepted papers: 7 April, 2004 Final versions, deadline: 7 May, 2004 ------------------------------------------------- Proceedings: The accepted papers will be published as a special issue of Applied Logic by Elsevier. The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including other symposia or workshops. Choose among the topics below for key-words. For more instructions go to: http://www.lirmm.fr/CG2004 All papers should be submitted electronically to: degeilh at lirmm.fr Topics: --------------------- Formal grammars for natural languages, in particular (non exhaustive list) : Pregroups Pregroups applied to natural languages Compact bilinear logic Non-symmetric *-autonomous categories Lambek syntactical calculus Multimodal categorial grammars Word order, discontinuous constituents Dependencies, constraints to movement Learning algorithms Complexity of algorithms Minimalist grammars Lexical grammars Tree adjoining grammars Algorithmic and theoretical problems arising during syntactical analysis Categorial grammars, type grammars and pregroups are formal structures for deciding whether a string of words is a grammatical sentence. They assign one or more types to each word in the dictionary. One solves the problem whether a sequence of words is a grammatical sentence, by performing computations on the corresponding string(s) of types. This makes it possible to characterise the syntactic properties of natural languages entirely in terms of their lexical types and prove general properties, independent of the actual language fragment. These grammars are related to other mathematical approaches like intuitionist, classical and compact bilinear logic, non-symmetric *-autonomous categories, Montague semantics and Chomsky's minimalist programme. Some of these methods have matured to highly efficient tools for syntactical analysis. Previous meetings were held in Tucson, Rome, Nancy, Nantes, Trento and Ottawa. This symposium will cover new theoretical results and applications to natural languages. Some Speakers: ---------------------- Michele Abrusci (Univ Roma 3, Italy) Jason Baldridge (Univ of Edinburgh, UK) Philippe Blache (Univ of Aix-en-Provence, France) Julia Hockenmaier (Univ of Pennsylvania, USA) Maciej Kandulski (Adam Mickiewicz Univ, Poland) Ruth Kempson (King's College London, UK) Joachim Lambek (McGill Univ, Canada) Alain Lecomte (Univ Grenoble 2, France) Reinhard Muskens (Tilburg Univ, The Netherlands) Richard Oehrle (Univ of Pennsylvania, USA) Guy Perrier (Loria, France) Scientific Programme Committee: ---------------------------------------- Wojciech Buszkowski (Univ of Poznan, Poland) Claudia Casadio (Univ Chieti, Italy) Dov Gabbay (King's College London, UK) Michael Moortgat (Univ of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Christian Retor? (Univ Bordeaux I, France) Mark Steedman (Univ of Edinburgh, UK) Edward Stabler (UCLA, USA) Organising Committee: ---------------------------- Raffaella Bernardi (Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy) Sylvain Degeilh (Univ Montpellier II, France) Michael Moortgat (Univ of Utrecht, The Netherlands) Anne Preller (Univ Montpellier III, France) Violaine Prince (Univ Montpellier II, France) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 3 08:53:25 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 09:53:25 +0100 Subject: Appel: LREC workshop: Beyond Named Entity Recognition ... Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop Beyond Named Entity Recognition Semantic labelling for NLP tasks URL: http://ai-nlp.info.uniroma2.it/ws_lrec04/ Centro Cultural de Belem LISBON, Portugal 25th may 2004 In Association with 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC2004 Main conference 26-27-28 May 2004 Motivation and Aims Although it is generally assumed that improvements in language processing will be made through the integration of linguistic information and statistical techniques, the reality is that language is very diverse and looking for specific patterns of words that repeat enough to be statistically significant tends not to be a very fruitful task: sequences longer than three words are not generally repeated often enough to be statistically significant. At the same time, the identification of named entities: Names, dates, places, organizations etc., has proved to be a very useful preliminary task in many natural language processing systems are interested in pursuing approaches which extend this notion by identifying and labeling other semantic information in a text, in such as way as to allow repeatable semantic patterns to emerge. Our interest is in attacking the data sparseness problem by exploring ways to collapse (semantically) related phrases which are expressed by different word sequences. As this seems closely related to previously proposed class-based language models (see for example Brown et al. 90 in Computational Linguistics), it is distinguished because the empirical notion of classes used in the previous work (e.g. classes made up of collocationally similar words) are replaced by semantically justified sets. Notice how Name Entity (NE) tagging and Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) represent, in terms of granularity and representational complexity, two extremes of a single general problem: semantic disambiguation. Semantic disambiguation serves thus the purpose of improving the generalization power of statistical models. One of the questions here is how to determine a suitable level of clustering (for NE identification and for WSD) that would lead to high accuracy and to performance improvement by obtained statistical models. Reason of Interest It is to be noticed that a set of independent research work focused recently on the statistical treatment of semantic phenomena (e.g. WordNet navigation as a stochastic process, as studied in Light and Abney or in Ciaramita & Johnson) highly correlates with the research program proposed above. The workshop will represent a forum where experience from lexical semantics and statistical learning will be presented and fruitful discussion among researchers in both fields will be promoted. The workshop is expected to attract researchers and practitioners from a range of areas as well as developers of large scale semantic resources who are interested in effective methods of semantic labeling. Topics (to be addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to) * Methods for lexical - semantic annotation of corpora * Methods and Standards for lexical semantic representation of dictionary information * Lexico-semantic taxonomies * Existing sources of classification: dictionaries, thesauri and computerized ontologies * Corpus-driven methods for semantic disambiguation * Feature selection for semantic disambiguation * Lexico-semantic tagging of very large corpora * Algorithms and methods for disambiguation of semantic phenomena * Statistical learning models and their applications to semantic labeling * Computational learning frameworks for Natural Language Learning * Semi-supervised and unsupervised statistical semantic disambiguation * Evaluation of semantic disambiguation Workshop format The workshop will be a half-day event with position statements from invited speakers (half an hour each) with two hours for 4-6 presentations of scientific papers. Submissions are intended to present works in progress and more completed works which fall within the scope defined by the topics listed above. A final 1 hour open discussion among all the workshop participants will be moderated by the organizers. In order to stimulate an interesting general discussion each member of the program committee will be invited to submit a position statement of max. 1000 words. Submission Participants are invited to submit an extended abstract of max. 3500 words concerning one or more of the topics of interest. Each accepted paper receives a slot of 25 minutes for presentation (15 minutes talk and 10 minutes for discussion). Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Submissions must be sent electronically in PDF to the following address: Roberto Basili Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Management University of Roma Tor Vergata e-mail: basili at info.uniroma2.it Proceedings and Publications Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organising Committee. The journal will dedicate to the workshop topics a Special Issue on "Semantic tagging/labelling for NLP tasks". Relevant papers submitted to the workshop will be selected to appear in that special issue. Important dates Extended abstract submission (max. 3500 words): 16th of February 2004 Notification of acceptance: 8th of March 2004 Preliminary Program: 29th of March 2004 Submission of the final version of paper: 5th of April 2004 Workshop: 25th May 2004 Organising Committee Louise Guthrie - University of Sheffield, UK Roberto Basili - University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy Eva Hajicova - Charles University, Czech Republic Frederick Jelinek - Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA Further Information For any information related to the organization, please contact: Roberto Basili e-mail: basili at info.uniroma2.it Dept. of Computer Science, Systems and Management University of Roma Tor Vergata Via di Tor Vergata 00133 Roma (ITALY) tel: +39 06 72597391 fax: +39 06 72597460 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 6 08:03:22 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:03:22 +0100 Subject: Ecole: ESSLI 2004 Message-ID: ======================================================================= ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 ESSLLI 2004 Premi?re Annonce ESSLLI 2004 Nancy, France 9-20 Ao?t 2004 ======================================================================= ESSLLI 2004 (European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information), la seizi?me ?cole d'?t? en logique, linguistique et information aura lieu en France, ? Nancy, du 9 au 20 ao?t 2004. Elle sera organis?e par le LORIA (Laboratoire Lorrain de Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications) et se tiendra sur le campus scientifique de l'Universit? Henri Poincar? (Nancy 1). ESSLLI est l'?cole d'?t? annuelle de l'association europ?enne de Logique, Linguistique et Information (FoLLI). Comme les autres ?ditions d'ESSLLI, ESSLLI 2004 offrira deux semaines de cours d'initiation, de perfectionnement et d'approfondissement, ainsi que des ateliers. En tout, 48 cours et ateliers auront lieu. Pour plus d'information, vous pouvez consulter notre site web : http://esslli2004.loria.fr Les inscriptions ? ESSLLI 2004 ne sont pas encore ouvertes, mais vous trouverez sur ce site toutes les informations pr?liminaires pour l'inscription, l'h?bergement et les prix. Un autre e-mail vous sera envoy? quand les inscriptions seront ouvertes. Nous serons ravis de vous accueillir ? Nancy au mois d'ao?t prochain ! 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THE NEW DEADLINE FOR ONTOLEX 2004 IS FEBRUARY 9. ****APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS**** SECOND AND FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop OntoLex 2004: Ontologies and Lexical Resources in Distributed Environments http://www.loa-cnr.it/ontolex2004.html Centro Cultural de Belem LISBON, Portugal 29th may 2004 In Association with 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC2004 http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/index.php Main conference 26-27-28 May 2004 Motivations and aim The use of ontological knowledge in language technology applications goes a long way back. Recently, however, the project of turning the World Wide Web into a machine understandable resource to access digital information (the so-called Semantic Web) has stimulated a renewed interest in ontologies. In several recent workshops and conferences, researchers have investigated their nature and application potential for knowledge management, information retrieval and extraction, information exchange in agent-based systems as well as dialogue systems. Attention is being drawn to new aspects of ontology research such as ontology coordination and mapping ? aspects that are particularly relevant for distributed environments such as Knowledge Grid and Semantic web. In fact the annotation of web resources in agreement with concepts and relations as defined in ontologies, is useful for establishing a conceptual support for knowledge communication. From this perspective, lexicographers, lexical semanticists and ontologists are joining forces to build innovative systems for integrating ontological knowledge with lexical and semantic resources. Important examples of this interaction are the recent works on the conceptual analysis of WordNet (one of the first lexical knowledge bases), and the wide use of upper ontologies in innovative international projects like EuroWordNet, SIMPLE, Balkanet, DWDSnet. WordNet was designed and built entirely by psychologists, linguists, and lexicographers. Nevertheless, there are obvious parallels with ontologies, especially in the kinds of structuring relations used (taxonomical links, meronymy or part-of, etc.), and indeed WordNet has for years attracted the attention of philosophers and ontologists. In this context, the distinction between conceptual (possibly axiomatic) ontologies and lexical ontologies (which contain both linguistic and ontological information) has become more and more central in the field. In this workshop we want to discuss ontologies as resources per se, as well as for what concerns the relation between ontological knowledge and language. This relation can be investigated from a number of different angles, for example what differences and similarities there are between ontologies and more traditional lexical resources such as dictionaries and wordnets; how ontologies can be extracted from language corpora; what role language plays in the definition and mapping of ontologies; and finally, how ontologies can be used to treat language in language technology applications ? in particular applications for distributed environments. Topics to be addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Design principles and methodologies for upper-level ontologies and semantic lexical resources - Evaluation, comparison, mapping and integration of ontologies and lexical resources - Applications of ontologies and semantic lexical resources in LT applications (e.g. QA, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Machine Translation) - Role of semantic lexical resources in ontology learning - Methods to derive ontological knowledge from text - Methods to annotate text with reference to an ontology - Ontology-based query expansion techniques - Ontologies and multi-lingual lexical resources - Ontologies and ontology mapping in multi-lingual applications - Ontologies and lexical resources for meaning negotiation Two discussions will be organised around the following topics: - Filling the gap between axiomatic and linguistic ontologies - The role of lexical resources in the Semantic Web and the Knowledge Grid Reasons of interest A new scientific community is growing around this largely interdisciplinary area: following the spirit of the previous two OntoLex workshops, this workshop aims at being an important meeting point for researchers involved in the fields of lexical resources and ontologies, favouring the exchange of scientific experiences and proposing new directions of inquiry. This year, the workshop particularly welcomes contributions from researchers that are investigating the application of ontologies and lexical resources in distributed environments such as Knowledge Grid and Semantic Web. Important dates - 4th December 2003: Call for papers and demonstrations - 30 January 2004: Deadline for paper submission - 5 March 2004: Acceptance notifications and preliminary program - 29 March 2004: Deadline final version of accepted papers - 29 May 2004: Workshop Submissions Participants are invited to submit an extended abstract of max 3000 words related to one or more of the topics of interest. Papers can describe research results as well as work in progress. Each accepted paper will receive a slot of 30 minutes for presentation (20 minutes talk and 10 minutes for discussion). Demonstrations of ontology applications are encouraged as well (a demonstration outline of 2 pages can be submitted). Each submission should show: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Submissions must be sent electronically in PDF to Alessandro Oltramari (oltramari at loa-cnr.it) As soon as possible, authors are encouraged to send a brief email indicating their intention to participate, including their contact information and the topic they intend to address in their submissions. Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organising Committee. Time schedule and registration fee The workshop will consist of a morning session and an afternoon session, and include scientific paper presentations from workshop participants as well as general discussions. For this full-day workshop, the registration fee is 100 EURO for LREC conference participants and 170 EURO for other participants. These fees will include a coffee break and the Proceedings of the Workshop. Organising Committee Alessandro Oltramari (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR; Department of Cognition and Education Sciences, Trento University) Patrizia Paggio (Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen) Aldo Gangemi (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR Rome) Maria Teresa Pazienza (Roma Tor Vergata University) Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR) Bolette Sandford Pedersen (Center for Sprogteknologi, University of Copenhagen) Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Programme Committee Roberto Basili (Roma Tor Vergata University) Werner Ceusters (Language & Computing) Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR) Aldo Gangemi (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Rome) Eric Gaussier (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble Laboratory) Maria Toporowska Gronostaj (Spr?kdata, University of Gothenburg) Nicola Guarino (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento) Arne J?nsson (Link?ping Universitet) Dimitrios Kokkinakis (Spr?kdata, University of Gothenburg) Alessandro Lenci (Universit? di Pisa) Claude de Loupy (Sinequa and University of Paris 10) Bernardo Magnini (ITC-IRST, Trento) J?rgen Fischer Nilsson (Technical University of Denmark) Alessandro Oltramari, (Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC-CNR, Trento) Patrizia Paggio (Center for Sprogteknologi) Maria Teresa Pazienza (Roma Tor Vergata University) Bolette Sandford Pedersen (Center for Sprogteknologi) Guus Schreiber (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Atanas Kiryakov (Ontotext Lab, Sirma AI) Paola Velardi (Universit? "La Sapienza", Rome) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 6 08:03:29 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:03:29 +0100 Subject: Appel: revue TAL : Text Summarization : NEW DEADLINE Message-ID: Automatic Text Summarization: Solutions and Perspectives New deadline: February 29th, 2004 Special Issue Editor: Jean-Luc Minel (LaLICC, CNRS) Context: Automatic Text Summarization From a scientific point of view, the problem of summarization extends beyond its immediate boundaries, largely due to certain rhetorical relations that need to be taken into consideration, such as discourse frames, or direct or indirect levels of discourse. In recent years, this research area has moved beyond the processing of phrases as the unit of analysis to include concept search and the design of suitable methods for detecting and representing textual structures. Until the mid-1990?s, scientific texts provided a field of experimentation for automatic summarization methods, but the digitization of texts and their increased availability on the Web and intranets has fundamentally changed user needs and uses. The abundance of texts brings with it an urgent requirement for the creation and production of summarization tools capable of finding, selecting and extracting textual information concisely. In terms of the need, it has become necessary to bring web-search tools and company networks together with tools for automatic summarization. In terms of use, the development of text-search tools requires careful consideration of text representation and the design of user interfaces, which in turn leads to studies being carried out in the domain of information science on new types of written text. Topic This special issue aims: - on the one hand, to present new approaches or methods which may lead to promising prototypes for automated systems. It also concerns the development of an awareness of the importance of automatic summarization, alongside technology, for linguistic engineering. Whatever the automatic summarization project, there are only two underlying techniques for its realization. Firstly, techniques which extract full phrases from source texts, and secondly, those which generate a new, condensed text. Only the first kind of technique has allowed for the implementation of systems that can be considered as providing reasonable results according when evaluated for comercial potential. The second technique is of interest in a research context because of the various linguistic problems left unsolved at the level of interpretation, in view of the limitations in their computational implementation. - on the other hand, to propose bridges between the various areas in which text constitutes the main object of study (i.e., in the domain of information science). Papers are invited which contribute to the following themes: - Numerical approaches versus linguistic approaches, with a particular focus on papers that explore the complementarity between the two. - The automatic detection of textual structures, including: o the identification of topic o the identification of argumentative structures o the improvement of coherence and cohesion (dealing with anaphora, etc) - Different dimensions of summary o Types of summary o Translingual summaries o Multi-document summaries - Linguistic resources necessary for summarization systems o the application of terminology and ontologies o Generic versus specific-purpose resources - Summary and Normalization o Integrating summary systems into networks o Integrating summarization systems into linguistics - Methods of assessment for summarization systems - Extension of the summarization issue to the semantic filtering of texts: o Exploring new opportunities o The production of summaries in response to specific user needs o The use of navigation tools and interfaces which exploit textual structure o summarization and annotation of texts in a Semantic Web context Editorial Committee John Atkinson (Universit? de Concepcion, Chili) Branimir Boguraev (IBM, USA) Michel Charolles (LATTICE, Universit? Paris 3, France) Jean-Pierre Descl?s (LaLICC, Universit? Paris-Sorbonne, France) Michael Elhadad (Computer Science Department, Ben Gurion University, Israel) Noemie Elhadad (Computer Science Department, Columbia University, USA) Guy Lapalme (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada) Inderjeet Mani (Soci?t? MITRE, USA) Jean-Guy Meunier (UQUAM, Canada) Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan, USA) Antoinette Renouf (University of Liverpool, UK) Horacio Saggion (Computer Science Department, University of Sheffield, UK) Dina Wonsever (Universit? de la R?publique, Uruguay) Format Contributions (25 pages maximum) should be submitted in Word, Postscript or Acrobat format. The file styles are provided as part of the regulations on the journal homepage. Language Papers should be written either in French or English. However, English submissions will only be accepted from non-French speakers. Dates Submission deadline: February 29th, 2004 Final committee decisions: April 30, 2004. The camera-ready version of the accepted articles should reach the editors by June 1st, 2004, for publication in 2004. Those who intend to submit an article are encouraged to contact Dr. Jean-Luc Minel (jean-luc.minel at paris4.sorbonne.fr). Paper submission The papers should be submitted by electronic mail to: jean-luc.minel at paris4.sorbonne.fr or by normal mail to the following address: Jean-Luc MINEL Laboratoire LaLICC, UMR 8139 (CNRS - Universit? 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The conference is a follow-up on the Second International Conference on Construction Grammar held in Helsinki in September 2003. In line with the aim of the second conference, we hope that ICCG3 will continue to serve as a forum for promoting discussion and collaboration among linguists interested in Construction Grammar, as well as in related constructional research in its various models and applications. We would like to put a special emphasis on establishing the link between a descriptive approach to linguistic phenomena,especially as they emerge from authentic data, and their formalisation, as well as their automatic implementation. Confirmed plenary speakers include: . Laura Michaelis (U. of Colorado) . Ivan Sag (Stanford) . Mirjam Fried (Princeton) . Hans Boas (U. of Texas) . Dominique Willems (Gand) . Anne Abeill? (Paris VII) . Claire Blanche-Benveniste (EPHE, Paris) The conference is organized by the DELIC and the LPL, Universit? de Provence, the organizing committee being headed by Henri-Jos? Deulofeu (UP) and Philippe Blache (CNRS). For more information about the conference please direct your inquiries to the conference organizers : iccg3-2004 at up.univ-mrs.fr GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION ------------------------- Regular conference papers (20 min. talk plus 10 min. discussion) are invited on any aspect of linguistic analysis that is concerned with constructions and/or frames. We welcome work on issues in syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, discourse, language acquisition, corpus linguistics, language variation/change, etc. SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS ----------------------- Abstracts of one page (PDF or MS WOrd), with an additional page for graphs, data, and/or references if necessary, should be submitted by : February 20th, 2004. PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ANONYMOUS ABSTRACT ELECTRONICALLY to Hans Boas, Chairman of the scientific comitee : hcb at mail.utexas.edu. ONLY INCLUDE THE TITLE OF YOUR PAPER ON THE ABSTRACT. PLEASE INCLUDE the author information (name, affiliation, address, e-mail, phone, and fax numbers ) IN THE BODY OF YOUR MESSAGE. Upon acceptance, the abstract will be published in a conference booklet to be distributed among the conference participants. DEADLINES AND IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- Deadline for abstracts: February 20th, 2004 Notification of acceptance: March 22st, 2004 Early registration deadline: June 1st, 2004 If you have questions about your abstract, please direct such queries to: iccg3-2004 at up.univ-mrs.fr Upon acceptance, work will be started on publishing the abstracts in a conference booklet to be distributed among the conference participants. Last minute changes in your abstracts have to reach us by May 30, 2002. You are allowed maximally two pages (incl. references and figures) in the Book of Abstracts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Feb 9 17:37:00 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:37:00 +0100 Subject: Appel: Technology Enhanced Learning (Tel'04) Workshop Message-ID: Please apologize in case of multiple reception of this message ========================================================================= Call For Papers: Technology Enhanced Learning (Tel'04) Workshop - 18th IFIP World Computer Congress - "Raising the issues on School e-laboratories, utilizing novel pedagogical and evaluation theories" 22 August 2004 Toulouse, France http://tel04.systema.gr/ TeL'04 - Technology Enhanced Learning February 20, 2004: Submission of short and full papers(firm deadline) --------------------- SCOPE AND ORGANIZATION Technology Enhanced Learning (TeL) has provided tools and infrastructure to education and training disciplines for over a decade. Related issues are as various as pedagogical and evaluation theories, integrated learning environments, experiments, trials and results from R&TD deployment. Relying on recent experiences and promising results from R&TD projects, in particular EU endorsed initiatives (e.g. IST Projects: Lab at Future, Laboratory of Tomorrow, Mobilearn), the workshop will give educational institutions, experts, practitioners and technologists an opportunity to share their experience and possibly come up with a consensus on open issues. Tel'04 is a one day workshop co-located with the WCC'2004 conference. It will take place among other WCC events in the Congress Center (downtown Toulouse). The program will include refereed papers and invited talks by distinguished researchers and practitioners. The proceedings will be published by Kluwer, the official publisher of IFIP conference. --------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST This workshop will comply with the trend of most international conferences relating to learning technologies today. Nevertheless the distinct shaping factor will comprise the identification of the enabling parameters to leverage the promotion of key initiatives in putting the grassroots for TeL, especially for school e-laboratories utilizing novel pedagogical and evaluation theories. Papers are solicited in the following areas: ?E-Learning ?Mobile learning ?Mixed and augmented reality in training ?Technologies in the school of tomorrow ?The learning citizen ?Collaborative learning ?Applying pedagogical theories ?The evaluation process of learning applications ?Shared virtual environments for learning ?Learning management systems ?Combining individualised with collaborative learning ?Applying and using eLearning standards ?Open learning environments ?Learning for All ?Technologies for science education ?Technologies for arts and humanities education --------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Accepted papers will appear in a book published by Kluwer. February 20, 2004: Submission of short and full papers(firm deadline) March 20, 2004: Notification of acceptance April 20, 2004: Camera ready papers For more details and submission visit: http://tel04.systema.gr/ ========================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Mon Feb 9 17:36:59 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:36:59 +0100 Subject: Appel: 9 th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems Message-ID: 9 th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems June 23-25 2004, Salford, Manchester, UK. www.nldb.org Call for papers Since 1995, the NLDB conference aims at bringing together researcher, industrials and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The integration of databases and natural language has been an utopia for many years. However, progress has been made and this is now an established field thanks to developments in Natural Language and technologies that made the storage and manipulation of large electronic dictionaries possible. As Information Systems are now evolving into the communication area, the term databases should be considered in the broader sense of information and communication systems The use of Natural Language in Software Engineering has contributed to both improving the development process from the viewpoints of developers (improve the process of conceptual modelling, validation, etc) and the usability of applications by users (natural language query interfaces, semantic webs, etc). Important Dates: _Full paper submission: February 29, 2004 _Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2004 _Camera-ready papers: April 22, 2004 Proceedings Publication _The proceedings of NLDB04 will be published by Springer in their LNCS series _The best 5 papers will be selected for publication in a special issue of the Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal Topics: _Natural Language for Web Services (Semantic information retrieval, Semantic Web, Semi-structured models and associated languages, Web usage, content and structure mining for discovering semantics, Concept taxonomies and web mining, Learning taxonomies and ontologies from the web, Information extraction with machine learning, Document classification and indexation) _Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling (Analysis of natural language descriptions, Requirement engineering, Terminological ontologies, Paraphrasing, Dynamic modelling, Verification, consistency checking, Metadata harvesting) _Natural Language Interfaces for Data Base Querying/Retrieval (Natural languages interfaces for database querying, Verification of database queries by paraphrasing, Semantic analysis for information retrieval, NL interaction with databases) _Natural Language-Based Integration of Systems (Linguistic aspects of view integration, Linguistic aspects of data warehouses, Natural language queries to multi-databases systems, Data integration and data cleansing, Ontology driven integration, Ontology management) _Large Scale on-line Resources (Electronic dictionaries, Question-answer corpora, Informal ontologies, Linguistic databases, Digital libraries) _Application of Computational Linguistics in Information Systems (Multilingual information systems, NLP in requirements engineering, NLP in knowledge management, Ontology-driven NLP, Semiotics and fundamentals) _Management of Textual Databases (Text classification, Information extraction and detection, Text mining for creating metadata, Document management, Hypertext and Hyperbases) Conference Organisation Conference Chair : Elisabeth Mtais, Conservatoire National des Arts et Mtiers de Paris, France. Program Committee Chair : Farid Meziane, University of Salford, UK. Program Committee Diego Moll Aliod, Macquarie University, Australia Kenji Araki, Hokkaido University, Japan Mokrane Bouzeghoub, PRiSM, Universit de Versailles, France Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK Gary A Coen, Boeing, USA Isabelle Comyn-Wattiau, CEDRIC/CNAM, France Antje Dsterhft, University of Wismar, Germany Gnther Fliedl, Universitt Klagenfurt, Austria Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico Nicola Guarino, CNR, Italy Rafael Muoz Guillena, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Jon Atle Gulla, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Mohammed Harmain, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Helmut Horacek, Universitt des Saarlandes, Germany Paul Johannesson, Stockholm University, Sweden Zoubida Kedad, PRiSM, Universit de Versailles, France Leila Kosseim, Concordia University, Canada. Nadira Lammari, CEDRIC/CNAM, France Winfried Lenders, Universitt Bonn, Germany Jana Lewerenz, sd&m Dsseldorf, Germany Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Heinrich C. Mayr, Universitt Klagenfurt, Austria Paul McFetridge, Simon Frazer University, Canada Elisabeth Metais, CEDRIC/CNAM , France Farid Meziane, Salford University, UK Luisa Mich, University of Trento, Italy. Ana Maria Moreno, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Jian-Yun Nie, Universit de Montral, Canada Manual Palomar, Universidad de Alicante, Spain Odile Piton, Universit Paris I Panthon-Sorbonne, France Reind van de Riet, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, Korea Tim Ritchings, University of Salford, UK Hongchi Shi, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA Niculae Stratica, Concordia University, Canada Vijay Sugumaran, Oakland University Rochester, USA Veda Storey, Georgia State University, USA Lua Km Teng, National University of Singapore, Singapore Bernhard Thalheim, University of Cottbus, Germany Babis Theodoulidis, UMIST, UK Sunil Vadera, University of Salford, UK Ronald Wagner, University of Linz, Austria Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Werner Winiwarter, University of Vienna, Austria Stanislaw Wrycza, University of Gdansk, Poland Organising Committee Sunil Vadera (Chair), University of Salford, UK. 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CIFT'02, organis? ? Hammamet en octobre 2002, CIFT'04, Colloque international sur la Fouille de Textes, se d?roulera du 22 au 24 juin 2004 ? La Rochelle, dans le cadre de la Semaine du Document Num?rique (du 21 au 25 juin) (SDN'O4). Cette manifestation (SDN'04), r?unira une vingtaine d'ateliers et de manifestations scientifiques (dont une journ?e de l'ATALA et une du chapitre fran?ais de l'ISKO). Cette semaine se place sous l'?gide du RTP Doc "document et contenu : cr?ation, indexation, navigation" (http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr). Les th?matiques abord?es par la SDN sont donc li?es ? la production et ? la mise ? disposition de documents ?lectroniques. La plupart des manifestations positionnent cette ann?e l'exploitation des documents et l'acc?s au contenu au coeur de leur probl?matique, ind?pendamment du fait qu'elles traitent du texte, de l'image, du son, ou de la vid?o : la SDN est en effet con?ue pour que puissent ?tre r?unies en un m?me lieu des communaut?s ayant des approches diff?rentes du document et du texte et pour que les participants puissent profiter de cette diversit?. CIFT, conf?rence d?j? associ?e en 2002 ? CIDE (Conf?rence Internationale sur le Document Electronique) et CIFED (Colloque International Francophone sur l'Ecrit et le Document), est tout naturellement moteur dans cette action. CIFT s'appuie sur une communaut? ?mergeante autour de l'application conjointe des techniques d'apprentissage automatique, d'acquisition et de repr?sentation des connaissances et du traitement automatique des langues. En t?moignent des journ?es Fouille de Texte et A3CTE telles que "apprentissage et texte" ou la "Journ?e acquisition, apprentissage et exploitation de connaissances s?mantiques pour l'acc?s au contenu textuel" des plate-formes de l'AFIA 2001 et 2003, les workshops "Text Mining", "Ontology learning", et "Semantic Web" successifs, les conf?rences CoNLL, LREC et EGC. Se positionnant au coeur de la SDN, CIFT souhaite offrir une plage de rencontre autour de la mise en oeuvre de ces m?thodes sur des bases de documents textuels ou plus g?n?ralement audio-visuels. Ainsi, un int?r?t particulier sera port? aux travaux relatant des exp?rimentations concr?tes et cons?quentes sur des applications op?rationnelles de la fouille de texte, sur l'int?gration d'outils de fouille de texte dans des cha?nes de production ou de traitement de l'information ?lectronique comme sur la pr?sentation de solutions logicielles (y compris des outils d'aide ? la validation d'apprentissage, d'aide ? la visualisation de r?sultats, etc). Les articles propos?s pourront porter sur des aspects th?oriques, m?thodologiques ou pratiques de la fouille de texte. De fa?on non limitative, les contributions porteront sur : * les mod?les et m?thodologies de la fouille de texte issues : - du traitement statistique des donn?es - de la fouille de donn?es, - du traitement automatique du langage naturel, - de l'extraction des connaissances, - de l'intelligence artificielle, - de l'approche multilingue, - de l'apprentissage num?rique ou symbolique, - de la classification automatique, - de la recherche de motifs, - du monde XML (RDF, etc.), - des ontologies, - etc. * les domaines (mono/multiligues): - recherche d'information, - extraction d'information, - syst?mes de question-r?ponse - cat?gorisation, routage, filtrage - r?sum? automatique, - web s?mantique, - m?moire d'entreprise, - synth?se d'information, - aide ? la r?daction, - aide ? la d?cision, - etc Dates importantes: R?ception des propositions : 22 f?vrier 2004 Notification aux auteurs : 15 mars 2004 R?ception des textes d?finitifs : 15 avril 2004 Colloque : 22-24 Juin 2004 Envoi des textes et questions : cift04 at univ-poitiers.fr Comit? de Pilotage : Marie-H?l?ne Antoni & Fran?ois Yvon marie-helene.antoni at univ-poitiers.fr francois.yvon at enst.fr Comit? de Programme: Marie-H?l?ne Antoni (Universit? de Poitiers) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Gilles Bisson (IMAG, Grenoble) Bruno Bachimont (INA et Univ. Technologique de Compi?gne) Nuria Castells (TALP, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) Jean Charlet (STIM/AP-HP, ERM202-INSERM, Paris) Fabrice Cl?rot (FT R&D, Lannion) Pascal Coupet (T?mis France, Paris) Eric Gaussier (Xerox , Grenoble) James Cussens (Universit? d'York) Marc El-Beze (Univ. Avignon) Patrick Gallinari (LIP6, Paris) Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp.) Yves Kodratoff (LRI, Universit? Paris XI, Orsay) Stan Matwin (SITE, Univ. d'Ottawa) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, Univ. Paris XIII, Villetaneuse) Claire N?dellec (MIG/INRA, Jouy-en-Josas) Laurent Miclet (IRISA-ENSSAT, Lannion) Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay) Marie-Laure Reinberger (CNTS, Antwerp) Martin Rajman (EPFL, Lausanne) Pascale S?billot (IRISA, Rennes) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA, Nancy) Yorik Wilks (University of Sheffield) Francois Yvon (ENST,Paris) Pierre Zweigenbaum (STIM/AP-HP, ERM202-INSERM et CRIM-INaLCOAP-HP, Paris) _____________________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------- Colloque International sur la Fouille de Texte CIFT'04 La Rochelle 22-24 juin 2004 (France) ------------------------------------------------- NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION : 22 FEBRUAR 2004 http://cift04.univ-poitiers.fr/ After CIFT'02, organised in Hammamet in October 2002, CIFT'04, International Conference on Text Mining, will be held in La Rochelle (France), from 22nd to 24th June 2004. This meeting will take place during the "digital document week" (SDN'04, Semaine du Document Num?rique; 21-25 June), which brings together around 20 workshops and scientific conferences (e.g. ATALA and ISKO-France). This scientific week is organised by RTP-Doc (http://rtp-doc.enssib.fr) This year's themes for the conference are therefore linked to production and diffusion of electronic documents. Most conferences will focus on information exploitation and intelligent access to contents, be they text, image, sound or video. SDN aims at bringing together various communities who all have a different approach to documents and textual contents, in order to allow participants to benefit from this diversity. The CIFT conference which was in 2002 already associated to CIDE (Conf?rence Internationale sur le Document Electronique) and CIFED (Colloque International Francophone sur l'Ecrit et le Document) is therefore a natural key leader in this project. CIFT stems from the common preoccupation of an emerging community of researchers seeking the concerted use of techniques of Information Science, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Linguistics, Terminology, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Knowledge Acquisition, Ontology Learning, Text Mining and Semantic Web. They have already organised several conferences and workshops such as AFIA, LREC, EGC and CoNLL. Within the SDN, CIFT wants to be a forum for discussions around the implementation of such methods on bases of textual or more generally audio-visual documents. Consequently, evaluators will especially appreciate papers on detailed and large-scale experimentation involving Text Mining solutions or the integration of text mining software in global document engineering systems, or papers on the presentation of software solutions (including help tools regarding learning validation, results browsing, etc). Submitted papers may deal with theoretical, methodological or practical aspects of Text Mining. The following list of topics is intended as suggestive rather than comprehensive: * Text Mining Models and methods derived from: - Data Mining - Natural Language Processing - Knowledge Acquisition - Artificial Intelligence - Multilingual approach - digital/symbolic Machine Learning - Automatic Clustering - Patterns Recognition - XML World - Ontologies - etc. * Fields of (mono/multilingual) application : - Information retrieval - Information Extraction - Question/Answering systems - Categorisation, push, pull - Machine abstracts - Semantic Web - knowledge re-engineering - Information Synthesis - Writing Help - Decision Help - etc * Dates to be remembered: Deadline for submission: 22 st February 2004 Authors Notification: 15th March 2004 Due date for Camera Ready Copies: 15th april 2004 Conference: 22-24 Juin 2004 submit and address questions about the conference program to: cift04 at univ-poitiers.fr Conference Committee Chair : Marie-H?l?ne Antoni & Fran?ois Yvon marie-helene.antoni at univ-poitiers.fr francois.yvon at enst.fr Program Committee : Marie-H?l?ne Antoni (Universit? de Poitiers) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse) Gilles Bisson (IMAG, Grenoble) Bruno Bachimont (INA et Univ. Technologique de Compi?gne) Nuria Castells (TALP, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya) Jean Charlet (STIM/AP-HP, ERM202-INSERM, Paris) Fabrice Cl?rot (FT R&D, Lannion) Pascal Coupet (T?mis France, Paris) Eric Gaussier (Xerox , Grenoble) James Cussens (Universit? d'York) Marc El-Beze (Univ. Avignon) Patrick Gallinari (LIP6, Paris) Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp.) Yves Kodratoff (LRI, Universit? Paris XI, Orsay) Stan Matwin (SITE, Univ. d'Ottawa) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, Univ. Paris XIII, Villetaneuse) Claire N?dellec (MIG/INRA, Jouy-en-Josas) Laurent Miclet (IRISA-ENSSAT, Lannion) Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay) Marie-Laure Reinberger (CNTS, Antwerp) Martin Rajman (EPFL, Lausanne) Pascale S?billot (IRISA, Rennes) Yannick Toussaint (LORIA, Nancy) Yorik Wilks (University of Sheffield) Francois Yvon (ENST,Paris) Pierre Zweigenbaum (STIM/AP-HP, ERM202-INSERM et CRIM-INaLCOAP-HP, Paris) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 12 16:26:34 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:26:34 +0100 Subject: Appel: COLING-2004 Workshop: Multilingual Linguistic Resources Message-ID: ************************************************************************ **** Call for Papers COLING-2004 Workshop: Multilingual Linguistic Resources Geneva Switzerland 28 August 2004 http://mlr2004.imag.fr/ ************************************************************************ **** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION In an ever expanding information society, most information systems are now facing the "multilingual challenge". Lexical resources play an essential role in these information systems. Such lexical resources need to provide information on many languages in a common framework and should be (re)usable in many applications (for automatic or human use). Many centers have been involved in national, european and international projects dedicated to building harmonized language resources and creating expertise in the maintenance and further development of standardized linguistic data. These resources include dictionaries, lexicons, thesauri, wordnets, and annotated corpora developed along the lines of best practices and recommendations. However, since the late 90's most efforts in scaling up these resources remain the responsibility of the local authorities, usually, with very low funding (if any) and few opportunities for academic recognition of this work. Hence, it is not surprising that many of the resource holders and developers have become reluctant to give free access to the latest resources. It is therefore currently rather unclear what the actual status is of these language resources. The goal of this workshop is to study problems involved in the development/management/reuse of lexical resources in a multilingual context. Moreover, this workshop will provide a forum for reviewing the state of language resources. The workshop is meant to bring to the international community qualitative and quantitative information about the most recent developments in the area of linguistic resources and their use in applications. As the workshop takes place in Europe, special attention will be given to submissions on resources for European languages (especially Central and Eastern European languages), but submission of innovative developments involving any language will be welcome. The intent of the workshop is not only to review academic developments but also to hear from industry, how these resources are used in new technology developments and what the current needs are in the field. Presentations, project notes and position papers are welcome. WORKSHOP TOPICS Authors of papers on multilingual linguistic ressources are encouraged to apply. Papers could be on - but not limited to - any of the following topics: - models for language/application-independent linguistic data - linguistic data acquisition and maintenance - building multilingual linguistic resources - lexical architectures to link data between languages - use of linguistic resources for applications in a multilingual context - reuse of existing lexical resources in a specific multilingual application - human use of lexical resources in a multilingual context - quality evaluation and standardization SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Papers should be original, previously unpublished work. They should emphasize completed work rather than intended work. Papers that are being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. As the reviw process will not be blind, papers should contain the names and affiliations of authors. Submissions must be electronic only, and should consist of full papers of max. 8 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and equations), project notes and position papers should not exceed 4 pages. Authors should follow COLING 2004 formatting guidelines, available at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html. All submissions should be made through the MLR2004 workshop web site's submission form (url: http://mlr2004.imag.fr/). Submissions should consist in a single PDF file. Before submitting your document, please, verify that all non-standard fonts are correctly embedded in your PDF document (you can verify it by disabling the "Use Local Font" option when viewing you PDF document using Adobe Reader). Formatting requirements for the final version of accepted papers will be posted as soon as they become available. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for submission of Papers: May 7th 2004 Notification of Acceptance: June 2nd 2004 Deadline for final paper submission: June 16th 2004 Workshop: August 28th 2004 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Gilles S?rasset, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Universit? Joseph Fourier- Grenoble I, France Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Universit? de Gen?ve, Suisse Christian Boitet, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Universit? Joseph Fourier- Grenoble I, France Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO, Universit? de Gen?ve, Suisse Dan Tufis, RACAI, University of Bucharest, Romania PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gilles S?rasset GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Universit? Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France (chair) Susan Armstrong ISSCO, Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland Pushpak Battacharya IIT, Mumbai, India Igor Boguslavski IITP, Moscow, Russia Christian Boitet GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Universit? Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France Pierrette Bouillon ISSCO, Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland Jim Breen Monash University, Australia Nicoletta Calzolari CNR, Pisa, Italy Dan Cristea University Al.I.Cuza Iasi, Romania Patrick Drouin OLST, University of Montreal,Canada Sanae Fujita NTT, Kyoto, Japan Ulrich Heid IMS-CL, University of Stuttgart, Germany Hitoshi Isahara CRL, Nara, Japan Kyo Kageura NII, Tokyo, Japan Chuah Choy Kim USM, Penang, Malaisie Mathieu Mangeot NII, Tokyo, Japan Alain Polgu?re OLST, University of Montreal,Canada Andrei Popescu-belis ISSCO, Universit? de Gen?ve, Switzerland Jean Senellart SYSTRAN, France Mandel Shi Xiamen University, China Virach Sornlertlamvanich CRL Asia, NECTEC, Bangkok, Thailand Pr. Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii Tokyo University, Japan Philippe Thoiron CRTT, Universit? de Lyon 2, France Dan Tufis RACAI, Uni Bucharest, Romania Michael Zock LIMSI, Paris, France CONTACT mlr2004 at imag.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 12 16:26:38 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:26:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: COLING-2004 Workshop: COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY Message-ID: -*- CALL FOR PAPERS -*- CALL FOR PAPERS -*- CALL FOR PAPERS -*- http://www.cse.salford.ac.uk/TextMining/CompuTerm2004 http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/~pz/computerm2004.html COMPUTERM 2004 3rd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL TERMINOLOGY A Coling-2004 Workshop http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/ Computational Terminology becomes an increasingly important aspect in areas such as text mining, information retrieval, information extraction, summarisation, document management systems, question-answering systems, ontology building, etc. In text mining, the acquisition of new knowledge is best captured in terms as they denote new concepts. Terminological information is paramount to knowledge mining from texts for scientific discovery and competitive intelligence. Currently, scientific needs in emerging scientific domains, such as biomedicine, coupled with the overwhelming amount of textual data published daily, raised an additional interest to the usefulness of terminology acquired and managed systematically and automatically. The aim of this workshop is to bring together NLP researchers in Terminology and to discuss recent advances in computational terminology and its impact in many NLP applications. Issues like standardisation of terminological resources, constructing and updating domain specific dictionaries and thesauri, systematic terminology management will be addressed as they are a necessary component of any NLP system dealing with domain-specific literature. Areas of interest _________________ The 3rd workshop on Computational Terminology invites a range of papers on substantial, original and unpublished research on areas of computational terminology such as: * Mining terminology (NLP techniques for the acquisition and alignment of mono-lingual and multi-lingual terminology) * Structuring and managing terminology (term variation, term association discovery, term clustering and classification) * Terminological integration and update of resources (linking of terminological databases, thesauri, ontologies, (semi)-automatic update of terminological resources) * Applications of terminological information (term oriented IE, IR, QA, summarisation etc) * Evaluation of terminology Submission format _________________ Papers for workshop contributions should not exceed 8 pages (including references, figures, etc.). Authors should follow the main conference Coling style format. An additional title page should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact email address, postal address, telephone, url (as a separate file as main submissions are anonymous). Submissions should be sent via email, using ps or pdf format to: S.Ananiadou at salford.ac.uk Invited speaker _______________ Marie-Claude L'Homme (Universit? de Montr?al): A Lexico-semantic Approach to the Structuring of Terminology Important dates _______________ Deadline for submission of papers: March 26, 2004 Notification of acceptance: May 2, 2004 Final camera-ready copy due: June 7, 2004 COMPUTERM'04 workshop: August 29, 2004 Workshop Organisers ___________________ Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, UK) Pierre Zweigenbaum (STIM/DSI/AP-HP, France) Programme committee ___________________ Olivier Bodenreider (NLM, US) Didier Bourigault (ERSS, France) Teresa Cabre (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Key-Sun Choi (KORTERM, KAIST, Korea) Beatrice Daille (IRIN, France) Pascale Fung (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong) ?ric Gaussier (Xerox, France) Gregory Grefenstette (Clairvoyance Corp) Marie-Claude L'Homme (University of Montr?al, Canada) Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Philippe Langlais (RALI, Canada) John McNaught (UMIST, UK) Goran Nenadic (UMIST, UK) Koichi Takeuchi (Okayama University, Japan) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 12 16:26:41 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:26:41 +0100 Subject: Publications : revue ALSIC vol 6 num 2 Message-ID: Veuillez nous excuser en cas de receptions multiples de ce message en provenance de sources differentes. -------------------------------------------- REVUE ALSIC Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication (http://alsic.org ou alsic.u-strasbg.fr) Le numero 11 (volume 6, numero 2) de decembre 2003 de la revue ALSIC est paru -------------------------------------------- ** Sommaire : * Editorial : de F. Demaiziere ** Rubrique Recherche : - La distance en formation aux langues par visioconference : dimensions, mesures, consequences de Pascal Marquet & Elke Nissen - Diagnostic d?erreurs dans le projet FreeText de Sebastien L?haire & Anne Vandeventer Faltin - Caracterisation des interfaces porteuses d?information mises en oeuvre dans un environnement informatique d?aide a l?apprentissage de la lecture de Chrysta Pelissier ** Rubrique Pratique et recher! che : - Elements conversationnels du clavardage : un entrainement a l?expression orale pour les apprenants de langues a distance ? de Vincenza Tudini (version fran?aise) - Conversational elements of online chatting: speaking practice for distance language learners? de Vincenza Tudini (English version) -Les escamots d?aide sur cederoms sont-ils bien percus par les apprenants de langue etrangere ? Enquete preliminaire en France, en Angleterre et au Japon de Nicole Koulayan, Sylvain Detey & Michel Sagaz ** Rubrique ?Points de vue, echanges - Presentation d?Eurocall 2003 "New Literacies in Language Learning & Teaching" de Francois Mangenot ** Rubrique Analyse de livres : - Multimedias, dispositifs d?apprentissage et acquisition des langues de Maguy Pothier par Agnes Kukulska-Hulme - Psychologie des apprentissages et multimedia de Denis Legros & Jacques Crinon par Veronique Quanquin ** Rubrique Analyse de logiciels et sites - Te! ll Me Mo re - Francais par Laurence Hamon - Teentalk Canada par Emmanuelle Duchiron ** Rubrique Theses coordonnee par Thierry Selva ** Rubrique Toiltheque coordonnee par Delphine Renie -------------------------------------------------- La revue est d'acces libre, mais n'oubliez pas de VOUS INSCRIRE (http://alsic.u-strasbg.fr/Infrevue/inscrip.htm), si ce n'est deja fait. Contact: infos at alsic.org --------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------------------- Revue ALSIC : Apprentissage des Langues et Systemes d'Information et de Communication Toile : http://alsic.org ou alsic.u-strasbg.fr Courriel : infos at alsic.org Telecopie : 03 88 41 59 06 (+ 33 3 88 41 59 06) ---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Thu Feb 12 16:26:44 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:26:44 +0100 Subject: ATALA: journee du 15/05 : Methodes et outils pour l'evaluation des analyseurs syntaxiques Message-ID: --------------------------------------------------------------- M?thodes et outils pour l'?valuation des analyseurs syntaxiques --------------------------------------------------------------- Depuis une dizaine d'ann?es, avec l'apparition des outils de recherche d'information sur le web, de nouvelles techniques d'analyse syntaxique plus robustes ont vu le jour. Les analyseurs partiels construisent une analyse parfois minimale, incompl?te, mais cela quels que soient la taille et le contenu des donn?es ? traiter. Dans le m?me temps, les analyseurs qui tentent de produire syst?matiquement une analyse "compl?te", ou la plus compl?te possible ont continu? d'am?liorer leurs r?sultats. Pour aider au d?veloppement de ces analyseurs, mais aussi pour permettre la comparaison de leurs performances, il est important de disposer des m?thodes et des outils permettant de les ?valuer. Et la mise en oeuvre de ces m?thodes suppose plusieurs ?tapes qui sont: - la d?finition d'un format d'annotation permettant une large couverture des ph?nom?nes syntaxiques ; - le choix d'un corpus et son annotation manuelle (ou semi-automatique) dans ce format d'annotation ; - la d?finition d'un ensemble de mesures permettant l'?valuation ; - la mise au point des outils aussi bien d'annotation, que de transcription et d'?valuation. De nombreux pays ont commenc? ? s'int?resser ? l'?valuation. Des discussions ont eu lieu sur les annotations ? produire, sur les m?thodes pour les obtenir et des corpus annot?s dans diff?rentes langues ont ?t? peu ? peu constitu?s : que ce soit en anglais (voir le c?l?bre Penn TreeBank et sa "derni?re" couche le Propbank) mais aussi et peut-?tre surtout dans un certain nombre de langues ? moins forte diffusion, comme le bulgare (BulTreeBank), le tch?que (PDT), le norv?gien, le su?dois, le finlandais, le danois (Arboretum), le catalan, le basque et l'espagnol (3LB), l'allemand (Negra, T?Ba-D). En ce qui concerne l'anglais, qui est sans doute la langue pour laquelle les recherches ?taient les plus avanc?es, les m?triques et les corpus annot?s dans le cadre de la campagne PARSEVAL sont aujourd'hui remis en cause car ils ne sont ouverts ni ? d'autres langues ni ? de nouveaux formats d'analyse (voir l'atelier de la conf?rence LREC 2002 : Beyond Parseval towards improved evaluation measures for parsing systems). Ce qui nous montre que la probl?matique de l'?valuation des analyseurs syntaxiques n'est en rien r?solue et donc est ouverte ? toute nouvelle proposition. Pour le fran?ais, la campagne d'?valuation EVALDA/EASY du programme Technolangue, ? l'initiative du minist?re d?l?gu? ? la recherche et aux nouvelles technologies) a d?but? en janvier 2003. Elle sert de lieu d'exp?rimentation pour tester de nouvelles approches pour l'?valuation des analyseurs syntaxiques du fran?ais. Le but de cette journ?e sera donc de d?velopper une r?flexion autour des m?thodologies d'?valuation, des corpus, des m?triques, des outils et des formalismes d'annotation. --------------------------------------- John Carroll, de l'Universit? du Sussex, donnera une conf?rence invit?e lors de cette journ?e : "Evaluating parsers using decomposed and weighted representations" --------------------------------------- Les contributions attendues pourront porter sur l'un des th?mes suivants : - l'annotation des corpus (formalisme, outils, ...) - les corpus - les m?thodologies d'?valuation - les m?triques d'?valuation (choix, outils ...) - les outils de projection d'un analyseur dans un formalisme Des articles prospectifs sur l'?valuation et les analyseurs syntaxiques seront ?galement les bienvenus. ---------------------------- ---------------------------- Organisateurs : Patrick Paroubek, Isabelle Robba et Anne Vilnat Format des soumissions : R?sum?s longs ou articles courts entre 2 et 4 pages. Les soumissions devront se faire sous format ?lectronique de pr?f?rence, en version pdf, ou ps. Les r?sum?s devront ?tre envoy?s ? : Anne.Vilnat at limsi.fr ou Isabelle.Robba at limsi.fr en mentionnant : journ?e ATALA dans le sujet. En cas de probl?me, vous pouvez ?galement transmettre une version papier, adress?e aux organisateurs, au LIMSI, BP133, 91403 Orsay Cedex ----------------------------- ----------------------------- Calendrier : 13/04/04 - date limite pour la soummission des articles 30/04/04 - notification aux auteurs 15/05/04 - journee ----------------------------- ----------------------------- Pour plus d'informations sur l'ATALA et sur l'organisation des journ?es d'?tudes, consultez le site de l'ATALA ? l'adresse : http://www.atala.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 Feb 17 15:56:21 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:56:21 +0100 Subject: Conf: LREC 2004 workshop: Workshop on the Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora Message-ID: *************ATTENTION PLEASE !!! IF YOU HAVE SENT AN ABSTRACT BUT HAVE NOT RECEIVED A CONFIRMATION OF RECEIVAL PLEASE RE-SENT IT TO BOTH: esteam at otenet.gr and esteam at telia.com*************** ************APOLOGIES FOR RECEIVING MULTIPLE COPIES************ Workshop on the Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora "The Re-Use of Parallel and Comparable Corpora including Translation Memories for Applications such as Machine Translation, Knowledge Structuring and Multilingual Information Browsing" Lisbon, Portugal, 25 May 2004 LREC 2004 Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Extension of Deadline for Call for Papers Workshop description and aim: Parallel and comparable corpora, including translation memories, contain a large amount of information for translation, multilingual lexicon building and multilingual knowledge structuring. In human language technology these resources can be used for multiple applications in speech or text processing. This workshop addresses the versality and utility of parallel and comparable corpora in the expanding and multilingual space of the internet. It aims at exchanging ideas concerning all aspects of re-usability of parallel and comparable corpora including translation memories for applications such as machine translation, knowledge structuring, multilingual information browsing and so on. Abstract submission: We invite submission of abstracts on the topics below. Abstracts should be approximately 600 words. Abstracts outlining live demonstrations are encouraged. Submissions should be sent before 16 February 2004 by email as attachments in doc, rtf, or plain text, to the contact person, Anna Samiotou esteam at otenet.gr, with the words 'LREC2004 Workshop on the Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora' in the subject heading. Notification of acceptance will be made on or before the 8 March 2004, together with any comments from reviewers from revision. Workshop topics: - re-use of parallel and comparable corpora including translation memories for: o machine translation o knowledge structuring o multilingual information browsing o speech multilingual applications - re-usability of generic vs task/domain specific existing parallel and comparable corpora - building language resourses for new applications from existing ones - methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g. terms, lexical information) from existing parallel and comparable corpora for re-using purposes in new applications - methods for identifying comparable corpora on the web - methods for quantifying comparability Organising Committee: Dr. Lambros Kranias, Chief Technical Manager ESTeam AB, Greece/Sweden Dr. Nicoletta Calzolari, Director, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Italy Dr. Gregor Thurmair, R&D Manager Linguatec, Germany Dr. Yorick Wilks, Professor, University of Sheffield, UK Dr. Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA Gudrun Magnusdottir, Managing Director ESTeam AB, Greece/Sweden Anna Samiotou, R&D Manager ESTeam AB, Greece/Sweden Dr. Khalid Choukri, CEO ELDA/ELRA Important Dates: Extended Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2004 Notification of acceptance: 8 March 2004 Deadline final paper: 22 March 2004 Workshop date: full day 25 May 2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 17 15:56:23 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:56:23 +0100 Subject: Publications: revue In Cognito no 3 vol 1 Message-ID: ================================================================== In Cognito - Cahiers Romans de Sciences Cognitives Revue plurilingue accessible gratuitement sur la toile http://www.in-cognito.net ================================================================== Diffus?e d?sormais en quatre langues (fran?ais, espagnol, italien, portugais), la revue In Cognito vient de sortir son troisi?me num?ro sous son appellation : * In Cognito - Cahiers romans de sciences cognitives * In Cognito - Cuadernos romances en ciencias cognitivas * In Cognito - Quaderni romanzi di scienze cognitive * In Cognito - Cadernos de Ci?ncias Cognitivas em l?ngua rom?nica Elle est ouverte ? la fois aux recherches acad?miques en sciences cognitives et ? leurs applications industrielles, et est accessible librement (ABONNEMENT GRATUIT) sur la Toile, tout en conservant un mode parall?le (payant) de publication papier. Pour s'abonner ? la revue ou nous soumettre une communication, consulter le site WWW de la revue : http://www.in-cognito.net ================================================================= NUMERO 3, VOLUME 1 - 2004 - SOMMAIRE ================================================================= Editorial Le Mot de l'Editeur - Editorial - Editoriale - Uma Palavra do Editor Jean-Yves ANTOINE (U. Bretagne Sud, Vannes, France) - pp 1-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Articles Sistemas de apoio a grupos disribu?dos : diferen?as e semelhan?as em tr?s contextos de utiliza??o Paulo MELO (U. Coimbra, Brasil), Francisco PARIS (U. Beira Interior, Portugal), Rui LOUREN?O, Jo?o Paulo COSTA (U. Coimbra, Brasil) - pp 3-44 Analyse d'usage d'une plate-forme de coop?ration : Usage et d?veloppement logiciel Jean-Charles HAUTECOUVERTURE, Nicolas GREGORI (LPI GRC, Nancy, France), Didier PAQUELIN (GR at MMSCI, Bordeaux, France), Fran?ois CHAROY, Claude GODART, Marc PATTEN (LORIA, Nancy, France), Isabelle FAUGERAS (Jeriko, Paris, France) - pp 45-77 Une visualisation orient?e qualit? our la fouille anthropocentr?e de r?gles d'association Julien BLANCHARD, Fabrice GUILLET, Henri BRIAND (IRIN, Nantes, France) - pp 79-100 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cognitique Pr?sentation de la rubrique Cognitique Nathalie L?PY (Novadis Services, Grenoble, France) - pp 101-104 Procesos cognitivos para la toma de decisiones a trav?s de m?todos multicriterio para la funcion de mantenimiento en equipos de perforacion de pozos petroleros Carlos Enrique ESCOBAR-TOLEDO, Baruch L?PEZ-GARC?A (Universidad Nacional de M?xico, M?xico) - pp 105-119 ================================================================= REVUE IN COGNITO - CAHIERS ROMANS DE SCIENCES COGNITIVES Site WWW : http://www.in-cognito.net ================================================================== REDACTEURS EN CHEF ------------------ Jean-Yves ANTOINE (U. Bretagne Sud, Vannes, France) Plinio BARBOSA (Unicamp, Campinas, Br?sil) Teresa In?s CERATTO (KTH, Stockholm, Su?de) Mariapaola D'IMPERIO (LPL, Aix-en-Provence, France) COMITE SCIENTIFIQUE (composition non d?finitive) ------------------- Eleonora Albano (Unicamp, Campinas, Bresil) Nicolas Balacheff (LEIBNIZ-IMAG, Grenoble, France) Jos? Antonio Castorina (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentine) Maria.J.Cuenca (Universitat de Val?ncia, Espagne) Jean Decety (U. of Washington, Washington, Etats-Unis) Emilia Ferreiro (Universidad de Mexico, Mexique) Regine Kolinsky (Universit? Libre Bruxelles, Belgique) R. Lopez de Mantaras (IIIA, Barcelona, Espagne) Palmira Marrafa (U. Lisboa, Portugal) Jean-Arcady Meyer (AnimatLab, Paris, France) Jos? A Morais (Universit? Libre Bruxelles, Belgique) Leonor Scliar-Cabral (UFSC, Florianopolis, Bresil) John Stewart (UTC, Compi?gne, France) Oliviero Stock (ITC-IRST,Trento, Italie) Daniel Vanderveken (U. Trois Rivi?res, Qu?bec, Canada) Jean V?ronis (DELIC, Aix-en-Provence, France) Jose Luis Zaccagnini (Universidad de M?laga, Espagne) EDITEUR ------- La revue In Cognito est ?dit?e par l'association In Cognito, en partenariat avec l'association Estigma et le P?le Rh?ne-Alpes en Sciences Cognitives. ====================================================================== ABONNEMENTS ====================================================================== L'abonnement papier donne droit aux quatre num?ros annuels de la revue ainsi qu'? un acc?s ? sa version ?lectronique. L'abonnement ?lectronique gratuit est de dur?e illimit?e. Il peut ?tre r?voqu? automatiquement. Abonnement version electronique ------------------------------- - gratuit pour les abonn?s individuels - 25 Euros : institutions et industriels Abonnement papier Union Europ?enne ---------------------------------- - 25 Euros : tarif r?duit ?tudiant - 35 Euros : tarif abonn? individuel - 65 Euros : tarif institutions et industriels Abonnement papier hors Union Europ?enne --------------------------------------- - 27,5 Euros : tarif r?duit ?tudiant - 37,5 Euros : tarif abonn? individuel - 67,5 Euros : tarif institutions et industriels Pour s'abonner, consulter la page correspondante sur les pages WWW de la revue : http://www.in-cognito.net --Val?rie Buron Laboratoire d'Etude des M?canismes Cognitifs (EMC) / Laboratoire DDL (Dynamique du Langage) UMR CNRS 5596 Universit? Lumi?re Lyon 2 5 avenue Pierre Mend?s France 69676 Bron (FRANCE) Tel : (+33) 4 78 77 43 49 Fax : (+33) 4 78 77 43 51 E-Mail : Valerie.Buron at etu.univ-lyon2.fr http://unpc.univ-lyon2.fr/~buron/buron.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 17 15:56:25 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:56:25 +0100 Subject: Appel: COLING 04 workshop : eLearning for Computational Linguistics and ... Message-ID: First Call For Papers eLearning for Computational Linguistics and Computational Linguistics for eLearning International Workshop to be held in conjunction with COLING 2004 Geneva, August 28th, 2004 This workshop focuses on the relation between Computational Linguistics and eLearning within two sessions. 1. eLearning for Computational Linguistics With the SOCRATES thematic network project "Advanced computing in the Humanities" the need for information technologies, and, in particular, eLearning in the humanities, including CL, has been identified. The survey which has been launched revealed the interest in high-quality teaching material and (distance) courses. On the occasion of a conference and a workshop, both held 1998 and 1999 resp., first results were presented in the form of project notes. Furthermore, didactic issues which concern (distance) teaching and learning of computational linguistics and language technology were raised. In the meanwhile, various projects have provided high-quality teaching material and (distance) courses for various disciplines of Computational Linguistics, like ELSNET and MiLCA. This part of the workshop should give practioners in the field the opportunity * to share didactic experience of eTeaching CL, * to identify and to disseminate good practice models and resources, * to share novel approaches to eLearning in CL, and * to discuss curricular issues. 2. Computational Linguistics for eLearning In the context of computer-mediated distance learning, language technology can help to enhance the accessibility of online teaching material and the adaptivity of learning management systems. * In the context of computer mediated communication, language technology can be applied for, e.g, summarization of discussion threads and support of discourse coherence in synchronous CMC * In the context of accessibility and usability of online teaching material, language technology can be applied for, e.g., - matching of semantic representations of learning modules on the one hand and the prospective user's knowledge of the topic on the other hand; - facilitation of access to learning material by more flexible and sophisticated search methods; - improvement of retrieval by supplying metadata for learning objects on a (semi)-automatic basis; - adaptive components which adjust the system to particular users, e.g adaptation of learning management systems for disabled persons, taking into account their special needs. With this part of the workshop, we want to further address the role which language technology plays in the development of intelligent platforms for eLearning. We want to particularly encourage submissions by scholars and software developers who present implemented and working eLearning systems in which language technology supplies a crucial part of the implemented solution. The entire workshop constitutes an informal forum for researchers and teachers to discuss the various issues, to create networks of common interests and to launch new initiatives in the area of eLearning. We invite papers and project notes on the various topics concerned with eLearning for CL and CL for eLearning. Important Dates --------------- Deadline for papers and project notes: 15 April 2004 Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2004 Deadline for a camera-ready copy of the paper: 15 June 2004 Workshop: 28 August 2004 Format for submission of papers ------------------------------- The expected length for full papers will be around 8 pages including abstract, references and notes. The expected length for project notes will be 5 pages maximum. We also inform potential authors that their contributions will be published in the workshop proceedings within COLING'04 and, therefore, the papers selected for publication will have to adhere to COLING edition rules. More details about this will be made available by COLING in due course, check http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html or the COLING homepage for details. Submission procedure -------------------- Anonymous papers should be sent to: lothar at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de. The papershould be attached in PDF format accompanied by separate authors' information. The heading on the email should read "Coling Workshop paper submission". Notification of acceptance or rejection will be sent to the originating email address. Language -------- All papers must be written and presented in English Workshop organization --------------------- For the workshop to take place, the COLING 2004 organizers require at least 20 participants to register for the workshop. Speakers and participants are therefore asked to register via the official COLING 2004 site as soon as possible. Program Committee ----------------- Lars Borin, University of G?teborg, Sweden Kai-Uwe Carstensen, University of Z?rich, Switzerland Wolfgang Hess, University of Bonn, Germany Trude Heift, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Erhard Hinrichs, University of T?bingen, Germany, co-chair Claudia Kunze, University of T?bingen, Germany Lothar Lemnitzer, University of T?bingen, Germany co-chair Petra Ludewig, University of Osnabr?ck, Germany Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University Columbus, USA, co-chair Wolf Paprott?, University of M?nster, Germany Veit Reuer, University of Osnabr?ck, Germany Kiril Simov, Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Pavel Smrz, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic Maik St?hrenberg, University of Gie?en, Germany Tzvetomira Venkova, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Maria Wolters, Rhetorical Systems, Edinburgh, UK Organizers / Contact -------------------- Organizers: Erhard Hinrichs, University of T?bingen, Germany Lothar Lemnitzer, University of T?bingen, Germany Detmar Meurers, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Website: http://www.cogsci.uos.de/~vreuer/ws_elearning_cl/ Contact Address: Lothar Lemnitzer Seminar f?r Sprachwissenschaft Abt. Computerlinguistik Wilhelmstr. 19 D-72074 T?bingen, Germany Phone +49 7071 2978488, Fax +49 7071 295214 E-Mail: lothar at sfs.uni-tuebingen.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 17 15:56:27 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:56:27 +0100 Subject: Appel: Colloque de jeunes chercheurs : "Sur la route du verbe" Message-ID: APPEL A COMMUNICATIONS Colloque de jeunes chercheurs : "Sur la route du verbe" 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2004 Universit? Nancy 2 ? 23, boulevard Albert 1er - 54000 NANCY Laboratoires ATILF et CRAPEL Date limite de soumission : 15 avril 2004 ******************** PRESENTATION Un groupe de doctorants et jeunes chercheurs des laboratoires ATILF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Fran?aise) et CRAPEL (Centre de Recherches et d'Applications P?dagogiques En Langues ) de l'Universit? Nancy 2 organise son premier colloque, intitul? "Sur la route du verbe". Celui-ci aura lieu ? Nancy du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2004 . Il s'inscrit dans l'esprit du colloque JETOU2003, organis? par les doctorants et jeunes chercheurs de l'Universit? de Toulouse 2 en novembre 2003. La date limite de soumission des communications est fix?e au 15 avril 2004. ******************** CONFERENCIERS INVITES (? confirmer) Georges KLEIBER (Universit? Marc Bloch, Strasbourg) Brenda LACA (Universit? Paris 3) ******************** THEMATIQUE Ce colloque s'adresse principalement aux doctorants et post-doctorants en linguistique, mais son ambition est aussi de faire se rencontrer la communaut? des chercheurs en linguistique plus exp?riment?s avec leurs jeunes coll?gues. La langue officielle est le fran?ais. Le colloque est centr? sur le verbe et ses d?pendances. Toutes les approches disciplinaires sont les bienvenues, qu'elles soient monolingues ou multilingues, de la morpho-phonologie ? la didactique, en passant par le lexique, la syntaxe, la s?mantique et le discours, tant au plan synchronique que diachronique. En effet, ? travers ses nombreuses sp?cificit?s : ? ses marques morphologiques sp?cifiques (sa terminaison ? d?sinence ? varie selon le temps et la personne, le mode et l'aspect) ? en tant qu'unit? lexicale potentiellement infinie et perp?tuellement renouvel?e ? en tant que constituant habituel de la phrase ? en tant que constituant du groupe verbal ou du pr?dicat ? en tant que pivot de la proposition, le verbe est un objet d'?tude qui concerne tous les domaines de la linguistique (lexicologie, s?mantique, syntaxe, morphologie') et dans toutes les perspectives (cognition, analyse de discours, analyse du fran?ais parl?, grammaire g?n?rative, typologie, didactique') Il s'agit d'interroger les valeurs et potentialit?s du lex?me verbal ainsi que son r?le dans la proposition. Les axes d'?tude suivants nous int?ressent particuli?rement : -La s?mantique lexicale du verbe monolingue et multilingue (polys?mie, typologies, expressions fig?es, ...), -L'aspect (cat?gorisation de l'aspect lexical, interactions entre aspect lexical en contexte et hors-contexte, l'aspect et sa localisation, les interactions entre aspect lexical et aspect morphologique, l'aspect et l'organisation du discours,...) -La didactique (enseignement et apprentissage (fran?ais langue maternelle)) -La compl?mentation (rection et valence (d?pendance du verbe), ant?position (micro et macro-syntaxe), contenus s?mantiques et rapports syntaxico-s?mantiques,...) ******************** CONDITIONS DE SOUMISSION Les propositions de communications se pr?senteront sous la forme d'un r?sum? anonyme n'exc?dant pas deux pages (figures et r?f?rences bibliographiques comprises). Les r?sum?s seront envoy?s sous format ?lectronique. Les fichiers peuvent ?tre envoy?s en formats RTF, PS, PDF ou Word. Ils devront comporter une marge de 2 cm sur chaque c?t? et utiliser du Times New Roman en 12. Le corps du message contiendra : les nom et pr?nom, l'affiliation, les coordonn?es postales et ?lectroniques, le titre de la communication. Le fichier attach? contiendra : le titre et le r?sum? anonyme. Les propositions doivent parvenir ? l'adresse : route.verbe at atilf.fr au plus tard le 15 avril 2004. En cas d'impossibilit? d'envoi ?lectronique, envoyer la proposition en 3 exemplaires par courrier postal (cachet de la poste faisant foi) ? l'adresse suivante : Colloque ? Sur la route du verbe ? Laboratoire ATILF ? CNRS 44, avenue de la lib?ration BP 30687 54000 NANCY Joindre une feuille s?par?e qui contiendra : les nom et pr?nom, l'affiliation, les coordonn?es postales, le titre de la communication. ******************** COMITE D'ORGANISATION Mounia Aouidet, Claire Becker, Julie Cyr, Karine David, S?bastien Haton, Sophie Heyd, Hilary Inwood, Evelyne Jacquey, Christelle Jengie, Herv? Lejeune, Laurent Mascherin, Cathy Pira, La?titia Wack. ******************** COMITE DE LECTURE Denis Apoth?loz (Universit? Nancy 2) Claire Beyssade (Universit? Paris 3) Claire Blanche-Benveniste (Universit? de Provence) Gilles Boy? (Universit? Nancy 2) Patricia Cabredo-Hoffer (Universit? Paris 8) Emmanuelle Canut (Universit? Nancy 2) Bernard Combettes (Universit? Nancy 2) Jean-Paul Confais (Universit? Toulouse 2) Georgette Dal (Universit? Lille 3) Lo?c Depecker (Universit? Paris 3) C?line Fabre (Universit? Toulouse 2) Catherine Fuchs (LaTTICe / UMR 8094 CNRS / ENS-Ulm / Paris VII) Philippe Gr?a (Universit? Nancy 2) Claude Guimier (Universit? Caen Basse-Normandie) Nabil Hathout (Universit? Toulouse 2) Christine Jacquet-Pfau (Coll?ge de France, Paris) Marie-Laurence Knittel (Universit? Nancy 2) Dominique Lagorgette (Universit? de Savoie) B?atrice Lamiroy (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgique) Pierre Larriv?e (Aston University, Royaume-Uni) Fran?ois Lonchamp (Universit? Nancy 2) Mounira Loughraieb (Universit? Nancy 2) Eric Mathieu (University College London) Jacques Moeschler (Universit? de Gen?ve, Suisse) Fiammetta Namer (Universit? Nancy 2) Vincent Nyckees (Universit? Lille 3) Sandrine Oriez (Universit? de Poitiers) Alain Polgu?re (Universit? de Montr?al, Canada) Bernard Pottier (Universit? Paris IV - Sorbonne) Fran?ois Rastier (Universit? Paris 7 - Denis Diderot) Sylvianne R?mi (Universit? Lyon 2) Laurent Roussarie (Universit? Paris 8 ' Vincennes/St-Denis) Jean-Fran?ois Sablayrolles (Universit? Paris 7) Louis de Saussure (Universit? de Gen?ve, Suisse) Catherine Schnedecker (Universit? Strasbourg 2) Martine Vanhove (CNRS LLCAN Villejuif Paris) Danielle Van de Velde (Universit? Lille 3) ******************** DUREE DES COMMUNICATIONS Les communications dureront 20 minutes et seront suivies de 10 minutes de discussion. ******************** CALENDRIER Date limite de r?ception des communications : 15 avril 2004. Notification d'acceptation : d?but juillet 2004. Date du colloque : du 30 septembre au 2 octobre 2004. ******************** INFORMATIONS COMPLEMENTAIRES Les informations (modalit?s d'inscription, d?roulement des journ?es, logement, transport, etc.) concernant le colloque seront maintenues ? jour sur le site : http://routeverbe.atilf.fr Pour tout renseignement, voir le site : http://routeverbe.atilf.fr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Tue Feb 24 16:16:38 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:16:38 +0100 Subject: Appel: revue TAL : Traitement automatique des corpus oraux Message-ID: Appel ? soumissions Revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (T.A.L.) "Traitement automatique des corpus oraux" * * * Num?ro dirig? par Jean V?ronis (Universit? de Provence) Date limite de soumission : 15 mars 2004 http://www.atala.org/tal Contexte -------- Alors qu'on dispose de plusieurs centaines de millions de mots de textes ?crits (et que le gigantesque r?servoir qu'est le World Wide Web repousse chaque jour cette limite), on dispose de tr?s peu de donn?es sur l'oral. Les corpus de langue orale spontan?e sont pourtant d'une importance fondamentale pour l'?tude linguistique, comme pour la mise au point de nouvelles technologies vocales. Apr?s l'anglais (British National Corpus, Santa Barbara Corpus of American English, Corpus CANCODE, etc.), des corpus oraux importants sont en cours de constitution pour diverses langues (Corpus Gesproken Nederlands, Corpus of Spoken Israeli Hebrew, Corpus du Portugais Parl?, etc.), mais le d?veloppement de corpus oraux transcrits et annot?s est extr?mement co?teux. Au cours de la derni?re d?cennie, les outils d'annotation et de traitement automatique des corpus ?crits se sont fortement d?velopp?s, mais l'on est bien loin de disposer d'outils ?quivalents pour l'oral. D'un autre c?t?, les phon?ticiens ont d?velopp? des outils pour l'analyse de la parole exp?rimentale (ou parole "de laboratoire"), mais leur applicabilit? ? la parole spontan?e n'est pas n?cessairement imm?diate, ?tant donn? les diff?rences de taille des corpus en jeu, le niveau de granularit? diff?rent des analyses vis?es, et bien s?r les ph?nom?nes sp?cifiques ? la parole spontan?e (forte variabilit?, dysfluences, syntaxe non canonique, etc.). Objectifs --------- Le pr?sent num?ro de la revue Traitement Automatique des Langues (T.A.L.) vise ? faire le point sur les technologies disponibles pour le traitement des corpus oraux et ? r?pondre ? des questions telles que la possibilit? d'adaptation des techniques d?velopp?es pour l'?crit ou la r?utilisabilit? plus ou moins grande des techniques d?velopp?es pour la parole de laboratoire. La liste suivante ?num?re, de fa?on non exhaustive, divers sujets pertinents pour cet appel : - outils d'aide ? la transcription - phon?tisation - segmentation (pauses, tours de parole) et alignement texte-son - rep?rage des h?sitations, r?p?titions, dysfluences et autres ph?nom?nes de l'oral spontan? - ?tiquetage prosodique - ?tiquetage morpho-syntaxique ("tagging") - analyse syntaxique ("chunking", "shallow parsing") - autres niveaux d'analyse (anaphores, etc.) - outils de recherche et d'exploitation Comit? de lecture sp?cifique ---------------------------- Jean-Yves Antoine (Universit? de Bretagne Sud) Claude Barras (LIMSI-CNRS) Fr?d?ric B?chet (Universit? d'Avignon) Edouard Geoffrois (DGA) Dafydd Gibbon (Universit?t Bielefeld) Daniel Hirst (LPL-CNRS) Amy Isard (University of Edinburgh) Joaquim Llisterri (Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona) Philippe Martin (Universit? Paris VII) Joakim Nivre (V?xj? Universitet) Nelleke Oostdijk (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) Geoffrey Sampson (University of Sussex) Antonio Moreno Sandoval (Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid) Fran?ois Yvon (ENST) Format ------ Les articles (25 pages maximum) seront soumis au format Word ou LaTeX (dans ce dernier cas joindre un fichier PDF). Les feuilles de style sont disponibles chez HERMES: http://tal.e-revues.com/appel.jsp 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 15 mars 2004. Les personnes qui ont l'intention de soumettre un article sont invit?es ? prendre contact avec Jean V?ronis . 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 31 mai 2004. La version d?finitive des articles accept?s sera ? remettre pour le 1er juillet 2004 pour une publication pr?vue fin 2004. Envoi des articles ------------------ Les articles (25 pages maximum, au format Herm?s) doivent ?tre envoy?s par voie ?lectronique ? 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It is thus an application-oriented terminology engineering issue. Most applications within knowledge engineering deal with terms but they define or process them differently according to the application targeted. More precisely, knowledge engineering makes use of ontologies, it means more or less formal knowledge representation using terms and relations between them. The text units considered in an ontology engineering framework may differ depending on uses to which the ontology is put and also may differ from the units considered in other application areas like information retrieval, terminology knowledge acquisition, dictionary construction or enhanced lexicons. The usefulness of terminology in applications areas like specialised lexicon construction, acquisition of semantic relations from texts, terminology knowledge base (TKB) construction have been demonstrated and many tools have been designed for such purposes. These works have adopted an empirical stance, based on corpora, thus stressing the necessary anchoring of term extraction, term definition and inter-term relation identification on the contexts of use. Researchers working in this field have reached a consensus on the fact that the meaning of a term is not always unique but depends a lot on the context, on the sub-speciality using it. In the wake of these works were also many scientific events at national and international levels: conferences (TIA, TKE), workshops within international conferences (COMPUTERM 1998 and 2002). A fair amount of literature exists on the definition and nature of terms, on term-concept relations, on term extraction methods and tools. Also, another research direction that has received much attention is terminology variation and structuring using different linguistic levels of analysis (morphology, syntax, semantic). This call concerns more specifically the links between terminology or ontology construction and an application. A particular attention will be paid to papers who justify the definition and processing of terms within an application framework, i.e., papers should make clear to what extent the application needs influence the type of text units analysed and the types of processing to which they are subjected, thus indicating how this departs from the mainstream theoretical definitions of terms and their properties. Note however that papers dealing only with the theoretical definitions of terms, concepts and their relations will fall outside the scope of this special issue as this has been widely debated and documented in the literature. The thrust should be on how the targeted application influences terminology engineering or management. Solid references should be made to works already done on similar applications in order to gauge the added-value gained from terminology processing. Another topic which this special issue will like to investigate is corpus-dependent terminology processing. Some studies have pointed out the fact that the type of corpus used in a particular study can influence the types of semantic relation markers found and the types of relations they embody. Thus papers dealing with how corpus genre affects the type of terminological knowledge acquired are also welcome. Contributions should be original and unpublished studies dealing with the use of terminology in the following application areas (non exhaustive) : - corpus-driven terminology knowledge base - corpus-driven ontology design - corpus-driven acquisition of semantic relations - computer-assisted terminology structuring (CAST) - computer-assisted language learning (CALL) - corpus-dependent terminology knowledge processing - competitive intelligence (CI), - scientific and technology watch (STW) - text mining (TM ) - question - Answering (Q-A) - information extraction (IE) Our aim in this special issue is to bring to light current research on the importance of terminology in these areas, to show that issues related to terminology processing cross several boundaries and are quite central in many non-classical application areas. As such, special attention will be given to papers describing the use of terminology in the above mentioned areas. Format for submissions --------------------------------------- Authors should conform to formatting guidelines which can be found on the publisher's website : www.benjamins.com, (click "Journals", "Terminology" and then "Guidelines") or at the end of printed issues of the journal. Papers should be written in Word and must not exceed 30 double-spaced pages with the required formatting. Submissions in English is preferred but French, Spanish and German are also acceptable. Special advisory board for this issue ----------------------------------------- Khurshid Ahmad (University of Surrey, UK) Sophia Ananiandou (University of Salford, UK) Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT, Toulouse, France) Bruno Bachimont (INA, Paris, France) Caroline Barri?re (National Research Council, Canada) Didier Bourigault( Erss, CNRS-Toulouse, France) B?atrice Daille (IRIN, Univ. of Nantes, France) Kyo Kageura (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan) Sylvie Lain?-Cruzel (Ersicom, Univ. of Lyon 3, France) Genevi?ve Lallich (Ursidoc, Univ. of Lyon 1, France) Widad Mustafa El-Hadi (Univ. de Lille 3, France) Blaise Nkwenti-Azeh (UMIST, Manchester, UK) Jean Royaut? (LIF,CNRS-Marseille, France) Monique Slodzian (CRIM/INALCO, Paris, France) Sylvie Szulman (LIPN, Univ. de Paris 13, France) Rita Temmerman (Erasmusshogeschool, Brussel Belgium) Philippe Thoiron (CRTT, Univ. de Lyon 2, France) lmportant dates ------------------------------------- 30 June 2004 : Deadline for paper submissions 20 September 2004 : Notification of answers to authors 30 October 2004 : camera ready copies Tentative printing schedule : first quarter of 2005. Send your contributions in Word format to both ibekwe at univ-lyon3.fr and anne.condamines at univ-tlse2.fr -------------------------------------- Ibekwe-SanJuan Fidelia Workshop "Terminology, Ontology & Knowledge representation" http://www.univ-lyon3.fr/partagedessavoirs/termino2004 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Feb 24 16:16:43 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:16:43 +0100 Subject: Appel: Journal of Natural Language Engineering : Special Issue on PARALLEL TEXTS Message-ID: (apologies for multiple postings) S E C O N D C A L L F O R P A P E R S Journal of Natural Language Engineering Special Issue on PARALLEL TEXTS Guest Editors: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas Michel Simard, Xerox Research Centre Europe http://www.cs.unt.edu/~rada/jnle OBJECTIVE OF THIS SPECIAL ISSUE Parallel texts have become a vital resources for efficiently deriving many multi-lingual text processing tools. This special issue is devoted to advances in building and using parallel corpora. We invite papers on all topics related to parallel texts, including but not limited to: The collection, organization and processing of parallel corpora: - Identifying and harvesting parallel texts from the Web and other large collections - Evaluating the quality of parallel corpora (e.g. detecting omissions and gaps, translation errors or inconsistencies, etc.) - Sentence-, phrase- and word-level alignment - Alignment evaluation metrics and methods Active uses of parallel corpora for: - Building multilingual lexical resources - Deriving language processing tools and resources for new languages - Annotating corpora (e.g. word-sense disambiguation) - Machine translation (e.g. statistical and example-based MT) - Machine-assisted translation (e.g. translation memories and interactive MT) - Cross-linguistic information retrieval and information extraction While we invite submissions addressing any of the above topics, or related issues, we particularly welcome work involving parallel corpora addressing languages with scarce resources. SUBMISSION FORMAT We are expecting full papers to describe original, previously unpublished research, addressing issues related to the construction and use of parallel texts. Papers should be formatted according to the NLE journal instructions, and should not exceed 15 pages. The preferred formatting system is LaTeX, which can be used for direct typesetting, and a style file is available through anonymous ftp from the following address: ftp.cup.cam.ac.uk/pub/texarchive/journals/latex/nle-sty/. In case of difficulty there is a helpline available on e-mail: texline at cup.cam.ac.uk. Send your submission (a PostScript or PDF file), prepared for anonymous review, to both: Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas, rada at cs.unt.edu and Michel Simard, Xerox Research Centre Europe, Michel.Simard at xrce.xerox.com IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions: May 1, 2004 Notification of acceptance: August 30, 2004 Final versions due: November 30, 2004 Journal publication: June, 2005 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Lars Ahrenberg, Linkoping University Susan Armstrong, ISSCO Michael Barlow, Rice University Ken Church, AT&T Labs Research Ido Dagan, Bar-Ilan University Jason Eisner, Johns Hopkins University George Foster, University of Montreal Pascale Fung, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Eric Gaussier, Xerox Research Centre Europe Ulrich Germann, University of Toronto Daniel Gildea, University of Rochester Julio Gonzalo, UNED Cyril Goutte, Xerox Research Centre Europe Gregory Grefenstette, Clairvoyance Corporation Eduard Hovy, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute Pierre Isabelle, Xerox Research Centre Europe Hitoshi Iida, Tokyo University of Technology Wessel Kraaij, TNO/TPD Netherlands Philippe Langlais, University of Montreal Elliot Macklovitch, University of Montreal Dan Melamed, New York University Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen Franz Och, Information Sciences Institute Kemal Oflazer, Sabanci University Kishore Papineni, IBM Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota, Duluth Jessie Pinkham, University of Chicago Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO/TIM/ETI University of Geneva Florence Reeder, MITRE Philip Resnik, University of Maryland Harold Somers, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Hideki Tanaka, ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories Arturo Trujillo, Canon Research Centre Europe Jean Veronis, University of Provence Clare Voss, Army Research Lab Yorick Wilks, University of Sheffield Dekai Wu, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Kenji Yamada, Xerox Research Centre Europe ABOUT THE JOURNAL Natural Language Engineering is an international journal designed to meet the needs of professionals and researchers working in all areas of computerized language processing, whether from the perspective of theoretical or descriptive linguistics, lexicology, computer science or engineering. Its principal aim is to bridge the gap between traditional computational linguistics research and the implementation of practical applications with potential real-world use. As well as publishing research articles on a broad range of topics from text analysis, machine translation and speech generation and synthesis to integrated systems and multi modal interfaces the journal also publishes book reviews. Its aim is to provide the essential link between industry and the academic community. Natural Language Engineering encourages papers reporting research with a clear potential for practical application. Theoretical papers that consider techniques in sufficient detail to provide for practical implementation are also welcomed, as are shorter reports of on-going research, conference reports, comparative discussions of NLE products, and policy-oriented papers examining e.g. funding programs or market opportunities. All contributions are peer reviewed. Edited by John I. 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Tout ?tudiant ? jour de sa cotisation ? l'ATALA pour 2004 et ayant un article ou un poster accept? ? RECITAL peut candidater. Les candidatures devront se faire sous la forme de *deux* courriels adress?s ? mailto:atala at biomath.jussieu.fr 1) un acte de candidature motiv? de la part de l'?tudiant, et 2) un courriel de la part du directeur du laboratoire ou de l'?quipe de recherche de l'?tudiant, justifiant la demande de bourse. Date limite de r?ception des demandes: 1er mars 2004 Notification des attributions: 5 mars 2004 http://www.atala.org/taln.html Laurent Roussarie, Secr?taire de l'ATALA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 27 14:23:47 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:23:47 +0100 Subject: Appel: COLING 2004 : NLP in Biomedicine and its Applications Message-ID: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS COLING Workshop International Joint Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications BioNLP/NLPBA 2004 http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/JNLPBA04/ Call for Papers http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/JNLPBA04/cfp.html Geneva, Switzerland August 28-29, 2004 Workshop Description Recent years have seen a growing interest in the application of NLP techniques to texts in the domains of biology and medicine. The problem of information overload that has resulted from the massive growth in the scientific literature has clearly shown the necessity to automatically locate, organize and manage facts relating to experimental results. At the same time clinicians have experienced greatly improved access to the medical literature and clinical repositories which needs to be matched by the development of enhanced information access tools. This year NLPBA (http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/NLPBA02/) and BioNLP (http://www-tsujii.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ACL03/bionlp.htm) merge for a joint workshop with the aim of bringing together researchers from natural language processing, bio-informatics, medicine and ontologies who are concerned with developing methods and resources for solving these problems. Over the last five years we have seen significant steps forward in the development of language technology and large-scale resources for the Bio-Medical domain such as linguistically annotated corpora (e.g. GENIA POS and NE corpora), ontologies (e.g. Gene Ontology), thesauri (e.g. UMLS Metathesaurus), lexicons and term lists (e.g. UMLS SPECIALIST) as well as information retrieval collections (e.g. TREC Genomics track). At the application level we see development of question answering systems, event recognition, zone (rhetorical region) identification, as well as term and bio-entity recognition. The demand for information access tools from domain users is increasing to support literature survey, often integrated into online 'portals' where scientists can navigate through related information resources such as genetics and disease databases. Ongoing challenges relate to the growing and ambiguous nomenclature, the need to integrate deep knowledge sources into machine learning, a need to scale up methods for processing full text articles etc. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers in this area, to establish common themes and goals between different groups. We have seen from previous experience in the natural language learning and information retrieval communities the benefits of sharing resources and developing common evaluation criteria. In this workshop we are introducing a special shared task to promote discussion of these issues as well as the objective of integrating machine learning with knowledge resources. We invite submission of papers on topics related to bio-medical NLP including, but not limited to: * Information extraction * Text mining * Named entity recognition * Coreference resolution * Term recognition * Knowledge-based information retrieval * Multi-lingual resources and applications * Ontology construction and ontology mapping * Visualization tools for viewing clustered or extracted information or meta-data * Multi-modal approaches combining text and images, etc. * Event recognition * Construction of pathways from literature and databases * Creation of data-sets of bio-medical entities, coreferences and relations * Annotation standards and quality control methodologies * Resource integration and re-engineering * Corpus/lexicon construction * Text summarization and report generation Shared Task http://research.nii.ac.jp/~collier/workshops/JNLPBA04st.htm This year we propose to have a special shared task: bio-medical named entity recognition from the GENIA corpus. The purpose of this track is essentially to investigate the integration of statistical machine learning methods with symbolic knowledge sources from the bio-medical domain such as ontologies, thesauri and lexicons : shared task description. Invited Speaker To be announced soon... Paper Format and Submission Papers must follow the COLING 2004 templates, and will be submitted by email to jnlpba-submit at sim.hcuge.ch. Important Dates Submission deadline for workshop papers: April 14th, 2004 Notification of accepted papers: May 14th, 2004 Deadline for camera ready copies: June 6th, 2004 Workshop Chairs Nigel Collier (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Patrick Ruch (University Hospital of Geneva and EPFL, Switzerland) Adeline Nazarenko (LIPN, France) Organizing Committee Alfonso Valencia (Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Spain) Carol Friedman (CUNY/Columbia University, USA) Donia Scott (University of Brighton, UK) Udo Hahn (Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany) Junichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan) Program Committee Sophia Ananiadou (University of Salford, UK) Alan Aronson (National Library of Medicine, USA) Robert Baud (University Hospital of Geneva, Switzerland) Christian Blaschke (CNB, Spain) Oliver Bodenreider (National Library of Medicine, USA) Berry de Bruijn (National Research Center, Canada) Marc Craven (University of Wisconsin, USA) Robert Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield, UK) Eric Gaussier (Xerox, XRCE, France) Vasileios Hatzivassiloglou (Columbia University, USA) Lynette Hirschman (MITRE, USA) Dimitar Hristovski (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) Jerry Hobbs (USC/ISI, USA) Aravind Joshi (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Su Jian (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Asao Fujiyama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Arne Jonsson (University of Linkoping, Sweden) Frederique Lisacek (GeneBio SA, Switzerland) Yuji Matsumoto (NAIST, Japan) Claire Nedellec (INRA, France) Kousaku Okubo (Kyushu University, Japan) Jong C. Park (KAIST, Korea) Thierry Poibeau (LIPN, France) Denys Proux (Xerox, XRCE, France) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA) Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (European Bioinformatics Institute, EU) Irena Spasic (UMIST, UK) Ben Stapley (UMIST, UK) Padmini Srinivasan (University of Iowa, USA) Hirotoshi Taira (NTT Communication Science, Japan) Toshihisa Takagi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Yuka Tateishi (University of Tokyo, Japan) Anne-Lise Veuthey (SIB, Switzerland) Limsoon Wong (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore) Pierre Zweigenbaum (AP-HP, INSERM & INaLCO, France) Contact Information General organization : jnlpba-request at sim.hcuge.ch Shared task organization: bio04sharedtask at nii.ac.jp Main page : http://www.genisis.ch/~natlang/JNLPBA04/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 27 14:23:38 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:23:38 +0100 Subject: Conf: XIX Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics : COMPUTING WITH TREES: TRANSDUCERS AND XML Message-ID: COMPUTING WITH TREES: TRANSDUCERS AND XML (XIX Tarragona Seminar on Formal Syntax and Semantics, FS&S) Zolt?n F?l?p (University of Szeged) Sebastian Maneth (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) March 22-26, 2004 Organized by the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona Sponsored by the Regional Government of Catalonia (ARCS) and the Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology (ACES) PROGRAMME Monday 22: 17-19 F?l?p, Tree Transducers as Computational Models 19-21 Maneth, Theory of XML Queries: Tree Transducers Tuesday 23: 17-19 F?l?p, Comparing the Computational Power of Different Tree Transducers 19-21 Maneth, Query and Transducer Formalisms Wednesday 24: 17-19 F?l?p, Composition of Tree Transducers 19-21 Maneth, Complexity of Translations Thursday 25: 17-19 F?l?p, Tree Transducers over Semirings 19-21 Maneth, Tree Compression Friday 26: 17-19 F?l?p, Tree Transducers vs. Term Rewriting 19-21 Maneth, Type Checking CONTACT: cmv at astor.urv.es WEBSITE: http://pizarro.fll.urv.es/continguts/linguistica/proyecto/grlmc.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffus? par la liste Langage Naturel Informations, abonnement : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN-F/ English version : http://www.biomath.jussieu.fr/LN/LN/ Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html La liste LN est parrain?e par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adh?sion : http://www.atala.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- From alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR Fri Feb 27 14:23:40 2004 From: alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR (alexis.nasr at LINGUIST.JUSSIEU.FR) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:23:40 +0100 Subject: Conf: INTERSPEECH/ICSLP-2004 Message-ID: (We apologize if you receive this message more than once) INTERSPEECH/ICSLP-2004 satellite workshop International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation - Evaluation Campaign on Spoken Language Translation - *** Second Call for Participants / Papers *** September 30 - October 1, 2004 ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories Kyoto, Japan http://www.slt.atr.jp/IWSLT2004/ Themes Spoken language translation technologies attempt to cross the language barriers between people having different native languages who each want to engage in conversation by using their mother-tongue. The importance of these technologies is increasing because there are many more opportunities for cross-language communication in face-to-face and telephone conversation, especially in the domain of tourism. Novel technologies have been proposed to tackle the problems in spoken language translation research. A number of institutes are developing huge bilingual or multilingual spoken language corpora. MT technologies based on machine learning, such as statistical MT and example-based MT, are being applied to the translation of spoken language by using these corpora. Some of the characteristics of spoken language seem suitable for the application of machine-learning-based MT in comparison with written language. However, there is still no concrete standard methodology for comparing the translation qualities of spoken language translation systems. One of the prominent research activities in spoken language translation is the work being conducted by the Consortium for Speech Translation Advanced Research (C-STAR III), which is an international partnership of research laboratories engaged in automatic translation of spoken language. Current members include ATR (Japan), CAS (China), CLIPS (France), CMU (USA), ETRI (Korea), ITC-irst (Italy), and UKA (Germany). One of C-STAR's ongoing projects is the joint development of a speech corpus that handles a common task in multiple languages. The creation of such a corpus will not only enable translation among multiple languages but will also facilitate exchange and discussion of research results among member labs. As a first result of this activity, a Japanese-English speech corpus comprising tourism- related sentences, originally compiled by ATR, has been translated into the native language of C-STAR members. In this workshop, an "evaluation campaign" of spoken language translation technologies will be held by using the multilingual speech corpus containing the tourism-related sentences developed by ATR and C-STAR members. Two types of submissions are invited: 1) participants in the evaluation campaign of spoken language translation technologies, and 2) technical papers on related issues. An overview of the evaluation campaign is as follows: Main Theme: Evaluation of spoken language translation systems Corpus used for the evaluation campaign: - Basic Travel Expression Corpus (BTEC) - Languages: Chinese-English, Japanese-English - Domain: tourism-related sentences - Media: text in utterance style - Number of Sentence Pairs: 20,000 for each translation direction Tracks of the Evaluation Campaign: - Translation directions: Chinese to English Japanese to English - Resources Used: Supplied corpus only (C-to-E, J-to-E) Supplied corpus + additional linguistic resources available from LDC (C-to-E) Unrestricted (C-to-E, J-to-E) Evaluation Methodology of Translated Results - Subjective Evaluation - Automatic Evaluation (BLEU, NIST, WER, etc) The workshop also invites technical papers related to spoken language translation. Possible topics for the session include, but are not limited to: - MT Evaluation Measures - MT Algorithms - Word / Phrase Alignment - Multilingual Lexicon / Translation Rule Extraction - Multilingual Parsing Invited Talks [UPDATED!] Professor Hermann Ney (RWTH, Germany) Professor Jun'ichi Tsujii (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) Important Dates [UPDATED!] Evaluation Campaign - Evaluation specifications: February 15, 2004 - Application submission: April 15, 2004 - Notification of acceptance: April 30, 2004 - Sample corpus release: May 7, 2004 - Training corpus release: May 21, 2004 - Test corpus release: August 9, 2004 [changed!] - Result submission due: August 12, 2004 [changed!] - Result feedback to participants: September 10, 2004 - Camera-ready submission due: September 17, 2004 - Workshop: September 30 - October 1, 2004 Technical Papers - Application submission: April 15, 2004 - Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2004 [changed!] - Camera-ready submission due: September 17, 2004 - Workshop: September 30 - October 1, 2004 Application / Submission Guidelines See our website: http://www.slt.atr.jp/IWSLT2004/ Organizers - Seiichi Yamamoto (ATR, Japan; Chair) - Christian Boitet (CLIPS, France) - Gianni Lazzari (ITC-irst, Italy) - Youngjik Lee (ETRI, Korea) - Alex Waibel (CMU, USA / UKA, Germany) - Chengqing Zong (CAS, China) Program Committee - Marcello Federico (ITC-irst, Italy; Co-chair) - Hiromi Nakaiwa (ATR, Japan; Co-chair) - Herve Blanchon (CLIPS, France) - Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea) - Casacuberta Francisco (ITI, Spain) - Sadao Kurohashi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) - Hermann Ney (RWTH, Germany) - Franz Josef Och (ISI, USA) - Seung-Shin Oh (ETRI, Korea) - Michael Paul (ATR, Japan) - Keh-Yih Su (Behavior Design, Taiwan) - Alicia Tribble (CMU, USA / UKA, Germany) - Stephan Vogel (CMU, USA) - Dekai Wu (HKUST, Hong Kong) - Bo Xu (CAS, China) - Chengqing Zong (CAS, China) Evaluation Committee [UPDATED!] - Jun'ichi Tsujii (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan; Chair) - Yasuhiro Akiba (ATR, Japan) - Marcello Federico (ITC-irst, Italy) - Noriko Kando (NII, Japan) - Hiromi Nakaiwa (ATR, Japan) Local Arrangements - Eiichiro Sumita (ATR, Japan) Supporting Organizations - Acoustic Society of Japan (ASJ) - Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International (ATR) - Asia Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) - Asia-Pacific Association of Machine Translation (AAMT) - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) - Association of Natural Language Processing (NLP) - Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) - Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) - International Association of Machine Translation (IAMT) - International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) - Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Updated information will be on http://www.slt.atr.jp/IWSLT2004/ Contact Hiromi Nakaiwa e-mail: hiromi.nakaiwa at atr.jp ATR Spoken Language Translation Research Laboratories 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Keihanna Science City, Kyoto 619-0288 Japan References - C-STAR, 2003. http://www.c-star.org/ - Takezawa,T. et.al., 2002. Toward a Broad-coverage Bilingual Corpus for Speech Translation of Travel Conversations in the Real World, LREC. - Kikui, G. et.al., 2003. 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Antonio Zampolli a en outre largement contribu? au lancement d'ELRA et de la conf?rence LREC sur les ressources linguistiques et l'?valuation des technologies de la langue. Le Prix Antonio Zampolli sera d?cern? ? des personnes individuelles dont les travaux et missions s'inscrivent dans les diff?rents domaines couverts par les ressources linguistiques et l'?valuation et t?moignent de leurs avanc?es, dans l'esprit des nombreuses actions men?es par Antonio Zampolli. La premi?re remise du Prix Antonio Zampolli aura lieu au mois de mai 2004, lors de la conf?rence LREC 2004, ? Lisbonne (24-30 mai). Les nominations doivent ?tre envoy?es au directeur ex?cutif d'ELRA avant le lundi 29 mars 2004. ELRA, cr??e en 1995, est la force motrice pour les ressources linguistiques l'?valuation des Technologies de la Langue ?crite et parl?e. 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Please accept our apologies for cross-postings EURALEX 2004 : Call for participation. The 11th EURALEX International Congress will be held in Lorient, France, from the 6 to the 10th July, 2004. The Congess organizers are the Facult? de Lettres et Sciences Humaines of the Universit? de Bretagne Sud, Lorient. Contact address : Congress Organizers EURALEX 2004 Dr. Geoffrey Williams Facult? de Lettres et de Sciences Humaines 4 rue Jean Zay B.P. 92116 56321 Lorient cedex France Email : elx2004 at univ-ubs.fr Website : http://www.univ-ubs.fr/euralex2004 Up-to-date information Information concerning accommodation, registration and travel will be kept up to date on the website. The coast of Brittany is very popular in the summer so participants are encouraged to book early. EURALEX 2004 The EURALEX Congresses bring together professional lexicographers, publishers, researchers, scholars, and others interested in dictionaries of all types. 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